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early cap/iron man is like
Tony: it’s so hard to be on the brink of death all the time. I miss Steve
Steve: if I do enough backflips, the dark thoughts can’t find me. However if I don’t see my bff iron man or my separate bff Tony stark any time soon I’m putting myself back in the ice
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fantasy: the kingdom has been ruled by one family for 10,000 years
science fiction: a new species evolved in 30 years
the thing about misogyny is that femininity is both devalued AND forced on women (and those misgendered as women). if you fail to meet the arbitrary standard of Womanly Charm you're ugly and unwanted and hate yourself and if you succeed you're shallow and brainless and weak. if you don't try to conform you're lazy and if you do you're vain. it is not possible to beat this system. feminism needs both "feminine doesn't mean weak or less-than" AND "women don't have to be feminine to have value", and if you are fighting for one of these the people fighting for the other are not your enemies, nor are they privileged over you.
this post is inclusive of trans people, including but not limited to trans women and transfeminine people. exclusionary sentiment is not welcome.
feminist killjoy hours again, what the actual fuck is “weird girl literature” and how often do we acquiesce to the latest degrading gendered advertising campaigns
Women did not fucking pioneer horror, thriller, and science fiction as we know it for publishing to infantilize it into a high school phase
is Stephen king “weird boy literature”? Or does he get to be an adult horror novelist?
I see what y'all are doing but: weird girl literature isn't horror. It often has tinges of horror to it, particularly elements of body horror, but it itself is not designed to terrify.
It's a specific genre of capital L literature, not genre fiction (which would include horror, scifi, fantasy, romance) where the emphasis is on being literary fiction (well-written sentences, theme over plot or character development. we could argue about the defining features of literary vs genre fiction all day but at the end of the day it tends to be writing that came up in a traditionally literary environment, such as an mfa) and conveying a theme and less on telling a story or arousing a specific emotion (both of which are key genre characteristics of horror and romance).
The books people talk about being "weird girl lit" aren't always horror, which is why I am chafing a little at this comment. They're just a little weird, a little quirky, a little off. Young women and girls reading these books wanted a name for that specific type of book that they themselves enjoyed, and settled on weird girl lit.
And you know, maybe it is a little infantilizing, but consider: these girls and women are reading literature, and this is the name they gave it themselves. They don't consider it to be infantilizing. They consider it to be accurate. These girls and women, they tend to be driven, passionate, hard-working people. They're reading adult novels, for fun and pleasure so like: if they want to say weird girl lit...let it slide.
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The rest of the thread is here.
tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids. You won’t like what happens next.
read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.
AHDHXHEBSG TWITTER WRITERS DID WHAT NOW???? AND PEOPLE PAID THEM????
If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????
Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.
Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.
AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!
It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.
The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.
If you want to make money off your fics, you can instead post them somewhere like royal Road. “Oh, but Royal Road’s culture is so much more negative and stressful and lacks the supportive norms of AO3!” Yeah, because people are trying to make money there. Half the userbase is treating it as a storefront and hustling is the natural social consequence of that. AO3’s culture can only exist because it’s not commercial.
nothing will ever be funnier to me than the 30-50 feral hogs joke phase, I think about it at least once a week
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damn i wish u guys could read this fic i haven't written and this fic i haven't finished writing and this fic i'm putting off outlining and this fic i outlined but haven't started and this fic i'll never write and this other fic i haven't written and this fic that exists only in vague impressions in my head that fall apart every time i try to commit them to the page and th
in the midst of capitalism, fanfiction and archive of our own are always unconditionally and endlessly free. love, joy and passion, shared among human beings, are always unconditionally and endlessly free
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Thanks so much for the tag, @corrodedheartsclub! Sorry for ignoring you for over a month. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CHECK MY MENTIONS, apparently. I just saw this in my email.
I hate tagging people because I'm painfully shy, so if you want to do this consider yourself tagged.
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“Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer’s dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies… Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaler, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?”
— C.S. Lewis, “On Science Fiction”
My boss has pulled some absolutely insane fuckshit, so I'm reading Social Network fic to self-soothe.
