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Too many writers are using generative 'AI' to make their book covers, so I've written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.

If you can't afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!

I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.

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getting back to my roots (warrior cats kid influence coming through)

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The ceasefire agreement was reached and joy is floating among the Palestinian people

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commission for @guillmure :) thank you so much! <3

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brambles

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brambles

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Period Drama Appreciation Week 2024 || Day 3 - Favorite Costumes in The Woman King

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Last Will by Nikolay Kurganov

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awesome show. awesome awesome awesome show

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Some countries, like Canada and Australia, will often deny visas to disabled people due to a percieved "strain on the healthcare system".

There have been cases of families facing division by the Australian government when immigrating together even though the disabled person in question is a child.

Don't forget that, even if options are limited in general for Americans, it tends to be even more limited for disabled people - it's built into the system. It's a feature of the system, not a bug.

i've been seeing a lot of americans saying - understandably - that they intend to pack up and move abroad. france, the uk, ireland, etc following the election results

i'm surprised by how many people don't understand that moving to another country is practically impossible unless you have a heritage claim (generally parents or grandparents who were born there)

you want to move to the UK? okay, well first you need a UK employer to sponsor you, and it needs to be a job that pays ~£40k/$50k a year at the very least. how you find that employer without first moving here to work in the UK is up to you, but you can't work or look for work while on a tourist visa which is how you will probably be entering the country without a working visa. you can come here to study, but when your study visa expires you'll have to leave. you could marry someone from here, but they'd need to be earning around ~£30k/$40k and you need to have been living together for two years which you also can't do without a visa

the same, with some differences, is true for literally everywhere else on the planet. you can't just move to another country.

my point is this: not only are our societies built around a system where your rights can be taken away if enough people vote against your interests, you also aren't allowed to leave.

unless, of course, you're rich. you can effectively buy a visa for $500k. so rich people can come and go as they please. but you can't.

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Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

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pssttt if you see this post tell me what your favorite bird is

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I've finally gotten to the point where i've written tens of thousands of words of OC fiction and it's so enjoyable letting go of the need for instant gratification.

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Thinking about the Wikipedia bong.