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Amazon is awful, but I am forced to use it
Who sends someone an email to inform them they're getting a payout of less than a dollar this month? Amazon, apparently.
So, in the interest of not curling into a tight little ball and wondering why I tried to do all of this in the first place as I slowly sink into deep, dark, squelching dread...
Here is a link to short stories what you can purchase!
If that is indeed a thing you are into.
They are quite spooky, most are bloody, one has a horrible thing happen to a generally nice dude (that one is Don't Look, and if you're not comfortable reading about assault of the sexual variety then I insist you obey the title).
I apologize for my face, it has no excuse to exist, but it does and I was told to put it up...so it is there.
#writing#horror#short stories#ebooks#amazon#marketing#lgbtqia#because they're all a little gay#buy my books#it'll be fun#you might get traumatized though#let me know if that happens#i'll add you to the list#this is a terrible marketing post#i don't know how to do this#i will be reblogging this at a more reasonable hour
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Ferrari has to have gotten a new editor for their full access videos I mean look at this beauty of a thumbnail:
#the video actually has them interacting for once#unlike the terrible elevator music full access vids before#which is astonishing really because charlos are glued at the hip#to have as little c2 content as the old vids did meant they just weren’t bothered to film properly#speaks for the laziness in the old vids#the person in charge of vids now is like okay we’re not going to let our most marketable pair go to waste#f1#charles leclerc#Carlos sainz#charlos#Ferrari#Scuderia Ferrari#my post
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백현 ‘UN Village’ (FanCam) @ KBS뮤직뱅크_190712
#baekhyun#byun baekhyun#exosnet#kpop#dailybg#kpopco#kpopccc#mgroupsedit#malegroupsnet#ultkpopnetwork#*#neox#gifs#offloading the old drafts that im not too fond of anyway bc the tumblr market has been so terrible these days i dont wanna post my good gifs#only to watch them struggle to reach 100 notes lol#so mediocrity it is 😸
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the whiplash pedro pascal must feel going from the last of us script i just know that when i wake up i’ve lost something… i’m failing in my sleep… that’s all i do, that’s all i’ve ever done to the s3 mandalorian script *watches a droid drop a bust onto another droid* now that’s using your head
#or w/e that cringy line was#not even mentioning the rest of the terrible writing for ep1#and it would be. whatever. fine i guess. if this is all the series was ever supposed to be but the steady#infantalization of audiences is so apparent. and what’s worse is that the bar for these projects is on the floor#the mandalorian post-episode discussion was like GROGU CUTE SPACE SQUIDS PEW PEW#like of course they're not going to do better if the overwhelming response is that no one actually cares abt interesting stories being told#as long as there is sparkly cgi and quippy one-liners and marketable little creatures#and it’s not like they’re not capable!! andor is right there
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wow thank you so much
#this is aoa's official youtube. it has 20 million views. :')#also this is the performance version of 'ai wo choudai' and like. God the choreo is . ooughw :(#it is So bland. this is one of The Songs Ever to me. and the choreo is giving Nothing.#it's not even... a decent sexy choreo. bcus this is so rooted in the era of kpop girlies either give cute - sexy or badass#yeah i Know it released in 2016 but aoa stayed true to their roots to the end lol. and 2016 was the tide changing anywya.#honestly the trichotemy was pretty bad but i tended to enjoy anything that fell under the 'sexy' label. the BEst bangers came outta that#(exid i lvoe you. sistar i love you. stellar i love you. fiestar i lvoe you. hellovenus i lo)#and. oh i feel terrible saying this. i would rather have the miserable trichotomy than most groups giving#~feminism~ through the lens of misogyny. it's like. Feminism but make it marketable and tell young women this is Fine#also softcore queerbaiting.#like every Knew the trichotemy was misogynist af. i didn't have to read posts saying that blackpink gave women rights#okay actually. wait. people were genuinely saying things like hyuna's red were feminsit anthems weren't they. okay nvm#i think the bar for 'progressive' is so low in kpop that it is in hell. to be honest.#like we have and have had more progressive thigns in music videos and lyrics in mainstream kpop#mostly from soloists or solo work from band members#moonbyul's shutdown is. clearly about having sex with a woman.#brown eyed girls' abracadabra is okay.... YES the angling is steeped in male gaze#but having a clearly wlw relationship in the mv Was iconic for the era. still is mroe brazen than most mvs dare to be.#also that sistar one where they kill a man together and run off being fruity.#one mroe day! that one!#so yknow. shoutout to the actual icons.#loftwinglullaby rambles#kpop
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//only True Gamers will know what costume i'm working on based on this image alone
#ooc#god it looks TERRIBLE though i didn't know the fabric marker would bleed THAT FUCKING MUCH#but i guess it could've been worse#at least i can say it looks bad because i did it and not because i bought a cheap mass produced costume online or something#i DID buy specifically this pinafore online because i literally could not find a single one in any of the 3 thrift stores i visited#when i was looking for costume pieces#the rest of hte costume though is from goodwill/shit i already had/shit i bought at market day for cheap#thrifty halloween costumes uwu#if i finish it today i could post a munday pic of it
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please forgive me, but I need to complain and over-share or my brain is going to explode please feel free to ignore
#I'm not doing well.#the last two places I worked (in a tourism-adjacent sector) closed. broadly speaking due to post-lockdown financial issues#for the past year at my current job I've been earning less than half what I used to. this was the only offer I got at the time and#I haven't found anything better since. this is not sustainable I'm barely making it each month...#I live with my parents and cancelled my health insurance I don't know how else to reduce my budget. it's depressing tbh#the solution is obviously to find a better job but that's just not happening and I'm beginning to feel discouraged.#I hate being negative it's a very unattractive character trait but I just feel myself slipping and spiraling#I know I should be taking short courses or volunteering to boost my cv but like when ! and how !#I can't afford to work less but I get home at 20h so even evening courses are tricky. I work every other saturday too so weekends are out#and like I do need to rest at some point you can't be depressed and burnt out that's a terrible combo#was looking at a dtp/typesetting short course and 1) I'll need a new computer that can actually run design programs#and 2) the course itself is like 2 month's salaries which I cannot realistically save right now#and yet I'm still ''over-qualified'' for entry level positions because I went to uni. well maybe that's just a polite excuse#because as interesting as my humanities degrees were they didn't equip me with any practical or marketable skills#besides being good at reading and writing. but AI can do that for free now so that's not helpful#I always thought I was reasonably intelligent but I cannot solve this puzzle. there must be a creative solution that I'm missing#but i feel so stuck and trapped#and at least once a week some poor soul stumbles in to the office practically begging for a job so I feel bad for complaining#a little truly is better than nothing#but thank god we elected more pro-business capitalists into government that really is going to be great for us workers (sarcasm)#also I should acknowledge#I am getting some déjà vu. I feel like I've vented about this topic before#the difference is. back then it was a potential concern. now the concern has materialised into reality and rendered the situation desperate
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woke up to over 70 texts i was like wtf is going on??? college rebranded and the groupchat (all graphic designers) are tearing it to pieces... its so bad
#they deleted one of their instagram posts bc everyone was shitting on it#people moved to the comments on other posts to say its bad this is so......#like literally everybody is like what the fuck is this??#its terrible like so embarrassing for an art school#one friend sent a gif of roman watching the rocket launch like “the marketing team rn” our other friend was like wheres the computer one 😭
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I feel like booktok is seriously taking us backwards
We get the “damsel in distress” trope but it’s somehow worse because now instead of a FMC that has been (at least physically) weak the whole time, she has all of her strengthening qualities stripped away to become that stereotype and have a ‘morally grey manly man™️’ save her
Possessive behavior and relationships are EXTREMELY romanticized. To the point where I see people going ‘OMG he loves her so much’ to a quote I would see on whumpblr
Not to mention it’s all straight ffs, how boring
#and anytime I bring it up they’re always like ‘it’s just fiction chill’#but what they don’t get is that it’s setting a bad precedent#(and the tropes are so overused at this point the market is over saturated by the same bullshit everytime)#booktok#bookblr#bookstagram#maybe I’m fighting ghosts here#but I notice this a lot#my posts#and that’s not even bringing up how terrible book marketing has become#‘this book has enemies to lovers . grumpy x sunshine . with a side of ‘who did this to you’ :)’#ok but#WHAT’S THE BOOK ABOUT
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Not to be doombrained on main but is there literally any hope anymore
#i mean what future do we have#really#it seems like every nation is going to shit in one way or another#global warming is reaching an irreversible point and no one who can do anything cares#ai is set to destroy the already ruinous job market#there's several literal actual genocides going on in the world and even now that other nations are trying to do something for the attacked-#-the usa keeps fucking getting in the way and making things worse#everything is terrible#even the little joys don't bring the same joy that they did because there's that underlying knowledge that The Future Is Burning#anyway post is non-reblogable bc i don't want my misery spread to those who still maintain their grasp on hope#i've tried. i've tried for years. my hope used to be a point of pride for me. but it's gone now. i don't see a point in trying to recatch it
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hi yes hello I would like to install on my phone the world's dumbest autocorrect please, I want it to do all the corrections I tell it to and nothing else
#this post brought to you by over an hour of fruitless googling and downloading#ALL I WANT is a keyboard that will let me have my little shortcuts#like letss for let's and itss for it's#and won't react to every errant typo by putting the whole word in all caps#will not put words in all caps ever actually#or even just one cap I did not hire you to capitalize brand names and locations for me#truly I don't understand the all caps thing though it'll just turn letss into LETSS now#because it's....a corporation? a stock market symbol?? who knows! my phone has learned so many new and terrible words#and I cannot get it to *unlearn* them#swiftkey is good at unlearning but not at learning what I want it to learn#doesn't have a personal dictionary anywhere apparently! and ignores my phone's built-in one#gboard is no better so far#I am ready to scream
