Some weird as Hell erotica and some new essays!
Good evening!
Apologies again about missing last week's email - I've finally found a flat in the UK and have now begun the long process of moving, and subsequently my schedule's a bit all over the place. No new episodes of the podcast the past few weeks - I'm going to see if I'm able to do a batch recording this week, but we shall see!
If people have recommendations for:
English, Scottish, and Welsh conventions
English, Scottish, and Welsh arts programming
English, Scottish, and Welsh queer culture and arts festivals
That are coming up over the next and next year, hit me up with your recommendations! I'm most around the North of England, the South West, and South-East Wales, and while I have a list of conventions and upcoming festivals - I obviously go to BristolCon every year, I'll be at the Glasgow WorldCon next year, etc - I'd really love any recs for smaller events that aren't necessarily on the big lists, or any events that particularly have focuses on trans mascs and/or disabled queers!
As well as the badges and paperbacks, I want to get into selling merch like stickers, bookmarks, tote bags, and maybe some other things, so!
Movie Recs:
Aliens (1986, dir. James Cameron) - I watched through the whole of the Aliens continuity the last week there, and while I wasn't sold on Resurrections or the 2010s titles, 3 is okay, and Cameron's contribution to the franchise is just really excellent, building so well on the themes of Alien (1979) and adding new explorations of the colonial themes with the addition of the Marines. I might write a bit on the themes of bodily autonomy, sexual violence, and disability in the Alien series later this year, because I have a lot of feelings about how the degendered allegory for the cycle of sexual violence and forced reproduction speaks to me as a trans man, and in the meantime, I can't recommend the first and second film enough.
Last Orders (2001, dir. Fred Schepisi) - This is an understated flick, but honestly something of a gem - I checked it out because it's Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, and Michael Caine, but it's truly a great exploration of grief and loyalty to one's friends, as well as being a fun jump between so many different decades with a real period feel for each of them. It's nominally heterosexual, but as it so often goes with these stories, the dynamic between Bob Hoskins and Michael Caine feels about as intimate as both of their relationships with Helen Mirren.
The Pez Outlaw (2022, dir. Bryan Storkel and Amy Bandlien Storkel) - This documentary was super fun, a real great window into the world of Pez collectors, a positive exploration of neurodivergence and mental health issues, and also like... Steve Glew, the Pez Outlaw? He might be cisgender, but this man is dripping with t-boy swag, and I say that in the most loving way possible, he rocks.
Yentl (1983, dir. Barbra Streisand) - This was a fun movie, I love gay trans boys and I too lust mightily for Mandy Patinkin. The music honestly sucks and it would have been so much better without any of the songs, and unlike in Isaac Singer's original short story, the trans boy detransitions at the end, but it's still a fun flick. I've got a big 11k write-up on it in the new works published.
Haven't seen Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig) yet but we're gonna go along and see it at the weekend, and we're currently watching They Cloned Tyrone (2023, dir. Juel Taylor), and it's so much fun and so beautifully appointed aesthetic- and costume-wise so far, I'm really enjoying it.
New Works Published
Erotic Short: The Scholarship Lottery
A young mage has to outrun rutting werewolves to earn his university scholarship.
4k, rated E, trans M/gangbanged by werewolf cocks. A magical university runs a scholarship lottery where entrants have to flee the werewolves in rut hunting them down. Charlie enters.
Featuring the chase, oral, anal, and vaginal knotting, no birth control, rough sex, significant come inflation, implications of impregnation, wet and messy sex, gaping, and at the end some chaser-flavoured objectification of the trans man by one of the human senior staff.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Erotic Short: The Stasis Box
A prisoner is frozen in time with his holes still accessible for the crew of a mining vessel to use.
5k, rated E, trans M/cis M but hundreds of other people. A trans twink agrees to be involved in an experiment in lieu of his year-long prison sentence — he’s placed in a stasis box, frozen in time, with his holes still accessible for the crew of a mining vessel to make use of.
This is honestly one of the most fucked-up things I’ve ever written, it goes big on the sci-fi body horror fucky horniness.
Full consent is given throughout, the twink knows what he’s in for. Featuring medical kink, fingering, anal and vaginal fingering and sex, sensitivity, time stop, big overstimulation, mind-break and ahegao, objectification, huge come inflation, gaping, come vomiting, general degradation.
Read on Medium // Read on Patreon
Erotic Short: Sublime Service
Some piss kink between a boss and his assistant.
500w, just some cockwarming, watersports, and D/s.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Guide: Close Reading: A Deep Dive Into the Process
An in-depth guide into applying analysis to a piece of text and extrapolating meaning.
This one is about reading text, but I've got another big guide in the works on how to do the same to film and TV which I'm excited about!
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Erotic Short: Sacrificial Cow
Two priests of Asterion use a sacrifice’s body for their ritual.
3.7k. Trans M/Cis M/Cis M. Two huge priests fuck and cumflate a much smaller trans twink between them — featuring come inflation, multiple orgasms, size difference, huge insertions, stretching, breast expansion, lactation, milking.
Read on Medium // Read on Patreon
Essay: Yentl: A Trans Man Studying Talmud is Distracted by Gay Thoughts
Yentl (1983, dir. Barbra Streisand) and Yentl the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
It’s a sad thing, hearing cisgender people talk about Yentl — especially the short story — and think they understand it, that they’re getting everything from it, while at the same time they can’t conceive that transgender people even exist.
It’s a strangely joyful short story to read as a trans man, as sad and complex as it is, and the film has a similar bittersweet warmth to it.
“Yentl — you have the soul of a man.”
“So why was I born a woman?”
“Even Heaven makes mistakes.”
From Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, by Isaac Bashevis Singer