#reader beware

(these are all on my kink blog but thought I'd link them here; last updated 9 March 2026)

A Faerie Lover

Soul Bonded

Incorporeal Edging

Bargaining for Release

Edgeplay at the Brink

Delicate in Comparison

Shapeshifting for Pleasure

Magical Sensations

Pleasure Sigils

First Otherworlds Date *

Enthrallment

Ruined for Anyone Else

A Faerie Ball *

Appetizers *

for absolutely no reason, especially one that involves multiple storylines being pushed down your throat at once, here’s a short post about tabloid media literacy.

as a tabloid journalist (hypothetically, fictionally), my company makes money when you click on links and read stories. that’s it. that’s the job. my paycheck and career depend on traffic.

so i see a celebrity say something in an interview with another outlet. if i think it might be click-worthy, i’m going to run with it. whether or not that’s what the person actually meant in context.

i’ll take that quote, pair it with vaguely related things that have been said in the past, and stretch it into a few paragraphs so it qualifies as an article.

then my editor steps in. sometimes they say no (for legal reasons, or because they don’t want to risk losing access to information that person’s team occasionally provides.) sometimes they say yes. access absolutely matters.

in another scenario, i notice a celebrity moving kind of weird. i start asking around. eventually someone surfaces (maybe a friend of a "partner’s" family member, maybe someone who went to primary school with the celebrity. maybe the celebrities' grocery delivery driver. maybe someone adjacent enough that it technically counts.)

as long as i can label them a “source,” i have plausible deniability. i didn’t state it as fact. i reported what a source claimed. there are legal limits, but within those limits, a lot can be printed.

in another scenario, someone from someone’s team reaches out anonymously. it genuinely doesn’t matter whose team. maybe X says something that sounds like shade at Y. then Y’s "girlfriend's" camp confirms to me that it was shade. i run with it.

i don’t actually care what their motive is. but since they gave me information, i’ll probably throw in a favorable line about them so they keep talking to me.

and then there’s aggregation.

i work at a smaller outlet. there are five of us covering hundreds of celebrities. we don’t have time to generate original reporting for everything, so we wait for a bigger tabloid to publish, rewrite their story, cite them, and hit post.

now take one out-of-context quote or one bad source, and run it through this system.

it gets repeated. and repeated. and repeated.

I don't understand the hate for this one in particular? I thought this was a great book. Maybe because I'm a big fan of Adolin and his arch during this was fantastic.

Also, Kaladin really did fake it til he made himself into a therapist. FOR THE HERALDS??

Really out here like, yeah Honor is dead, but fuck it maybe therapy can be the new Honor.

Syl is a queen now, don't care what anyone has to say about it.

Thrilled to see Renarin I-am-not-a-king-i'm-just-gay and Rlain married and living in the Shattered Plains as emissaries of Urithiru's new democracy in book 6.

Please do not let Jasnah fall to the dark side. I can't take it. She's too in her feelings which is not something that happens to her often so I have a fear about that.

Szeth got married??? That wasn't on my Stormlight Bingo Card.

Curiously little on Mishram, Sja Anat, and the Sibling/Navani at the end. I hope, much like Navani's previous interactions with powerful women, these four form a kind of girlboss opposition to Taravangian, either together or just because all three groups hate him in their own way for their own reasons and it becomes a second littler sunmakers gambit.

Shallan's telegram service being a front to sext her husband and stay sane. Love that for her.

Overall, I really liked it. I think the most unrealistic thing is how much happened in just ten days time. It was like an insane amount of travel for Kaladin and Szeth. I'll ignore it because stormlight made it happen or whatever.

I decided not to do a regular review because, one, if you've not read books 1-4, this is all gibberish anyway, and two, I don't think I could explain the plot in a short-form engaging way.

Maybe: newish King Dalinar Kholin preps for his fight with God over all the fighting they've been doing by trapping himself and others inside a bunch of hallucinations. Kaladin, Szeth, and a bunch of old ass warriors attend stealth group therapy. Everybody else is still fighting the fights that the fight with God is about. The world ends, but only a little? A sword learns its not just an object and stops murdering people.

does anyone else ever actively mourn the fact that they won't ever be able to have sex with all the beautiful people they've known in their life? Like, I don't even want to date all these people; just have a friendly little hookup with them. Make them feel good. Appreciate and caress every bare inch of them. Worship at their altar for a night.

A former coworker of mine posted a mirror pic today. The baggy jeans she was wearing hung from her hips and flattered her waist quite nicely.

She's absolutely adorable, and a total sweetheart. I would love to make her giggle and sigh and cum with my face between her legs, and then sit her on my cock and let her bounce herself to another orgasm, and cuddle with her in the afterglow, before parting ways as friends.