Programming Note: USians, urge your Senators to vote no on KOSA!
Hello, friends! Bad Advisor here.
If you're a Bad Advice reader, I suspect you agree it's really important that young folks, including and especially LGBTQIA+ teens, deserve safe and affirming places to gather online. The mis-named "Kids Online Safety Act," or KOSA, impedes rather than ensures this!
Contact your Senators today and let them know you oppose KOSA and they should, too!
Here's more from Teen Vogue
Here's how to find/ contact your Senator
Here's more from ResistBot
Here's more from the Electronic Freedom Foundation
(h/t to the fab Captain Awkward for putting this on the Bad Advisor's radar today!)
Here, have a photo of the Bad Advisor's goober pets as a little treat.
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Hey, space cadets. You may have noticed that all of the stories in the #erotica tag here have been changed from "public" to "patrons only."
It's been brought to my attention that Patreon's dumbass rules against "adult content" also refer to explicit fiction that isn't behind a paywall. Since Patreon represents a pretty significant chunk of my income that we can't really do without right now, I'm unfortunately gonna have to deal with that; going forward, erotic stories will be patrons-only instead of going public after a week like usual. For those of you who've been reading along but can't afford to / don't want to subscribe, this shouldn't affect the flow of non-erotic fiction so there's plenty of that.
I'm just as infuriated about the aggressive sanitization of our formerly free and open Internet in the name of corporate financial interest as anybody, so if this ruined your day as much as it ruined mine, here's how ya'girl recommends channeling that outrage:
Yell at Patreon on Twitter
Volunteer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Support Industrial Union 690 and the Sex Workers Outreach Project
Donate to / volunteer with the Organization for Transformative Works
I haven't been able to draw for weeks because I've been too focused on programming but the other day I did a little zelda link doodle on my personal notes. Here's the rest of the notes I've been taking down I'm really proud of my handwriting in some of these spots. You should've seen my handwriting in school it was terrible terrible unreadable you get a little bit of that in some places here when I'm rushing. Anyway I'm working on a little personal project I'm trying to build a website for artist to upload and share their work but with some twist. I was really inspired but the art fight website and I want to see if I can also contribute to the art or zelda art community in some way. But no promises I'm a terribly slow coder and so this will prob just stay a learning project. It has been sorta fun tho piecing everything together. I've just barely set up a login session system using passport lmao 💀 ☠️ its like 50 lines of code but it took me days to process it in my head. Anyway hopefully more zelda drawings next month idk!!!
I was called out, linked here. I think it's a fairly important read, especially for more vulnerable folk who might fall into the orbit of Woke Dudes What Have Good Politics™, and the kind of toxic power dynamics that might occur in such interactions.
Just to clarify: I don't think OP is wrong, and I do not condone any sort of behavior where you go and make trouble in their space.
I want to say thanks to all the folks who've pointed out my hurtful behavior and all who've checked in with me since the call out. My behaviors are a life-long work in progress of learning and doing better.
To those who have felt unsafe from the behaviors I've displayed, I sincerely apologize for the fear and uncertainty I caused. I'm going to be working on my personal boundaries and behavior as I never want others to feel unsafe from me. In whatever you do, I hope you stay well and safe.
The rest of this post is under the cut to spare the dash.
I've been taking some time off and will continue to introspect and work on some of the more toxic behaviors that have been been pointed out to me. And I'm focusing more on stuff related to family, my day job, and trying to survive this whole global pandemic thing.
I don't expect easy or fast results, truth be told, but addressing toxic habits and behaviors is something that I expect I'll have to work on all my life. Off the top of my head, I can see the implicit need for assumed emotional labor and some of my messed-up expectations with regards to the line between platonic and romantic attraction that need to be addressed, as well as respecting and honoring boundaries between me and others, specifically between folks younger and more vulnerable than me. These aren't easy or painless lessons to have, but they're vital, and I hope to keep doing and getting better.
I've said it once, and I'll say it again: If you've been subject to any of my toxic behavior and have been made to feel unsafe or threatened, I'm sincerely, deeply sorry that I have made you feel this way. Intentional or not, it can be painful to realize that someone you trusted may be unsafe, and doubly so if you have had a history of trauma and abuse. I'll be working on trying to unlearn the toxic behaviors and expectations that caused this, but I don't expect anything more from you, other than you be safe and well for you and those you care about.
