cold hearts, hot action

Aveux non avenus (Disavowals) Panel VII, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, 1930

I don't say any of this to excuse it. I think everyone needs to be more aware of this because if you think abuse has to be intentional you will never realize you are capable of abusive behavior. You will never realize you are being shitty to the people you love, because YOU know what you mean, YOU know you don't mean any harm. But you're doing harm. You need to pay attention to the impact you have on other people, and you need to do it all the time, Especially when you feel least capable of doing so. Sorry! You live in a society. Get your head out of your ass.

scans of FANGORIA #182, 1999 ; Alchemy Gothic advert

*he queeres* place on *he in*erne*

An ivory seal with a pair of bats China 19th/20th c.[1200x901]

Utterly obsessed with these Shakespeare playbook covers from the late 1960s by Paul Hogarth

Sometimes a beloved mutual transitions and starts frequenting places you wouldn't go yourself, yk?

when your beloved mutual suddenly joins a fandom you have no interest in

-- Trip, Estragon News, The Oracular Outsiders and the Homework Doers

Maybe it's because that fiction is being written for the people already bought in. Art that is made for the purpose of institutional legibility and approval is dead on arrival. Writing must stand on the outside, viewing the world at a tilt. Our world is being eaten by word machines that can imitate us perfectly. Unless American letters find the courage to welcome back in the oracular, it will disappear, replaced by machine that can conform to the demands of institutional legibility—really, the demands of capital—better than any human ever could.