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“Given that Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society research shows that in 2006, average author earnings were £12,330, dropping to £7,000 in 2022, the value of forking out up to $5,000 to have a book published in three weeks might be questionable.”

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it turns out this is NOT the supernatural website and the beatles AREN’T bigger than jesus

congrats to our finalists, phan and jedus. may the best rpf win 🫡

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Absolutely dogshit article on the fucking awful new york times today, just disgusting tone throughout basically implying no contact with your abusive family is a social media trend, and often done by frivolous reasons

Instead of the horrible but LIFE SAVING choice a lot of us are basically forced into

It makes me fucking sick that they thought it was okay to speak to "estranged parent's organisations" - would you seek out the POV of other types of abusers too? Think they're gonna do anything but justify their abuse and lie?

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wooden bears by CarversStudio

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I can’t believe they’re making me do my degree I signed up for

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I dislike the inclusion of a lot of modern Queer Rep Terminology in spec fic (fantasy more than sci fi) on basically aesthetic grounds. But also on to be slightly more principled about it, I feel like forcing the writers to actually describe their characters' identities and sexualities without recourse to a labelled bucket they can just slap and say 'yknow, this!' would be very artistically fruitful.

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reasons to write fanfiction (I'll start):

share a cool scene that popped into your head

evoke a particular emotion the canon makes you feel

song made you think of a character or idea from canon

make people feel the same way about a character you do

make dolls kiss for fun

explore ideas the canon hints at but doesn't do anything with

traumatize characters and make them suffer

coddle characters and let them rest

had an insane idea for a crack ship and now everyone needs to know

the author of the canon was wrong and must be fixed

use familiar characters to explore your own ideas and plotlines

canon is too short and you need to wallow in the universe of the story

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Vince & Nikki 🎭

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something they don’t tell you about being autistic is that every character you write WILL end up autistic/autistic-coded whether you like it or not

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when i was going into the publishing industry i expected to have to read books and maybe write annotations for them and edit them. what i did not expect was having to send a thousand emails every single day

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he's made some mistakes in life sure but that's a wee bit too harsh dontcha think

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"Yeah, but I don't think he's gonna transition"

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still in hell, if you’re wondering

how hard would writing a short story for class be for a writer of 10 years, you might ask? well, turns out, its damn nearly impossible

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Seasonal affective disorder havers how are we all coping

[ID: Two versions of the cat screaming at food bowl meme. The first has a clock showing 4pm and is captioned "WHY IS IT NIGHTTIME". The second has a November calendar and is captioned "WHY IS IT TEMPERATURES".]

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you’re hearing it more and more