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Hesse Phillips
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🏳️‍🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain.
Debut novel LIGHTBORNE out now.
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Can you sum up your gender in 4 fictional characters?

Better yet, I can find them all in the same movie:
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Me from now until Saturday (bc we celebrate on Saturday).
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This was the first thing I had to see when I fired up the old Bluesky this morning, so now you have to see it too.

Also me, every morning, looking at the internet just before the last Americans finally stop melting down and go to bed:
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This just in...
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Without downloading any new pics describe your gender.
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
4 hours by train to Girona to see Rigoberta Bandini. It was abso-fucking-lutely worth it. Would have crawled over broken glass, in fact.
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
You all need a wee terrier in a yellow raincoat with little rainbows to start your day off right.
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Mamdani would be like
November 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Ugh, yes.

I imagine this is what logging on to Twitter feels like these days:
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Really enjoyed this one recently. But also anything by Amy Jeffs.
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
James Baldwin never said this. Robert Jones Jr., author of THE PROPHETS, who formerly used the handle "sonofbaldwin," said this.
November 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This could've been about 1/2 an hour shorter but I was completely engrossed anyway. For lovers of weird cult films, Spanish cinema, and the sound of Iggy Pop's speaking voice.
November 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Stuck at a cabin in the woods in the pouring rain. Please entertain me with pictures of your pets that look like album covers. Bonus points for naming the band.

The Tree-Pissers, [self-titled]
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Pumpkins designed by my nephew, carved by me.

May your Halloween be filled with the sense of piercing unease that heals a weary soul. May all your zombies be double-tapped. May all your enemies be sewn into bear suits. May we all, for one night, be Final Girls. 👻
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Timeline cleanse:
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Instantly reminded of this gif the groomer made of my dog burping and then scaring himself with his own burp-face.
October 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This might just do - historical fantasy, witches, Spanish Inquisition (not exactly gothic but the vibes are there). The hardback is gorgeous, as a bonus!
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

(Okay one more)
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
October 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
October 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Agh, missed opportunity to make a sign like this with my grandfather, who helped liberate Buchenwald.

That's him in white in the middle:
October 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
BTW, to all the smartasses out there saying bUt sPaIN HAS a KiNg we've also been trying to get rid of those guys for a loooooong time
October 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
#NoKings Madrid Spain
October 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM