#Author Magazine

[kedreeva]

Hi friends!

I recently saw the cover of this book posted to a group on FB, with a LOT of vitriol aimed at it there. I ambled over to the Amazon page to see it (and have a look through the reviews) and it's LARGELY reviews by bigots (as I suspected it would be). I just spent half an hour going down the list reporting inauthentic and/or hateful and/or off-topic (not about the product) reviews, and ticking the "helpful" box on the 5-star kind reviews (and as a warning, not all the 5 stars ARE kind, I saw at least one that was vitriolic sarcasm).

If you have a few spare minutes and an amazon account, it would be nice, I think, if you could pop over and select "helpful" for the kinder reviews. I don't think reporting the bad ones a second time will be helpful (it may just slog the queue down), but boosting the positive reviews to appear toward the top of the list may be. If you have purchased/read/otherwise own or will own this book now, feel free to leave an authentic review of it. Be kind, do not get yourself in trouble trying to be mean to other reviews. The point is to add some support to the page that will actually stick around.

Here's the link!

[gstoabn]

i made this for a literary magazine, do you like it ?

[theodysseyofhomer]

if odysseus wanted have a good time sleeping around (or rather, if that's what the poet(s) wanted), he could simply do that. it's not like a male epic hero needed an excuse. what's unusual in the calypso situation is not that odysseus is sleeping with someone other than his wife; it's that the narrator affirms his unwillingness and misery.

and on the one hand, calypso is a misogynistic fantasy/nightmare in that she is a woman who can own a man in sexual slavery, which men in the world of the odyssey and of its composition do to women as a matter of course. on the other hand, she isn't a very common fantasy, is she? how often do you see a man held captive and raped in ancient literature?

or in contemporary literature, for that matter. i've had the 2013 article "the rape of james bond" saved to read for awhile (like... for a few months. not since 2013), which addresses more than the scope of this tumblr.edu post. but the author jumps off from the claim that constant sexual violence in fiction is needed for realism. she questions whether that is true in the way that it is often meant — e.g., whether the prevalence of rape in game of thrones is "realistic" to the middle ages — but she does argue that "sometimes, failing to acknowledge the risk of rape in circumstances where it would be particularly likely to be present can diminish the authenticity of a text."

[I]n so called Genre fiction, we love to strip away protection from our characters to give them an interesting job of coping on their own; parents are dead or absent or abusive, homesteads are burned down, authority figures are blinkered or oppressive; you can trust no one, for no one can hear you scream… And all these things will, in the real world, heighten a person’s vulnerability to all forms of violence, including sexual violence. So yes, realism does sometimes mean dealing with that vulnerability somehow or other. But that heightened vulnerability to sexual violence applies to men too. So where are they, all the raped male characters? People say, it would be unrealistic if she wasn’t raped, but take it for granted that of course he wasn’t. Why is that?

and yet here's the odyssey, one of the oldest extant pieces of literature, and we can't take it for granted, actually, that the pervasive threat of sexual violence in odysseus' world will never touch him.

the homeric epics include many, many enslaved people (of all genders) subject to implied rape (usually of women), and i won't pretend that's treated with the gravity it deserves. but the way calypso and odysseus are often dismissed makes me wonder if we're still not prepared for a specific kind of discomfort, rooted in the messaging we often get from fiction and society — though it does not reflect the reality of the lived experience of many people — that rape is always and only realistic when women go through it, because rape is what women and women uniquely are for.

[littlequeenies]

15th November 1987 The Sunday Times published this gorgeous photo of Marsha Hunt.

Our scan.

[l6sadi]

What does Hayao Miyazaki, director of the second half of “Lupin III Part 1” and the movie “The Castle of Cagliostro” really think about the original Lupin III manga, the character and its creator, Monkey Punch?

“I liked the energy of this manga. Beyond his drawing sense, I felt the overwhelming energy and hungry spirit from the author.”

What do you think about The Castle of Cagliostro as an continuation of the manga?

Link to the full translated interview:

[thisbitchcantdraw]

Genuinely tweaking because it’s 4 in the morning rn and I’ve been drawing this all day, literally the second I was free I was drawing.

AND IT TOOK ME 6 HOURS WHATTT

So as some of you know I’m a big fan of a FanFiction made by @theellipelli and it’s epic and great and it’s yanqing and Jing yuan and time travel and family issues GO READ IT IM GREAT AT PROMOTING THIS HAHAH.

