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the best plot twists of the locked tomb are when it unapologetically fucks genre over and over again—it’s a fantasy story in a sci-fi setting, it’s a whodunnit meets battle royale, it’s a coming-of-age romance at the forefront of a colonial imperialist dystopia, it’s a psychological thriller and a ghost story bubbling in a stew of homosexuality and queerness, it’s a ball of literature references wrapped around memes and pop culture, it’s a slice of life in a cake of political intrigue, and turns out it’s ultimately a climate fiction horror story on steroids
#Tlt#the locked tomb#harrow the ninth#gideon the ninth#nona the ninth#it’s fucking insane#HOW THE FUCK DID MUIR GET AWAY WITH THIS IN THIS PUBLISHING CLIMATE OF CLEANCUT CATEGORIES#moonymovetheglass.txt
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Dreamt last night that I went to a bookstore and tried to buy Prison of Plastic, but it was categorized as “for ages 11” and the lady wouldn’t let me buy it (cause I’m not 11).
So I tell her that it must be shelved incorrectly cause this book has enough trauma to make a grown person sob.
She doesn’t believe me
She takes the book to the back
She comes back 12 hours later with tears down her face
I get to buy the book
#I also remember posting the book on here and going ‘lmao they said it was for ages 11 and under’#and Jello replied saying ‘yeah my publisher misclicked the age category and we can’t change it back’#post!#epithet erased#prison of plastic#epithet erased prison of plastic#ee pop#why does this almost read in green text lmfao
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As someone who is currently getting a degree in writing YA (and children’s) literature, why are there so many people on the internet who throw around the term “YA fiction” without actually knowing what YA fiction actually is?
#stop calling adult romances young adult#stop assuming all ya fiction is romance#I have books I like in both categories#as well as books i dislike and am indifferent to in both#and they are different things!#I know publishers and marketers carry some of the blame here#due to shenanigans like miscategorizing authors but#people use ya fiction as shorthand for “any writing i think is crappy” and#way to show your unconscious bias against teenagers there
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They published my first article, it took two years, I don't remember writing it or what was about in the specifics or if it was like good or anything but,, my name is on a printed paper now??? I'm so trying not to scream or make weird faces rn it's embarrassing
#it's going to be shit i know that already bc it was like 3 pages and at the beginning of the research™️#and it's a z category when it comes for the place in which it has been published#but!!!#it's been two years!!!!!!!!!!#and they are printing it!!!!!#AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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How's Knitwear Club going?
Well, I'm reaching the end of Ch. 14 (over 50% of the way through) and have already surpassed 100 pages and 70,000 words.
Let's hope the literary agent is open to a big debut novel, maybe?
#Knitwear Club#writing#original fiction#industry standard is 70k-120k for adult fiction - longer end for fantasy/literary/history categories#it can surpass 120k if it's science fiction due to worldbuilding#i wonder if they'll let me have an extra 20k or so on top of that?#me begging for a longer word count limit like please sir may i have some more???#and the publishing industry tells me i am not charles dickens and this is not david copperfield#fuck your word count and fuck your gruel#kill your darlings
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As if having "young adult" as a literary genre wasn't detrimental enough, now I have to deal with the legitimasation of "romantascy" as a thing. God forbid women can write in fantasy and have it be that, fantasy.
#Delete Later#the way the publishing industry has to create subgenres and subgenres to place fantasy written by women because they refuse to acknowledge#that female written stories hold as much weight and depth as male written fantasy#needs to be studied.#like god forbid the story has more lines to it than just the magic system and allows the characters to form attachments and romantic#relationships between them#yes this is about the goodreads awards categories
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There should be a website like "Rate my Professor" for jobs. Something like "Rate my Boss/Company" that doesn't have the ability to have company pay out for good reviews, or punish bad ones, perhaps completely anonymous reviews or something... just honest opinions of the company from the workers so people know what they're getting into...
#torra rambles#I saw a job for a children's comic illustrator but the description sounded so sketchy#varying numbers in the pay category#ranging from $38 to 20-22/hour to 7k-30k/year like wtf lmao#referencing a previous published comic they didn't put the link to whose style we'd have to replicate#cannot FIND said comic at all#but like the company is a real company supposedly#this all stemmed from me wishing I could see what other people thought of them who worked for them#see how legit they are#makes me sad bc this is the kind of job I WANT but this is so sketchy
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ROLEPLAY HISTORY post characters you’d like to roleplay as, have roleplayed as, and might bring back.
