Jules Otero i Besolí
@arthropodeath.bsky.social
[They/Them] - Elle - Elli
🐀 LARP + TTRPG storyteller, in love with shared narratives and story tropes
🐀 Doing a PhD about Science Fiction and Post/Transhumanism
🐀 Vegan, Queer, Crip
🐀 Writing a SF novel
🐀 Blog: https://deadinsectarchive.wordpress.com/
🐀 LARP + TTRPG storyteller, in love with shared narratives and story tropes
🐀 Doing a PhD about Science Fiction and Post/Transhumanism
🐀 Vegan, Queer, Crip
🐀 Writing a SF novel
🐀 Blog: https://deadinsectarchive.wordpress.com/
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Libro de bitácora #9 de la nave estelar: Nuestres muertes y el morir cuir (una breve reseña de Dallas Buyers Club)
Continuando con mis pensamientos sobre las dificultades de ser cuir (y específicamente sobre la muerte cuir y lo que nos queda de la memoria cuir) hoy voy a hablar sobre Ronald Woodroof. Empiezo, c…
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Una hora massa tard però hi ha blog. This is a bad, short one where I complain about a movie I hate, but meh. I'm feeling ill-tempered about my creative process.
Una hora massa tard però hi ha blog. This is a bad, short one where I complain about a movie I hate, but meh. I'm feeling ill-tempered about my creative process.
Libro de bitácora #9 de la nave estelar: Nuestres muertes y el morir cuir (una breve reseña de Dallas Buyers Club)
Continuando con mis pensamientos sobre las dificultades de ser cuir (y específicamente sobre la muerte cuir y lo que nos queda de la memoria cuir) hoy voy a hablar sobre Ronald Woodroof. Empiezo, c…
deadinsectarchive.wordpress.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Una hora massa tard però hi ha blog. This is a bad, short one where I complain about a movie I hate, but meh. I'm feeling ill-tempered about my creative process.
Rested + was kind to myself for the first time in two weeks and it made me a worse writer because my muse is emotional desperation (soft launching the possibility of no blog entry tomorrow)
January 22, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Rested + was kind to myself for the first time in two weeks and it made me a worse writer because my muse is emotional desperation (soft launching the possibility of no blog entry tomorrow)
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the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will
January 22, 2026 at 4:27 PM
the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will
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There's something here about how tired/bored people are of their jobs, however amazing & creative they are. I think it all the time in academic meetings where ppl seem so *excited* to offload what are both easy, and fun, parts of their job. It's sad & embarassing for them & they don't even realise.
I read an interview today where Alison Bechdel talked about using chatGPT for a panel of her recent comic -- she prompted it and copied the results -- and I still don't know what to do with that. It genuinely feels in moments like this like so many of our art elders are failing us.
Catching up with what James Gurney, the Dinotopia artist, is up to these days. Pathetic.
January 16, 2026 at 8:05 AM
There's something here about how tired/bored people are of their jobs, however amazing & creative they are. I think it all the time in academic meetings where ppl seem so *excited* to offload what are both easy, and fun, parts of their job. It's sad & embarassing for them & they don't even realise.
