Garry Mac
@queertempo.bsky.social
Writer, artist, comics and queer theorist. PhD graduate from Dundee Uni. Forthcoming book from Routledge: 'Making Time: Queer Temporalities and Chronotopia in Comics' due ~2027
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Garry Mac
@queertempo.bsky.social
· Jun 16
New article finally up on Substack, free for everyone: open.substack.com/pub/obliquec...
A look at Lady Gaga's 'Abracadabra,' the first in a series of articles on pop music and magical thought.
#queer #popmusic #ladygaga #abracadabra #magic #occult
A look at Lady Gaga's 'Abracadabra,' the first in a series of articles on pop music and magical thought.
#queer #popmusic #ladygaga #abracadabra #magic #occult
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Something I wanted to do with Wolf Story specifically was write romantically-driven sex in an “unsecured” romance scenario without making any of the sex romantically regretful. Do u know what I mean? No shame despite the cracking of hope
Okay I’m making it easy for you, comics lover—give the gift of HORRID ADORATION in 2026 clairenapier.bigcartel.com/product/wolf...
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Something I wanted to do with Wolf Story specifically was write romantically-driven sex in an “unsecured” romance scenario without making any of the sex romantically regretful. Do u know what I mean? No shame despite the cracking of hope
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Share a '90s movie you think deserves more love.
It has such a wonderful mix of true freakiness, stunningly eerie scenes and camp
It has such a wonderful mix of true freakiness, stunningly eerie scenes and camp
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Share a '90s movie you think deserves more love.
It has such a wonderful mix of true freakiness, stunningly eerie scenes and camp
It has such a wonderful mix of true freakiness, stunningly eerie scenes and camp
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I'm in.
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I'm in.
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Would genuinely chew off my own arm, and a few arms belonging to others, for £7k paid over 18 months for a book deal, tbh.
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Would genuinely chew off my own arm, and a few arms belonging to others, for £7k paid over 18 months for a book deal, tbh.
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I don't think racists get to decide of their racism is hurtful or insulting, its for the person on the receiving end to decide that.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I don't think racists get to decide of their racism is hurtful or insulting, its for the person on the receiving end to decide that.
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The Book Proposal Book ebook is 30% off right now at @princetonupress.bsky.social and so is Make Your Manuscript Work!
Use code PUP30 at checkout
Tell your friends & nemeses!
press.princeton.edu/our-authors/...
Use code PUP30 at checkout
Tell your friends & nemeses!
press.princeton.edu/our-authors/...
Portwood-Stacer, Laura
press.princeton.edu
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The Book Proposal Book ebook is 30% off right now at @princetonupress.bsky.social and so is Make Your Manuscript Work!
Use code PUP30 at checkout
Tell your friends & nemeses!
press.princeton.edu/our-authors/...
Use code PUP30 at checkout
Tell your friends & nemeses!
press.princeton.edu/our-authors/...
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udo kier appeared in many of my favourite films but i most recently saw him in werner herzog's sensational MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE where he performs alongside a cast of eccentrics (willem dafoe, michael shannon, chloe sevigny, &c) and gets his glasses stolen from his pocket by an ostrich
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
udo kier appeared in many of my favourite films but i most recently saw him in werner herzog's sensational MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE where he performs alongside a cast of eccentrics (willem dafoe, michael shannon, chloe sevigny, &c) and gets his glasses stolen from his pocket by an ostrich
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I sometimes write for this excellent anonymous newsletter, and it's a little treat in your inbox every weekend.
Issue #33 of our newsletter is out now, ft. superfictions vs. an exhuasted reality, Warrior (not a prank, not an imaginary story), Frankenstein, The Boo Radleys, Keeper, Lovejoy, The Legend of Unicron, a Mindless cut-up, and more!
