Who even knows anymore

Weird and wonderful compilation of strange bird noises.

Slightly sad there's no Eider duck on the list but what a marvelous collection.

I really love this website and the people on it a lot

Hobbits that point at gay people

They shed their baby beards to make room for their adult beards. Like with baby teeth.

An Update from back in October I'm surprised wasn't added to this post. lol

can he be in a normal situation for like 5 minutes

Nothing that ever happens in indie author drama is ever remotely relatable to me. I always go in like "oh, these are my peers, we have the same career, I will understand this" and it's always somebody making absolutely off the wall decisions that make no fucking sense to me. My reaction to everything that happens is "why would someone do that".

"This person committed fraud and gamed the review algorithms and ended up taking thousands and thousands of dollars from potential readers before delivering AI gibberish and skipping out with the money" okay that's a supremely arsehole move but it does appear to be very lucrative, so I can logically see why selfish people keep doing this one.

These aren't people who are being harassed by dickbags sending them reviews, they're looking up the reviews on storefronts (meant for other prospective readers), getting upset and starting shit with the reviewers, often extremely publicly, sometimes with fake screenshots, doxxing the reviewers, multiple sock puppet accounts and/or (if they're feeling particularly spicy) false cease and desist letters demanding the reviews get taken down, from lawyers who either don't exist or aren't involved. Hate in your inbox is on the reader and it's not unusual for indie authors to receive targeted harassment from groups of people doing that, but that's a very different thing than looking up your own reviews, getting mad at the 1 to 3 star ones, and throwing a public temper tantrum where you show the world that you are a lying bully. There are just so many places in that chain of events where an author can go "perhaps continuing with this is a bad idea."

I'm trying of people arguing about whether certain media is "for kids" or "for adults" as though the two are mutually exclusive.

Person who wrote this scene would write about websites with security like this.

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