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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 25/09/2026

paul schrader welcome to womanhood

trans film / trans space instant gram 100 followers

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 22/09/2026

what makes people talk like this? is it 5g? is 5g real?

no one is asking 'for a pass' or to sweep anything under the rug. everyone acknowledges that parker did harm. but there is no good--and i mean NO GOOD--served by refusing to care if another trans woman dies. you have got to love life more than you hate evil. 3/3

7:50 PM Sep 21, 2026

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 16/09/2026

Coming soon from Other Spaces: the debut poetry collection from Ian Lark Miller (@it-i4n.bsky.social). Walking Palm is a study in leaving and returning, full of small surprises.

cover mockup for Walking Palm by Ian Lark Miller. a botanical diagram depicts Socratea exorrhiza at different growth stages on a light orange background. The title is set in Reforma 1918.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 13/09/2026

had a blast playing Dungeon Knights in Ithaca (pic by E)

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 13/09/2026

evidence of some strange ritual in this woodland village

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 07/09/2026

events this week. update your isobel calendars.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 05/09/2026

this is what i gotta deal with when im just trying to have breakfast

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 01/09/2026

Ithaca friends: I'll be playing this dungeon synth gig at The Nocturnal Cafe on 9/12. There's gonna be sword fighting and divination and I think somebody is planning to summon a gorgon.

Dungeon Knights XVII
The Nocturnal Cafe 9/12/26 8pm
K-Medusa
Nameless Cartographer
The Red Witch
Sword Fighting
answers from the mancer jar
come in costume
$10-15 all ages

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 28/08/2026

you think I'm joking but I'm not

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 26/08/2026

tim curry is finally where he belongs

tim curry laughing in hell (Legend 1986)

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 25/08/2026

full lineup for our upcoming short film program in Buffalo: Coming Out (Cressa Maive Áine, 2020) split screen (Willow B. + Rhyme Kickflip, 2026) Medusa vs. the Men Who Want (Her) Head (Jennifer Marie Cella, 2025) Homemade Gatorade (Carter Amelia Davis, 2025) Black Pill (Jessi Gaston, 2020) ...

Trans Film / Trans Space presents: Cool Shorts! Featuring a Q&A with Filmmaker Nyala Moon. Free Screening! Friday 9/11 @ 6PM. Hallwalls. short films from Cress Maeve Aine, Willow B. + Rhyme Kickflip, Jennifer Marie Cella, Cartern Amelia Davis, Jessi Gaston, Nava Mau, Nyala Moon, and Kristal Sotomayor!

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 21/08/2026

not watching as many movies lately but here's my "last four"

no other choice, nausicaa (Miyazaki), pierrot le fou, yudie

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 18/08/2026

Val Semeiks / Denis Rodier / Robbie Busch / Alan Grant / Todd Klein

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 17/08/2026

have you seen my mustard? I could have sworn it was right here in the fridge.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 10/08/2026

Buffalo! Trans Film / Trans Space is doing a short film program highlighting the creativity and ingenuity of contemporary trans filmmaking. I'll be hosting, and filmmaker Nyala Moon will be doing a virtual Q&A after the films.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 08/08/2026

Early Medieval song: *a guy chanting in latin* Late Medieval song:

crazy ass concrete notation from the Chantilly Codex

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 29/07/2026

I mean, is she a friend of chuck jones?

Chuck Jones 46 films

Tsai Ming-liang 17 films

Steven Spielberg 16 films

Chantal Akerman 15 films

Agnès Varda 15 films

Barbara Hammer 14 films

Apichatpong Weerasethakul 14 films

John Carpenter 14 films

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 29/07/2026

is she, you know, clinically depressed?

2,421 FILMS
4,002 HOURS
1,705 DIRECTORS
86 COUNTRIES
88w LONGEST STREAK
150 2+ FILM DAYS

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 27/07/2026

if you want to see an epic journey full of wonder and magic and violence that's also a good movie, check out A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1970)

A Touch of Zen poster. a woman holds a sword toward the viewer in a bamboo forest.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 23/07/2026

They need to bring back this shit. Canadian gundam is the only thing that can save it.

