[runjake]

Based on?

I don’t know Aella, so I cannot speak to the comfortability of her existence, but I’d assume her attractiveness and circumstances and her public persona bring fairly unique challenges (eg. stalkers) that I cannot fathom.

My own hunch is that I probably lead a far more comfortable existence than her, but I’m only supposing.

[honkdaddy]

I mean she openly admits to having never had a real employer, yet owns a house in the Bay and has an Amazon wishlist which her fans never allows to stay full for long. I've got total respect for online sex work as a means to make money, but I won't pretend it's not a completely different experience from having a boss, paycheque, and cubicle.

She also, rather famously, created a 'Date Me' survey in which thousands (yes, thousands) of men wrote responses about why they'd be a good enough partner/provider for her. I don't know anyone else, even other beautiful women, who get to experience dating in a way that puts them on a pedestal.

Finally, she has a series about how she was able to trip acid, provided to her for free, multiple times a week, for over a year. To me, this sounds like a pretty comfortable existence. I don't doubt she gets her fair share of unsavory messages, or even the odd in-person encounter, but I would trade my life for hers in a heartbeat.

[PaulHoule]

LMAO. I was going to say you were wrong to say she was a "good author".

I never read the post "Aella takes LSD" because the title is cringeworthy enough. People have been taking LSD since 1943 but every day somebody from the bay area writes something obnoxious that is more an exercise in personal branding than an earnest addition to a large literature.

Also the acid doesn't seem like particularly outrageous simping. Ordinary people can get acid for $5 a hit or so in most places in the U.S. and that seems like an extraordinary value. In the 1990s I knew people who'd gotten $35 sheets (100 doses, albeit weak in that time frame) in the bay area which has long been a distribution center for the stuff.

[runjake]

Noted. Thanks for taking time to reply.