Hesse Phillips

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🏳️‍🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. Debut novel LIGHTBORNE out now. Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social. More at hessephillips.com

Paso las páginas de un libro hasta que se ve la portada: La traición de Christopher Marlowe de Hesse Phillips
An early modern illustration of a whale (one presumes) which has a cat-like face complete with whiskers, a huge spiky neck-frill - and gills! - a sort of oblong body that looks like it's wearing a fish-themed suit made for a clown - and has clawed feet! Its expression says, 'kill me please for I am an abomination'. Or possibly, 'meow?'
Portada de LA TRAICIÓN DE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE de Hesse Phillips, con RBA Libros.
A mannequin standing in the corner of a white room, next to a black window, wearing a pair of shorts and ratty blondish wig that looks as if it's been dragged through a puddle. The wig is BACKWARDS, meaning there's no face. Just ragged hair where the face ought to be, like some Japanese horror movie.
A slightly blurry image of a leopard-print romper appearing to float in space in someone's back garden... except for a tiny set of hands holding it up at either hip. Look closer - there are no visible feet. Oh my God, where are the feet???
A greyhound lying upside-down in a grey armchair, paws in the air. Next to the chair a fan is blowing directly on her.
Me, looking gendery and extremely tired.
A black silhouette of Bob Dylan with his curly hair rendered in swirls of psychedelic colour
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell with text superimposed: Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Close up selfie of my right eye and eyebrow, which now has a little bald stripe through it that sounded good on paper. My expression is duly appalled.
Richard Dreyfuss as Hooper on the deck of Quint's boat in Jaws, looking over his shoulder at the camera as the shark pops out of the water in front of him.
Photo of a yellow bowl completely overflowing with carrots, broccoli, shredded green onions, cilantro, kimchi, mushrooms, beef and cilantro with a fried egg on top. There's rice under there, but heck if you can see it. Gochuchang sauce is on the side. Damn was it good!
Rather blurry photo of a very happy greyhound standing in a vet's office.
A distressingly slimmed-down Ursula doll, identifiable as Ursula only because she has tentacles below the waist and a weird grey updo.
Photo of a very apologetic looking terrier mutt gazing up at the camera. He is a fluffy boy, white with brown patches. His ears are flat back. It's impossible to be mad at him.
Screenshot of a scam email impersonating a producer at Baltimore Public Radio, WYPR. The important bit is in the post. The rest of it is weirdly aggressive and repetitive and doesn't sound at all like a real person with real interest in working together.
A greyhound curled up into a bread loaf position on a dog bed, looking rather miserable in her ginormous Cone of Shame after cataract surgery.
Promotional poster for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds' 12-part series, The Essay: The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe, hosted and created by Jerry Brotton. Premiers Monday 20th April and runs Monday through Friday at 21:45 until 1st May. Image is of Professor Jerry Brotton standing in a tudor-esque interior, looking up at a portrait of Christopher Marlowe hanging on a wall.
A sleepy greyhound curled up on an armchair while wearing a truly humongous cone of shame.
Photo of a window with a balcony visible on the other side. Beyond the balcony a large pine tree looms up out of a froth of olive-tree leaves, with an even taller oak leaning in from the left. Beyond that are the roofs of white houses, and in the far distance, wooded mountains roll away towards a blue sky.
The "It Fucken Wimdy" meme made famous on Tumblr, featuring a fox standing facing into a very strong wind on a snowy day, a nonplussed look on his face.
Photo of my greyhound curled up in a dog bed with our little dachshund mix, who is both her best friend and her baby. The dachshund mix is wearing a striped pajama and they are both gazing up at the camera with eyes full of love, and presumably longing for the treat I was holding.
Movie poster for the Disney live action film, The Three Lives of Thomasina, about a cat who dies and goes to cat heaven and comes back. That's all I remember about it. I suppose there are some people in it too. Cat heaven sequence gave me nightmares.
Pic I took in 2019 of a eucalyptus forest in Galicia. Ranks of identical trees disappearing into the distance. A few struggling ferns and native grasses on the ground. And silence. Not even birds like these forests.
Me, wearing an orange t-shirt, a pair of baggy black pants and unfortunate yellow and blue socks, standing in front of a series of green built-in bookshelves containing lots of weird odds and ends. If you squint you can just make out my wife (the photographer's) head reflected in a mirror behind me, a la Velasquez in Las Meninas.
Photo of the interior of a theatre bathed in red light, which emanates from a giant sign over the stage that reads Kit Kat Klub. The audience are seated at small round Cafe tables.
Photo of my dog, a fluffy terrier cross, huddled up on the bed after once again being terrorized by the greatest name in mid-century Shakespearean performance.
A billboard stand illuminated at night, containing a poster advertising the Semana Santa festivities in Mostoles, a suburb of Madrid. The image they've chosen, which somehow got through a committee I presume, is a deeply, disturbingly erotically charged photo of a Jesus figure leaning back sort of languidly, his eyes rolled back into his head and his mouth open.
