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Retired jazz musician | Author of What Manner of Man | He/him | Mostly on Tumblr 🦇 Blog: https://stjohnstarling.tumblr.com 🦇 Newsletter/read for free: https://stjohnstarling.substack.com 🦇 BUY WMOM: https://stjohnstarling.itch.io/what-manner-of-man
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Jewish American Heritage Month + Mermay.. Shabbat Shellom 🌊

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

I'm an extremely normal person and every day I experience ordinary concerns

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[gets down on one knee] Would you violate the principles of medical ethics with me? 💍

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Wip, goodnight 🌙

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Summer survival tip: if you carry any kind of bag, get yourself a folding fan that fits in it. You will be indescribably less miserable if you can pull out a fan any time you get uncomfortably hot.

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Hey I don't know if anyone's ever said this before, but, writing a novel... is kind of difficult.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

One of my favourite books ever 🙏🙏 do give it a try if you enjoy gays and vampires

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The cover on my e-reader was getting quite old and worn out, so I’ve given it a new lease on life with a few stickers. The big one at the top, the small stars, and the two on the bottom are all from @hydeangelus.bsky.social! Bottom left is last month’s Patreon exclusive. 😈

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*Decadent and tyrannical emperor voice* Bring me your most effeminate elderly men this instant or else I shall surely perish.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Gender Outlaw came out May 12, 1994, it’s still making people laugh, cry, and gasp out loud in recognition. Thanks for your trust in me and support all these years. Oh, and fuck you very much, Donald Trump—I’ve sold more books than you have.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

So many parts of the culture right now are scams wrapped in pyramid schemes wrapped in cults wrapped in gambling addiction.

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HAUNTING TWINKS IN YOUR AREA

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I'm in love with this DJ. This video where he's in a tailcoat with two crank-operated gramophones to DJ swing records is what's put it over the edge for me. This man is an incredible performer. They should put him in everything. youtu.be/V5n39OKPB_o?...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

his bright, tubercular gaze and haunted doll demeanor bring out the 19th century man of letters in me

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Dandelion's "sacrifice on a dark altar" roleplay gets very... elaborate in this patreon exclusive illustration! www.patreon.com/posts/128411... Also! I've reached 90 exclusive illustrations! Crazy!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

kinda funny that while everyone seems to be mashing up "woke marxist pope" with "pink pony club", I'm here all by my lonesome inexplicably singing: "His name is Leo and he dances on the sand..." 🎶

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Resorting to unethical human experimentation because I'm too shy to tell him I like him... 🥺

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Boy are they gonna regret letting me have papal infallibility.

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I'd like to thank all my fans and supporters for electing me pope.

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We’re living through an era in which the art/writing/music enthusiast and the casual observer live in practically different worlds. The internet enables people to develop a greater depth and specificity of knowledge than ever, but, crucially, it also creates a fundamentally solo experience. 🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Sorry I can't make it this evening. Yeah, conducting unethical experiments on my boytoy again. Yeah, it'll be all night.

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A new post at Gothic Charm School! This one is about a serious topic that comes with content warnings at the top of the page. gothic-charm-school.com/charm/?p=1663

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Some guys will go through all the trouble of entombing you in a wall beneath their manor just to avoid admitting they like you

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“Who gives a shit what the audience thinks?” can be an expression of fear as much as it is one of defiance.

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Merry Walpurgisnacht ce soir

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

While it is true that demanding that art only ever comfort its audience, and never shock, unsettle, or disturb, is an obviously conservative impulse,

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Call me a demon the way I am possessing the body of that holy man.

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It has been theorized by some that this elusive creature — colloquially known as a "muse" — exudes some manner of pheromone or inaudible sound which irresistibly attracts all the most insufferable yet creative members of the species to itself.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment