Emmett Nahil @ Preorder FROM THE BELLY
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writer in the further regions of experience ✦ Narrative Dir. @perfectgarbo ✦ FROM THE BELLY 2024 ✦ LET ME OUT @OniPress ✦ 🇱🇧🌈🏳️⚧️🇦🇲 Rep: @tetrametertalks
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Guess what? You can now preorder FROM THE BELLY, my debut queer nautical horror, in both print and ebook.
Add it on Goodreads too. Reviewers and press can request an arc via
@TenebrousPress
!
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getting older and getting to say "oh yeah, we've been friends for years" is such an underrated point of warmth. I've been friends with some of my best buds for ages, it's a warm feeling. cherishing people over time and seeing them grow with you is an underrated thing.
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you're telling me a queer coded this character ???
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i think it's imperative that every once and a while you become completely enthralled by an evil little fictional man. its healthy, it renews the mind body and soul
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is there any trope sexier and more irresistible than "Died and came back Wrong"
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give that time and energy to trans creators instead how about
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can we stop requiring queer creators to write happy endings in order to 'undo' the damage done by non-queer creators burying their gays
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sometimes I think art school is a joke and then I remember that I submitted this for a grade in a an alternative printmaking methods course and then I KNOW it is a joke
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Shout out to every single trans and non-binary person who doesn’t wanna be like. A good role model to the world and just wants live in peace.
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I seriously and earnestly believe any kind of creative person on here should strive to avoid calling their work "content". It's a part of the devaluation of independent artists and creators who have to operate online alongside massive corporations with marketing money to burn.
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i am literally so internet poisoned that i read this in what by friends and I have dubbed "miette voice"
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Discord is not secure. iMessage is not secure. Do NOT post specifics of plans for protest on Twitter, names of others attending, or pictures of people's faces. This feels like common sense but I ALWAYS have to reiterate this.
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I think it's just really Cool and Fun as a creative person online that you have to maintain an online presence that's professional yet amiable yet politically aware yet funny yet mature yet trendy ye-
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I’ve been totally unable to stop thinking about this Elizabeth Ohlson Wallin piece for like 2 days straight
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Shoutout to horror movie goths. gotta be one of my favorite genders
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Trans people need to be Visibly given $10,000 and health insurance
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hot take which is actually pretty fucking lukewarm: cis reviewers don't get to answer the question about if cyberpunk game is or is not transphobic
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Why do we bash “evil” spirits of the vengeful deep for attacking sailors but we never question if the sailors have bad vibes? Or if the whaling vessels are just unpleasant to be around??
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If I cannot be Hot I will be Eldritch. this is a threat
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there's no way i haven't made some version of this image before
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can we please please please stop prioritizing the nebulous conceit of “representation” over the inclusion and tangible support of marginalized folks actually trying to work in-industry I am Begging
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for personal homosexual reasons I will be passing away
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you simply cannot find this kind of quality content on twitter dot com
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you doubt god? you doubt god as lucifer did? oh!! jail for the nonbeliever! jail for ten thousand years!!!!
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the amount of times i've had to talk to fellow transmascs who want to going on HRT to explain that no, testosterone does not immediately make you like....an abusive rage demon should tell you that this is a literal problem
For
#pride
this year, we have GOT to stop acting like testosterone is literally the res evil T-virus... I know it’s fun to say “all men are monsters” but ur scaring the fellas away from life-saving therapy
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I need everyone (and I mean everyone) in non-abortion restricted states to get ready to step up. We're going to need to help our neighbors from other states with places to stay, care, and funding.
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dana scully and fox mulder queered heterosexuality before half of you were even born
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Anyway stop holding transmasc bodies to standards of physical fitness/thinness in order to “”””pass”””
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PSA for anyone in the book community: this book was massively plagiarized and based off of real queer folks' trauma in an extremely disturbing way. Please do NOT support this book or the author. The Goodreads reviews are full of people corroborating and affirming this.
