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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

whittling this down to five felt like drowning multiple sacks of kittens but i got there by undeniable scientific means: yearning, sticking on lana's entire back catalogue, and noting which ones i wheeled back the most

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Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv · 21/05/2025

🚩 My new doc is out now 🚩 CV is the oldest gang in Brazil. It's considered a plague by the government, but for the people of the favelas they control, the gang *is* the government. Inside their areas, street justice rules all. We spent a week there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kV...

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The Hidden Side of Brazil's Gang Favelas

YouTube video by Away Days with Jake Hanrahan

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

a short story about british strip clubs written entirely with words i harvested from reviews of british strip clubs: open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...

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Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv · 12/05/2025

“No one lives less than these men, and yet they want to live forever.” emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

my newsletter about desire has led me to places i wouldn't even go with a gun (weighing up the sex appeal of olly murs) emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The only thing you need to read about the Olly Murs before / after body pics discourse and what it says about gender, desire and physical ideals etc is on @emmaggarland.bsky.social's Gabrielle Substack: emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

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Gabrielle #38 – Backshots with... Olly Murs' 'Before' Photo

Today in Sentences Nobody Has Ever Used Before, it is time to contemplate the sexual magnetism of Olly Murs.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/04/2025

once again being a Gabrielle Ultra by reminding you that it's the best and indeed only newsletter on sex and desire you will ever need: emmagarland.substack.com/p/panties-in...

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Gabrielle #5 – Panties Inferno

Or; why no one can be normal about Jeremy Allen White's Calvin Klein campaign.

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

subscribe to gabrielle, my newsletter about desire, for more deep philosophical insights emmagarland.substack.com

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

this and the virgin suicides (original motion picture score) by air

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

it was so sick when this was the creative genesis point for children's films and not some studio head asking "which actor with instagram face can we get to resurrect X disney character against a foul CGI backdrop"

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Videodrome directed by David Cronenberg, 1983

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

in the spirit of easter, here's an essay about developing a formative crush on an american missionary who helped run a christian summer camp in the chapel next door to my house emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

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Gabrielle #37 – Christine

An erotic Easter sermon.

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Huck Magazine @huckmag.com · 10/03/2025

“All in all it seems increasingly likely that the end of the world won’t come with a bang, but with a cringe.” With global tensions rising, @emmaggarland.bsky.social explains how fragile male egos stand at the core of it all. www.huckmag.com/article/doge...

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As DOGE stutters, all that remains is cringe

Department of Gargantuan Egos — With tensions splintering the American right and contemporary rap’s biggest feud continuing to make headlines, newsletter…

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

pleased to have written the cover story for this week's @thetls.bsky.social – on joan didion, writerly myth-making, and the results of a few recent books that attempt to unpick the didion "brand." enormous thanks to @georgeberridge.bsky.social for the diligent edit. www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

happy reality (social media is over) emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

wrote about shame emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

for @dazeddigital.com i wrote about the new wave of erotic films and how, after years of prudishness and moral sanctimony, "sex is back" in popular entertainment – but saying what? www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

fairest way to settle this is no rules physical combat with every director / actor who has crossed the PCC threshold (tommy wiseau, brendan fraser, tarantino, john waters et al) vs the landlord. but for real, protect london's best cinema: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

a true north in a wayward world and a fantastic head of hair on him until the head. RIP david lynch. emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

new newsletter on what robert eggers' nosferatu says about contemporary sexual anxieties, ft. shame, vampire simps, and female desire as divine rather than dangerous emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

wrote this for @newstatesman.com about 'better man', robbie williams' double-edged relationship with fame, and how his story is also a parable of british working class aspiration www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

keeping abreast of the markets and deconstructing your desires is IN for 2025

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

the rust cohle of south wales has entered the chat

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Some public domain NASA artworks by Don Davis, taken from his website, where they're hosted for free: "You paid for them and they're yours." www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/allyou...

Space colonies capable of comfortably housing millions counter rotate in pairs, surrounded by cable secured mirrors and agricultural modules.

