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James Macaronas
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Paranormal investigator, aspiring heretic. He/him.

PhD at Melbourne - the psychedelic experience in sci-fi.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Free Palestine.
Yesterday's anti-racism, anti-Nazi march - calls for unity from Wurundjeri community, as well as solidarity from settler Aussies - including dismantling systems that profit from division.
September 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
although this was the first illustration I saw - the frontispiece in a Heinemann edition - still arrested by the way the heat ray resembles a camera ..
August 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
it'll always be the paintings from the Jeff Wayne album I think - expressing something alien in the same way the music does.
August 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Unimelb for Palestine are calling for people to phone/email the Vice Chancellor's office - staff and alumni must be vociferous in our rejection of this.
June 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
coming round to the feeling that John Blanche is right on the money here - (from White Dwarf #97) -
May 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
cry havoc
May 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
All fired up to run one of the winter school seminars at the Melbourne School of Literature - we'll be looking at what I'm calling "weird bodies" in 20th century anglophone science fiction - tell your friends - tell your deadly enemies - para-academia is go -- msl.org.au/msl-winter-s...
May 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Correlate all its malcontents.
May 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Land back and treaty now.
January 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
And we're done, so once more with feeling -
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 20.
#bookchallenge
December 19, 2024 at 12:06 AM
December 17, 2024 at 2:59 AM
December 16, 2024 at 10:48 AM
December 15, 2024 at 4:25 AM
December 14, 2024 at 11:55 AM
December 11, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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December 5, 2024 at 11:20 PM
December 3, 2024 at 8:57 AM
December 2, 2024 at 10:28 AM
And talking about Jack Kirby at the incredible Figurements symposium on Friday -
November 30, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Vigil for scholasticide in Gaza on Thursday -
November 30, 2024 at 9:53 PM
November 29, 2024 at 11:59 AM
November 28, 2024 at 10:51 AM
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM
wilfully disdain publishers putting out new books in taller editions that don't match -
November 27, 2024 at 8:15 AM