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I try not to get too annoyed about online stuff but white cis people tweeting like "In CASE you FORGOT we're in the terminal stages of a FASCIST POLICE STATE" like yeah... Black & Brown people have literally been telling you this forever and also live that shit every day
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The classic “we don’t NEED stories where QUEER PEOPLE are HURT” is always a fun one to contend with as a *checks notes*
horror writer
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just saying, if you didn't give a single shit before maybe start doing that.
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me n my cute non-horror loving besties still getting along and respecting each other’s tastes
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The prophecy, the fated words of old........they have come to pass
Twitter will explore letting users receive payments from followers
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Thesis: All good protagonists are joths (jock goths)
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thinking about this tiktok ALL THE TIME
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The idea that 1. queer sexuality should NOT be censored on the internet by corporate entities and 2. the fact that sex in itself is NOT the only valid expression of queerness (ESPECIALLY for young ppl & doubly marginalized queer ppl) are two ideas that can exist simultaneously 😬
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imagine creating heterosexual content? in 2021? like it just doesn't seem realistic
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we have literally GOT to stop letting white queers get away with doing fantasy orientalism in genre fiction just because its ~*queer rep*~ bc like..........people are getting way way way too comfortable fetishizing these ambiguously brown love interests
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this is a constant source of anxiety for me, a gay trans dude who is writing tragic/doomer horror.....a genre where MANY PEOPLE DIE.
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the only reason zine discourse is still happening in 2019 is that 90% of ppl who've appropriated 'punk' aesthetics for their work never did the initial work to understand that punk art is political and actively anti-establishment before it is anything else
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i want shorter horror movies with worse effects for less money and i'm serious
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for every queer person who comes out because staying closeted means death there is another queer person who cannot come out because leaving the closet means death
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Stop the genocide except for the one fucking thing that would actually stop the genocide
The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to take measures to prevent and punish direct incitement of genocide in its war in Gaza. .
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every single trans dude I know dresses exactly like this at the first opportunity
Men what's stopping you from dressing like '80s horror movie hunks
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I do not favor the term monsterfucker just because it seems so detached. so basic!!! in this house we do monster slow burn to paralyzing obsessive romance to destructive do-or-die emotional catharsis
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You both can and should be writing horror that doesn't valorize cops and violent law enforcement
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everyone's all "omg twitter is free!" but we all pay. trust me, we ALL pay
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Some of you need to parent your inner child by making them play outdoors for an hour without screen time
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maybe.....do not identify exclusively as a lesbian/WLW and then hit on trans men..........do i need to iterate how shitty this feels. can we not do this folks
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fun fact!! the queer and trans horror you're looking for and complaining ~doesn't exist is being made my indie creators right here, right now.
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i simply want the latitude to write the shit i want to write, and the fact that audiences may very well look at me adhering to well-established genre tropes and castigate me for it really fucking sucks.
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I'm Emmett, a mixed arab-american & queer author, game dev, comic and script writer, available for all kinds of written projects!!
I'm loving and creating innovative horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and everything genre.
#TransCrafted
💀
💀
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The Green Knight really said: yes this is a retelling of Arthurian poetry but we are going to lay out a full process of cyclical ego death for our Unlikely Hero because all Hero Myths are about ego death
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Hi
#IamPOCinPlay
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I’m Emmett, a transmasc mixed-Arab American, and I’m narrative director & a co-founder at
@LOVESHOREGAME
!
Working in games has been one of the most gratifying jobs I’ve ever had, & I’m excited to be designing games that bring all kinds of stories to the space!
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18 vs now
Never forget to humble yourself kids
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After Caravaggio’s The Incredulity of St. Thomas and EVERYTHING
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If you are researching abortion access, use a VPN, and make sure that the people you know who aren't online understand the fact that there could be further moves to criminalize even aiding access to abortion providers coming. Spreading knowledge about security helps all of us.
