(Also, I doubt I would have written that book had I not read 'Lizard Music' as a 12 year old me so... squee!)

Sometimes the most magical books just come right out. I should know.

I thought this was a dumb joke a 12 year old would make, so I looked it up. And frankly with this administration I’m still not sure if it’s just a dumb joke a 12 year old would make.

I mean, no joke, how many of Epstein's girls are working in high government positions right now? We know one is the First Lady!

If that is true then perhaps the gods can spin us out of this?

Yeah, it's the legal equivalent of putting on a villain mustache and twirling it.

I was moderating a children's book group and someone attempted to submit a post selling a minor for sex. I reported it to FB only for them to tell me it 'didn't violate ToS'.
Guess now I know why.

I wrote a book along those lines (queer-coded, admittedly) and it was so hard to market that hardly anyone found it. There is no category on Amazon that fit. The people that did find it seemed to like it a lot.

Though I hate to call Asterius a monster, he is farther from human than these examples.

My problem is not with the hammer, it's with the beating people over the head with it. Which is to say, my problem is not with diffusion onto noise to tease out patterns, but using such a tool to build a gGod and solve the hard problem of wages! All of these use cases are mad ends by bad people.

They are common in this area, and they are favorites of mine. If they are relaxed they are intelligent and social; fun to watch from a blind or a window.

Wait, no... the ref... what?

It is exceedingly difficult to be seen. Talent is not only not enough, people with talent often get no help because everyone assumes ‘Well, that read was great! They don’t need help from little ‘ol me.’ Wrong-o: they need it even more!

That’s fair; I know that Italian & Spanish sexual politics after 1000 CE had a lot of influence upon the development of that view of things, even if the word for it came into general use down there. One might even note that naming something is often the first step to fighting it.