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crayyola-deactivated20220827

You've heard of "humans being severely injured to reveal mechanical insides" now get ready for a far more horrifying alternative: machines and technology being damaged to reveal meaty, bloody insides

#yeah cyborg animes are fond of this and its horrifying every time #text #scifi

bovel

#meme things #dndish #wait are you telling me other people don't delegate their scissors #some tasks make scissors dull and some task need Sharp Scissors Only and if you dont separate the tasks then ALL the scissors will be dull #do you want that? is that the kind of life you want to lead?

library-mermaid-blog

Customers who get angry when I read them their total cost are so compelling to me. Take charge of your narrative, Janice. Be the hero of your own story. You are the one who is purchasing $113.67 worth of adult zen coloring books, Janice. It’s not me you hate, Janice. It’s not me.

#to the customers who ask me the price of things even when its BOLDLY printed on the label:#its ok #you dont need me there to make your decision #the price is not going to change if I say it out loud #text #book things

astraldemise

the glass weapons in skyrim are so pretty to me and i want nothing more than a glass war axe in real life but i do love how the same weapons in oblivion look like theyve been infused with mountain dew

astraldemise

love this radioactive lime green gamer juice fuckery

#oblivion #oblivion was a perfect game

frognonbinary-deactivated202412

i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage.

frognonbinary-deactivated202412

like, i didnt know about twitter pitch parties!! i didnt know about literary agents and publishers tweeting their manuscript wishlist, in hopes that some poor soul out there has written the book they really want to read and publish!! this isnt some shit you learn about in school! you really need to know the ins and outs of the writing community to be successful!

frognonbinary-deactivated202412

for anyone interested, here’s what i’ve learned so far in my quest for more writing knowledge:

1. Writer’s Market 2019 is a great place to start– it gives you a list of magazines and journals that you can send your work to depending on the genre as well as lists a shit ton of literary agents that specify what genres they represent, how you can get in contact with them and how they accept query letters. this is a book that updates every year and tbh i only bought it this year so i dont know how critical it is to have an updated version

2. do your research. mostly on literary agents because if you listed on your site that you like to represent fluffy YA novels and some asshole sends you a 80k manuscript about like…gritty viking culture, you will be severely pissed off. always go in finding someone who you know will actually like your work because they’re the ones who will try to advocate for you in getting published.

3. learn how to write a query letter. there are slightly varying formulas to how you can write an effective query letter. you’re also going to want to get feedback on your query letter because its the first thing the literary agent will read and based on how well you do it, it could be the difference between them rejecting you outright and giving your manuscript a quick read

4. unfortunately, you’re gonna want to get a twitter. Twitter is where a lot of literary agents are nowadays, and they host things like twitter pitch parties, where you pitch your manuscript in a few sentences and hashtag it with #Pitmad #Pitdark, some version of pit. a lot of literary agents and publishers will ALSO post their manuscript wishlists, which is just the kind of books they’d like to represent/publish, and they hashtag this with #MSWL (it is NOT for writers to use, only for agents/publishers)

5. connect with other writers, literary agents, publishers at book events. you will absolutely need the connections if you want to get ahead as a writer. thats just kind of the state of the world.

promptsforthesoul

#text #writing stuff #damn I knew getting twitter was gonna be vital but #I didn't know it would be THIS bad

dovahkiin-official

#me riding my bike past a raccoon on the road at 10 pm:#shit that's a fat cat #raccoons #foxes #red panda

aurorae-nox

This is probably the best thing I’ve learned from Japanese Bloodborne players.

#GOOD #video #bloodborne

archiemcphee

#ferret #spa day

tepkunset

Could you recommend me some books written by native people, please? I've never had the chance of reading anything coming directly from your community. Thank you xoxo

A few from native authors in gen:

Love Beyond Body, Space and Time - Actually wrote about this one here!

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline - A dystopia where native people are the only people capable of dreaming, and are hunted by nonnatives for bone marrow to try and regain the ability they lost. Pretty famous.

The Sixth World series by Rebecca Roanhorse - Imagine like, Supernatural except it’s featuring a Diné woman and also 100x better. That’s literally the best what I can describe Trail of Lightning, the first one.

If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth - A coming of age type story. There’s another new one by him called Give Me Some Truth too that AFAIK is similar in nature.

There There by Tommy Orange - I haven’t actually read this one (yet, I probably will at some point) so I can’t tell you anything beyond that I’ve heard a lot of praise.

Some from my community specifically, not fiction but worth it:

The Poems of Rita Joe, Songs of Eskasoni, Lnu and Indians We’re Called, and Songs of Rita Joe by Rita Joe - One of our most famous and cherished icons, Rita Joe is our Poet Laureate. If you’re Canadian you’ve probably already seen one or two of her writings and might not even know it; her most famous is ‘I Lost My Talk.’ If you’re not big enough on poetry to purchase full books you can probably find some misc writings online.

We Were Not The Savages by Dan Paul - Best book on British colonialism of Northeastern North America you could ever read. Should be mandatory in schools as far as I’m concerned.

Enjoy!

#book things #native american #there there is a bestseller so that's cool