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Siobhan Dunlop
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poet, book reviewer, learnt HTML from Neopets. poetry micro-chap Glitching Al Pacino (Ghost City Press), chapbook Syntax Error (kith books). they/them

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As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.
theverge.com The Verge @theverge.com · 13d
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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September 3, 2026 at 2:05 AM
fiendfull.bsky.social
You can now get Baja Blast in the UK so I tried one. It tastes like drinking a picture of an American outdoor swimming pool. I’m not sure if this is what @tacobellquarterly.org promised me or not.
August 25, 2026 at 2:54 PM
fiendfull.bsky.social
I settled down to watch a video essay before bed and ended up with a video I wish I could show every time I teach video editing or talk about stock media
jacobgeller.com Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · Jul 24
Five years ago, I ran across a piece of stock footage that defied all conventions. It was beautiful and textured. It was *memorable*. But what can this single video tell us, in context of an entire industry designed to be generic? youtu.be/k3bkCTy9rLk
Jacob's head on one the classic "hide the pain harold" stock images
July 24, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Shola is the author of the incredible novel LOTE, which I recommend to people multiple times a week. Help Shola out if you can:
princessa-mangione.bsky.social Shola von Reinhold @princessa-mangione.bsky.social · Jul 2
My first (and perhaps only) shameless, desperate post on this app. Spare me getting from a substack today so I can finish my novel a little bit more and book a train ticket lmao
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July 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
fiendfull.bsky.social
I’ve spent the weekend moving house in the heat and this is exactly what I need this evening
defunctland.bsky.social Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social · May 24
It was once an ambitious "sequel park," a theme park designed to be visited only later in the day. Now, it's been abandoned for three times longer than it operated.
Watch The Abandoning of Celebration City now on Defunctland!
Thumbnail for video, an abandoned coaster
May 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.”

I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics:

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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but ...
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April 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
the procrastinators have arrived!
keep it up, keep it up!

all kith eBooks are free for #TransRightsReadathon

there has to be some compensation for being so visible
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March 31, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
it's almost time for our fave time of year!!!

join us from March 17th-31st as we shout out authors and readers that show up for trans lit and trans people, each & every day. we need you more than ever.

for the duration, kith eBooks are FREE

start planning...
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trans rights readathon March 17-31, 2026 About: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. How to Participate: Read and uplift books by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters. Donate and fundraise for trans aid organizations in your community. Join Us: @transrightsreadathon transreadathon@gmail.com transrightsreadathon.carrd.com official sign up, book and charity recommendations, and more! all kith eBooks are free during the readathon. it's time to get planning.... kithbooks.com
March 3, 2026 at 3:47 AM
fiendfull.bsky.social
Same - if you want to hear me and colleagues talking about digital creativity and 3D printing and stuff, take a listen
February 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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portalbookshop.bsky.social
Stock take of the shop continues, 875 items made accurate to the shelves! Hand-crafted artisanal stock check, manually inputted by local, free range queers

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Would love some more orders tbh, it's been dire this week in the miserable rain. I saw 5 people on Tuesday 🫠
Home | The Portal Bookshop
Sci-fi, Fantasy and LGBTQIA books sold by a York based Independent Bookstore. We take Pre-Orders and Import US titles too.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
transcend humanity
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transcend humanity WOLFCANNON by CJ Selwyn cover: a person and a wolf stand off across a table in a ruined building. through the remains of a window we can see a wolf howling against the light of the sun Syntax Error by Siobhan Dunlop cover: the text of the Hello World code repeats over and over in commodore font on kill screen blue. the title and author's name appear as text prompts on black Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth by Nivik cover: a photo of the author in profile wrapped in the comfort of a thick and warm hoodie and their leather pup hood. Mutable Forests by NDR cover: In a white sketch on green, we see the figure of a man hefting a boulder in front of a tree kithbooks.com/shop
January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
fiendfull.bsky.social
My yearly round-up of books - 2025 in reading: fiendfullyreading.com/2025/12/31/2...
2025 in reading
Last year, I decided in my final blog post of the year to reflect on my reading over the year rather than just list my 5-star books, in an effort to not just focus on data. I’m going to do th…
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December 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
fiendfull.bsky.social
I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about all the Wicked tie-in marketing and no matter how annoying you find it, spare a thought for me who worked front of house at Wicked for two years and thought I had long since escaped it…
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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halschrieve.bsky.social
electricliterature.com/8-books-that... i wrote this booklist of queer vampire recs for anyone who feels like reading more queer vamps 🧛‍♀️
8 Books That Queer the Vampire - Electric Literature
These authors find creativity and liberation in hunger, desire, and depravity.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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so pleased to have an essay in the #lore issue of #bloodletter magazine ! i talk about (gay) trans masc erasure and poppy z brite / billy martin's fierce and heartbreaking essay "Enough Rope." + how horror can soothe bad trans feelings ♡
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“Enough Rope:” Transmasculine Erasure, Violence, and Reading Trans Horror
There was a horror novel kept behind glass when I visited the Chicago Leather Archives and Museum. Poppy Z. Brite, or Billy Martin, is the author of Exquisite Corpse, a disgusting…
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March 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
HELLO W̶O̶R̶L̶D̶ YOU
Siobhan Dunlop
@fiendfull.bsky.social

