final warning for softness, bro

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[thebibliosphere]

Some good news for the indie authors (and all authors, really) today: Draft2Digital is now enabling ebook distribution to bookshop.org, which means you can now support more authors and local indie bookstores with your ebook purchases.

It'll likely take a while for distribution to roll out, but this is a huge part of bookshop.org continuing to challenge Amazon/Kindle, and partnering with Draft2Digital just made that a lot easier on the author side.

[gaycowboyjesus]

Unfortunately not nearly as good as it seems at least for anyone wanting to consume or sell erotica.

[thebibliosphere]

This is something that's become increasingly problematic in publishing, both trad and indie, with more and more book print distributors and book retailers coming down harder on "erotic" content.

So while I'm disappointed, I'm not surprised.

There's been a reason Erotica has thrived as a genre primarily on Amazon for a while now — but even there, we've seen increasing censorship, and authors struggling to get eyes on their work because the algorithm is hiding their work. (We call it the 'erotica dungeon,' and it's not as fun as it sounds. It's basically algorithmic death.)

And to any of my fellow Romance authors who think this doesn't affect us: it already does.

Amazon and other publishers already discriminate and classify LGBTQ+ content as inherently more erotic than het-romance. You could write the sweetest, cutest, most tooth-rotting LGBT fluff on the planet with zero hardcore erotica in it, but because you've tagged it as LGBT, you're inherently pushed toward the Erotica genre.

And really, it's all just goal posts built on a foundation of shifting sands. Just because they're letting your work slide today doesn't mean they'll do it forever.

And if that makes you mad because you don't want to be lumped in with the icky, gross sex writers, well, I'd hold your hand when I say this, but I don't want to: you're part of the problem.

So either get good with Erotica existing and push back against this kind of thing, or watch your careers die. Your choice.

[zero1infinity]

[tsukiyamas]

why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain

[diggly]

no one tell him

[analyticalsenshi]

Scheduling this to post on March 15 because it needs to happen.

[toomanyfandomstocountcx]

The ides of March have come

[moodsandtenses]

There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"

[moodsandtenses]

I'm really enjoying the growing consensus in the notes that there's an Eternal Rivalry Between Vampires and Werewolves now, entirely because the werewolves, sick of Dracula's bullshit, have unionized.

[princelupo]

absolutely haunting. 9 years of hellsite

[moonmoonthecrabking]

reblog and put in tags your reasoning!!

based on vibes and vibes alone (vibes you have from following them), is prev

vampire

werewolf

fae/fairy

mermaid

ghost

Voting ended onJul 11, 2024

because i wanted to do one of these things and i chose this :)

[vsemily]

Internet Safety

[qsycomplainsalot]

Being hyper-secretive online is probably the only good kneejerk reaction boomers have put into our heads twenty years ago and now both them and the next generation look at you like you're a freak if you don't list your social security number in your carrd.

[theconcealedweapon]

They don't want a scientist who makes educated guesses. They want someone who sounds authoritative to confirm the assumptions that they already have.

[superchat]

[yimra-deactivated20250209]

Jimmy literally

[glamorousgamine]

#they’re not technicalities!#they’re the law!#cops say it’s a technicality because they didn’t do their due diligence#if a cop finds evidence in a place he shouldn’t have had access to without a warrant#and the case or that evidence gets tossed because of it#the cop and media will say it’s a technicality#but it’s not!#it’s a constitutional right they failed to adhere to!#and the penalty is that evidence which was found illegally can’t be used 

As usual, @socialjust-ish leaves the gold in the tags and it’s up to me to mine them.

[only-tiktoks]

[mellifluousbenthictones]

this shit is no joke. It took me a year of stretching at every possible opportunity to get rid of the pain

[juelzsantanabandana2]

I'm known for making jokes on the internet but I'm actually a Sports Medicine person and all of this is very accurate if you're foot has plantar fascistic start small and do little stretches and it will help you. don't say'' how old you are'' or how late into the ailment you think you are and give up because you think You Are too far into it doing exercises always help

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Helpful feet stuff! ✨

[arinrowan]

So I hate facetime but have two small nephews who live very far away and wanted them to know who I was. So when second nephew was born, I started sending first nephew (4 years old) a postcard every week.

The content wasn't anything special. I made cookies, I saw this flower, my cats did this. He likes trucks and machinery so I scoured redbubble for anything related to machinery and got a giant batch of machine postcards. Whenever I traveled, I'd hunt down a postcard for him.

