Yep.

An ICE agent, or a thing that shouldn't exist, was somewhere he didn't belong, and felt emboldened to do whatever he wanted with impunity.

I don't care what she did.

Hell yeah, fucking creatine cereal.

Afterwards I'm gonna shave myself with my MANSCAPED gear and then wipe myself off with DUDE WIPES.

Hell yeah, on it.

Right!?

It's sorta maddening.

Like yes, I could add my own dictionary, and I can add words to my word processor's dictionary, but why should I have to do that? How is this a useful feature?

Believe Leno Road.

At least you still believe in Jay Leno and the Dome.

Wow

What's funny is that Baen primed the pump for this type of shit back in the 90s and 00s when they were the first SF publisher to really embrace ebooks.

This built an audience of people who don't blink when you call Heinlein a fascist, but smile, who were willing to read ebooks by unknowns lol.

Indie SF, for years, was dominated by military SF writers like this.

You can imagine the types of readers they attract.

... is it becoming clear why I've left this world behind? Because it's these types of people being 'prominent' that helps poison the well.

I know most of you don't know the indie SF world that well, but it's filled with retired military types that are incredibly pro-MAGA and weird, hateful assholes.

I'm trying to paint a picture as to why it feels like there's less and less spaces to be an author who earns a living.

I think it's one of those things where his prose is really good, but I bounced off the setting. It's not my kinda thing, at least not at the moment. A little too grim for me.

I'm not sure ~why~ but I tried Wolfe out with Shadow of the Torturer and couldn't get into it.

My account still exists, locked up, because for a while people were sniping old usernames, copying the profile, and using it to shill AI services making people think it was the same person.

I mean this, I made multiple careers off of Twitter.

I made connections with friends and professional connections that led to me getting good, paid work. I've had accounts with tens of thousands of followers.

Twitter was good to me. It sold books, too.

I still left.

It's so hard because like... I don't know.

It's not like there aren't already active shooter drills and other kinds of scarring stuff happening in schools. I remember when my kids first experienced those and how heartbreaking it was.

Explaining these jackboots feels so damning towards everyone.

In November, I published @mxgomez78.bsky.social's sexy sword-and-sorcery tale, "The Sword of Bellerose" in our minizine:

ko-fi.com/s/e5c9440194