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
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
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
This article was originally written in March of 2025 and Magen Cubed didn’t like it. Since I’m blocked and she’s off eating some more crackers (presumably), it is being re-published now. Author Dorian Dawes, a horror writer who describes their short stories and novels as “profoundly
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
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”
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
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”