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
Queer Hockey romance author Dr. Emily Rath caused a bit of a stir on TikTok recently when she came out and openly stated that her comment sections on any of her Social Media accounts were not safe spaces for people who have voted for Donald Trump. Conservative BookTok girlies immediately
On June 10th, 2025, author Theresa C. Gaynord made a questionable post on BlueSky (isn’t that just how all of these start?). Known to follow anyone prolifically in the hopes of creating a web of influence that her Amazon-sold books don’t seem to be providing on their own,
TikTokker youretripleblocked, AKA “pee,” has been talked about before. In an article I posted on Substack on October 14, 2024, I discussed not only her first incarnation of the anti-shipper mascot, but also the formation and purpose behind historical propaganda. Her first attempt at a mascot was woefully ill-conceived and
New Bot Comments on Fics Drive Reactivity to A.I. Note: This is a repost of a substack article originally written on January 15, 2025. All publicity is good publicity. This is something you see with misbehaving children sometimes, especially middle children or older kids who are getting dethroned by
On Friday, May 30th, 2025, Indie Author Alex de Campi came to BlueSky to kvetch and the tea…was…scalding. de Campi had published a wildly popular queer medieval novel called The Scottish Boy with a crowdfunding publisher called Unbound back in 2019. Though they had originally had a good
Alex Graham, a comic artist with 23.2k followers on Instagram, recently stepped in it big time. Notable for her work on her pandemic comic, Dog Biscuits, she’s also known for paintings, utilizing a relatively distinct almost surrealist wobble-style that invokes the bizarre in the service of the subtly
Head Moderator Micky Allegedly “Loses” Zine’s Donation Funds to Hospital Bill On May 8th, 2025, Zine Twitter page SoapZine2024, display name “Sunshine” Soap Zine, posted a two-image confession from their finance moderator “Micky.” Micky stated that in December of 2024, he was hospitalized for two days and every bit
Author Erin Lee is Raked Across the Coals for the Death of a (Fake) Dog Not too long ago, indie author Erin Lee made a post on Threads that did not go over too well. Many who took issue with it were incensed by just the first line: “I killed
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