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Scammers and Spammers: 5 Ridiculous Emails

September 7, 2025

It’s no accident “scammers” and “spammers” are only one letter apart. In most cases, their roles overlap. That is to say, scammers send a massive number of unsolicited email (spam) hoping a few naive people will take the bait.

Obviously, Home for Fiction also receives some such traffic. I’ve several safeguards in place, so I can’t complain, and ever since I moved Home for Fiction to a different server, which I control fully, the situation has improved further, as now I can implement more fine-tuned defenses.

Still, every now and then messages by scammers and spammers get through. And that’s fine, because they’re hilarious! So here are 5 ridiculous such emails I’ve received, for me (and you) to have a laugh with.

Spammers and Scammers. Image of Punning Walrus holding a sign reading: grumpy mode activated
Spammers and Scammers make Mr. Walrus very, very grumpy…
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Goodbye Bluehost, Good Fucking Riddance

August 27, 2025

If you missed the “new beginning” post, I recently decided to shake things up regarding Home for Fiction. By the way, this was a few months after I had already taken control of my own site, reprogramming it from scratch (on top of WordPress, of course) and getting rid of all the useless stuff. And a few days ago, I was finally able to say, Goodbye Bluehost and if I ever see you again it will be a million years too soon.

You see, after programming my own theme and moving the site away from Bluehost’s shared servers to my own virtual private server, where I have full and total control, there was still one thing left: move the homeforfiction.com domain registration away from Bluehost.

The utterly appalling overall experience inspired me to write this post. You can consider it a review coming after I spent almost eight years with that bottomless pit of deception and predatory policies. Considering the fact that Bluehost – and its super-aggressive marketing – is what attracts most newcomers to it, if I manage to contribute to even one person’s informed decision, that’d be a huge win.

goodbye bluehost. image of laughing woman
Actual footage of myself laughing demonically after I cut off the last ties I had with Bluehost.
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…and the New Beginning

June 27, 2025

Yes, Home for Fiction is back with new blog posts. The phrase of the title (… new beginning) refers to the last post published some eight months ago. Other than new blog posts, things haven’t changed. The site has been online, and I’ve been publishing Punning Walrus cartoons daily.

There are two components involved in this new beginning:

  • an ideological one; what made me stop last year and why I have decided to resume.
  • a methodological one; how I decided to resume, under what conditions.

Most readers discovering this post by accident will probably not care enough about the details. However, that’s part of the ideological foundation too, as you will discover…

grumpy cat image for new beginning post
The beginning is new, the grumpiness is the good ol’ traditional one…
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