#the upload quality is fucking garbage

[twovampswalkintoa]

how much trouble could three women really cause

[mellotronmkll]

YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME

[lastoneout]

Everyone: YouTube is such a garbage platform! It only cares about ad money and exploiting creators, and they have frankly draconian rules about what you can say or show, and sometimes even if you follow all the rules you'll either lose your money and viewerbase to demonetization, and there's basically no way to fix that unless you are a huge creator who makes a massive stink about it on Twitter, or to the algorithm just deciding your videos aren't worth promoting anymore. I hate how many ads there are too, 2+ prerolls, midrolls, and ones at the end?? Tons are unskippable and they often contain triggering content with NO warning. And like, half the sponsorships are for corrupt scams and full of lies. And ugh the switch to prioritizing short from content is fucking over anyone who doesn't want to make discount tiktoks. Plus they're trying to stop people from using adblocker in fucked up ways. And on top of all that Google is just straight up evil. YouTube really does suck these days :/ I feel bad for the creators I love who are stuck using it.

Watcher: YouTube was a good place for our shows at first, but as you all know if you want to make money here you have to compromise the types of content you want to make to please the algorithm and advertisers, and we don't want to make content for them, we want to make quality TV shows for and supported by our viewers, so we can grow and offer even more, much higher quality stuff, so it's time to open our own independant streaming service. It's as cheap as we can make it, and we also want to give our fans more control and so there's a deal if you sign up now where you get 30% off for the first year and can vote on our next show, plus we will never implement any measures to prevent account sharing, one person can share with whoever they want. We're still going to upload trailers and premiers on YouTube, and we will NOT be deleting anything that's already up here. We hope you can support us, because it's your support that matters to us more than anything else.

Everyone: Oh my god you guys are such assholes who hate poor people, what the fuck is your problem!! How dare you abandon us, here's a huge paragraph about how your shows are the only thing that makes my life worth living because [xyz systemic issue], just so you know you're actively ruining our lives by trying to get rid of ads, make better content, and focus on what the viewers want. Why didn't you switch to Nebula or something?? Idc if that's not how it works. Fuck you all, I'm going to go review bomb all your videos. This is so evil and scummy. Also, I'm pissed because people are claiming this isn't avaliable in the rest of the world, even though no one has offered a single source to back it up. Anyway back to watching Dropout, a service you have to pay for, which I'm not mad about at all.

Me:

[momo-no-tane]

Peach-Pit Artbook Scanning Project - Complete!

On August 1st, 2015 I made the first post of this artbook scanning project to provide high quality scans of Peach-Pit’s illustrations, because there was barely anything available online, or if there was the quality was absolute garbage. 7 artbooks and 648 illustrations later, the Peach-Pit Artbook Scanning Project is finally complete... really, really late.

I was supposed to finish this project in April 2018. I finally uploaded the last illustration yesterday - July 8th, 2023. Unfortunately I was never able to finish it back in 2018 like I wanted to. Life got really busy, I had gone back to school, my computer battery died, I started getting lazy... when I only had 5 illustrations left to post. I’m so sorry it took so long to finish. I really hated myself for not finishing it back then. I was constantly beating myself up over it. I really wanted to get it done this year though. Thank you so much for all the likes and reblogs over the course of this project. You can find each of the artbooks below.

Artbook 1 (Peach-Pit Artworks DearS)

Artbook 2 (Peach-Pit Artworks Sui Mitsu Kyo)

Artbook 3 (Peach-Pit Artworks Zombie-Loan)

Artbook 4 (Shugo Chara! Illustrations)

Artbook 5 (Peach-Pit Artworks Rozen Maiden)

Artbook 6 (Shugo Chara! Illustrations 2)

Artbook 7 (Rozen Maiden Illustrations: Rose Maiden)

Now for something really annoying... Tumblr’s recent bullshit is another reason why I finally forced myself to hurry up and post those final 5 illustrations.

