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I've Joined The Creator Accountability Network

I've joined the Creator Accountability Network (CAN) as a provisionally credentialed creator! The provisional period is three months long, and at the end of that time I'll be fully credentialed if nothing disqualifying comes to light.  I'll be excerpting details from their website as the best way to explain what this is and what it means for me as a content creator and for you as readers and audience members. The short version is that I've undergone ethics training as part of the credentialing process, and that if you feel my actions have harmed you (now or in the future), you can report harassment, abuse, or other harm to CAN. Quotes in the rest of this post are from CAN's website as of August 16th, 2025. Here's the long version: From CAN's mission and purpose statements:  "The Creator Accountability Network empowers Community Members to build trust with Content Creators through ethical training and credentialing, victim-centered reporting of unethical...

Animorphs Book 9: The Secret by K. A. Applegate

Cassie works through the tension between her ideals and the reality of war with the Yeerks, wrestling with the cost of survival for the human, animal, and alien bystanders. The nightmares are getting worse for everyone.

Each of the Animorphs have their own sense of morality and that starts to really stand out in this second round of perspectives. Cassie has the most empathy for the animals caught in the various crossfires and it's usually in her books that the most attention is paid to the Controllers who are hurt by their fight. The thing I don't understand is the decision to have this cover art feature a wolf when skunks feature WAY more prominently in this one.

A girl (Cassie) turns into a wolf

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