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James Dean in the Broadway play The Immoralist (1954). Dean played the young Arab houseboy who seduces a gay archaeologist. Dean quit the show on opening night and went on to star in East of Eden, after Elia Kazan saw the show and offered him the role (Wikipedia).
Ms. Orc - by Bayard Wu
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The first underwater photograph, ca. 1899.
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Warning to writers
While you are worrying about whether beta readers will steal your ideas, there is a more genuine threat on the horizon.
When offered a publishing contract, please do all your research before you sign. There are a number of fakes and scammers out there, as well as good-intentioned amateurs that don’t know how to get your work to a wide audience. I won’t tell the heartbreaking stories here - there are too many.
Being published badly is worse than being never published.
It can destroy your career and your dreams.
The quick check is to google the publishing house name + scam or warning.
But, to be sure, check with these places first. They aren’t infallible (nothing is) but they can help you protect yourself. They are written and maintained by expereinced writers, editors, publishers and legal folks.
Absolute Write: Bewares and Background Checks
Preditors and editors
Writer Beware
and the WRITER BEWARE blog
Keep yourself and your work safe.
This is really important, so if you are a writer or have writer friends, or you are a writing blog, please reblog it.
Just to let you know, PublishAmerica changed their name to America Star Books.
HEAD’S UP, WRITER TYPES: THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PSA!
Also applies to many so-called freelance sites that are just content mills, and may not pay unless your work is used, even if the contract seems designed otherwise.
Listen, reading these is like legit reading horror stories. When it comes to publishing your writing, always, always, ALWAYS do your research. Not only will it help you avoid scams, but it will also be likely to help you land a much better fit for an agent/publisher/whatever. Knowing more is never going to hurt.
Omg!!! Thanks for the warning! Writers— reblog!
I’ve heard stories like this that are scarier than horror stories. This is an all time worst nightmare for a writer. Everyone reblog and make sure you keep your work safe!
Always, ALWAYS check Writer Beware. Let me also recommend Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s blog about contracts and contract scams for authors in her section Business Musings.
Reblogging again for the links. Also check pred-ed.com and the Absolute Write forum. Then google Publisher’s name + scam and see what comes up. Do NOT use the BBB ratings, they are wholly unsuitable for rating publishers and regularly give A ratings to well-known publishing scams. You can also read my own post on publishing scams, have a link on the left of my blog ( can’t link here, I’m on mobile, sorry).
@korrigu
SUPER IMPORTANT PSA!
Equally important to know is that you can SELF-PUBLISH through a number of platforms these days. @ean-amhran and I used Amazon’s CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing to publish both of our books. No editors, no contracts, no finagling with publishers who want to change your materials. Just direct-to-market material.
(Granted, it means you’ve got to do a LOT more work yourself with editing and formatting and cover art, but it’s worth it to miss the headache of trying to bargain with publishing houses or avoid scams.)
Be vigilant, fellow writers!
If you choose to self publish then HAVE A PLAN and think things through.
And hire an editor. Please, for the love of all that is holy, hire an editor. It’s expensive, but you will get a better book out, a better reputation…
If you’re going to publish electronically, make sure you also get someone who can LAY AN EBOOK OUT PROPERLY.
I have spent money on Kindle books, many of them reprints of older works, whose formatting is so messed up as to render them unreadable.
I actually recommend using the Smashwords Style Guide even if you don’t use Smashwords.
It lays out how to neatly format an e-book in a wonderful step by step format, and you can get it free from Smashwords. Just leave off the couple of things that are (very obviously) Smashwords specific.
If you can’t stand dealing with the meticulous detail, then by all means hire somebody, but most people can learn to format an ebook correctly and once you’ve done it a couple of times it takes about an hour tops.
@ghdos spread the knowledge
Because the redirects aren’t working for me, I’m going to assume others might have trouble with these links, so for those who need it the URL for the website to Writer Beware is: www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/ As stated on here: “Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, with additional support from the Mystery Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.” These are not publishers’ guilds, notice; you sometimes see scammers trying to defend themselves against Writer Beware exposes by claiming that they’re “small press” or “indie” and Big Publishing is somehow out to get them - but all of those guilds are run by and for writers, to help support them and represent them in the field. It is the closest writers have to having unions, and there’s no direct competition between them (you could literally be an in any of those guilds are the same time as each other, in addition to others, and I believe a number of authors are).
Writer Beware is a wonderful resource, and I highly recommend it. It’s both a good general guide to the scams people run/red flags to watch out for (such as giving up your copyright entirely as opposed to specific rights, or being charged to publish something or have it edited, when they’re trying to act like they’re a “normal” publisher), and a frequently-updated list of the latest specific known scammers, both in “fake agents” and fake/scammy publishers categories. (The company formerly known as Publish America is one of the most famous and egregious cases, but by far not the only one)
Additionally, for SF and fantasy writers, the SFWA’s own list of qualifying markets that one can be published in as a prerequisite to be able to get into their guild (remember, it IS a profession-based guild), is a great guide to normal markets for those genres that have standard contracts that aren’t abusive or scammy, and their guidelines include some of the industry-standard minimums for “per word” etc rates, so even if some new magazine market isn’t on their list, you can tell if it’s suspiciously far outside the usual per-word or whatnot standards. (It’s likely the guidelines for Mystery Writers of America etc also would be useful in that vein) Even if you’re unpublished or don’t want to join their guild, they’re a wonderful group and resource, and I highly recommend their site and Writer Beware in particular! The other sites mentioned above, such as “Preditors and Editors” should be still valid if you Google them, and are often rec’d by Writer Beware, but Writer Beware is the one I’m most familiar with. :)
@augmented-joe
Reblogging as useful information, with the caveat that I have strong reservations about Absolute Write (this guy puts it well) as a legitimate source. I wouldn’t take their blacklist at face value. Just make sure you have solid evidence from a reputable site with outside sources, same as any type of fact-checking (Writer Beware is legit and would be my go-to source).
don't let the twitter rage get to you man. As a brown dude (i fucking hate that I feel i need to bring this up) i think the anger thats being directed towards you is totally unfair. I wish i could step in and attempt to defend you from some of it but i'm not really too deep into the comic scene and not really articulate enough either. You can't have a debate or discussion with these people anyway. Things have become too polarised. Shocking how they will turn on you at even a hint a ambivalence
Thanks so much for the message.