Tumblr has decided to be completely and utterly stupid, getting rid of the legacy editor and replacing it with a garbage new post editor that makes posts look absolutely hideous on desktop. I initially made this post with the new post editor, but I was so disgusted at how ugly and awful it looked I deleted it. For some stupid reason, all posts automatically become text posts even if I specifically select the photo option. It makes no fucking sense. I realized that all the posts I had saved in my drafts still had the legacy editor, and thankfully I had a few photo posts still in there. So I was able to repost that news post.

The problem was that I only had less than 10 photo posts saved in drafts. If I had known Tumblr was going to be fucking stupid and get rid of the legacy editor, I would have saved dozens of posts to prepare. But I only had enough to make a few news posts and those last 5 illustrations. Now I have nothing but text posts left in drafts. I’m behind on some posts already (Nagi’s birthday post, new SC! Princess Cafe goods, new RM SOLWA goods), and I can’t make a post about them because Tumblr fucked everything up and I’m trying to figure out how to fix the posts on my theme so they don’t look like shit.

I don’t know what to do. I’ve been giving them grief almost daily on their change blog and support section. So many other people are also upset. I don’t want to get too backed up with news posts because there’s so much information that comes out monthly lately. Does anyone know how to fix this? Any code I could add to my theme to make my posts not look like shit because of the new post editor? It pisses me off that I have to waste time and energy focusing on this instead of the project I plan to do next - high quality manga caps. How can I even make nice looking manga cap posts when the new post editor will just destroy it? It’s so frustrating. I’m sorry this post turned so negative, I really needed to rant about this.

[sibyl-of-space]

i am doing my biannual "listening to all of my stuff on youtube and angsting about life" thing that i just do every now and then so bear with me but it's making me emo as always.

anyway this evening i went on a nice cathartic after-dark bike ride and listened to FF9 music which made me realize i really wanted to post my ff9 zine covers (which i didn't do until now because last month kicked my ass and that was supposed to be the time to do it) - and after uploading it i am going through my youtube and realizing that it's a disaster in exactly the way that makes it one of my favorite online presences.

it's mostly music, some original and lots of covers, of quality that varies from "professional and sounds fucking incredible" to "i made this 7 years ago and you can tell". but it also has some random A/V digitizing tests, capture card comparisons, digitizations of commercials on old anime VHS, the world's stupidest futari wa pretty cure ""parody"" that was largely inspired by incredibly fucking dumb parody videos from like 2009, and just various other garbage.

the fact that it has all of these things is what makes it very important 2 me. and i've just realized that i think i need to organize - or perhaps, UNorganize - it in a way that really shows what is important about it.

my ideal viewing experience is for someone to find my channel from some video that is, in some way, appealing or good or enjoyable to that person. then they click through to my channel and go "what the fuck is going on here" and hit subscribe.

I've somehow built an audience of people who subscribed after watching a video of commercials on a DBZ VHS and haven't unsubscribed when all of my recent videos have been music or shilling my game. That kind of audience is invaluable.

anyway, I don't really know what to do in order to present myself the way I want. I was originally thinking about further subdividing the existing playlists but now I think if anything less playlists is better. I almost want people to just look at my video history and go "whuh".

I think I'll keep my playlist of retro video bullshit, keep my playlist of gaming bullshit, and then I might add a playlist of just my favorite music stuff both new and old, and then let the rest be found by people who want to go treasure hunting...? we will see . i'll put it on the to-do list somewhere

in the meantime, if you want a collection of videos that ranges from covers to original music to catching all of the fish in Majora's Mask 3D in a single 3-day cycle then boy do I have the channel for you

[saintarmand]

i really want to read the vampire chronicles (I’m halfway through book one) but whenever I find snippets or pdf files of the sequels, the writing seems…bad.

Are these just bad uploads, or are the books actually written like??? it seems unlikely AR wouldn’t have had an editor but the writing just seems very hard to follow after book 1.

lmao... yeah those are not fake uploads the quality of her writing varies WILDLY not just book to book but chapter to chapter. she is very much capable of amazing writing but also just doesn't do that a lot of the time. this is also a series where fucking anything can happen (jesus AND aliens) some of the buckwild shit in there is the stuff of legend. the general wisdom in the fandom is that the first three are the ones you have to read if you wanna sit at the table and the rest only if you're really dedicated.

the vampire lestat is mostly good although also very cringe at times and i personally don't give a fuck about the parts with marius towards the end lol. if the first chapter is too unbearable to get through (shut UP lestat!!!) you can just skip to the next one where it really picks up as he gets into the "real story" meaning his backstory, cause the beginning is just an intro that won't matter until it loops back at the very end. i do think this book is very much worth reading! the best stuff in it i like more than the best stuff in the first book.

with the queen of the damned, that's the one that actually made me question if i was reading a first draft at times but then it does also include one of my favorite parts of the whole series which is the story of daniel aka the devil's minion it's sooooo fun and known to make ppl go crazy AND because part 1 of the book is basically an anthology you can read it separately as a short story if you want! my other fav from that book is the story of baby jenks and the fang gang which can also be read separately. the rest is take it or leave it for me, there's some cool fun stuff but it was a huge chore for me to get through the whole book... so if you wanna take it on be warned!

the rest of the series similarly also does have some good stuff in it but you kinda do have to sit through a Lot of garbage to find it 😔 and some of the garbage is garbage in a fun way and some is not

and yeah she did actually fire her editor is the story i've heard so that explains that

[melonba11s]

A Tempting Offer (Re-Upload)

Strade receives a message from a fan!

Minors and Ageless blogs do not interact, you will be blocked!

Contains: Strade, mentions of Asphyxiation

If Strade was asked to be honest about the reason he truly streamed on the dark web, he would have to admit it was not for the fun of entertainment. It merely provided him a way to obtain an income whilst doing what he loved. And hey, they said if you loved what you do for a living, you’d never truly work a day in your life. 

He lived by that rule, though he couldn’t deny that sometimes it annoyed him how his viewers saw his “guests” as just a piece of meat to torture. How rude they could be to the shivering college girl or the loud mouthed trust fund brat. He put up with as much as he could though. He depended on that money after all. And some of them donated very generously to see him gut a poor sucker.

In his “office”, he cracked open a beer as he booted up his computer, sipping on it slowly as it slowly turned on. Thus was the cost of being so entrenched in the dark web. Special software in order to access it was quite bulky. Devices that moved his IP to some other random place in the world often, making him untraceable. Especially useful for his line of work. Couldn’t have someone tracking him down. A heavy stack of RAM, SSD, and other type things so that he could host a stream on his own network, not tied to the garbage low quality that many of these sites offered. 

B3GCRY knew his way around computers, and he knew how to keep himself anonymous. He didn’t exactly go out of his way to seem approachable on streams, which was for the better. He didn’t need people bothering him “off the clock” for silly requests. Or dick appointments which they naively thought would not end in them being eviscerated. 

Which is why seeing a little red number pop up on his host site. A direct message. A rarity, but was probably spam. He hovered over it, expecting to see a “Fuck a HOT MILF today!” or “Buy Drugs” type message, instead, it started simply. 

“Hello :)” that little emoticon seemed to stare into him. Narrowing his eyes, Strade sighed, taking a deep swig of his beer now. He clicked on it, ready to block them at the drop of a hat. Something he usually did with anyone who messaged him. It was better for them if he blocked them. 

He was met with a quick, yet to the point message. 

“Hello :), Uh, I stumbled across your stream the other day. I have this fantasy of being on camera in that kind of situation. I could pay you. I just kinda wanna die, lol.” 

