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Repost: Boundaries in Fandom
This is a repost of a Substack post I published 9/5/2022. You ever have someone who just stands too close to you? Like they’re just uniquely oblivious to the fact that you have a bubble and they’re standing right in it? Or maybe you just met
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Oh No! Anyway… (Boundaries: How Do They Work?)
Let’s take a field trip to a few weeks ago and talk about what boundaries are and how they work. Yes! This is a personal drama! I’m so excited for my yearly cancellation attempt. On the 28th of July of this year, I wrote a blog post called
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The Sinners Fandom and the Common White Attraction to a Gross Little Man
[This newsletter contains spoilers for Ryan Coogler’s 2025 film Sinners] Recently, there has been discourse on the Ao3 subreddit regarding the number of fanfictions featuring the vampire villain Remmick and how they outweigh the number of fics surrounding the primarily Black cast of the film. If you’re anything
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Is “Fandom Etiquette” the New “Whites Only”?
Twitter user trixxked (AKA Trix) had an interesting thing to say about fandom etiquette when they posted to their Twitter on the 26th of July, 2026. Trix, a Haitian/Soulaan creator with varied fandom interests, quote retweeted user niggaayaoi (why did you make me type that?) who’d stated, “I
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“(Un)Ethical” Romantasy
So this debacle didn’t last very long. The elapsed time of posting to the time of the apology was only a few hours, and by the next morning the “offending” post had been deleted, and for the most part, swept to the side. But…forgive me, I really do
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Aspiring Tradwife Christian Author Off To A Bad Start With “Holocaust Historical Fiction”
Can you believe that in the past week or so there have been two Nazi book dramas going on in the dark recesses of the internet? I’m only going to touch on one for today but I promise you, it’s certainly…something. Skyler L. of the instagram ofwritersandreaders
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Are “Big” Words Ableist?
Threads user moonlight.archieve_ started a little bit of a kerfuffle this week when they came out with an absolutely inane little take that set off a myriad of social media discourse accounts raising the question of “Are authors ableist for using big words in their writing?” Quite frankly, I’
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Attractive Women Are Literate
A very, very valuable lesson was learned on the Bookish side of the internet over the past week or so, as a somewhat popular (but relatively unknown) online merch store called “Allie Rose Co” announced that they had successfully trademarked the term “Hot Girls Read.” If you’ve been around
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Still Angrily Ranting About AI
In a post-truth internet, it’s not uncommon to have someone piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining, but with Artificial Intelligence it starts to get even more infuriating than usual. Not only are folks out there “creating” stuff with AI that by all rights needs
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KickStarter’s Nonstarter TOS
Popular project funding website KickStarter just altered its Terms of Service (TOS) and the internet is not happy about it. Nor should they be, since whoever worded it did a piss poor job of making it sound even remotely workable as a functional set of guidelines. Along with plenty of
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Bookstagram’s Struggle
I suppose sometimes it’s a little difficult to consistently come up with content that will stir up engagement (if that’s what you’re looking to do), and eventually it gets to the point where any attention ends up feeling like good attention even if you’re going to