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Contingency Con is a free virtual Person of Interest convention celebrating 10 years since the finale. July 31 to August 2. Join us for a weekend of POI love!

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I haven’t pissed people off lately by reminding them that ALL types of physical punishment of kids has been proven beyond ANY reasonable doubt to have only negative long term outcomes.

So let me scream it from the hilltops:

Stop hitting kids. End of sentence.

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For example, being exposed to corporal punishment as a kid makes it more likely for a person to commit domestic violence against a partner. In places where corporal punishment is normal, people are more likely to think that rape and intimate partner violence are normal. Kids who are spanked are more likely to be violent with and to bully other kids.

Spanking is literally teaching a kid that violence is okay and normal and it affects the whole society.

We're putting together a Contingency Con Zine to celebrate ten years of Person of Interest and we'd love your fan work!

What we're looking for: Essays · Meta · Poetry · Fan Art · Episode Reviews · Fic Recs · Fan Creation Recs · Love Letters to POI · Something Else?!

Guidelines:

Text submissions: 100–3,000 words

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New work only (not previously posted or published)

Up to 2 submissions per person

All ratings and content types welcome; please include content notes for anything that may need them.

Deadline: July 20, 2026

The Con Zine goes live on opening day of Contingency Con, July 31, as a free PDF download for all registered attendees.

Somebody on Twitter pointed out that the Big Finish companion Hex is canonically from the year 2021, so when he occasionally abbreviates the word "suspicious" to "sus," it's probably an Among Us reference.

people are going to look back on this and ask, why were there only 21 episodes before an indefinite hiatus?

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

with root shaw's day job gets a lot harder