Sera Maddox Drake

Heyy! Do you have Discord, by any chance? I want to hold a contest soon, and I would like you to be one of the judges! I'm just collecting some lovely gems on the way, lol!
          
          https://discord.gg/6AUD8NJx

Hello! I wanted to thank you for taking an interest in the Aurelian Legacy, and adding it to your reading list. I hope you enjoy Riley’s spooky adventures in Aurelia as much as I did writing them. If you have any constructive feedback I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks! :)

Wattpad's Poetry ambassadors just added Songs Of Summer, Discovered In Autumn to their Free Verse list.  
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/list/1565075196

I have now seen this person called out as a plagiarist by several reliable Wattpadians.
          
          If the person is stupid enough to claim anything I've written as their own work, they get what ridicule they deserve. Same goes if they're stupid enough to claim art I've made as their own. 
          
          If you see anything of yours in this "author's" inventory, meanwhile, report the plagiarism to Wattpad. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/user/NightinglE_in_DarK

Given the surprisingly high number of Wattpadians who are checking out which books I have officially declared COOL - 
          
          I'll write real reviews later, when I'm up to it. Substantial reviews. 
          
          Reviews that give potential readers an idea what the books I'm plugging are actually about. 
          
          Reviews that are grammatically written and don't look like Mom's SPAGetti. 
          
          I promise.

There are six books in my shout-out book, so far, and they have been scheduled for automatic publication at fifteen-minute intervals starting at 11 pm EST. 
          
          To anyone who is wondering if they can apply for a listing, the answer is no. 
          
          I almost never shout out books or authors. When I do provide a shout-out, it's spontaneous on my part. I want it to stay that way. 
          
          I will say this much: if your book has had hundreds of thousands of views or has won a Watty, it won't get a shout-out. You don't need my limited influence. Wattpad is already shouting you out. 
          
          Also, I will not be shouting out books that can only be viewed by the spending of Wattpad coins. I have no Wattpad coins to spend.
          
          For now, the listed books have no reviews attached. That will change at some point when I have more energy and time.  
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/386571428-so-cool-random-books-i-have-read-and-loved

I have very, very mixed feelings about mpreg stories, omegaverse or otherwise. 
          
          Nearly all male impregnation stories I've read fetishize the pregnancy. They treat it as a sort of novelty; they treat the impregnated male as an object of lust and pity, and often, disgust. 
          
          Not unlike the way transgender men and masculine-presenting nonbinary people are treated when they get pregnant. 
          
          As a transgender person, I take exception to that. (In my case, because I present femme, I did not face disgust and ridicule, or fetishization of my body parts - merely erasure. If I had a dime for everyone who insisted on calling me a woman even after I corrected them, I'd be able to pay off my house-sized student loans).
          
          So it is indeed an unexpected pleasure when I encounter a story that treats pregnant men as simply a matter of fact. Something that just happens. 
          
          In the case of this story, the omega's status in the world also seems to be a metaphor for other forms of oppression. The story, you see, is set in the Deep South during the segregation era, and the alpha male who fathers children with a Black omega is white...
          
          Some parts of the story had me on the verge of tears near the end. 
          
          Tears of rage. 
          
          I almost never shout out authors, but I'm making an exception. Wattpadians, you need to read _Bound in Mud_ by @MoVenus2 - it's well-written, has fantastic characterization, and it screams when it needs to. 
          
          You'll see what I mean by that last remark when you read the book. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/362403180-bound-in-mud-omegaverse-mxm

It took me a total of fifteen hours - four last night, eleven today - but I managed to get my list of followed accounts down from 992 to 564. 
          
          Nearly all the accounts that I purged were "zombie" accounts that had been inactive for months. Also purged: several "bot fly" accounts and a handful of accounts that were clearly being used purely for roleplay and social nonsense.
          (Look, if I want to chitchat, I have Discord and Facebook for that. Wattpad is a platform for content creation and sharing. Yes, I do some socializing here, but it's with other writers and artists, and when we're not having side discussions, we're talking about business matters, such as how to market our work. I have zero interest in burn/expose books, gossip, and role-play).  
          
          Oh, and I also purged accounts of people who had no published works, no public book lists, no public conversations, but thousands of followers. 
          
          Purged and blocked those accounts. Why? Because those accounts are suspicious AF. They scream "generated to attack other Wattpad authors." I don't need to follow burn accounts. 
          
          Anyway, my followed account number is down to a manageable level. That was a lot of work. I hope I don't have to do that again for a long time. 
          
          Although it's amazing how many people seem to create accounts on Wattpad only to abandon them after three or four months...
          
          Contest hosts/judges, book reviewers, and other people I follow as payment, if I somehow accidentally unfollowed you when I was purging zombies, bot flies, teeny-boppers, and trolls,  please let me know, so I can follow you back again.

Ancilla is in the Reader's Choice Awards - if you read Ancilla and liked it, please give it a vote.
          
          You do not need to be a contestant or otherwise participating in this contest to vote in the Reader's Choice category. 
          
          You can vote for as many books as you like, so long as they are not your own. :)
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1502298046-the-autumn-diaries-a-mini-awards-%F0%9F%8D%81-let-the-voting

It took me about four hours to prune my list of people/communities followed to about 800. I'm going to try to get it down to 500 or 600 tomorrow. So far, nearly all the accounts I've unfollowed have been inactive for several months or longer. It's amazing to me how many zombie accounts I've been following.
          
          A few of the people I unfollowed were active, but appeared to be using Wattpad to socialize rather than publish writing or art. 
          
          I am trying to not unfollow anybody who I follow as payment for contest entry or services rendered, but names sometimes get changed, things sometimes happen... If I have unfollowed anybody who I was supposed to be following as payment, please leave a message here, telling me what contest or review shop or service it was for, and what you were judging or critiquing.