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Playwright, Screenwriter, Photographer, man-about-town. Here, Queer, Not going anywhere. www.duncanpflaster.com https://newplayexchange.org/users/1657/duncan-pflaster www.naughtyjewishboys.com https://linktr.ee/duncanpflaster

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Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 11d

My next two plays to be published by Next Stage Press are now available for pre-order, if you want to get them right away when they're published next month!

www.nextstagepress.com?s=Duncan+pfl...

Cover of "The Starship Astrov" by Duncan Pflaster

Cover of "Pleased as Man with Man to Dwell" by Duncan Pflaster

Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 2h

Will Sharpe: Very hot in White Lotus
Different kind of nerdy hot in A Real Pain
Indie Rock hot in Too Much.

...maybe he's just hot

Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 1d

A Dinosaur In Name Only, or "DINO"

Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 2d

Not only did TOSOS do a great reading of my vampire play "The Third Bite" in their Queer Spooky Shorts tonight, I also won a bottle of wine in the spooky theatre trivia!

Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 2d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

They Might be Giants
Vampire Weekend
Stephen Sondheim
Barenaked Ladies
Guster
Warren Zevon
Daniel Zaitchik
Erasure

Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

The Killers
The Beastie Boys
Paramore
Tyler, The Creator
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Scene Queen
Chappell Roan
My Chemical Romance

Kunt Vonnegut™️ @op-ivymoon.bsky.social · 2d

Divine your music taste in eight artists:

Ani DiFranco
Portishead
Against Me!
Cheap Perfume
Dillinger 4
Every Time I Die
Bikini Kill
Devo

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

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Trump Hosts Dinner for Wealthy Donors to White House Ballroom

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Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 2d

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 2d

when i was a kid people asked me a million times if i thought everything was a joke and all the question did was cement my personal philosophy that everything is probably a joke

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Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Filmsky

Screenshot of my "Recent Activity" page showing the posters for my 4 most recent watched movies, with my ratings
Roofman - 3 Stars with a heart
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote - 4 Stars with a heart
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 5 stars with a heart, rewatch
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss - 4 stars with a heart, rewatch

And two reviews below:
Roofman: "Sadder than I expected. 1/3 hapless criminal heist movie, 1/3 sweet faith-based romcom, 1/3 My Blue Heaven
Great cast elevates it and makes it more magical than maybe it should be.
Unusual score that goes from Jazz to Philip Glass style
Channing's butt just as great as always." (1 like)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: "This is all OVER the place, but captivating" (2 likes)

Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 3d

They've changed the variations of the plot a lot in different versions of it

Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 3d

Had the idea of re-writing "Chess" again with Robots instead of Russians. We'll call it "Florence and the Machine".
#WeWhoDontCare

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 4d

I'd forgotten how much I love the pedal point at the end of the Spontaneanation theme

Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 5d

Someone's been reading my diary

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Alan Cernobite @alancerny.bsky.social · 5d

Mighty Drew Struzan.

Eric Vespe @ericvespe.bsky.social · 5d

Rest in Peace to the great Drew Struzan, a man whose work sparked the imaginations of a whole generation of movie nerds. The master is gone.

I had the privilege of visiting him in his studio once and getting to talk shop. Here’s his words on one of his masterpieces:

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 5d

Fun fact: Cuba has free trans healthcare, including surgeries, for 17 years now.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 5d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Witney Seibold: Shock and Terror @witneyseibold.bsky.social · 5d

R.I.P. Drew Struzan.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 5d

katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 6d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 5d

On this day in queer history: Oct 14, 1977

During a live TV appearance in Iowa, anti-gay activist Anita Bryant was hit with a pie in protest of her “Save Our Children” campaign. A sweet moment of queer resistance.

#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #AnitaBryant

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Dropout @dropout.tv · 6d

This week on Dropout
🔊Monday: @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social season premiere
🍸Tuesday: @dirtylaundryshow.bsky.social Extended Cocktail Recipe
🐦‍⬛Wednesday: @dimension20.bsky.social Cloudward, Ho!
🥳Thursday: Adventuring Party
🤖Friday: @dropoutpresents.bsky.social trailer + Dirty Laundry Mocktail

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Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 9d

Some #EarthaKitt to take you into the weekend

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Eartha Kitt - I don't Care

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 9d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 9d

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky

Screenshot of my "Recent Activity" page showing the posters for my 4 most recent watched movies, with my ratings
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 5 stars with a heart, rewatch
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss - 4 stars with a heart, rewatch
Weapons - 5 stars with a heart
They Came Together - 4 Stars with a heart, rewatch

And two reviews below:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: "When 'Yes And' goes horribly wrong
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss : "Oh to be a 90s inde gay filmmaker and put Holly Woodlawn and Paul Bartel in your picture (one like)

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Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social · 11d

My next two plays to be published by Next Stage Press are now available for pre-order, if you want to get them right away when they're published next month!

www.nextstagepress.com?s=Duncan+pfl...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11d

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13d

you think Frankenstein's monster is going to do something unspeakable to this woman, but it turns out he is misunderstood - he just wants to try on her clothes 😭

Frankenstein carrying an unconscious woman who looks a hell of a lot like Crepax's Valentina up the stairs - the bubbles read "Lectores: A que estais temiendo por la vida (y por la virginidad) de Zita?" and "Pero estad tranquilos... los gustos de Frankenstein son diferentes (je je je)..."

Frankenstein's creature checking himself out in a full-length mirror wearing a garter belt, fishnet stockings, and stilettos, word bubble reads "¡Bel...lo!"

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