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New Review of 'Between a Drowning Man' - from Shanta Acharya
We all know that reviews of poetry books can take a long time to filter through whatever system they do come through. But then they always come as a pleasant surprise (if that’s not making too many assumptions about their likely contents). Any way – almost 12 months after the appearance of my most recent full collection, Between a Drowning Man (Salt, 2023), the ever-lively site, Everybody’s…
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#close analysis of poetry#Everybody&039;s Reviewing#language as a bridge#poetry#Poetry Review#Rainer Maria Rilke#Salt Publishing#Seren Books#Shanta Acharya
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"I got into the habit of reading while walking..." #shadowlines @nicholasroyle
Back in 2021 (is it *really* that long ago??) I had the great pleasure of reading a wonderful book: “White Spines” by Nicholas Royle. The latter is an author and editor, as well as publisher of marvellous little chapbooks under the Nightjar imprint. He’s also a book obsessive and “Spines” explored his search for those books published by Picador which had a distinctive white-spined design. As…
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Just watched Deadpool & Wolverine with polish subs based on dub and I have to be honest, there's much more funny stuff than I expected, considering that the rest of it made me glad I'm not watching it with actual dub
So, things that picked my interest:
Instead "207 when I watch Gossip Girl" he straight up says "207 when I watch porn" (Gossip Girl isn't especialy popular show here so reference wouldn't mean anything for majority of audience anyway, but to straight up say it instead replacing it?)
"Ok peanut, 'guess we're getting that team-up after all" got replaced with "Okej ptysiu, nie ma to jak seks grupowy", which translates to "Okay cutiepie, nothing better than group sex" (??? we're still in the first 5 minutes of the movie)
"you know what they say, when one door closes, your locker at work opens" translated to "Jak to mówią… Jak zamykają od przodu, to ładujesz się od tyłu" which translates roughly to "Like they say... when they close the front, you get in the behind" which I find kinda funny
Peters line about seeing Wade in suit comes of gayish cause he doesn't say he wants to see him in the suit again, he wants to LOOK at him in it again, you know what I mean
intead "This guy looks ready to throw it all away for me" he says "This cutie would gladly get hugged by my bowels" which is a lot more straightforward than I expected
Wades spiel to comic acurate height Wolverine is much more insulting and instead being all "what a cwute short king you awe" translates to "Oh fuck, a furball dwarf? Was there even dwarf like that? Furballs mommy drank lots of booze when she was pregnant? Maybe daddy was a ratferret? Don't even come near me, 'cause you surely have ticks"
"I need you to come with me, right now" to "Zapraszam cię na randke, i to natychmiast" meaning "I invite you to a date, and I mean right now" (Logan replies with "Złotko, nie kręci mnie to" which translates to "Sweetie, I'm not diggin' it" and by "it" I'm honestly not sure if he means Wade himself, the fact that Wade said he's only here because he's the Wolverine just a second ago, or because his suit looks like fetish gear)
"It's quite common to Wolverines after 40" to "It's normal when going trough menopause, I get it"
they replaced "peanut" to different endearments to not be repetive but the most often used one is "ptysiu" (ptyś is a choux pastry; if I had to translate it as english endearment, I'd go with cutiepie). its cute imo
Logans "bub" also got replaced by endearments/insults losely fitting situation but the stupidest one has to be Logan calling Johnny "misiu", which translates to "little bear" and let me tell you, it's HILARIOUS cause it's equvalent of calling a random guy "sweetie" but in the "your grandma asking if you want seconds (yes you do, no you don't have any say)" way
"my boy's wicked strong" is translated to "mój chłopak zna się na rzeczy". It's slightly like the papi situation from spanish dub cause yes, "chłopak"'s direct translation is often "boyfriend" but it is also used as "boy", "guy" or "dude", usualy towards guys younger/about the same age as you. However, the addition of "mój"/"mine, my" makes it much more angled towards boyfriend, wherever they wanted to or not. There are at least three different ways to translate it and make it less gae I know and the've still chosen this one.
