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I'm volunteering for a literary journal right now and there's two things I think you all should know.
1. Most people that submit to literary journals are cis white men. We know this because our journal has an anonymous survey about demographics for people that submit.
2. Most things that get submitted to the creative non fiction section are on the level of middle school "What I did over the summer" essays.
I cannot see the demographics of the people whose essays I'm reading, but guys, if you are wondering if you should submit your work to a literary journal or not, I promise you that just in terms of statistics there are a lot of mediocre cis white men and people in general confidently submitting weird crap that isn't literature to literature magazines. Do it. Submit your work. Please. If you want there to be more diversity in literature, be the diversity. Do it. Do it do it do it.
In general literary magazines want to include more diversity, but if poc, queer people, disabled people, etc. don't submit their work then they aren't gonna get more diverse because we just won't have the material necessary to get more diverse. Submit your work. Do it. Do it. Do it do it do it.
Here's a list of university run literary journals. Do it. Get published.
Many indie lit mags also welcome works from BIPOC and LGBTQIA creatives because the editorial staff themselves are in that demographic. Quarantine brought on the start of the SO many indie lit mags - it’s almost a golden age. Don’t be afraid to submit — there will always be so many niches and aesthetics that one will bound to be the one that fits your style.
There is so much work from marginalized narratives in litmags these days — people lament there is no representation in media, but that disregards the progress and diversity of the works of editors and writers who help make these litmags possible.
There is representation, and it is flourishing. They are waiting to be read.
The Lumiere Review compiles a list of submission opportunities every month, and it are always very useful:
https://lumierereview.com/sub-sep-oct-2021
List of Litmags that Specifically Look for Work from Marginalized Creators or is Run by Marginalized Creators:
Warning Lines: https://warninglines.com/
With Confetti: https://with-confetti.com/
Giving Room Magazine: http://www.givingroommag.com/
The Bitchin’ Kitsch: https://www.talbot-heindl.com/
Tealight Press: https://www.tealightpress.com/
Tipping the Scales: https://www.tippingthescalesjournal.co.uk/
The Winnow Magazine: https://www.thewinnowmagazine.com/
perhappened: https://www.perhappened.com/
AZE Journal: https://azejournal.com/
Honeyfire Lit: https://honeyfirelit.com/
and so much more!!
(And even if some litmags’ mission statement isn’t specifically for marginalized creators, they will always welcome these narratives.)
So please, please submit!
Independent magazines are great too! I’m more familiar with the university journal scene so I appreciate this addition.
hello, this is a list of asian literary journals!! it emphasizes south-east asian journals, but there’s a few from other regions as well
Zeus turning Thaila into a tree because she refused to be his weapon.
Vs Jason surviving so he could be Hera's
Oh Grace siblings....
As much as I make fun of Percy for being down bad from day one what I really love is that he truly thinks this is regular friend behaviour. He’s unleashing his inner wattpad mafia boss for Annabeth, has her picture on his mirror, promises he’d burn down Olympus for her, seems offended there’s ‘another’ boyfriend and thinks it is purely platonic. And the best part is Percy is such a loverboy in all meanings of the world that that genuinely is understandable because he is simultaneously going to the sea of monsters for Grover, having Grover’s picture on his mirror, telling Grover he looks beautiful in a wedding dress, embracing Grover like the husband he presumed missing at sea and being so soulmated to his best friend that they dream together.
Percy Jackson is simply Like That™️ and it’s why we love him
I also just love why Percy takes so long to understand his own feelings.
When he meets Grover (granted he met Grover before her) and Annabeth, in one fell swoop they both become the fish friends he ever had on such a close level and they tether him to this new part of his identity that he’s exploring. When his world turns upside down, he has them and that’s why he holds them in such high regard.
In the show, in season 2, Percy tells annabeth that he would burn the world down for her but it’s not so much that he’s saying this action is about her. He’s expressing what he’s capable of and that it scares him. He would do the same for Grover but in that one statement, he told annabeth how much she means to him and that he’s aware she’s special to him but for now, it’s not explicitly more than platonic.
His feeling for her so deep-rooted that he didn’t even realize immediately when this bedrock foundation of feelings he had for her morphed form platonic to romantic. You can really see this in the Titan’s Curse novel. It’s when Percy starts to explicitly realize annabeth is different to him that Grover despite the fact that he loves them both, and in the previous novel, he experienced brotherly love with Tyson. Im such a fan of how we got to watch his emotional depth evolve through exposure to new relationships.
Then it all comes together when he realises he likes annabeth but doesn’t know what to do about it. He almost confesses at the end of Titans Curse and then backs out. He realises Annabeth feels the same in the Battle of the labyrinth and the last Olympian.
To OP’s point, Percy lives with all his heart, so it was never a situation of “I like annabeth more than my other friends so I must have a crush on her.” It was always that how he loved her changed with time and grew right under his nose and he had no way of telling the difference until he was fully in love.
I also always think about “there’s another boyfriend?” And giggle because how could he not realise how that sounded? But then I realised it could be the case that he knows people might mistake them for a couple; they might mistake any teenage boy and girl for a couple but Percy knows who all of annabeth’s friends are. So the idea that there’s a guy close enough to her to be mistaken for her boyfriend and he doesn’t know about it makes him upset that she wouldn’t tell him. So probably a smidge of jealousy and a smidge of wondering why he was left out of the loop.
