the concept of orbit is just so wild to me. like…. this bitch keeps falling towards a bigger body of mass and just like… misses. constantly. kinda shit aim tbh
One thing I didn’t expect from my new worldbuilding book is the author, roughly my dad’s age, including his opinions on furries
I’m liking this guy more and more
I have a new favorite author.
0.0 what’s the book OP?
@mageless ok admittedly I cheated a bit; the screenshots are from three separate books by the same author, Mark Rosenfelder (I’m reading them all at once). The first one is from The Planet Construction Kit, the second - from The Language Construction Kit, and the third - from The Conlanger’s Lexipedia. Basically I’m a hopeless nerd but I’ve these are actually quite accessible even without prior linguistic/worldbuilding knowledge!
Been letting go of people without necessarily villainizing them. I don’t need to tell myself “they’re a bad person” “don’t know how to handle my emotions” “have xyz negative traits” “a total asshole without any redeeming qualities” to be able to arrive at the conclusion that maybe that certain person would not be a very healthy addition to my life. Idk growing up and maturing has come w seeing other people not though the lens of “u bad me good,” but more so through “we’re all imperfect in our own ways, and I can still acknowledge the good in you even as I decide it’s best to part ways.” People will always be tricky to navigate, it’s just a matter of asking yourself “do I have the capacity or time for this? Is this worth it?” and the answer can still be no even if the person you’re removing from your life isn’t an evil caricature of who they actually are
I find it personally offensive how many bad writers can get published so easily.
I used to find it reassuring, like, “Haha, wow, if THIS can get published…” but now I take it to mean “It doesn’t matter if your book is good or not, all that matters is if you’re in the right social circles (and you’re not)”
As someone who used to acquire for an indie publisher … it sucks on the other end, too. We don’t WANT to work on shitty books with shitty writing. But bossman wants to make money, and shitty writer has marketing clout/knows the right people/is already published (even if it’s only online/ebook).
I used to read the most AMAZING submissions I’d be forced to pass on. Like, there was one, a literary fantasy featuring a bi deaf protagonist who learns how to navigate a spectrum of relationships while discovering herself (I don’t want to give too many details out of respect to the author/don’t want her concept stolen) and I couldn’t get it acquired no matter how thorough my proposal and marketing plan was because she was a debut author with fewer than 10k Twitter followers and we needed that advance money for another Fifty Shades knockoff (this was a few years ago lol).
BUT PLEASE DON’T LET THAT DISCOURAGE YOU! If you’re a writer, and you’re trying to get published, don’t give up!! If your first novel isn’t getting traction with either a house or agency, publish it yourself on amazon. Get that “debut” moniker away from your name. Prove you can sell your shit and keep working.
A good agent will work with you to come up with a marketing/publicity proposal. That will be huge in getting houses to notice your work - makes the acquisitions team’s job easier as they can point to it and tell bossman “we have a plan”. Look online for titles that have high ratings/are on the NYT list that can be compared to yours. That helps give acquisitions an idea of what they’re getting into - and how to represent your book to their ED/publisher.
A good agent will also help you target editors/imprints whose lists match your book, increasing your odds of getting positive feedback or even constructive feedback. If I had a submission that just wasn’t quite ready for publication, I’d give detailed notes of what I wanted and ask them to revise and resubmit.
Keep writing! Even if a book isn’t picked up, start your next. It’s so attractive to see an author with several unpublished works ready to be polished if you already like the work that’s submitted. And more writing only refines your skills.
Yes, bad writers get published. And too many good writers, even when published, go unrecognized (if you like southern gothic fiction a la Where the Crawdads Sing, go read The Past is Never, which came out four months earlier and got NO national attention but is BEAUTIFUL). Be such a good writer that you break those odds.
Because you can. I’ve read your stuff on Tumblr. On Ao3. On Fanfiction.net. On Wattpad. You can do it.
Won’t lie, if I were having a rough time and the office himbos brought me mac and cheese I would be cured.
Small, clumsy kindnesses, earnestly given, are more healing than you would believe. More adults should be willing to show the tender caring that a little kid expresses when they say, “You looked sad, so I brought you a rock.”
you can drop donations for the odawa first nations at 815 st laurent blvd in ottawa
you can drop off food donations for mitchikanibikok inik at the ramada plaza in gatineau; you can also email info/@/health.rapidlake.com with mutual aid donations. please note that the maniwaki native friendship center is now closed to donations
i’ll update this as i find more fundraising initiatives and please free to share your own. reblogs with anything than sharing resources/mutual aid requests/fundraising opportunities get blocked.
Donations for evacuees from Little Red River Cree Nation can be sent by e transfer to Roseann@lrrcn.ab.ca (ref # foxlakedonation15043)
And a (nation approved) gofund me has been set up:
Part of my reserve burnt down, including my grandmother’s home and my workplace. No lives were lost but we are recovering. Please consider donating if you can!
you’ve got to love how Suzanne Collins gave Katniss and Peeta the character goals of “keep Prim safe” and “stay myself” and then just flatly denied them both
and of course, in a way, that’s the whole point: when you return home, at the end of it all, having survived a rebellion you started, and having lost everyone and everything you had before in the crossfire … when you have to look that person in the eyes, survivor’s guilt deep in your gut, and think “I did this for you, didn’t I? … so what do we do now?”
the answer, the only thing you can do, stubborn wildflowers amongst the ash: grow
[“A basic premise of straight culture is the idea that gendered bodies, especially women’s bodies, require purification and modification to be desirable—shaving, perfuming, toning, refining, shrinking, enlarging, and antiaging. But in queer spaces, it is often precisely the hairy, sweaty, dirty, smelly, or unkempt gendered body that is most beloved. I recall the first time I entered a gay men’s sex shop, in the 1990s in the Castro district of San Francisco, and encountered a barrel full of lightly stained and dingy-looking “used jock straps” for sale. It was my introduction to the fact that there were people in the world who desired men’s bodies so much that they wanted deep, intimate, and seemingly unconditional contact with them—even and especially the parts of men’s bodies that straight women seemed to want to avoid.
Most straight women I knew, no doubt due to their socialization as girls and women, appreciated men’s bodies for their sexual functionality but not as a site of objectification that they were excited to dive into and explore—to smell, taste, or penetrate. Similarly, I have been to dozens of dyke strip shows, burlesque shows, drag-king shows, and sex shows in which women’s armpit hair and leg hair and facial hair or their body fat or their genderqueer bodies have been precisely the objects of the audience’s collective lust. Fat bodies and hairy bodies are also staples of queer dyke porn, not relegated to a fetish category. In other words, queer desire is marked by a lustful appreciation for even those parts of men’s and women’s bodies that have been degraded by straight culture. Like a food adventurer who delights in those parts of the animal or plant deemed undesirable by the narrowing of mainstream tastes, queer people’s desire for the full animal has been less constrained. Recognizing this suggests that gay men may have a deeper or more comprehensive appreciation for men’s bodies than do straight women, just as lesbians’ lust for women is arguably more expansive and forgiving than straight men’s. But most importantly, because queer circuits of desire do not rely on the erotic encounter of “opposites” embedded in a broader culture of gendered acrimony and alienation, queer lust need not reconcile a conflict between wanting to fuck and generally disliking one’s fuckable population.”]
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