Now, that was something he hadn’t seen before. He had the odd silly girl saying she was into freaky stuff, asking him to cut her, choke her, etc. Or that one weirdo who’d asked for a sperm sample. But someone coming to him asking to be killed? It intrigued him. But it could also be another silly person, thinking it would be a kinky little game and they’d be able to go back home. He could never let anyone who came into this house leave alive. 

He pulled his keyboard close, setting his beer down and typed a message back. 

“What did you have in mind?” he asked simply, leaning back. He was surprised to see them begin responding almost immediately. 

“Oh! You replied! Oh, well. See, I’ve always been into hangings… I’ve never seen you do one, closest thing was when you choked out that one guy while you fucked him. Let me get to the point. I’ll offer myself as a sacrifice. You can torture me on camera for money, and then hang me at the end.” 

Strade had to read that several times over, what kind of masochist had he found? He watched as they began to type another message. 

“No one else knows this about me. I’m living a lie, it feels like. So I may as well go out being true to myself and my desires. My life savings would be yours, I can convert them to whatever crypto you prefer.” 

Strade’s mind was racing, as he thought it over. This could be a fun victim to play around with for a while. See how they’d react to different stimuli. Maybe he’d bring down Ren to suck him off while they perished. He sat up though, as reasoning came into play. 

This would mean telling someone where he lived. Having them drive or book a flight out here. Telling others where they were going. 

He had spent too long covering all his tracks, ensuring he was untraceable, moving out of his home country, to be caught like this. 

His mouse hovered over the block button again.

[rainydayladybug]

Hey crypto terf I get off to fanfiction: BOO!

Gotta love how “TERF” has conveniently become so detached from the core transmisogyny/intentional exclusion + violent demonization of trans women.. to the point that people think that calling trans people, especially trans women and other TMA people, “TERFs” is a morally superior action. And tangible form of trans allyship.

And it’s somehow NEVER due to stances or topics related to radical feminism, or the core pro-trans women’s exclusion, that would even warrant the mention (or accusation) of “TERF”. Somehow even the hate groups that target us become weaponized against us, with the vague claim that it’s for our own good and our protection.

And for anyone who wants to know what this stemmed from.. I mentioned on a post that hypothetical incest/rape/abuse/CSA survivors are always thrown in the faces of those who criticize the public eroticization + normalization of these topics in fan fiction (somehow always written in the most tacky, immature, harmful ways), because “maybe the author and everyone jacking off to it is coping with trauma!!”.. but that no one seems to care about the actual victims of these traumas who express discomfort (or even just ask for trigger warnings or have a DNI). Instead these survivors get called fascists and, in this case, TERFs. Because our existence as survivors is only allowed in these circles if we comfort, support, and sexually feed anyone who jacks off to our abuse.

And, since no one on this site can grasp any nuance or form their own thoughts, and they think all complex social justice issues / issues of morality are sorted into “PRO” and “ANTI” or “INCLUSIONIST” or “EXCLUSIONIST” (because that’s the only complexity that their still-forming virgin brains can comprehend) criticizing this toxic behavior within fanfiction circles somehow means you’re against all forms of erotica, and loathe + exclude all trans women from your activism. even if you’re a trans woman yourself. not sure how trans women got inherently linked + embedded in your right to *checks notes* write an online novel about Dora and Diego fucking, without criticism.

And for the record, I also have controversial/“problematic” kinks that have formed due to years of sexual abuse. But I don’t stomp my feet like an angry toddler denied fruit gummies when other abuse survivors express discomfort with kinks like mine, and the endless (tacky and horribly-handled) erotica + porn that fetishizes our abuse, and normalizes it and becomes a tool in grooming the kids/teens that have full access to the platforms they get uploaded to.

