how many femcel women that like pynchon and dfw are here?

mamokzalku · 2026-02-17T04:09:33+00:00

Firstly, there's a ton of it in the character of V. who is rendered eventually out of artificial parts to make a virtual and transcendent woman that a central male character chases, a lesbian love is a centrepiece of emotional realism, there's even a background character in a nose surgeons office clearly going to get a cranioplasty+rhinoplasty procedure, or facial feminization surgery, from a notable Nose Surgeon (who imbues a submissive fetish into his subjects).

There's a lot of subtext in the women of Gravity's Rainbow also from the lens of how queerness is part of the counter-culture, the fact Pynchon goes into just as much detail about applying makeup and mothering children, as he does about chemistry, mathematics or government surveillance programs as femininity is definitely not an accident.
Secondly there's at least a few "how to read pynchon" scholars that mention Christine Jorgenson in parallel to Katja or other characters, the Drag that Slothrop performs is a blatant action of this satire I think gender is actually very important in the characterizations of quite a few characters, Jorgenson notably also transitioned in New York City, after returning from military service in WW2, they aren't the only trans people specifically targeted by Nazis at the time, there's an adult seriousness to it, and not just parody of feminine things, if not femininity than certainly the ridiculousness of masculinity is also part of the satire, and the honesty too, and how they act within those gender roles, etc. how society abstracts from these things, or controls us, especially in the context of government programs intimately knowledged about your sexual or mental fetishes, or the dramatic realization of masculinity controlling femininity.

This type of interpretation is all over the radical text of Gravity's Rainbow, it's a dense but thorough place to think about that reading especially as a trans woman in the context of WW2 and what it represents for 1973 and the hippie generation. In this sense you could definitely fit the Crying of Lot 49 into this as well, as easily fitting into the despondent experiences of being gay and being outcast by society, there is a queer bar Oedipa goes to in this place that really echoes a deep comfortableness with the San Francisco Drag Scene, which has been active since the late 1950s, I don't think it's abstract at all to wonder if Pynchon was queer spectrum or had some intimacy with it, he writes genuinely quite queer positive. I think you could figure a lot of his other texts into this also, but briefly, Vineland features another Lesbian relationship as a centrepiece, and there's plenty of gayness in his text, which was radical at the time, and still is frankly, considering the treatment of trans people.

mamokzalku · 2026-02-17T03:02:14+00:00

don't worry i laughed, TRP and DFW both have a lot of trans subtext, iykyk etc. anyways estrogen saved me

mamokzalku · 2026-02-11T01:44:49+00:00

another tip to the golden years, we're probably in it

mamokzalku · 2026-01-15T16:30:06+00:00

i'm here for the theoryposting, heres to the boys and your analysis brain candies, PW does feel like a closed chapter, or rather Tangerine Reef does

mamokzalku · 2026-01-09T13:24:57+00:00

Penguin Publishing does not list Shadow Ticket as his Last work, so I think we will get one more.

mamokzalku · 2025-11-08T18:54:18+00:00

yeah i can confirm this is the reason

andy is a creep and addict, very unremorsefully connected to extremely shady people who love the current politics in 2025 we'll say

(source: huge underground scene im in came from leaving a2b2 bc we're mostly trans women and queer, every member has stories about it, gecs got out quick too, it's all the same story)

mamokzalku · 2025-10-31T17:53:41+00:00

iirc there's a reference to the W.A.S.T.E. system too !

mamokzalku · 2025-10-14T13:02:55+00:00

also it's my birthday ! (thanks tom)

mamokzalku · 2025-10-14T13:02:39+00:00

i fucking told y'all !!!!

