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wuh oh 😬

#sk8 #renga

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#sk8 #renga #omg couples in flower crowns my beloved

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🐢🦆

#zutara

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Birthday art of Hatsuharu for my Fruba-loving sister (～￣3￣)～

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Shigure Sohma from Fruits Basket | icons

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Shigure Sohma from Fruits Basket

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Today's aesthetic is cassette futurism

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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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derails into symbolism that may make this less fun:

1 - how society sees people of color

2 - how society sees autistic people

3 - how society sees women

4 - how society sees you when you try to conform to make up for having one of the other traits

5 - how society sees nonconformity in general

"you were changed into something gross and slimy, others are disgusted" - how society sees queer people

"you were changed into something unreliable and needy, others have gotten tired of you" - how society sees disabled people

etc

ofc these have quite a bit of overlap with each other too

#my vision when i've been in the narrative analysis hole: this could be a metaphor #in case the reading comprehension on this site is that bad I'm gonna clarify now that i am against the view's society has here

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there arent enough gifs of white men tantrums

#legitimately actually

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i'm dead...early on when Mashima was designing Lucy, he made this note for his editors and animators. lmfao they did NOT listen at all

#fairy tail

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i hate the way that “female characters are just not as well written as male characters” persists even after years and years of people pointing out that is simply a bad excuse, that people will rehabilitate a poorly written man and flatten a well written woman time and time again. i hate the way that no one can take this criticism, this simple truth that they are biased against women, and work to slowly dismantle this part of themselves. instead it’s just, there are no good women

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the smiling grinner knows the worllds its dinner