To keep myself from losing track of:
all the contests I've entered,
all the contests I've volunteered myself as a judge (or let myself be voluntold into judging),
all the books I've had to read as a contestant or as a judge,
all the deadlines,
a...
Here it is, the sidebar conversation from Dreamcatchers. At this point, I am disgusted and done. If you want the TLDR (you intellectual lazybones, you) here it is:
Someone might have been bullied into reading Morsels: Tales of Love and Passion, a sexually explicit book that has content warnings and reader advisories on all material that could be potentially triggering or too explicit for some readers.
That someone had never judged before, was so shaky about rules of grammar that she needed to ask Google if certain bits of prose were grammatically correct, and was possibly bullied into being a judge because the host was short of judges.
God, I hope my judge was not a minor... goodness knows, she certainly acted like one. Claiming to be traumatized and in tears because you've been unfairly accused of using AI to write your reviews (WHEN YOUR REVIEWS HAVE VERY OBVIOUSLY BEEN WRITTEN WITH THE HELP OF AI) is the sort of thing you'd expect from a fourteen-year-old, not a grown adult.
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Ah, yes.
"You said something that called me out for having done something that embarrasses me to admit, and I don't like being embarrassed, so I'm going to accuse you of being mean to me. Look, I'm crying, you meanie. Look what you've done to me! You have to stop this! Now!"
