I have a review in the pipeline, but I need to accomplish more urgent tasks at the moment, so it will have to wait a little bit.
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Anyway, I have a Patreon account, because who doesn’t, these days? I recently received a notice from Patreon that my profile has been marked as containing, and I quote, “adult content.”
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This is presumably because of my lengthy discussions of tax returns, job hunting, and parenting tips. (Old joke, I know.)
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I don’t know why this would be. It clearly says in my profile that I’m writing YA novels. Maybe somebody actually bothered to comb through my free short stories and discovered that I depict a few mobsters dropping occasional f-bombs.
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More likely, however, this was done automatically by a program that flagged me for using the word loli repeatedly when discussing the U.N.’s updated definition of child pornography that includes pornographic drawings. Or maybe the topic of child pornography, even when discussed non-graphically and in a condemnatory fashion, is in itself simply too hot for Patreon. Who knows?
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Anyway, in spite of the ugly topic that likely earned me this notoriety, I must say that I’m kind of proud of it. I know a lot of people who’ve been kicked off social media platforms, and I keep wondering, where’s mine? I am clearly not controversial enough: Probably the most controversial thing I’ve said on this blog is that I’m against animated child pornography, and though that’s apparently a provocative statement in a certain branch of anime fandom, it isn’t anywhere else.
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So, when I first got the news, I got overexcited and posted to Facebook that I was maybe being censored. More likely, though, I got flagged incorrectly and will have my status changed back after my appeal works through the system.
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But in the meantime, I can get naaaaaasty!
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So, anyway, that’s the news. I and totally did not write this just to remind you that I have a Patreon, and I also did not insert subliminal messages into this post.
Oh, and in other news, I heard back from my editor: She has the draft of Jake and the Dynamo: Dead to Rites, and if I understand aright, I’ll probably hear back from her in a little over a month. That’s not to put pressure on her, of course, but merely to keep you informed.