I’ll Go Down With This Ship @actual-darth-tantrum - Tumblr Blog

Artists in this platform

If you have an art account in instagram, be careful with accounts that have a random name with a 1340 at the end, one of them commented in one of my photos

i was excited to be noticed and that someone wanted to share my art with credit so i clicked their link and submitted one pic, and also gave them my e-mail address, they told me that my art may not be published soon since they have to much requests, which i think was reasonable, and an hour later i received this

I got even more excited when i saw this e-mail, nothing bad passed trough my mind about it at that time, until i clicked the link and read how i’m supposed to participate

It confused me, if the magazine is advertisement based why do i have to forcefully pay suc, NON-REFUNDABLE price for submitting something that MAY BE published, specifically if their target audience are almost unknown artist and the magazine isn’t even a recognizable one. So i googled it and i found out that i wasn’t the only one:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scamart-magazine-greg-lipman#pulse-comments-comment-urn:li:comment:(article:7141867438127829137,6360082804780331008)

the same story, started with a comment in, IG then they mail you and tell you about the contest and try to sreal your money, some of them said they were sending them DMs till the point it was kind of annoyin.

Another thing i just searched was that there are a lot of instagram accounts that ended up with the number 1340 and only like 2 of them weren’t related to the magazine

why are there so many accounts for the same magazine? i don’t get it, and the magazine is the one that says that the employees only talk to you through IG or private mail, that means they are part of it, but idk it may be that someone used their identity to steal from others, anyway, i just wanted to share this and please reblog this so one else falls of into this scam, thank you for reading.

a-wizard-robe-full-of-bees

Reblog to save a life

genderqueerpositivity

(ID: a light orange background with lavender block text that reads “safe and accessible abortion is a human right.”)

Safe and accessible abortion is the right of all people.

lannistcrth

Not for the first time, Gwen. Really not for the first time.

ladycibia

@guakamaya ❤❤❤

kylos

so i’m watching an interview with john aND SUDDENLY I NOTICED THE SIGN IN THE BACKGROUND

webscene-remade

answered a scam call today and had the most bizarre conversation

webscene-remade

scam caller: hello, how are you today?

me: great!

scam caller: good. I’m calling because your IP address has been compromised. I’ll just need you to get in front of your computer so we can get your account fixed up.

me: okay! there is one thing I’m wondering, though

scam caller: what?

me: you really couldn’t think of a better lie?

scam caller:

me: like, my “IP address has been compromised.” How, exactly, does an IP address become “compromised”?

scam caller:

me: I was just wondering, is all

scam caller: why did you answer?

me:

me: what?

scam caller: if you knew this wasn’t a legitimate call, then why did you answer?

me: oh, I just though I would have some fun at your expense.

scam caller: what expense? talking is no expense to me.

me: well, you’re currently not accomplishing your goal

scam caller: my goal?

me: your goal of scamming my elderly grandmother. You’re not accomplishing that. I’d call that an expense.

scam caller: well, can I scam you?

me:

me: did you- did you ask if you can scam me?

scam caller: yes. can I scam you?

me, baffled: sure, you can try

scam caller: you need to get in front of your computer

me: yeah, that’s still a problem. I’m eating tater tots right now and I really don’t feel like getting up.

scam caller: okay. I will call you tomorrow morning, then.

me: I might not answer. My grandma definitely won’t.

scam caller: You answered today.

me: …touché?

scam caller: I will call you tomorrow. Have a good day.

marioyuri-moved-to-transkaito

Enemies to lovers, slow burn, 500K

prokopetz

Writing tip: the purpose of chapter breaks is to divide a work up according to breaks in narrative flow, not to slice a work into arbitrarily equally-sized chunks.

It’s okay to have a chapter that’s ten thousand words long followed by a chapter that’s five hundred words long.

It’s okay to have a chapter that’s one sentence long.

Heck, one of the most famous and well-regarded novels in the whole of the world’s literary canon has a chapter that contains no text at all.

The only reason you’d ever want to try to make chapters equally sized is a. you’re writing for serial publication in a printed magazine and have a fixed page count to work with, or b. your jerkass high school English teacher insisted upon it. In any other circumstance, go wild.

h-brook-writes

I have to remind myself of this continuously. I once butchered a perfectly good draft because I was worried about chapters being too long and too short, and I was trying to smush them all into 3,000 words. It totally ruined it and I’m glad I have an earlier draft from before I made those edits, because it actually completely fucked up the pacing and tone of the story.

aidenjaxwrites

oh shit this just really helped with me being stuck in itht. I was really worried about how short the chapters are on average. Thank you op!!

dukeofbookingham-deactivated202

This is also really good advice for breaking up paragraphs in a larger text (especially non-fiction). You want to start a new paragraph where there’s a new idea or a shift in the train of thought–not just because you’ve written five or ten sentences or whatever. Break your ideas down into pieces that are going to help a reader follow your logic.

thatdisasterauthor

If you want a more modern example of good use of varying chapter length, check out “Salt to the Sea.” The author uses chapter length to control pacing FANTASTICALLY well. (Warning, though, it is a very heavy historical fiction book and involves a lot of death.)