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Well, fuck im back.

I can't afford therapy so its time to yell into the void again.

I just dont know how the fuck to be a friend anymore. I don't know how to empathize. Everything feels hollow and self centered.

How the fuck do i help someone else when I'm barely floating above water myself

myblog-aboutnothing

ALSO

This feels pretty relevant again

I haven't yelled into the void in a LONG TIME but tonight I'm drunk and my mom ~might~ have heard me out about my views on religion and my queerness and ahhhhhh

It was so close to a CONVERSATION

Well, fuck im back.

I can't afford therapy so its time to yell into the void again.

I just dont know how the fuck to be a friend anymore. I don't know how to empathize. Everything feels hollow and self centered.

How the fuck do i help someone else when I'm barely floating above water myself

ebookporn

Local Bookstores Have A New Weapon In The Fight With Amazon

In the book industry, Amazon is Goliath, the giant who overshadows everyone else. But there’s a new David on the scene, Bookshop.org.

It doesn’t expect to topple the giant, but it has launched a weapon that could make Amazon’s shadow a little smaller, and help local bookstores fight back.

Bookshop.org, a website that went live at the end of January and is still in beta mode, is designed to be an alternative to Amazon, and to generate income for independent bookstores. And, perhaps more importantly, it seeks to give book reviewers, bloggers and publications who rely on affiliate income from “Buy now” links to Amazon a different option.

Profit from books sold through Bookshop will be split three ways, with 10% of the sale price going into a pool that will be divided among participating bookstores, 10% going to the publication that triggered the sale by linking to Bookshop.org, and 10% going to Bookshop.org to support its operations.

batmansymbol

y’all, Bookshop is amazing. i got an email about them from my local indie store, and they’re so excited about it. please oh please use this place instead of Amazon!!

with every purchase, they tell you how much you’re putting toward independent booksellers, which is fun and cute:

it’s also amazing for authors! i’ve been asked a couple times about the best way to support my books. this site is now the answer. it reports sales figures to the NYT and Bookscan, a type of tracking that helps authors hit bestseller lists. and even better, authors can set up affiliate pages, and if you buy through those pages, we get an additional 10 percent of each sale on top of royalties. this is a massive deal!!!

for reference, many royalty rates are in the 6-8 percent range. so if you buy through Bookshop author affiliate pages, authors get more than twice as much from sales of their books, with no additional cost to you.

the site is still in beta, but it also has a fun interface where you can make book lists for favorites or recommendations, sort of like goodreads (except better, because goodreads is owned by amazon).

this is my Bookshop page. if you ever buy one of my books, i pray u will do it from this site! (or from your local indie :D)

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@thebibliosphere @vampireapologist @glumshoe

kay-frost

Independent bookseller here. We fucking love Bookshop right now. They’ve increased the percentage we get from sales through affiliate links during the COVID-19 crisis, which is a really big deal for the stores that can’t or don’t run their own online shops – which, with most stores shut down, is a lot. Even those of us trying to operate remotely could really use the extra boost.

Plus you can get both eBooks and DRM-free audiobooks through Bookshop, too! They’re powered by Hummingbird (the American Bookseller Association’s new e-reader program) and Libro-dot-FM (for legal, ethical, DRM-free aubiobooks.)

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@minimalistgrufti

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Nice!

fireproofs

dream job?

i simply do not dream of labor

aleapofbread

🥺

my-darling-boy

I was going to rewatch 1931 Dracula again tonight and just as I turned it on a BAT started flying around at my window and wouldn’t go away and I’ve never seen a bat at my house before and let me tell you I’ve been so gay touched starved this quarantine I was about ready to risk letting a wild bat in my room if it meant it could possibly be one tall, Sexy vampire

my-darling-boy

Ah rabies

my-darling-boy

But what if the bat was from my secret gay vampire admirer

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123iloveyoutoo

im sorry for reblogging this again but this tag has obliterated me

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doctor-paprika

@nullum-arcanum

nullum-arcanum

Let it be known, everyone, that these are in fact our truest forms. 🖤

@doctor-paprika

lezzerlee

Ryan Coogler vs. Joss Whedon

frostyemma

this is the difference between a director who sees female characters as fully developed people with agency vs a director who just sees female characters as hot, fuckable things

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Hassidriss “Oblivion” spring 2020 couture

theveryworstthing

Stories of the woods are often stories about darkness. People vanish so easily in the spaces between the trees, and so many things stranger than a human know how to fit their claws into your foot steps so no one even knows you were followed when you don’t come home.

