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rax ‘levon honkers’ king

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Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WORDS AND GUITAR: where my writer friends and i will read to you about our favorite songs, and my musician friends will play them for you 💘 tuesday 10/13
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Words and Guitar
An all acoustic variety show featuring readings about our favorite tunes, and covers of them from our favorite musicians.
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 1h
unsurprisingly, @raxkingisdead.bsky.social comparing the original Odyssey in it’s time to a wrestler now wrapping a folding chair in barbed wire is the perfect analogy flaminghydra.com/poetic-licen...
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Poetic License
In her recent controversial review for the London Review of Books, translator and classicist Emily Wilson excoriates director Christopher Nolan for what she sees as his flat and humorless take on The ...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2h
i’m surprised we’re here again but i can block whoever i want on here lol you guys aren’t like, my constituents
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3h
this morning i had to explain babka’s name to a spanish-speaking neighbor who didn’t understand it so i stumbled through my terrible spanish to be like ‘it’s a cake…a cake of the jews’
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h
i know how to make you go away
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h
DIVORCE FILING: i forgot that the term for ‘male succubus’ is ‘incubus’ and referred instead to the ‘muckubus,’ inciting laughter and ridicule from the defendant
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Raven Song Farm @ravensongfarm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is something deeply wrong with trying to kill a person twice, then sending her to a hospital for life saving measures so that they can try to kill her again.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h
see you on sunday! DM for address!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h
shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 21h
At @flaminghydra.com @raxkingisdead.bsky.social has a valuable perspective the Cornell rape case, and on the part of misogyny that happens between men flaminghydra.com/issue-659/
I wasn’t afraid these two men on the pedestrian bridge would assault me. When they believed I was out of earshot, I knew they’d whisper. They might laugh about what they’d just seen jiggling up the ramp to pass between them. Those were the things I would hear (and, eventually, did hear). The rest has always been mysterious to me. Might one of them make too lewd or sexist of a comment, and might the other let it pass, express no disgust, say nothing instead of shutting down the exchange? I’ve seen that happen many times among other men. If they were cowards when I could see and hear them, what were they like when I couldn’t?
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23h
(about to get in a fight, putting my dukes up) say hello to my good friends Isaac and Chotiner
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i wasn’t looking for a man to be my protector, i was looking for backup flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...
"What the hell was that?" I asked. "Why didn't you say anything?"
"You expect me to pick a fight with a crazy person?"
"No!" Even I could hear myself sounding hysterical.
"I don't expect you to pick a fight with a crazy person, I expect you to say something for me!"
My friend had a point. If a guy is so determined to own the sidewalk that he'll literally behave like a rabid animal about it, he might indeed take any remark about his behavior amiss, perhaps even as an invitation to fight. But I had a point, too. As long as my friend said nothing on my behalf, the lone man correctly figured it was just him against some girl. He could take me. We both knew it. I wasn't looking for a protector; I was looking for backup. For someone to take my hand and assure me that whatever happened, it would not be one against one.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
do the men in the group chat like each other, i wonder flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...
Do the men in the group chat like each other, I wonder-these men expressing such unmistakable, unrestrained glee as they stain their souls forever and ruin their classmate's life. I can't decide whether they're more odious if the answer is yes or if it's no, but I can't dismiss the question as unimportant, either. These fraternities that the public rarely hears about, except when their members kill or rape: do they foster the bonds of friendship or just cheaply mimic them? When some ex-frat boy needs a lawyer or an introduction to a senator later in his life, when that boy digs through the network of other boys for a hookup, what is the nature of the bond he's leaning on? I want to diagnose it. I'm the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i want to congratulate the british band Cock Sparrer for having a name that autocorrects in innocent texts about them to the repulsive Cock Spatter
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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'I wasn’t looking for a protector; I was looking for backup.'
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A very good one flaminghydra.com/issue-659/
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Real good buds
Rax King considers the camaraderie among men at Cornell University
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rax is one of the great writers we get to read.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
do the men in the group chat like each other, i wonder flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...
Do the men in the group chat like each other, I wonder-these men expressing such unmistakable, unrestrained glee as they stain their souls forever and ruin their classmate's life. I can't decide whether they're more odious if the answer is yes or if it's no, but I can't dismiss the question as unimportant, either. These fraternities that the public rarely hears about, except when their members kill or rape: do they foster the bonds of friendship or just cheaply mimic them? When some ex-frat boy needs a lawyer or an introduction to a senator later in his life, when that boy digs through the network of other boys for a hookup, what is the nature of the bond he's leaning on? I want to diagnose it. I'm the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 01/10/2026
TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on what we’ve seen in the men of Cornell University. “I want to diagnose it. I’m the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.” flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...
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Gentlemen and Scholars of the Ivy League
I heard the two men talking, this morning, before I saw them. Then I saw them, and then they saw me, walking up the steep ramp toward them to the pedestrian bridge over the expressway. Their talking s...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
did someone say wayne diamond
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FREE POST: notes on the greatest, most incredible guy who ever lived | rax king
Yall remember Uncut Gems, I'm sure. It was the last movie I saw in theaters and loved before life turned into, you know, this. I saw it thre
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
feel whatever you have to feel, lord knows i am feeling about 40 different unproductive ways rn, but *spreading* despair is fucking irresponsible
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
if you begin feminist history at #MeToo then it's easy to despair that nothing has changed (or that some things have actually gotten worse). if you take a much longer view though things have changed so much! the little gestures we make today are adding up to something we can't see yet!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
something that always tripped me out in my days as a dog daycare worker is, there are SO MANY people who get dogs and then never spend any time with them. they stick em in daycare from open til close, seven days a week. why the hell did you get a dog?!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
okay i LOVE the idea that when i have a hankering for a new book i google 'books i might enjoy' lmao
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘oh that guy just thrives on negative attention’ ok but what about what i thrive on though. what if it’s very important to me medically and nutritionally to remind certain men whose addresses are in the public record that they are god’s mistake
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when the time comes, after they clean the last of your slime trail off the face of the earth, you will not be remembered by anybody
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 30/09/2026
So much of the lens on culture has been turned into a numbers game, where everything is about chart placements and streaming numbers and data. Its a horse race to who gets to do data best, and all of these dorks forget that people just want a song that will make them cry at the grocery store.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it’s not the key point but it’s worth saying that if you make a point of shedding the cultural associations there is actually nothing less cool than a frat boy. jumped up little pipsqueak wearing his fruity lil easter colors leaking piss beer out of every orifice. an embarrassment of a human being
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very excited to return to Littlefield for this cooooool event on 10/13!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
did you 🫵 get your tickets yet???? music readings laughter gasps tears etc
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘well here i am, through the doors of the F train. should i move into the center of the car so others can board behind me? maybe in a minute. after i contemplate my entire life.’ - everybody, apparently
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
talking to rahm is like sex, it's bad. right? it's boring and bad and a waste of four minutes. right? it's like that for everyone? right?
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
if free daycare appeals to educated people maybe it’s because their hifalutin book learnin’ taught them that free things are more accessible than expensive ones
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Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
choose texas or don't but do take the opportunity to check out the glorious @flaminghydra.com piece on Andrew Sa by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social
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Andrew Sa: American Rough
“I don’t care if you don’t think I’m country / it’s at the heart of me,” sings Andrew Sa. He is a singer-songwriter working in the idiom of country music, a genre long coded as politically conservativ...
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caden cockburn @cadencockburn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
screenshot of google search "Is tweety a boy or girl"
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 30/09/2026
TODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social on Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s new book SECRET DAUGHTER. "Exile doesn’t erase [secrets]; it merely displaces them. Silencing a secret is much harder and obliterating the evidence of it is harder still. In fact, it might be impossible." flaminghydra.com/r/706a8598?m...
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Template for grief
Myriam Gurba descends into the darkness of a new book by Veronica Gonzalez Peña
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
until chicago pope i don’t think i ever truly understood that the pope is like a guy
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
just let nature take its course good god the results CAN NOT be worse than this
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hoping to incorporate more reversible clothing into my wardrobe in 2027
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
flyers on lampposts, great way to learn about fun events in your area that happened two weeks ago
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
every day i thank god that neither my one-time rapist nor my longtime abuser ever amounted to shit. also every day it surprises me a little more that *being* rapists and abusers didn’t *automatically* vaunt them into amounting to shit
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
babka seems to think whenever i put up her doggy gate it’s time to play the super fun game of figuring out how to knock it over. when i get home and she’s managed it she’s always so proud lmao
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i wrote a short story that is pleasantly horrifying my readers www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...
Smells like a party

