#the strange men anthology

[yourfavoriteworksatmcdonalds]

David Hoover from the strange man anthology.

david hoover from THE STRANGE MAN ANTHOLOGY works at mcdonalds!

#mod epon #your favorite works at mcdonalds #the strange man anthology #the strange men anthology #david hoover

[blazeismyname]

So, like. Yknow how the Mechs Fandom basically picked up Lyf and said "Why the fuck did you not give us more. We will right your wrongs you cock suckers (/lh because The Mechanisms are awesome)" and then basically adopted him and gave him a real life beyond what little we see?

I kinda did that with Lullaby from the Strange Men Anthology. For some reason, they make me SUPER happy. I spent like, a full day drawing them after watching an analysis video on The Sandman. And I have, like, several THOUSAND headcanons about them, used them in a roleplay, and ended up giving them someone to love because I literally don't care what you say, I wanna.

So um, feel free to ask about that because I WILL spill my headcanons.

#the mechanisms #the mechs #kinda??? #feels wrong to tag it that but it does talk about the mechs so whatever #the sandman #the strange men anthology #the strange men series #YOU DONT UNDERSTAND #I LOVE THEM #THEYRE A COMFORT CHARACTER DESPITE BEING A TRANSLUCENT THING WITH A VAUGE HUMAN SHAPE NATURALLY #THEM AND ALL OF STRANGE MEN NEED MORE RECOGNOTION

[belmonteiro]

#video games #indie games #the strange men anthology #wolf rpg editor #horror

[meows-on-you]

I made a thing

#the crooked man #david hoover #the strange man anthology #the strange men series

[aubadeempress]

I ended up watching some overview/retrospective videos of RPG Maker Horror games and GOD it takes me back

I miss watching playthroughs of these games and just keeping up with vids all through and to the endings, because the creators of these games did amazingly good with their plots and twists and endings

aghhh... it's so tempting to either watch, make art, or maybe even go back to trying to learn RPG Maker to create a homage piece out of my pure love for it

#THE AMOUNT OF BRAIN ROT I HAD OVER MERMAID SWAMP #AND PARANOIAC #AND HECK THE FOREST OF DRIZZLING RAIN #also yes I love the Strange Men Anthology #God maybe it is time to binge #rpg maker #rpg maker horror

[ashtonisvibing]

7) Have you ever been to a corn maze?

10) Favorite horror movie?

24) What’s a perfect name for a black cat?

-pxppet <3

7) i have! i don't remember what year it was, but i'm pretty sure for an after school program i was a part of we got to go to a corn maze instead of doing school work. so y'know, t'was pretty fun :}

10) um... probably halloween? i dunno, i'm not big on horror movies admittedly, so there's not many i really like. much prefer watching someone talk about/play a horror game.

24) jiji, named after the black cat from kiki's delivery service. or maybe that's just cuz of my personal plan to one day own both a calico cat and a black cat, who shall be named juno and jiji :}}}

#ashton is answering #halloween ask game #in terms of favorite horror GAMES #currently big on watching people play observation duty #it's like- barely scary in my opinion #and whenever there IS a scary character the model just looks goofy #absolutely no shade to the dev but the models look like they got made in gmod or something #like their necks could so easily bend in ways they shouldn't #but in a goofy way #so it takes away from the scare #the boogie man and the crooked man from the strange men anthology are also really good! #great rpg horrors #the boogie man is admittedly a little corny with it's dialogue #but maybe that's just cuz of the voice acting #especially with the boogie man himself- no offense to the va but like... #i wish his voice had more personality #the boogie man seems like he should sound whimsical and goofy over murdering people #but he unfortunately doesn't #kinda one note in his voice #but i can't blame any of the voice actors cuz i don't think any of them were professionals #at least during the voicing of this game #ANYWAYS i should stop now too many tags lolol

[eesirachs]

For a school assignment, I'm assembling an anthology around the theme of queer divinity and desire, but I'm having a hard time finding a fitting essay/article (no access to real academic catalogues :/ ), do you know of any essays around this theme?

below are essays, and then books, on queer theory (in which 'queer' has a different connotation than in regular speech) in the hebrew bible/ancient near east. if there is a particular prophet you want more of, or a particular topic (ištar, or penetration, or appetites), or if you want a pdf of anything, please let me know.

