[congressofspirits]

making a pinned post in light of the surprise boost for my creative work:

Brendan

30-something white ftm guy in the Mid-Atlantic USA / longtime tumblrina / museum admin / zinemaker / MFA grad not beating the accusations about the type of people who get MFAs or the quality of their work

You can read all my traditionally published work here and of course you can read the free novel here.

[congressofspirits]

tentative plan for the rest of the summer:

- Finish Big Hollow and send to everyone who said they want to see an Eraserhead baby looking draft 0 by the end of June

- Zines in the evening June 11 - 19 for Princeton on the 20th. (Come see me in Princeton btw! Ivy League universities are evil but they have a beautiful free art museum you can visit after you check out the zine fest at their local library.)

- pack / move / 48 hours of Friends Blorbos from the Anime / Beach

- Carthage (can be brought on the Vacation/Retreat as one of the various Pastimes)

- Ethereal Resonant Imagining Scan/Big Hollow Edits

[concupiscience]

[congressofspirits]

My mom sending me videos every couple of weeks of whatever especially nice hike she's on is, like, cool and lovely but also I understand why people explode their whole lives to buy vans and just film themselves camping. What other way is there to feel about this?

[shithowdy]

it's 1pm at the marsh! come on down, we've got

𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀𝒷𝒾𝓇𝒹𝓈!!!

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 18 hours

[congressofspirits]

Time for Obligatory Pride Promotion Post. "A Personal and Legal History of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States" is a pocket-sized zine that unfolds into 21 feet of US history and you can buy one!

Designed and written by @invizigothx and assembled (and design-prototyped) by me. And our cats. No fewer than one cat will have stepped on any given page.

We're moving in July so this is just to try clearing the studio as much as possible. There are seven of them available for $10 plus shipping each. I think you can dm me but you can also email [email protected] 🌈 ✌️

[saltedume]

me and who

[thejawsdevour]

Kathy Fahey (Australian) - Streetscape (artist book, tissue paper, stonehenge paper, and ink, 2011)

[yarrow-heather-and-hollyhock]

Recently learned more about the story of Parthenope, the iconograhic evolutions around sirens of the sky to mermaids of the sea, and was really taken with myth-making and re-making as a collage and decollage of meaning

Photos of a Fresco from Pompeii and a bronze Sirena circa 1600 (both on display at the MANN), backgrounds made from recycling bin-bound materials, and cat hair (sometimes you find the materials, sometimes the materials find you)

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[congressofspirits]

We hopped on the pandemic instant pot train back in 2020 and despite having used it at least once a month for the last six years that thing still scares the absolute fuck out of me.

[t4timekeeper]

[wizardarchetypes]

absolutely looosssinggg it. i'm so obsessed with movies which portray the woman MC in a highly specific job because the writers clearly think it's like "off-beat" and "quirky" but have no idea how the field works whatsoever.

i decided to try a romcom i somehow missed i the 2000s 'head over heels' and i got 3 and a half minutes in and we're introduced to the lonely MC with bad taste in men as evidenced by her extremely short list of ex boyfriends, including her first boyfriend when she was 11 or something because i guess that's still relevant in her adult life.

so she's resigned herself to never finding love and prefers to ignore men to focus all her energy into her career.

this job is immediately presented as though it's for spinsters with no hope of ever finding a man.

the mc's lesbian bestie (whose first line involves her being scolded for being too sexual in the workplace, but moving on) points out their colleagues as evidence that they're doomed to a romance-less, sexless life if they don't switch up their shared career path. the colleagues are three old women, so-dubbed "the menopause triplets":

these women are presented as if they have no idea what's going on at any given moment. this is 2001, and presumably this is an entry level job requiring low effort and no experience.

then their boss bursts into the room, unceremoniously bumping a large painting into the door jam and walls, announcing that it's a new project for our MC.

our MC is thrilled to see the painting. apparently it's a light in the daily slog at her dreary job for loser women with nothing going on in their lives.

And that job is? Conservator of paintings (specializing in Renaissance) at the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The painting being handled like an old couch on its way to the curb?

The Bacchanal of the Andrians by Titian.

Her lesbian colleague who is presumably also a a highly trained & skilled curator finds it depressing that the MC is so excited about the painting.

it's a quirk unique to this MC that she cares so much about paintings, in her department at the metropolitan museum of art, where her colleagues find all that art business rather dreary. because we all know that's what conservators in extremely competitive museum positions are like.

[wizardarchetypes]

I'm not saying there can't be lifelong love in here somewhere but I also just feel like the monogamous heterosexual marriage you're fantasizing about isn't necessarily best represented by the bacchanal. and that's okay. but i do stand by that.

[fujoshiwarrior]

(replying to my mutual's post about their day) We have to kill the people who make you suffer

[congressofspirits]

Writing a pwp longfic Tolstoy style. Every arc of fucking and sucking will have a multi-chapter interlude reviewing what exactly makes something "perverted" and covertly reminding the audience that we can't definitively say what makes these characters cum because no model of attraction proposed by historians, psychologists, or anthropologists can ever grasp the true emotional mechanics of sex until they admit that divine providence plays a role.

[congressofspirits]

I wish the guy from The National who is now writing and producing for all of these pop stars would release a cover that's, like, The National's Version. I actually love Gracie Abrams' "Hit the Wall" but want the "depressed dad" variant.