Alex Adams

NEW EP: Secunda Medieval folk, doom dirge, industrail noise: three interpretations of incidental music from Skyrim. deadname-noise-metal.bandcamp.com/album/secunda #skyrim #elderscrolls #secunda #doom #noise #deadname #transartists

REMINDER: My call for papers, GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK: KAIJU CULTURE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, is open until October 31st! I'm looking for critical writing on any aspect of contemporary kaiju movies. Full info: www.atadamswriting.com/gmaoa-cfp

Great new field report! The Kaiju Papers are awesome, and this adds really important context to the racialization of the Faro Islanders in KKVG '62. Read!

Birthday prezzie haul!

Boosting my cfp for Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, a collection of new kaiju scholarship: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/... Especially keen to hear about non-Godzilla texts!

To be VERY clear: we are a gay, left-wing publication. If you are also gay and left-wing and you like Kaiju, consider subscribing to our publication to help us achieve world domination. www.thekaijupapers.com#/portal/signup Thank you for your attention to this matter.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS! I'm working on a new collection of kaiju scholarship, provisionally titled GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK: KAIJU CULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, and I need your essays! Full details: www.atadamswriting.com/gmaoa-cfp

Some majorly weird recent purchases!

Current reading...

Recent reading: Queer as Folklore, Postwar Japan, Other Minds, The Luminous Fairies and Mothra!

Reading up on the salaryman genre to get my head around these three dorks!

Researching the time-honoured tradition of Kongsploitation. King Dong (2005), King Klunk (1933), Kinky Kong (2006), Queen Kong (1976)...

NEW PUBLICATION: "The Ticking Bomb Drone Strike: Drone Warfare and Emergency Ethics in Eye in the Sky", in a new book called Human Rights in the Age of Drones. I've written a lot on this film, and I'm proud to publish this concise version of my thoughts on it here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Researching for King Kong 1933...

If you enjoyed Skreeonk's remarks about bisexual lighting in Godzilla Vs Kong, you may enjoy my essay that I wrote on exactly that! Here's a long read about colour, 'seriousness', and queer-coded lighting in the MonsterVerse: popmec.hypotheses.org/5186

The Mighty Kong (1998)

Doing some background on Eiji Tsuburaya by watching The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya. Really interesting historical piece!

Bargain alert! In the Routledge end of year sale, my book POLITICAL TORTURE IN POPULAR CULTURE is reduced to a mere £120 hardback and £33.59 paperback! www.routledge.com/Political-To...

Looking for Christmas presents? Allow me to recommend Kill Box, my book on cultural representations of drone warfare, now only £85! www.bloomsbury.com/us/kill-box-...

Writing about Gigantis again: youtu.be/Qj4dZpqec5E?...

if youre trans and youre struggling to justify why you as a person should be allowed to take up space in the universe just consider that by your sheer existence you make a lot of the worst people on earth mad enough that they will die early deaths from stress. so thats a p good reason

Love songs from the swamp: Support indie publishing by grabbing your copy of DEVASTATION SONGS from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Luminous Fairies and Mothra shipped!!

If you want a model of how to do Kaiju scholarship, look no further than @chrisstewardson.bsky.social's great book on Ghidorah, the Three-headed Monster! Snappy & accessible, but wide-ranging and informed by deep knowledge of relevant historical, political and genre contexts. Highly recommended!!

Trying to find the article that Honda wrote about his time working in a comfort women camp - "Reflections of an Officer in Charge of Comfort Women", in Movie Art Magazine (perhaps Eiga geijetsu in Japanese). Does anybody have any insight into finding this article, or better, a copy of it?

About to watch Predator: Badlands & trying not to get too caught up in the hype. Here's my We Are The Mutants essay on the original, in case you missed it: wearethemutants.com/2020/12/03/i... #predator #predatorbadlands #demonology #monstermovie

Quick reminder that my episode of KAIJU COMICCAST discussing GODZILLA IN HELL is live now: open.spotify.com/episode/5nCQ...

I really enjoyed talking to Russ about GODZILLA IN HELL. Check it out!!

Very excited about this news, and intrigued about what we will see in this sequel. Also fairly irked by the mathematically incoherent title

Holy moly 😍😍😍

NEW LONG READ on Kaiju United! (@kaijuunited.bsky.social). "God-killing and the Gag Order: Revision, Rearmament, and Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Minus One’ Novelization" looks at the politics of G-1 thru a close reading of the newly-translated novelization. Get reading, gang! kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...

After years of being unable to remember the name of a weird & unsettling movie that I saw way too young, I finally cracked the mystery. It was ALTERED STATES. Though it is dated and pretentious in places, its visions of hell struck me as strongly this week as they did when I was a baffled teenager!

Godzilla 2000 (1999) Trailer #godzilla

As an LGBTQ+ writer/creator, I stand in solidarity with @hamishsteele.bsky.social & all other LGBTQ+ creators. #lgbt #solidarity #writer

Very pleased with this essay on @kaijuunited.bsky.social! It was a really interesting piece to think about and research, and the guys at KU are wonderful to work with. Give it a look if you can!

NEW COMMUNITY ARTICLE Guest Contributor @gdemonology.bsky.social dives into the political themes of the newly translated 'Minus One' novelization. Read here: kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g... #Godzilla #Kaiju #Esasay #GodzillaMinusOne

NEW LONG READ on Kaiju United! (@kaijuunited.bsky.social). "God-killing and the Gag Order: Revision, Rearmament, and Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Minus One’ Novelization" looks at the politics of G-1 thru a close reading of the newly-translated novelization. Get reading, gang! kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...

Excited to see the new Ishiro Honda documentary at a cool cult cinema in Manchester!