#— lina speaks !

[linaket]

Sometimes when I go back and read my writing I'll get blindsided by some character interaction or other and I end up having impromptu floor time and stare at the ceiling about it.

[thelighthousemp3]

moon tonight

[thesuntitanswife]

I just love the Titans so much! They are very intriguing, especially during the Golden Era of the Titans. It makes me wonder what they were like back then before Kronos went nuts due to paranoia and power. But I do believe he was a good King and uncle to all his nieces and nephews. He must be a strict king too and very loving to his family…

However, the damn prophesy ruined it all!! And it caused him to go nuts, especially when the Elder Six were born. It caused him to swallow them all out of fear except for little Zeus whom Rhea hid somewhere.

Anyway, I will try to explore them as I could in my current PJO fanfic, Tales of the Invincible Sun or TIS for short, while trying to keep close to the actual Myths with some twists in it. But it will be mostly in Helios’s POV and many others.

So please feel free to check it out then, Just check my tumblr profile for the link.

[sponge-eating-goblin]

Alas I think a marketing campaign is working on me bc I kinda want to try that damned grimace shake Just to See

[strawberry-jellicle]

I think he's like "YES we finally get to send her ass off; go show them how sad you've become" like there's a LOT of spite in it

I hold the hc that Grizabella is the mom to Macavity, Munkustrap, and Tugger. I also hc she left them all behind to pursue fame, but Tugger was too young to remember and only got the stories told to him by Munkustrap and Macavity. That's why Tugger always acts hostile in the scenes she does appear in, and doesn't even see send off when she goes to the Heaviside Layer (I hc here that Mistoffelees took the place of Tugger when greeting her post Memory reprise)

I could write a whole essay on Grizabella's relationship with Tugger and his brothers tbh

Been thinking of this scene recently...

Following the headcanon that Grizabella is the mother of the Deuteronomy brothers and thus left them behind to follow her own fame...

Do you think this scene is Tugger's way of saying "Go on, grab the spotlight. You always loved it, you even loved it more than your kids."

Its been rattling around in my brain for a while...

[flor4de4amor]

i wanna bite into abby’s biceps and suck on her fingers to self soothe

[c4llahansgirl]

so not only is the five and lila thing so weird just cus its his brothers wife but seasons 1-3 happen within about under a MONTH for five. in his 13 year old body. and in s4 his body is barely 18-19. lila and five met when his body was 13 and she was (in 2019) 30 (according to tua wiki). five was also mentally like 68???? HELLO? and by tuas4 his bodys about 18-19. a 36 year old. with a TEENAGER, let alone her HUSBANDS teenage mid 70s year old BROTHER.

not to mention, both insanely out of character for five, and lila, and diego to be so okay with it?? and not immediately murder five on the spot??

its weird. its so SO fucking weird. tuas4 was a SHITSHOW i was expecting SO much more, it shouldve just ended at s3.

[vassia18]

JOSHUA WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?

Via the official Euroleague FB page

[linamuro]

I mean, not trying to be aggressive at you fluffer, but yes. Of course there are doctors that want to help. Of course there are doctors that will take a person at their word, approach them with kindness and compassion, and view their beliefs and knowledge of their own body as more important than a hypothetical man's possession and progeny.

They are, however, terribly outnumbered by the many who don't respect AFAB bodies, especially fat bodies. People needing the help can also be hamstrung by location, access, and cost. Or even timing. It sounds like 15 years ago, there wasn't a doctor like that available for Lee. I've seen multiple friends have to be hospitalized and nearly die before their reproductive requests were taken seriously, and these were within the last five to six years!

Lee's frustration feels so valid. Insurance, access, cost, and doctor's ignorance has left them a lot to cope with, emotionally and physically. Systematically designed suffering is deeply unfair, and some rage at the machine is understandable.

Acknowledging that the system is changing can be very hopeful. It's a lovely ray of hope. But it is slow. The hope that things get better should be driving us to support policies that protect AFAB and uterus-bearing people's rights to decide their health.

... not part of women's preventative care....

...

I want... to throw stuff.

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

every day i think about how much of a menace vash & lina & sheryl must have been as like. a family. like we see one day of their lives together & in it, lina runs into a bar because bandits are literally After Her Life & when they took her, sheryl was immediately like, "well, that's my granddaughter, so even though i'm an old woman, i guess it's time to shoot some bandits." while everyone around her was like. begging her to stop. then vash wakes up from Getting Shot By a Gun and says the exact same thing. they're an entire family of stampedes

[tvckerwash]

the noncanon s9 trailer as a whole is very serious, but the idea that wash and maine would have gotten their asses beat by sim troopers on multiple occasions had the outposts not been first established until after the break in is unbelievably funny. these big bad freelancers are more interested in fucking around and goofing off during what is supposed to be a Very SeriousTM simulation exercise and it comes back to bite them so hard, and yall already know that the other freelancers would make sure they never lived it down.