They made, in my opinion, the "its a common curtesy to ask" "Its good thing I don't give a fuck" lines better by translating them to "you shoud've ask, thats polite thing to do" "and you can politely fuck off"
they replaced Star Trek reference with Star Wars one, using Han Solo instead Spock and idk. on one hand they did it to THE spirk moment but on the other they made, and I may be reaching, but it seems like covert reference to "I know" scene so ??? (star trek is nowewhere near as known as star wars here so they would probs replace it either way but it also can be just "star trek and star wars sound so much alike, they have to be basically the same, right?" haha joke)
them instead innuendos using the most over the top forms of insult that no one ever heard is kinda funny but only because I only had to read them; if I ever heard somone call somebody "kutasina" irl I would find a way for at least one of us to not be able to hear anything ever again ("cockleter" is my best attempt to recreate this horseshit)
If you guys want to share some treasures from your native dubs/subs, feel free to
#posting it as separate post too for reach#all in all more than i expected but less than i hoped for#cause other than that for me the translation is awful#ive never had such strong urge to find the whole dub script just to rewrite it and be aware i did better job than they did#they either sound like boomers trying to be cool by using all words from these PWN lists or phd owner explaining their thesis#but theyre both at the same time so it comes off even more unnatural#btw id like it to be noted that the star trek point is big reach by me and should be taken with big grain of salt#deadpool & wolverine#wade wilson#logan howlett#languages#poolverine#marvel#mcu#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool#wolverine#deadclaws#for these who dont know what PWN is: they manadge creating and publishing all official dictionaries and educational books in polish#and since 2016 theyve been doing “top words of the youth” list which basicaly gathers all slang used/created this year into top 10 format#users vote and then judges chose acceptable ones (cant be straight up insults etc)#but everyone jokes that these are rigged cause all judges are over 40 and always add words no one even heard of before list came out#and that it exist only so every company can put as much of them as possible into their adds because theyre so “cool” and “fresh”
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Do you love listening to a really well done audiobook? So do I. That's why I'm delighted to announce that the newly recorded audiobook of my UK-bestselling fantasy novel Knife is now available on Audible, Spotify, and other great listening sites!
There are humans at the bottom of the garden, and a glimpse inside their forbidden House convinces the fierce young faery hunter known as Knife that their knowledge could help her dying people.
But if the human world has so much to offer, why is the faery Queen determined to keep her people away from it? Is there a connection between the House and the faeries�� loss of magic? And why is Knife so drawn to the young Paul McCormick — that strangest of creatures, a human male?
This new 15th anniversary edition is read by Eva Kaminsky, a veteran actress and audiobook narrator, and she's done a terrific job bringing Bryony, Wink, Thorn, and the other inhabitants of the Oakenwyld to life. I'm grateful to Oasis Audio and Enclave Publishing for making this recording possible, and giving more readers a chance to hear Knife's story for the first time.
Learn more and check out an audio sample from the first chapter here!
#my books#Knife#Faery Rebels#No Ordinary Fairy Tale#faeries#fantasy#salt and light#Enclave Publishing#Oasis Audio
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The Summons paperback and ebook now open for pre-orders!
(Ebook cover subject to change. Paperback cover shown is also a little out of date as of 9/12 but should load the new version soon)
You've been summoned. But where? Perhaps it is to the presence of the King. Perhaps an otherworldly banquet. Perhaps it is the inescapable pull of the soul to the unapproachable light. Or perhaps you've just been invited to a bible study by a neighbor? Judge wisely, dear reader, for perhaps the darkness has summoned you as well.
From opulent fantastical worlds to the magic hidden behind the veneer of the mundane, these 7 original fairy tales will astound and delight. 5 new Christian writers make their print debut on the literary scene, and Evelyn M. Lewis and Maria Fedina return, in the first Salt and Light Collection. Make haste, and do not delay.
