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Pin #2: Star Wars: The Old Republic Seal || GIVEAWAY!

Currently these are the last seven pins in stock from the original run and I’m pretty frickin’ proud of how nice they look! Thank you so much for everyone who made this pin run a success! Run 2 is on its way!

You can still get these @ the Pineaberry Designs Shop

I also want to thank all 34 followers! It may not be much to some people, but I appreciate you all!

As a special thank you, I will be giving away two (2) B-Grade pins!

In order to qualify you must abide by the following rules:

Follow this blog.

Reblog this post.

Each person is entitled to one entry.

Giveaway will close 7/19/20 11:59PM PST.

Winners will be announced 7/20/20.

That’s it! That’s all I got!

Thanks again,

-Lefos

Pineaberry.com

Nothing is more disgusting than a self hating white girl. Scum of humanity, mayonnaise ass whore demon.

This is certainly a statement

useoul

October 1st

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littlepinkbeast

you know how most of the things humans use as spices are poisonous or repellent to most other mammals? and you know how anything vaguely d&d inspired has dwarves being way more poison resistant than even humans?

dwarf cuisine shouldn’t be bland, it should be unimaginably spicy and potentially harmful or fatal to humans. like green potato and rhubarb leaf salad with a festive garnish of yew berries and deadly nightshade berries, that kind of thing.

the-rear-admiral-reborn

Concept: humans think it’s bland cuz rather than memorizing what kills humans it’s safer to just pass on the spices.

loreofcardigan

#‘should we add salt? everyone eats salt right?’#‘no that’s a rock there’s no way humans eat rocks

“I need to raise some money to cover an emergency vet bill, so I'm taking #comissions! Im a writer and an abstract painter. Most if my art is on my ko-fi: https://t.co/xY6paUpvE5”

#Comissions #writing #emeergancy #vet bill #dog #help please

coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230

Some trans science fiction and fantasy books. You can find my earlier recs for f/f science fiction and fantasy here and my new recs for bi and pan books here.

Also I somehow totally blanked on this while making the powerpoint, but Charlie Jane Anders’ stuff should be in the last slide. Her two books are CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT and ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY. I’ll link to some of her short stories below the cut.

The queer SFF database’s tag for trans books is here. There’s more than I included in the rec post, so go knock yourself out!

I included the author identities because I figured people would want to know if the book was own voices. Disclaimer that gender is a weird nebulous thing and life isn’t easy or straightforward, so depending on when you’re reading this post (I’m writing 8/2/19), some of the authors I listed as cis might have had gender realizations. I literally saw this on Twitter this morning with one of the “more trans SFF” books, so figured it was worth saying.

Below the text cut you’ll find the titles and authors, links to my queer SFF database (which includes links to trans reviewers and content warnings), and some of my favorite SFF short stories by trans people.

Keep reading

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Some AWESOME recommendations here!

asymbina

Lots of good stuff!

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Indeeeeeeed

pottergerms

AO3 WON A FUCKING HUGO AWARD

WE ALL OWN A HUGO OF OUR OWN

allahrakhii-deactivated20210317

you all want my opinion?

allahrakhii-deactivated20210317

the reason fanfic got left behind and fanart didn’t is because artists made a deliberate effort to get better at their craft. of course there are shitty popular artists who make generic or horny art. but there’s a pretty big pool of genuinely good art, of artists that tried to make their own comics or stories or whatever and actually improved in their craft. unlike the majority of fanfic authors who churn out garbage after garbage horny fic and then throw a tantrum when anyone criticizes them AND THEN get upset when no one appreciates fanfic. and i say this as a fanfic author myself. the vast majority of fanfic is garbage and does nothing but resort to worse cliches and stereotypes than mainstream media does.

who-is-page

Alternate, but not entirely mutually exclusive, opinion: fanfiction is getting left behind because most fanfiction authors who write large amounts and get a following as their talent increases (alongside their ability to write dynamic plot, interesting characters, and the amount of stories they have w/o sex or romance of any kind) eventually just end up moving on to original fiction and non-fiction. While sometimes us artists end up stuck in our niches, because fan art can help you make excellent money if you know who to go to or use it to build your fan base, while fanfiction does not as a general rule. Fandom + art = $$$. Fandom + writings = nothing, nada, zip.

mordinette

Bullshit. A lot of fanfic authors work hard on improving their craft, and there are a lot of fanfic writers who are as good - if not better - than some published authors. Are there fics that could be better written? Sure. But those writers are still trying to do their best, and this generalized waving off of fanfic as garbage is not helpful at all.

