cornerofmadness

Thumbs Up to everyone who stopped by to let me know what you thought of my story (and if you want to read it, go back to yesterday). It's helpful. It helps the story form. It's a big week for me writing wise. I have two major open calls that open Saturday and I am set. I'm also trying to make a better record of all my unplaced stories along with word count/genre so I don't forget something.

It's also a very big week in terms of emotions. Friday is 5 years since I nearly lost my leg. That seems amazing.

Cancer is coming for another family member (which luckily is usually curable with surgery but still, fuck you cancer). Speaking of which I'm in the last days of my American Cancer Society read-a-thon charity drive. You can see more about it here.


As for Fannish 50 Tuesday it's THIS bullshit AGAIN. Creators being attacked, threatened, bullied. This past week, in a nutshell, Gooseworx, creator of The Amazing Digital Circus was in one of the livestream/video game plays this cast/creator loves to do and she mentions that Jax and Pomni are the main characters and people lost their fucking shit. They dragged her so hard over this, for daring to say who is the main character in this thing that they created but it didn't match their headcanons. She deleted the reddit account she used to interact with fans. A couple days later she apologized for not being professional in doing that.

I'm like maybe but I wouldn't say that. Why should you give fans access if they're going to be like this? And it's not just her. Vivzie who does Hazbin gets it like this all the time, Dana Terrace (the Owl House, Knights of Guinevere) does as well. Even Matt Braly (Amphibia) got slapped hard this past week. It culminated in Goose saying she doesn't want to touch her creation again once the last two episodes drop (something Dana Terrace did until this year, almost 4 years later with hers) and Glitch, the production company stepping in try to calm these people down.

If you're curious you can see Matt's thread here on twitter. What Glitch had to say is here.

and here are a few YT commentors who tend to have decent insights into things




and two from Ayy





Who would have thought I'd miss the toxicity of the Buffy days. At least it wasn't batshit crazy like this. And I truly miss the Prodigal Son fandom which was mostly (but of course not always) civil.

It came down like mad. It's beautiful out there. Granted it might make it bitch driving home tomorrow (or make me put it off another day)

I did get some stuff down. Finished one lecture, started another, got all the tenure info into a package. Got most everything packed up and ready to put in the car. Even found time to get my hair colored (the usual shade nothing exciting)


Found an open call I wanted to tell you all about. It's for an Icarus themed anthology. All profits will go to Doctors without Borders. It's a charity I am very fond of so I'm passing the word along. There doesn't seem to be much info available yet. (some of you will be seeing this twice)

one day i'll get the photos up and share them but I'm still racing around like a headless chicken.

Oh and I got a late holiday card from yuukihikari (though I'm unable to remember if i sent one...) Speaking of those cards...Want to do something good as you put away the holiday items? St Jude's recycles Christmas cards (they can also use birthday and other holiday cards). They CAN NOT use American Greeting, Disney or Hallmark cards. Use those cards as tos & froms next year and whip the back of the cards into the recycler. For the price of a little postage you can help kids with cancer and keep the cards from adding to the piles of waste. check it out here