A very, very valuable lesson was learned on the Bookish side of the internet over the past week or so, as a somewhat popular (but relatively unknown) online merch store called “Allie Rose Co” announced that they had successfully trademarked the term “Hot Girls Read.” If you’ve been around
In a post-truth internet, it’s not uncommon to have someone piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining, but with Artificial Intelligence it starts to get even more infuriating than usual. Not only are folks out there “creating” stuff with AI that by all rights needs
Popular project funding website KickStarter just altered its Terms of Service (TOS) and the internet is not happy about it. Nor should they be, since whoever worded it did a piss poor job of making it sound even remotely workable as a functional set of guidelines. Along with plenty of
I suppose sometimes it’s a little difficult to consistently come up with content that will stir up engagement (if that’s what you’re looking to do), and eventually it gets to the point where any attention ends up feeling like good attention even if you’re going to
Recently, there’s been a bit of drama in a fandom I’ve never even heard of before today, and yet it’s much like many other kerfuffles. There’s people who have molded their personalities around their individual idea of what their fandom means to them and they’ve
Oh, where to begin…? If you’ve been around on the internet for a decently long period of time and you’ve been here and there and yonder in fandom spaces, you’ve probably heard of Winterfox. Maybe you didn’t hear about her under that name. Maybe she went
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