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Mandy Bemis @mjbemis.bsky.social · 11h

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Michelle Pfeiffer as Selena Kyle in Batman Returns, smiling sheepishly and holding a pot of coffee and a tray with silver containers holding cream and sugar.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Selena Kyle in Batman Returns, about to transform into Catwoman. She has a bleeding wound above her left eye. She’s chugging a carton of milk, which is running down her chin.

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John Chen @johnchen.com.au · 28/02/2025

MILICENT PATRICK. Artist & Creator of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dragula is actually the number one song in America

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Monday morning, and I am reluctantly entering into the discussion about what The Democrats should do about The Trans, most of which translates to "believe in something, for once in your life, for fuck's sake." No paywall on this guy: jude-doyle.ghost.io/transformer-...

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Transformer: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)

A few thoughts on the queer post-apocalypse.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if you say the phrase "transgender ideology" i don't think you should be allowed in polite society. maybe a box? a small box. so you can think about what you've said and done.

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Fanfi 🥛💦 thinking about men with tits @fanfi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the Big Bastard is finished, 38 pages of anti-AI, cheap and easy creating. 18 tips just for you *blows kiss* www.patreon.com/fanfi/posts/...

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 31/08/2026

Here, have the last three mins of the "American Girl" scene from THE SOPRANOS s6e2 A gift: from David Chase, to Edie Falco, to me, and now to you

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Dave Capdevielle @cadaverdave.com · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry reminded us that ANYTHING can happen on Halloween.

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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

He even had a pog. 🖤

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 13/08/2026

Every single piece of trans history is a blaring klaxon telling us: We can't rip ourselves apart, we must put our preternatural prickliness aside, we can and should disagree greatly but our futures are linked and the stakes are too great, we must figure that out no matter the emotions it raises.

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Mandy Bemis @mjbemis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I wrote about Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. www.patreon.com/posts/166044...

An excerpt from the linked essay that reads:

As with I Saw the TV Glow, our main character is torn between the life she thinks she's supposed to lead, and the one she can't quite bring herself to admit she really wants. But where telling a trans coming out story was inherently heavier and more vulnerable, this is about what happens after coming out, which isn't a story that gets told nearly as often. If coming out is an often painful and frightening experience, this is about the joy, and pleasure, waiting on the other side. As a result, it feels lighter than TV Glow, more romantic, and funnier. It's not every movie that can deal sincerely with overcoming sexual trauma that can also support a scene where a stoner's head gets cut off, and their severed head exhales bong smoke.

An image from Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, featuring Hannah Einbender, as the character Kris, wearing pink pajamas and eating a bucket of popcorn while watching a movie on tv. She’s surrounded by many different kinds of candy.

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Mandy Bemis @mjbemis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“I’m glad to see your weight’s down. It’s likely your meds [hrt] are helping with that, as well as, uh, other things.”

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

He's a primary aesthetic influence of this trans new wave that we are seeing. These filmmakers are not copying him, but working alongside his aesthetic ideas in a spiritual manner (the fantasia of People's Joker, the Inland Empire-esque nightmare of CM2, Schoenbrun's dysphoric otherworlds)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Peter Falk sketching in his Beverly Hills home in 1984.

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Nea “Dracula” Ching @thegaychingy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP Sam Neill. We talk a lot about Isabelle Adjani’s terrifying & layered powerhouse performance in POSSESSION. Neill is just as seismic. Made me never want to be put in a situation where i gotta get divorced. Whole thing really feels like watching someone kill it all over love.

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Anyway, Wendy Carlos is still alive and that's wonderful 💜

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Saint JESSICA DUNN ROVINELLI @jdrllc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

marriage is really funny and fun i feel like if you have the opportunity to try it you should. also it’s one thing the queer theorists were absolutely right about and no matter how woke you are it’s gonna eat you alive with compulsory heterosexual narratives and it sucks shit

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 04/07/2026

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

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"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit
12:24 AM - 16 Jun 2012

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Mandy Bemis @mjbemis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

At my most hopeful, I like to think I’m living in a way that, when I croak someday, people will sigh and say “she was a complicated woman.”

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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 01/07/2026

Okay, my ACTUAL take on all this transsexual Discourse™ is that we never should’ve stopped calling ourselves “sex changelings.”

The cover of the May 5, 1954 issue of People Today magazine showing a brunette white Roman wedding a diaphanous pink top and looking over her shoulder at the reader. A large yellow inset block has text in red and black trading “Exclusive NEW FACTS ABOUT SEX CHANGELINGS.”

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is 47. I embody Summerween. Turned in edits on RAVENFIELD HALL yesterday (Gothic Historical Young Adult Romance inspired by du Maurier + lots of ghosts) so you should pre-order it as YOUR present for MY birthday! (25% off via B&N until tomorrow! 🖤) tinyurl.com/ravenfieldbn Pre-orders = Love!

Leanna stands beneath the limbs of a catalpa tree, the lovely white blossoms of the tree's flowers are to her right (camera left) and she looks to camera dressed in black lace with a labradorite pendant that she crafted.

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Emmy Cumslutress @coyotegirl.online · 12/06/2026

being a trans woman on a day to day basis really is wild,, it's like vacillating between "it's so over, i'll be dead by 2030" and "i'm literally the hottest woman alive, i already killed god, i created the big bang, i can literally fuck spacetime so hard that the gravity waves will hit andromeda"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The best superhero is Swamp Thing because sometimes Swamp Thing wanders around a planet a galaxy away as he has an existential debate with a copy of himself he made out of azure soil and sometimes Swamp Thing fights dracula at a gas station

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Drinking game: do a shot every time 1994’s INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE includes a “my friend” in the dialogue in an attempt to make it less gay

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Links here where you can donate to support a trans woman who is facing felony charges for defending herself against fascists.

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Nea “Dracula” Ching @thegaychingy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Watching BOUND is a bad idea when you are a lesbian finally considering getting back into the dating pool because it gives you ideas like “buxom women will love me more if i get greasier and better at stealing”

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/06/2026

This is correct. They are arguing that because trans people have now had so many rights taken away (thanks to them) no-one should be allowed to transition because they'd then have fewer rights.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

some of Werner Herzog's advice for filmmakers from his Heart of Glass post-screening Q&A: "Look out - where are the enemies, spot the enemies." "Form gangs, form rogue cells, form it, and go out and do it." and the storyboard is "the instrument of the coward."

Werner Herzog holding a mic standing up on stage in a collared shirt tucked into his pants, a belt, some kind of sage green/clay colored shirt or jacket over it

Herzog in same fit, sitting in his little chair on stage

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Things are changing. A trans cinema for us, by us.

Castration Movie Anthology is a remarkable example of how contemporary trans cinema can be really bold and unapologetic because of the grassroots nature of its making and distribution. Can you say more about that film and its success?

Maclay: Castration’s word-of-mouth reputation has been built almost entirely by trans people discussing it with other trans people. I think it’s important to talk here about Muscle Distribution, a company that trans film archivist and queer historian Elizabeth Purchell started a couple years ago. I think that she is doing a wonderful job centralizing these movies and presenting them to the exact right audience. Through us sharing these films online, whether through Vimeo links or Google docs, or by going to screenings at microcinemas—and Louise has been traveling across North America and Europe getting Castration Movie Anthology out there—a community experience has been created around modern trans films, and it feels not only like Muscle is catering to us but also that it’s being driven by the power that we have as viewers and consumers. Louise just started a Kickstarter for Castration Movie Anthology III—she needed many thousands of dollars and raised it very quickly. This is showing us that this type of circulation, which enables us to use our modest economic means to help get money into the hands of trans filmmakers, can succeed. Maybe we can have an ecosystem of trans films that are on a smaller scale, and it doesn’t matter so much if they break into the mainstream if the trans audience is seeing them—as long as these films are mattering to the community itself.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi died today & the world lost a powerful and eloquent voice. I met her almost 20yrs ago and spent an afternoon w/her drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. I loved her. She was only 56. That monsters live to 100 proves to me of the absence of god. filmfreakcentral.net/2008/04/satr...

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Satrapolis: FFC Interviews Marjane Satrapi - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

April 13, 2008|I sat down with Iranian writer/cartoonist/columnist and now filmmaker Marjane Satrapi at Denver’s Hotel Monaco, right off 16th Street Mall–just a few minutes from the Convention Center,...

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Alex Kittle @alexxkittle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A few shots from the Persepolis print we screened last year for Women’s History Month (a whole weekend of Strictly Brohibited programming). Revisiting this on the big screen with a more expanded worldview (after first seeing it in college), such a memorable and impactful experience. What a loss…

Backlit film frame magnified under a loupe showing a scene from Persepolis.

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Rob Schamberger @schambergerart.com · 04/06/2026

Reading Persepolis was a transformative experience for me. Growing up in the 80’s in the US, Iran was always presented as this country of monsters who wanted to kill us. But this book humanized the Iranian people in a meaningful way and left me embarrassed I’d succumbed to propaganda.

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”
Marjane Satrapi

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Louise Weard @weard.moe · 01/06/2026

Use the code PRIDE26 to get Castration Movie for 50% off at digital.louiseweard.com

Henri Gillespi and Avalon Fast smoke cigarettes on a stoop

ivy wolk facepalms with dialogue “I like Bushwicked too close to the fucking sun a little.”

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp in the outrageous comedy classic, Blazing Saddles (1974) Directed by Mel Brooks. "Let's face it I'm tired."

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 18/05/2026

"mmMm cis pEoPLe getting SURGERY or HORMONES is just gender affirming care!" feels spiritually the same to me as "did YOU KNOW transmisogyny affects cis women too???" empty gotcha that still forefronts cis experience, a glib workaround for just talking about how we deserve control over our own lives

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 15/05/2026

her name was juniper blessing, and a blessing is what she was.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 15/05/2026

i saw a video of that girl that was murdered in seattle singing and it's breaking my whole fucking heart in half. what are we even supposed to do.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Camp Miasma playing at Cannes feels like a victory for every single trans person working in the film industry. That's how it feels to me. I am so happy for Jane & I hope it playing there opens up more doors for trans artists in the future. Here's to more films made by trans people playing at Cannes!

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