I’m so glad the shockingly brilliant, fuzzy-blacklight-poster-style cowl of this guide grabbed my consideration whereas I used to be doing work at a neighborhood 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 certainly one of my favourite reads this yr.
Moonflow is, as creator 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 finest recognized for being a spot individuals don’t return from, and predictably, issues begin going off the rails nearly 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 finest (she is painfully relatable).
This guide horrified me, made me snigger and made me gag, typically unexpectedly. It is queer as hell, impressively creepy, filled with extraordinarily on-the-nose satire and a fully wild trip throughout.
