Natalie
@nataliesnotinit.bsky.social
I have the oldest Xbox known to man //
trans dyke //
author of NOISE MUSIC (forthcoming) //
writing at Stereogum, Paste, FLOOD, Bright Wall/Dark Room, etc. //
Takashi Miike fangirl
trans dyke //
author of NOISE MUSIC (forthcoming) //
writing at Stereogum, Paste, FLOOD, Bright Wall/Dark Room, etc. //
Takashi Miike fangirl
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Natalie
@nataliesnotinit.bsky.social
· Nov 8
Ghost Tropic
Music ephemera newsletter
ghost-tropic.ghost.io
Well, I'm finally doing it: I'm starting a music newsletter
Starting next week, I'll be posting and sending out exclusive artist interviews, essays, book updates, and more.
Welcome to Ghost Tropic, hope you enjoy your stay <3 ghost-tropic.ghost.io
Starting next week, I'll be posting and sending out exclusive artist interviews, essays, book updates, and more.
Welcome to Ghost Tropic, hope you enjoy your stay <3 ghost-tropic.ghost.io
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As always, the companion playlist (and, truthfully, my favorite part of year-end list-making):
52 of my favorite songs of 2025, representing the best of the best, the strongest tracks I couldn't get enough of this year
52 of my favorite songs of 2025, representing the best of the best, the strongest tracks I couldn't get enough of this year
December 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
As always, the companion playlist (and, truthfully, my favorite part of year-end list-making):
52 of my favorite songs of 2025, representing the best of the best, the strongest tracks I couldn't get enough of this year
52 of my favorite songs of 2025, representing the best of the best, the strongest tracks I couldn't get enough of this year
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Finally, belatedly, calling it a wrap:
Here's where we stand for my 50 favorite albums of 2025
Here's where we stand for my 50 favorite albums of 2025
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Finally, belatedly, calling it a wrap:
Here's where we stand for my 50 favorite albums of 2025
Here's where we stand for my 50 favorite albums of 2025
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Seems like this is the day everyone in my field is doing this, so here's some selected highlights from my 2025 in freelance writing:
First, the biggest one: got to write my first album bio for Alan Sparhawk. Huge dream come true, and would love to write more bios / materials for releases in 2026.
First, the biggest one: got to write my first album bio for Alan Sparhawk. Huge dream come true, and would love to write more bios / materials for releases in 2026.
I'm so unbelievably touched to be asked to write the bio for this incredible new record from Alan Sparhawk (of @lowtheband.bsky.social)—a tremendous gift to put this album from someone I've long admired into words
Out on @subpop.bsky.social on May 30th, preorder here: www.subpop.com/releases/ala...
Out on @subpop.bsky.social on May 30th, preorder here: www.subpop.com/releases/ala...
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Seems like this is the day everyone in my field is doing this, so here's some selected highlights from my 2025 in freelance writing:
First, the biggest one: got to write my first album bio for Alan Sparhawk. Huge dream come true, and would love to write more bios / materials for releases in 2026.
First, the biggest one: got to write my first album bio for Alan Sparhawk. Huge dream come true, and would love to write more bios / materials for releases in 2026.
Anyway, thanks to so many of you for sticking with me this year and making this year tolerable, in spite of everything screaming in our faces
Already can promise that my 2026 in writing is gonna be even better. Excited to share some of the unbelievable stuff I'm working on in the new year <3
Already can promise that my 2026 in writing is gonna be even better. Excited to share some of the unbelievable stuff I'm working on in the new year <3
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Anyway, thanks to so many of you for sticking with me this year and making this year tolerable, in spite of everything screaming in our faces
Already can promise that my 2026 in writing is gonna be even better. Excited to share some of the unbelievable stuff I'm working on in the new year <3
Already can promise that my 2026 in writing is gonna be even better. Excited to share some of the unbelievable stuff I'm working on in the new year <3
Seems like this is the day everyone in my field is doing this, so here's some selected highlights from my 2025 in freelance writing:
First, the biggest one: got to write my first album bio for Alan Sparhawk. Huge dream come true, and would love to write more bios / materials for releases in 2026.
First, the biggest one: got to write my first album bio for Alan Sparhawk. Huge dream come true, and would love to write more bios / materials for releases in 2026.
I'm so unbelievably touched to be asked to write the bio for this incredible new record from Alan Sparhawk (of @lowtheband.bsky.social)—a tremendous gift to put this album from someone I've long admired into words
Out on @subpop.bsky.social on May 30th, preorder here: www.subpop.com/releases/ala...
Out on @subpop.bsky.social on May 30th, preorder here: www.subpop.com/releases/ala...
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Seems like this is the day everyone in my field is doing this, so here's some selected highlights from my 2025 in freelance writing:
First, the biggest one: got to write my first album bio for Alan Sparhawk. Huge dream come true, and would love to write more bios / materials for releases in 2026.
First, the biggest one: got to write my first album bio for Alan Sparhawk. Huge dream come true, and would love to write more bios / materials for releases in 2026.
the Avatar: Fire and Ash moment i think about most is when Lo'ak narrates a whole montage of Jake uniting the Na'vi clans and says, "he made the great speeches," and the only thing we hear from Jake is, "many arrows... TOGETHER... are STRONG... and cannot easily be broken..."
December 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
the Avatar: Fire and Ash moment i think about most is when Lo'ak narrates a whole montage of Jake uniting the Na'vi clans and says, "he made the great speeches," and the only thing we hear from Jake is, "many arrows... TOGETHER... are STRONG... and cannot easily be broken..."
