Tito GC / Beat Bandit

Writes fiction, makes music. Catch my writing blog @the-excursion a homie and I run. Oh you can find a link to my soundcloud there Instagram here.

[the-excursion]

This time around we have Tristen on the forefront of the VF ladies with this Picrew~ unfortunately it got deleted before I could make anymore pretty girls 🥺 Anyone know who the original creator of this picrew is?? -P.M.

[bestintheparsec]

#for science

[titogotcoins]

Yo sometimes I hurt people, and that shit hurts. I analyze that shit move on and try to do better. Love to all my loves.

[catchymemes]

[titogotcoins]

Bro there's something crazy about parenting. That is everyday type shit. I'm a musician and author and that I feel is intertwined with my soul fr. But I can decide to take a break one day without any planning ahead or anything I can just go yeah I'm not making music or writing anything today. Then just pick it back up the next day. But once you're a parent that is lowkey your life now. Cause if you stop being a parent for a day yo child could just straight up die. That's your life now. 

[titogotcoins]

https://youtu.be/ALX7kN1BI6I

Check out this instrumental track I made it's fun and silly. Thank you bb.

[a-space-opera]

[lucyaudley]

This answers and raises questions

[hardboiledoldman]

Cassette Futurism God Tier

[sparrowhawk815-deactivated20190]

Cassette Futurism god tier for real tho…

[captain-starskull]

Who made these and how can I support them?

[imthecreativejunkie]

Awesome artist Simon Stålenhag made those.

[bossybussy]

How can we forget solarpunk! (My personal favorite)

[titogotcoins]

I love how one of the pics for cassette futurism is just a picture of a tape deck. Like just a regular tape deck I'm pretty sure lolol.

[resumespeak]

How to put “wrote fan-fiction” on your résumé:

Leveraged an inventory of established fictional character and setting elements to generate a disruptive custom-curated narrative entertainment asset.

[xeno-lalia]

I worked in HR, handling applications and interviews, and if someone turned in that string of techno babble nonsense, I would have rejected them out of hand.

A resume doesn’t need to sound fancy or overly technical, it needs to tell us why we should hire you.

“Independent novelist/writer” is more than sufficient here. If you want to express the skills that fan fiction taught you, something like, “creative writing, editing, and publication,” will get you a lot further than… Whatever that just was.

A resume should be tailored to the position, if you can afford the time and energy for that. But if not, then just think about what writing got fandom taught you. How to respond to criticism, how to present a professional pubic face, how to correct punished mistakes, creative thinking, project planning, persuasion via emotional leverage, html formatting, office suite fluency.

There are a lot of actual, marketable skills that go into fan fiction.

[fivewrites]

How to put “I was in a zine” on your resume

Writer:

Published short fiction stories for anthology collection

Able to write short fiction within a designated word count for layout purposes (900-1500 words, 1500-2000, 3000-5000)

Wrote short articles for independent publication

Assisted with editing short stories for publication

Able to reduce or expand written content based on layout needs

Able to check for basic spelling, grammar and syntax

Familiar with Microsoft Office and Google docs

Artist:

Produced full-colour digital illustration for independent magazine

Able to produce digital illustrations optimized for both online and print display

Produced full-colour 2-page spread for art anthology

Published 4-page short comic in anthology collection for charity

Able to transfer traditional art to digital illustration

Illustrated the cover (always brag if you’re on the cover) of an independent art publication

Familiar with professional illustration tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint and stylus tablet

Merch artist / graphic designer:

Designed 2″ clear decorative double-sided keychain charm as bonus sale item

Designed 5″ x 6″ sheet of graphic stickers included in art anthology

Able to design bold graphics that are measured for laser cutting production

Designed layouts for 65-page art and writing magazine, focusing on (art placement, text layout, etc)

Able to keep layout design simple and in accordance with the project director’s chosen theme

Created promotional art, icons and banners tailored for social media sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc

Familiar with professional layout and design software such as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign

Running a zine

Produced an independent art and writing collection for sale / for charity

Managed (10, 20, 30) independent artists and writers out of over 500 applicants to create a short-run independent magazine

Worked in online sales and social media promotion selling an independent comics anthology

If it’s really spectacular you can brag about specific numbers

Our book raised over $4,000 for charity in under six months of production

We sold over 750 copies in two weeks of online sales

Produced a digital PDF and printed version of anthology, mailing to recipients all over the world

Communicated with printers and manufacturers of plastic accessories and paper goods, assembling professional packages of our merchandise for mailing.

Built a custom digital storefront and navigated professional market and payment systems including Paypal and Tictail / Bigcartel / Wix etc

Created promotional events to boost sales, including raffles and giveaways over social media

Organized participants through mass emails and use of social media posts on tumblr and twitter

Familiar with organizational software such as Microsoft Excel, Google spreadsheets and Trello

[fivewrites]

Added some more

[the-excursion]

Had to play with this edgy Picrew

- P.M.

[titogotcoins]

Uhhhh can I get an order of each with an extra side of edge fries pleaaasseeee~

[quasi-normalcy]

What I can tell you as a transgender woman is that occasionally I will read trans woman characters written by cisgender authors. And I can pretty much always tell when the author is cis, even if the character is portrayed respectfully, because they get some details wrong or something. But I certainly don’t think that they shouldn’t be allowed to take a stab at it, and I actually appreciate any representation that isn’t egregiously harmful. And I certainly don’t think that only transgender women should be allowed to write transgender women because then it falls on me, and that’s rather tokenizing, isn’t it?

[quasi-normalcy]

Also it seems like demanding that only #OwnVoices authors should be allowed to write certain characters is an excellent way to enforce a situation where most books are about cishet white people.

[quasi-normalcy]

And no: you probably won’t get all of the specific details of someone else’s lived experience correct, in much the same way that most authors don’t get all of the specific details about how, say, nuclear reactors or space work. But so long as your character passes as realistically human and not a one-dimensional caricature of what you think that other types of people are like, then I think that that’s reasonable.

[irisbleufic]

Also, sensitivity readers are a thing, and enhance all of the above actions! Paying a reader from the demographic you have written to go over your writing and give constructive feedback is a wonderful thing to do. It benefits both parties involved not only in the financial and craft-honing senses, but also in the exchange of ideas and learning about someone whose perspective and lived experience are different from yours.

[bob-belcher]

Young Justice, Bereft (S01E09)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[2000ish]

[betterincolorrr]

no one ever talks about how much this song slapped and i for one think we should

[zanillani]

This song slaps

[titogotcoins]

Sounds like a clash between Paramore and Madonna.

[catchymemes]

[titogotcoins]

Onward to the skeleton wars

[catchymemes]

[titogotcoins]

This litterally just happened. I hear the sounds of war...

[nevaehtyler]

[gan-man]

..may this joke land with y’all the same way it did for my sister and I lol