E.Saxey

@esaxey

Tallish, bookish Londoner. Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet" Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives" They/them

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E.Saxey@esaxey· 17d

In Margate Caves you can play the archeology prof in a monster movie and murmur: this creature is more ancient than we imagined! (Paintings are 19th century.)

A popular internet stuffed animal, a white monkey-cat thing sitting like a human, with small hands spread in exasperation.

A similar creature, monkey like, sitting like a human, hands out, but brown. Another monkey is in front of it, listening. Bit rubbish. Painted on a cave wall.

E.Saxey@esaxey· 18d

It's the hope

Weather app offering less than a 5 percent chance of rain, but it's still a chance.

E.Saxey@esaxey· 19d

Slogan suggested by @lizamezzo.bsky.social, who is pure class

I'm outdoors in the city holding a shield, it reads "we know what we are but know not what we may be." From Hamlet!

E.Saxey@esaxey· 19d

Sun's out for trans pride in London, got my dry wipe shield and marker pens, and am accepting suggestions for the first slogan of the day.

I'm at a train station holding a big homemade shield with pink and blue edges. The middle of the shield is white and blank, and needs some pithy words.

E.Saxey@esaxey· 21d

Embarrassed.

E.Saxey@esaxey· 21d

How much of my outfit for Trans Pride on Saturday can be made from duck tape? The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Pink, white and blue duck tape with a big pair of scissors.

E.Saxey@esaxey· 23d

Fun merch, too.

A black t-shirt with the slogan "it is not a crime to be fancied".

E.Saxey@esaxey· 25d

Margay, margay

Socks and hats in a shop, embroidered with slogans" "Margate made me gay" and "MARGAY".

A small bit very long and elegant spotted Mexican wild cat, the margay.

E.Saxey@esaxey· 25d

And true friends will creepshot you looking impeccable

I'm standing in front of a tropical landscape painting wearing all black and a big hat, oblivious to my photographer.

E.Saxey@esaxey· 25d

A pretty ruthless title, for a painting of a mermaid in a bathtub having a chat with an angel. Hulda Guzmán at the Turner Contemporary.

Gallery sign, for a painting titled "for those who make poor use of their choices, offering fewer possibilities could be called Mercy".

Small part of the painting, a mermaid in a bathtub with a tropical garden outside the window.

E.Saxey@esaxey· 26d

Hagstone game is wild here

Stone held up to an overcast beech, loads of holes in it.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jul 12

And did you lose this

Curly writing embedded into the brickwork (maybe ceramic plaque?) atop a building, reading "the hope". Bit of graffiti above it, maybe reading "facts 564".

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jul 12

Hey congrats didn't know there was a whole festival about you

Neon poster reading "jerk fest UK, UK's first celebration of arithmetic jerk".

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jul 7

Fox, with shadow to demonstrate proximity

My shadow on the pavement at night, a fox about level with my elbow. With a shadow of their own.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jul 5

Fear the heatwave, quite enjoy the swell and crumble of chocolate blooming.

A bar of dark chocolate, half unwrapped, and one edge has gone thick, pale and crumbly from "fat bloom".

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jul 2

Shell behind, wings drying, first flight to come.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 30

As Pride Month ends, have some final books. My intent, I think, was to celebrate that decades of discussion precede the present moment. These books are from a tiny slice of time when I was foraging for a weltanschauung in the charity shops of Brighton. Always here, always changing. Happy Pride.

Book cover, "The Wilde Century" by Alan Sinfield. A photo of Oscar Wilde wearing a t-shirt that reads "queer as fuck".

Book cover, "the will to power" by Michel Foucault. A painting of a medical experiment with two Victorian chaps and a fainting lady.

A totally plain blue book cover with tiny letters: "lesbians are so chic" by Laura Cottingham.

Book cover, "homoplot: the coming out story and gay, lesbian and bisexual identity" by E Saxey.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 27

Ah M&S always has the new cool moth looks

An outfit on the marks and Spencers website, wide trousers and a matching top, white with black spots and enough like the moth pic above to amuse me.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 25

Bit hot*

footnote from a novel (The Notting Hill Mystery) which reads "Written in pencil, the characters barely legible from weakness".

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 24

This collection was enthused for conceptual possibilities of tech: to desediment! To rewrite identity! When the tech was sooo clunky (1994). (Like hearing a fan describe a 1980s comic and thinking: what passion, what plot! Then you read it and it's line drawings of dudes in bright yellow shorts.)

A book cover with a jaunty picture of a winged lesbian in dungarees, drawing herself with an ink pen. "The Lesbian Postmodern" edited by Laura Doan.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 23

Menacing titles with possessive adjectives! Two short fiction collections, discounted this week. "Your Body" is weird trans horror, and - I've not read "All Your Friends", I think it's generally unnerving? Looks great. @tenebrouspress.bsky.social store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

Book cover, titled "Your Body is Not Your Body", with an image of a swan getting strangled by tentacles.

book cover, "All your friends are here" by M. Shaw, a forest with uncanny objects including a thrust-up hand.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 23

some monochrome lettering which reads "There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist". Lettering is gorgeously individual, squashed-up and top-heavy. By Charles Renee Mackintosh, Glasgow, 1901.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 23

There's a revised version of this in print today. I wish I'd filled in more of it. Although as a window into the past, it would still be pretty misty: was I feeling prickly when I wrote this, or incredibly self-realised?

A book, pink cover, styled to look like a notebook. "My Gender Workbook" by Kate Bornstein.

Two boxes for the reader to complete: one reads "draw a picture of yourself the way you are" and you can only see a pair of boots because I'm shy. The second box says "Draw a picture of who you've always wanted to be" and the reader (me) has written "See above with better clothes". Smug.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 22

A historical investigation and personal reflection on an Edinburgh case from 1810, two teachers who brought a libel case to ward off queer accusations. Faderman's better known for 'Surpassing the Love of Men', on romantic friendship. I preferred this one: sly and playful and ambiguous.

A book, titled "Scotch Verdict" by Lilian Faderman. Two sketched women's smiling faces hemmed in by four stern silhouettes of judges.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 22

Tearing through this, possibly the earliest English detective novel - 1862/63 (neck and neck with the brilliant soapy Lady Audley's Secret). Composed of letters, news clippings, court statements, diaries.

A novel, "The Nothing Hill Mystery", by Charles Warren Adams. From the British Library crime classics series.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 21

Two volleys in the lesbian sex wars. Black and white photographs have been all over the book covers in this thread - because classy? Timeless? But here, alas, we can't know what colour that hanky is, leading to farce or disaster.

Two books: "Speaking sex to power" by Patrick Califia, and "coming to power" by the SAMOIS collective. Both have photographs of bodies in bondage gear.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 20

Liked this ethical market but unsure about the slogan - if something "comes from a good place", isn't it usually gaspingly rude or flat-out cataclysmic?

Poster for a market "where everything comes from a good place". Duck pond market, richmond, UK.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 20

City mushrooms, country mushrooms.

Three lines of mushroom on a tree stump, one of them is bracket and the others just kind of burst up in clumps.

Mushrooms pushing up to disrupt a pavement.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 18

Last night, Venus

The night sky seen between yes, with a sharp crescent moon and a very bright star above it.

E.Saxey@esaxey· Jun 18

This truism from a lost property service has left me sadder than the loss of my specific item.