essays: Boer, Roland. “Too Many Dicks at the Writing Desk, or How to Organize a Prophetic Sausage-Fest.” TS 16, no. 1 (2010b): 95–108. Boer, Roland. “Yahweh as Top: A Lost Targum.” In Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, edited by Ken Stone, 75–105. JSOTSup 334. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 2001. Boyarin, Daniel. “Are There Any Jews in ‘The History of Sexuality’?” Journal of the History of Sexuality 5, no. 3 (1995): 333–55. Clines, David J. A. “He-Prophets: Masculinity as a Problem for the Hebrew Prophets and Their Interpreters.” In Sense and Sensitivity: Essays on Reading the Bible in Memory of Robert Carroll, edited by Robert P. Carroll, Alastair G. Hunter, and Philip R. Davies, 311–27. JSOTSup 348. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. Graybill, Rhiannon. “Yahweh as Maternal Vampire in Second Isaiah: Reading from Violence to Fluid Possibility with Luce Irigaray.” Journal of feminist studies in religion 33, no. 1 (2017): 9–25. Haddox, Susan E. “Engaging Images in the Prophets: Feminist Scholarship on the Book of the Twelve.” In Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect. 1. Biblical Books, edited by Susanne Scholz, 170–91. RRBS 5. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013. Koch, Timothy R. “Cruising as Methodology: Homoeroticism and the Scriptures.” In Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, edited by Ken Stone, 169–80. JSOTSup 334. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 2001. Tigay, Jeffrey. “‘ Heavy of Mouth’ and ‘Heavy of Tongue’: On Moses’ Speech Difficulty.” BASOR, no. 231 (October 1978): 57–67.

books: Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Bauer-Levesque, Angela. Gender in the Book of Jeremiah: A Feminist-Literary Reading. SiBL 5. New York: P. Lang, 1999. Black, Fiona C., and Jennifer L. Koosed, eds. Reading with Feeling : Affect Theory and the Bible. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2019. Brenner, Athalya. The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and “Sexuality” in the Hebrew Bible. BIS 26. Leiden: Brill, 1997. Camp, Claudia V. Wise, Strange, and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible. JSOTSup 320. Gender, Culture, Theory 9. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. Chapman, Cynthia R. The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter. HSM 62. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2004. Creangă, Ovidiu, ed. Men and Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond. BMW 33. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010. Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. God’s Phallus: And Other Problems for Men and Monotheism. Boston: Beacon, 1995. Huber, Lynn R., and Rhiannon Graybill, eds. The Bible, Gender, and Sexuality : Critical Readings. London, UK ; T&T Clark, 2021. Guest, Deryn. When Deborah Met Jael: Lesbian Biblical Hermeneutics. London: SCM, 2005. Graybill, Rhiannon, Meredith Minister, and Beatrice J. W. Lawrence, eds. Rape Culture and Religious Studies : Critical and Pedagogical Engagements. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019. Graybill, Rhiannon. Are We Not Men? : Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets. New York, NY: Oxford University Press USA, 2016. Halperin, David J. Seeking Ezekiel: Text and Psychology. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Jennings, Theodore W. Jacob’s Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel. New York: Continuum, 2005. Macwilliam, Stuart. Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible. BibleWorld. Sheffield and Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2011. Maier, Christl. Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2008. Mills, Mary E. Alterity, Pain, and Suffering in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. LHB/OTS 479. New York: T. & T. Clark, 2007. Stökl, Jonathan, and Corrine L. Carvalho. Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East. AIL 15. Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2013. Stone, Ken. Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective. Queering Theology Series. London: T & T Clark International, 2004. Weems, Renita J. Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets. OBT. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1995.

#ask

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

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[spidey-webz]

peter parker masterlist

some of these are andrew!peter, but i primarily write for tom holland's peter parker! if no other peter is indicated, it's tom holland's portrayal

main masterlist

✦ – contains smut

✧. ┊ DRABBLES

Lost and Found (Andrew!Peter)

Peter lost you. When he finds you again, he can't believe his eyes...

New Neighbour

Your neighbour keeps you up all night – just not in the way you expected.

A bunch of coincidences (Andrew!Peter)

What are the odds to end up in a different New York where your brother acts strangely and you find a different, quite attractive, version of yourself? (Spider-Woman reader)

Reminder of her (Andrew!Peter)

You are Peter's best fried, yet he isn't the one to save you from the fall...

✧. ┊ ONE SHOTS

Red

You and Peter decide to end your relationship since your lives grew to be too different. But it's too hard to forget him. Part of the Red Anthology

✧. ┊ HEADCANONS

Peter being a dad (Andrew!Peter)

Spider-Woman!Reader learning about her powers from the other Spider-Men (platonic)

Nerding with Peter (Andrew!Peter)

Going to prom with boyfriend!Peter

Sleepover with boyfriend!Peter

#peter parker x reader #peter parker fanfic #peter parker fan fiction #peter parker #mcu #marvel #spider man #spider man imagine #spider man fanfic #peter parker fic #peter parker x you #tom holland #andrew!peter parker x reader #tom!peter parker x reader

[girlgerard]

