Bubble Baths and Grunge Music

My birth year starts with '19'. Pots and Pansexual. She/They/Any. Fan and Original Fiction Writer. Scientist, always fine. Shipper of many ships. Occassional DnD player and even more occassional DM. Player of video games (badly). Check out my writing on Ao3 or in my 'shameless self promotion' tag, or find me: Kuki. I also have a twitter, @kukiwrites.

[segamascott]

[capacity2]

He’s so selfish. She’s generous enough to put food on the table but he cant give her some cake? All these men do is take take take

[cryptotheism]

The Romans were for real naming their kids shit like Boy #2

[lemilianposts]

[rohirric-hunter]

I met someone at church two weeks ago who I had never spoken to before but she walked up to me and handed me a baby (FABULOUS red hair on that child), and said, "Have you met my youngest, Septus?"

And at first my only reaction was, "That's an odd name," so I asked, "Oh, why did you call him that?"

And she said to me, "Oh, he's my seventh."

And while I was pondering this information and its implications, dear reader, she did indeed turn away, look a nearby young woman dead in the eye, and say, "Prima, have you seen Trinity?"

[rohirric-hunter]

Big news: the week before last I met Prima, Trinity, and Setpus's brother Quintus

[rohirric-hunter]

Recently had a run in with Hectare. She's very cute. Very bad at staying quiet during church

[gpedia]

someone actually named her daughter hectare

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

When she's older, she's gonna get so many "huge tracts of land" jokes.

[betweenheroesandvillains]

petition to make Americans google “euro” before writing fic

[supportive-snapmaw]

If you can roll up a coin you deserve to snort coke imo

[ghstbusting]

tag credit to @teashoesandhair

[cock-holliday]

We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.

"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.

It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.

As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"

[transmechanicus]

Posts that be like “If I were a monster that had to eat people, i would just eat horrible people~” are so absurd to me. How often do you see Known Criminals on the street? Billionaires out for a nightly stroll around town? Effectively fucking never. If I have to drag myself to the grocery store, you think it’s gonna be any easier for me to hunt Bezos and Co. every time my stomach growls? I can’t bother to plan meals more than a day in advance, how am i gonna perform whole ass detective work to confirm someone’s a serial killer before i eat them? Ya’ll got that much time on your hands? Planning 5 course meals every night of the week? Don’t make me laugh. Eat a pedestrian and tragically wrestle with guilt like the rest of us, idiot.

[transmechanicus]

Experienced people eater weighing in with the most galaxy brain option

[dragosballz]

movie called technically blonde where she goes to trade school instead

[inertial-reel]

No but you don't understand. Rocking up to Welding class with 100% barbie pink tools is such a POWER MOVE.

"Jeremy, I'd really like my orbital sander back ^_^"

"... didn't know it was yours..."

(Legit excited, no sarcasm) "Someone ELSE has the original Box 20-Volt Brushless Cordless Detail Sander with Dust Management?!?!?!?!"

"...no..."

Teacher walking up like "Miss Woods, is that a nail file"

(Elle, blasting compressed air to get rid of the nail file sand)

"Actually, its an emery board. But yes! :D It's a finer grit than what we have, and I've always found these easier to handle"

"...Ok, fair enough."

Elle making friends with the 6 year old daughter of one of her classmates. (Child care ain't cheap, I get it. Bring your kid to class)

Elle learning how to drive a forklift/motorcycle/semi-truck

Elle giving an impromptu lecture in the break room about what gifts to give their wives/girlfriends/mothers

Fucking laser cut "bless this mess" sign on her locker (I lied. It would totally be live, laugh, laser)

Elle's car breaks down and 20+ dudes coming out to show her how to fix it. (And realizing her mechanic is ripping her off)

Every single guy in the building filled with instant despair when she gets with one of the butch lesbians in the program.

Gimme plzzz

[kla1991]

Proposal: She takes her car to a mechanic and it's beat for beat like the original movie scene at the dress shop, where the mechanic *tries* to rip her off and she nods along and then eviscerates her with precise technical details.

The rest of Elle's class now shun that mechanics' shop and tell everyone else to as well, so that place ends up going out of businesss, which allows someone else in the class to open up a sparkling pink and perfectly trustworthy shop of his own.

[predishthefish]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr reply from biomark reading: Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny /End ID]

[grubloved]

i'm listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a "habitat restoration". when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner's garden.

[kcsmall]

This quote really got me: "The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design.  But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them."

- Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

[depsidase]

[thombalan]

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[notahorseindisguise]

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

[mysticorset]

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

[notahorseindisguise]

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

[hiveswap]

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

[midnight-revolucion]

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

[notahorseindisguise]

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

[marlinspirkhall]

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

[feyd-meowtha]

It's a moral imperative that we write more sex scenes which are

Weird

Uncomfortable

Not good for anyone involved

[beesmygod]

one of the most embarrassing parts of the internet archive debacle was looking at the checkout rates for the artists involved in bitching the hardest and the loudest and the vast majority of them had been borrowed a single digit number of times. libraries, and even piracy, are not a barrier between you and millions of dollars, fame, and fortune. your barrier is public disinterest

[omtai]

Normal groceries like milk or bread or whatever running out is whatever. Just anotha day. But when stuff like salt or cooking oil or rice runs out it feels like You’re supposed to be here for me and you’re leaving. You’re just like everyone else

[calamity-corner]

new chess piece called the jester which can move anywhere on the board but can't capture anything. it just gets in the way to annoy your opponent

[calamity-corner]

hold on let me look something up

what yhe hell

[northern-punk-lad]

Put your ID’s and personal data online it’s completely safe says the uk government that has been hacked twice this week

[diosapate]

i need everyone on letterboxd liking this to know that i was being serious and this was my setup

[archangelbelletti]

Guide to Queries

A guide for all writers who want to pitch a book to an agent, but haven’t done it before.

All of this comes from my experience and shouldn’t be taken a firm rule.

Terminology

Some important query lingo you should know when enterying this stage!

MS = Manuscript

Partial Request = when an agent requests more material about your book, but not the full manuscript. It might be some more chapters.

Full Request = when an agent requests the whole manuscript.

YA/NA/MG/A = Young Adult, New Adult, Middle Grade, Adult. All age target acronyms.

Query Letter = the letter in which you pitch your book to an agent

Synopsis = a summary of all important events happening in the book in a max of 1-2 pages (depending on what the agent requires)

Where to find agents

Finding agents is pretty simple!

You can either use Google (type “[genre] [age target] [country] agents”, i.e. “fantasy ya american agents” and you should find some already!

Other tools:

QueryTracker (I have the Pro version where I can see how long agents take to reply and what kind of replies they give) –> here you can find agents, use the filter to find those who take your genre and age target

Manuscript Wish List –> a website where you can see what kind of books agents want to read, from the very specific to the broader

Twitter –> use hashtags like #mswl #amagenting to find more wish lists and agents talking about their job and queries.

Who to query

I’d advise only querying those agents that

fit your filters perfectly.

Choose carefully, and make sure to follow them on Twitter for updates! Sometimes they post about their progress in reading queries, so you might know something about your pitch early.

When to query

- When your book sounds like a published book to you, your beta readers, and/or your Critique Partner.

- When you can’t find errors you’d find in a printed book on a shelf.

- When it’s as done and perfect as you can get it!

Where to query

“I’m not American, but I want to query an American agent! Can I do it?

Yes! Don’t worry about your nationality too much. Just make sure you write the query following the standard American rules for courtesy in emails (“sincerely,” before your signature, “Dear ms/mr/mx” at the beginning, etc.)