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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 24, 2014 - 9:46am

Hey gang -

It's your friendly neighborhood Defender here.  Or rather, the artist formerly known as Defender of the People. 

Yes, it's true, I'm (un)officially (actually, it's official, I just wanted to throw around the old branding one more time) stepping down as Defender of the People here at LitReactor.  I've loved you all, to a point, and I hope you've loved me back, you know, to a point.  But as it is with many relationships, LitReactor and I made great friends, but terrible lovers. 

I don't know who will be replacing me, but I have no doubt it will be someone fabulous who has the right stuff to keep this place thriving.  And I'll still be around, just back to my former glory as a community member. 

I've had lots of fun doing this.  Hey, remember that one time I banned some people?  And another time I wrote an article about stuff.  And when I edited your posts?  Yeah, it was all pretty sweet.  But it's time to pass the torch. 

I'll keep you up to date on any future projects. 

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ReneeAPickup from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig March 24, 2014 - 10:08am

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XyZy from New York City is reading Seveneves and Animal Money March 24, 2014 - 12:40pm

 

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Flaminia Ferina from Umbria is reading stuff March 24, 2014 - 1:58pm

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voodoo_em from England is reading All the books by Ira Levin March 25, 2014 - 2:54am

:(

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SamaLamaWama from Dallas is reading Something Wicked This Way Comes March 25, 2014 - 8:18am

I don't have any cool pictures or slick clips, but please know you'll be missed. I've appreciated your efforts to keep everyone engaged and playing nicely. It was a really fun ride with you as our guide and defender.

It sucks the way this went down. You deserved better. Bad, Litreactor. Bad!

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Mess_Jess from Sydney, Australia, living in Toronto, Canada is reading Perfect by Rachael Joyce March 25, 2014 - 12:38pm

Thanks for being our Defender, you were pretty damn fantastic in the role. :)

Onwards and upwards! That IS the case, not a "sucks the way this went down" case, yes?

 

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Mess_Jess from Sydney, Australia, living in Toronto, Canada is reading Perfect by Rachael Joyce March 25, 2014 - 12:39pm

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 25, 2014 - 1:10pm

Simply a case of me not doing this job anymore.  :) 

Thanks for the well wishes and sweet thoughts, everyone. 

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Linda from Sweden is reading Fearful Symmetries March 25, 2014 - 1:20pm

Thank you, Avery. You have served this community well, but (and not to be melodramatic or anything):

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Dwayne from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updated March 25, 2014 - 1:54pm

Best of luck.

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Jack Campbell Jr. from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp Meyer March 25, 2014 - 2:30pm

Goodnight...and good luck.

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like March 25, 2014 - 5:18pm

Masterful use of autoplay.

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justwords from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby March 25, 2014 - 7:07pm

Even though I've been on this site for a few weeks, I look forward to your posts.

Let your light shine, girl!

 

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Covewriter from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & Sons March 25, 2014 - 7:28pm

Avery -- You have been a spectacular defender! You will still be on the site, right? You aren't  going away from us totally? I admire you, your writing and your defending, especially your defending. 

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MattF from Tokyo is reading Borges' Collected Fictions March 26, 2014 - 9:53pm

If the site had any real business savvy, they'd have found an excuse to get you on the payroll a long time ago.

Though if you had any real business savvy, you'd have quit trying to organize cool community-centric writing activities, and started peddling reengineered magazine content from salon.com a long time ago.

Either way, now we just have to get rid of the Utah fella... 

Cheers.

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Matt from New Zealand is reading This is how you lose her by Junot Diaz March 27, 2014 - 1:46am

Defender or not, I'll always be on Team Avery.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry March 27, 2014 - 10:59am

But it appears that #teamUtah is killing it now.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 27, 2014 - 11:19am

YES!  Team Avery 4 Life!  I'd like to see some wristbands, please.

@MattF - I have to admit, that was pretty funny. 

 

 

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly March 27, 2014 - 5:20pm

 

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly March 27, 2014 - 5:21pm

Also, what MattF said.

 

Exactly.

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Dwayne from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updated March 27, 2014 - 8:25pm

http://twilightsaga.wikia.com/wiki/File:TYLERS_VAN!.jpg

I read Twilight last year as part of my 'read popular things I'd never otherwise read project' and it was as bad as everyone said.  Worse.  But it did lead me to find this.

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Jonathan Riley from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland March 27, 2014 - 9:20pm

Aw, Damn. I miss you already!

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voodoo_em from England is reading All the books by Ira Levin March 28, 2014 - 2:57am

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 28, 2014 - 8:34am

^^ Life Complete ^^

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly March 28, 2014 - 6:53pm

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closure from Australia is reading The Ghormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake March 31, 2014 - 7:43am

Hi Avery. Others have said true things, but for me, you made WAR and a bunch of other cool stuff work smoothly when it's actually like herding cats. Plus, despite some fairly serious trash talking (which I suspect is all farce, possibly ghostwritten), you seem pretty damn nice.

I salute you.

Thanks for defending.

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter April 1, 2014 - 5:06am

Time for Perfectly Natural 2!

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drea from Rural Alberta, Canada is reading between the lines April 1, 2014 - 5:08am

Let the record show, I always loved you and you will be sorely missed. 

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Species84 from Fluidic space is reading UNIX a standard operating system (1985) by Austen & Thomassen April 3, 2014 - 4:02am

Thanx for all the good work

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leah_beth from New Jersey - now in Charleston, SC is reading five different books at once. April 3, 2014 - 4:22am

Love you, Avery!!!!! I'd say I miss you but we're already friends everywhere else, so I'll still get to see you and that thought makes me HAPPYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Strange Photon from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyrics April 3, 2014 - 1:51pm

Didn't I have a comment posted here??? Who the fuck censored it???

 

 

;)

 

 

That was me.  XOXOXO, 

- Utah