I know im probably reading into it but the pride flag thing means so much, whether it was for the fans or it was for G’s own affinity with it or both. It wasn’t put in the back like other stuff thrown on stage, it was displayed for everyone to see, and in a place like Budapest.

it’s. god okay. my chemical romance has such a strange and intimate relationship with the queerness of their audience in a way i don’t think anyone else can replicate. i think they at many points felt/feel this kind of impostor syndrome at being hailed as Queer Icons. like imagine being frank iero and just being a guitarist and suddenly you’re being told by thousands of trans men that you are their blueprint for their mental health. that’s a fucking LOT, no matter how innocent or complementary it may be. i already bristle at the queer icon label because it implies someone’s identity is only important for representation - like they’re there to be consumed. and we know that gerard is through with the martyr complex. they don’t want to rip themselves apart for the masses anymore. by all accounts it would have made sense to actively reject the queer icon label because it seems like it goes against what they want to be these days - they are not there to be consumed.

and yet. they’re so kind about it. they don’t ever try and push queer fans away. they comfort people struggling with dysphoria and tell them they’re not alone and that they went through the same thing. they call in to drag shows just to tell trans kids that they’re proud of them. they join queer comic writer anthologies and write stories of self acceptance. they hang up a pride flag someone threw onstage instead of putting it to the side, in a country where the government is actively homophobic, because they KNOW what that means for the audience. they don’t have to do any of that shit! none of them do! and yet they’re so gentle with us.

gerard’s not a pushover. i think people forget that they’re tough as fuck and will stand their ground when they need to. they have incredible integrity. they ended mcr when they felt it had run its course, going against everything the industry wanted. they canceled their second solo album because the label kept trying to tamp down on their creativity. they can and would say something if they felt uncomfortable with the association of queerness that mcr has had nailed to its back. but instead all they do is listen and smile when the crowd sings the mama bridge. all they do is hang up that pride flag on the drum face. they never explain it. they know they don’t need to.

[yourfavoriteworksatmcdonalds]

Sophia Grundler from the strange man anthology

sophia grundler from THE STRANGE MAN ANTHOLOGY works at mcdonalds!

#mod epon #your favorite works at mcdonalds #sophia grundler #the strange man anthology #the strange men anthology

[blazeismyname]

I haven't posted this yet, but it's so funny, and I need to...

This was my friend's first reaction to TMA

This is also the friend who blessed me with:

And I tormented with this:

And with this contant in my phone:

Lilly, I love you /p

#the magnus archives #tma #the mechanisms #the mechs #gunpowder tim #technically gravity falls? #i need you to keep in mind #shes not a fan of the mechs or tma yet #but here we are #ive tormented her so much #Blaze's text conversations

[belmonteiro]

#video games #survival horror #horror #sweet home #castlevania #alone in the dark #splatterhouse #parasite eve #eternal darkness #metro 2033 #the strange men anthology #little nightmares #hellblade #fatal frame: the movie

[meows-on-you]

I had a vision

#art #digital art #furry #will morton #william morton #the strange men series #the strange man anthology #the hanged man #Crazy? I was crazy once

[johannestevans]

hi! odd as this question may be, i love how “fluent” you are in queer cinema, and have loved your rec lists in the past — i'm having a movie marathon with friends and we're looking for queer westerns (only got Strange Way of Life and Brokeback Mountain for now), would you have any movie recs for those?

Westerns aren't so much my deal as a rule, as it's a genre I don't tend to enjoy as much, BUT...

It's more of a pairing choice because of its aesthetics and some of the cinematic vibes it discusses and pastiches rather than a western itself but I'd actually recommend Ideal Home.

If you read my Tweetfics and like them, I think you'll enjoy the tone of it - it's a little shallow and is very dialogue-heavy, and toward the end it becomes a bit weaker, but the film is heartfelt and represents a very real queer dynamic between gay men whilst being honestly FUNNY. Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd are not the casting choices I'd have guessed for it, but they work so well.

Tombstone is a film queer friends have recommended - I'm not especially fond of it myself, but I do appreciate a lot of its aesthetics, and it has a lot of fun aspects of male intimacy and homo eroticism.

And it's not particularly gay, but the anthology of short western films by the Coens, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is alright.

Sorry I can't be more help! This genre isn't really my specialty, as I said.

#musings #anonymous

[acoupofowls]

Other Worlds: An Anthology of Diverse Short Fiction

Short stories by writers from marginalised and/or underrepresented communities or backgrounds exploring the theme of "Other Worlds"

KICKSTARTER NOW LIVE and SUBMISSIONS OPEN!

Other Worlds is the second print anthology brought to you by A Coup of Owls Press - home of online quarterly anthologies from creators from marginalised and/or underrepresented communities or backgrounds.

