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@brandowrites.bsky.social

Work published in Eater, Epicurious, VinePair, Wine Enthusiast, and elsewhere. πŸ“Chicago, IL πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈFrom the river to the seaπŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ IG: brando_writes

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Big bautumn autumn

30.09.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

β˜•οΈβ˜•οΈβ˜•οΈ

11.09.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Only Charli I know is xcx and she’s fine so

10.09.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 240    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

10.09.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 13744    πŸ” 5375    πŸ’¬ 784    πŸ“Œ 607
Mr. Burns from The Simpsons queening out on a landline rotary phone while eating a box of chocolates from a heart-shaped box with his vinyl records playing.

Mr. Burns from The Simpsons queening out on a landline rotary phone while eating a box of chocolates from a heart-shaped box with his vinyl records playing.

β€œSo do you think he’s dead? Was that a body double? A clone? Maybe they’re pulling a weekend at Bernie’s? Anyways, that dom top texted me.”

02.09.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Labor Day y’all. May we all unionize our workplaces and shake the money down from the top of the ladder. πŸ‘ŠπŸ»

01.09.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Me on all fours on the sidewalk at night in a navy blue harness, matching navy blue thong, and white bedazzled Converse under a lit-up sign that reads, β€œLet’s do it again boys.”

Me on all fours on the sidewalk at night in a navy blue harness, matching navy blue thong, and white bedazzled Converse under a lit-up sign that reads, β€œLet’s do it again boys.”

Having a wonderful end of the summer, hbu?

26.08.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Food That Makes You Gay Too many people grow up fearing what food might reveal about themselves. Maybe it’s time we embrace self-discovery.

Now that it's been a few days, I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces I wrote for Eater over the 6+ years I was there. First off, I got to write a lot about the intersection of food and queerness, culminating in this piece that got me a JBFA nomination www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

18.08.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 447    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 12
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Feelin cheeky hehe

16.08.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you much!! 🫢🏻

07.08.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A sign that says β€œmake Nazis dead again”

A sign that says β€œmake Nazis dead again”

just thinking about things

06.08.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Confused reporter who interviewed Donald Trump circa 2020 looking at his paper then looking up with a puzzled look on his face

Confused reporter who interviewed Donald Trump circa 2020 looking at his paper then looking up with a puzzled look on his face

Being gay and a writer has fundamentally altered the way I hear β€œTrade Publication” like damn trade has an official magazine now?

06.08.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Upward POV of my chest

Upward POV of my chest

Upward POV of my chest while holding my shirt up

Upward POV of my chest while holding my shirt up

Also hey here’s these

06.08.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Drag Icon Is Reborn in Edgewater as Hamburger Mary’s Reopens The burger bar has persevered through the pandemic and political turmoil

New, from me, for Eater Chicago. Hamburger Mary’s has finally returned to Chicago. Great new space that’s as gay as ever πŸ’ƒπŸ»πŸͺ©πŸ’…πŸ»

chicago.eater.com/openings/161...

06.08.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

so hot

15.07.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Biergarten betrunken meine Freunde

15.07.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Me reading the New Yorker at the Chicago lakefront with the city skyline behind me

Me reading the New Yorker at the Chicago lakefront with the city skyline behind me

Me on my stomach, buns out, on the Chicago lakefront with the city skyline behind me.

Me on my stomach, buns out, on the Chicago lakefront with the city skyline behind me.

SPF 30 kinda evening

08.07.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

tysm

13.06.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Single bicep flex of me in a rose print tank

Single bicep flex of me in a rose print tank

I don’t get why so many gays are mean when you can wear flowers and tell people they’re hot and you love seeing them on the dance floor

13.06.2025 08:13 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of pink hydrangeas against a blue sky in South Haven Michigan from summer 2017 with a text block centered on the image that reads, β€œGrateful I’m smart enough to understand that billionaires are the source of society’s problems and not trans people, Muslim people, people of color, women, poor folks, etc.” Taken on 35mm Fujifilm 400 ISO with a Canon AE-1.

Picture of pink hydrangeas against a blue sky in South Haven Michigan from summer 2017 with a text block centered on the image that reads, β€œGrateful I’m smart enough to understand that billionaires are the source of society’s problems and not trans people, Muslim people, people of color, women, poor folks, etc.” Taken on 35mm Fujifilm 400 ISO with a Canon AE-1.

12.06.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Protestors holding a Mexican flag and a sign that reads "y'all don't look for missing kids this hard."

Protestors holding a Mexican flag and a sign that reads "y'all don't look for missing kids this hard."

Damn 😢

11.06.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3299    πŸ” 1030    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 17
Beautiful human-made art by gay artist Boy Kingdom of a rear view of a jacked ass muscle bear

Beautiful human-made art by gay artist Boy Kingdom of a rear view of a jacked ass muscle bear

Second Amendment was meant to be interpreted as the right to bears’ arms but was sadly lost in homotranslation :(

Art by @bkd.bsky.social πŸ’–

11.06.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Queer food is eating lobster mac and cheese in one of the nation’s oldest taverns where the founding fathers got pissed drunk as β€œGood Luck Babe!” plays over the bar’s speakers

10.06.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Innocently throwing it back in my existential crisis void

07.06.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Squidward in an abstract white void with stray square tiles of various primary and secondary colors

Squidward in an abstract white void with stray square tiles of various primary and secondary colors

Imagine hating me and I’m just in my existential crisis void like

07.06.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Shirtless torso pic of me in jorts, red Calvin briefs peeking over the waistline

Shirtless torso pic of me in jorts, red Calvin briefs peeking over the waistline

Grateful for warm weather at the start of this Pride season

02.06.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Year’s Hot New Tool for Chefs? ChatGPT.

Why would I, as a customer, pay $300 a person for a meal where the chef completely outsourced their creativity? At that level your own imagination is precisely what I'm paying you for, what an L and an insult to admit you can't do it and charge me anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/d...

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Headline - Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable 
Strap - The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would β€˜kill’ the industry

Headline - Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable Strap - The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would β€˜kill’ the industry

β€œThen die”

β€œThen die”

24.05.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 16933    πŸ” 6378    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 143

It was my grandmother’s πŸ™πŸ»

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