Author: Trae Dorn

Convention season is upon us, and it’s time to kick off the year for me with Evercon 2026 in Wausau, WI! Well Rothschild, really — but if Syfy can conflate the two, so can I. I mean, it pretty much
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If yoiu don’t spend time in the odd corners of bookish and queer social media, it’s likely you’ve never heard of Paul Castle. Hell, even if you are in them, you may have scrolled on by, never to take note.
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It’s been a long time coming, but I’m super excited to announce the upcoming release of the first Peregrine Lake print collection. “Welcome to Peregrine Lake” is officially releasing May 1st, and it collects the first chapter of the comic.
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This week Discord announced that to continue to have full access to their platform, all users will be required to verify their ages using either a face scan or a photo of their government ID. This massively intrusive policy goes
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I’m not sure why I have to say this sometimes, but fandom spaces are adult spaces. What we consider organized fandom was built by adults, for adults. But there are people who forget this. Like I’ve seen people admonish adults
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So one of the most annoying phenomena you’ll find on social media is the way that ideas will get passed around like a game of telephone until they’re virtually unrecognizable. The “anti-intellectualism in booktok” conversation is probably one of the
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Right now I’m sitting up in the middle of the night. I should be getting ready for bed, maybe reading a book and trying to clear my head. I definitely shouldn’t be still looking at social media on my laptop
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If I told you that a Kevin James/Alan Ritchson buddy comedy ended with our leads purposefully killing dozens of children in a fiery explosion, you’d probably look at me sideways. If I told you they were the heroes, and this
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So there’s a thing that happens when you make stuff and post it to the internet — people who’ve never directly interacted with you before feel like they know you. I don’t mean like your beloved social media mutual who
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I’ve been trying to put my feelings into words about the events of the last week. In theory, I’m a writer. That’s a thing I should be able to do easily. I’ve sat here with a blank document for the
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