Nathaniel South
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thisissouth.bsky.social
Nathaniel South
@thisissouth.bsky.social
he/they/she I play guitar/sing in Lune:the band, I parent a couple of pugs. Anarchist anti-fascist, queer, childhood sexual abuse survivor, complex PTSD haver, pro sex worker and I wrote the theme music to the I Don’t Speak German podcast.
Today I remember the Haymarket Martyrs. Their bravery. Their defiance. Their humanity.

I hope you all are sleeping well. We’re still fighting. We’re still trying to build that better world.
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Dick is in the rarified air of single human beings that have directly caused the murder of hundreds of thousands of humans. The only thing that makes me sad is he had a long comfortable life. A pox on his house. Fuck him and his forever.
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Queer from our record The Ship Sails On.
October 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Queer from our record The Ship Sails On.
October 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
But It Is
September 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Biceps/triceps/forearms/25min cardio Back at it. Back has been weird. Hoping it’s getting less weird.
August 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We scrapped together enough money to do a very very small run of vinyl and I can’t really explain my emotions.
August 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I don’t have enough words to explain how much pain and hate this man brought into my world. My world and the world of millions of other kids. My physical abuse started with “disciplinary spankings”. That was my parent’s gateway drug to beating me.
August 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Heather Heyer changed my life. Her death on this day in 2017 was the beginning of my rebirth as a radical. Fascist continue to gain power and I will fight them until I am dead. I hope you will too. Fear is not an excuse.
August 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Leg Day/20min cardio I wish I hadn’t been so fucked up as a kid. Sex, and sexuality still feel awkward and hard. I know more about myself than I could have ever hoped for, but still lack the language, confidence, or feeling of safety to express most of it.
August 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Biceps/forearms/triceps/25min cardio Took a week off. Feels good to be back. Thinking about starting to conceal carry. Thinking about the record we put out last November. Thinking about you and what you’re thinking about me. Thinking. Peace and love.
August 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Leg day/20min cardio body hurts. Mind is sharp. Ever forward.
July 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Back/chest/shoulders/20min cardio Fuck ‘em.
July 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Leg day/20min cardio today is going to be long. Going to Chicago to say goodbye to a band. Playing a show tomorrow. Not much sleep in between. Ever forward.
July 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Back/shoulders/chest/30min cardio I’ve been thinking about death again. How inevitable it is. How it both changes things, and changes nothing. How it hurts the most when you love the most.
July 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Leg day/30min cardio I am alive. This moment is where I exist. Joy and hope are everywhere, and the fear of the end doesn’t hold power over me, and in that, there is freedom.
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Biceps/triceps/forearms/30min cardio “the truth is loosely based on everything I’ve ever drank. And it’s kids being kids, which is to say…monstrous.”
July 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Chest/back/shoulders/30min cardio

There is peace in knowing the way. There is joy in the deed. There’s no safety in action, only peace and joy.
July 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Leg day/30min cardio a little less “flight” and a little more “fight” if ya know what I mean….
July 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Biceps/triceps/forearms/30min cardio “but I’m still here even after 12 or 13,000 beers. Still bruised. Still cut. Still drunk. Still Queer.”
July 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Chest/shoulders/back/30min cardio I’m so very aware of how long the road from 8 year old me to 45 year old me is. It was so very fucking hard. It hurt so much, but I didn’t eat that bullet. I didn’t drink myself to death. I survived. We can survive this moment. It’s worth surviving. Scars and all.
June 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Leg Day/30min cardio my body is old and tired, but my mind burns with purpose. Freedom is something you have to find within before you can accept it from without. I search for freedom. I pledge my sword hand to her forever. Peace and love.
June 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Biceps/triceps/forearms/cardio 30min we will win. It won’t be easy. We won’t all make it…..but we will win and they will fucking loose.
June 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Leg day/30min cardio now splitting cardio between recumbent bike and treadmill. Today is Pride In The Park. Being queer and midwestern is a very specific thing. One I’ve been able to observe from the outside and now inside.
June 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Shoulders/chest/back/25min cardio I feel old. I’m trying. I’m pushing. I feel guilty I let it get this bad again. I shouldn’t have. Fuck me, I’m trying though. Ever forward.
June 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM