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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

literally waiting until December when my sister visits so she can help me change my earring because I’m a coward

Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

trying to figure out if "it's about healing religious trauma by fucking god" is an acceptable way to describe my play in this residency application

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

the future is for trans people

a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

rolling up to a Phillies game for the gluten free stand

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it’s hereeeee!!!! www.1319press.com/bookstore/p/...

The cover of my new play The Great Impresario Boris Lermontov Would Like To Invite You To Dinner. It features an illustration of a marionette theater with fork, plate, and spoon puppets by the incredible Tom Deja/Bossman Graphics.

Play. Casting: 2 actors. Two actors meet onstage and flip a coin to decide who plays which character for the performance. One takes on the role of Boris Lermontov, the boisterous and boastful impresario of a popular ballet company, while the other plays his employee Noa, an unappreciated dancer who’s been tasked with serving dinner to Lermontov and his guest.

The façade of the dinner party quickly starts to crumble as tensions rise between impresario and dancer, revealing the faulty hierarchical structures inherent to such working relationships. As the actor playing Lermontov tries to prove power imbalances can be solved with the Right Person in the role of impresario, they fall further and further into a trap they’ve created for themself.

About the author. Tristan B Willis is a playwright exploring trans and queer stories, distanced performance, and the intersection of theatre and games. They are a multiyear recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program award and, in 2025, they were nominated by Michael John Garcés for the Stavis Playwright Award.

As a resident of Orchard Project’s Liveness Lab and CultureHub’s Writing for Electronic Formats, Tristan discussed and cultivated new ways of presenting theatrical work in digital and distanced spaces. They’ve continued that work with the Kennedy Center Local Theatre Residency, Lucille Lortel Theatre with support from Caridad Svich, the From-Home Fest, and the Welcome to My Homepage residency. You can learn more about Tristan and their work at tristanbwillis.com.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

now that The Great Impresario is published it's time to start working on my next project

The Alien Vs Predator poster except Mr Beast is Alien and Jigsaw is Predator. The title says "BVJ / BEAST VS JIGSAW" and the tag still says "WHOEVER WINS... WE LOSE." It's frankly a TERRIBLE editing job and I'm still proud of it.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it’s hereeeee!!!! www.1319press.com/bookstore/p/...

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I made a little theater to announce my play’s publish date 🥲

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I made a little theater to announce my play’s publish date 🥲

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I’d be great on Reacher, I’d make that guy look so big

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

has anyone done this yet

The D.W. meme. She stands at Arthur's door, which here has a sign that says "That you for submitting your play. Unfortunately," with her hands on her hips and says "That sign can't stop me because I can't read!"

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“I don’t know a lot about x” that’s enough you’re allowed to stop there no need for a “but”

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

sweatermuppet designs are the best

Me taking a mirror selfie wearing basketball shorts and a sweater muppet shirt that says “the world will always need more transsexuals! there is room enough for everyone. That includes you!” I’ve cut it to be a halter top. There’s a pile of laundry behind me.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I truly think art alone is incapable of enacting change on any systemic level and also that’s okay. But we can’t let making art be our stand-in for taking action.

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Keith J Carberry @carberry.deals · 03/09/2026

if i made a game about killing nazis i could say my game is political but i also dont think making a game or playing a game is political. art is the vomit of politics not the food. people want to come home from work and mime nazi killing in their non-nazi-killing lives. thats catharsis not politics

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

had a dream i worked out so hard my tits came back what does this mean

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

three months on t and I think I’m going for the wolverine build

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

it’s @petevolk.bsky.social’s birthday so I can finally show off what I made for their birthday present!!

A tote bag hanging from a coat rack. It has a SICK applique Godzilla on it

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

it’s @petevolk.bsky.social’s birthday so I can finally show off what I made for their birthday present!!

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

headed to camp miasma, anyone need anything?

Pete, cheesin, and Tristan, looking cool, on their way to a move

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wrote about my long history with Spider-Man, why the previous MCU Spider-Man movies fell short for me, and how Brand New Day reversed that trend by 1) telling a personal story I really connected to and 2) feeling like a real movie and not a marketing exercise pvguide.ghost.io/spider-man-b...

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A Brand New Day for Spider-Man

In Brand New Day, Spider-Man breaks free from Tony Stark’s shadow

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

wife’s at work so I “accidentally” put “too many” fries in the air fryer for “dinner”

It’s just a plate FULL of fries that have been burnt a bit

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

sports are reality theatre

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

who’s ready for the annual new dramatists freak out, glhf y’all 💙💙💙

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School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study · 22/07/2026

✎⋆⑅˚₊ APPLICATIONS OPEN! ⋆⑅˚₊ New classes this Fall at the School for Poetic Computation! This season's classes invite us to connect with the transformative power of experimentation. Apply by Fri, Aug 7 at 11:59pm ET 🔗 sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Pete made me this adorable cake for my birthday thanks Pete

A vanilla Bundt cake with raspberries and powdered sugar on top. There’s also a little Snoopy figurine with his house and a Woodstock.

