Vivian Blaxell
@vivianblaxell.bsky.social
I write stuff. I teach anything they are willing to pay me to teach. I travel. I love the cat. You can find links to some of my work at vivianblaxell.com or search apjjf.org
What is the relationship between oxycodone and donuts filled with whipped cream and cherry jam?
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
What is the relationship between oxycodone and donuts filled with whipped cream and cherry jam?
Rosalía puts the boot into it.
ROSALÍA - Berghain (Official Video) feat. Björk & Yves Tumor
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November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Rosalía puts the boot into it.
These stories and translations and monologues I am third drafting about marginal expatriates and their acquaintances, including Wilhelmina van Eindhoven, in Japan have turned into a kind of novel of manners, which I always said I would never.
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
These stories and translations and monologues I am third drafting about marginal expatriates and their acquaintances, including Wilhelmina van Eindhoven, in Japan have turned into a kind of novel of manners, which I always said I would never.
These not easy days, if it is not Schumann's "Dichterliebe" it is anything Iggy Pop for me.
Anna von Hausswolff — The Whole Woman (ft. Iggy Pop)
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October 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
These not easy days, if it is not Schumann's "Dichterliebe" it is anything Iggy Pop for me.
What I need is my own Mabel Dodge.
October 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
What I need is my own Mabel Dodge.
The piano arrived and I immediately sat down at it and began solfège exercises and soon it was time for dinner.
October 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The piano arrived and I immediately sat down at it and began solfège exercises and soon it was time for dinner.
tbh, this combination of extreme fragility and boundless durability was not on my dance card.
October 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
tbh, this combination of extreme fragility and boundless durability was not on my dance card.
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The girlfriends who founded Antifa.
October 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The girlfriends who founded Antifa.
Now and then, comes defamiliarization. In n+1, social media/social platforms became surveillance media/surveillance platforms, and I was, like, slap fucking slap.
October 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Now and then, comes defamiliarization. In n+1, social media/social platforms became surveillance media/surveillance platforms, and I was, like, slap fucking slap.
In almost three quarters of a century, I've been through several innovations of which, this will be the end of humanity, was said: Television; the pill; discotheques; daylight saving; computers; cellphones; email; internet; social media. Now ai. Yet no end came, nor comes, for our end is unending.
October 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
In almost three quarters of a century, I've been through several innovations of which, this will be the end of humanity, was said: Television; the pill; discotheques; daylight saving; computers; cellphones; email; internet; social media. Now ai. Yet no end came, nor comes, for our end is unending.
Could live to 21, the vet said, and I said, I’ve already done that, and the vet said, Now it’s the cat’s turn.
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Could live to 21, the vet said, and I said, I’ve already done that, and the vet said, Now it’s the cat’s turn.
Look, I know I’d get more light and $ if I wrote more exploded essays like the chapters of Worthy of the Event. I have the topics and I know they’d be better written than the kind of imagined and actual things I’m writing now, but I just can’t, I just will not. Do not ask again.
September 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Look, I know I’d get more light and $ if I wrote more exploded essays like the chapters of Worthy of the Event. I have the topics and I know they’d be better written than the kind of imagined and actual things I’m writing now, but I just can’t, I just will not. Do not ask again.
Preparation for the road book I promised to write (working title: Planet 9) requires reading every novel said to be structurally inspired by Canterbury Tales. I have Hyperion and Tokyo Canceled. Suggestion box?
September 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Preparation for the road book I promised to write (working title: Planet 9) requires reading every novel said to be structurally inspired by Canterbury Tales. I have Hyperion and Tokyo Canceled. Suggestion box?
One student gave me a canister of Taiwan black tea. The other told me there is a little bungalow for me in Chiang Rai, if I want to opt out of Portugal. I feel seen.
September 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
One student gave me a canister of Taiwan black tea. The other told me there is a little bungalow for me in Chiang Rai, if I want to opt out of Portugal. I feel seen.
I am as narcissistic, as volatile, as spurning, and as vainglorious as Mr. Trump so where is my White House.? Oh, money and conditions of possibility.
September 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I am as narcissistic, as volatile, as spurning, and as vainglorious as Mr. Trump so where is my White House.? Oh, money and conditions of possibility.
Emily Zhou’s Substack takes a very good turn with structure and topicality while keeping that crystalline diction I’ve come to admire and expect from her.
theory of the hack
this isn't about you
anecdata.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Emily Zhou’s Substack takes a very good turn with structure and topicality while keeping that crystalline diction I’ve come to admire and expect from her.
My furies about
murderers, shills,
and three kinds of
you fucking queen and disrespectful sister
forced me willy nilly
back to Canterbury Tales
where I found the road
to a perfect book
and the kind of anchoritic
vacancy that befits me.
murderers, shills,
and three kinds of
you fucking queen and disrespectful sister
forced me willy nilly
back to Canterbury Tales
where I found the road
to a perfect book
and the kind of anchoritic
vacancy that befits me.
September 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
My furies about
murderers, shills,
and three kinds of
you fucking queen and disrespectful sister
forced me willy nilly
back to Canterbury Tales
where I found the road
to a perfect book
and the kind of anchoritic
vacancy that befits me.
murderers, shills,
and three kinds of
you fucking queen and disrespectful sister
forced me willy nilly
back to Canterbury Tales
where I found the road
to a perfect book
and the kind of anchoritic
vacancy that befits me.
There is not one drop of ressentiment in the vitriol.
September 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
There is not one drop of ressentiment in the vitriol.
Ire is as sugar to me.
September 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Ire is as sugar to me.
I am rage itself.
September 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I am rage itself.
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TONIGHT please come through!!!
MONDAY, 7PM: Excited for our @bkbookfest.bsky.social ⭐Bookend Event⭐, cohosted by the Franklin Park Reading Series & World Trans Forum! Readings + panel w/Amie Barrodale, @zefrrr.bsky.social, Chet'la Sebree, and @emializh.bsky.social, 🍻happy hour🍷 until 8pm +📚raffle! tinyurl.com/3cdj3ure #Free #BKBF
September 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
TONIGHT please come through!!!
Also, it turns out that I am by no means the only writer to complain about that book publicity person’s dishonesty, gaslighting, and destructive incompetence. So, if you told me to de-escalate and think about your need to do business with the slag, you can eat my cunt now.
September 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Also, it turns out that I am by no means the only writer to complain about that book publicity person’s dishonesty, gaslighting, and destructive incompetence. So, if you told me to de-escalate and think about your need to do business with the slag, you can eat my cunt now.
On Friday, a colleague at RMIT whom I’ve worked with for 14 years called me tranny and when I protested she said I was too woke, her freedom of speech. I may never write again.
September 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
On Friday, a colleague at RMIT whom I’ve worked with for 14 years called me tranny and when I protested she said I was too woke, her freedom of speech. I may never write again.
A top story on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’ s morning news and radio journalism program today was the Kirk killer being in a relationship with a trans woman. It broke me. I may never write again.
September 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A top story on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’ s morning news and radio journalism program today was the Kirk killer being in a relationship with a trans woman. It broke me. I may never write again.