Shepherd: You are going to lawyer the fuck up and scrupulously follow the advice of said lawyer and never speak to anyone in government or law enforcement without legal advice

Could @tkingfisher.bsky.social and @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com end up testifying before an anti-communist Senate subcommittee? Would @kbspangler.com then explode?

The Hugos stuff has gotten so bad that I've stopped trying to explain it to normals.

Me, on the witness stand: “So there’s this species of beetle, right, and this frog…”

WHAT DO WE SAY IF SOMEONE TRIES TO GET US ON THE WITNESS STAND, URSULA

WHY WON'T YOU LET URSULA BE GREAT?

YOU HAVE TO STAY OUT OF FEDERAL PRISON TO BE GREAT

Can they really send me to prison for animal facts?

THEY CAN CERTAINLY SEND YOU TO FEDERAL PRISON FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE WHICH IS WHY YOU WILL NOT BE TESTIFYING UNLESS YOUR LAWYER ADVISES YOU TO DO SO

With the understanding that a lawyer is always advisable, I feel like if all those GOP dudes didn’t get hit with obstruction of justice for lying, me blathering about the frog and the beetle should be fine.

You are not them.

You are going to lawyer the fuck up and scrupulously follow the advice of said lawyer and never speak to anyone in government or law enforcement without legal advice

You are not, and I cannot stress this enough, going to "just explain" anything and you are not going to volunteer to fill out any forms just to see what they look like.

YOU’RE NOT MY REAL DAD

I HAVE HIS PHONE NUMBER I WILL GET POWER OF DADTORNEY FOR THIS

…nuts.

We bonded over our love of goats, REMEMBER

I long for the days when it was all oxen and Confederate statues

O the peaceful times when my biggest worry was getting punched by a neo-nazi and not keeping Ursula out of federal prison

We never appreciate what we have until it’s gone.

Absolutely with Shep here, we must protect Ursula at all costs, get the dads and even daddies involved if we must

how the tables have turned!

Anymore.

SHE DIDN'T KNOW ME WHEN SHE VOLUNTEERED TO FILL OUT HER OWN POLICE REPORT

I got this reference.

This right here is proof that Shep is a great friend

Even if they don't get any asshole ideas about charging authors who speak intemperately to the committee, my new cautionary tale for talking to Congress would be Claudine Gay

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