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edgy assassin protagonist coming back to the fantasy slums they grew up in (orphaned, of course) only to find out it's been gentrified. what used to be a shady bar just called "the pit", full of assassins haggling for the price of hits and fences pawning stolen trinkets, is now a bandit-themed fancy restaurant called "the cloak and dagger" where they sell overpriced burgers with little knives running through them to keep all the ingredients in place

ozth

found a rock in the kitchen and as I was about to throw it in the trash I thought "wait this is cruel I should let it outside" as if it was a living thing

ozth

I let it outside

gamechangershow

🚨There is a secret episode of Game Changer out now on Dropout -- the one Sam doesn't want you to see! Go watch it now before he demands it needs to be taken down! It's the one we've all been waiting for!!!

👉Watch it on Dropout here 👈

samreich

please enjoy game changer s7e11 "samalamadingdong," the first and (hopefully) last episode of game changer i had no part in producing.

a huge credit to brennan as well as my cast, crew, and staff for giving me this taste of my own medicine. ❤️🤮

herpsandbirds

Them Eat Crab.

bedupolker

every maryland friend group looks like this

cyberpriestess

still mad about smart TVs. that shit should be in a separate box like you can literally buy one of them androidtv boxes for £30. it doesn't need its own ip address it doesn't need its own app store it doesn't need to replicate the functionality every device plugged into it already has

opensuse-official

Smart TVs are one of the great evils of the modern era tbh. If I wanted spyware on my TV I should have to download it myself

cyberpriestess

i keep promising myself i won't become another technophobe yelling about those "dang newfangled machines" or whatever. that i won't Get Worse until going back to punchcards unironically seems like a good idea. that i'll enjoy new things as they come out.

but so much is actively evil, hostile or otherwise enshittified. i don't want to track my greebles with splorp i don't want to pay a teehee subscription to get round cacophany's file limits i don't need 17 ways to skrimple my scronk 7 of which secretly activate scrungly plus ultimate i don't need to link it to my flowolf account i don't want to manage it with the flowby mowby i don't care if poob does or does not has it for me. i don['t care

i want a big screen whose ENTIRE job is to show me whatever device i plug into it. and also audio. i want to save my documents. on the computer. that i'm using. i want to own the media i buy. i want tech that is fat, properly cooled, simpler, serviceable by a normal person, and not forcing me to constantly select the "onlly spy on me a little bit" box every couple weeks.

opensuse-official

You are so incredibly right

politijohn

Source

twippedtronic

He isn’t leaving, he got promoted. The board considers the losses worthwhile

punishedsaints

anachronic-cobra

I cannot emphasize enough how exactly accurate this is to working in production

patricia-taxxon

eclectic taste (not to be confused with good taste) is the only thing you actually need to be a good artist. i don't care if you like the right things, i literally only care abt the multitude of experiences and practices you have ingested.

patricia-taxxon

so many common anxieties about art just crumble when you finally step into the wild side and make consumption as much a part of your job as creation. "my art sucks" gain a taste for art that sucks and employ it with intent. "i don't have a style i can call my own" consume everything and deliberately pick the elements you like. "i'm afraid of accidentally plagiarizing" plagiarize a second thing at the same time and then its yours

patricia-taxxon

you will not survive the winter

frottinq

Do you ever interact with someone and you realize “this person has never had to consider or think about what their place in the world is, and why they believe certain things or act certain ways, this person has never considered society at length” and it’s just terrifying

worstgirleva

"you gotta play with the cards you're dealt" WRONG. i play pot of greed which lets me draw two additional cards from my deck

what-even-is-thiss

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.

what-even-is-thiss

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.

what-even-is-thiss

Here's a list of university run literary journals. Do it. Get published.

what-even-is-thiss

wilthered-dreams

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!

what-even-is-thiss

Independent magazines are great too! I’m more familiar with the university journal scene so I appreciate this addition.

martabat

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

james-joyces-right-eyeball

I worked on a literary journal for a semester (degree requirement but HIGHLY valuable experience as a writer) and the amount of mediocre white men who submitted was staggering. one guy submitted four poems about various famous hot women then a fifth about his hemorrhoids. I promise you (yes, you!) reading this that you can do better than that!

tourdion

say what you will about the reserve bank of india these are some cracking coins

theradicalkanji

cuntubus

tiktoksthataregood-ish

jam-etc

Wholesome

shithowdy

i know i just reblogged this a few hours ago but i keep thinking about this man and his powerful emanations. i think this might actually be the physical manifestation of the soul of new york city. if he dies the city itself becomes pillars of dust

hms-no-fun

"if i didn't own the building and had to pay rent never in a million years could i keep this place open" damn it's almost like private ownership of storefront property punishes unique local businesses out of existence while keeping the door open for megacorporations that can afford the rent. almost like storefronts should just be city property that those with business licenses can rent on the cheap indefinitely. almost like an echo of the broader problem with the private housing market too... damn, really makes you think

byjove

Heterosexual relationship culture is so alien to me and I don’t know if it’s the fact I’m not cishet or the fact I’m autistic but I hear so many things that make me go “Am I insane or are they?”

There’s a lot of hate on widowers and I saw a woman say “You cannot compete with a dead woman.” which is perhaps a reasonable statement to say if he’s constantly comparing you to his dead partner but that wasn’t what the post was about. And I realized “Oh my God, these people genuinely feel like they’re constantly in competition with their spouse’s exes and the ex being dead makes them feel insecure that they cannot best her.”

There’s also been an uptick in the ‘men and women cannot be ‘just’ friends’ rhetoric which I feel like is extremely dangerous and reflects the rise of fascism and sexism. Some of these stories of women feeling threatened by their husband’s female best friend have some merit and others are like “I feel angry that my husband still talks to the girl he grew up next door to and she and her wife are invited to family gatherings and included in family photos sometimes. Am I right to be suspicious?” No. No you’re not. I cannot imagine being you and living with that high level of stress and paranoia and constant torment and jealousy about your husband having a positive relationship with anyone who isn’t you.

covington-shenanigans

okay look i know this isn't relevant to this post past the second paragraph but. here's the thing. the facts of the case are as follows:

1) I am widowed. my Beloved Wife of Blessed Memory(tm) died in 2019

2) I got together with my current partner about 18 months later

3) when I am committing acts of Foolishness my current partner loves to gesture at the sky to my dead wife, like "do you see this shit, my liege" and regularly says to me things like "[wife's name] was right about this" when my Foolishness inevitably comes back to bite me in the ass

4) this happens. all the time

more importantly:

5) my current partner is on tumblr

6) they love to incessantly send me posts

WHICH MEANS:

7) they just sent me this post with this commentary:

8) they really, really are ganging up on me with her. god help us if there's an afterlife and those two ever actually meet. "eternal rest" my ass, i will never know peace again