Still from a Japanese cartoon (which? I do not know) with a large man in the foreground, grey-haired and with a grey mustache, wearing a yellow sweatshirt and round-rimmed glasses. He is giving a thumbs-up.
A set of vaginal dilators in various colors and sizes, arranged from smallest to whhhoooaaa there buddy
A small black and brown floppy-eared puppy curled up, half asleep, in a nest of grey blankets on a couch. Behind her is a fluffy white terrier with black and brown spots, sleeping with his back turned to the camera and his favorite toy snake in his arms.
Screenshot of the profile of the OP quoted above, "Showing Up for Racial Justice" which describes itself as "organizes white communities into movements for justice." I have drawn a big red arrow pointing to the word white.
Screenshot of a post from some bluesky account that's just a random string of letters and numbers, advertising a "writing table" with an Amazon link. The item itself is hideous, clearly impractical, possibly AI generated.
Close-up of the shirt so you can fully appreciate the madness. On one side of the buttons is three-quarters of a front-facing portrait of Madonna/Marilyn, and on the other side of the buttons is half of the same portrait cut off in the wrong place, creating an eerie, Cronenberg-esque effect as if her face is dividing and multiplying. It's gloriously fucked.
Photo of a long oversized button-down shirt with a row of Marilyn Monroe portraits across the bottom, each in a slightly different style and some, perhaps, actually Madonna?
A person sitting on the floor, seen from behind, with a medium-sized fluffy terrier-type dog standing between their legs, getting lots of scritches. The dog looks directly at the camera, ears back and a goofy expression on his face.
Chocolate babka with orange syrup glaze fresh out of the oven.
Detail of Francisco Goya's painting Saturn Devouring His Own Son
A stack of books on a white table with the spines facing the camera. We've got MERE by Danielle Giles, WINTER LOON by Susan Donovan Bernhard, I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARD DARKNESS by Irene Sola, BEYOND BLACK by Hilary Mantel, GIRLS AGAINST GOD by Jenny Hval, THE NIGHT GUEST by Hildur Knuttsdottir, SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE by Claire Keegan, and THE GATHERING by Anne Enright
Spanish comedian Raul Perez Ortega dressed as Donald Trump on El Intermedio, making a stupid face. Behind him is a huge image of Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez, smiling charmingly.
Slim Pickens riding a nuclear bomb as if it were a rodeo bull at the end of Dr. Strangelove
Gif from Little Shop of Horrors as Audrey sings the chorus of Somewhere That's Green. The whole screen fades to green as she reaches the final note.
Screenshot of a WhatsApp exchange where my wife informed me that someone who was doing work in our house offered us an hour free bc they were out sick. My response is, I can't *not* pay somebody for working. That's boss shit (derogatory)
Message from a rando on Facebook Messenger reads, Hello Hesse, I hope you are doing well. I am currently seeking educational reading materials and wanted to ask if your book is available on Amazon. I would be very interested in exploring it's insights if accessible.
Top administration officials quickly claimed that the closure was in response to a sudden incursion of drones from Mexican drug cartels that required a military response, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy declaring in a social media post that "the threat has been neutralized." But that assertion was undercut by multiple people familiar with the situation, who said that the F.A.A.'s extreme move came after immigration officials earlier this week used an anti-drone laser shared by the Pentagon without coordination with the F.A.A. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. C.B.P. officials thought they were firing on a cartel drone, the people said, but it turned out to be a party balloon. Defense Department officials were present during the incident, one person said.
First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens' Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice, who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action; who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a more convenient season. Shallow understanding from people of goodwill I more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. From Martin Luther King Jr's Letters from Birmingham Jail.
The sickos meme
A freshly baked king cake resting on a rack, decorated with candied orange slices and slivered almonds.
Video showing the entrance of a gallery in an art museum. Directly in front is a large LED screen showing a looping video of a person vogueing. To the right of that is a wall with framed protest signs reading I am a man.
A scruffy white terrier with brown and black spots lying on a bed looking soulfully towards the light of an unseen window. Also my thumb is just barely visible in the upper left corner.
A close-up photo of a tiny mini-pinscher dachshund mix gazing into the camera with brown eyes that could melt even the iceiest of hearts. There's a cozy fireplace roaring away in the background and she's curled up atop a mound of fuzzy grey blanket.
A hiking trail cutting through thick brush and running up over a hill. Wintry trees peer over the crest of the hill and loom above the trail in the foreground. Oh and in the middle of the trail some surely large animal has left behind the partially devoured skeleton of a deer or possibly a mountain goat, the ribcage still red with blood.
Photo of my hand with my blue nail polish in a terrible state.
A grey leopard print makeup bag featuring an image of Snoopy in a winter hat and cozy scarf, and the embroidered words relaxation is the new luxury.