The Real Heist is the Friends We Made Along the Way

memes for Run With the Hunted, cyberpunk novella series. No AI

[anthonypresley]

Ambient 2026 Edit Tokyo Japan. Website Behance Instagram Online Store

[henk-heijmans]

Listen, 2025 - by Qiu Zhuo, Tibetan

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Tried to tip a tumblr blog at 1am and it was such a suspicious transaction it immediately put a full fraud freeze on my account

Fortunately, banks no longer just ask 'did you make that transaction' they want to make sure you weren't scammed into making that transaction and 5mins after their call will give away all your money anyway.

This is an honest to goodness life saving movement and I cannot be happier banks are adopting it

Unfortunately, it meant I had to have the most embarrassing financial call of my life

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Me: Ah yeah I was just trying to tip a tumblr blog

Cash: right and were you directed there by a Facebook link? An Instagram advert?

Me: no I was just on tumblr...on purpose

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Caah: and this person asked you for money?

Me: oh no they just had a funny story, which happened to be about money and I thought, "wouldn't it be funny if I tipped them"

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Me: * covering a reblog by reblog update on the adventures my mutual was having *

Cash: okay I don't think that can actually happen though..

Me: It might not have, but i was happy to tip them just because it was funny

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Cash: and how well do you think you know this person?

Me: *considers explaining how much I know about a beloved mutual without ever knowing their name or face* ... I have no idea who this person is

I think in the end Cash decided there was no saving me from myself

[dungeon-moss]

[smsomah]

Dubai, 1970-1. Eve Arnold

[lokaror]

In my new gacha game, you can now pull for scantily clad anime women who represent famous airplane crashes.

[themakeupbrush]

Rahul Mishra Couture 2025

[moringmark]

[runcibility]

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

[quadriviummuse]

I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.

[guooey]

Beautiful cow who is mooing at you

[forger343]

@videogamecows

[bovineblogger]

COWPOST RATING: INCORRECT

that is not one of those

[taraljc]

I WISH TO PET THEIR NOSE

[benzohoarder]

[figural]

#google translate does not capture the tone switch so i have to say. first two sentences are like. normal maybe kind of feminine posting tone #& the last is like. shounen manga protagonist. action movie hero. jojo's bizarre adventure character. #the tone you would use if you were holding a gun with the safety off (– @chadlesbianjasontodd)

[minothtime]

Basically, a translation could be:

I just think it's so interesting that people end up falling in love with their friends' boyfriends! I absolutely despise every single one of them. give me my fucking homie back you goddamn bastard

[liminalweirdo]

translation tags by @minothtime because they are so so good

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[teabree-shark]

[m0thmancore]

[stolendiamonds]

Amusement Park Arcana (coming July 15, 2026)

I'm not making a separate blog for every one of my titles, so it's here on the Run With the Hunted scene that I'm telling you about my forthcoming novella, Amusement Park Arcana.

the only way I know how to market is 1. memes 2. saying "buy my book" so please enjoy these memes.

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Amusement Park Arcana by Jennifer R. Donohue

🎢🎡🎠🎠🎡🎢

Action Park meets the Backrooms in 1994!

🎢🎡🎠🎠🎡🎢

Riley’s best friend Tara went missing last October from the shitty amusement park where she worked. By spring, the police are no closer to having any answers, so Riley’s taking it in her own hands.

She just knows Tara’s still at the park somewhere, and an uncanny phone call on Riley’s first day as a park employee only confirms that. The quest to bring Tara or her body home draws Riley further from her family and her boyfriend as she spends more time in the park’s liminal spaces and opening day looms large.

[thebibliosphere]

Every so often I catch a glimpse of the book drama going on over on the Insta/Threads sphere of the Internet, and it makes me so glad I’m considered too Tumblrina to sit at their tables.

What do you mean an author is railing against people using libraries/the Libby app because it’s “free” (it’s not. you as the author get money from the library purchasing the digital lending license) and meanwhile their book is on Amazon for free to try and get readers??? Hello????

[thebibliosphere]

“But if people read it for free they might like it want to buy the rest of my work!”

You mean like how people read books at libraries, and end up buying them if they like them?

“That’s not the same 😡”

Correct! Because again, libraries pay us. You putting your books up on Amazon for free means you get nothing.

