Moonflow and All the things Lifeless & Dying

I’m so glad the shockingly vibrant, fuzzy-blacklight-poster-style cowl of this guide grabbed my consideration whereas I used to be doing work at an area cafe/bookstore the opposite day, as a result of I in any other case may not have heard about Moonflow, and what a visit it turned out to be. Simply one among my favourite reads this yr.

Moonflow is, as writer Bitter Karella described it in a latest interview, “Psychedelic trans cosmic fungal splatterpunk.” It follows Sarah, a trans lady who grows and sells trippy mushrooms, on a determined seek for a mushroom referred to as the King’s Breakfast. It is the kind of tour that appears doomed from the beginning, because the King’s Breakfast is barely present in a forest greatest recognized for being a spot folks don’t return from, and predictably, issues begin going off the rails virtually instantly. The forest is haunted and seemingly in a relentless 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 greatest (she is painfully relatable). 

This guide horrified me, made me chortle and made me gag, typically suddenly. It is queer as hell, impressively creepy, filled with extraordinarily on-the-nose satire and a fully wild experience throughout.