#salt and light#keepers of the gate#the summons#christian fiction#fairy tales#anthology#fairy tale anthology#books and publishing
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honestly the shadow and bone series is fascinating in its own way because I have never seen an author so actively and obviously retcon her own books, and somehow convince a large majority of readers that it’s the truth
#like the obvious pandering & rewriting combined with the extreme lack of reading comprehension from the people who believe her#is unparalleled#like these are published novels#also the show doing it too like alksjdflkjsd did anybody on the writing team know what they were doing?!?#myramblings#shadow and bone#sab salt#anti leigh bardugo#anti lb#grishaverse#sab#negative#negativity#fandomcourse#darkling slander sunday
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So, my book—Stoneheart—is going to be republished this year! Yay! It's all shiny and new, and we've worked so hard on developing so many things. I truly love the story @alana-k-asby and I have written. In light of this, I'll be sharing quotes, vibes, aesthetics, and more about my writing, along side my love of homemaking, Tolkien, Band of Brothers, SGA, Leverage, and more!
Later this year our fantasy western adventure story will be available!
#personal#Stoneheart#homemaking#jrr tolkien#band of brothers#stargate atlantis#leverage#writers#writing#writeblr#getting published#i'm excited#and terrified#but mostly#excited#but a little terrified#salt and light
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Theory: ND watched the original she-ra, shipped She-Ra and Catra (which is why sea hawk was made into a buffoon) and eventually was able to bring their fanfics to life
yeah, spop was basically just an expensive and badly written fanfic. yikes.
#there are so many good fanfics but it's always the bad ones that get published huh#happened with 50 shades of grey too#spop#spop critical#spop salt#spop criticism#spop discourse#she ra#anti catradora#anti catra#anti c//a#anticatra#antic//a#anticatradora#anti spop#i remember that one interview where nate says something along the lines of “i never got the kind of representation i needed”#oh you mean the abusive incest representation? is that what you wanted when you were younger nate?
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Ian Brinton reviews 'Between a Drowning Man'
Here is Ian Brinton‘s recent review of my new Salt collection, Between a Drowning Man. It was first published by Litter Magazine in January 2024. The invitation at the opening of these two remarkable sequences of poems by Martyn Crucefix emphasises both ‘difference’ and ‘ambiguity’, an ‘othering’ which hones attention rather than dulling it. Divided into two sections, Works and Days (forty-nine…
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#A Poison Tree#Alan Jurdi#Alan Kurdi#crown of sonnets#Dante#Daodejing#Duino Elegies#Enitharmon Press#George Orwell#Google maps#Hesiod#Ian Brinton#Jeremy Prynne#Laozi#Litter Magazine#O. at the Edge of the Gorge#Rainer Maria Rilke#Salt Publishing#Seren Books#Sonnets to Orpheus#The Second Coming#vaccana#WB Yeats#William Blake
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A SWEET STING OF SALT officially has a cover(design by Regina Flath)and also this gorgeous aesthetic reel made by the wonderful team at Random House! Print ARCs(advance reader copies) are headed out into the world and you can now preorder here
A more up close and personal look at this Absolute BEAUTY:
#a sweet sting of salt#assos#cover reveal#i am so excited y’all#selkies#Rose’s adventures in publishing#fiction#writers of tumblr
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Just some interesting notes from an interview between Nozomu Mochizuki and the publisher TO Books regarding Tearmoon's writing
#Tearmoon Empire#Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari#Nozomu Mochizuki#Mia Luna Tearmoon#Christianity#Because it was brought up in the interview#Salt and Light#Frankly it was a smart decision to write Mia how she was written because it does help us see her character development#I'm not sure whether there were other otome villainess stories that also played around not using isekai before Tearmoon in 2017-2018#I'm actually surprised the representative of the publisher was the one who brought up Mochizuki's faith in the interview#If you think I'm not gonna go through a list of the characters' names and find those Biblical ones you're sorely mistaken#This also applies to the chapters based on those missionaries' stories in the web novel#This interview was done around 2020-2021 I believe
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Alex Aster is not a good writer.
