I said above that he's not my favorite of the Green brothers, and here's why.

On YT I watch craft videos and follow a couple of science channels, and I am *constantly* bombarded w/ transphobic, white supremacist and Christofascist ads. Epoch Times, Prager U, "patriot prepper" crap, "best open carry/tactical gear" gundamentalist bullshit. It's not "I don't like what I hear"; it's "this is actively harmful"

He's also ignoring the #PuritanWank that demonetizes queer creators.

#PrivilegeIsADrug

whenever people talk about having "no politics or religion" in their "entertainment", I think of how fucking intellectually lazy they have to be not to come up with a better fig leaf for their complicity.

it is ALL politics and religion, it's ALL #PuritanWank #WhiteSupremacy and #Christofascism

These people basically say, "if you read these and like them, you deserve violence, so we'll protect your from yourself y controlling your every fucking breath"

@romancelandia @tuphlos

@romancelandia I want to note that, once upon a time (within the past couple of decades), some mostly-kisses and fade-to-black romances started to get covers that mimicked the erotica/erotic romance coded covers: monochromatic with a pop of color, high heel and rose, wine glass and rose, etc.

We are seeing the inverse trend right now.

The stories within? The same fucking stories, with the same heat or lack.

#PuritanWank

@romancelandia
Found via @tuphlos on twitter, this piece has some blood pressure-raising bits; the most important is the assumption that changing the covers of genre romances of different heat levels/sexual content, changes the actual content.

"oh, these books that are no longer coded erotic romance are actually good stories/writing/characters, but I couldn't have known unless they had acceptable covers" is a thing said there.

#PuritanWank #Publishing
#GenreRomance
https://pudding.cool/2023/10/romance-covers/?mc_cid=714e175360&mc_eid=8bf78c98f8

What does a happily ever after look like?

We looked at over 1,400 romance novel covers featured in Publishers Weekly from 2011 to 2023 and evaluated each cover based on its raunchiness (or level of undress), art style, and representation of racial diversity.

The Pudding

Thread by @courtneymilan on twitter:
https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1627397487110807552

Aside: doubling down when someone with Ms Milan's credentials says, "this is bad in this specific context, and I'm willing to help you fix it" (and not for big gobs of cash either, just because it's a good thing to do), vidicates my visceral reaction to #Spoutible's founder's "I am the smartest person in every room" attitude.

ETA: oh

The road from puritanism to fascism is short, yo

#PuritanWank #SWERF

Courtney Milan 🦖 on Twitter

“It’s not that I don’t think this is fixable—it is. I explicitly offered to help. I hope that given a few days, someone will figure out that maybe it does need to be like, at least consistent from summary to description? IDK.”

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