Moving day looms! In the meantime: fiction.
Good evening!
I write this email exhausted, but my apartment here in Ireland is almost entirely packed up, and I'll actually be moving everything out next week - soon, I'll have my own flat, and I'm super excited to get into the decorating process.
In the meantime, the horrible ordeal of actually moving back to the UK.
Before I get into the email proper, just a reminder that if you're in the UK or the Republic of Ireland, it's both National Cinema Days tomorrow (Saturday 2nd September), and you can get cinema tickets for £3 or €4! Especially because it was the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park this year, as well as new releases, Jurassic Park is showing in a lot of cinemas too.
As I said last week, things are pretty hectic for me, so I didn't get that much done this last month - I'm expecting a month or two of relative peace before I get the keys to my new place and start working on that, so I'm hoping to get on top of a lot more work and write a lot more.
I did publish a novella this week that I spent a lot of time working on and am very excited for people to read and comment on, so! Check that one out!
Also, if you're subbed on Patreon, definitely check out the new Collections tab, as I've started putting some collections together. Definitely let me know if there's any kinks I write or themes I write that you'd like to see collections for.
Remember that BristolCon is also coming up in the latter half of October, and I'll be there on panels and selling books and badges and such forth if you want to come along and say hello!
Also, if you're a writer yourself, as it's the 1st of September, the prompts are out on Trans Erotica.
Trans Erotica’s Writing Prompts for September 2023
Trans Erotica is a Medium publication by and for trans and nonbinary writers and creators, and we do a collection of prompts each month to help inspire new works.
Prompts for September 2023
Knotting (?)
On silk sheets
Dirty talk
Hair-pulling
Suspension bondage
My Top Works for August
Top Non-Fiction: Barbie Isn’t Anti-Men — It’s Anti-Toxicity
Patriarchy does damage to us all, and Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig) clearly depicts that.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Top Fiction: The Interview
Erotic short. A workplace roleplay with age difference and some hearty degradation.
Rated E, 4k, cis M/trans M. Younger boss/older prospective employee, pre-negotiated roleplay, degradation and humiliation, daddy kink, nipple play, PIV, riding, sex in the office, casual sex, bareback. The older man is fat, but none of the degrading language is about his body or his size except for commenting on the size of his chest — the degradation primarily is about his age and assumed loneliness.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Media Recommendations
I've actually just started watching Game of Thrones from the beginning, so don't have too much by way of new media recommendations, just a few movies:
The Legend of 1900 (1998, dir. Giuseppe Tornatore) - This was a really interesting movie - I'm always a fan of films that take place on one ship, especially as a significant time passes around the vessel, and I don't think I've seen any other film that plays so much with the different levels (literal and class-based) of a vessel. The script has a fascinating rhythm to it and a slightly odd timbre, I'm guessing because it was translated to English from Italian, and although it's quite long, I was gripped the whole way through. With that said, this movie is really fucking weird about Black people - not just "regular" racist, but weird and fetishy about the concept of white intimacy with Black people. The Black characters that are presented are really interesting, and portrayed with so much depth by their actors, but are treated nastily as fuck by the narrative, so. Bear that in mind if you watch it through.
Car Wash (1976, dir. Michael Shultz) - This movie fucks, and I really, really enjoyed it. Like 1900, this is a movie that occurs all in one place - in this place, a car wash - but swaps between all the different characters working there, their interpersonal dynamics, their lives, their petty and major dramas, and it's so well-written, such good craic, and also really heartfelt, especially toward the end. My favourite character was naturally Lindy, who's queer as fuck and unashamed of the fact, but the whole flick is a lot of fun, and famously, the soundtrack is excellent.
I don't recommend these wholeheartedly, but I also watched The Wedding Banquet (1993, dir. Ang Lee), which I was really enjoying as a gay movie until the female protagonist rapes one of the gay men, and not only is it not called rape, but the movie ends "happily" with the three of them raising her child together. Obviously, this sort of rape of queer men by straight women being treated as a non-issue or even desirable is one I grapple with a lot in my own work and am personally impacted by, so that was... a lot.
And then I watched Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022, dir. David Frankel), which has a spectacular comedic cast and a really fun concept, and fumbles the ball by being too straight and just not having enough jokes in it. It's kind of like a daytime movie for autistics - put it on in the background and let it run, it's got some cute bits in it, and I really love the dynamic of the husband and wife being super ND together, but I don't think it's anything to make a special deal of watching.
New Works Published
Serial Update: Little Devils
Chapter Six. Velma meets two angels in Burnham-on-Sea.
Velma Kuroda, a young specialist in magical and enchanted antiques, is taken under the wing of Hamish MacKinnon, a master enchanter and centuries-old immortal - a crotchety old man possessed by a horde of little demons.
On Medium / / On WorldAnvil / / On Ao3
Queer Novella: Cold Comfort
A mob boss takes in a rival’s hostage, and tries to keep him from suicide.
14k, M/M, rated E for equally explicit sex and violence. Set in 1920s New Jersey. Nasty and violent.
Alvis Hunter, boss of a significant crime operation, steals a captive out from under a rival—Naham, a rabbi’s son who immediately attempts to kill himself. In the aftermath, Alvis tries to keep him alive; Naham tries to find something worth living for.
Some philosophy and introspection in this one along the way of the rape recovery. Warnings for rape and sexual violence, mental health issues, a crisis of faith, trauma, homophobia, intersexism, antisemitism, and other assorted violence.
On Medium / / On Patreon
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