Mattie, the Woman Clothed by the Sun

Lips of Blood/Funeral Parade of Roses

Made a couple of purchases.

I am moving why am I buying more media? 😭

New Moon Eclipse Breaking Dawn Part 1 Breaking Dawn Part 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Psycho II/III/IV The Last Emperor The River soundtrack vinyl

Today's used bookstore haul! I may or may not have been Twilight-pilled...👀

Had my first pop punk show experience with The Wonder Years in Charlotte tonight. Am I a punk princess now?

Hubby is taking me to my first pop punk show so I'm trying something different than my usual "cottagecore princess with a stick up her ass" vibes.

Finally moving back to the city...

Big arch burger

There's a lot going on here, I don't even know how to attack it!

RIGHT!?

Here, art is both therapy and a weapon, a canvas on which to channel inner pain in ways that have a great and dangerous power. It's thrilling to watch Mackay's POV take such rich shape.

It feels so transgressive to imagine a world where bigotry is othered and transness is not a liability. Mackay's films are kind of fantasy in that way, but here our trauma isn't designed to evoke pity because acknowledging and confronting it gives us strength.

I love how Mackay positions transness as a superpower and empathy as strength. And yet it remains incredibly vulnerable and open, acknowledging the ways hurt people can hurt people - projecting trauma onto others only perpetuates the cycle.

THE SERPENT'S SKIN (Mackay, '26) | Art as trauma, trauma as art. Explores the ripple effects of trauma and self harm and how channeling that into art can be both cathartic and dangerous. No one is really doing queer horror like Mackay.

I think his point was inartfully articulated, but calling it "anti-woke" and "anti-art" and comparing him to a known abuser feels like some major projection.

OH TIMMY MARTY SUPREME "Timothée Chalamet's Nobody cares about the opera or ballet' comment points to larger cultural issues: how manosphere brain rot has made straight artists forget their place and the audiences who built them. In trying so hard for macho bravado, he stepped into old homophobic, anti-intellectual tropes and alienated the same audience that applauded his 'bravery' for sniffing underwear in Call Me by Your Name. Being insufferable may cost him the Oscar, and if he keeps this up, he'll end up more like Shia than De Niro. But this backlash is also a sign that audiences are tired of this toxic, anti-woke, anti-arts bullshit." HERRERA WORDS •) CULTURE DIGEST-SUBSTACK

Ok I think this whole thing is getting wildly overblown.

Good news - my husband and I bought a house! I'm so excited to start creating our own space.
Bad news - I have to move all my movies again! 🙃

#LastFourWatched

The Radical Queerness of Alice Maio Mackay — From the Front Row Australian filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay was not yet 18 when her debut feature, So Vam , premiered in 2021. Now 20, Mackay has a staggering five feature films under her belt, a filmography that has qui...

In honor of the release of her new film, THE SERPENT'S SKIN late this month, I am re-upping this piece I wrote on the films of Alice Maio Mackay, and why her unique brand of trans horror feels so hopeful in world that often feels so dark.

Claude Lelouch's classic romance A MAN AND A WOMAN (1966) arrives on Blu-Ray from @criterion.bsky.social on March 31!

lol yes they are

What Does that Nature Say to You — From the Front Row There’s something so delicately unassuming about the films of Hong Sangsoo. Mostly improvised around loose scenarios, centered around lengthy conversations often held over meals or drinks, and shot on...

Review | WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU - "In vino, veritas, as the saying goes, and in Hong’s profound, altogether lovely film, arriving at the truth is only the beginning."

Now playing from @cinemaguild.com!

Apparently @weard.moe is too hot for BlueSky.

Many of you have asked, and here it is! A @letterboxd.social list of the full Trans Canon, all 300 listed movies by our all-trans and non-binary panel.

letterboxd.com/mattie_lucas...

I'd have loved to have you! I pushed the call for ballots for a month or so but a lot of folks still missed it. This has gotten such a good response though I'd love to do it again sometime in a year or so with a bigger, more diverse pool of folks.

We gave you two, TWO Lynches! 😋

I thought the same thing. But I like surprises! NASHVILLE ranking so high was another nice surprise that I wouldn't have predicted.

I did not expect two Lynches to make the top 10 but in hindsight I totally should have.

Fascinating list. I didn't participate, but there would have been some overlap in my own choices if I had. Shout out to Laura Palmer the patron saint of trans women with a film problem

Huge shout out to Mattie for putting this together. Genuinely fascinating to see what ten films ended up topping the list, but I mostly adore the sheer variety of picks in the individual lists.

Curious what I voted for? Here's my ballot!

Incredible things are happening over at X the everything app