I tend to do not do too well with this sort of twitter conversation.
The Island talk about Dilraj’s cover left a bad taste in my mouth, that continued with this. I don’t want to put out work that people see as harmful or worst case scenario, makes anyone feel like they are not welcome in comics.
That said. I think the idea that Image should have some kind of editorial to check work is a deeply offensive idea to me. I’m very frustrated by seeing creators posting things that amount to “please tell me if I do anything offensive” I would argue that there is no art without risk.
A friend of mine today was talking about this.
He was saying that if you are going to give artists total freedom you will get things like the Howard Chaykin book/cover or Airboy or Boiled Angel. People will do work that is not for everyone or misses the mark and offends – or is just stupid and offensive. but you also ideally make more room for books like Stuck Rubber baby, Sinner, Barefoot Gen, or Phoebe Gloeckner‘s A child’s life, or the underground comics movement- Raw magazine or Metal Hurlant-(& I know these aren’t Image books but it’s the high water mark I aim for)
Or the other extreme is that you get Marvel movies– work designed to not challenge or offend. Work that I would argue isn’t really even trying to be “art” Where artist, Ardian Syaf who quoted the Qur’an in the background (Granted it was taken by many to be anti semitic) of his art got fired over it. What that says to me is that Marvel was not employing him to express his actual opinions and beliefs.
I caught some shit today by saying that the cover is only lines on paper– but past that they are ideas. I was remembering hearing about why some thought that it was important to keep Mein Kampf in print in Germany (I think the new edition is heavily annotated) – Some view it as an important historical document that should be studied in order to understand what led to such an awful lack of empathy for human life.
I think a major problem we need to work on in mainstream comics (and certainly at Image) is getting in more types of voices from a much wider range of creators holding dramatically different ideas. If we’re making work for and by mature adults then I would hope that readers can take in ideas that they both agree with and strongly object to, and make their own decisions on them.
I don’t want comics to be sterilised disinfected, or deodorised in any way, and I think as both artist and readers we need a real diversity of ideas and beliefs for the American comic market to see it’s best work.
i’m starting to think the world actually DID end in 2012. that seems like when things stopped even trying to make sense.
maybe this is purgatory. why not? everything going on right now makes about as much sense as the last 3 seasons of Lost.
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Alright, people, say it with me.
Victor and Yuuri being in a same sex relationship does not automatically make them gay.
Victor and Yuuri are ambiguously LGBTA+ and are left up to viewer interpretation as far as specifics.
The only thing Victor and Yuuri aren’t is heterosexual and heteroromantic.
No one’s headcanons for Victor and Yuuri are wrong, so long as it portrays them as queer and not heterosexual and/or heteroromantic.
They’re gay.
They’re gay.
They’re gay.
they’re gay
theyre gay
theyre gay
they’re gay
Or bi?
Or pan?
apparently you guys forgot what the B and the P stand for
Or maybe you just don’t like bi and pan ppl
they’re gay
they’re gay
they’re gay
“Fandoms don’t hate bi people” then explain this
I’m pretty sure one of them expressed interest in a woman fairly early in the series? Or does that not count for them being bi?
“uwu compulsive heterosexuality”
“Bi people don’t exist unless it’s to justify our gay ship uwu”
“uwu or as a gotcha to say characters aren’t straight uwu”
“UWU”
Shit like this displays two things so clearly:
1. Biphobia is epidemic in both fandom and the LGBT community.
2. Both straights and homosexuals see bi people as straights or “fake gays.”
1: Ayup
2: We already knew that sadly
in the first fuckin episode he literally states how he used to have a crush on a girl.
Dicktits I’ve had insane crushes on girls and I’m currently dating a guy does that make me gay? Straight? What the fuck is wrong with people denying bisexuality is a thing. Get tf outta here.
~ Mod Jewel
Holy hell, they’re bi, you jackasses.
What is with Tumblr and denying bisexuality exists?
And this is exactly why I don’t tell people I’m bi
I see them both as bi :/
I headcanon them as pan :3
“No one’s headcanons for Victor and Yuuri are wrong, so long as it portrays them as queer and not heterosexual and/or heteroromantic.“ A bunch of people: They’re gay. A bunch of other people: HOW DARE YOU DENY THE EXISTENCE OF BISEXUALS
“No one’s headcanons for Victor and Yuuri are wrong”
Every Literary Genre Summed Up in a Single Sentence
@thefairfleming thought you’d like this.
“You saved the planet from robots, but at what cost?” @yeah-seems-legit I FEEL PERSONALLY ATTACKED
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Watching this (and fearing broken ankles with each loop) I can’t helping thinking about that old quote Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.
Le Beau Serge (1958) // dir. Claude Chabrol
cute cat cross promotes with cute food place
name something purer than this. i’ll wait
I’m cryingggg
Devil May Cry reaction pics/memes/watever !!!!!
so like there was another post like this originally with a bunch of them someone collected over time, but when i went back to save them all they deleted the post
so MY FRIENDS AND I HAVE MADE TONS OF THESE and i’m gonna post them all now. some of them i found around the internet, and tbh we’ll probably keep making more lmao… Click keep reading for the rest! There are 42 total…
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