As a follow-up to Other & Different, which explored what it is to be othered, Other Worlds will be an exploration of places, situations, communities, etc, that are other. These might be actual other worlds in a science or speculative fiction genre, or a community, or a situation in the historical or modern world that feels or is made to feel alien. Encompassing a variety of styles and genres, Other Worlds will feature stories focused on the theme of being part of those othered communities - however the writers wish to interpret that.

THE STORIES

We are thrilled to confirm that we have invited five fantastic authors to contribute to Other Worlds, and our submissions for the remaining stories are open from 1st October to 15th November 2023. 

For more submissions guidelines and to submit, check out our submissions page.

Eve Morton:  Strange people with strange purposes gather in Haven (Science Fiction).

Eve Morton is a poet, professor, and parent living in Waterloo, Ontario. She likes coffee, short stories, and horror movies--in that order.  Weblinks: website

Previous publications include: A Coup of Owls, Other Stories Podcast and Third Flatiron Publishing

Victor Okechukwu: A post-civil war community feels cut off from the rest of Nigeria when a woman's only son enters a train to Jos but  may not return (Modern Nigerian Lit). 

Victor Okechukwu is a writer based in Lagos, Nigeria. His writing takes a deep setting in arresting issues of mental health that have been overlooked in his country. He's an Associate Prose Editor at Zerotic Press and is reading mass communication at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Weblinks: Twitter

Previous publications include: Gordon Square Review, Mycelia, Door-is-a-jar, and Rigorous Magazine

Von Reyes: Violence and intimacy become blurred and life might just be worth fighting for amongst a community of underground fighters (Speculative Fiction).

Von Reyes is an emergent fiction author, focused on uplifting the intersections of queer and trans masculinity and Asian diasporic identity. He focuses on genre fiction with themes of surrealism, queer sexuality, existentialism, and optimistic nihilism. He is passionate about creating a more socially conscious world where care for each other is at the core of all that we do. He hopes to tell stories that don't shy away from the horrors, but allows us to find the light within them. When he isn't writing, he can usually be found chasing the ocean and his next iced coffee.  Weblinks: website

Previous publications include: The Good Men Project. Forthcoming in Chill Mag.

Zachary Rosenberg:  A Jewish soldier and rancher must contend with mysterious monsters to build the home he longs for (Horror Western).

Zachary Rosenberg is a horror writer living in Florida. He crafts horrifying tales by night and by day he practices law, which is even more frightening. His debut novella Hungers as Old As This Land is out now from Brigids Gate Press and his second, The Long Shalom, is available from by Off Limits Press. Weblinks: Twitter

Previous publications include: Dark Matter Magazine, The Deadlands, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Samir Sirk Morató: When an Appalachian community clashes with their neighbors—a grove of sentient, dying chestnut trees—tragedy strikes (Horror).

Samir Sirk Morató is a scientist, artist, and flesh heap. They are also a 2022 Brave New Weird shortlister and a F(r)iction Fall 2022 Flash Fiction finalist. Samir spends most of their time tending to their cacti and contemplating the nature of meat. Weblinks: Twitter, Instagram, and website

Previous publications include: Neon Hemlock, bodyfluids, Catapult, and Seize the Press.

COVER ART

We can't wait to share with you the amazing cover art currently being created by amazing artist @pangaeastarseed.

Pangaea is a life-long artist and resident of the DC suburbs. A freelance illustrator with 20+ years experience, Pan’s work focuses on figure work and visual narratives utilizing the exploration of queerness, food as a love-language, and colors influenced by their florid synaesthesia.

Pangaea’s previous work includes custom illustration commissions and tattoo designs for clients; Starseed, an original gay-porn-space-opera comic, The Alien Dick Coloring Book, sketchbook zines Cardassia Prime and Cardassia Kotok, and the Washington DC-variant poster design of The Lambda Literary Awards 2022.

Portfolio: https://www.pangaeaillustrations.com/

WHY KICKSTARTER?

We want to ensure that we produce the high quality product that we know we can! Whilst design, layout and formatting happens in-house, Kickstarter funds will help cover pay for our authors, cover artist and editor. 

REWARDS

Add Ons!

We have a variety of extras available in the add-ons, from extra copies to special collected editions.  Whilst we've tried to create reward tiers to suit everyone, the add-ons will better allow you to mix and match to your preference! 

Our own @maxturnerwrites is once more offering some of his own work at discounted prices for supporters.

STRETCH GOALS!

£1000 : at £1000 we will add an Other Worlds bookmark for each physical backer

£1250 : at £1250 we will add an A5 print of cover art (without title) to each physical backer, and an e-copy of the same to each e-backer

£1500 : at £1500 we will add an Other Worlds tote bag for each physical backer

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