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this is assuming its on art you normally wouldn't jump to reblog. i myself only rb stuff i really really like so .

The 'rude/demanding' tone would be stuff along the lines of "if you like but don't reblog I'll [threat]" which i see surprisingly often, both serious and more silly

#these sort of requests I understand as a fellow artist #but as a fellow artist they decrease the artistic value for me even if I love a piece #bc even if friendly it feels incredibly demanding #you are not owed visibility sorry #I have gone through the brutalities of the animation industry #and people not reblogging art does not even compare #so my sympathy is few #I also do original art and seeing fandom artist complain about getting 20 notes #when my art is lucky to get 2 is like *rolls eyes

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I AM THAT IS

#redwall #love the softness of this

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this couldn’t be said any better

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“if you’re working a full time job you should be able to afford to live on your own and have access to food and transportation” gonna be real with you brother. everyone deserves this. Not just people working 40 hrs a week

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im starting to think you guys dont like it when stories make you feel things

#lmao what are these people on??? #death is part of the human experince

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every time there is author drama where it's revealed the author has put an insurmountable amount of time doing the most unhinged bullshit i just have to wonder where do they find the time?? Like i have bills to pay babe.

#writeblr #can you just write a book and touch grass for the love of GOD #authors #and it is always at the expense of authors of color too i stg

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it’s been four years since I last watched through all of Hannibal & I still think about the episode set in West Virginia where they’re literally at the beach. The beach in Grafton WV. A town notably 1,000 feet above sea level & roughly 200 miles from the nearest seawater

Like….was it supposed to be a lake….

is this perhaps what someone at NBC thinks a lake in the Appalachian mountains looks like

#this gets me everytime #that one episode of scandal where they're supposed to be in VT and it's like...the rocky mountains #or when they stopped filming Friday the 13th movies in jersey. like BABE that is NOT new jersey #if you're from the north east in any regard it is SO easy to tell #and also often feels like not a single hollywood/tv person has ever been here lmao #i DID appreciate the cumbies in the last of us tho

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#hard agree #but also notice how everything deemed cringe is an aspect of humanity #that does not abide by a strict binary #THAT is what is ultimately being preyed upon here #deeming polyamory bisexuality and non-binary cringe #is ultimately trying to squish this non binary queerness into a binary box #by saying it is lesser #which…ick. #one also has to consider that these identities are talking in an annoying way online #bc it is difficult to talk about these things even casually in a binary world #that often sees these things as greedy or wrong or perversion #sometimes even within the queer community #so we go online to find like minded community and acceptance #and the thing with online posting if you find somebody annoying #just. shut the app. turn off your phone. it’s that easy

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manuscript is going really well at the moment. still working on this refinement edit and i'm really happy about the quality of what's happening.

but it's also hard. i think about continuing to work on my query, it's tedious and i get overwhelmed after a while, can be over consumed by online advice. i go to the bookstore and can barely pick out a book, i stare at the shelves overwhelmed by how much i WANT this. i've had readers who are also writers, i've had readers who are just readers. good general feedback all around and yet i still feel immense self doubt. i am consumed by the idea that wanting this, wanting ~something~ to come from my creative endeavors is often seen as cringe. i am trying to overcome those thoughts without getting overly confident so i can be realistic and protect myself. why must this be so complicated.

#writeblr #authors #traditional publishing #publishing #i want it i want it i want is #is it okay to scream those things? to want success and an audience? i don't think so #it is not enough my critique partner and betas know my story intimately i want more. #i want to tell this damn story and have people enjoy it dammit

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I’ve been trying to buy less physical books lately bc my bookshelves are screaming in agony but I could not resist. It’s sexy.

#bookblr #leigh bardugo #the familiar

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How zionists talk about the murder of 4, 8 and 10 years old children

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Julia Iredale.

#gorgeous

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Donna Lee Parsons isn’t particularly well-known in hardcore/punk circles, but she should be. She played a pivotal role in rock history. Before she transitioned, she founded Rat Cage Records, a record label that released the Beastie Boys’ first two EPs; she signed them at their very first show. Twenty years later, after Parsons came out as trans and the band’s meteoric rise to fame, the artists quietly paid for Parson’s gender affirmation surgery. According to member Adam Horovitz, since the men knew she wouldn’t accept the money if she saw it as a charitable act, they claimed they owed her royalties from their EP Polly Wog Stew.

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So if you’ve ever worn a ‘lightning bolt’ t-shirt or listened to Victim in Pain or found yourself fondly recalling a Beastie Boys show you went to, you have a transgender woman to thank for that. And we should know her story. If you call yourself a hardcore kid, Donna Lee Parsons touched your life.

Source: LGBTQ Nation | True Trans Soul Rebel by Norman Brannon | April 2024

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🔹 Someone else's fiction cannot cause you physical harm.

🔹If someone else's fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it.

🔹Your emotional well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers.

🔹Someone else's fiction is not about your personal trauma.

🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.

🔹Fiction writers are not responsible for other people's mental health.

🔹The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.

🔹Just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn't mean they want those things to happen.

🔹Don't like? Don't read.

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Leave me and my weird names in peace

#bruh spellcheck can’t even understand MY REGUALR FIRST NAME let alone fantasy names

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“the problem is its never gonna be what all the fans want” imo the problem is the majority of fans have bad fucking taste like. if you write a story with the intent to keep editing it in line with what fans want you’re gonna end up with a shitty story. obviously you can take in criticism from early access but once you publish the thing you shouldn’t constantly be retconning characterization wtf. good god

#also when writers change planned plots bc fans ‘figured it out’ #and they want to shock/surprise #like no. stop. all that set up and foreshadowing only for you to be a wishy washy baby??? #commit to the bit!