31 of wim's favourite poems from kith books
#SealeyChallenge
4/31
SYNTAX ERROR Siobhan Dunlop cover: the text of the HELLO WORLD code appears in commodore 64 font on a background of kill screen blue. the title and author's name appear as commands text: Hello (World) You I'm messaging you on Snapchat / I'm messaging you on Instagram / I'm messaging you using a Twitter DM / I'm messaging you with an @ reply / / I'm messaging you on Facebook / I'm messaging you by tagging you in a Tumblr post / I'm messaging you by posting on your wall (remember?) / I'm messaging you by sending an email / I'm messaging you by remembering text messages do still exist / I'm messaging you by sending an ecard / I'm messaging you by writing in a forum you might read / I'm messaging you using an inbox feature on a website that no longer exists / I'm messaging you by changing the HTML and CSS of my MySpace page in 2006 and hoping you see it on the Wayback Machine / I'm messaging you by taking apart old mobile phones and using their parts to form a message on the street outside your house / I'm messaging you by writing a letter in Word 2003 with the help of Clippy and then printing it out and posting it through your letterbox / I'm messaging you by writing a txt file and saving it on a floppy disk that I'll leave somewhere you could go / I'm messaging you by screaming into the ether and wishing that you'd hear it
August 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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highway62.bsky.social
One must imagine Mario happy
August 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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en-gendered.bsky.social
"home me
into the frame
I dream of"
- finally, a use for gender, Siobhan Dunlop

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skimming through surface-level thoughts hoping for something juicy to write all I keep returning to is each instance of girls she we’re all women here tiny daggers cut my skin slice my body if only they could be applied to the right places remove slivers of flesh unwanted hone me into the frame I dream of each word each pronoun each time they could’ve just read my email signature remakes like an artist with a chisel sandpaper a sharp knife applied to gender each wrong creates a little more right I let them say whatever they presume knowing I’m a little more me each time finally, a use for gender, siobhan dunlop
July 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
fiendfull.bsky.social
I was recording a video featuring my actual face today so of course I managed to wear a t shirt with a stain on it. And then a ghost (movement of the door) caused a dead plant to fall off the windowsill in the recording room. Hopefully by now there’s a ‘remove chaos’ button in most video editors.
July 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
"I tell people: you've got to be very clear
because computers don't understand
anything except on/off
ones and zeros
binary;"
- Siobhan Dunlop, Syntax Error

Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/dunlop
eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/dunlop
kith in print
In Syntax Error, Siobhan Dunlop explores computer binary and the gender binary, feeling right and wrong, on and off. Through poetry that takes code, found text, and the realities of Big Tech, the coll...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Of big tech and binaries, Siobhan Dunlop's Syntax Error is one step in the history of how we've been failed.
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SYNTAX ERROR Siobhan Dunlop cover: the text of the 'HELLO WORLD' programme repeats over and over in white commodore 64 font on a background of kill screen blue. text: If left to my own devices I would recommend this book, not only for its cunning and captivating way with words, but to all future history students, as a record of our digital lives in late stage capitalism, just before our Cloud masters press Ctrl Alt Delete. JP Seabright, author of What Are You Afraid Of?
July 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
fiendfull.bsky.social
404 Ink have been amazing - I’ve read so many of their books and their lit mag was one of the first places to publish my poems.
July 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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halschrieve.bsky.social
www.sevenstories.com/books/4753-f... it is my birthday today, and one awesome gift you can give me is preordering my gay trans vampire novel about a teen runaway trying to save Seattle’s vampires and a slayer-turned-vampire struggling with whether she is evil
Fawn's Blood
Vampires, vampire slayers, and a bloodthirsty underground resistance converge in a campy YA fantasy about being a queer teen in a world that wishes they did not exist. The librarian and critic...
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July 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
it's end of quarter over here so if you want to help pride month go out on a high note for a queer or trans author, pick up a book
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kith in print
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June 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
fiendfull.bsky.social
So excited to have a new poem on Anthropocene today! Back to some tech-related poetry for me
June 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM