So NaNoWriMo (the org) is currently a shit show, actually…

I had been giving them a huge benefit of the doubt until yesterday, but it turns out that behind the scenes everything’s actually fucked. I regret comparing their situation to AO3’s, because the difference in transparency and frankly effort between the two is huge. I had no idea that NaNo was so completely messed up.

โ—† New fic up

Ice and Thaw (3805 words) by Overlord_Mordax Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: X-Men – All Media Types, X-Men (Comicverse), Marvel 616, Marvel (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Remy LeBeau/Rogue Characters: Remy LeBeau, Rogue (X-Men) Additional Tags: Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Domestic Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Christmas Fluff, Holidays, Ice Skating Summary:…

โ—† You don’t have to perform disgust

You don’t have to apologize, or perform authorial disgust, for dark, violent, sexual, cruel or problematic topics in the fiction you create. Fiction does not exist to teach an audience a moral lesson. You as an author are not required to be your audience’s moral teacher. You can have bad things happen– you can have…