This site is full of children (who’ve been bombarded from incredibly young + formative ages with violent, unrealistic porn in this digital age) and self-admitted adult virgins who either think sex is “yucky” and talk about it in incredibly immature ways, or their concept of sex revolves around terribly-written + unrealistic erotica created by other adult virgins.. like I really don’t expect to have mature, informed conversations about sex or trauma on here. Like I’ve had more nuanced, mutually-critical discussions about this on fucking Fetlife and in BDSM dungeons. It’s incredibly on-brand for me to be accused, with barely any context and no justification, of being a TERF and a fascist (as a trans Jew) on this performative faux-leftist site, all because I’m not applauding whatever low-quality fictional garbage y’all spend hours every day hyper-fixating on.

And I hate how I can’t even tell you to log off and finish your algebra homework or something, because I can’t tell if you’re a 14 year old just trying to be edgy, or a 35 year old white queer from Portland who fights for the rights of “pro-shippers” more than they fight for actual minorities.

[welcometogrouchland]

Also 90% of my good doodles lately have been in the fucking. iPad notes app and I'd have to screenshot them at garbage quality to upload them here and also they're very messy but like I said I like them, they're good and it frustrates me that if I share them they'll end up looking like dookie

[crowandtalbot]

i really see no point in uploading art online anymore

even my own sister, my boss, who pays me to make art assets, is trying to get me to use ai to generate worker bios and "improve" my work time

why, just why

I have a BA in fine art. I have a college degree. She hired me because she needed an assistant that can upgrade her website occasionally. She talked to me at length about how she admired the way I write and the art I make. Why does even she want fucking ai garbage when it only takes me about 2 seconds longer to write something cogent? to draw something unique to her business?

knowing full well the second my work is uploaded to her website another fucking ai skimmer is going to take it to train a logo making model or ui asset model...i'm contributing to my own outmoding by getting a job in my field and there's literally no one in this field that is safe.

There's not an art director or creative department or even a marketing department that won't get replaced almost entirely by an ai service and an unpaid intern to edit the ai garbage. Tech bros and CEOs don't care about quality, they only care about good enough. "Will the market accept this instead? Then I can cut out the entire human contribution to my brand identity and cut costs"

then she asks me why i haven't gotten another job in my field. no one wants me. im too expensive by existing. they can use an ai subscription instead for fucking everything

Few of the artist affected by AI art thievery.

Posts by Jon Lam Art.

[d3f3n3str4t10n]

I'm scrolling through my YouTube tab and I'm just seeing a deluge of the same fucking shit. Rant videos everywhere from 5 minutes to 2 hours long about some piece of media that sucks, and has actually always sucked this whole time, or how it's the embodiment of everything that's wrong with society for X and Y and Z reasons, but it's all the same shit.

Generic baity titles and thumbnails with bland narration that I'm sure are informative in some way but it's just so repetitive. The worst part is that I used to like that stuff, but it's become so oversaturated and the quality has gone so far down that none of it feels genuine anymore. Feels like everyone just wants to throw their hat in the ring just for the sake of it.

I should start uploading videos about how the sky is blue and how that's bad. Or why Bears shitting in the woods is everything that's wrong with the Lumber industry or some garbage.

[girlmadeof-stars]

I don't wanna let go, I know I'm not that strong I just wanna hear you saying ‘let's go home’ Yeah, I just wanna take you home

[callmearcturus]

==> You have three doors

DOOR ONE: Reading Homestuck using the Unofficial Collection

Pro: Everything is immaculately preserved at the highest quality. Official HS took beautiful animations and turned them into 360p fuzzy horseshit. UHSC has everything in HQ.

Pro: Navigation controls. I set everything to "auto open pesterlogs" and then use arrow keys to go to the next page when I'm done. Very smooth experience.

Pro: You can fucking mod out the worst slurs from early Homestuck, which is a relief.

Pro: It maintains the browser games as well as the incredible formatting tricks of Cascade, A6A6I1 and others.

Pro: It's literally officially endorsed by the creator as The Way to read HS.

Con: Windows and Mac only, not mobile, unfortunately.

Con: No matter how many times I read the explanation for First Time Reader Mode, I'm always still a bit confused.

