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Blackness and Playing by THE RULES

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

By JD Riley 15 Feb 2025
A photo of the submerged OceanGate Titan.

Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here

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

By JD Riley 11 Feb 2025
The rather suspect logo for Quill and Flame Publishing House—reminiscent of book burning.

Quill and Flame Gets Flamed

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

By JD Riley 07 Feb 2025
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