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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 6h
Happy 40th birthday to Annie and Hallie from The Parent Trap (1998)!
Annie and Hallie from The Parent Trap (1998) finding out that they will both be 12 on October 11
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
my son loves China Miéville 🥹 he's just like me, his biological father
my tuxedo cat investigating my copy of big fat brand new China Miéville novel The Rouse
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's here!!! 🥲🥲🥲🙏🙏🙏🤩🤩🤩
Zoetrope 12" of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" ft. imagery from its iconic music video
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
something's different about the student body this year but I can't quite put my finger on it
A deer walking on the foot path on a university campus
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
not my dumb ass seeing this crossword clue and being like "I mean I guess Phil Collins was a lil ginger back in the day but was he particularly outdoorsy?" 😅
Red-haired outdoorsman in Genesis
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
just finished reading this novel about trans people in 30s and 40s Germany I cried sooooo much 😅
The Lilac People by Milo Todd
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
every few months I think "hm maybe I shall have a nice time listening to the Operation Mincemeat cast recording, which will NOT make me bawl this time" and I am ALWAYS wrong
meme of the guy reaching happily for the yellow ball, here labeled "Operation Mincemeat cast recording," while in the second panel he is being grabbed by a pink monster, here labeled "Dear Bill"
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
citrus polos!!!!!!
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We Talked Every Day

It's been a year. It rained a bit, I think,
Though maybe it just felt as though it should.
I watched the coffin rise, felt my heart sink,
Thought: that's my friend, lying in that wood.

A eulogy's a dreadful thing. Fine words,
God knows, a few of them from my own pen,
Barraged the ground like lifeless baby birds:
He was – he was – he was ... count to ten.

The hole across the world has jagged teeth.
Some days it's in the corner of my eye;
Some days it gnaws my heart through from beneath.
It never isn't there. Ragged sigh.

My mouth floods, the taste burnt.
You were there, until you weren't.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
he is Literate
my sweet tuxedo cat with a copy of Sons and Daughters by Chaim Grade translated by Rose Waldman
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My thoughts on Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma 💖
Can the filmmaker have an orgasm?

The cinematic auteur is in some ways the sovereign subject par excellence, master of the whole world she puts onscreen: she writes, she directs, she has final cut (if she's lucky). She makes deliberate choices – especially when she knows her franchise lore and her film theory – and commands a whole cast and crew to realize her vision. La petite mort, by contrast, is the paradigmatic undoing of the subject, the moment where you lose control. You can script and choreograph every moment, but you can't transcend unless you let go.

And yet, and yet... We all know that every apparent opposition is in fact a deeply entangled pair. We all know that horror, regardless of the high theory with which we analyze it, derives much of its power from what it reveals beyond/below its creator's conscious intent. Like sexuality, horror swims in a dark lake of polymorphous perversity, and we ultimately cannot control what rises from the depths to grasp us. Perhaps we can recognize and name it as previous generations could not – our horror protagonists can be openly, textually queer – but then what do we do? When you know what makes your heart pound and your spine tingle, when you're so well-read you could (and maybe did) write a thesis on it: what then? How do you learn to surrender some of your hard-won selfhood?The answer is, of course, with the guidance of older queers, who have been there and done that; who know that you can't always only be the queer monster, that you have to also be the queer final girl, that just as slashers send their viewers oscillating between identification with the monster and the victim (thanks, Carol J. Clover!), so too must we all oscillate between seeing from our own perspective and seeing ourselves as others see us. That's life, and that's sex – especially in the digital age, when we have all been forming our selves in a strange feedback loop with the shimmering images on our screens for our whole existence. We're All Going to the World's Fair explored the strange loop of adolescence and the internet; I Saw the TV Glow, that of gender and TV; now, with <Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun turns to sexuality and horror, cementing their place as our foremost metatheorist of queer media.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My Letterboxd recent activity: Obsession, I Want Your Sex, The French Dispatch, Titanic
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
no cheating post your lock screen
my lock screen, ft. my sweet back and white cat looking soulful
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I tried to make an XTC album tier chart but I couldn't rank my beloved children so instead I made them a clock face 💖
A clock face with the numbers replaced by the covers of each of XTC's 12 studio albums. Fossil Fuel, the singles collection, is in the center.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
the Creature busted out this pose right when I had to leave for work this morning 😭
a tuxedo cat looking unbearably cute
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It's been a great week to be a barbershopper! 😊💈🎵
a meme of a baby elephant captioned:
"Elephants weigh 200lbs at birth, making them the biggest babies on earth / except for barbershoppers mad about GQ's victory"
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
what I came to St Louis for: barbershop harmony international convention what I have done in St Louis: helped rescue an injured pigeon
an injured juvenile pigeon sitting on a sidewalk
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Sefaria has fallen :(
Screenshot from Sefaria website, showing a banner that reads:

Enhance Your Learning Experience
Try our AI-powered Library Assistant to deepen your understanding and discover new texts.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
got ma scottish snacks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
a box of shortbread and a bottle of Irn Bru being held up in front of a TV that's playing the Scotland-Haiti match
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
me getting the hell out of midtown manhattan this afternoon before you-know-who arrives
Escape from New York
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
effects of 1 year of minoxidil it's not dramatic and magical, but it's helping
two photos of the top of my head. The bald spot is smaller in the second one
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Keiran Goddard, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
It's the same pattern when somebody you love dies. The pain never goes; it just gets progressively more spaced out. In the beginning it is there every second of every day, as if the air is made up of their absence. And then after a while it is not every second, it is just every minute, and then every hour and eventually just on anniversaries or when you hear a particular accent or a particular phrase or song. The sadness never goes away, it just gets so spaced out that you can carry on living as though it has. It's all the same. It's all just time.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
can u BELIEVE a transmasc author would write a transmasc character having this terrible thought???? a traitor to us all
A page from a novel, the paragraph redacted for spoilers except for one sentence:

