Update 14/03/2023
Good evening!
That glorious time of the year is so very nearly upon us, and with that in mind, the prompts for this year's Monstrous May have now been released!
I started running Monstrous May in 2021, so this is my third year putting a prompt list together with a monstrous prompt for every day of the month of May! There's a bit more focus on monsterfuckery this year than previous years, and I'm excited to see what comes from the prompts. :)
Here's the prompt post on Tumblr.
If you're planning on running any events or tie-in things alongside Monstrous May, please reach out and let me know via my Tumblr asks or via email, so I can promo you and share your schedule!
During the month of May I always scroll through the tags and share a lot of the artwork, but for events and tie-in things I'm more than happy to promo them in advance, such as through these regular updates, as well as sharing them directly.
Some media recs for this week:
Cocaine Bear (2023, dir. Elizabeth Banks) - Cocaine Bear is a feminist blockbuster, it is CAMP, it is perfection. Is Cocaine Bear a girlboss? Yes. Of course she is. How could you even ask that question? This movie has everything: a big fucking bear, 80s camp gay guys, rainbow gym bags, character actress Margo Martindale, gratutious gore, a big fucking bear's actual vulva directly to a man's face, that hot white dude with the moustache that does the customer service suffering TikToks, a cute little puppy with a pink bow, did I mention the big fucking bear? Did I mention that the bear is on a fuckton of cocaine, did I mention that she is a working mother and that her cubs are also on cocaine, did I mention that these two (human) thirteen year olds also literally do cocaine by the teaspoon and I've never envied a fictional character more? Please watch Cocaine Bear. It's the only movie that's ever mattered.
Final Fantasy XII (OG release 2006) - I've just started replaying FFXII to wash the terrible taste of God of War: Ragnarok (2022) out of my mouth, because GOW pissed me off with how poor its writing was toward the end, and I want to put myself back into a videogame that makes me love videogames rather than hate them.
I'm hoping to do some more writing about FFXII in the next few weeks because I love it to pieces and I've played it through time after time, played hundreds of hours - it's my favourite of the Final Fantasy narratives, and while I do have a lot of criticism of it, it just really delves into identity around nation and culture and war and imperialism - as well as the ethics around nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction - that I just fucking love. If you haven't played it before, I totally recommend it!
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (2022) - I finished this earlier today, and I wanted to particularly recommend the audiobook, which is very well-written by the author. This book is super heavy hitting, delves a lot into emotional abuse and religious trauma, eating disorders, and a lot of the lack of agency McCurdy had around her life as a child actress and her life in general. If you can handle the subject matter, I do absolutely recommend it as a read.
New Works Published
Erotic Short: Unethical Experimentation
An apothecary captures a fairy to... make use of.
2.3k. Rated E, cis M/trans M. Silly and utterly horrible porn - a fairy is captured and used as a fucksleeve by an apothecary! He absolutely loves it!
Featuring size difference with macro/micro, implied body transformation, stretchy skin, belly bulging, objectification, overstimulation, and predicament bondage.
On Medium / / On Patreon
Mini Essay: Do I have to be masculine to be a top?
A few thousand words digging into conflation of gender identities with sexual positioning and actions, going through the steps of unpacking and untangling those gendered rules and conventions within one's own head and one's own biases.