An Analysis of the Writing and Impact of “The Liberator” Note: This article is a repost of one I wrote on Substack on March 26th, 2023. It will contain spoilers for the short 2020 Omegaverse story The Liberator. Mid September of 2020, a bunch of folks in fandom spaces on
There are a lot of people who are quite conflicted when it comes to JK Rowling and, by extension, the intellectual property that is the Harry Potter series. Whether it be books, movies, games, toys, etc., a lot of people of all ages were entertained by the widely popular characters
I read an interesting little vent post on the r/Ao3 subreddit the other day, and it got the old gears up and grinding a bit early in the morning. Unlike a lot of posts on Reddit these days, I considered this vent post to be absolutely warranted, even as
So this drama is all over YouTube and TikTok, but I haven’t seen much of it anywhere else so we’re going to take a little peek at it since it deals with a couple of my absolute favorite things. The first of those is book drama, and the
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