Avui es un d'aquells dies que em piquen les mans fins que escric allò que em fa mal, així que el blog surt un dia abans. Avui parlo de la dificultat de ser cuir/queer en català, manca de referents on aferrar-se, i d'Espanya
Starship Logbook #8: Queer searching // Cuaderno de bitácora #8 de la nave estelar: Buscando lo cuir
This entry marks the start of a small series (consider it a character arc where I actually plan what I’m going to say every week for a few weeks, until my unavoidable return to normal) where what I…
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January 15, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Avui es un d'aquells dies que em piquen les mans fins que escric allò que em fa mal, així que el blog surt un dia abans. Avui parlo de la dificultat de ser cuir/queer en català, manca de referents on aferrar-se, i d'Espanya
writing my thesis intro about sf on a small screen while watching LOTR on a big screen, i am a prancing pony of many (two) tricks
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
writing my thesis intro about sf on a small screen while watching LOTR on a big screen, i am a prancing pony of many (two) tricks
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For more Venezuelan artists🇻🇪✨
This time outside of the country since people have been trying to escape the conditions for. along time. Did you know 8 million people have left the country since 2014? That's 20% of the population
go.bsky.app/DkwbAA1
This time outside of the country since people have been trying to escape the conditions for. along time. Did you know 8 million people have left the country since 2014? That's 20% of the population
go.bsky.app/DkwbAA1
January 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
For more Venezuelan artists🇻🇪✨
This time outside of the country since people have been trying to escape the conditions for. along time. Did you know 8 million people have left the country since 2014? That's 20% of the population
go.bsky.app/DkwbAA1
This time outside of the country since people have been trying to escape the conditions for. along time. Did you know 8 million people have left the country since 2014? That's 20% of the population
go.bsky.app/DkwbAA1
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For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times
Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well:
go.bsky.app/8daQmpX
Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well:
go.bsky.app/8daQmpX
January 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times
Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well:
go.bsky.app/8daQmpX
Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well:
go.bsky.app/8daQmpX
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I don’t think I want to read books any more.
![FT op ed piece:
So the next question is: should we care [that men aren’t reading fiction] and, if so, why? Those who argue that yes, we should, tend to give a few reasons. They point out that reading fiction fosters critical thinking, empathy and improves "emotional vocabulary". They argue that novels often contain heroic figures and strong, virtuous representations of masculinity that can inspire and motivate modern men.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/bafkreifysxlv4arnuiortwvtmfjp4e5kksnrxmn63bq7rrvv3sdfx5e2yu@jpeg)
January 11, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I don’t think I want to read books any more.
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Blogging fridays!!!!
January is the melancholy month, so today I write about the dreadful affair of is feeling nostalgic for harry potter from a trans body and reclaiming the narrative through re-writing, recommending my favourite re-writing efforts along the way.
January is the melancholy month, so today I write about the dreadful affair of is feeling nostalgic for harry potter from a trans body and reclaiming the narrative through re-writing, recommending my favourite re-writing efforts along the way.
Starship Logbook #7: Killing the Author (through the fascinating world of Harry Potter rewrites)
The topic of today’s blogpost may seem to be an utter non sequitur to my earlier thoughts and my thesis journey (which is, much as I seem to forget, supposed to be the focus of this weekly blog eff…
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January 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Blogging fridays!!!!
January is the melancholy month, so today I write about the dreadful affair of is feeling nostalgic for harry potter from a trans body and reclaiming the narrative through re-writing, recommending my favourite re-writing efforts along the way.
January is the melancholy month, so today I write about the dreadful affair of is feeling nostalgic for harry potter from a trans body and reclaiming the narrative through re-writing, recommending my favourite re-writing efforts along the way.
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this bears repeating:
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
January 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
this bears repeating:
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
I sat and wrote 13 pages straight (4300 words!) today of my phd dissertation intro and im sure tomorrow ill read them and realize they're absolute gibberish, but the high was like nothing else in the world
January 7, 2026 at 8:38 PM
I sat and wrote 13 pages straight (4300 words!) today of my phd dissertation intro and im sure tomorrow ill read them and realize they're absolute gibberish, but the high was like nothing else in the world
Han entrevistat a l'Omar a 3cat.cat (en trucada des del CIE, on segueix). La policia no ha fet bé els tràmits, que es basaven en informació d'un arrest fals, no li deixen veure els missatges on se l'acusa (incorrectament) de radicalització islàmica i no volen donar-li just procés judicial.
January 6, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Han entrevistat a l'Omar a 3cat.cat (en trucada des del CIE, on segueix). La policia no ha fet bé els tràmits, que es basaven en informació d'un arrest fals, no li deixen veure els missatges on se l'acusa (incorrectament) de radicalització islàmica i no volen donar-li just procés judicial.
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Rosa González, una mujer de 80 años que estaba en su casa tranquilamente hasta que le cayó una bomba estadounidense en su edificio.
Lo poquísimo que se está hablando de los más de 40 muertos en el ataque estadounidense a Venezuela. Qué silencio más jodido. www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/dan-ul...
