To be clear, no shade towards Nyronus. I understand where they're coming from, and to say things are frightening and dire right now is an understatement. But for my own sake and, I suspect, that of a lot of other folks as well, I want to share my personal response to the notion that now is the time to:

If you can get out of the USA, get the fuck out.

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It’s a few minutes past six in the morning Eastern Standard Time right now, as I type this. I’m not usually awake at this hour. I shouldn’t be awake right now, really — freelance life means my alarm usually goes off at half past nine and gets snoozed for another half-hour-ish, and maybe around noon I really buckle down and start putting in the standard eight a day. It’s a privilege, one of the biggest perks of what I do to pay rent. But I’m awake now. Turned off MSNBC at eleven last night,

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Did you enjoy (in a figurative sense) me writing about Flurry Heart being in a toxic relationship in "And I Hope You Die"? Have you been thinking (in a literal sense), "You know, I bet the result of that toxic relationship's end is going to be that cotton-candy pony princess doing things that would be war crimes if she didn't win the war she crimed in?"

If so, first of all: what's wrong with you?

And second of all, I wrote a sequel to "And I Hope You Die":

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"You used to be big."
"I am big. It's the [website] that got small."

(Come on, I've been living literally on Sunset Boulevard for a year and a half now. Gimme just this one bit of referential self-aggrandizement.)

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That's true, by the way, not just a cheeky two-year-old Lil Nas X reference. I really have been working on lots of stuff over the past year or so: a few TV pilot scripts that I'm generally okay with as learning experiences, some networking-type stuff here in LA with other "pre-WGA" (which is our fun term for "aspiring" [which is our extra-fun term for "unemployed"]) screenwriters, a couple other things here and there that I definitely

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Hey, horsefic folks. How it's hanging?

I hope "in Bellevue" is at least some of your answers, because that's where I'll be in a few hours and will remain through the EFNW weekend. I'll be, as always, six-foot-four and affably daydrunk, so say hi to anyone who meets that description and sooner or later it's bound to be me.

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Let's get a quick disclaimer out of the way before we really get going: I don't like foalcon. By "foalcon" here, I refer specifically to M-rated stories that depict characters who are very clearly meant to be minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct with other minors and/or adults. Not a fan of it! I find it gross on a personal level, I think it's morally reprehensible that a site of this size has yet to crack down on it to literally any degree (let alone a meaningful one), and I would very

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Got a comment on my last blog a little bit ago that went something like this:

"Why not get a life instead of taking Internet horse drama so seriously?"

I'd like to talk about this comment a bit. Not the lazy insult itself, but rather the perspective it represents, and how I both sympathize with and can no longer accept that point of view.

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(4/21/21 10:15 AM EST: Slightly edited so as to play slightly nicer with others.)

(4/21/21 IDK when: more edits from site mods; there used to be screenshots of the original post and a particular comment that prompted mine.)

Here is what I sent to TittySparkles in a private DM, reproduced below in text form so that it can be seen publicly without being deleted from under the relevant blog or removed with said blog:

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Posh did this, and then Present Perfect and Jake the Army Guy did it too, so now I'm giving in to completely imagined peer pressure to do it, because I've been out of the game for a hot minute and this felt like the least scary way of

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