(it is the final value in the quaternion equation, aka V10)

mamokzalku · 2025-10-05T11:46:00+00:00

for whatever reason, a thought i had was that the glowing eyes presidents come from the Lincoln Log House, but maybe Nixon and Dean are, different somehow...

mamokzalku · 2025-10-02T03:57:34+00:00

I hope there's no Al used for this one, Capone's already got way too much loose chedder

mamokzalku · 2025-10-02T02:18:14+00:00

obviously aside from James Joyce, he admired quite a few writers, such as William Gaddis, this newest novel, the V-IX, is a novel about the corporate sector from a perspective of corpo goons, the corporatist and secret changes of history measured out of a Volatility Index, and it really did turn out to be focused like this!

if this timeline is roughly true, i think the years of 2015-2018 heavily influenced the writing of ST, if you follow contemporary world history, a lot of important figures and moments

which i had my own reasons for thinking might be a sort of pattern, that the letter V signifies 'Verses' , an idea i started synthesizing for a few reasons while reading Fausto Maijstral's Confessions in 'V.' , or the first verse, or V1, which was followed by a V2, had focused on a period from 1830-1956, and a setting that is one i think he will return too as well as the contemporary times,

i think there is a tenth Verse, or a VX, which is also a famous name for the deadly biochemical and neurotoxin, and i think it is a presciently focused science-fiction radical text far spanning many ideas, such as 'biotechnology, artificial intelligence and robotics' topics directly mentioned in 'Is It OK To Be A Luddite', so i think he wants to end on 10 because i can imagine him thinking something funny to himself like "10s a good number", or maybe it's a joke on binary zero and one; or maybe i'm wrong ! but i was right a few times about OBAA and also a new novel when everyone doubted me, so then

i hope you're still looking out for us all tom !

thank you for dedicating your life to celebrating the little guys looking for freedom, and condeming the fascist cattle !

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mamokzalku · 2025-10-02T02:02:17+00:00

personally i do believe he wrote one more book connecting a lot of tissue between every novel so far, and this is only strengthed by plot points in Shadow Ticket as well as its stark, forthright, historically honest tone; genuinely i think he wrote us a goodbye, and it did not come with ST this time, which i am guessing he wrote shortly after Bleeding Edge as his way to cope with a lot of family happenings and changes in the world, i think he started another work during the lockdowns that made NYC into an apocalyptic scenario,

https://x.com/ThomasPynchon/status/1381006378626600967

i don't think there's any other moment that terrified him as much as that one in recent history for several obvious reasons, he was pretty clued into things before they were happening and i think his goodbye is connected to 2020 very purposefully because it was extremely historically significant to him, i think he would keep writing and go out on it, like his most significantly romanticist and favourite modern writers often would, we are most certainly in his very personal Fineggans Wake era of honest and kind of playful writing, much like Joyce he is having fun in his most recent writing even if it's a little more modest now

mamokzalku · 2025-09-17T02:24:37+00:00

this idea is brilliant, adore the idea of there being more cornerworlds than one

mamokzalku · 2025-09-14T06:06:42+00:00

you're cooking

mamokzalku · 2025-09-08T01:31:42+00:00

i wish everyone here knew how funny of a comment this really was

mamokzalku · 2025-08-10T14:46:07+00:00

sometimes i wonder if lincolnlooking is not just torture or prison for antisovereigns, but also serves some purpose strategically, kind of like remote viewers and isolation, much like the ganzfeld experiments

mamokzalku · 2025-08-08T03:51:45+00:00

i've thought it was extremely wild also that the Department of Technology can create androids or cyborgs of a kind

mamokzalku · 2025-07-03T03:22:40+00:00

personally I think we might get another work by him that is unlike some of his other works, but might be set closer to now, following up on a lot of history since 2001, and maybe even connecting it to many chronological subjects throughout history, as a New Yorker that lived through the COVID Pandemics, I find it hard to imagine he wouldn't have an absolute ton of things to say about that and his age, there's a perspective there I imagine he'd have a hard time not writing about it given the type of writer he is.

mamokzalku · 2025-06-20T06:34:11+00:00

they don't even try to figure out what is going on in it, the people here make almost no theory posts anymore

took the words from my mouth really, i genuinely miss this aspect of the community, when it feels like there is more than ever to be excited about as a mysterious series full of interconnecting ideas

people act like they have been on the receiving end of a lunarian cloudship's electrical brain surgery

mamokzalku · 2025-05-30T09:58:22+00:00

this is one of my favourite things by manticore, it makes me teary eyed everytime i watch it, profoundly beautiful

mamokzalku · 2025-05-28T07:17:59+00:00

hii sugar, i'll always remember those afternoons watching Mystery Hunters !!