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A year ago, I took a chance and moved PV Guide from Substack to Ghost. To celebrate (+ pay the bill), I'm running a 20% off sale on all subscriptions! If you want more work like this, start a paid subscription today! Annual: pvguide.ghost.io/the-big-ghos... Monthly: pvguide.ghost.io/ghost-renewa...

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PV Guide

Ditch the algorithm with movie and TV recommendations, interviews, and reviews from Pete Volk, Polygon's former senior curation editor

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I wrote about DESERT HEARTS for the Pride edition of my reader's choice series. This movie is the best. I love it. You can watch it now on the Criterion Channel. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

A still from DESERT HEARTS of three women in a convertible on an open highway in the desert. No cars behind them. Just sky

Filmmaker Donna Deitch initially imagined Desert Hearts as a lesbian adaptation of John Huston’s The Misfits (1961). In that film, Marilyn Monroe plays a young woman brought out to the old West and finds herself falling in love with a horse wrangler played by Clark Gable. Queer languages in cinema were, and still are, often coded, and function in a way that resembles the way our identities can rankle with the shape of societal norms and expectations. The same is true for queer cinema, and there are many beloved films in our canon that speak to a transfiguration of existing modes through the lens of homosexuality or transness. When Deitch set to adapt Jane Rule’s novel “The Desert of the Heart”, there weren’t many lesbian westerns, but there were coded characters, such as Joan Crawford’s strong-willed butch gunslinger in Johnny Guitar (1954), or Mercedes McCambridge’s tough pony chaser in Giant (1956). In that film she seems to speak a secret language with James Dean’s equally queer coded oil-man. But in these films, queerness is cordoned off, and suggestive rather than explicit. Deitch opted for a representation that used the poetics of the Western style and brought it to life with a rambunctious and explicit language that used old fashioned techniques like lapse dissolves and long wipes to elucidate on the budding lust and forthcoming relationship between the beguiling free-spirit Cay Rivers (Patricia Charbonneau) and the cloistered, nearly divorced Columbia professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver). Deitch’s film begins with images that are immediately steeped in folklore. “Reno, 1959”, in a wide-frame, shows a train that arrives at the station, and Vivian, in a cool, lavender pantsuit, arrives professionally in what remains of the wild West. Through the details of the embedded language of the Western, we can glean the space, the pacing, and the conservatism of places like this. CONT.

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Nea “Dracula” Ching @thegaychingy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Saddened to hear of Akihiro Miwa’s passing. most in the west knew Miwa for voice acting in Ghibli films like Mononoke and Howl, but many will also remember them as a stage & screen actor, a singer/songwriter and a former lover of Yukio Mishima who famously read that man for filth.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

how do y’all with homegrown t deal with being SO SWEATY I’m SO SWEATY

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

three weeks on t and all i’m watching are dudes flying camera drones and red bull breakdancing videos

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

*slapping my body* this bad boy can fit so many autoimmune disease complications in it

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

same energy

A screenshot from X-Files of Mulder very seriously holding up a frankly iffy and useless drawing of the “Jersey Devil” — it’s just like a naked man with long hair walking awkwardly.

A screenshot from Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid of a cop very seriously holding up an iffy and useless drawing of, well, not a mermaid — one half is a fishtail and the other half is human legs plus a penis and balls.

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Octavius32 @octavius32.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Remember u dont need ai for place holders this is a concept sketch for alien

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

ONE FROM THE VAULTS RETURNS! For a special Tenth Anniversary season! Ten brand new episodes of the original trans history podcast. In our first episode, we chart the life of tarot master, sci fi writer, and 70s trans activist Rachel Pollack! Please share! m.soundcloud.com/onefromtheva...

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OFTV 40 - The High Priestess of Poughkeepsie

Play OFTV 40 - The High Priestess of Poughkeepsie by OneFromTheVaultspodcast on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I had so many shirts I was waiting to wear after the big chop and it was all worth it

I’m standing on some steps with one hand on a rail and one brushing my hair. I’m wearing shorts, sneakers, and a silky shirt with lace cut outs and a multi-tie front — like little bows instead of buttons.

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Chase-Biscuits :3 @chasebiscuits.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is real btw

Patch Notes for Balatro, from Steam, saying that Straights are banned from scoring until July 1st.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

moby dick but it’s just me trying to get my testosterone gel prescription filled

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