Maximilian Ximenez

Maximilian Ximenez

@maxximenez.bsky.social

Born to chew bubblegum, forced to kick ass. Literary agent, Fortean psychonaut, freelance demiurge and self-defined "asexual libertine." The Eternal September and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. All inquiries to email.

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My transition from libertarian to socialist as a young adult arose from self interest. I realized if I thought of "taxes" and "social safety nets" as "a check I could write to the government that absolved me from caring for other people" I'd be willing to give half my fucking salary

How much money would you be willing to pay in taxes if you had the ability to shut down any complaint with "shut the fuck up and stop whining to me about it, go see your government appointed therapist"

Does the average westerner use "modern" to mean "after WWII"? I got into a huge argument with someone who didn't think the American Civil War was a "modern" war and I was like... "Byzantium had been fallen for over four centuries by then wtf are you talking about"

Everyone wants to talk about their morning coffee "ritual" but people look at me like I have two heads when I make the argument that coffee is an entheogen in the capitalist religion.

I had a dream where New Yorkers were considered a distinct ethnic group and we had our own ethnic holiday akin to St. Patrick's day or Cinco de Mayo in which other Americans drive to the nearest town with public transit and eat pizza on a bus as a peculiarity

If I found a portal to the backrooms at work I'd mostly just use it to hide the fact I'm smoking weed on my breaks. Like holy shit it's basically a well ventilated closet your boss won't go into.

Never before has the pain of being seen been so acute as when you're talking to a guy from the inscrutable orient who nevertheless holds a terminal degree in western studies. I don't WANT to be understood like that.

I'm really sick of people equating the Halloween tradition of dressing up and given children candy with Samhain, Hallowmass or anything of the sort. The tradition originated in NYC with the Ragamuffin Parade. NYC is responsible for giving America both Santa Claus and trick or treating.

My local supermarket is hosting a "Halloween meet and greet" with a woman I can best describe as Latina Elvira. I don't think this is an established character I just think the supermarket is paying her to be a busty goth. Don't tell me capitalism doesn't work when you can get a paycheck for that.

Once again I am begging Pixar to look at my spec script which is a prequel to Toy Story about tutelary figurines going on adventures in ancient Rome

Maximilian Ximenez@maxximenez.bsky.social

Contemporary culture is basically a bunch of oddly shaped tutelary figurines stacked on top of each other

I deeply respect the work of Frank Zappa but I can't help but feel disappointed that "Goblin Girl" is about oral sex, since now I can't put it on the playlist for my asexual Halloween party.

My favorite thing to do in focus groups is just exercise epistemic humility. "Your advertisement has not provided enough evidence for me to conclude whether or not you've retained the same quantity of flavor compounds when halving the calories, what kind of moron would agree with that?"

I already get seders and satyrs confused but today in a discussion about religion and ritual I didn't realize we were talking about Norse seiðr instead of Jewish dinners or goat-men

Pitch for a horror novel: 500 year vampire who missed the development of furry culture gets stuck at a furry con assuming he's been captured by lycanthropes and has to murder his way out without breaking the masquerade.

hanging out with a disney imagineer this weekend so I'm asking him the only question worth asking; how long is the robot hog of the animatronic trump in the hall of presidents

So an entire wedding party, myself included, is set to stay at a historic mansion that my friend is getting married at tomorrow. Not only did I find out that it is EXTREMELY haunted, but I am unfortunately a legitimate expert on the occult so I will be killed first, otherwise there'd be no plot

there's an alternate universe where Quincey Morris gets consistently adapted into Dracula movies so pop culture just treats cowboys as the natural enemy of the vampire like mongooses and cobras