So like… I didn’t read the new chapter and I’m scared to do so BECAUSE WHAT DO YOU MEAN TW DEATH??? STOP.. I better not cry

Anyway so I had the idea on what the idea was but I didn’t know how to make it right so I ended up with this, here’s the starter sketch with colour

Now MEGA TRANSFORM RENDER BOOM WOW heheh thank you thank you👏👏👏👏

If you can’t tell Baiheng is drunk and in my head she should be kept at least 5 miles away from any person when she’s drunk

Jinglius hand looks weird but look at yanqing he looks great #neverdoingmysondirty

The atrocious hand grip on yanqing head I head to learn how to draw hand can someone teach me

Ik it’s really hard to tell what’s going on with df and yingxing but I wanted to fit all the quintet in (they are just whispering to each other which is pretty much “bro can we please leave” “nah”) Df is so circle I’m sorry idk what happened I’m tweaking again

Sorry that jy, yq and baiheng look so much better than everyone else that’s the difference between start vs finish

And if anyone is out there “6 hours for that?? Man you got to be joking” well Uhm actually I’m a very slow artist

I think I spent the smallest time on yingxing

But I think I spent at least like an hour on the sketch sigh can I get a pat on the back

ALSO DRAWING THEM WAS SO HARD BECAUSE OF THE SMALL AMOUNT OF REFERENCES I HAD..

I wanted to do cloud night Jing yuan but the design was different from the fic one so I had to live of that one art the author of the fanfic did (go check out her tumblr tagged her above she’s great support her on every platform possible or you’ll die)

Anyway ik not a lot of people are reading this but I would like to thank art Jesus, art God and Beyoncé for giving me the motivation to finish this in one day

Uhm that’s the end make sure to support the author love you all bye,!

Scared to post this second thoughts are gonna be the end of me

[demifiendrsa]

Weekly Shonen Jump 2025 issue #6/7 cover

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1952 illustration by Milton Wolsky by totallymystified Via Flickr: For the story The Tender Fire by Elizabeth Ellen Glancy. From Collier's.

[sjstone-author]

Classic scene from the original Heavy Metal

[thoughtportal]

The Yellow Book https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41875 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41876

The Savoy (periodical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Savoy_%28periodical%29 https://archive.org/details/savoy01symo/ https://archive.org/details/savoy02symo/ https://archive.org/details/savoy03symo/

[notpulpcovers]

[linkedsoul]

I don't post my writing a lot here but I did just publish a new short story in the magazine Indie Bites!!! You can download their new issue here FOR FREE and enjoy amazing short stories by indie authors (and submit yourself to their future issues!) so I really recommend checking them out! <3 Every single story is top notch.

in this one, inspired by way too many hours of BG3, a warlock thief and a warlock prince both get kidnapped by an evil cult and have to work together to escape. I wanted to write brand new characters and a brand new world, and kind of got attached to them on the way so I may write more of their adventures for future issues haha

Please give it a read and tell me if you enjoyed it! And make sure to show some love to the other contributors, I just loved their stories on this one!! <3

[inkcurlsandknives]

I am screaming OUT LOUD in this courthouse to a pack of strangers /potential jurors I've been trapped with for the last 8 hours.

I'm about to get this tattooed on my forehead or at least printed on a shirt. I did not expect my little angry book to make anyone's best of lists But BEHOLD

Saints of Storm and Sorrow made Reactor Magazine's Reviewer's Choice Best Books of 2024 list! And wow! Saints is in such amazing company! 2024 has been a great year for SFF and I'm so honored to be a part of it

Check out the full list below!

Can You BELEIVE IT?!?? and they're letting me write a book 2? I am in SHOCK and AWE

[evilios]

Some of the poems by Rasha Abdulhadi, a queer Palestinian author and a prominent political activist:

— Helen After Helen (with audio)

— Like a Cypress, Headlong; Dad’s Combs; Olive Harvest; Your Oysters

— Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes (with audio)

— Cicada's Courtship; Origin Story; Clean Houses (with audio)

— Pocketful of Warding Stones (with audio)

Here are some more of their essays, interviews, and a link to their social media so you can keep track of their political and creative life.

[littlequeenies]

December 1981 - American musician and model Bebe Buell portrayed by Ebet Roberts in New York for the Rolling Stone Magazine.

Photo 5) Scan by Leith from (Diet) Coke and Sympathy blogspot.

[browsethestacks]

Vintage Comic - Facts About Code-Approved Comics Magazines

Comics Magazine Association (1958)