Another reiteration: I really want to thank the people who have reached out to me, for urging me to fight the executive dysfunction caused by my anxiety when I first learned about the call out, to bury myself in work and avoid this topic altogether. In facing the callout, I've had time to listen to the people affected by this who spoke up, and have had time to reflect. I hope I'll find ways to be better.
For those who reached out, I know how often this act is a thankless task with uncertain pay-off, but the fact that you believe that I can do better means a lot to me. I'll try my best to live up to your expectations.
If you took the time to read this until the end, thank you for your attention. Stay safe out there.
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I just wanted to give some updates on what the upcoming fic layouts look like. The plan is as follows:
-Finish “Playing with Matches”
-Finish “Sawdust and Starry Eyes.”
-Begin on one of the following: Sternclay rival teachers AU, Sternclay Regency AU, a fleshed out superhero Duck/supervillain Indrid AU, and a Reverse! Indruck AU.
ALL of those AUs will get written, it’s just a matter of order, which is a matter of which ideas are ready to go.
I hope everyone is doing as well as possible right now.
Hey guys! I don’t usually say this, and there’s absolutely no pressure, but if you’re feeling extra generous this holiday season, maybe consider dropping by my ✨Ko-fi✨! It means the world to me to get financial support so I can keep churning out stories, and it seriously helps me keep contributing content to this fandom. I absolutely love writing for y’all, and from the bottom of my heart, thank you for all the support you’ve given—all your amazing comments and kudos and all your hours spent binge-reading (!!??!!) my stories. The work I do is 1000% free and 2000% for y’all, and though any tips aren’t required, they sure are appreciated and go a long long way to making this writer want to write even more. Keep bein’ amazing, and happy happy holidays! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I started writing Job & Family back in November 2014. For those of you who don’t know, it was my first time writing a real story and while I had an idea of a story to tell, I wasn’t super knowledgeable about the mechanics of writing. Specifically, I was not in a good place when it came to grammar/syntax/etc because I’d missed the years of school when they taught a lot of that in English class. Over the 26 months it took me to write J&F, I learned a lot about storytelling, but I wasn’t sure where to begin teaching myself the technical stuff. So in the end I had this massive story that I was incredibly proud of, but I knew that it was flawed on a very foundational level.
Sure enough, I received multiple comments and private messages from readers (politely) telling me that they enjoyed the story, but that they were distracted/confused by how I could have such a basic flaw like that. I ended up explaining to them that I just didn’t get that chunk of education and didn’t know what to do. I had people suggest a beta-reader, but the sheer magnitude of beta’ing a 590k word fic scared off a few people and it kinda seemed like that wasn’t gonna happen.
Part of the way into writing J&F, I started writing another series, The Uncomfortable Adventures of Sam in Law School. While that was still relatively short and unimposing, I had a reader read it, then binge my other works including J&F. She, like others before her, was super confused about how I had no fucking clue what an adverb was or how to use a comma. We ended up chatting about things and she offered to beta the Sam in law school series, but more than that, she offered to give me lessons and explanations on all of her corrections so that I could start learning the subject. Needless to say, I was thrilled. She’s been working with me on my stuff since then. We’ve been updating the law school series and she’s beta’ed almost every one-shot I’ve posted since last fall. However, she’s always been a little intimidated by tackling J&F.
A few weeks ago, I went and reread part of J&F to check on some continuity issue and I was a little embarrassed. Knowing what I’ve learned over this beta-education and then going back and seeing my earlier effort.... I’m really want to fix it. I want to take this story that I’m so in love with and proud of and clean it up enough to do the story itself some fucking justice. So I started proofing it on my own, fixing what I could based on as much as I’d learned. And while I was looking at it, my beta kinda strolled over and started peeking at my Docs and helping me out. One thing led to another and we’re already twelve chapters into like legit beta’ing and she’s enthusiastic for more.
So, yeah. Job & Family is getting beta’ed. I’m gonna start updating the chapters with the beta-ed versions. It’s gonna be a long process. Even if we managed a chapter a day it would take like two and a half months, but we’re starting. That means that for a little while the grammar/syntax quality is gonna be inconsistent as it transitions over.
Also, none of the existing story will be removed, but if there are points that seem poorly explained or needing a little segue or clarifying who is speaking, I’ll be adding new content. For example, the first chapter has a bit more (about five new paragraphs) of background. For most chapters it’s only a few sentences of new additions, but fair warning all the same.
Lastly, sorry in advance when I eventually spend some time promoting J&F after this project is done. It’ll finally be in a state that I’m all around happy with and, while I’m terrible at self-promotion, I feel like it’d really be due at that point.
