Scarlett Gale

Author of sexy fantasy books, baker of pies, petter of cats. Sword Bisexual. She/her | THE WARRIOR'S GUILD duology available now! http://scarlettgaleauthor.com/shop

[tennesseewillams]

WHERE HAVE ALL THE DIVAS GONE AND WHERE ARE ALL THE BROADS

[patronsaintofdemons]

[wildestlovers]

embarrassment is the cost of entry.

if you aren't willing to look like a foolish beginner, you'll never become a graceful master.

[toskarinfr]

must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason

[qqchurch]

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

Hi im a librarian amd that's not now this works. If a library allows you to have a digital card and not live in the area, you are NOT taking away resources from other people, that's not how anything works. Please keep doing it!!! The more people that use our services, the more money we can get from funding sources!!! Please use us!!! We are not utilized enough, by people in or out of our community. Thanks.

[missmisdemeanor]

it is a rookie mistake to assume that the person making deeply anachronistic, inaccurate, and fairytale-esque knightposts knows nothing about real knights. i know all about real knights. i just think overseeing the farmland on your estate, explicitly being in it for (more) land and money, fighting less than half the year, and dying of cholera is sort of boring while swearing undying oaths is really sexy

[utilitycaster]

the thing about indie perfume descriptions is that every single of one of them sounds like it should end with "roll initiative"

[utilitycaster]

"One breath and you are at the hive’s threshold, where smoke, wax, and honey conspire into alchemy. A fragrance of sun-baked wood and warm beeswax, buttery, gold, and dense with the ghost of a hundred flowers. The bees’ own musk rises in the air, intimate and unmistakably alive. Honey follows in a deep glow that transcends simple sweetness. Soft puffs of smoke curl in, dry and calming, turning the air velvety and strange. Roll initiative."

[dollsahoy]

From OP's tags, this is a real perfume description

Beekeeper | Plant-Based Perfume | Heretic Parfum – HERETIC PARFUM

Smoke, wax, and honey conspire into alchemy in this naturally-derived fragrance of sun-baked wood and warm beeswax. The bees’ own musk rises

(the brand of which OP does not recommend)

[anaconda-creates]

in love with this medieval art where this lady has been shot by an arrow and just looks so unimpressed

oh noo...

[plus-size-aesthetics]

[vanessagillings]

On to the next adventure!

[maaarine]

“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell.”

— David Simon (via quotesforintellectuals)

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

looked up Heidi because I'm a journalist

for reasons I can't imagine this publisher of sexless Alaska love stories is averaging under 20 likes each on posts about her books, so if I can be so honest I kind of have my doubts that her books are getting read even with the excessive use of generous lending policies

[ariaste]

Also her claim that authors are not getting paid per borrow is.... wrong. With ebooks (which is what she's talking about here with Libby) there are two forms of licensing for libraries to lend out ebooks.

The first kind is that they buy a license for a pre-determined amount of check-outs. I'll just make some numbers up for the sake of illustrating what that looks like: Let's say $20 for 20 borrows. When the ebook has been checked out 20 times, the library has to renew the license and pay more money in order to continue lending out the ebook. The author gets a cut of that $20 as their royalties.

The second kind is literally paying per borrow. (Again just making up numbers here) Let's say the library pays 50 cents every time the book is checked out. The author still gets a cut as their royalties. Is it just 10 or 20 cents per borrow? Yes, but that adds up! AND it means that people who otherwise wouldn't have been able to read my book at all are able to read it, which is great! AND it means that the library is thriving and being used, which is also great!

So yes, authors DO get paid from library activity!!!!!!

Do not feel guilty for using the library. I don't know one single author (except this Little Miss Ma'am in the screenshots, apparently) who would resent their readers for using libraries.

[perequiste]

things will work out + it’s still early + not everything is lost + trees

[theskydoesgreatthingsnow]

LOTR abridged

[miadollcult]

i love you sex workers. no matter how much they try to erase, censor and criminalise us, we are still here and we matter. we deserve safety, respect and the right to exist openly. this is your reminder that you are wanted and loved and nothing is going to change that. if you're not a sex worker go support one today, buy their content, share their work or send some $ love $ their way ♥︎

[thereforealiar]

"you should be at the club" incorrect "you should be at pirate weekend at the renn fair" well this we cannot refute.

[concerningwolves]

i am so so gently asking abled storytellers to try this little exercise: consider that maybe the main character doesn't miraculously get through traumatic event number 8277 with minor injuries. maybe they don't make a full, narratively-convenient recovery. there are tangible, long-term effects on their health. they are disabled. there are lots of ways to be disabled, and you can pick whatever makes the most sense. the point is that because they're the main character, they have to stay at the heart of the narrative. what happens to your story after that? just for the sake of this exercise, you're not allowed to have them spiral into helpless depression, or collapse under self-loathing, or turn their story into a quest for a cure or an uplifting recovery narrative. think it through instead. how can you tell this story with the character's disability? what needs to change? are there any reasons why these changes can't happen?

at the end of it, you might change nothing. but I think this is worth doing, because sometimes you'll find that the reason you didn't want your character to have a limp, or lose a limb or sense, or have some kind of SFF-appropriate fantasy disability is because of internalised biases. those are worth challenging & i truly believe that creators miss out on richer stories when they view disability either as a fate worse than death or as nothing more than a catalyst for tragedy.

[holfelderwrites124]

I used to delight in non-lasting injury recovery, because I liked the hope therein. And then I realized ... there is still hope in being disabled. And not in the "inspo porn" way. In the ... I am disabled but I still have a life to live and that can be a good life, too. It may not look like what I wanted it to look like, it may not be easy, but it's still a good life.

So now, I delight in following the narrative. What has been done to the character and what, realistically, would happen to them. I've started doing this in fanfic, and it's extended into my OG writing now as well. I've got a chronic pain man (actually wrote the story for the POINT of giving him chronic pain in a magical way) (the Unbreakable series), a spinal cord got hit by a bullet and now he has limited mobility man (Finding Home -- NEW RELEASE), and eventually some other disabilities popping up in my other WIPS.

Anyhow, point is: I second the above. Think about your characters. Think about those of us who are disabled. Remember that we like to see rep in your stories too. And not inspo porn. Let us live our disabled lives!