My second nephew turned four this year, and I started sending him postcards as well. Both of them like Pokemon now, so mostly it's been double Pokemon postcards every week. I don't hear much from them, or my sister, so I just generally hope they're enjoyed and try to remember to mail them before Sunday.

However. This week my mom informed me second nephew likes the postcards SO MUCH he brings them into daycare to show around. And when I shared that with my sister, she told me not only does he bring them into daycare, he sleeps with them at naptime.

The only higher honor would be for her to tell me he's eating them.

[woman-becomer]

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

[intosnarkness]

a favorite memory:

when i was in fifth grade, we read a book in school where a young girl in prehistory finds a dolphin skeleton. and i was so taken in by the description of the bones, how there were fingers in the fins, that i came home to my dad and told him "i think that when humans came out of the oceans, dolphins did, too, but they went back in."

my dad went upstairs and came back with an issue of analog magazine, the sci-fi digest he read religiously, and handed it to me.

"here," he said. "you're ready for this."

[intosnarkness]

some people responding to this with "you were right" or "he should have gotten you a bio textbook" are missing the actual point of this.

it was never about being right or not. it was about my dad seeing that i was engaging with science literature and analyzing it and inviting me to read science fiction so he could share it with me.

also, when i say dad read the magazine religiously, i mean that when i was in 1st grade and it was his turn to come in and read to the class, he read a story from analog. i mean that when he went outside to smoke, it was always with that magazine in his hand.

this is a favorite memory because it was one of the first times my dad saw me as a grownup and engaged with me intellectually as one. nothing to do with right and wrong or facts.

[sandmandaddy69]

[ouroborosorder]

my existentialism professor once showed us this meme and then said softly “reintarnation” and started laughing for about 5 minutes straight but he was laughing so softly we thought he was crying and didn’t know what to do about it

[sexhaver]

seeing people on this site getting horny over robots is pretty funny as someone with a degree in them. half of yall are gonna lose fingers (or worse) to pinch points once the first consumer-grade android models roll out in a few decades. you know the memes about how closing the cybertruck's trunk can cut off your finger? imagine that but with an elbow joint. your cybergf is slurping your shit crazy style when she gets a forced firmware update that zeroes all of her servos including the ones controlling her teeth. and none of this shit will be covered under warranty. fuck a safe word, you'll need an e-stop button

[sexhaver]

everyone in the notes saying "umm the risk is part of the appeal": if you can't even have basic respect for the level of damage machines can accidentally inflict on you and instead get horny over it, androids would view you similar to the way trans women view chasers. you're not even concerned with the trauma accidentally cutting off your finger/dick would inflict on them. all you care about is you

[sexhaver]

you walk up to a robogirl at a bar and fumble your way through a pickup line about wanting to get caught in her pinch points and she tilts her head a little and waits before saying anything and you think she didn't hear you but she was actually taking a picture of your face, overlaying this over it, and sending it to her group chat with all the other robogirls in your city

[hellboundhorrormovielover]

imagine being high off your ass in 1964 and turning the radio on and you hear house of the rising sun by the animals for the first time. my soul would leave my body id fucking die

[dduane]

I am writing a fic for a bang and have hit the point where I think it's complete and utter garbage. But it has to post in about a month, so I need to somehow find a way to get it done because I don't want to let my bang artist down. What do you do when you reach the garbage stage? Thanks for your time!

You keep writing the garbage.

The odds, as it happens, are surprisingly in favor of what you're doing not actually being garbage. (Especially if you have previous personal experience of it not having been garbage before. And if you've got any kind of validation of this position from others, that's even better.)

Writers are as prone as any other members of H. sapiens to having their judgment be whipsawed by temporarily-skewed "stressy" brain chemistry into the perception that their creative performance is impaired. And the added stress flowing from that perception then skews the brain chemistry further out of whack—so that the cycle can keep feeding on itself and making you feel more and more like you're doing bad work, when you're really not.

Lacking other ways of breaking the cycle (like taking a little time off before you're done), your job right now is to finish your first draft as quickly as is also consonant with your previous experience of doing good work. Then if you possibly can, take at least a day (or two or three...) off from it so that your brain has a bit of a chance to reset, via rest and food and so forth. After that, have another look at what you've done. If you see places in the drafted writing that still need work*, then start attacking those at best speed.

Anyway: hope this helps you! But you can absolutely do this... so (ideally after a little rest and food...) go get on with it. :)

*And there are always places that need more work. Surprise! :)

[neil-gaiman]

What she said.

[shock]