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stop drinking beer with the deer and come have a cider with the spiderrrr

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eloso

I apparently misclicked one. 100% in my head, 99% in my thumbs.

#59%#I really only knew the red/blue to black/white era ones #pokemon #quiz

prowl-autism-extraordinaire

nobrashfestivity

RIP Jennifer Finch.

Even though I never spent much time with her I saw her band and I remember vividly being in a hotel room with her how loud she was laughing and having a good time. She was part of the fabric of that whole scene, and I'm sorry she's gone so young.

#l7 #jennifer finch #rip #riot grrrl

pangur-and-grim

my house is scary at night

storyweavingspider

Interpreted this initially not as shelves, but as your cat having erected defensive fortifications

#thought this was some goblin fort #cats

skippyisntfunny

bisexual-engineer-girl

Pulitzer Prize type shit

wizardshark

Why's this dude built like crash bandicoot

spooky-narwhal

Everything about this damn post is so funny to me. The lighting of the arm from the flash. The posing of the arm like a dramatic death from a novella. The fact the photo somehow got taken still and looks this good. The subreddit name. The fact this guy really is built like crash bandicoot

gremlininho

then & now ♡

#oh my god #😍

penny-anna

hello! sorry i messaged you ages ago and you gave me some amazing advice on applying to writing journals. you said at the time you could name the more prestigious SFF journals -- at the time I didn't follow that up because I wasn't sure what genre i was shooting for, but now i've been writing more i am curious what those journals are? no pressure to reply, have a lovely evening!

HELLO yes, I can do that!

For reference: in SFF magazine publishing 8 US cents a word is considered a professional pay rate.

Clarkesworld: 14 cents a word. maybe the most prestigious and one of the best paying markets out there. also they are on top of their submissions to an incredible degree so if you don't make it through the initial sift you can expect a polite 'no' within 24-72 hours.

Strange Horizons: 10 cents a word. currently a complicated submission set up as they only open a few days a year so u want to keep an eye on when the window opens.

Analog & Asimovs: two magazines from the same publisher; separate editors so you can sub the same piece to both. Analog is looking for science-oriented science fiction and Asimovs is looking for character-oriented stories. 8-10 cents a word.

Apex: 8 cents a word. Speculative fiction magazine, I think tends towards more literary work.

ok off the top of my head I think those are the main magazines that make me go 'oh wow!' when I see them in someone's author bio and are currently open for subs.

here are a couple more that are currently long term closed to submissions:

Uncanny Magazine: 10 cents a word. I am unsure how long they have been closed but quite a while. they are still publishing issues with the most recent being this month.

Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine: the OG, as it were. founded 1949. 8-12 cents a word. closed to submissions in 2023, officially to catch up on a submission backlog, and haven't published since 2024.

there's no word I'm aware of on when either magazine expects to re-open for subs (Uncanny seems to be in otherwise good health, F&SF seem to be having some problems behind the scenes) but both are sufficiently reputable publishers that i think the community is keeping half an eye on them.

anarchopuppy

sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it

rthwrms

thinking about coptic mummy paintings and weeping

like. i know these people

orphanedinstoryville

These were produced from around the time of the Roman annexation of Egypt in the late 1st century BC to around the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century CE.

They were a continuation of the Egyptian tradition of funerary masks but rather than sculpting them and making them of precious metals, they began painting these lifelike portraits.

It’s hotly debated whether this is an example of Greco-Roman realist style imposed on their subjects, or a home grown Egyptian development of their own ancient tradition. Those who say it’s more Egyptian than Roman point out that there’s no surviving paintings in the rest of the Roman Empire that were this realistic. Those who say it’s more Roman than Egyptian point out the arid climate left these portraits intact, and beleive the others in the rest of the empire were lost.

Personally I think you can call them Egyptian because these people, whether of Roman or ancient Egyptian descent, are still the ancestors of the modern Egyptians today.

Despite the realism you can see a slight exaggeration of the eyes, smoothing of the skin and inclusion of certain important objects around the subject’s head. It’s a pattern that would get more and more pronounced until it became the style of Byzantine iconography in the Orthodox Christian Church

#that’s cool #art history

girldraki

angelic-odette

When I say women should have higher standards for how they're treated, this is exactly what I mean. At the first insult? Kick. Him. To. The. Curb.

wholeheartedsuggestions

it was never your fault they were abusive to you. it wasn’t because you did something wrong to deserve mistreatment. it was because they were cruel and you were there for them to hurt.

slobbering

Iness Rychlik ~ Victorian Erotica with Subtle Cruelty

The BeeKeeper

Love and Devotion

The Instruments of Torture

Impatient

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

Thorns

A Scene of Silent Despair

Greed

Iness Rychlik is a Polish-born photographer and filmmaker with a particular interest in historical drama. Despite her severe myopia, she has been dedicated to visual storytelling for over a decade. Rychlik’s still images are published on book covers worldwide. More recently, her focus has expanded from portraiture to dark feminine erotica. Iness is fascinated by the idea of conveying sexuality and cruelty in a subtle evocative way. Her conceptual work provokes the viewer’s imagination, rather than satisfy it.

#iness rychlik #conceptual photography #photography #these are amazing

horsefriend

putnamspuppeteer

For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times. Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.