A planetoid plows onto the primordial Earth

A toroidal shaped space colony design, known as a Stanford Torus

The assembly of the 'Stanford Torus', detailing the proposed 'chevron shields' above the glass 'skylights'. The interior is shown primarily hollowed out and heavily planted.

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

in trying to invent new ways to make it through british winter i've become an evening exhibition person. felt even better to visit one of my favourite paintings, francis bacon's man in blue I, knowing it was dark out.

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

How Lil Wayne's "Rebirth" and "Prostitute Flange" laid the aesthetic and sonic foundation for emo-rap. An excerpt from "Crybaby," @donnacwrites.bsky.social's definitive new book on one of the most influential hip-hop sub-genres of the last two decades Out 1/21 www.passionweiss.com/2024/12/11/a...

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How Lil Wayne Shaped Emo Rap: An Excerpt from Donna-Claire’s “CRYBABY”

Donna-Claire’s new book is available for pre-order now and out on January 21st, 2025, via Permuted Press.

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"this is a man who had options. he could have been almost anything he wanted to be. and the thing he ultimately chose to do with his life, after suffering a debilitating injury, was to shoot the CEO of united healthcare."

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

nothing underscores the fundamental incoherence between automated technology and creativity more than when i quote a sentence by like joan didion or j.g. ballard or someone in a google doc and it does a little squiggly line to suggest that something about it is wrong

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

good read on luigi joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/ceo-murder...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

the only way to stay sane is to stop doom scrolling and pick a handful of things to dedicate your time and money to. subscribe to flaming hydra for consistently some of the best writing you will ever read, online or off. feels like having a sneaky fourth meal of the day truly.

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

recklessly revealing your identity as an assassin so you can chirpse the woman on front desk at a hostel ["a real hero" off the drive soundtrack plays] www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

projecting my 2025 vibe to be addison rae washing her rover in nipple tape and a pinafore

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

one of many good 'related search' questions i typically get on my online travels, which are not worrying at all and reflect totally normally on me

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Little Ballerina Girl of Balsall Heath, 1968. Photo by Janet Mendelsohn.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Yet more fantastic writing by Emma:

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 25/11/2024

new Gabrielle post on ageing and death and sex yesssss emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

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Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Drop what you're doing and read @emmaggarland.bsky.social on The Substance, beauty, tech, and sex. open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...

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Gabrielle #25 – New Flesh

Our quest for immortality is killing our sex lives.

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

is our quest for immortality killing our sex lives? almost certainly. here's an essay about that, ft. the substance, body horror, the beauty industry & big tech's shared fear of death, and that billionaire who used his son as a blood bag open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...

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Gabrielle #25 – New Flesh

Our quest for immortality is killing our sex lives.

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

nothing brings me more pleasure than watching a dumbass 80/90s action film and giving it a glowing review, a fat like, and one star on letterboxd

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

so many men on r/emo are going to be so mad when my book about emo comes out and it contains at least 3000w about lil wayne

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

me: i am taking the lyrics and holding space with that and feeling power in that 😌 the lyrics:

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

it is a terrible burden, being right all the time

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ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

another belter of a column from @emmaggarland.bsky.social for @huckmag.com, looking at whether the decimation of ‘teen’ entertainment and the industry’s failure to represent the full scope of adolescent experience has produced a generation of prudes www.huckmag.com/article/did-...

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Did we create a generation of prudes?

Has the crushing of ‘teen’ entertainment and our failure to represent the full breadth of adolescent experience produced generation Zzz? Emma Garland…

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

social media only works when it feels secretive in plain sight. like wearing a big coat with nothing underneath.

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

consulting the ancient texts (norm macdonald's 2016 memoir that is hardly a memoir at all because it is mostly a web of lies as far as the order of events are concerned, but will hit you every few pages with a profound and devastating truth, like this one on gambling addiction)

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

went to robbie williams' house, pissed in his (all black) downstairs toilet and shared a bowl of soup with his dad

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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

paul vs tyson surely one of the most depressing events in modern sporting history. a youtuber in million dollar shorts "beating" a heavyweight champ who came out of retirement for a glamour fight that is entirely beneath him. but that's culture now. fully automated luxury spectacle or ego death.

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