On April 16th of 2025, Reddit user ellesthots posted on the Ao3 subreddit about a concerning incident they’d experienced on Tumblr, sparking a deluge of strange encounters thereafter. The post on Reddit was relatively short, expressing their dismay at finding out that a “loyal Ao3 reader” had sent them
Anyone who’s been around for a while on my SocMed pages knows I’m a Northerner—I live in Buffalo, New York (AKA Baby Canada)—and so I get to have access to all the fun shit that entails, including the Rochester Erotic Arts Festival (REAF). Usually when it
Australia has weird fucking laws. So does Canada for that matter, but this time we’re going to take a look at Australia. Today, March 24th, 2025, People ran an article about Lauren Tesolin-Mastrosa, a Sydney author writing under the pseudonym Tori Woods. As Tori, Lauren wrote a book that
Dusty Deevers’ Oklahoma bill seeking 10 years in prison for possession of a Hustler rag, an overly-broad and wildly vague Texas law (passed) ostensibly banning a whole shit-load of manga (the target was loli but the method was shotgun), a drafted bill seeking to make “Trump Derangement Syndrome” into a
Recently, the Ao3 Reddit page brought up an oldie but a goodie in terms of Tumblr wisdoms, sharing a series of screenshots from the old, formerly-loved social media site. A user whose name was redacted in the share as per the subreddit’s rules had stated “‘I don’t think
BlueSky, the Twitter/X alternative site that has taken off in recent years after Elon Musk’s unfortunate acquisition (and descent into madness), these days remains the bastion of normalcy in fandom, featuring useful protective functions against harassment and unwanted posts on the timeline. One of these protections is “lists”
Recently, an incident occurred on Tumblr that was brought to my attention mostly due to the egregious reactionaryism that defined it and how it exemplified a certain bloodlust that is only ever truly perpetrated upon POC (but especially Black) fandom creators. It highlights the way that Black creators have to
Oceangate, Death, and The Ethics of Real Person Fiction Here In The Abyss *This is a repost of an article I published on Substack on June 25th, 2023. I’m reposting it here because recently RPF discourse made its way back to the subreddit r/AO3. As of just a
It might be a little on-the-nose to have a logo of a flame with a feather quill in the middle of it when you’re a Christian publishing house advocating against writing certain types of fiction, but in this day and age we can’t expect subtlety. Under the Trump