It’s amazing to me that she has a publishing deal.
#lightlark#Alex aster#I’m trying to read#skyshade#and boy it just ain’t it#it would be one thing if it was just her first book#I’m more than willing to look past a debut novel’s flaws#if the premise is decent enough and the characters are likable#but when you continue on the same vein and aren’t checked on the substance#bro what’s the point#why do we consume books anymore#publishing has seriously gone downhill#also guys#let me say this#I take ‘booktok’ recs with a grain of salt#I try some of them in the hopes that I’ll find diamonds#some of y’all have never read quality writing and/or can’t tell the difference#itd be one thing if you said#I like this despite its obvious flaws because it’s fun to me#but some of you guys will swear up and down that these books are literary masterpieces#and I’m always like 👀👀👀#are we reading the same thing#and some of you don’t know the difference between genres��…
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I'm just gonna say it, I'm just gonna say it: to some extent I kind of remember why I liked reader-insert fics when I was a kid so I can at least intellectually acknowledge why it's popular, but I fully admit that I don't understand why multifandom exchanges (or at least most of the ones I've participated in) allow original work as a category for noms/requests/offers. Like? Babes?? That's not a fandom???
#and it's on both sides! why are you as a reader requesting original works and why are you as a writer offering original works#IN A FANDOM EXCHANGE??????#like reader-insert has at least one fandom character and rpf which i also fully don't understand but whatever at least is still related#but just fully signing up to write your own random crap?? like why would you do that in a fandom exchange??? just read a book???????#i don't get it i don't get it and it drives me crazy BECAUSE i don't get it#like i really am just getting stuck on the fact that these are explicitly FANDOM exchanges and original work. isn't fandom.#look maybe it's the autism maybe it's the contrarianism maybe it's something else but i don't get it and it drives me crazy#like original WORK on ao3 makes sense if you're a writer but don't care about print publishing i at least get that#but the rest i am actually baffled by#unnecessary salt
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Even Better News Everyone!!
The Kingdom of Heaven has populated and is NOW AVAILABLE for pre-order on Barnes & Noble dot com!
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-kingdom-of-heaven-evelyn-m-lewis/1143100414?ean=9781960686008
When you order here, the book will be immediately printed and merely wait until the publication date to ship to you. Additionally, since you don’t have to buy a book from Amazon in order to review it on Amazon, it will still be possible to leave reviews on Amazon if the book is ordered through Barnes & Noble. I’m aiming to get 50 reviews on Amazon within 1 month of the publication date.
(Note - unlike my Inkshares pre-order campaign, this one is NOT a crowd funding project and is not conditional. The book is real!)
#barnes and noble#the kingdom of heaven#writing#my writing#books#christian books#christian fiction#science fiction#dystopia#publishing#self publishing#books and reading#salt and light
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Follow up to yesterday's post b/c I am a bit salty still.
The idea people in general are less creative because they're writing fan fic is absolutely ludicrous to me. People write fan fic for so many reasons and fan fic has been a medium for, oh thousands of years, and is now so easy to find means more people are writing and oh my god, gasp, having fun.
But on top of those who are having fun, there are a goodly percentage who do write both! (I can name half a dozen trad pubbed authors off the top of my head who have or do write fan fic.) Or those who start in fan fic and move over to original.
People tell stories because there are stories they want to see and published media isn't giving them those stories. That's the short of it, really. Whether these stories are fan fic or original is rather immaterial in my opinion. (Both have their place. Thank you.)
But oh my god, you say anything along the lines you think people are being less creative because they aren't creating their own universes, it just tells me that you have not LOOKED. Yes, AO3 is great because it makes this free story medium easily available and searchable and tagged. Original fiction still LACKS a AO3 style listing. Just, go to a bookstore. Go to a LIBRARY. For the love of little green apples, check wattpad, AMAZON, royal road, even here on tumblr there is a THRIVING community of original fiction authors BEGGING for attention.
