So hail Satan and have a lovely afternoon, madam

[generic-name-50]

Insane things happening on Hannibal tiktok

[userarmand]

armand + text posts [s3 edition]

[nondelphic]

"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god

[jarodleto]

[gotyouanyway]

anything u think about YOUR life after 10pm is bs to be ignored. anything u think about a character’s life after 10pm should be posted about online and expanded on for paragraphs. :)

[kinkydorah]

ASSAD ZAMAN AMC+

[tieflingteef]

making every conversation into being about The Character with the same reliability and conviction of a youth pastor going “you know who else partied? our lord and savior”

[prokopetz]

Penis nomenclature is one of the less-discussed hazards of having very particular tastes in erotic fanfic. I once ran across a story that improbably had both the exact pairing and the exact kink I was looking for, only to get clotheslined at the first sex scene by the fact that the text consistently referred to the lead's penis as their "dork".

[prokopetz]

[fluff-e-boy]

One of the most important images of all time

[wetchickenbreast]

if i was in a time loop i’d deadass lose count after like 4 days

[xzombiexkittenx]

I just spent the week reading Throughout His Life the Same and it's GORGEOUS. You really, truly GET these characters and I love all the layers you add to them. Your Marius gave me chills in the best way possible. Bravo

Thank you so much! I'm always happy to hear that someone thought my writing was in character and that you enjoyed it. Thank you for messaging me to let me know, I appreciate it.

[raccoonmilf]

Scientifically speaking, it’s only tentacle porn if the suckers are found exclusively on the distal tentacular club. If the suckers go all the way up the length of the appendage, it’s just arm porn.

[xzombiexkittenx]

ZK's Loumand Microfic 2026 Masterlist

It's done! Thanks to @loumandmicrofic for throwing the event.

The entire collection is here.

The individual fics are as follows:

distance/refusal: 100 words, G Distance measured in time Now that it's too late to matter.

house/haunting: 200 words, M Before. During. After. The painting was mid.

hunt/contain: 300 words, G His methodology is never violent The monster is cheating.

smoke/shatter: 400 words, G While you were sleeping The back door is open. The fucking door is open.

chivalry/oath: 500 words, G Mme. Manners Armand sits. “I have old fashioned manners,” he protests, sounding genuinely pained. “I am old fashioned. It is not meant to insult you.”

kiss/fist: 1298 (I was big mad and full of words) G What you do with it “If I tell you to strip, am I going to like what I see?” Louis asked. “Do not make a pass at me right now, so help me God.”

“It’s not that bad,” Armand said. “I’m barely bruised. We don’t need to discuss it.”

free space: 700 (I am still mad, but I control the words again), G Forced perspective The record comes to a stop and the machine starts to click.

“What the fuck?” Louis says.

[kinkydorah]

jacob and assad for entertainment weekly .·°՞(≧ᗜ≦)՞°·.

[open-windows]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE BOOK SIGNING WHERE DANIEL MEETS GUY ANATOLE IS THE LITERAL DAY AFTER THE PARK BEHEADING DATE.

[darlingofdots]

ten years ago as part of my creative writing degree we had a class on professional development where we learned how the publishing process works for different mediums and how to choose an agent and what the role of a publishing house is and back then, the advice was "self-publishing has its advantages but a traditional publisher will provide editorial support and market your book and if your book sells well enough they want to invest in your future" and now basically none of that is true anymore. books make it to shelves with noticeable errors and structural issues that could be addressed with one or two more rounds of developmental editing, authors are expected to do more and more of the marketing themselves to the point that they are expected to be social media influencers in their own right, and publishers appear to be prioritising flashy debut novels with huge advances they don't outsell, which means the author is less likely to get a follow-up deal.

Obviously a publisher is a business and a business needs to make money, but the idea used to be that you'd have a couple of very successful authors who bring in so much cash that they subsidise the new kid who is building a back catalogue of books that sell okay until they get name recognition and pay for themselves. I was told back then that a couple thousand pounds was very reasonable for a debut novel because you want to get royalties for the sales exceeding your advance and that way the publisher sees you as a profitable investment. The last couple of years I keep hearing about six figure book deals for debut (!) literary fiction (!) novels, what on earth?

I'm not saying that the publishing industry is uniquely awful or that it's worse than it's ever been or whatever, but especially in a time when reading and talking about books is trendy and there is so much money in books, it feels very, I don't know, symbolic? Prioritising flashy one-time projects over sustained and sustainable growth. Investing only enough resources to make your product fit for sale but not enough to make it good because people will buy it anyway. It's frustrating to me as a reader and as an aspiring writer and as a person existing in a capitalist system.

[poorshadowspaintedqueens]

One of the tags referred to people thanking their editorial teams in acknowledgments, and I want to point out the growing prevalence of people thanking beta-readers and writing groups, both of which usually rely on a pre-existing community or relationship and, just as importantly, are unpaid.

My day job is as a freelance editor for nonfiction books, and I can safely say that if the publishing industry were operating as intended, I would either not have a job at all or be working for a specific press. Authors pay me directly to do the work that a press editor used to do as part of publication contracts. This is because so many presses have started outsourcing all their editorial work to either third-party contractors or, even worse, to genAI.

In short, venture capital has broken the publication industry the same way it's broken the retail, restaurant, and travel industries.

[darlingofdots]

I didn't go into this side of it in my original post but YES! Fuck! I know this is a huge issue for translators too because they're being asked to do more work in less time for less money and I've heard rumblings about human translators being brought in only to essentially proofread work done by AI, which is so disrespectful to the sheer skill and artistic abilities of (literary) translation...

Anyway, I love editing. I think I love editing almost more than writing, and I'm pretty sure that I'm better at it. Last year I edited an academic article from 11k to 9k words for my supervisor and I felt like a god when I finished it, but when my supervisor asked if I'd thought about doing this professionally, I had to tell her that there's just not a viable career in editing anymore. Publishers used to employ! editors! Several different kinds of editors for different stages of the process! That used to be my dream job!

Editing is so essential to making a text good. It doesn't matter how talented or dedicated you are as a writer, you cannot achieve the level of quality by yourself that you could achieve by working with a skilled editor. That's normal! The lone genius who comes out of the cave with the perfect novel does not exist! The manuscript that gets sold to a publisher is supposed to be handed off to an editor who tells you to tighten up that plotline and reminds you that every day can't be Tuesday and sharpens your prose so your voice really shines. Skimping out on that part of the publication process takes money out of the hands of skilled professionals, leads to consumers (ew) receiving subpar products (ew!), and is such an injustice to the writers whose work can't reach its full potential (and the writers who won't get published because they can't afford to pay an editor out of pocket!).

It drives me up the wall. I hate reading a mediocre book and knowing that a skilled editor could have easily raised it from 3 stars to 4. We should all be way angrier about it, frankly.

[happilyhadesbound]

underrated ship dynamic is 'they deserve each other /derogatory'

[lautakwah]