Social Media Evolution – UPDATE

I announced a while back that I would be evolving my social media presence in 2023, since it was already apparent that X..er, Twitter was deteriorating to the point that its signal-to-noise ratio would become unacceptable. That has already occurred. Since the beginning of the year, the site has been overrun by sex bots and Elon Musk authoritarian fans, who mostly have less than 50 followers, and have the intellectual acuity and debating skills of […]

Social Media Evolution – UPDATE Read More »

Writing Bi Women

How to portray bi women is an area of romance and erotica writing where you can often tell whether the writer has actually spent any time with or talking to women who are not entirely heterosexual. The classic cliché of bi women (as seen in porn and bad erotica) is extremely good-looking women who seem equally interested in both sexes, and who are magically always around when there is an orgy or a threesome or

Writing Bi Women Read More »

Rupert vs. Belem – A primer

Once again, I had somebody online ask why there are apparently two authors joined at the hip on this site. So…in the interests of full disclosure, here are profiles of the two gentlemen in question. Rupert Ramsgate is a learning author, who aspires to write superior fantasy-tinged fiction with erotic content. He is trying hard to avoid obvious genre classification, even if that means (as it does) that he will self-publish his works. This is

Rupert vs. Belem – A primer Read More »

Mastodon. Oh yeah. Mastodon (sigh)

The Big Question of our time – what will replace Twitter, is on a lot of our minds. A number of new social media sites have appeared in the last 6 months. Post.news, Hive, Tribel, Spoutible…the list will no doubt get longer. These sites all adhere to the Twitter model of Everything In One Site. Whether they will reach critical mass, and whether they can scale to have a good user experience, I have no

Mastodon. Oh yeah. Mastodon (sigh) Read More »