Scribbles and Bits

Mori: Last night, for Biff's birthday (it was not, he hates TV, he hates sci-fi, he's very "we got weirdshit at home,") we watched the mysterious DVD of unknown provenance from the sci-fi library that nobody knew what to do with.

( A fanmade Matrix/Star Trek/Firefly crossover thingy that never got completed and disappeared into the Internet ether? )

...does anyone want this? It is wasted on us.

Ho ho ho and a messy queermas to all y’all! In honor of upcoming Fuck It’s Dark day, we are liberating some queer books! Claim ‘em and they’re yours, just pay for shipping and we’re square.

Up for grabs:

Two Spirits Dancing: A Spiritual Journeybook for Gay Men, by Andrew Ramer. Mythologizing, poetry, and sketches. It’s good, just not what we’re into right now. (Might post one of the poems though, some of ‘em are bangers.)

Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, July 2023. there’s one 30 page article called “Trans Climates of the European Middle Ages, 500-1300” by Charmaille, about 800 years of scholarly arguments about Tiresias and the gender flux of the seasons. I feel like only .01% of the population would care about this and one of them probably reads my blog.

In The Warm Room, by C.R. A trans first-time porno floppy comic between a trans man named Wallace and his loving partner, Jenny. Very sweet and romantic and far as I know, completely unobtainable online. (I know the creator. This is how I get a lot of my porno. Perk of the profession.)

We have some books to give away! Same rules as last time; first come first served, you pay shipping. Domestic preferred, if only because shipping overseas is horrendous.

Poems of Fernando Pessoa. Little known outside his native Portugal, Pessoa "the multiplex early twentieth-century European poet" and his heteronyms made quite a lot of poetry, most of which was only discovered after Pessoa's death in the 1920s. This book contains poetry from Pessoa himself, along with his heteronyms Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernando Soares, who were only the tip of the heteronymic iceberg. For the sake of multi history, I tried to read it, but apparently my inability to enjoy most poetry holds true even for this guy.

The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet by Avery Dame-Griff. What it says on the tin. I want to read this eventually, so this might be more of an "I give it to you with the promise that I'm allowed to borrow it and read it sometime in the future," but I already lived through the trans/trans-/trans* wars and am in no hurry to reread them.

This one is a paper book we are NOT giving away, but Dr. Paris Williams's Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding And Treatment of Psychosis is a very good book with a truly abominable cover and a free PDF version. Reading it gave me a lot of insight into my own mental workings, and when I'm not a phlegm monster of plague, I hope to post more about it. For now, I link and rec it to y'all!

I have a couple multi books for giveaway, of polar opposite tone and content. Pay shipping and the book is yours. Comments are screened. I have...

• (george), by E. L. Konigsburg. Kids prose. A precocious young boy's headmate notices something amiss with his friend at school, and tries to get to the bottom of it. (more info here)
• Sacrifice, by Andrew Vachss. Burke, a merc/PI living on the seamiest side of New York City, gets involved in a case involving an abused nine-year-old multiple who has murdered two of his baby foster brothers. Burke has to negotiate a truce between the cops and child welfare groups coming to blows over him... and also get revenge for the multiple's sake. (more info here)