E.Saxey

@esaxey.bsky.social

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Tallish, bookish Londoner. Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet" https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/ Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives" https://tinyurl.com/saxeyshorts They/them

The light of the solar eclipse falling through pinholes, making tiny moons on a sheet of white paper.
An image from Tove Jansson's Moomin comic strip. Crouching between some rocks, Moominpapa (in his customary top hat) and Moominmama look out through the fourth wall at the reader with alarm. Moominpapa says: "My goodness! Readers...". Small squawking birds overhead.
Rogue, a smouldering muscley guy with swooping blonde fringe, jeans bulging, standing in front of his own name on the front page of a comic. Oliver Frey, 1970s.
A parody of the "now that's what I call music" album logo reading "now is the time of monsters".
A poster advertising a private view and anthology launch, both called Sucking Face. At the Outsiders Gallery at 7pm on 7th August, see the exhibition and hear readings from some anthology contributors. Supported by public funding from Arts Council England.
Print of a comic mediaeval knight/hoodie dude eating fruit chicken, captioned "The More Dangerous the Postcode The Better the Chicken".
A panel from a comic where Merlyn is saying to the future Captain Britain: "Thou must choose either the Amulet or the Sword...Life or death -- For thee... And, mayhaps, for thy world, as well"
A fried chicken shop with illuminated sign at night. The sign has the red background and white cursive script of Morley's Chicken but reads Manley's, or something? You have to squint.
The metal frame of a bit of gym kit has a sticker which reads "YOUR LIMITS".
A public information advert, saying "they're larping" means "being fake" with a little clown face. It also reads: "keeping up, keeps them safe. Talk to your kids about online security. Tesco mobile."
A popular internet stuffed animal, a white monkey-cat thing sitting like a human, with small hands spread in exasperation.
Weather app offering less than a 5 percent chance of rain, but it's still a chance.
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!
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.
A small fern-like plant is stroked by a tiny paintbrush, and the leaves fold in on themselves. Uncanny! It's a mimosa pudica.
Pink, white and blue duck tape with a big pair of scissors.
A black t-shirt with the slogan "it is not a crime to be fancied".
Socks and hats in a shop, embroidered with slogans" "Margate made me gay" and "MARGAY".
I'm standing in front of a tropical landscape painting wearing all black and a big hat, oblivious to my photographer.
Gallery sign, for a painting titled "for those who make poor use of their choices, offering fewer possibilities could be called Mercy".
Stone held up to an overcast beech, loads of holes in it.
Curly writing embedded into the brickwork (maybe ceramic plaque?) atop a building, reading "the hope". Bit of graffiti above it, maybe reading "facts 564".
Neon poster reading "jerk fest UK, UK's first celebration of arithmetic jerk".
My shadow on the pavement at night, a fox about level with my elbow. With a shadow of their own.
A bar of dark chocolate, half unwrapped, and one edge has gone thick, pale and crumbly from "fat bloom".
Dragonfly on a pond plant, wings a little crumpled a shivering like cellophane. Shell of nymph it hatched from is visible on another leaf, in the background.
Book cover, "The Wilde Century" by Alan Sinfield. A photo of Oscar Wilde wearing a t-shirt that reads "queer as fuck".
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.
footnote from a novel (The Notting Hill Mystery) which reads "Written in pencil, the characters barely legible from weakness".
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.
Book cover, titled "Your Body is Not Your Body", with an image of a swan getting strangled by tentacles.
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.
A book, pink cover, styled to look like a notebook. "My Gender Workbook" by Kate Bornstein.
A book, titled "Scotch Verdict" by Lilian Faderman. Two sketched women's smiling faces hemmed in by four stern silhouettes of judges.
A novel, "The Nothing Hill Mystery", by Charles Warren Adams. From the British Library crime classics series.
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.
Poster for a market "where everything comes from a good place". Duck pond market, richmond, UK.
Three lines of mushroom on a tree stump, one of them is bracket and the others just kind of burst up in clumps.
The night sky seen between yes, with a sharp crescent moon and a very bright star above it.
Screencap of an email, reading "Please also be aware that not all lost items are found."
Two books: One titled "Lesbian Sex Wars" by Emma Healey, has a cover painting of a woman in a pinstripe trousersuit making a phallic gesture. The other is titled "Finger-Licking Good: The ins and outs of lesbian sex" by Tamsin Wilton, which has a photo of someone smiling with someone else's finger in their mouth.
Three collections of essays, titled: "Bisexual Horizons: Politics, Histories, Lives", "Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries and Visions", "Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals around the World".
London skyline with setting sun and excellent godrays.
Cover of a book, with two stylised black mens faces, wearing shades, turning into geometric patterns. Title: brother to brother, new writing by black gay men. Edited by Essex Hemphill, conceived by Joseph Beam.
Google search result for Project Gutenberg Dracula, with the 'You visit often' tag.
A box of scorching pink fake fabric flower petals. A label reads: because of the intensity of this colour affecting the eyes, no machine operator is allowed to spend more than one hour cutting this at any one time.
Cover of Simon Ing's novel "Wolves" - the shape of a person and the shape of a wolf fit and form around one another.
When you prod the tiny plants, they curl up!
Several sprouts of plants, with tiny fans of leaves.
A book cover, title is "lesbians talk transgender". Or trans gender, there's a line break and a whole lot of history there. By Zachary I Nataf.
A book cover with two peering children and the massive title "No Future".
Book cover, stark dark colours and no image only text, titled "you are going to regret this", by Tom Byam Shaw.
Cover of a book titled 'genderqueer' by Riki Wilchins, Joan Nestle and Clare Howell.
A dark room, with an oddly slanted window, but outside there is a blue sky and a bit of a fancy castle or similar.
A book cover with two silhouette naked women lying side by side. Title is 'a restricted country'.
A fox on his hindlegs, paws on a bin in a park, watchful but confident.
A book cover, titled For Lesbians Only: a separatist anthology.
A book cover with two photos of the same person in girl and boy clothes, both exaggerated. Title is Read My Lips, by Riki Anne Wilchins.
A noble crow perched and stooped on a park bin. Lovely half-spread wing-feathers.