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
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
Bluesky, originally a research initiative developed at Twitter, became its own company in 2021. It is described as a “micro-blogging” social platform and is classed as a “Benefit Corporation” with an explanation of its particular structure and function found on its Wikipedia page. The main takeaway is that Bluesky functions
Did you know “proship” discourse is still going strong on Twitter? Thankfully, after my main account was permabanned from Twitter, I decided to make the full switch to BlueSky. Instead of a thousand cocaine-riddled, showboating, rabid cuntbeasts constantly screaming around me, the discourse was more settled into reality. Don’t
Because nobody seems to take art seriously anymore, BlueSky, the Twitter replacement after its descent into Musk Madness, has decided to implement new censorship rules. These rules are lazily written, overly broad, and unduly vague. The moderation team for BlueSky could essentially use them to censor whatever the hell they
When it comes to John Boyne, the real question becomes “Where should one begin?” Known for multiple controversies, Boyne has found himself in the middle of yet another and, as is common for him, he’s the clear villain. It must seem strange to most well-adjusted folks to look at
Hannibal Fandom Artist TheSeaVoices Faces Backlash From Fans Opposed to Artificial Intelligence in Art Spaces On August 14th of 2025, a popular artist in the Hannibal fandom drew a small amount of criticism for a post they shared featuring a small looped video developed by X’s (Twitter’s) “MechaHitler”
First of all, apologies for being a little bit MIA, but I’ve been busily calling, emailing, and writing physical letters to Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe. Ever since the majority of my work was de-listed on itch.io along with thousands of other titles primarily produced and developed by
I feel like I’ve been in a state of functional shock for the last few days. Ever since Itch.io announced a sweeping and perhaps temporary ban on NSFW writings, comics, and games, most of what I host there has been unavailable for purchase along with thousands of other
Last week saw one of the most devastating losses for anti-censorship advocacy online with the censorship of games off of Steam’s game platform. An Australian group called “Collective Shout” managed to leverage the puritanical tyranny of payment processors to force Steam to take down “hundreds” of games they considered
Note: This is a repost of a Substack I wrote on June 17th, 2024. On February 12th of 2012, the first episode in Season 3 of “My Strange Addiction” was released, featuring a man named Nathaniel who “admits to dating his car,” a 1998 Chevrolet Monte Carlo he calls “Chase.
There’s no other way to start this off than to begin it bluntly: Tribalism is tearing feminism apart. There’s a lot of ways we could illustrate this topic, but I’m only really going to focus on the aspects that grind my gears. Throughout history, women have never