CURRENT MUSES
han s. — star wars ( canon/eu )
anakin s. / vader — star wars ( canon/eu )
luke s. — star wars ( canon/eu )
obi-wan k. — star wars ( canon/eu | discord only )
WANT TO WRITE
it takes… a lot for me to pick up a primary muse lol
PAST CANON MUSES ( primary )
john shepard — mass effect ( ot canon )
kaidan alenko — mass effect ( ot canon )
kurosaki ichigo — bleach ( canon )
grimmjow jaegerjaquez — bleach ( canon )
PAST CANON MUSES ( secondary / casual )
dr. henry walton / "indy" — indiana jones ( ot canon )
elka solo — star wars ( fc | canon/eu )
astri solo — star wars ( fc | canon/eu )
chewbacca — star wars ( canon/eu )
leia organa — star wars ( canon/eu )
lando calrissian — star wars ( canon/eu )
padmé amidala — star wars ( canon/eu )
assaj ventress — star wars ( canon/eu )
wedge antilles — star wars ( canon/eu )
biggs darklighter — star wars ( canon/eu )
ARC/CT-8080 / liner — star wars ( oc | canon/eu )
urahara kisuke — bleach ( ss canon )
kuchiki rukia — bleach ( ss canon )
david anderson — mass effect ( ot canon )
WOULD WRITE AGAIN
primary muses never leave me! e.g: han harassing me for like 10 fuckin' yrs
TAGGED BY: @valorums omg thank you for thinking of me!! TAGGING: @techniiciian @sgterso @desiccation @jedibattlemaster @strcngered @fcalty @debelltio @vibraea @red-flight @reawakcn @cnlyluck & anyone else who wants to do this! pls link me if you've already done it 👀
#( . fc = fan created. sw fanzine author irene heron/vysila created astri + elka solo in 1996#( . before book 1 of the 1998 han s. trilogy published#( . i’ve included the two in many of my au threads in which han didn’t grow up an orphan#( . just wanted to clear that up in case anyone raised a brow at it lol anyway i had to make a separate category#( . bc there’s a huge difference between primary and secondary muses for me#( . how to differentiate between the two? having a bare minimum of 50k words worth of written content#( . anything less is a casual muse i have no real drive to write but will do it for threads in need of NPCs/world building tbh#˒・*。◞ ( dash game ) *･ﾟ✧ ⎸ ғᴏʀᴛᴜɴᴇ ғᴀᴠᴏʀs ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴏʟᴅ‚ ᴀɴᴅ ɪ’ᴍ ғᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ ʟᴜᴄᴋʏ.#˒・*。◞ ( ooc ) *･ﾟ✧ ⎸ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴏғ ᴄᴀʀʙᴏɴɪᴛᴇ.
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im not even trying to be a hater but im sorry your job poll is genuinely so bad bc so many jobs fall into 2 or even 3 categories its not even funny
i made it that way to fuck with you specifically anon <3
#just teasing you're totally right lol#i'd probably combo keeping things moving and backbone into one#which could've opened up another category#alas for those that don't know once you publish a poll you literally cannot edit it :P#but also for something i made in less than 5 minutes with no planning whatsoever it's not too shabby haha#reply#anyways thanks for giving me a chance to use some of my sillier saved screenshots anon
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I am hyperfixating extremely hard on my original steampunk story. Decided I wanna turn it into a manga (it was always the plan to make it some kind of comic or graphic novel as opposed to a text-only chapter book) so I've been watching lots of videos on how to make manga and reformatting some of the plot to be manga compatible. It's a lot of work but it is fun!
#shonen manga is the plan right now but that may change#I'm actually aiming this story at queer young people but there isn't a manga category for that demographic#yet...#I am literally soooo excited for this story#I've been in the business of writing stories since I was in elementary school and of all the original stories I've written (hundreds)#this one is the one I think has the best chance of actually succeeding if/when published
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ok sure the books arent ya but it's not bc of the vocab or the pov or literally anything happening in the content of the books. you sound so fucking condescending rn.
#the difference between these categories exists for publishing companies so that they can best market their products#it has nothing to do with how stupid you think teenagers are. rudeass
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Alright lads, poll time
#rambles from the floor#incredibles au#polls from the floor#linkeduniverse#I'm just curious about what you guys like seeing/want to see more of#since I have a bunch of stuff I haven't published since I'm not sure anyone wants to see it#but a lot of it falls under one of these categories#so I'd love to see what y'all think
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Beasties of Greenhollow soundtrack! Some tracks on this are from older projects like elphame but all of them have been reworked in some way. Most of them are entirely new. Enjoy!
