JC Alexandre Writes

The micro-blog of JC Alexandre, author of The Light Prince fantasy series.

[delsicle]

I’m not sure if this will be helpful to anyone, but you literally do not have to be a good writer to write and post fan fiction. Yes you will naturally get better at writing and finding your voice the more you do it but you do not have to be or become a professional level writer to enjoy writing and sharing fics. It’s common to hear people praise fic writers by saying their work is better than published books, and while I think this comes from a good place, that’s not the norm or expectation. There is also a sentiment that fic writing is “good practice” for becoming a better writer or doing something else later, but if fic is the only creative writing you ever do that is literally okay. Your technical skill does not mean you cannot have fun and build community with your writing, or that other people cannot love and find meaning in your work.

[jcalexandrewrites]

"Boy, I ought to cheer myself up and make myself feel better about the world by seeing what's trending in #politics!"

No One Ever

[jcalexandrewrites]

A Message to my Fellow Human Beings

Fix Your Hearts or Die!

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Harry Potter is Dead to Me (and So is It’s Author)

Why I stand by my decision to never cite Harry Potter as a literary influence.

Several years ago, I wrote a blog post about my relationship with the Harry Potter books and their author.

I explained that, despite reading the books as a kid, and despite them inspiring me to read and write, I did not consider them a literary influence for my own work. I chalked up this reason to the transphobic remarks the author had made and how those remarks were weaponized to justify oppression against transgender people.

Well, She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and her bigotry has only gotten worse. Much worse!

At this point, I don’t need to go into detail about She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and her descent into the whirlpool of anti-trans bigotry. Contrapoints on Youtube has made two videos (here and here) on the subject.

I also don’t need to go into detail about the Harry Potter books and how many elements have not aged well, especially considering their author’s unmasked bigotry. Shaun on YouTube likewise made an excellent video on the subject.

Since my original blog post, She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has made friends with plenty of other “gender critical” (read: anti-trans) activists. Such “lovely” folks include Lisa Morgan (who quoted Adolf Hitler during a speech at an anti-trans rally), Posie Parker (who recommended that armed men patrol women’s bathrooms in search of trans people using them), and Helen Joyce (a gender critical author who said she wanted to “reduce” the number of trans people).

Other notable offenses include praising “theocratic fascist” Matt Walsh and his anti-trans documentary “What is a Woman?”, liking and sharing tweets from Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account infamous for inspiring threats against children’s hospitals, and “accidentally” sending transphobic profanity to a nine-year-old girl.

I would go on, but for this post, I want to share two recent examples of her open contempt for queer people which, not only cemented my decision to never cite her or her work as a literary influence, but also made me ashamed of ever liking (or even reading) her work to begin with.

CLICK HERE to read the full blog post.

[jcalexandrewrites]

This is Not Normal! Justice for Abrego Garcia!

An illegal deportation is not a matter of left or right, but right or wrong.

When I started my website, I promised myself I wouldn’t write about politics. I wanted my site to be an inclusive space open to everyone regardless of who they are or who they voted for. No sense scaring off any potential readers with political diatribes.

Well, looks like I’m breaking that promise. I don’t normally write about politics. But then again, these are not normal times.

Chances are you’ve heard about Abrego Garcia. He is a Maryland man with a wife and three kids. Originally, he lived in El Salvador before threats from local gangs forced him and his family to immigrate to America.

Despite arriving to the country “illegally”, he had been granted “withholding of removal” status (similar to asylum), which allowed him to continue residing in America due to the threats of violence he and his family faces from gangs in his home country.

On March 15, 2025, Garcia was deported from America and sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. He was imprisoned without trial and without being charged with or convicted of a crime in either country. It was later revealed that he was “mistakenly” deported due to an “an administrative error.”

Nearly one month later, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Garcia had been deported illegally and that the current administration should “facilitate” his return. However, earlier this week, President Donald Trump explicitly stated he had no intentions of bringing Garcia back to America.

As I said earlier, I normally do not blog about politics. But then, to me, this is not a matter of mere politics. This is not a matter of left or right, liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. This is a matter of right and wrong. And our President is clearly in the wrong.

CLICK HERE to read full blog post

[jcalexandrewrites]

Dear RFK Jr.: Shut the F*** Up!

An open letter from an autistic person who writes poems and pays taxes.

Dear Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,

I am not writing this blog plot under any pretense you’ll actually read it. I am writing this post as an open letter because it’s the best way for me to respond to the remarks you recently made about autism. And your remarks? Well, as an autistic person, I have a lot to say in response to them.

Last Wednesday, you hosted a press conference where you reacted to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That study revealed autism rates in children have increased exponentially, from 1 in 36 children in 2020 to 1 in 31 in 2022.

You referred to this increase in autism rates as an “epidemic.” Now that would be problematic in and of itself, but what you said about people with autism proved to be far more alarming:

“These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go on a date. [And] many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”

Sir, as a person with autism, and with all due respect, shut the f*** up!