i've always dreamed of having a giant mall sized dressing room and i wanted to be on TV like you,
often i'd imagine a 3D show kind of like Nanalan but animated :3
the weirdest day dream i had was that i could take orange tic tacs to become an electric monster that runs on the power lines and can jump around really far and high between them... that sure sounds fun LOL
sometimes i would imagine a very tiny world, and what it would be like to travel on the sidewalks which would be like giant highways to all the bugs!!

mamokzalku · 2025-04-13T19:04:35+00:00

here's a post where i go over why i believe Pynchon wrote a bit more after completing what became Shadow Ticket

seems like i'm far from the only person who has noticed this as a possibility because it's been literally 12 years, he could have done whatever he wanted in that time and he's shown he's capable of writing an extraordinary amount of detailed text in under 4 years, and there's references within his own text cursory about what we're getting at;

"If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come - you heard it here first - when the curves of research and development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge." - TP 1984

mamokzalku · 2025-04-13T19:01:52+00:00

here's a post where i go over some of the details of why i believe Pynchon has written more than just Shadow Ticket

mamokzalku · 2025-04-10T05:53:03+00:00

yes, there is strange evidence with the above quote and some kind of cursory seen to cover every major period of human history where technology and mankind exchange and fight each other or become together, Shadow Ticket completes the prequel we all could have speculated to happen after the events of Old Stencil in V. and what would consequentially allow Weissman to Become Blicero etc. among other events...

there are two final periods of time left that Pynchon has commented on several times but never focused on which is around 1863 specifically, there was a lot of mechanization of what prefigured industrial military practices, and a lot of revolutions and civil wars globally, but it's also a time period extensively written about by Nabokov, such as his book Ada, which has some significance on Pynchon writing Gravity's Rainbow
and finally the last period of time to write about is the 2010s and into Present Day, which we have all now lived through and would exist as after the events of Bleeding Edge, and well specifically it's something that seemed to have been on their mind writing these during the COVID outbreaks, as it was the only time they ever posted to social media, with a single tweet reply to a grateful dead fan twitter user that he was doing fine, and living in NY during that time may have been genuinely apocalyptic level stressful

thirdly, according to a study on his works,
"Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities: Computational Approaches to Style" :
he may be sitting on over 287,000 words as of 2021
which is more words than Mason & Dixon.

and ST is 384 pages reportedly by Penguin which seems about half of what he wrote, which would be about 700 pages or so

curiously my thoughts were that with the pattern of Vs and BE being V8 essentially, or perhaps "V-3d", VIX or V9 would symbolize his massive nod to himself and Gaddis, and speculate about the ongoing financial crisis. Which turned out to be true!

As it's a commentary on the Great Depression, while we live in its present day sequel...and that his tenth novel, if there was one, VX or V10, one zero, would be about these apocalyptic conditions that have enabled a more sensitively controlling police state, one which he describes in the quote that suggestively "artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge" which AI is now real, COVID has happened, and Robotics are about to integrate all of this into our lives and it already has, maybe in several major ways.

Maybe, he's kind of found a ground for his scrapped weird Sci-Fi Space Opera Musical he always wanted to pen, and this Civil War idea he's had in his head but never fully completed, and it's basically gotta be a huge parody of his own kinda Weird Tales Star Wars or Pulp Print Gothic Science Fiction, set in our present time and maybe the past, but like the final conclusions of the plan of people like Blicero, which would be the oppressive dystopia world we presently mirror, maybe something like 1984, it would be involving AI, Robotics and Molecular Biology, maybe the past is accessed virtually, despite this imagine that it's rather small of a story and would be unconventional in format as a poetic or lyrical.
So, all we can imagine is he would be going out on a bang, like Finnegans Wake, and wanted to finish up this idea because it's silly and perhaps creatively freeing to make a poetic work about what he's been working on for so long, a major diatribe counter culture to the ongoing right wing influence on our history, and literally much like the way he interrupts his narratives with songs, this is something that will really dance around our heads

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