Camryn Garrett

oh wow

my therapist was like oh you should ask your agent to plan out how much money you think you'll make this year <3 and I had to be like... that's not how it works

omg same

I felt this way watching the Lost Daughter

Trump promised the MAGA base no new wars. Then he went to war with Iran President Trump promised his "Make America Great Again" voters an "America First" foreign policy. With the war in Iran, he's testing MAGA world's willingness to be flexible on one of its core beliefs.

President Trump promised his "Make America Great Again" voters an "America First" foreign policy. With the war in Iran, he's testing MAGA world's willingness to be flexible on one of its core beliefs. n.pr/4uaFY8o

and I feel like there's already a ton of trouble with jobs too, yikes

Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. “Human Authored” means that the text of the book was written by a human and not generated by AI, with the exception of minimal uses, such as AI applications that check spelling and grammar or for brainstorming or research.

So cool that @authorsguild.org has a place where members can go to certify that they did not use AI in writing their books... go.authorsguild.org/account/huma...

What are we doing

honestly the idea of one day having a wife to watch Heated Rivalry with is making me feel something other than dread for the first time in 24 hours so there's that

I can't stress how depressing and exhausting this is as someone who writes queer kidlit

I hate this timeline so much

I just love all the trans people in my life and want them to be safe and happy!!!!!

Trump says affordability crisis is over. Voters and data disagree

Despite claims, polls and economists say tariffs and structural pressures keep US households under strain

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I hate this movie but I guess I’m the minority

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Hey, so! This book that I wrote and that I love is now out in paperback!

me but with publishing

Yeah :/ that's why I don't enjoy it lol

Journalists need to be aware that this stuff is largely written under pseudonyms *for a reason* and that if you inadvertently out a fan by publicizing their fan work or identity without their permission, they could face real-world stigma and consequences!

I was outed as a fan and fired for it!

I think a lot of things can be true at once re: fandom and the fourth wall. The basic reality is that there *is* no fourth wall and arguably hasn't been since 2011, 50 Shades era. But that doesn't mean fan privacy goes out the window, or that it's fine citing fic or fans in articles w/o permission.

Also obviously a lot of my feelings are personal ones and not, "Well, this shouldn't be covered because I said so!" I keep posting about it/engaging with people because I'm trying to work through thoughts about it!

Yeah, and it just turns me off specifically with the HR coverage. I understand but I do feel weirdly on display like I'm part of a zoo or something.

But the circumstances of the industry (and editor biases) have shut out knowledgable voices. So much "fandom coverage" now feels like reinventing a very basic wheel; I feel like my and my peers' work is being actively erased. Fandom *should* be covered—but you need to know what you're talking about.

I guess fandom itself is fair game, but talking about specific fanfics feels really invasive. Like certain parts of fan spaces feel like they shouldn't be included but I don't know if that's just me.

Not the Vulture piece specifically but other pieces written by men, which I think is part of it as well. E Alex Jung is a queer Asian man which is great, but a lot of the coverage has come from white guys and I think that also feels a bit annoying to get the "Why do women like this?" takes from them

I think this is a really great thread. I definitely feel a knee jerk defensiveness that comes from the tradition of the fourth wall between fandom and everything else, but also because... well, I'm defensive! A lot of the coverage around HR has been, "Why do women like this?" and feels insulting

if you share a fic with a normie audience you are painting a target on that writer's back. I don't think most people understand how uncool it is

yeah I feel so so uncomfortable with mainstream coverage of fandom but this is happening even if I want to ignore it

I said this yesterday in a Slack w/r/t the NY Mag piece, but most mainstream articles about fandom aren't really For Fandom — they're for people outside of it, which is why anything written by someone who isn't active in a fandom can often slant towards "let's gawk at the enclosure"

There really aren't any big pubs anymore with journalists who can solely dedicate themselves to writing about fan culture, so the ones who do often frame themselves as the first anthropologist discovering a new species, and that definitely tends to get fans' hackles up