Click here to read full blog post here.

[melodicwriter]

[purpleisnotacolor]

a lot of people on tumblr and Ao3 seem to think Christianity (mainly Catholicism) is just a cool and sexy esthetic narrative force to make your characters guilty and repressed and I'm just like...

hey what about the grace? the grace of God? the grace God gave specifically so we wouldn't need to be guilty and repressed? God's grace? that grace? do they have that grace?

[write-on-world]

[ghoul-icious]

Correction:

[humblewonderer]

You're not a kind person unless you can be kind to mean people btw

[blessthosewhocurseyou]

Reminds me of this passage

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 5:43-46 NKJV

It's easy to be kind and loving when others do it first. It's difficult to be kind and loving always, even when others are hateful and mean

[brothermouse]

"Mormons aren't Christian because -" yeah, yeah, whatever, listen, have you ever thought about why it's so important to you to define groups of people as either "Christian" or "Not Christian"?

Because I been looking at this here history book and, hoo boy, that kind of categorization of people is usually used as an excuse from one group to do some very unchristian things to other group.

The only reason you can ethically be concerned about what category someone else's faith falls under is if you're trying to organize your bookshelf and you need to figure out where to put your books about them.

Outside of academia, the "are they really Christian" question is the tool of bigots.

[astruma2]

[jcalexandrewrites]

Responding to Atheists: “People do not need a God to be morally good”

Atheist Assertion: People can be good without believing in God. Morality can come from human empathy, reasoning, and social rules that help us live together peacefully.

Even without God, people can understand what is right and wrong. Different cultures have their own moral systems, showing that goodness doesn't always depend on religion.

Response: What is morally good? And why? While it is possible for individuals to behave "morally" without belief in God, the foundation of objective morality is rooted in the character of God.

Without a transcendent source, morality becomes subjective and relative, lacking a universal standard. Making it impossible to be truly & objectively morally good without God.

- from Trying to Understand Christianity on Facebook.

[chelledoggo]

if there was a club exclusively for nuns who receive direct messages from God, would it be a…

nun-prophet organization?

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[teabluestripey]

Fuck nazis. Taxes are great actually. The public service should be valued. Unemployed people deserve adequate financial support. Regulation saves lives and money. Focus on prevention not punishment.

You should care about other people.

[jcalexandrewrites]

"You should care about other people," they said as they stole your wallet and gave your money to someone else. 😒

[jcalexandrewrites]

Look, I'm sorry. But I live in a country where I pay more in taxes than folks who are richer than me and mostly stow their savings in some offshore bank account. And what do I get for it? Crumbling infrastructure. Failing schools. Massively subsidized corporations and miliary industrial complexes? If taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society, well *motions to everything* doesn't look like society is very civilized, now does it.

[jcalexandrewrites]

For the record, I actually an a bit of a social democrat who supports stuff like basic income and universal healthcare. But you can't live in America and pretend our taxes are actually spent in the best interests of the average American. Especially when many end up paying more in taxes than people who should pay more. And especially when our taxes don't really do much of anything.

[jcalexandrewrites]

Aaaaaand now I am muting this thread because I am sure it is going to cause a massive 💩 storm.

[teabluestripey]

Fuck nazis. Taxes are great actually. The public service should be valued. Unemployed people deserve adequate financial support. Regulation saves lives and money. Focus on prevention not punishment.

You should care about other people.

[jcalexandrewrites]

"You should care about other people," they said as they stole your wallet and gave your money to someone else. 😒

[jcalexandrewrites]

Look, I'm sorry. But I live in a country where I pay more in taxes than folks who are richer than me and mostly stow their savings in some offshore bank account. And what do I get for it? Crumbling infrastructure. Failing schools. Massively subsidized corporations and miliary industrial complexes? If taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society, well *motions to everything* doesn't look like society is very civilized, now does it.

[jcalexandrewrites]

For the record, I actually an a bit of a social democrat who supports stuff like basic income and universal healthcare. But you can't live in America and pretend our taxes are actually spent in the best interests of the average American. Especially when many end up paying more in taxes than people who should pay more. And especially when our taxes don't really do much of anything.

[teabluestripey]

Fuck nazis. Taxes are great actually. The public service should be valued. Unemployed people deserve adequate financial support. Regulation saves lives and money. Focus on prevention not punishment.

You should care about other people.

[jcalexandrewrites]

"You should care about other people," they said as they stole your wallet and gave your money to someone else. 😒

[jcalexandrewrites]

Look, I'm sorry. But I live in a country where I pay more in taxes than folks who are richer than me and mostly stow their savings in some offshore bank account. And what do I get for it? Crumbling infrastructure. Failing schools. Massively subsidized corporations and miliary industrial complexes? If taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society, well *motions to everything* doesn't look like society is very civilized, now does it.