Con: The Troll quirks.

DOOR TWO: Experiencing Homestuck with Lets Read Homestuck

Pro: The entire comic read to you, with matching visuals, is really a fucking treat and probably the most low effort way to experience it.

Pro: CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW FUCKING GOOD THE ACTING IS SOMETIMES. OFTENTIMES. Duckum's Rose performance is more deserving of oscars than most shit I've seen get awards. Karkat's performance is always a delight but the emotional rollercoaster of Murderstuck? Holy shit. Also I did not like Terezi until LRHS, now I love her.

Pro: Sometimes, Homestuck is hard to read. Making sure you find every secret in every walkaround? Trying to figure out what the trolls are saying through their quirks? Oh my god the fucking SBaHJ interludes? There are parts of the Meenah walkaround I totally missed bc I could not parse the quirks. LRHS makes it a complete and total non-issue.

Con: In my opinion, it takes them a while to find their footing. Act One is just kinda rough. Act Two is better, but things become fantastic pretty much as soon as Duckums takes over as Rose.

Con: It's not complete. LRHS is up to the Trickster Arc deep deep deep in Act 6, so they're nearly there, but the last 15% of the comic, you have to read yourself.

Arc, what the fuck: I have all of LRHS ripped as MP3 so I can listen to it like an audiobook. Lemme know if you want the files.

DOOR THREE: Official Homestuck Website

Pro: It does work on phone and tablet.

Pro: You can pair it with the HQ upload of all HS Flashes and have an okay time.

Con: The walkarounds are removed. The entire game of Jane's land is a fucking YOUTUBE VIDEO. The special effects for Cascade and A6A6I1 and even the stupid horse segments are gone. The entire gravity of the Retcon is removed. They couldn't even fucking preserve Gamzee's dumb potion shop bit. What the absolute fuck.

Con: EVEN THE FUCKING UPLOADS THEY DID LOOK LIKE HORSESHIT. Compare the official intro of Rose's world to a reupload of the original flash. How the FUCK was this allowed?! Who OKAYED this?!

This is garbage. Homestuck is a multimedia experience of prose, text, music, animation, interactive storytelling, and Viz Media fucked it.

The choice is yours. I suggest Door Two, but I'm a podcast person before everything else. Door One is a very very good door once you get going. Door Three is if you HAVE to use mobile. but please, fuck, use the All Flashes video, I'm begging you.

OH BUT WHATEVER OPTION YOU CHOOSE: stop at Act 7 or Credits. Do not read the Epilogues or the post canon stuff.

[jodjuya]

I was wondering why that skull trumpet video seemed to take for-fucking-ever to get to the damn point. This post really illuminates my half-felt bad vibes about that video that I couldn't pin down while I was watching it.

I feel hopeful about this trend though. Like we're in on the ground floor watching these prospective essayists putting out their wobbly clumsy unpolished hunks of meandering effort, and in two to three years from now they'll have gotten their shit together such that we'll be looking forward to each new upload with anticipation.

I think that's one of the things I enjoy most about my time spent on YouTube, actually. Watching hapless noobs with squeaky voices and garbage-quality recording setups progress from amateur to apprentice, to journeyman, to master-level video essayists.

I love watching the growth of artists.

Something so innately satisfying about being able to say "I was there when it all began". The smugness inherent in "I noticed how good this thing was before it was actually good; I have such good taste. *smug* *smug*"

The trouble with the rise of the YouTube Video Essayist™ is that everybody wants to be the next Defunctland or Hbomberguy, but all the wannabes know is how to be an influencer, so the resulting video essays are always really about themselves. You'll get a forty-five-minute video with maybe fifteen minutes of actual, topical information padded out with half an hour of tedious theatrics about how hard it was to do research for the video and how nobody wanted to talk to them, and I'm just sitting here like "yeah, dude, it was hard because you don't know how to perform research, and nobody wanted to talk to you because your behaviour toward your prospective sources amounted to borderline harassment, and that's how it looks in your own version of events which has clearly been spun for optics – I can't even imagine how badly you must have gone about this in reality".

