Matthew
@mcooperk.bsky.social
PhD student in the UK, researching gender, trauma and the supernatural in Japanese (and Mexican!) literature. Horror and the Gothic in Japan.
Irish, Queer, Hopeful. Kind is Cool.
EN/ES/日本語 OK
Irish, Queer, Hopeful. Kind is Cool.
EN/ES/日本語 OK
The icon herself Bree Van de Kamp was in slot 5
May 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The icon herself Bree Van de Kamp was in slot 5
Ok work, apparently I’m redhead coded?
May 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Ok work, apparently I’m redhead coded?
without downloading new pics, where are you at mentally?
March 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
without downloading new pics, where are you at mentally?
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (trans. Polly Barton) is my first 5 Star read this year. I inhaled it this morning with a cup of coffee. So subversive and still so deeply human, it almost reminded me of a 21stC Kono Taeko in places. The kind of story that makes me want to write about it right away.
March 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (trans. Polly Barton) is my first 5 Star read this year. I inhaled it this morning with a cup of coffee. So subversive and still so deeply human, it almost reminded me of a 21stC Kono Taeko in places. The kind of story that makes me want to write about it right away.
Update: I’m going back for more
March 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Update: I’m going back for more
Enjoyed a lot of my time with relatable diva Yori, though
February 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Enjoyed a lot of my time with relatable diva Yori, though
Obligatory photo of baby Matthew at Powell's in 2018. It remains one of my favourite bookshops in the world and I still cherish the books I picked up there. The Read Rise Resist sticker survived on my laptop for many years after. The sentiment remains.
February 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Obligatory photo of baby Matthew at Powell's in 2018. It remains one of my favourite bookshops in the world and I still cherish the books I picked up there. The Read Rise Resist sticker survived on my laptop for many years after. The sentiment remains.
Edinburgh saw me coming.
February 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Edinburgh saw me coming.
I will not have ‘Matthew doesn’t have dark circles’ slander on the TL, it’s basically half my aesthetic at this point
January 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I will not have ‘Matthew doesn’t have dark circles’ slander on the TL, it’s basically half my aesthetic at this point
Bonus points for this awkward little screen grab of Ari Aster talking about why he likes Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes so much, with the full YouTube URL printed underneath
January 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Bonus points for this awkward little screen grab of Ari Aster talking about why he likes Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes so much, with the full YouTube URL printed underneath
Did I just pay 21 whole Gr*at Br*tish Pounds for the December issue of Popeye just because it has a whole page feature on Brat and the 360 music video (and a tiny little two-sentence panel on I Saw the TV Glow)? Yes, yes I did.
January 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Did I just pay 21 whole Gr*at Br*tish Pounds for the December issue of Popeye just because it has a whole page feature on Brat and the 360 music video (and a tiny little two-sentence panel on I Saw the TV Glow)? Yes, yes I did.
The 2 hour train into London for some pre-Christmas family visits was perfect for tearing through this. I enjoyed the main novella a lot - it's exactly my favourite flavour of subtly unsettling. One of the included short stories, "Minute Fears", was kind of a surprise stand-out for me, though.
December 14, 2024 at 10:36 PM
The 2 hour train into London for some pre-Christmas family visits was perfect for tearing through this. I enjoyed the main novella a lot - it's exactly my favourite flavour of subtly unsettling. One of the included short stories, "Minute Fears", was kind of a surprise stand-out for me, though.
Absolutely inhaled this, from Smudge. The manga itself was fun, but Kawakatsu Tokushige’s essay at the back about Kawashima, Skylark Publishing and horror tankōbon in the late-Shōwa was a 10/10. I very much recommend, even if (like me) you’re not generally a manga person.
December 1, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Absolutely inhaled this, from Smudge. The manga itself was fun, but Kawakatsu Tokushige’s essay at the back about Kawashima, Skylark Publishing and horror tankōbon in the late-Shōwa was a 10/10. I very much recommend, even if (like me) you’re not generally a manga person.
I’ve run out of episodes of ボーイフレンド to watch on Netflix and now I’m not sure what to do with myself
November 28, 2024 at 2:11 PM
I’ve run out of episodes of ボーイフレンド to watch on Netflix and now I’m not sure what to do with myself
Sorry to say that we’ve already reached the ‘reading under a heated blanket’ stage of winter in the North of England
November 17, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Sorry to say that we’ve already reached the ‘reading under a heated blanket’ stage of winter in the North of England