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
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