Ha, Matt!

I don't really know anything about Mr Velour other than the stuff I have read the last few days and I'm trying to keep an open mind because I am really only reading one side of the story (it's a very persuasive side, but I'm sure there's stuff I'm missing) but I did read the interview where Chuck Tingle comes up and the rest of that interview pretty much makes him seem like a prick so....yeah

Last I heard (I haven't been on Twitter all day) he was refusing to step down, but I can't imagine there's any way he could effectively serve his term after this.

They (he) just appointed four new board members.

Wow. So I'm assuming he's a Trump follower.

New outrage! Via T.S. Eliot. The thread is as good to read as the letters themselves (which are linked) -- [link]

Ok, I thought I could just click over and check that out but I'm gonna have to save that for when I can really devote some time and attention to it.

Holy shit amazeballs:

A white romance novelist's ethics complaint against the author Courtney Milan for calling her book a "racist mess" led to the censure of Milan and sparked an uproar across the publishing world. Now the novelist, Kathryn Lynn Davis, says that her original complaint about the professional harm she suffered was not accurate.

In an interview with the Guardian, Davis said she was "encouraged" by the administration of Romance Writers of America (RWA), a trade association for romance writers, to file a formal complaint against Milan, an influential former board member and diversity advocate. She now feels she had been "used" to secure a political outcome that she had never intended.

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This just gets better and better!

I'm turning pages waiting for the illicit affair and suspicious maiming accident chapters.

I had to explain Chuck Tingle to Jim.

I regret my life choices.