So I just finished reading Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite (currently Billy Martin but if you want to find their books you need to use their old/pen name) and I have never felt so fucking alive.
It was an awful, noxious little book. Full of objectively vile subjects and not particularly condemming of, well, most of them. If you try to look up a list of trigger warnings for this book it would just say “yes”.
I fucking loved it.
There are four POV characters, two serial killers, a Vietnemese lad called Tran and Tran’s abusive ex Luke who is dying of AIDS. It’s set in the early 90s, primarily in New Orleans with a couple of chapters in London centering on the escape of one of the serial killers. It’s seedy, bleak, but by gods it’s beautiful.
On the one hand I’m sad I didn’t read anything from this author sooner, I would have eaten this up as a teenager and I’m pretty sure they’re out of print now. But on the other hand I think I needed this book now more than ever. It broke my heart but it stoked the flames of my inspiration mor powerfully than anything has in years.
Lately everything has felt so … sterile? Sanitised? Edgless? It’s like the danger has been stripped out of fiction over the last decade but fuck, I need that from my fiction. I especially need that from my queer fiction.
So I would recomend this book. I’d be selective about who I recomend it to, you know, sickos only, that kind of thing. The main caveat is that it’s heavily inspired by Jeffry Dhamer to a point that feels close to plagerism.
Filed under poppy z brite billy martin horror queer horror exquisite corpse
ninasnon-sense:
Holy shit X Files S2E3 get’s dark fast. What the fuck?
Fuck yeah! I love it when Mulder get’s stabbed!
Holy shit X Files S2E3 get’s dark fast. What the fuck?
headspace-hotel:
super-sootica:
FINE, you get another go at the time machine and the ability to prevent one birth (or commit a murder up to you), don’t worry about the butterfly effect, we want the butterfly effect that’s part of the point. Your actions will prevent them from ever rising to prominence. Original poll here There may be a face off poll at the end. Hitler still isn’t an option because we’d all chose to kill him.
Am gonna go Pontius Pilate and say my hands are cleaned of this one. All of the below are nominees.
Y'all I know Reagan was a mega bastard but if you think he was anywhere near as bad as Cortez or Columbus you’re out of your goddamn mind
The lack of votes for Oliver Cromwell and Margret Thatcher are proof that there are very few people from the UK in this poll.
(via bloodybootsem)
powerbottombrucespringsteen:
Reflection from Mulan was so crazy she literally sang “If I were truly to be myself I would break my family’s heart” and 8 year old proto-gay me was like “I don’t know what you mean but I know what you mean”
“I feel this viscerally, but that doesn’t mean I understand it.”
(via nandalorian)
my-beautiful-wickedness:
The Castle of Chaythe. Soon we’ll be able to see it: the home of Carmila, the Bloody Countess. You’ve heard of her. For five thousand years her rule of terror lasted, and then, that was that! Your father, the vampire king, grew angry. He was impatient with her vanity; offended by her bloodlust, her gluttony. He grew so tired that he killed her while she slept, impaling her on a sword, and that was it for her.
Except she haunts the place now with phantoms and demons, but you don’t care about that, do you?
(via minavampyra)
Filed under vampire hunter d bloodlust that movie is almost offensively beautiful
Filed under reblogging for that truely terrible pun
