i haven't slept in 7 years

Omg break uppppp (they aren’t even friends yet)

please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.

I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.

YOU ARE COOKING.

u all know how i feel about evil guy lackeys...

remember the author of "the boy in the striped pajamas" btw this is him now

https://holocausteducation.org.uk/research/the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-in-english-secondary-schools/

Of course this asshole is a terf.

(Not because it's in any way comparable to the other stuff, but because it's very funny.)

Palestinian wife Eman Odeh mourns the body of her husband Alaa during his funeral in Huwara village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. The Israeli military says troops shot and killed Odeh after allegedly opening fire at them on June 2, 2014.(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

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."

for reference.

Hans Holzer, America's Haunted Houses, 1991