[thebookewyrme]

I am staring directly into the camera like I’m on the Office in Librarian. Libraries are literally an author’s best friend. We get books to people they never would have known about otherwise, & create Fans out of disinterested bystanders. And! Libraries are often paying MORE for a book than the average user, at least for digital editions, because it is expected that the library will lend it to more people, so theoretically we need to pay more to compensate the authors! (This is not I think how it works in practice, it more often just benefits the digital lending company instead of the actual author but. Greed is ever thus). Also, in some countries (sadly not the US, boo hiss) authors get paid for every checkout of a book. So, you can literally get royalties on those “free” books. (Also, they’re not free, they’re paid for with tax dollars for the good of everyone). How some fool can think temporary freeness on Amazon Kindle is superior to libraries I cannot fathom. Like, how does this person even manage to function in the real world?

Anyway. Authors. Love your librarians. We love you and seek only to help you get more readers so you can write more books. We have a symbiotic relationship, each needs the other.

[thebibliosphere]

#I thought if you were self pubed#you basically couldn't get into the library#sounds like being mad at a club#that won't let them in

Just saw this in my notes and thought I'd reply. You can't get into libraries if you only use Amazon, but platforms like Draft2Digital, Ingram and Kobo Writing Life make it possible for self-pub authors to have their work made available to libraries across the global network.

You're sometimes more likely to get picked up by libraries if you list yourself as having a publisher, but as a self-pub author you can do that by registering as an LLC (which for me was $250 back in 2020, I don't know what it is now) and then listing the name you used as the publisher. But even that's becoming an unnecessary step with how prominent self-pub has become.

Really at this stage, this person is shooting themselves in the foot by opting to remain an Amazon exclusive author and being a twit about it on main, but that's their hill. They can die on it.

[ms-smilla]

Yeah, in the UK (at least my my old authority) it should be pay per issue (loan) for a hardcopy, so you'll get some royalties everytime someone borrows your book. Unsure if this applies to eBooks (sorry, I was on a different purchasing team).

However, from writing the training, I do know that UK libraries choose between having a set number of borrows per license, or a set time limit on the license for eBooks. My old library authority preferred issues for a variety of reasons (including managing waitlists). When an eBook was popular enough (many copies, all on loan) we'd go and buy another license.

Everyone in the UK public libraries sector was moving towards using BorrowBox circa 2023. Not sure what the market is looking like now in terms of contracts and tenders for eBook supply to public libraries.

Current Librarians, please add and/or correct me if you see this.

And around self-pub and Libraries (hardcopies only, sorry) ... as a rule of thumb we only bought those rated 3 stars or above via Askew and Holts. Some authorities have a blanket ban. Some authorities will be one copy of every self-pub submitted to them. My old authorities used to accept "requests to stock" via email or online form, and we would assess if we thought the book would work in the collection. If you are an established self-pub authorities, who can show some sort of regular sales figure from your vendors, I would suggest saying something like "please consider stocking a copy of my books as I think it may achieve X amount of loans and help contribute to your CIPFA statistical returns". And please give hard data, and maybe an idea of why your book would improve the collection - saying it would increase LGBTQ+ representation (or any other form of marginalised community representation) within a collection would be a great selling point.

[kidmograph]

FLYING CITIES (FUTURE SLUMS)

https://www.kidmograph.com/portfolio-collections/the-scifi-division/11

[hellenhighwater]

Well those are allllmost done

[codebreakerblue]

question. why do you have 7 featureless grey monoliths in your driveway

[hellenhighwater]

There's eight actually but the last one is still in the garage

[jackfromthefairytale]

question. why do you have eight featureless grey monoliths

[hellenhighwater]

They're actually a really dark purple

[fishofthewoods]

question. why do you have seven featureless really dark purple monoliths in your driveway and an eighth in the garage

[hellenhighwater]

Some of them do have features though. There's holes and hinges and stuff, so I can put secrets in em

[nobodywasneverhere]

question. why do you have 8 really dark purple occasionally featureful monoliths

[hellenhighwater]

The heart wants what the heart wants

[fred-the-dinosaur]

this reads like a muppet sketch

[fred-the-dinosaur]

see? See!??!

[hellenhighwater]

You're not wrong

[hellenhighwater]

This post is less than six months old.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[snake-eggs]

“There aren’t enough hours in a day.” There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.

The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.

No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[scifiseries]

[departmentq]

Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984

[moandieu]

Szilveszter Mako: Hyunji Shin wearing Loewe for Numero Magazine, 2023