Lo poquísimo que se está hablando de los más de 40 muertos en el ataque estadounidense a Venezuela. Qué silencio más jodido. www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/dan-ul...
Dan último adiós a Rosa Elena, de 80 años, víctima de los bombardeos de EU
Un reducido grupo asistió al velorio de Rosa Elena González de 80 años, residente de Catia La Mar, Venezuela
www.eluniversal.com.mx
January 6, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Rosa González, una mujer de 80 años que estaba en su casa tranquilamente hasta que le cayó una bomba estadounidense en su edificio.
Lo poquísimo que se está hablando de los más de 40 muertos en el ataque estadounidense a Venezuela. Qué silencio más jodido. www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/dan-ul...
Lo poquísimo que se está hablando de los más de 40 muertos en el ataque estadounidense a Venezuela. Qué silencio más jodido. www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/dan-ul...
learned Inkscape to make my diagrams nicer, here's a little before-and-after
it's finally a proper square! I also directionally changed post/transhuman placement because of the 'return'/'ascension' metaphors indivisible from vertical directionality
it also resizes better cuz, yknow, vectors
it's finally a proper square! I also directionally changed post/transhuman placement because of the 'return'/'ascension' metaphors indivisible from vertical directionality
it also resizes better cuz, yknow, vectors
January 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
learned Inkscape to make my diagrams nicer, here's a little before-and-after
it's finally a proper square! I also directionally changed post/transhuman placement because of the 'return'/'ascension' metaphors indivisible from vertical directionality
it also resizes better cuz, yknow, vectors
it's finally a proper square! I also directionally changed post/transhuman placement because of the 'return'/'ascension' metaphors indivisible from vertical directionality
it also resizes better cuz, yknow, vectors
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the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now
January 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
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L'Omar va aconseguir la residència, un habitatge i un lloc de treball. El jove es troba des de fa un mes al CIE de la Zona Franca arran d'una suposada detenció per un delicte de terrorisme que mai va existir.
Per Jesús Rodríguez
Per Jesús Rodríguez
El malson de l’Omar
Un informe manipulat amb el segell de la Direcció General de la Policia espanyola amenaça un veí de Santa Coloma de Gramenet amb la deportació. El jove, de 27 anys, es troba des de fa un mes al CIE de la Zona Franca i denuncia un «muntatge policial» amb connotacions «islamòfobes»
directa.cat
January 2, 2026 at 9:03 AM
L'Omar va aconseguir la residència, un habitatge i un lloc de treball. El jove es troba des de fa un mes al CIE de la Zona Franca arran d'una suposada detenció per un delicte de terrorisme que mai va existir.
Per Jesús Rodríguez
Per Jesús Rodríguez
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
2026 is the year of piercing fangs and voice training and assertivity and being hot and trans. merriam-webster understands this.
January 2, 2026 at 1:25 AM
2026 is the year of piercing fangs and voice training and assertivity and being hot and trans. merriam-webster understands this.
Shocking news: wrote on my blog again
This one is grueling, painful, and way more personal than it should be, because I don't think I know how to write anything else right now. Please enjoy bad metaphors taken way too far and... not much else, really.
This one is grueling, painful, and way more personal than it should be, because I don't think I know how to write anything else right now. Please enjoy bad metaphors taken way too far and... not much else, really.
Starship Logbook #6: On performative optimism and the animals of Apathy and Anger
After much necromancy, I am reviving my blog, mostly because I think it’s a great exercise and I do need to put my thoughts somewhere sometimes. Like every false optimist with a post-ironic flair, …
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January 2, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Shocking news: wrote on my blog again
This one is grueling, painful, and way more personal than it should be, because I don't think I know how to write anything else right now. Please enjoy bad metaphors taken way too far and... not much else, really.
This one is grueling, painful, and way more personal than it should be, because I don't think I know how to write anything else right now. Please enjoy bad metaphors taken way too far and... not much else, really.
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Also rat foucault
Power is a stracheesical situation in a society
Power is a stracheesical situation in a society
December 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Also rat foucault
Power is a stracheesical situation in a society
Power is a stracheesical situation in a society