Love Takes Work

Steven Universe side blog where I like Garnet a lot okay

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They're very cute but why steeb distance model

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✨ Lars of the Stars! ✨

Listen, if Lars of the Stars doesnt start getting more news soon I think I am going to start making the entire spinoff myself-

-> Song Credit!

-> Animation is also on Youtube!

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Wowza!!!!

Bingo Bongo

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lol whoa. I was looking a Pride post on Instagram where someone is doing illustrations of various queer leaders for a Pride Art Challenge and one of the portraits turned out to be me. (I don't know the artist personally or anything.) That is so cool

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Also this week I started revamping a short story I wrote in 2001 and almost immediately just started making it a rant about rich people.

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Mood, OP. Mood

As a teen, I wrote a fantasy story about a certain author I admired. I’m tackling it again and her kids are angry

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Haha that's awesome. My story did originally contain the phrase "overthrowing the capitalist giants." But now that has morphed into a full-scale activist on the radio ranting about how money is imaginary and the hedge fund guy she's debating is a monster

He's so whiny and keeps asking the host to make her stop picking on him and acting super offended because she said the word "ass"

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Also this week I started revamping a short story I wrote in 2001 and almost immediately just started making it a rant about rich people.

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I guess I should be glad that one of my stories is getting so much attention while I'm trying to sell it to a publisher, but as of today I have THREE statements of interest and NONE of them are official offers???

I guess at least I know the story must be good. Yes please publish my story about a girl who survives the apocalypse but is still worried about getting judged for writing fanfiction

The first nibble is just a publisher I submitted to that keeps writing me back and asking me for more materials associated with it, like, they want my bio, they want a summary and stuff. But they never did straight up say they want the story or anything about whether they're actually considering it. I just know it's several back-and-forth communications and generally publishers are too busy to bother with all that if they're not interested in the story.

The second nibble was a straight up "I like it but we have to see if it balances with the other stories in the anthology so since I can't commit yet please feel free to keep sending it out and we'll understand." Ehhhhh

And the latest nibble was basically a yes we like this story along with some specific compliments, but yeah it's an unusual length and we're not quite sure how we'll handle it so we have to talk about it and can't tell you how long that'll take so feel free to accept someone else's offer if you need to.

Honestly, this is very unusual in the writing world, in my experience. Sure I've had "held for consideration" here and there but not that often and definitely not several times at the same time for the same story.

Somebody just give me an enthusiastic yes already lol

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Oof two of my records are mislabeled on the new vinyl soundtrack. I also know I'm not the only one.

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well this scares the shit out of me

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Why are critique partners like this

Anyway I guess novella reviews are in

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So at my job we print memorial cards for funerals, right. People submit pictures of the person who passed, send some heartfelt words to go on the card, then we print and send them.

Well today I saw someone sent a eulogy that was written by AI and I've just been stuck thinking about it all day. Like imagine dying and your loved ones use an unfeeling machine to talk about how sad it is that you died coz apparently said loved ones just can't think up how your passing has affected the world lmfaooo

Like what a slap in the face to the dead 😭😭😭 the audacity of it is just CRAZY

"But it wouldn't have been any good if I wrote it :(" then get a different friend or family member to do it, or WRITE IT YOURSELF ANYWAY coz at least then it still came from a REAL PLACE and wouldn't be utterly disrespectful. Do literally anything but use AI like holy shit

Just. Actively choosing to use AI over WRITING SOMETHING FROM THE HEART FOR SOMEONE WHO DIED is mind boggling, man

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Friggin' this. Tragedy. Awful.

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The design for the new Youtooz Steven Universe blind box figure has been revealed and it will be released on May 26th

Oh my god it's Steven telling Connie he still wants to be friends in "Full Disclosure"

wow.

He has finally become a Crying Breakfast Friend!

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new su stuff from youtooz! seems to be part of a blind box set.

That's the bessssstttttt

I was pretty happy with my YouTooz purchases last time! Will definitely get whatever they put out.

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Critique partner REALLY needs to stop enabling me in all my bad ideas

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Critique partners amirite

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Does anyone else wanna be my critique partner? According to this fucking guy I'm pretty good

(I write a lot of gay shit and fantasy. Yeah other stuff too. But mostly that)

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Critique partners amirite

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Me: "Yes. I should include details, but not too many because I need to be mindful of the word count." Also me: "And here is a paragraph detailing the origin story of the main character's pants"

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Being trash and drawing low-effort pencil character backstory. I apparently cannot write cishet characters

Amber meets Ari