Isn't this one pretty though, better than her pictures. Our waitress isn't actually avoiding our table, is she? Tyler would tell me it's all in my head. No, it's that big stupid party in her section bogarting her. She brings them whatever, they ask her for the next damn thing. Hey, big stupid party, some of us have been rehearsing how to order the next drink for however long it's been.

Eye contact first. Distinguishes me from big stupid party that keeps taxi-hailing her. Casual careless eye contact. Then slow-walk it. Might I trouble you for another bourbon rocks. Radiating leisure. Maybe even throw in a by-the-by if I can pull it off. By the by, might I trouble you…no. Weird. Weird and British. Keep it simple. Act like the whim wouldn't have even occurred to me had the waitress not paused at our table which is the other reason for eye contact casual careless making her think it was all her idea.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
not quite, autosuggest
dm from a friend that reads: Dude you have one of these!!!!!!!!!
me writing a response that begins: could’ve knocked me over with a
autosuggest options: hammer / knife / blunt
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 29/09/2026
ALSO TODAY: @joemacleod666.bsky.social on the dingy pedophile-catcher movie PRIMETIME. "It’s impressionistic, like, it’s based on how a complicated and unpleasant true story feels, it’s grimy, filthy, in some scenes you can smell it, ugh." flaminghydra.com/tv-time/
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TV Time
a fiery writer-owned cooperative
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 29/09/2026
TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social on photographing the mighty, primal rock n roll band Dead Moon and on the incredible love story embedded in the life of the group. "We started out with nothing but each other." flaminghydra.com/dead-moon-ri...
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Dead Moon Rising
The greatest love story in Rock ’n’ Roll came from Portland, Oregon.  The one and only time I saw Dead Moon perform in 2004, I was already a superfan, on the threshold of what would be a long career ...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
in 2021 when expensive stuff was briefly cheap due to covid sean and i went to a 5-star resort where i bought a pack of hair ties. we're talkin platonic ideal hair ties. stretchy, durable, soft on your wrist. i cherished my hair ties like one would a pet. anyway the last one of the pack just snapped
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