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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 18: The Decision by K. A. Applegate

Wherein Ax discovers that not all traitors are Controllers, and commits to Jake as his Prince. Plus cool Z-space stuff, the Leerans, and cinnamon buns. This series is directly responsible for my love of Cinnabon, as I didn't frequent the mall.

This is a turning point where Ax goes from temporarily aligned with the humans until he can leave, to accepting them as his own. I really love how this is handled, especially since this paradigm shift would take a long time even if little moments can be responsible for large chunks of it. The Z-space theory is great and the snapback effect give a nice sense of urgency to the pacing.

A blue centaur-like alien (Aximili) turns into a mosquito

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