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O'Neill

Straight Fascism

Nobody is immune to fascist or reactionary political beliefs, but I think straight people get roped into it by something particularly somatic, embodied, and physically felt. All of those buzzwords. Before somebody believes I'm being exclusive in who I'm targeting here, I'll point out

"Calamari Inkantation," Art incantation.

I am sitting at night listening to Splatoon 1's "Calamari Inkantation" and crying again. I cry for the same reason the game De Blob matters to me, or The Giver by Lois Lowry or The Powerpuff Girls Season 1 Episode 22, "Mime for a Change.

Holy Land: Micro Curriculum 1

D.J. Waldie's Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir was on the $2 rack at work, which I swiped for free because I work there. A short while later I finished Joan Didion's Where I Was From, stunned to find that she cited this little book I&

3/31 Poem Roundup

Poem 1 Numb brush Once again I spiral off Torpedoed in some unknown. Faith holy prayer book Of conjunct uncut Memories, the Detritus and copper rust Emblematic problems and Complete salient peace: It all comes ending in Oblivion, oblivion Being your lack of Belief, hotwire rewire Cars from other people

Quotes: Mar. 30 '26

Where I Was From (Joan Didion) I was about to explain this to Quintana - the saloon, the wooden sidewalk, the generations of cousins who had walked just as she was walking down just this street on days just this hot - when I stopped. Quintana was adopted. Any ghosts on this

The right kind of trans person

If I'm made to think of myself as inferior, I might cover it up by adopting a belief system that makes me feel correct. I might not be "traumatized," but I would have been taught to think of something about myself as inferior, unless I adopted

You are a figure stuffed with straw

Strength is an act of selection. My weakness is a matter of framing. Of course I’d be weak when everything I successfully do is moralized about or shamed. My weakness is a matter of which lens you’re using, based on the thing you're trying to define

Films: Nosferatu (2024)

Spoilers, obviously ... Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is a horrid, rancid, gorgeous sympathy-for-the-monster movie. A young girl, Ellen, experiencing deep, agonizing loneliness, prays to a spirit for relief. She experiences a union with the unknown spirit that is at first blissful, and then becomes torture. Years later she

Your Flaky Friend is Right

Avoidance as a symptom of an alienated, repressed cultural moment. Right now, enormous amounts of people are surviving; life as a minefield of "shoulds." Should I do this or that? Talk to this person or that person first? Who will get more mad at me? What can I