"𝓦𝓱𝔂 𝓫𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓫𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓲?"
Miss Piggy in a promotional clip for her faux lifestyle brand "Moi", directed by Kirk R. Thatcher for the QVC shopping channel in 2014. A parody of avant-garde perfume advertisements, the clip became the most viewed video on QVC's website at the time of its release on March 9th, 2014. Miss Piggy, Kermit, Gonzo and various other Muppets appeared on QVC on March 16th, 2014 to promote the Disney movie Muppets Most Wanted and to sell a Miss Piggy tote bag, Muppets cookies, and a limited-edition lotion and fragrance called "Loveswept". In order to promote the all-day QVC programming, a fake feud was concocted between Miss Piggy and comedian Joan Rivers (then the Queen of QVC with her own popular line of wares), with Piggy and Joan exchanging barbs and culminating with Miss Piggy pushing Rivers into a cake (they made up on air during the Muppets QVC appearance; Piggy and Joan had previously worked together in the 1984 movie The Muppet's Take Manhattan in an iconic make-over scene set in a department store). The Jim Henson Company had previously released a now discontinued and highly collectible fragrance named "Moi by Miss Piggy" in 1998 created by Jean-Claude Delville of Gendarme Fragrances. Blended with fresh floral jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla, the eau de parfum was launched at Bloomingdale's in New York before a wide release. Touted as being "a bouquet of seductive flowers warmed with 'come-hither' notes of warm blonde woods", Miss Piggy described it as having "a certain je ne sais moi".
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My mentor in the indie publishing space gave me the most valuable advice ever: DO NOT pay people to tell you how to navigate the indie publishing world. The best resources are out there for free, and the ones she provided me are still available from when I began publishing 10 years ago.
So, there's a dirty little secret in indie publishing a lot of people won't tell you, and if you aren't aware of it, self-publishing feels even scarier than it actually is.
There's a subset of self-published indie authors who write a ludicrous number of books a year, we're talking double digit releases of full novels, and these folks make a lot of money telling you how you can do the same thing. A lot of them feature in breathless puff pieces about how "competitive" self-publishing is as an industry now.
A lot of these authors aren't being completely honest with you, though. They'll give you secrets for time management and plotting and outlining and marketing and what have you. But the way they're able to write, edit, and publish 10+ books a year, by and large, is that they're hiring ghostwriters.
They're using upwork or fiverr to find people to outline, draft, edit, and market their books. Most of them, presumably, do write some of their own stuff! But many "prolific" indie writers are absolutely using ghostwriters to speed up their process, get higher Amazon best-seller ratings, and, bluntly, make more money faster.
When you see some godawful puff piece floating around about how some indie writer is thinking about having to start using AI to "stay competitive in self-publishing", the part the journalist isn't telling you is that the 'indie writer' in question is planning to use AI instead of paying some guy on Upwork to do the drafting.
If you are writing your books the old fashioned way and are trying to build a readerbase who cares about your work, you don't need to use AI to 'stay competitive', because you're not competing with these people. You're playing an entirely different game.
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yo ho soldier
This started as a way to try a different rendering and lineart style, i think i like how it turned out! Also thinking about seeing how it looks as a print, will update if its good lol
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what the fuck did I just download
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no quiero vida si no es contigo // i don't want life if it isn't with you - karol g & tiesto
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free my girl she did all that shit but the fandom is mischaracterizing her for it
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