Quick reminder that THIS is the son of Poseidon, earthshaker, stormbringer, King of the Seas, the Demi-God who jumped into Tartarus after his girlfriend, who nearly cracked the Earth apart in Labyrinth and the kid who literally blood-bends a Goddess because someone dared to threaten his Annabeth.
This is the Perseus Jackson that everyone is shit scared of and, right now, he is still just a foetus.
This. I believed every bit of this. He wasn't just about to throw hands over it; he was gonna throw everything, and it was all there without him saying a damn word.
percy being afraid of thalia and them not getting along really well makes much more sense now because now thalia actually has more incentive to hate the gods, especially her father. imagine your father turns you into a tree to punish you, when it's his decisions that led to your existence, you lose 6 years of your life, you don't get to see your friends grow up, and when you wake up you find one of your friends is actively fighting against the gods AND there's a prophecy which says that you might have to decide the fate of the world in less than a year, by either choosing to go against your father - which would mean going against most of your friends, destroying the only safe places for people like you, and letting your textbook evil grandfather become ruler of the universe, OR choosing to stay on the side of your father - which would mean going up against your oldest, closest friend who was the first person to treat you as a person and not an otherworldly being or a mistake, and it would also mean supporting your father WHO LITERALLY TURNED YOU INTO A TREE AND TOOK AWAY YOUR LIFE AND YOUR AUTONOMY JUST BECAUSE HE HAD YOU. AND YOU DIDN'T WANT TO BE A VESSEL IN HIS WAR. thalia's life is so tragic, any decision she would make was bound to hurt many people in the process, and genuinely nobody could hold it against her that she joined the huntress and took herself out of the situation entirely. i think they knew the prophecy was never going to be about thalia from the second she said no to zeus that day on the hill, and choosing to join the huntress was her way of not having to choose between a bad and a worse option. good for her that she finally found peace in something.
It says here in the chart that the patient has exhibited "prostate orgasm seeking behavior"
People reblogging this with various fictional characters is so fun. Real life celebrity Gerard Way said this. My favorite rockstar is more in touch with his prostate than yours
omg thank you
most upsetting thing about stebbins to me is that he doesn't really react to anything until garraty almost gets himself killed trying to get a hug from his mom. he's pushed through days of walking and watched 40+ boys die violently but the thing that finally makes him crack is seeing another boy put his life on the line just to feel affection from a parent, because he knows that feeling too intimately to push it down.
hey. you got this. you and I, every single person reading this, we are all going to be okay. I literally prommy
Emily Henry novels!
beach read / people we me meet on vacation / book lovers / happy place / funny story
PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION (2026), dir. Brett Haley
My two yr old is looking through a book about prehistoric art and she saw a picture of those cave painting of hands and she held up her own and said "hand!" And I gotta be honest. That hit
Oh my god, this reminds me of the childrens garden of our local botanical garden. There’s one section that’s called the prehistoric lives garden or smth, and it’s full of native plants that indigenous people 2000 years ago would have eaten and used as medicine, etc. And within this little garden, there’s an adobe style playhouse, which for some reason (probably lighting reasons) has no roof, which means the rusty red dirt floor is often quite muddy.
And this series of events has led to my favorite interactive art piece ever.
Handprints.
Little tiny handprints at the bottom. Big teenager and adult sized handprints at the top. Handprints upon handprints upon handprints, a modern day continuation of an ancient tradition.
Most of the people who contributed were probably doing so because they thought it would be fun, not for any deep philosophical reason. Heck, you can tell based on the height of the larger handprints that their owners were having a jumping competition. They didn’t think about the fact that they were creating art in the exact same way the earliest humans created art. They didn’t think about the fact that humans have always been and will always be humans, and the ways we interact with each other and the world have always stayed the same in the most important ways.
But I did. I thought about it. And I am in love with humanity all over again.
this is in lalish the holy city of the yezidi people and look! handprints on the temple walls from the oil in those old vases!
hey. you got this. you and I, every single person reading this, we are all going to be okay. I literally prommy
i fully acknowledge that the real issues with tswift are her climate crimes, her being besties with trump supporters and the fact that she's a billionaire and not her godawful songwriting skills
but like i can't not make fun of her lyrics im sorry
like i dont want to take away from the actual material harm shes doing but she really wrote a song called Canceled like she's an edgy netflix comedian and unfortunately that is too funny for me to ignore
in law school, my mom took me to this stress retreat because my family was vaguely aware i was a suicide risk. and they didnt allow phones, so i brought this huge bag of books. and one of the options for "destressing" was this fake cave grotto thing, where they'd decorated a room to make it look exactly like an underground cave and the air was like -10 degrees, but there was a like 4ft deep pool in the middle that was kept super super hot, so you would just switch between the hot and cold. and they would bring you an endless supply of this weird syrupy drink thing that was like super caffeinated and tasted like sugar and mint. and so i spent multiple days sitting half submerged in this fake grotto drinking mystery liquid and reading. and i have to be honest i really did feel less stressed
Genie
this is like in the wizard of oz books when Dorothy realizes that every animal-- even animals from the regular world-- can talk when they're in Oz. so she's like, "Toto, look, I just want to know if you can talk. Why don't you talk?? You should be able to talk here, do you want to talk??" and Toto just says "no" and never talks again. all like fifteen books he can talk and chooses not to except to let Dorothy know that he can talk, and simply doesn't want to. iconic
