#submitting for publication

[littlelodell]

Here we go kids, submitting two poems for publication and one of them I rewrote from memory because I lost it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. it's better to have submitted and gotten a gaping maw of nothingness in response than never to have submitted at all. Are there any other cliches I can come up with to avoid pulling the trigger on this? I hate that saying. I don't want to pull triggers. I'm a lover, not a fighter.

ok. I surrender. I did it.

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[marisatomay]

i think that after covid (i know it’s not over don’t be a pedant here you know what i mean) we all should have been required to take mandatory social etiquette classes before we were allowed back into society like a driver’s license test but for things like “hold a door for people behind you so it doesn’t slam in their face” and “don’t be a prick to service workers” and “get off your fucking phone if you’re watching a movie in a theater”

[fitover40tx]

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[thehecklingmouse]

kaveh went on a desert trip and alhaitham becomes a sopping wet pathetic cat which, normally, wouldn't be a big deal but unfortunately alhaitham is the acting grand sage

[friendamedes]

submitted my first ever manuscript to a literary agent a couple months ago and got my first ever rejection today!! this is so huge for me

[svtskneecaps]

my personal pipe dream is that one monday the egg statistics drop and flippa (and maybe tilin) are just there. at the end. with one heart, and one gray checkmark.

what i imagine is the server flips their shit. alive!!! alive!!! but they log in and they don't see the eggs. instead they get a message. i do not care who it's from or how it's delivered. they're told the eggs are being held captive somewhere, but they're alive. all that's left is to find them, before sunday at midnight pst. bc if their tasks aren't done, they die (one checkmark, one quest set. once rescued they become triple check like the other eggs)

slimeriana come CRASHING back into the server, they don't know jack shit, ESPECIALLY mariana who doesn't recognize 90% of the island anymore but holy fuck, flippa is alive somewhere and they have to find her. and maybe mariana's still in the old server days mindset of raising his kid alone but slime's slowly been indoctrinated into "it takes a village" and honestly the absolute second mariana logs on, someone's gonna be in chat already like HEY MARIANA CAN I TALK TO YOU? be it baghera or cellbit or forever or bad or I DON'T KNOW, COULD GENUINELY BE ANYONE LMAO but like mystery and eggs in danger is chumming the water for this server

which is great bc A) mariana has a concrete goal for logging into the server (finding his daughter) and B) he would be interacting with the rest of the server along the way, because he's not going to be doing this alone (he wouldn't even be allowed lmfao the rest of the server would be at his doorstep asking to help him in like 15 seconds flat) which means C) he might get reasons to log in extending outside flippa and slime. bingooooo

i call this a pipe dream bc i can poke so many holes in this even rn (does cc!mariana want flippa back, like fr? i'm not up to date) but can you IMAGINE. LIKE DAMN. i'm putting this idea into the public domain fr go nuts with it.

[foundfamilyhq]

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ok so imagine this scenario; you're wearing a flowy somewhat short skirt. you're wearing shorts underneath. it suddenly gets really windy. do you:

1. hold your skirt down (bc an up-flipping skirt is generally embarrassing)

2. just let it be (since there's no risk of your underwear being seen anyway)

i'm asking because i've recently been in this situation and didn't know quite know what to do... either way felt sorta awkward. is there a secret third solution?

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[reblogforsamplesize]

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[melamemea]

I am role player who matches energy. If I feel that you are no longer interested in interacting, I will give you space. If space turns into radio silence, the that's okay. People drift apart, it doesn't always mean it has to negative.

[bookshelf-in-progress]

"The Princess in the Storm", my flash fiction retelling of "The Princess and the Pea", has been published by Spark Flash Fiction. It's one of my favorite retellings I've written--I had a lot of fun with this fairy tale and these characters in a very short space.

You can read it at the above link, and, if you care to do so, you can vote for me, on the chance that I can get an Amazon gift card out of it.

[smashorpass50plus]

may i ask a stupid question? how is everyone submitting these? bc when i'm on the desktop, the submit doesn't work... and when i'm on mobile... the submit doesn't work. please advise?

Not a stupid question ^^ I'd try and submit via the ask, and if that doesn't work, submit a support ticket with Tumblr.

If that fails, you can always send URLs of the photos you'd like us to use too.

If anyone has any ideas what's going on, feel free to chime in

[anghraine]

I'm always ready to point out that death of the author is not the one literary theory to rule them all, and not the only valid approach to literary criticism.

That said, occasionally hardcore intentionalists show up and are like ... here's what the author said about their intention, how could you possibly interpret their work in any way that differs from that, authors never misrepresent their intentions, or fail to achieve them, or end up doing something different, or are ambiguous, or or or, and how dare you suggest otherwise?! Work belongs solely to the author and the word of the author on their work therefore should never be challenged. If you don't agree with them about their work you better go interpret something else.

And, um, wow.

[alexcabotgf]

not to be true crime posting on main but i think i'm falling down the wm3 rabbit hole again