switched to a has_many :through, now User can't be blank error

I just changed from a normal has_many :blogs, belongs_to :user relationship to a has_many through relationship. I created a new model (subscription) and belongs_to'd it both blog and user, and set up their has_many :subscriptions and their respective through association. However, now when I go to create a new blog, I keep getting a "User can't be blank" error. In my blog's create action, I'm doing:

current_user.blogs.create

Is that the problem? Somehow the current_user's id isn't matching up to the user_id column in the subscriptions model? It mapped correctly before. I thought I might not have to pass in the current user, so I tried:

Blog.create

but I got the same error, "User can't be blank". I then thought maybe I had to allow its attr_accessible for some strange reason, but still no dice. What am I doing wrong? Big thanks in advance.