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This is so cute… bring back librarian Orion pax…

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This is so cute… bring back librarian Orion pax…

#i love this!

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WIP Wednesday

Pure rainwater had scoured the manganese-iron cliffs, he realizes, washed the soot from them, washed the tears of industry and the wear of war away.

#WIP wednesday #my fics

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Megatronus was next in line, I wanted to emphasize his gladiator status, I hope I succeeded Who do you want to see next?

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Learning to draw! Proud of this sketch! I'd link the picture I used as reference but whenever I click on its source I get warned about viruses

#my art

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The last chapter of Embassy Row part 1!!

An assassination attempt, medical malpractice, and a huddle in Optimus's office

#my fics

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Sketch but for tfp megatron this time!

#excellent

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#starscream because i think its funny. and hes like #not That bad at it

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so I’m looking at short story publishers (fantasy)

Tor, cream of the crop. 25 cents a word. Stories can be read for free (YES). Slowish response time at ~3 months. Prefer under 12k, absolute maximum is 17.5k. Don’t bother if it’s not highly professional quality. SFWA qualifying.

Crossed Genres. 6 cents a word. Different theme each month (this month’s is “failure”). Submissions must combine either sci-fi or fantasy with the theme. Response time 1 month. 1k-6k, no exceptions. SFWA qualifying.

Long Hidden, anthology from CG. 6 cents a word. 2k-8k, no exceptions. Must take place before 1935. Protagonist(s) must be under 18 and marginalized in their time and place. Must be sci-fi/fantasy/horror. Deadline 30 April. Response by 1 October.

Queers Destroy Science Fiction. Sci-fi only right now, author must identify as queer (gay, lesbian, bi, ace, pan, trans, genderfluid, etc, just not cishet). 7.5k max. Deadline 15 February. Responses by 1 March. You can submit one flash fiction and one short story at the same time. (My network blocks the Lightspeed site for some reason, so I can’t get all the submission details. >_>) Probably SFWA qualifying?

Women in Practical Armor. 6 cents a word. 2k-5k. Must be about 1) a female warrior who 2) is already empowered and 3) wears sensible armour. Deadline 1 April. Response within three months.

Fiction Vortex. $10 per story, with $20 and $30 for editor’s and readers’ choice stories (hoping to improve). Speculative fiction only. Imaginative but non-florid stories. 7.5k maximum, preference for 5k and under. (I kind of want to support them on general principle.)

Urban Fantasy Magazine. 6 cents a word. 8k max, under 4k preferred. Must be urban fantasy (aka, the modern world, doesn’t need to be a literal city). 

Nightmare. 6 cents a word. 1.5-7.5k, preference for under 5k. Horror and dark fantasy. Response time up to two weeks. SFWA and HWA qualifying.

Apex Magazine. 6 cents a word. 7.5k max, no exceptions. Dark sci-fi/fantasy/horror. SFWA qualifying.

Asimov’s Science Fiction. 8-10 cents a word. 20k max, 1k minimum. Sci-fi; borderline fantasy is ok, but not S&S. Prefer character focused. Response time 5 weeks; query at 3 months. SFWA qualifying, ofc.

Buzzy Mag. 10 cents a word. 10k max. Should be acceptable for anyone 15+. Response time 6-8 weeks. SFWA qualifying.

Strange Horizons. 8 cents a word. Speculative fiction. 10k max, prefers under 5k. Response time 40 days. Particularly interested in diverse perspectives, nuanced approahces to political issues, and hypertexts. SFWA qualifying. 

Fantasy and Science Fiction. 7-12 cents a word. Speculative fiction, preference for character focus, would like more science-fiction or humour. 25k maximum. Prefers Courier. Response time 15 days.

Scigentasy. 3 cents a word. .5-5k. Science-fiction and fantasy, progressive/feminist emphasis. Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. 15 cents a word. 3k maximum. Any sci-fi/fantasy, they like a literary bent. (psst, steinbecks!) They also like to see both traditional and experimental approaches. Response time two weeks. 

Beneath Ceaseless Skies. 6 cents a word. 10k maximum. Fantasy in secondary worlds only (it can be Earth, but drastically different—alternate history or whatever). Character focus, prefer styles that are lush yet clear, limited first or third person narration. Response time usually 2-4 weeks, can be 5-7 weeks. SFWA qualifying.

Clarkesworld. 10 cents a word up to 4000, 7 afterwards. 1-8k, preferred is 4k. Science-fiction and fantasy. Needs to be well-written and convenient to read on-screen. Appreciates rigour. No talking cats. Response time 2 days. SFWA qualifying.

Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. 6 cents a word. Any length. Science-fiction and fantasy (along with fantastic horror). Good world-building and characterization. Clear straightforward prose. Response time three months. Yes, OSC is editor-in-chief. SFWA qualifying.

Interzone. Sub-pro rates if anything (but highly respected). 10k max. Short cover letter. Science-fiction and fantasy.

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Chapter 14 is out!

#my fics

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Everybody congratulate me, I have finally mastered spelling the word 'beautiful'!!!!

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桜舞い散る季節

#beautiful

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In which continuity is there a "flight caste"? There are the seekers, which might be warframes or energon seekers depending on the continuity, or potentially even a separate state with some internal power struggles going on (influenced heavily by the caste system and primacy). As for cars and motercycles, I always understood it to be the type of automobile (dumptruck, ambulance, train) in combination with specialized tools (my arm turns into a saw, I have data cables, my fingers turn into freaky mind piercers). And which Canon? I mean, it's transformers, it Really Really matters what Canon we are looking at here

Cybertronian caste system makes no sense.

Canon gives hyper-specific castes like "data clerk" but also extremely vague ones like "flight". "Flight" makes no sense as a caste because flight-capacity isn't itself a job, and it would mean jets like Starscream (and flying beastformers?) are somehow part of two separate castes at the same time.

And there doesn't seem to exist a category for cars and motorcycles, the most common altmodes, despite the system being based on altmodes, and canon insinuates they can choose their job which in a job-based caste system would mean they can choose their caste, which is even more insane.

A few people have tried to shut me up by screaming that functionism isn't supposed to make sense because it's an evil system. But have you looked at real world caste systems? Every job (or job type, like craftsmen) of the given society is in fact covered, and even privileged people don't get to pick whatever random jobs they want to do. Real caste systems do not have choice, uncovered professions, uncovered majority group, or this kind of weird intersectioning. Because a caste system can't actually work like that. The entire idea is that everybody has an inborn, eternal category.

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I luv mega train

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Megatron! We! Need! More! Megatron! In! Our! Lives!!!

thank you❤