Threw on the EYES WIDE SHUT 4K just to see how it looked and ended up fully rewatching the whole thing lol
December 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Threw on the EYES WIDE SHUT 4K just to see how it looked and ended up fully rewatching the whole thing lol
Back streaming Hitman 2 tonight, come join us and chat if you're around 🤘 twitch.tv/takashimiku
December 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Back streaming Hitman 2 tonight, come join us and chat if you're around 🤘 twitch.tv/takashimiku
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MARTY SUPREME is the monoculture. It is Great Entertainment, a black hole that consumes all of American cinema. Went long on its virtues and vices for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/made...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/made...
Made in America | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sam Bodrojan unpacks Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” and the mythmaking around a monoculture masterpiece.
lareviewofbooks.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
MARTY SUPREME is the monoculture. It is Great Entertainment, a black hole that consumes all of American cinema. Went long on its virtues and vices for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/made...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/made...
Finally, belatedly, calling it a wrap:
Here's where we stand for my 50 favorite albums of 2025
Here's where we stand for my 50 favorite albums of 2025
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Finally, belatedly, calling it a wrap:
Here's where we stand for my 50 favorite albums of 2025
Here's where we stand for my 50 favorite albums of 2025
[adrianne lenker voice]
swallow poison in a funk
swallow poison from some uncs
swallow poison in a funk
swallow poison from some uncs
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
[adrianne lenker voice]
swallow poison in a funk
swallow poison from some uncs
swallow poison in a funk
swallow poison from some uncs
over 30 selfie thread
i'm 31
i'm 31
December 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
over 30 selfie thread
i'm 31
i'm 31
Judd Apatow on March 27, 2022:
December 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Judd Apatow on March 27, 2022:
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“There’s a lot of earnest love buried underneath every moment of JACKASS, beneath the onslaught of dicks and shit that most immediately take up the frame.”
December 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
“There’s a lot of earnest love buried underneath every moment of JACKASS, beneath the onslaught of dicks and shit that most immediately take up the frame.”
Beyond thrilled that there's FINALLY a Region A Blu of one of the greatest films of the 2010s
December 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Beyond thrilled that there's FINALLY a Region A Blu of one of the greatest films of the 2010s
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Please donate if you're able to. This is an unthinkable amount of money for an unthinkably fucked up situation. Anything helps, trans sex workers deserve to have families
I am fundraising for an anonymous friend, who is a trans sex worker and POC. They are at risk of losing custody of their children. Please, please donate. This is a situation that is painful and scary beyond description.
PLEASE SHARE GRAPHICS WIDELY
🫂 www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-... 🫂
PLEASE SHARE GRAPHICS WIDELY
🫂 www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-... 🫂
December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Please donate if you're able to. This is an unthinkable amount of money for an unthinkably fucked up situation. Anything helps, trans sex workers deserve to have families
over 6 years into transition and finally feel like I've nailed the intersection of fashionable and practical winter bitch looks
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
over 6 years into transition and finally feel like I've nailed the intersection of fashionable and practical winter bitch looks
Last pieces of list blurbing for me this year: wrote about two of the most upsetting films of the year (Vulcanizadora and Bugonia) for FLOOD
The Best Films of 2025
The year’s 10 best movies about devastation and hope.
floodmagazine.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Last pieces of list blurbing for me this year: wrote about two of the most upsetting films of the year (Vulcanizadora and Bugonia) for FLOOD
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wait a minute.
December 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
wait a minute.
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Here is the GoFundMe for Marco and Geovanny who were forced to brace below freezing temperature by ICE. They need help with funding for lawyers, food, and medical bills. Please share.
gofund.me/443327b8d
gofund.me/443327b8d
Ayuda para Marco y Geovanny, organized by Maria Chicaiza
Hola mi nombre es Maria Chicaiza Estamos pidiendo ayuda ala comunidad Estubieron hoy en pel… Maria Chicaiza necesita tu apoyo para Ayuda para Marco y Geovanny
gofund.me
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Here is the GoFundMe for Marco and Geovanny who were forced to brace below freezing temperature by ICE. They need help with funding for lawyers, food, and medical bills. Please share.
gofund.me/443327b8d
gofund.me/443327b8d
Very last 2025 year-end music blurb from me here, got to write about how fun and majestic and all-encompassing Sudan Archives' "DEAD" is
The Best Songs of 2025
10 musical highlights setting the stage for the second half of the decade.
floodmagazine.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Very last 2025 year-end music blurb from me here, got to write about how fun and majestic and all-encompassing Sudan Archives' "DEAD" is
i met Ella McCay at a canvassing event and you won't BELIEVE how rude she was to me 😭
December 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
i met Ella McCay at a canvassing event and you won't BELIEVE how rude she was to me 😭
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This year MinnMax is using our reaction stream for The Game Awards to raise money for the Somali Museum of Minnesota.
People aren't "garbage".
Please donate/share to help the museum's mission of connecting Minneapolis with the beauty of Somali art, dance, and history. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
People aren't "garbage".
Please donate/share to help the museum's mission of connecting Minneapolis with the beauty of Somali art, dance, and history. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
December 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This year MinnMax is using our reaction stream for The Game Awards to raise money for the Somali Museum of Minnesota.
People aren't "garbage".
Please donate/share to help the museum's mission of connecting Minneapolis with the beauty of Somali art, dance, and history. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
People aren't "garbage".
Please donate/share to help the museum's mission of connecting Minneapolis with the beauty of Somali art, dance, and history. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
Last set of year-end lists I've been contributing started dropping over at FLOOD, and I wrote about how much I loved the ways the latest from Model/Actriz plays with both noisy flamboyance and disarming vulnerability
The Best Albums of 2025
50 records that largely do away with any sense of boundaries in sound or feeling.
floodmagazine.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Last set of year-end lists I've been contributing started dropping over at FLOOD, and I wrote about how much I loved the ways the latest from Model/Actriz plays with both noisy flamboyance and disarming vulnerability