And yes to the post above: many fanfic writers move on to writing original fiction. It’s also true that fanartists can make money with commissions, which, I imagine, is both an incentive and a reward in itself. Fanart gets reblogged way more often than fanfics, too. All fanfic authors can basically hope for is a few reblogs and some comments, and when those things don’t happen, it’s easy to get discouraged and feel like it’s not worth it to work so hard on their art.

threewhiskeylunch

Let’s talk about the time it takes to write fanfiction, because, my friends, it takes a whole helluva a lot of time to write 50k words, to edit all those words, to rewrite, to have someone beta if you’re so lucky. If you can average 500 words an hour (some can do more, some can do less and bless them for keeping at it), that’s 100 hours of work you put into writing JUST THE FIRST DRAFT. Even if you can do 1000 words an hour, that’s still 50 hours of work. That’s a full time job plus some. Then there’s the editing. The rewrites. The waiting on someone to beta (because they have a life too, donchaknow). Then more editing because maybe you should move that scene there, and maybe you should add some smut (and oh gawd you’ve started posting the first chapters and your few loyal followers are nudging you for smut so where is that gonna go?) Oh and let’s not forget about research. Time spent putting yourself on some watchlist because you want to be sure you get blood splatters right and what do hallucinogens really feel like and what’s the Portuguese word for potato and is that really the word or is Google translate lying to me so who do I know that speaks Portuguese…

Not everyone has that kind of time. Not everyone has that sort of sustainable energy. For a few kudos, even fewer comments, and maybe a nice note in a bookmark? Yeah. I sincerely hope, OP, that you leave extremely nice and cheering comments on all the fic you read, otherwise fuck you. If you’re not willing to cheer on writers, then sit down.

And how dare HOW DARE you suggest that fanfic writers don’t improve? I’ve watched my own writing improve. I’ve watched the writing of my friends improve. I’ve followed authors for years and note with glee how much better they are than a year or two ago. And even if someone *doesn’t* improve, so what? They’re still putting something out there. They are brave enough to publish something that means *so much* to them, something that burns in their heart so strongly they have to put it down in physical form.

Bravo to them.

Boo to you.

fanfictionwriter101

And to add:

Fuck you,

Love all fanfic writers.

strangedreamings

Every fanfic writer I know works long and hard to perfect their craft. Some writers are just starting out. Others have been writing for years, even decades. No one is born a good writer, we’re all learning and improving as we go.

Fuck you, @castlevania, for trying to demoralize an entire group, especially one that you claim to be in.

If you don’t like a particular fic, if you think it’s a “garbage horny fic,” then let me tell you a little secret:

IT WASN’T MEANT FOR YOU.

naryrising

God, this bullshit again? This has literally always been a fandom argument, going back 20 years at least. Agreed with the sensible people above, and also let’s point out the obvious fact that looking at a piece of art takes 5 seconds and reading a 100k work takes hours if not days. Of course artists will tend to get more feedback than writers. Consuming their works is basically effortless on the part of the viewer: it doesn’t require language comprehension (I’ve enjoyed many an artwork by artists whose language I don’t know, I can still appreciate their skill), doesn’t require putting aside considerable time, doesn’t require thinking very deeply and keeping track of a plot and remembering what happened last chapter. Reading is harder work than looking. If you’re talking engagement, writing a comment is harder work than hitting like/reblog.

Shitting on fanfic writers is a lousy thing to do, and the level of engagement writers get is in no way reflective of their talent. Keep writing what you love, ignore the assholes.

ryuutchi

“Fanfic writers don’t make an effort to get better at their craft and fan artists do” is what passes for a hot take these days?

littlegoythings

The doodle isn't being shown in U.S. browsers.

tikkunolamorgtfo

They didn’t show it in the United States?!

ayellowbirds

GEE I WONDER WHY A DOODLE TRIBUTING A MAN WHO HELPED RESCUE IMPERILED REFUGEES MIGHT NOT BE SHOWN IN THE UNITED STATES.

chemicalheart-deactivated202009

July 29, 2019

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disbandandisperse

and they’re usually not that brilliant and careful either. 99％ of the time the police are just incompetent! Ted Bundy literally jumped out a window and escaped police custody because they weren’t watching him

A victim literally escaped Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment naked with a hole drilled in his head and unable to speak but police let Dahmer take him back to his apartment like everything was ok!

And I guess he doesn’t count as a serial killer but Eric Harris had already been making threats and harrassing students to an extreme degree before Columbine- police literally had a search warrant but they just never acted on it. If they had, they would have found the guns and pipe bombs and the shooting could have been easily prevented. They even tried to cover this up afterwards.

Serial killers and mass murders are usually not that smart, police have just historically refused to do their actual jobs.

hooray4skeleton

always remember that the “genius serial killer” narrative is a blatant cover for the fact that the police will always look the other way when it comes to white cis men exhibiting blatantly violent and hateful behavior