#soundtrack#music#indiegamedev#Youtube#beasties of greenhollow#indiegame#chiptune#elphame#hey again gang. Another scream into the void#Things have been getting more interesting tbh#I'm starting therapy again. I have learned from this that my anxiety is in the very very high end.#And I guess the only thing that surprises me about that is that it's an abnormally high amount vs the average.#I've had more intrusive thoughts this week than in a long time. (I almost said ever but that was 2021 where they woke me up...)#It's mostly about my mistakes and ppl I've scared out of being in my life because of the actions based on my anxieties.#Like “if i could go back in time I could fix it”... girl you'd be going back in time like 100 times. At that point it's not fair lmao#I think I shouldn't talk about who I'm dating here anymore. Friends told me to stop seeing so many new people and I took that advice.#I'm exercising incredibly frequently; obsessively so. It really doesn't change much in my anxiety. I walk for like 3 hours a day.#My friend group is... difficult. One of us had a falling out with another and the dynamic is just so awkward for me now.#it just seems like everyone else has moved past it though but I still miss him. I don't think this can be reversed#we used to talk on my stream and play digimon cards n jackbox and d&d... But now they're only interested in d&d which I don't love#For god's sake I've published a game and moved to a nice new place. why aren't I happy hahahaha#work is no longer enjoyable since BoG was publised. our new project is in an iffy category but it's not my place to argue#I want to write music and animate but I have to do my hours for this new project before I can do anything like that...#I ended up siding with my current boss in that ethical dilemma I posted about and rn idk if that was the right decision.#Okay what can i talk about that's good? We moved to a nice place. I'm celebrating BoG's release with family tomorrow.#Graeme's playing Iconoclasts- one of my favourite games! He's also returning to work soon so it'll be less awkward to have a lady over#Thinking about good stuff going on just draws the mind to holidays I've had before. I treasure my memories!#Okay so I've complained for a long long time bc life doesn't feel great rn. But rest assured I already know this is 90% my fault hahaha#Oh another good thing that happened!!! My elestrals card was printed and ppl are really happy with it. I have a card in a real card game!!!#don't tell anyone but there's another one on the way. Anyway that will do for now. I'm sorry about my... self.
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I just want to be able to search for books using the same complex tagging system i use to look for fanfic
#i have a very specific type of book im in the mood for and no way to find titles in that category#just got to page 30 of something published this year that was on display at the library and. shrug#im fully going to drop it because. meh#i want something WELL written and ALSO light and silly but all of the reviews going gaga over anything are like#people uninterested in engaging with how well written a thing is#but i cant even just look for Well Written things because a lot of those are Heavy in a way i dont want to engage with either!#anyway this is incoherent im going to bed
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man I was kind of getting back into being on a writing forum but I might have to dip. the regulars are kind of fucking miserable. sucks
#when I say regulars. genuinely it is a larger writing community#where the active forum users are a handful of people who populate every single thread#and like a lot of these people just fall into the category of. well intentioned but confrontational misanthrope#which is kind of a draining thing to keep reading#and by extension even my TALKING ABOUT IT is miserable to look at so. yeah.#I don't know. it's strange. I just want to see writing advice#I don't want to see people whinging about how the publishing industry sucks bc the audience is dumb or whatever.#like no it's. really not the fault of individuals that the industry is designed to make money and constantly pump work out#like yea it really truly sucks for most authors.#but it's not because. celebrity memoir bad and non-intellectual or whatever#I don't even write with the goal of trad publishing so like my horse in the race is pure apathy towards the industry#but like. jesus christ we know it sucks. why are you blaming the consumers that you'd WANT to be buying your book#yeah. so. bye to this endeavor. it was fun while it lasted#draketxt
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When the Actor RPF writers start invading your fandom's category on AO3.
#the joy of seeing 'oh a new fic!'#only to have it immediately dashed by it being actor RPF#look i do believe in curating one's own fandom experiences#but it gets hard to mute all the actor rpf authors when they start publishing their fics anonymously#i also get irritated when the fandom has two fandom categories - one for the film characters and one for the actors#but people keep insisting on categorizing their actor fic under BOTH#PICK A LANE
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