[separatist-apologist]

I feel you so hard on these bad book recommendations… you know that picture of Keanu reeves smoking a cigarette and he just looks so fucking done? That’s me. I freelance edit for work and I edit fanfiction and manuscripts alike… I would say 85% of the fanfiction I edit and read personally (ESPECIALLY YOURS) is more profound, well written, and flows better than the majority of popular book tok recs. The manuscripts I’ve edited have all been so wonderful. I am so genuinely lost at how books like Zodiac Academy and King of Battle and Blood get so much hype and recognition. I respect that it is a lot of work and takes courage to share stories but come on man. I feel fried to a crisp! I am one more bad book away from hypnotizing myself into forgetting how to read. It’s cathartic to see a fellow hater in the midst.

First of all, an editor you say? I might need to hit you up in a month or two and find out your rates.

Secondly, I think my issue isn't that people like the books. It's the toxic, near weaponized positivity of "We can't say anything bad/everything is a 4 star review" instead of "this book was dogshit BUT i liked it anyway" which is more honest. Especially lately, I've been seeing a lot of push back of like, telling people you don't like books/they're bad prevents people from reading them and like, YES THATS THE POINT OF A REVIEW. A review is NOT FOR THE AUTHOR, I don't care about the authors livelihood/income and the expectation shouldn't be that I have to prioritize their desire to write books over being allowed to say "This book should have been edited", ESPECIALLY when it comes to indie authors.

ESPECIALLY when it comes to indie authors, like given how inexpensive and almost easy it is to write and upload to KU, people should be demanding quality over quantity and they're not. Instead they're asking readers to just say "this was not for me but other people might like it" and that's an assumption. I've read books based on 1 star reviews before, and I've read books that people don't like as a group, but like, falsifying reviews in order to keep authors from having hurt feelings or not having a lucrative career is just...its not it for me.

I genuinely think some of these books are so disrespectful to the people who DO like them. Where is your care? Where is your passion? Churning out books that aren't edited (SCARLETT ST CLAIR) and then going back to edit if they sell well is horseshit. Not paying for an editor at all and then publishing a book riddled with problems only to then turn around and say "you shouldn't be so negative, I'm an indie author" is horseshit. Writing a book so egregiously racist/sexist/homophobic that it's harmful because you didn't want to find sensitivity readers (or worse, rewrite the issues they found) is horseshit (especially given how many people do this accidentally).

I think about my own job and like, probably most of our jobs where we can't just drop garbage into the world and say, "well this is my dream" okay so what? You wrote a genuinely shitty book at bare minimum, I should be allowed to say so. It's written badly. Your plot is poorly developed. So I'm a hater who can't be nice, and I'll never be nice about it.

And like, to finish this rant, my director always tells me, "[insert person]'s opinion of you is none of your business." And that has been so freeing to me, as someone who craves the approval of people around me and never wants anyone to be mad. Not everyone is going to like you. Authors should learn this and grow up about reviews. It's not personal- I'm not saying you're a bad person. I'm saying you clearly took very little care with your book and it shows.

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

what you don’t know is that getting castor icing and two goths to upload through mobile while letting the file limit took three fucking hours and involved:

more than one online file resizer, abandoned as they’re fucking useless garbage

A swift reminder of why I personally despise jpgs

Imgur, also useless at preserving quality

Approx 1700 minor resizings of the files in question on my laptop

Emailing the files to myself bc I remembered back in the day it asking if I wanted to change the file size before I downloaded attached pictures

Why isn’t the email coming through

I misspelt my email address

Ok email is sent

The email fucking increased the image size

Further resizing

Another desperate attempt at an email

Fuck it let’s just grab the file from the ‘sent’ rather than the mail box

….that worked?