#so I uh

[yohohotookabiteofgumgum]

[dealwrought]

happy 10min mattmac monday

[klinefelterrible]

Please don’t be hard on me I fucked her hair up totally I originally drawn her with black hair and then I realised she was probably more of a blonde and hence this disaster

[seijorhi]

getou suguru did nothing wrong <33

[pwurrz]

when you find out that kaveh heals from dendro blooms:

when you find out why he heals from dendro blooms:

[metanoianmayhem]

Okay, so awhile ago a friend was like "hey i have this motorcycle from a hoarder relative that's been sitting since 72, do you want it?"

and because i am a weirdo

that likes tinkering

and have wanted a motorcycle (and tattoos! the tattoos i got) since i was 8.

i was like "hell yeah, dude!"

and then life got busy and i was Slightly Overwhelmed about where to start. BUT NOW

NOW I HAVE A PLAN

and energy!

and a sunday I'm devoting to this! So I'm probably going to do a magical youtube/tikkity tok/photograph journey bc like.

Just Once, in my life, i wanna follow a project from start to finish.

so. Yamaha YM1 1964 (65? Will find out when I get after the VIN on the frame)

YM1 one was apparently built by a dude who was like BECAUSE I FUCKIN CAN and is juuuust one step short of a motorbike so like. Yeeteth said the lord. Tagging now for ease of finding if anyone decides to follow along

[zigmatism]

Why he so tired? The yaggi...

[limelocked]

I could totally do some stuff and write for hermit who lil fic snippets or something but I do love answering asks and also pov my entire attention is focused of the Other dr who related creative project I’m working on

[sydnycvwrtes]

congratulations on getting an agent! that’s amazing 🎉 do you mind sharing your querying journey (what was it all like? when you started, how many queries you sent, how many full requests, and other stats? things you expected about querying? things you didn’t expect? lessons you learned? etc?)? just whatever you feel like sharing 😊

Yes!

So tbh I feel like I both had an easier but longer journey. I didn't send too too many queries (in contrast to some folks) but I was querying for a long time. I started when I was 18 for reference, so I queried for almost four years exactly (3 years and 352 days lol) but I took long pauses to overhaul the novel between query batches based on any feed back I'd gotten. I sent queries in batches of 4-6 and didn't send more until I'd gotten responses from everyone from one batch.

So:

33 queries sent (I resent edited queries to the same agents 4 times which feels a little 🧍🏿‍♀️)

6 partial requests (quick bit of advice: different agents have different specific ways they want you submit. It might be annoying to reformat everything, but just do it)

4 full requests (and let me tell you, when I sent fulls to "famous" agents, I was waiting for upwards of half a year, which can also account for the time gap)

1 offer of rep (woohoo!!!!) from an agent I feel really understands my vision for the book, and will be a great representative for me when sub time comes. For revisions, I'm not having to change any plot points, just explain a little bit more stuff so they're not too grueling. Plus I write super fast and that helps lol.

I think querying for so long definitely toughened me up. I was really expecting for the first agent I queried, who I considered a dream agent at the time, to adore my book, sign me immediately, and offer no critiques before we went on sub for three seconds and scored a billion dollar deal (and I queried her TWICE because I was just that hooked up on it lmao). As you can see, that didn't happen. I got some rejections after months, and some after only a few hours. And at the begining? Oh they HURT. They hurt BAD.

And then you get another and another and another, and the sting lessens over time.

I became a lot better at being critical of myself, which I feel like is the most important skill in querying- understanding that you are going to have to make heavy edits, kill your darlings, and just overall refine you book in ways you didn't see before. Even the version I sent to the agent I signed with was far from perfect, and I'm making revisions. And that's okay. It's a step to getting published.

It... Was hard. I had a friend tell me it was just not the right time for my book and to shelve it. I think that hurt more than a rejection. But I knew I wanted to be an author, and I knew I wanted to tell these character's stories, so I just kept working. I rewrote my book more times than I can count since I started writing it at 15. It's just all a very long process, and you have to be patient, and you have to KNOW that this is what you want to do and you're going to do it.

Last weird little tidbits of advice:

I had one person read a very old copy of my book. I had no beta readers. I never hired an editor. Don't do what I did. Beta readers can help you so so much. If you can find someone willing, have them help you!!!

Query that agent! I almost didn't query my agent because they said they were a fan of beautiful prose, and I didn't think I had that. But, after mustering the courage, I finally did and look what happened. Just send the query!! The worst they can say is no!!

If you get personalized feedback from a rejection, that is still really helpful. My book is better now mostly because of my rejection feedback because it was all telling me the exact thing to work on. For me, the writing was fine, but I tended to under-explain things. I got that feedback.... A lot. And I was able to fix it and eventually get an agent (woo!)

(even though my revisions are still centered around explaining oops-)

Anyway, I hope this was helpful! I hope I was able to give you a pretty good picture of my querying time! It was... Definately something!

[waterloou]

Sketch Giveaway (ish) (closed)

Bowie, Ace, & Tozi for @veetlegeuse 💕💕💕

[lekopoofball]

As I am procrastinating homework I started watching this again and remembered that this is literally how I walked up to them last week, using Mongmongie as a cane and limping… They were not wrong.

[lesbianralzarek]

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

[kiryuing]

[mroddmod]

rough seas

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[wanologic]

reminder to take care of your loser human body