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🏳️‍🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. Debut novel LIGHTBORNE out now. Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social. More at hessephillips.com

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Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · Feb 27

Coming to the UK 6th March 2025, the gorgeous new trade paperback edition of #Lightborne, from @atlanticbooks.bsky.social

"A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in Elizabethan England. Perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O'Farrell." uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ligh...
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Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 7h

How, like... major is the event? Bc if it's relatively obscure, and you have a reeeaaaally good reason for it, and you do it with your whole chest... sometimes you can get away with it.

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 7h

Mine too!

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 7h

Like, my grandpa did not shoot Nazis so you could make them president, he did it so he could put on a dress and stunt.

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 8h

Sam the Eagle saying "TRUMP? Fuck that guy."

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 8h

Agh, missed opportunity to make a sign like this with my grandfather, who helped liberate Buchenwald.

That's him in white in the middle:

Photo from the 1930s of a group of men holding up a drag queen in a flowy white gown. Yup, that's grandpa.

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Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 9h

You can make things up, you just have to do it ✨️strategically✨️

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Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 9h

I dunno what to tell you except that Spain has a long, storied history of anti-monarchism which Americans could do well to learn about right now. Just bc we have a king doesn't mean we're all jumping for joy about it.

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 11h

BTW, to all the smartasses out there saying bUt sPaIN HAS a KiNg we've also been trying to get rid of those guys for a loooooong time

Poster from the 1970s urging people not to vote for a constitutional monarchy in Spain. And well, here we are.

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 12h

#NoKings Madrid Spain

A crowd of people gathered in the Plaza Del Sol Madrid holding signs saying Fuck Trump & various other things I agree with.

Another view of the crowd with an inflatable frog costume on stage.

Someone holding a sign saying No Tyrants, No Fascists, No Dictators, No Trump

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Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 17h

I tell people here in Spain about this and they think I'm lying or exaggerating or somehow got the wrong end of the stick. "It can't be that bad!" Well, it is.

(Also, abducting people is "that bad" whether they're citizens or there legally or not. Abducting and terrorizing human beings is bad.)

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's thugs aren't just abducting undocumented immigrants.

More than 170 American citizens — including children — have been detained and assaulted by ICE since he took office.

No one is safe. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainl

www.propublica.org

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 1d

There's this giant Opus complex near our cabin in the woods and lemme tell you the Evil Vibes that hang over that place... 😬

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 1d

@kennysbookshop.bsky.social bookmail is always the best bookmail.

Finally got a new copy of Hill House and I am SO excited for my yearly reread!

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Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 1d

(I say this as someone who both loves to travel and who lives in a touristy city where all of downtown is now AirBnBs and if the tourists stopped coming for one afternoon the entire economy would literally collapse bc every other local industry has been mercilessly snuffed out of existence.)

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 1d

It's great how capitalism has made this no longer true. Now you can bring your narrow-mindedness with you everywhere you go.

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 2d

The joy of watching the tall dolts in Cuomo’s security team be so flustered in the face of this genius

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 3d

“I know I make people feel uncomfortable! That’s my entire brand.”

Climate Defiance interrupting a Cuomo presser in the best possible way.

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Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 2d

rise as well. This is why we need to call that shit out when we see it. Zero tolerance for dehumanization. Obviously not just in pop culture, but anywhere. If not, we'll end up with, at best, a future that's simply the broken, shambling corpse of lost potential. Like the 80s and 90s, but worse.

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 2d

become handmaiden to that process of eroding trust and humanity from those communities if public sentiment makes room for it. We are already starting to see the "dangerous tr*nny" stereotype creeping back into pop culture (ie The Ed Gein Story), and the "dangerous immigrant" is on the -

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 2d

are seeing it in action with trans people and immigrants today. This is why the voices who defend those communities have to be as loud and unrelenting as possible. If you let the public forget that these communities are made up of human beings deserving of dignity, they will. And pop culture will -

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 2d

- Because the people whom the system was intended to serve will be demonized and dehumanized to the point where the public no longer sees a need for social services that help them. This is exactly what happened with mentally ill people, and by extension, unhoused people during the Reagan years. We -

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 2d

This is an excellent thread, and illustrates, among other things, just how far reaching the effects can be when social assistance programs are cut off at the ankles. What's being broken today will likely remain broken well into the future without a concentrated effort to restore it. And why? -

Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 3d

Quick cultural lecture time, from Sigrid Ellis:

As we are in Spooky Season, why do so many horror movies of the 80s and early 90s feature extremely creepy homeless people?

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Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 2d

They prey on people who don't appear to have strong connections to any kind of writing community - the more eager to be published, the better. I've seen a lot of older authors get roped in bc they only have vague & outdated ideas of how publishing works. Total vultures.

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 3d

Marketing-friendly answer: uh, candlesmoke and, like, rosemary?

Honest answer: whiskey, blood, and cum.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 3d

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 3d

I mean, there's unfortunately not much meat on a billionaire when it comes down to it. One billionaire could maybe feed a family of four for a few months if you get very creative with your meal prep, but there's just not enough there to get you through a prolonged crisis.

Hessphistofeles 😈 @hessephillips.com · 3d

Anyway....

The Verge @theverge.com · 4d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 3d

“Orlando had become a woman… Their change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity… but in future we must, for convention’s sake, say ‘her’ for ‘his’ and ‘she’ for ‘he’.”

Virginia Woolf having no problems with pronouns in 1928.

#InternationalPronounsDay

a woman with red hair leans against a tree with the word iworm below her

Alt: Tilda Swinton as Orlando - a woman with red hair leans against a tree.

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