Lumber Gundam representing Neo-Canada. An old hg gunpla kit with a chainsaw and two axes.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 21/07/2026

anyway I'm having a Shannon morning. people don't sweat like this anymore.

Shannon Love Goes All the Way record sleeve (front). Shannon is working out and gazing up at Shannon in a red dress.

Shannon Love Goes All the Way record sleeve (back). Shannon is extremely sweaty.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 21/07/2026

do you think it's too late for me to Get in the mood with COUNTRY CLOTHES by LORETTA LYNN?

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 17/07/2026

*tapping the sign* philarchive.org/rec/MARSTC-4

Short-Circuited Trans Care, t4t, and Trans Scenes
Amy Marvin
Transgender Studies Quarterly 9 (1):9-27 (2022)

Abstract
This essay discusses short-circuited trans care by focusing on failures of t4t as an ethos both interpersonally and within particular trans scenes. The author begins by recounting an experience working at a bar/restaurant that appealed to its identity as a caring trans community space as part of its exploitation of trans workers. This dynamic inspires the main argument, that t4t can become an ethos of scenes and institutions beyond the interpersonal while short-circuiting practices of trans care. Short-circuited trans care is then traced to t4t by drawing from Hil Malatino's work on trans care and t4t, Kai Cheng Thom's work on community dynamics, and trans literature to argue that practices of t4t often include abuse, expulsion, and assumptive care. This short-circuited trans care is linked to trans scenes by discussing the ethos of t4t in the history of Topside Press and trans cultural production. The author does not condemn t4t and to this effect offers a critique of tethering trans cultural production to prestige instead of care. Rather, the goal of this essay is to openly discuss aspects of t4t and trans care that are often obscured through the projection of a highly questionable “we” or universalized “trans community.”

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 15/07/2026

the weird orange light that makes my lungs hurt is back. here's an old poem I wrote about the Oregon wildfires of 2018, published in Prolit Magazine a couple years later. www.prolitmag.com/issue-three/...

Elegy for my Master’s Thesis

When the anesthesia takes
hold my spirit / leaves my body

and gets lost somewhere—I’m always
getting lost—and some other spirit

comes inside me
when I’m waking up, some other

spirit who got lost and has been
looking for a home

for a long time, and I take
my place in a world of spirits who pass

but never touch, like some
shy canopy / reaching out forever.

There is blood there
and maygrass growing against

whispers—there are so many
reasons to burn your masters

thesis. The truest erasure
is total, but there are

still fragments floating/making
the air dim/hard to breathe

palimpsest. I’ve been wearing
a mask most days. Everyone says

the fires are getting worse and I
don’t have any reason not to

believe them so I wear a mask.
I would like to not think

about it so often. I would like
to not taste charcoal

on the back of my teeth. There are
different levels of being

burned and carbonization is
just the preservation of form.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 04/07/2026

uncanny feeling to drive past the two screen cinema where I grew up going to the movies in american truck simulator

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 04/07/2026

hard to believe that in a few short months I'm gonna travel as far as physically possible from Fairdealing, Missouri (poem from my book, Taphonomy)

Fairdealing

Two friends digging holes
side by side—one tells the other
to dig faster. I’m going to China she says,
and the other replies

I’m going to Hell.

Both of them
looking for a way out.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 02/07/2026

the common yabby would like a word

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 02/07/2026

here's a poem I wrote when I had food poisoning, I think it was the summer of 2018? I don't think I ever published it or shared it anywhere.

food poisoning idk

I got food poisoning from the world’s worst KFC/Taco Bell again. At some point: cut your losses. Instructions for a bomb. Click here. Uhaul reservation. Chicken factory. Tiamat gave birth to monsters this way, but it’s never enough man I tell you what. It’s hot out, getting hotter, getting hotter. Getting hotter. It’s hot out. They open their mouth and it’s just radio static, all detuned. The sound sticks.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 29/06/2026

I wrote this poem about Jean Rollin's film The Iron Rose (1973). It won a big prize ($500) in 2019, which is still the most I've ever been paid for a single poem. Dorothea Lasky liked it even though we were on opposite sides of a poetry conflict that nobody remembers or cares about.