Moonflow and The whole lot Lifeless ...

I’m so glad the shockingly shiny, fuzzy-blacklight-poster-style cowl of this guide grabbed my consideration whereas I used to be doing work at a neighborhood cafe/bookstore the opposite day, as a result of I in any other case won’t have heard about Moonflow, and what a visit it turned out to be. Simply considered one of my favourite reads this 12 months.

Moonflow is, as writer Bitter Karella described it in a current interview, “Psychedelic trans cosmic fungal splatterpunk.” It follows Sarah, a trans girl who grows and sells trippy mushrooms, on a determined seek for a mushroom often known as the King’s Breakfast. It is the kind of tour that appears doomed from the beginning, because the King’s Breakfast is just present in a forest finest identified for being a spot folks don’t return from, and predictably, issues begin going off the rails nearly instantly. The forest is haunted and seemingly in a continuing state of change, there is a TERFy lesbian off-grid cult that is engaged in some deeply weird actions and poor Sarah is… simply doing her finest (she is painfully relatable). 

This guide horrified me, made me giggle and made me gag, usually unexpectedly. It is queer as hell, impressively creepy, full of extraordinarily on-the-nose satire and a completely wild experience throughout.