But this isn’t about them!

Thank goodness. How spooky would that be?

Gather round the campfire for a series of intertwined short stories depicting encounters with a perfectly normal bear at a perfectly normal cabin. There are 19 endings for 19 campers and many ways to react to catching a glimpse of this majestic beast. Do you want to practice good wildlife etiquette? Or are you gonna reach over and give this giant predator pets like a big puppy? You choose your personal level of survival instinct!

it’s bear time.

https://the-very-worst-thing.itch.io/theres-a-bear-outside

lies-and-scandal

@theveryworstthing made this lovely text based game with diverse endings, great atmosphere, and a good emphasis on bears… or bear depending on how you read it. ʕ. • o •. ʔ

It is everything we didn’t know we needed during this corona quarantine.

We approached this as something right in the middle of a let’s play and an audio book performance. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did and that you go and play it for yourself. ( ´(ｴ)ˋ )

theveryworstthing

someone on twitter yesterday proposed a let’s play of my bear to another creator and i shrugged it off because no way that would happen.

welp!

thanks for enjoying the game you two! it was very entertaining watching you suss out my questionable grammar and break your English accents whenever i wrote something like ‘y’all’. also, i loved your little chat about my ‘comfy horror’. it was really interesting to listen to and i could honestly write a whole post about my ideas around fear and comfort. good shower thoughts fuel.

can’t wait to see round 2!

theveryworstthing

the fight is harder each year.

theveryworstthing

gotta keep going because nothing ever stops.

theveryworstthing

you deserve to be new and whole.

nervosityperson

Can someone explain what’s happening besides someone being reborn?

naamahdarling

In the first comic, which is from the Warrior’s point of view, the Warrior has defeated the Monster, who jeers that there will always be another Monster to fight. The Monster dissolves into mist, leaving another tiny, baby Monster in its place. The Warrior picks up this helpless new baby Monster and carries it away. They will try again and do better this time.

In the second comic, which is from the Monster’s point of view, the Monster says that this has to happen; it can’t come with the Warrior, and there will always be another. It tells the Warrior to use what they have learned to fight. It wants to die knowing that the Warrior has hope for the future. It dissolves into mist, and the exhausted Warrior collapses. The new baby Monster comes and brings the Warrior some water in a leaf. Because we are reading this in the Monster’s voice, we realize that it is a new Monster, but also somehow, magically, the same. We also see that the Monster is not inherently evil. It is only very strong, and inevitable.

The third comic is a dialogue between the Monster and the Warrior. The Warrior is exhausted and horrifically wounded. The Monster is also horribly maimed. They are both dying. The Warrior doesn’t want to fight anymore. The Monster tells them to rest and heal. The Warrior hands over their amulet, and we see the Monster’s paw become a hand just before they both dissolve into mist. It clears, revealing that the Monster has turned into a beautiful humanoid, who says they will take care of the new baby monster the Warrior has turned into. The two have changed roles. The Warrior takes up the former Warrior’s gear and strides into the new year with the new baby Monster riding on their shoulders.

It is a beautiful, ruthless, hopeful metaphor about keeping up the good fight, year after year, even when we are worn down, and how we can still face the new year with hope and light, no matter how painful the last one was, and how it is okay to rest if we can’t fight.

naamahdarling

It’s not the new year, but things are so difficult for so many of us right now, and we are so worn down from so many fights on so many fronts, I feel like we could all use this again. Love, rest, fight, love.