this is just my little gallery of media that i enjoyed (or want to enjoy when i have time!), found interesting, or was recommended. this page is an eternal work in progress, so if you have any recs based on what is posted here (especially accounts/perspectives/etc from transfems and/or people of color), never hesitate to drop them my way.

please be mindful of triggers for all subject matter!
these are only a few topics that personally interest me, i hope i can expand this section soon!

LESBIANISM, SEX, GENDER, ETC

• Stone Butch Blues; Leslie Feinberg
• The Lesbian S&M Safety Manual; Pat Califia
• Fucking Trans Women; Mira Bellwether
• The Femme Mystique; Lesléa Newman
• Celebrating Black Lesbian Thought: Spotlight on Ma Rainey; emily
• The Persistent Desire: a Femme-Butch Reader; Joan Nestle
• Transgender Liberation: a Movement Whose Time has Come; Leslie Feinberg
• It Ain't All As Bad As It May Seem: Young Black Lesbians Response to Sexual Prejudice; Sarah J Reed, Maria T. Valenti
• Femme, Butch, Trans and Gender Queer Reading; A Compilation
• Beware the Bite of the Were-Lesbian; Hc Guinevere
• Melting the Stone; Persistently Fem
• Slick Lesbian Singers Through History; Girlfriends of Dorothy
• TransGothic in Literature and Culture; Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters; Judith Halberstam
• Talking About Sex; Bloomfilters (see bibliography for more texts on the subject!)
• The Body in Question: Looking At Non-Binary Gender in the Greek and Roman World; Grace Gillies
• Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image; Susie Bright, Jill Posener
• Social Reproduction Theory Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression; Tithi Bhattacharya
• Transgender Marxism; Jules Joanna Gleason, Elle O'Rourke
• Feminism Against Cisness; Emma Heaney
• The Tragedy of Heterosexuality; Jane Ward

GENERAL DISCUSSION AND CRITIQUE

• You've Been Traumatized Into Hating Reading (and it Makes You Easier To Oppress); Ismatu Gwendolyn
• Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny; RS Benedict
• In Defence of Critique: Let People Enjoy Not Enjoying Things; Charlie Squire
• Would You Want to Be Friends With Humbert Humbert?: A Forum on "Likeability"; The New Yorker
• Mattel, Malibu Stacy, and the Dialectics of the Barbie Polemic; Charlie Squire
• Learn About Abolition; Charlie Squire
• An Unseemly Emotion: PW Talks with Claire Messud; Annasue McCleave Wilson
• booktok, brainrot, and why it’s okay to be a hater; alisha not alihsha
• Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation; Nicholas Sammond
• Yale's Reading/Watch list for their course on Film Studies; @januskopfs on twitter
• Hellraiser writer Clive Barker on the publishing industry’s homophobia and J.K. Rowling; Tom Leatham

GAMING EDUCATION, FANDOM, AND CRITIQUE

• Resident Evil's Most Unsettling Theme Isn't Zombies - it's Eugenics; Kazuma Hashimoto
• Like a Dragon: Ishin! Can't Outrun the Yakuza series' past; Kazuma Hashimoto
• Resident Evil 4's Creator Explains What Makes a Good Remake; IGN
• The Male Loneliness Epidemic and Silent Hill 2; MertKayKay
• A Thorough Look at Resident Evil; Noah Caldwell-Gervais
• What Fandom Racism Looks Like: "ACAB includes Fandom Police and Antis"; Stitch Media Mix
• Firearms Expert Reacts To Resident Evil 4 (2023)'s Guns; Gamespot
• Sephiroth and Me: Playing Final Fantasy VII As A Jewish Person; Ria Teitelbaum
• Devil May Cry Analysis | Violence & Masculinity in DMC5; The Gaming Muse
• Could Resident Evil's T-Virus Really Exist?; Fanbyte
• Videogame History Archive; massive archive of vidogame history, ads, magazines, press releases, etc.
• What Fandom Racism Looks Like (several-post compilation); Stitch Media Mix

PLACES TO READ AND WATCH + RESOURCE COMPILATIONS

• MetPublications; metropolitian museum of art books on various artistic and historical subjects
• Lavender Zines; archive of old lgbt+ magazines and media
• JSTOR.ORG; read academic papers
• Transreads; site with massive amounts of pdfs for lgbt+ history
• Cowboy Frank; long-running gay bear's website with all kinds of resources and history
• LGBT+ History Across the Globe; multiple resources
• Anna's Archive; world's largest open library
• Butchspace; masterpost of butch literature (fiction and non)
• Google Drive; massive collection of penguin little black classics by @howlsbooks on twitter
• Flynnslicker's Letterboxd; Masterlist of Documentaries on various subjects
• Google Drive; massive collection of Japanese literature by @howlsbooks on twitter
• Adult Literacy: Better Reading Comprehension, How to Speed-Read, and Some Life-Changing Literature to Improve Your Life; Open Colleges

stuff i always have on retainer for when i need a pick-me-up or just want to relax!

AMBIENCE

• The Tops Casino; Ambiance Magic
• Spencer Mansion Tour (playlist); ASMR in Games
• Team Fortress 2 Banana Bay; Source of Ambience
• Training School Main Hall; Atmospheric Gaming
• Resident Evil and Chill (playlist); mkfan786

CUTSCENE COMPILATIONS

• Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles/Wesker's Report; RE TV
• Wesker's Story [Report + Umbrella Chronicles Gameplay]; Wayne Bunnell
• Resident Evil 4 + Separate Ways (2023) Chronological Order; Gamer's Little Playground
• Resident Evil 5 Full Game Movie; Gamer's Little Playground

OTHER FUN STUFF

• Resident Evil 4 Original Site; Internet Archive (potential autoplay warning)
• Resident Evil Code Veronica Original Site; Internet Archive (potential autoplay warning)
• Resident Evil (2001) Original Site; Internet Archive (potential autoplay warning)
• Retro Raunch; archive of nude photos (nsfw)
• Gay Men's Magazine Scans; archive of vintage raunch magazines (nsfw)
• Inside Country Music Star Orville Peck's Mid-Century LA Treehouse; architectural digest
• Ghost of the Doll; 80s and 90s Toy Archive
• Pug Collectibles and Trinkets in the 1700 and 1800s; Geri Walton
• Nosferatu (2024) script; Deadline
• Resident Evil 4 (2023) script; Gamescripts Wiki Blog
• Divinity Statue; ultimate resource for Devil May Cry supplemental media (TV, manga, novels, etc)
• All Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney manga; Reddit/Google Drive/Mediafire
• Sonic the Hedgehog IDW Comics; read online
• Spiders Are Much Smarter Than You Think; Bioneers

send recs my way for:
man-made natural disasters (titanic, hindenburg, cheronobyl), animatronics, kink/sex history, orcas, gender, crocodilians, horses, bovine, feminism, vultures, marine life, semi trucks, boats, trains, lesbian/lgbt+ history, videogame analysis