The Crazy Knight

On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 783), I remember Anthony Stewart Head, his many contributions to genre storytelling, and in particular his pathbreaking series VR.5.

This is your semi frequent reminder that there is no official AO3 app

All those are unofficial and available on the Google play store as of August 13th 2025. They mirror AO3's content and insert ads, for which the developer gets paid by page impression (that's every time the ad appears in the fic you're reading) not just clicks.

No money goes to AO3, nor to the fic writer. It goes to the person who did the bare minimum.

Many of these apps have poorly worded or non existent privacy policies, so they may also be mining as much data as possible and selling that on to unknown third parties.

With more than 600k writers now using Ellipsus (🙀), we’re streamlining support to make it easier to find answers, report problems, and get urgent issues to us a lot faster. In the new Ellipsus Help Center and Knowledge Base, you can search for answers directly from the in-app support widget, then submit a categorized support request when you still need help. Those categories help us identify very important issues like inaccessible work, deletion recovery, payment issues, bugs, etc. And: the support widget works on mobile now!! A few important notes while we make the switch:

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Starting today, all support requests should come through these forms rather than directly through our email inbox. This gives us the info and logs we need ASAP, and keeps requests from becoming scattered or lost (which helps us resolve issues faster!).

The new forms system will give us more up-front info, but support is still a collaborative process. We may need to ask you follow-up questions about your issue as we investigate. (Every device, browser, bug, sequence of events behaves differently.) Live chat will also remain available for urgent issues.

"Spider-Man New York Stories: The Fashion Consultant" ✨️ A funny and lighthearted Spider-Man and The Nanny crossover story, by yours truly✨️

A story for the 90's people! In case you don't know, The Nanny was a 90s TV show, starring Fran Drescher, which took place in New York! So... of course I had to write this.

I started this story almost a year ago 😭✨️ I need to be faster when making comics HAHAHAAHHS

https://substack.com/home/post/p-195999614 "...but I wanted to say how shocked and sad I am to hear of the death of Anthony Head. He was a fantastic, funny actor and a lovely man; and I was so lucky to have him on Cabin Pressure..."