[linaket]

I keep seeing hopeful things about the revival of web serial writing after Dracula Daily took off and I really, really, really want to be on board with these. I mean, I wrote a thesis about this exact subject in 2013. I love serial writing. I REALLY DO. I actively chose to write my main story as a serial and not in a more "traditional" manner.

But you see, the problem is this: The sharks are already in the water, and the web serial industry has become toxic. If it ever wasn't.

I don't mean people using Substack or individuals at all. What I mean is that it's an entire industry already that, in the past several years, has kind of gone from bad to worst.

There is a general idea that web serial writing isn't as good as traditional publishing. Yeah, there's so much of it out there. There are a lot of people getting their start writing this way. But that doesn't mean that's the only people out here, even if there are a LOT of them.

However, it does mean there are a lot of hopeful writers just ripe to be taken advantage of.

The problem in the last few years has actually come from media conglomerates snapping up platforms left and right. Many of these are coming out of overseas markets, because web serials are HUGE there and have already proven to be profitable. Naver, which owns WEBTOON, also now owns Wattpad [link] Kakao acquired three platforms in the last year: Tapas, Wuxiaworld, and Radish. [link]

Webnovel is under Tencent. Here's a fun article about that.

and from that article:

Cultivating native writers

The huge success of a handful of Chinese stories has been great for the platforms, but also unpredictable and hard to replicate. Within China, the industry isn't just built on that. It's also about the thousands of B-list or amateur authors constantly pumping out new works to keep readers on the platforms.

To recreate that overseas, Chinese platforms have begun to cultivate non-Chinese writers. And the platforms have plenty of experience from the two decades of competing within China.

Emphasis mine.

These companies are predatory at best. Webnovel has a notoriously hellish contract. Authors are paid pennies and expected to "pump out" content, and those writers have to produce 500-1k words at least 5 times a week or be in breach of contract.

The kicker? Most don't retain the IP for their work, let alone moral rights.

While we often cite "to become a better writer, you must write," there is a point where the stress of the constant churn doesn't allow a writer to grow.

I've had friends get cut out of revenue shares for their work because, technically, it is considered contract work. You were paid what you were paid, and whatever profits come from that go to the company. Often this is done on a second season, or slipped into an amended contract.

Check the fine print on any of the contests. Most include something about entries only being able to be posted on that platform (see even The Wattys) which, understandable, but exclusivity is a low gate. It doesn't seem like a big deal until you're trapped behind it and at the mercy of whatever platform is holding your work.

And these larger companies often release massive waves of censorship.

Recently on Tapas, novels (and comics!) were shadowbanned from the app if they had the word "kiss" in the title. This was just weeks ago. If you search "kiss" on the Tapas app, the main way that the audience accesses the site, literally nothing comes up. Have a tweet about it:

[link]

It's the newest wave of censors that have been placed on the platform... and the platform has issued no statement on this. What other words are banned? Who knows? Well, omega is another one. But no one was told that. It's been a lot of trial and error among members of the community to find out if anyone can even find their stories anymore.

In the last few years, many of the more experienced authors I've met and highly respected on platforms just... left.

Does this mean that serial writing is dead in the water? Of course not.

I really, really hope not.

But if anyone out there is interested in taking that route, there's some pretty basic advice that everyone has heard:

read the TOC of a platform thoroughly before posting.

do not rely on a platform alone to share your work. you never know when something might happen, and suddenly your work will be unavailable. (this is one of the reasons that I run from exclusivity.)

plan to build your own audience, in your own way. Most platforms already have a niche, and that is what they are going to push more than anything.

understand that marketing is on you, just like any other kind of self-publishing route.

if your interested in becoming a "premium" author for the sites, read your contracts COMPLETELY. Even and especially renewals.

be wary if anything seems to good to be true when it comes to these large platforms. it probably is.

My experience, like everyone's, is obviously limited. I understand that. Personally? I loved platforms, and building communities on them with other writers, but I am finding it difficult to trust my work on them anymore.

I'm trying to figure out my own way now. I'm not sure what that's going to look like, but I'm trying to think of something. Because I haven't given up. I can't. I committed to writing my story as a series, and I'll finish it as such, because it is what is right for that story.

Let me know if you've got any ideas.

[thelighthousemp3]

screaming crying throwing up

[thesuntitanswife]

Zeus is definitely not a very good father at all, especially when it comes to any of his children.. DAMN HIM FOREVERMORE!!

THAT BLOODY THUNDERBOLT ASS even ABUSED APOLLO FOR OVER MILLENNIA AND HE WAS FORCED TO HID IT FROM EVERYONE INCLUDING HIS TWIN!!

So he is nothing but a damn bloody drama king and thunderbolt asshole!!

Humph! Ugh!

[doloresdisparue]

lolita / ada or ardor / lina medina - wikipedia / vladimir nabokov - think, write, speak

[emeraldgreaves]

still thinking about how i gave lina and seven a heartwrenching *sibling* breakup rather than a romantic one and now they're sharing a tour bus