E. Alex Jung, a gay man writing for New York Magazine’s “Vulture” (I often consider it an apt name due to its propensity to pick apart things often better left alone) has recently written an article that hovers somewhere on the border between condescending and outright insulting when it
This is a repost of a substack article I posted on September 22nd, 2024. My therapist is probably in her forties or fifties. She has kids and lives in the very small town that I do. She comes into my job and always says hi when she does. She’s
I think I have to preface this post by saying that I am steamed. I even waited to try to write it when I wasn’t so irrationally angry, but the irrationality has persisted. I probably sound upset in almost all my newsletters considering the type of language I use
These days it’s becoming increasingly difficult to live in the United States as a patriot. Mostly because not a whole lot of people understand what that means. In the late 1700’s, when we were still a loosely-connected set of poorly-defined territories under the rule and colonial influence of
The most interesting aspect of art and writing in our time is a collective inability to write about bolts of trauma. The deconstruction and exploration of broader concepts such as narcissistic parents or toxic family relationships or even generational traumas is ubiquitous in fiction right now, but as a group
The first big tea-spill session of the new year has begun and it’s a fairly big one, involving some major players in the online comic sphere including not just individuals but organizations as well. While this blog normally advocates for smaller, more focused project management, we’re veering off
The Fallout from the Crashout It’s quite common for those of us who’ve ended up on the wrong side of online dramatics and hysterics to make ill-advised statements after the fact that signal to shark-like critics that there is blood in the water—that we’re now emotionally
The chat that brings a small cluster of Nazi fetishists together rings out with snark and eye-rolling mirth as they share screenshots of Twitter denizens (Twits, if I may) insisting that Fash Fetish makes one a fascist. Laughingly they type, “Having a rape fetish makes you a rapist, having a
It’s an annoying little truth online these days that sometimes you’re cooked before you even really get started. While some creators get lucky and find a following, or a hate-following (yikes…) others end up just fizzling no matter how much content they manage to churn out. Sometimes this
An Ode to the Quiet Hearts of Fandom Never has there been a time without lurkers. The nameless, teeming masses of readers who quietly move through fandom communities with a passive reception of art and writing. Those who kick their feet up while reading late into the wee hours after
Special Thanks to friend of the blog Sage for explaining what exactly was happening to make this non-issue into such a wild little jaunt into clusterfuck land. On October 13th, 2025 Twitter user @luochascoffin tweeted: “reading explicit fics with untagged top/bottom is like playing fucking russion roullette” [sic]. When
It’s going to take a little bit of time to get to the point where it becomes on-the-nose for me to make tongue-in-cheek references to a particular Austrian painter, but fear not, good audience, for eventually by the end of this particular newsletter edition, I will have once again