(Max, Max—he can't help but think as he approaches—a poor name, a dog's name.)
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Reflections on the 5th anniversary of graduating from my doctoral program
It's been rather a tough five years, if I'm being totally honest. I loved my job and my friends during my two years in a visiting position in Iowa, but the long-distance marriage was so hard. The past three years, despite continuing to write and teach and participate in conferences, my academic ambitions have been circling the drain, and I guess 2026 is the year I finally pull the flush. I still have publishing and adjuncting plans for the fall, but I've given up applying for academic positions. Instead, I'm getting my certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and planning to move into full-time TESOL (something I've been doing for a couple years now anyway).
I still believe in higher education with all my heart, but the system of academia is fundamentally evil. It is designed to exploit workers and extract their labor and passion, and it doesn't even reward them with the absolute basics of job security and benefits. When I say I'm a failed academic, I don't mean I failed – I mean that academia failed me.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
my brother's a music teacher and the kids are out of pocket 😂
Screenshot of a playlist of the Smiths music videos
Text:
Multiple students have now said "is that Charlie Kirk" about morissey thumbnails
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
poem for my dead friend 

I keep seeing things you'd love
and with the gut-punch I think:
how unfair that you've stopped
but the world goes on

then on the inhale I think:
as long as we speak of you
you're a piece of our world 
and you, too, go on
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
what if you wanted to go check out an academic article on microfilm at the university library but google maps said you had to take a nature hike to get there
me, a bespectacled white guy in a blue fish shirt, in a pretty green forest
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
getting close to the end. scared to finish bc I desperately want things to work out okay and I'm worried they won't 😭
Persona by Aoife Josie Clements
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
i love Music
tags
experimental; rock; abstract; bug music; deep sea fissure funk; noise rock; leeds
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🥰
A beautiful little torbie cat sitting on a cat tree in a majestic pose
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
despite rising at 6:30, queuing for over 2 hours at my local record shop, and trying multiple additional stores over the course of the day, I was unable to obtain the special Peter Gabriel 12" for Record Store Day
please respect my privacy at this challenging time 🙏
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
ok just thought of one more
a google search for "math rock"
"Did you mean: 80s King Crimson"
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Happy half-century, 2112! For me, this is where Rush really became Rush, the inaugural record in a superb sequence where they dropped 6 all-time classic albums in a row. It has its missteps and it's undeniably pretty silly, but god damn if it doesn't still rock unbelievably hard at 50 🤘🤘🤘
2112 by Rush
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
April Clark (@autogynefiles at the other place) quote tweeting Pop Crave's "Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility" tweet with the comment "Why? So you can kill me?"
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
classic Good Place meme
Eleanor says "it's a math rock band"
Chidi says "you mean a prog band"
Eleanor retorts "No! You're not getting it and my thing is different, so shut up"
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"math rock"
The "shut up, it's fucking red" guy but recaptioned as "shut up, it's fucking prog"
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
still remember the thrill of its release on CD, so I could finally listen on my discman instead of my walkman 😅
The Talking Heads live album The Name of This Band is Talking Heads on cassette
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
wow I love 😍😍😍 quiet religious horror novella!!! highly recommend
The Plastic Priest by Nicole Cushing
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I know there's no point arguing logically or in good faith but by this definition (from a proposed Missouri law) we are ALL female!!! everything is so evil and dumb and I'm so tired
"Female", an individual who naturally has, had, will, or would have, but for 
11 a developmental or genetic anomaly or historical accident, the reproductive system that 
12 at some point produces, transports, and utilizes eggs for fertilization;
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Titane
un film de Julia Ducournau
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
6 weeks ago, we really thought it was the end for our sick old man. We spent much of new year's eve at the emergency vet, preparing ourselves to say goodbye. But he's still here and still snuggling ❤️❤️❤️
A sweet tuxedo cat (with an extra stripe where he was shaved for an ultrasound), cuddled up with me in my robe
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
enjoyed this one a lot. queer Black coming-of-age story with some gorgeous writing about music and some very hot gay sex
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
circle is looking at me
my black and white cat, curled up in a ball on his chair, with an eye slyly open and peeking out
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
did somebody say "space western musical"?
The American Astronaut
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
bad excuses-to-enjoyment ratio
Letterboxd review of Garden State (2004)

a fun game you can play with movies that came out when you were in your teens is to imagine watching it with a Youth today. how many times would you have to (1) pause the movie to explain something and (2) apologize for something about that era? the excuses-to-enjoyment ratio of this movie is such that I would NOT care to watch it with a Youth today
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
a strong contender (austrian lesbian 90s scifi, yes it rules)
Flaming Ears
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it was my dad's but I stole it 😅
the Peter Gabriel compilation cassette Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I mean yeah
from my Letterboxd Year in Review 

Most Watched Theme: Horror, the undead and monster classics
Most Watched Nanogenre: Eerie, Blood, Horrifying
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
🚨🚨🚨it's real!!!! Track 1 of the new Peter Gabriel album drops tomorrow!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Welcome to the first full moon update of 2026!

Saturday, 3 January is the Wolf Moon, and Peter Gabriel releases the first new song from his forthcoming album o\i.

Been Undone was written and produced by Peter Gabriel and recorded at Real World Studios, Bath and The Beehive in London. This is the Dark-Side Mix by Tchad Blake.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
finding this book weirdly validating/healing like, no it wasn't all just unacknowledged gender dysphoria and it wasn't all in my head, the Y2K era really was an exquisitely awful time to be a girl
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
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