Look traditional publishing is out there trying to push at you what they think sells. And what they think sells isn't always what people have written and want published and want to see, so there is Indie, struggling in the over saturation because of algorithms to be seen and heard and appreciated. And is it all good? Can you find it easily? No. Not really. But it is OUT THERE. People are being creative and maybe if we had MORE publishing houses, there'd be a MORE variety of stories published and in bookstores.
Just... a salty indie author thought.
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I really should stop paying attention to the AI stuff but this is seriously getting to me; so much so that I’m considering quitting writing altogether.
I’ve been digging into my thoughts about this lately and I wanted to break it down a little here; to explain to myself, as well as you poor souls who engage with my bullshit, why I think AI fundamentally sucks and why I’m struggling to find a way to share my work anymore.
It begins with the fact that I strongly dislike the entire concept of traditional publishing.
In a nutshell, publishing houses get to decide what you, the consumer, will read, always based on what will be popular and make them the most money. They have the power to decide what you can’t read, what you shouldn’t read.
How many excellent stories have never been published because they weren’t riding the zeitgeist?
Millions. Millions.
And let’s not get into the ridiculously low percentage of income an author makes from a book published by a traditional publisher. Holy shit, it’s appalling.
Even as an indie author I earn about 32c for every $12USD sale of an ebook at best, and it is much, much worse through a publishing house.
Anyway. I digress.
In my opinion, all stories have a place, a meaning for the people who are listening for them, which is why finding the fanfiction world was so amazing to me.
Every voice here has an equal chance of being heard, and equally, we all have a chance to find the story we’ve been looking for. No one can stop you from publishing whatever it is you feel compelled to say. Whatever it is that drives and moves you.
It was honestly a relief to find stories without perfect prose and grammar getting the love they rightly deserve. Stories with silly or fun premises, LGBTQ+ people taking centre stage or - *insert thing that the publishing world would never publish here* - because it makes people ‘happy’ (whatever emotional form that takes) - both to write and to read.
But that well is poisoned by the people cashing in on that work via AI scraping, making unknowing slaves of creative people - pouring their love and time into a piece of writing only to have it stolen.
And in their own way, people using AI to make stories are just as bad. They too want to take advantage of the labour of others to get some buzz of dopamine from kudos/likes or whatever, which is completely unearned and undeserved.
I’m just going to mention here, while I’m on the subject - if you’re one of those wretches feeding other people’s unfinished fics to the AI to get an ending - I hate you so much there aren’t words. You are actually the worst. I hope none of my followers would do this - but if you do, check yourself.
Moving on…
The thing is, I just can’t understand how writers especially (and not just fic writers) can’t see that AI rips out the heart of storytelling.
Writing as a process is entirely personal; it comes from inside the self. At least in my experience, the process is more important than the end result. The discovery and exploration of themes and emotions entirely your own is only to be found in the process; it can’t be replicated by a computer spitting out strings of words others wrote.
It just can’t.
And I’m just going to say this now - if you, as a writer, don’t think this is important at all - if you don’t think that coming up with ideas and developing them yourself is literally what writing is - then I honestly don’t know what you’re doing, but it isn’t writing.
Anyway (again).
Where in all of this is there a place for a writer who doesn’t want their stories to be grist for the mill, to be regurgitated in some altered, souless form and sold off as if it was someone else’s?
Who’s sick to death of putting money in some other son of a bitches pocket, while they do the work out of love and passion?
I don’t know. I just don’t know anymore.
As it stands, we are powerless to stop any of this unless we simply stop writing, or sharing that writing. That’s a miserable acknowledgment to have to make for someone who quite literally just wants to write and share those stories with others without them being stolen.
It shouldn’t be a lot to ask.
#long post#AI#Anti-AI#anti trad publishing#writing#behold the field in which i cultivate my vibes#it’s been salted
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