They cluck their thick tongues, and shake their heads
The Filth. ABHOBC: Warrior. C'Mon Kids. Cate LeBon. Robots III: Minds. Reverse Forklift Noise. Keeper.
mindless-ones.ghost.io
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I sometimes write for this excellent anonymous newsletter, and it's a little treat in your inbox every weekend.
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Reading in Edinburgh @typewronger.bsky.social on Wednesday w/ the excellent @rosacampbell.bsky.social and Anna Walsh. Come on down! 💦
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reading in Edinburgh @typewronger.bsky.social on Wednesday w/ the excellent @rosacampbell.bsky.social and Anna Walsh. Come on down! 💦
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Tell just one person that you liked this newsletter. Word of mouth, more than any other form of promotion, is how creative works get noticed and sustain themselves. Thank you very much for reading.
Tell just one person that you liked this newsletter. Word of mouth, more than any other form of promotion, is how creative works get noticed and sustain themselves. Thank you very much for reading.
Issue #33 of our newsletter is out now, ft. superfictions vs. an exhuasted reality, Warrior (not a prank, not an imaginary story), Frankenstein, The Boo Radleys, Keeper, Lovejoy, The Legend of Unicron, a Mindless cut-up, and more!
They cluck their thick tongues, and shake their heads
The Filth. ABHOBC: Warrior. C'Mon Kids. Cate LeBon. Robots III: Minds. Reverse Forklift Noise. Keeper.
mindless-ones.ghost.io
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
PRESSBUTTON
Tell just one person that you liked this newsletter. Word of mouth, more than any other form of promotion, is how creative works get noticed and sustain themselves. Thank you very much for reading.
Tell just one person that you liked this newsletter. Word of mouth, more than any other form of promotion, is how creative works get noticed and sustain themselves. Thank you very much for reading.
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This one affects me and my wife, so would appreciate the effort it takes to fill this in.
Unsurprisingly they won't be dissuading those rich folks, who can simply buy their way in.
Unsurprisingly they won't be dissuading those rich folks, who can simply buy their way in.
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This one affects me and my wife, so would appreciate the effort it takes to fill this in.
Unsurprisingly they won't be dissuading those rich folks, who can simply buy their way in.
Unsurprisingly they won't be dissuading those rich folks, who can simply buy their way in.
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Yup
This may very well be an accurate representation of the "modern software stack".
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Yup
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A surprisingly sensual witch encounter in The Black Cauldron (1985).
Listen to our episode with @jamescswanton.bsky.social - linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
Listen to our episode with @jamescswanton.bsky.social - linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A surprisingly sensual witch encounter in The Black Cauldron (1985).
Listen to our episode with @jamescswanton.bsky.social - linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
Listen to our episode with @jamescswanton.bsky.social - linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
Umm, dom top 👀😂
Vers, but only because I wank left handed.
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Umm, dom top 👀😂
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I cannot wait until we have actual Panther Moderns, well-read Juggalos breezing past security measures with their algorithm-destroying face paint, whispering words of beautiful, destructive truth to the machine overseers to destroy them with the tools of their own flawed thought processes.
"Our society might have stumbled into the most embarrassing possible cyberpunk dystopia, but—as of today—it's at least one in which wordwizards who can mesmerize the machine mind with canny verse and potent turns of phrase are now a pressing cybersecurity threat."
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
www.pcgamer.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I cannot wait until we have actual Panther Moderns, well-read Juggalos breezing past security measures with their algorithm-destroying face paint, whispering words of beautiful, destructive truth to the machine overseers to destroy them with the tools of their own flawed thought processes.
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* in trans young people. We'll keep providing them to cis young people, for whom they're magically harmless.
Two UK clinical trials to assess impact of puberty blockers in young people
Two UK clinical trials to assess impact of puberty blockers in young people
Multi-year studies announced after Cass review found ‘insufficient evidence’ about effects on children with gender dysphoria
Two studies to investigate the impact of puberty blockers in young people with gender incongruence have been announced by researchers in the UK after an expert view said gender medicine was “built on shaky foundations”.