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith updated reboot but it’s just Pedro Pascal and Oscar Isaac playing romantic leads opposite one another
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Robert Pattinson could play that little shit from Dune but Timothee Chalamet couldn’t play 90’s emopilled Bruce Wayne. am I making sense here
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the social and just......generally ethical concerns around GenderFck are all extremely legitimate but this is a nearly flawless case study in who is allowed to survive and thrive under capitalism
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I think all the time about how many of my favorite horror novels are driven by fundamentally reactive protagonists, and how that flies in the face of the Anglo-Western idea that goal-driven, appropriately active protagonists are what makes good genre fiction
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You cant convince me that the driving force for most fiction creation isnt watching/reading/ingesting some other piece of media and thinking “I can fix this. I can make it WORSE”
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underrated writer skill: the willingness to google extremely very dumb shit that you know you should know but somehow, have escaped knowing your entire life
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Yall ever find out that your high school "best friend" who you had a falling out with almost a decade ago put a ugly, caricatured, thinly veiled cardboard villain version of you in her self-insert book?
No...? Just me?
#ConsensualHex
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I think something newcomers to genre fiction get wrong about referencing other people’s work within their own is that they will mimic the *reference* but won’t have any love for the original source. Thread, I suppose
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would very VERY much like the term 'achillean' to gain as much traction as the term 'sapphic' has gained online because mwah, chef's kiss, it is so good
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Trans creators, writers, show runners, directors: Remember this next time you’re told there’s just no budget for your dream project and move accordingly.
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nah but how many of our generation had their first exposure to true eldritch lovecraftian horror by watching courage the cowardly dog
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stuck in a perpetual plague that has taken millions of lives….the distance between peasant and elite growing daily……most medicine mysterious and inaccessible…..Is it about to be medieval boy winter
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the idea that like....1. trigger warnings earnestly applied in good faith by creators SHOULD exist and 2. that externally appended trigger warnings can AND DO get used to silo/abuse marginalized authors are both two truths that can exist simultaneously.
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how aggressively inhospitable any form of publishing is to anyone working class, full stop period.
Half the bullshit that goes on in this industry is enabled by the fact that it is an industry by and for the wealthy.
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Whaler Isaiah Chase has visions of not just the past, but of the future. When the crew cuts a strange man from inside a dead whale, he must choose: end the sickness & misfortune brought on the ship, or protect the man from the belly.
A queer nautical horror-fantasy
#nanowrimo2020
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This also happens to be why BIPoC queer folks uhh. Oftentimes feel that they do not actually share a community with white queer folks. this is why!
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if you’re into this shit BOY do I have a queer horror book to sell you >:)
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It’s called a deadname because if you say it I get to end you personally
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Being transmasculine has let me be far more in touch with/appreciative of my femininity than I ever was before I came out + transitioned but TERFs ignore that part huh
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i feel like gay awakening is sort of a nebulous thing for me but i'm much more interested in what your Gender Awakening was
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1. Yes I brought in the whole cake to the class
2. This was at MICA
3. I don’t know what grade I got but the professor loved it
4. In Situ-
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Every time folks are SHOCKED about how Cyberpunk Game™️ is a thematically shitty game made by shitty-sounding people I have a flashback to 1 year ago when me and every other Black, Brown and trans person was like....this game sounds shitty and ppl told us we were overreacting
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finally watching the Batman and.....I don't think anyone could have prepared me for just how much this film both looks and feels like the platonic ideal of a My Chemical Romance music video
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gender euphoria-based serotonin is stored in the hair metal
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My debut novel is releasing via
@TenebrousPress
May 2024.
FROM THE BELLY is a queer nautical horror, in which a whaler on the run from his past falls in love with an eldritch spirit of the vengeful deep wearing human skin: the consequences of which may damn everyone around them.
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can we please stop pretending that just because gothic horror doesn’t use gore as often or as directly that it’s somehow like. superior to other kinds of horror
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when cis folks hear trans genre writers talk about how fundamentally disadvantaged, disliked, and dehumanized we are at nearly every level in professional publishing I'd like them to know that this is sort of what we're talking about.
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having a normal one while editing like
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In a shocking twist, in order to consume content in cyberpunk that’s not transphobic, your best bet is still......to support trans people creating cyberpunk.
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mixed feelings about
#TransDayOfVisibility
because we need so much more than just visibility but point is: I’m Emmett, I’m a transmasc nonbinary gay dude & I’m an out AND successful writer and narrative designer.
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stop letting rich kids get away with doing poverty cosplay and speaking on working class issues challenge
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