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dressed to impress, and also to go steal a snazzy vest for her sister
#can’t run a two person stall with only one snazzy vest can you now#so of course she’s gotta go get one for her sister#is there any vests that resemble the buttercup lace apparel#or fit with it#flight rising#emu tries to post#but anyway those two run a market stall#a very terrible one#and sometimes it’s customers find all their money missing despite not actually buying anything#I’m sure it’s fine
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the hardest part about writing trash novel and thinking about it getting closer and closer to publication is that, like. it's not meant to be one book. it finishes at about fellowship 1/2 finishes, which is to say, we've introduced the conflict and gotten to our first stopping point but the arc of the main story sure is not anywhere close to complete. it takes I think I've decided to do it in four full books not five to go through the first arc. the entire series is probably 10-15 books. and, like, once trash novel is published, if it gets any sort of popular, it will need to be the Main Thing I Am Working On therefore for the next like. decade. which on the one hand I love and I don't think I'm going to get bored of bc like. ensemble cast and arguably it switches genres a few times v hard to get bored, but also like. side-eyeing The Numanok Files and The Heart And The Heartless and Strageside 7/ Operation Swansong/ strageside is v much set up that even though it's meant to be one book it definitely could have a sequel and just. obviously the solution is to partition my time so that I'm working on multiple projects at once, but it does feel kind of weird to lock myself into something like that
#my writing#weird musings bc like#I'm going to make a post later I think#but just given the way that life has shaken out#at least for the next few years I need a secondary source of income to prop up my household#and given the sheer amount of non-competes I've signed#writing is p much the only thing I can do#mostly bc tutoring is going to be v hard to work around my hours#and so suddenly having to think about Release Schedules and Marketability is fun and by fun I mean terrible#I refuse to compromise that I am writing for me what I think is good#but I think I'm going to have to write a lot more and get a lot better at it real quick
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the long walk
[ID: a poem.
“Walking alone at night, cars pass me by I jump and shiver, half from cold and half from fright Like something feral, left out here to die But mostly scared of nothing more than my own bite.
Do you ever see faces rising from the dark? Do your thoughts ever sink into a putrid smog? Do you know how it feels, hiding in the cave, And waiting to live until your heart’s unclogged?
What is there left to love of me? I am no angel ‘dorned with broken wings More like roadkill, left to rot and ooze Nothing’s left except the festering wound
But I’ll keep walking through my shame Walk in hopes I’ll keep my thoughts at bay Walk while I remember how to pray ��Til no more dark is there to light my way.” End ID.]
#i had a nearly 30 hour flashback and it was fucking exhausting and terrible and this is the distilled feeling of that#scout.txt#poetry#spilled ink#writing#fuck i /still/ dont know how to really tag poetry on here for visibility#fucking#ptsd#mental illness#trauma#i guess#i mean that is what it is about i just. idk#dont like marketing myself that way i guess even if its accurate. anyway going to hit post now before i come up with a reason not to
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been meaning to post the first part of the multi chapter project i've been working on since june
but why do i suddenly feel so self conscious about it 😭😭
#i just#i feel like i don't know how to post it or summarize it in a way that will make ppl want to read it#and i usually dont care that much bc ptg is niche anyway so i don't feel that terrible if things don't get notes#but i hold this project so dear and so so so much planning and plotting and world building went into this#just the prologue/first part is already over 10k and the full document is over 30k and still ongoing#and i'm so torn bc i rlly want to share it but like#the tags and warnings make it look kinda bad but i swear the characters are interesting and likeable and there's rlly cute scenes#how do i put it out there how do i get people to be interested in this#i'm really bad at marketing#kaffeeklatsch#ptg ttlg
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People on reddit, tying themselves into knots as they try to explain why Aviation cocktails invariably look terrible in color: It’s supposed to resemble stormy skies! Or the aluminum grey of airplanes back then!
Me: My guys, it’s literally because modern crème de violettes are made with extra (often artificial) colors that mix badly with just about everything else. That’s it. That’s the reason.
#i still maintain my hot take that they're supposed to be pink not blue (or purple or grey or whatever) because guess what?#natural violet dye is a pH indicator!#alcohol#personal#i am still lacking in karma so i can't (yet) shout it in a post there so i have to shout it here sorry#anyway yes i bought a rothman & winter crème de violette (one of the oft-recommended ''good'' ones on the market)#and it's fucking terrible#it's OKAY in an aviation but only because it has other flavors to (mostly) cover it up#it looks and tastes artificial as shit and i had some straight and it had THE NASTIEST aftertaste bleh
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