Puberty blockers were originally used to treat early onset puberty in children but have also been used off-label in children with gender dysphoria or incongruence. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
* in trans young people. We'll keep providing them to cis young people, for whom they're magically harmless.
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The Etherington Brothers launched a free monthly How to THINK When You Draw digital magazine earlier this year and Issue Seven is out in the wild, only available for a limited time only!
https://downthetubes.net/seven-up-new-free-how-to-think-when-you-draw-magazine-unleashed/
https://downthetubes.net/seven-up-new-free-how-to-think-when-you-draw-magazine-unleashed/
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The Etherington Brothers launched a free monthly How to THINK When You Draw digital magazine earlier this year and Issue Seven is out in the wild, only available for a limited time only!
https://downthetubes.net/seven-up-new-free-how-to-think-when-you-draw-magazine-unleashed/
https://downthetubes.net/seven-up-new-free-how-to-think-when-you-draw-magazine-unleashed/
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Grief created by Joan Wisdom, November 1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey where she was compelled to live.
Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it
Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Grief created by Joan Wisdom, November 1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey where she was compelled to live.
Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it
Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it
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I think I’ve finally found a way to satisfyingly fake the Riso printed results of I Know The Way Out! Useful to show the pages as they’re designed to be seen and I can now make an ebook available that looks as close to the printed book as possible.
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I think I’ve finally found a way to satisfyingly fake the Riso printed results of I Know The Way Out! Useful to show the pages as they’re designed to be seen and I can now make an ebook available that looks as close to the printed book as possible.
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There are a thousand comics half finished in this notebook. These flags are joyful when joy is hard to find...
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
There are a thousand comics half finished in this notebook. These flags are joyful when joy is hard to find...
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Kremlin stooge Nigel Farage is largely to blame for this. Make him own it. And, on the day former Welsh Reform leader Nathan Gill is sentenced for accepting Russian bribes, make Reform own it.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Kremlin stooge Nigel Farage is largely to blame for this. Make him own it. And, on the day former Welsh Reform leader Nathan Gill is sentenced for accepting Russian bribes, make Reform own it.
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Every single discussion about Reform from now on in the coming years must focus on how they are an anti-British fifth column. Their leader helped deliver Brexit, devastating our economy. Their ties to the Kremlin are undeniable. They will try to paint Gill as an outlier. He is not.
November 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Every single discussion about Reform from now on in the coming years must focus on how they are an anti-British fifth column. Their leader helped deliver Brexit, devastating our economy. Their ties to the Kremlin are undeniable. They will try to paint Gill as an outlier. He is not.
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"Dignity and respect" really is the "thoughts and prayers" of social murder.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Dignity and respect" really is the "thoughts and prayers" of social murder.
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New demo of our point & click game is on Steam now! And the comic is…imminent!
It's my pleasure to host #PointNClickFriday, on the wkd of
@adventurex.bsky.social ! We are exhibiting the new Sleepytime Village demo, which is available for you to play!
Link here! tinyurl.com/sleepytimest...
📢Comment with your P&C game with the hashtag!
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@adventurex.bsky.social ! We are exhibiting the new Sleepytime Village demo, which is available for you to play!
Link here! tinyurl.com/sleepytimest...
📢Comment with your P&C game with the hashtag!
📷Share post!
📷 Like this post!
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
New demo of our point & click game is on Steam now! And the comic is…imminent!
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Guess if this is unworkable for some weird unforeseen reason they could make us wear something, like a kind of identifiable insignia, on our clothes; while they take refugees' jewellery and gold teeth at the border
Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on what they look like, according to a leaked copy of a document
Trans people may be banned from single-sex spaces based on looks, says leaked docs
www.thenational.scot
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Guess if this is unworkable for some weird unforeseen reason they could make us wear something, like a kind of identifiable insignia, on our clothes; while they take refugees' jewellery and gold teeth at the border