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Evan Benner

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Copywriter, concertgoer, and horror fiend. 🧛🏻🎧✏️🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) https://linktr.ee/evanbenner

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · Jun 6

Is Tetsuo: The Iron Man one of the greatest representations of queer awakening? @horrorpress.bsky.social let me make the case for Pride Month! Join me in appreciating this oddball cult horror classic that holds cathartic potential for anyone who has contended with expectations of others.

Finding Radical Queer Pride in ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ (1989)

What if I told you Tetsuo: The Iron Man is one of the most evocative examples of “queer awakening” ever put on screen? Okay, that’s a tad hyperbolic, and such queer assertions about beloved media are ...

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 12h

We love the team effort to do nothing always.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15h

The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.

Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.

Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird

Media: trans activist criticizes media

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 8d

“[T]he broader aim of all this agitprop is far uglier. Trump has employed a form of state propaganda that may be unrivaled by any presidency in modern memory, and these MAGA influencers are generating material for that vile effort.”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 9d

RICH.

a man singing into a microphone with the words if i could turn back time below him

Alt: Cher singing into a microphone with the words "if i could turn back time" captioned along the bottom

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 9d

The f$ck?

Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 10d

Not before your TFTQ post leaves drafts!!!

Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 11d

Tomorrow would be a great day for Frazer to revive the Medium blog he launched in June (after Kickstarter restricted him) to share "news, updates, announcements, and articles"—on which he has continued to avoid the topic of long-overdue #TFTQ pledge fulfillment.

Screenshot of Red Cabin Comics's Medium blog, launched in June 2025 after Kickstarter flagged the campaign for delinquency and restricted Frazer Brown from creating new crowdfunding campaigns until he meaningfully addresses his fulfillment. The blog received 5 posts between June and August:

First, the launch announcement promising meaningful updates about product fulfillment.

Second, a (seemingly AI generated) complaint about contributing creators making DMCA copyright claims about his continued use of creative works they have withdrawn from the project in his social promotions.

Third, a navel-gazey post about the campaign's heyday and wealth of promise that remains unfulfilled. In it, he promises "Updating all remaining Kickstarter backers with clear, finalised timelines for shipping, digital access, and public release" in the weeks ahead.

Fourth and fifth, two posts related to the debut of leftover lower-tier items from the campaign on a charity auction.

Updates to the blog stopped on August 4.

Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 11d

Will Frazer Brown of Red Cabin Comics break 27 months of silence on #TFTQ Kickstarter pledge fulfillment tomorrow to commemorate 5 years since 814 backers paid him £37k to produce a comic book that still doesn't exist? (See Alt Text for more context.) www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Screenshot of an update made by Frazer Brown to the TFTQ comic Kickstarter page in July of 2023.

Purple arrows and boxes indicate key highlights which I’ll excerpt here:

Callout 1: A red notification banner at top stating how Kickstarter found Frazer to be in violation of his responsibilities as a campaign creator and restricts his ability to use the platform for new crowdfunding efforts. Text reads:

“Kickstarter has restricted this creator

Kickstarter’s Trust & Safety team has investigated user reports associated with this project and/or its creator. We have reached out to the creator multiple times requesting project updates and communication with backers. As the creator has not responded or provided updates in over 90 days, we have restricted the creator’s account from launching future projects on Kickstarter. Thank you to everyone who sent in reports.”

End of banner.

Callout 2: The campaign completion summary, which reads:
“814 backers pledged £37,185 to help bring this project to life.
Last updated February 2, 2025”

Callout 3: The title and date of the last campaign update addressing any pledge fulfillment, which reads:

“JULY UPDATE 2023 - GENERAL UPDATE - CHARITY DONATIONS - SUPERDELUXE - HARDBACK - SHIPPING LATEST.
Frazer Brown
Creator
July 6, 2023”

ALT Text continues on second image.

Second half of a screenshot from a TFTQ Kickstarter update #113 (made July 2023). Two key passages outlined in purple squares, excerpted here.

Callout 1: Frazer’s last material mention of pledge statuses to date. Excerpt reads:

“I have shipped all of the paperbacks outside of the UK, I have moved the hardbacks into storage whilst I dealt with my health, but the rest of the UK Paperbacks and Hardbacks will be my priority moving forward, followed by International Hardback Orders.

The Super Deluxe and collector sets are a more complicated beast, I have an issue with one creative who’s work is in the book, unfortunatley that needs to be resolved. I don’t anticipate it taking much longer, and then shipping can begin. If you ordered the collectors set you should have your variants, poster and other extras already (UK and International) if that is not the case, please let me know.”

End of excerpt.

(Note: Frazer first announced this shipment happened in December of 2022, but nothing arrived. After this second announcement, no book has still arrived for any backer. No individual tracking was provided. No picture proof of books has ever been shared. Backers’ fulfillment statuses remain unshipped and address-locked in BackerKit since August of 2021. No further update has been provided to paperback backers in the UK, nor global backers of the hardcover and deluxe since the time of this campaign post.)

Callout 2: Frazer’s proposal to finish all campaign fulfillment within that next month in 2023. Excerpt reads:

“Our current schedule looks like this:

Wrap up despatched tiers
Donate net profits from dispatched tiers
Dispatch Hardback and Super Deluxe
Donate net profits from dispatched hardback tiers
Release digital bonuses
Re-Open Store and public store distribution
Release digital online
Donate final net profits
I anticipate dispatch being wrapped up by the end of AUGUST thanks to the unforeseen delays.”

End of excerpt.

27 months later, nothing has changed.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 12d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 13d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 14d

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 14d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 18d

Friday can't come soon enough! holyvisions.net

Virtual fortune teller card from holyvisions.net shows a pink ornamental frame on black. Text reads: "Repent! Repent! Hell Awaits!" Fram includes promo text "AFI – Silver Bleeds the Black Sun Out Oct. 3."

Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 27d

I have high hopes for the rest! Paco Plaza is 4 for 4 in my book when considering other Plaza movies Veronica and its prequel Sister Death.

Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · 27d

Rec 2 is definitely still good! Picks up right where 1 leaves off. I've got 3 on my watch list for this season, so I'll have more to report soon.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · Sep 17

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · Sep 17

What "business"? And why are the only occasional updates being made to his RCC accounts the same BS he posts on his personals? Oh, right... More fucking lies. #TFTQ

Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · Sep 16

The suspense y'all had me in just waiting for Sigourney was too much!

Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · Sep 16

Got any local shows coming up? Been meaning to swing by one all summer and gift you a book with a nod to one of your songs.

Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · Sep 16

Bet you and your cryptid tattoos would be fun on @midnightmasspod.bsky.social.

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · Sep 14

Oh, so we're just manufacturing phenomena now? Show me a collage of all the non-trans culprits. Every fucking one.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Sep 13

Remember how scary it was for the 36 hours where it felt like the Right could explode into violence as a repercussion of an assassination? That's what our trans brothers & sisters feel like every fucking day

We have to protect them at all costs. They are our line in the sand; not a bargaining chip.

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · Sep 11

My ranking is relatively boring — disdain for Deader is my hottest stance. boxd.it/OICCG$PLSAjN...

Raising Hell, a list of films by Evan Benner

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Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · Sep 11

I love how varied people's rankings are for this mishmash of a franchise. Mine bottoms out at Deader and builds up from there.

Evan Benner @evanbenner.com · Sep 11

Judging. Respectfully. 😂

a woman with long hair is sitting on a couch holding a glass of wine and smiling .

Alt: a smiling drag queen sitting on a white couch turns to the camera, makes a serious face and says, "Choices." (captioned)

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