What’s the furthest distance you’ve driven in one day?
* less than 100 miles (<161 KM)
* 100- 200 miles (161-322 KM)
* 200-300 miles (322-483 KM)
* 300-400 miles (483-644 KM)
* 400-500 miles (644-805 KM)
* 500-600 miles (805-966 KM)
*600-700 miles (966-1127 KM)
* over 700 miles (>1127 KM)
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What’s the furthest distance you’ve driven in one day?
less than 100 miles (<161 KM)
100- 200 miles (161-322 KM)
200-300 miles (322-483 KM)
300-400 miles (483-644 KM)
400-500 miles (644-805 KM)
500-600 miles (805-966 KM)
600-700 miles (966-1127 KM)
over 700 miles (>1127 KM)
it's complicated
see results
We roadtripped Richmond, VA to Fort Myers, FL one year, which is approximately 900 miles. We stopped for bathrooms and food, and it took about 14 hours altogether. A week later we did it in reverse.
There was no cruise control and my right leg was cramping by the time we got back ^_^
In one day, I generally top out around 700 because after that, you just start to lose it, so I break it up at that point. But when I moved from FL to NoDak, we drove the whole way, split up over three days. And that was 1900 miles...then when I moved to Jackson, MS, I also split that up over three days and I did it alone. And once I hit Jackson, I was so over the whole thing, I unloaded my car, dropped everything in the new apartment, slept in my bed, reloaded the car with just the dirty laundry, and drove back to my parents' house in FL.
And during covid, my brother, SIL and I drove home to FL from DC several times and that was an evil, ten hour drive.
having a friend crush is so god damn embarrassing like yeah.... i like how you play toys and i think youre really cool..... and im scared to talk to you........do you wanna..... play toys with me too...... or something...... its whatever if not..... kicks a rock. Fuck my life dude
this doesnt end even when you actually become friends btw. "oh no what if they think im weird and cringe for wanting to hang out with them and they beat me with rocks and make fun of me" DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE NEEDS AND ARE A PERSON
Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.
He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"
"What?"
He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"
"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."
Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.
Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.
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ten years ago as part of my creative writing degree we had a class on professional development where we learned how the publishing process works for different mediums and how to choose an agent and what the role of a publishing house is and back then, the advice was "self-publishing has its advantages but a traditional publisher will provide editorial support and market your book and if your book sells well enough they want to invest in your future" and now basically none of that is true anymore. books make it to shelves with noticeable errors and structural issues that could be addressed with one or two more rounds of developmental editing, authors are expected to do more and more of the marketing themselves to the point that they are expected to be social media influencers in their own right, and publishers appear to be prioritising flashy debut novels with huge advances they don't outsell, which means the author is less likely to get a follow-up deal.
Obviously a publisher is a business and a business needs to make money, but the idea used to be that you'd have a couple of very successful authors who bring in so much cash that they subsidise the new kid who is building a back catalogue of books that sell okay until they get name recognition and pay for themselves. I was told back then that a couple thousand pounds was very reasonable for a debut novel because you want to get royalties for the sales exceeding your advance and that way the publisher sees you as a profitable investment. The last couple of years I keep hearing about six figure book deals for debut (!) literary fiction (!) novels, what on earth?
I'm not saying that the publishing industry is uniquely awful or that it's worse than it's ever been or whatever, but especially in a time when reading and talking about books is trendy and there is so much money in books, it feels very, I don't know, symbolic? Prioritising flashy one-time projects over sustained and sustainable growth. Investing only enough resources to make your product fit for sale but not enough to make it good because people will buy it anyway. It's frustrating to me as a reader and as an aspiring writer and as a person existing in a capitalist system.
One of the tags referred to people thanking their editorial teams in acknowledgments, and I want to point out the growing prevalence of people thanking beta-readers and writing groups, both of which usually rely on a pre-existing community or relationship and, just as importantly, are unpaid.
My day job is as a freelance editor for nonfiction books, and I can safely say that if the publishing industry were operating as intended, I would either not have a job at all or be working for a specific press. Authors pay me directly to do the work that a press editor used to do as part of publication contracts. This is because so many presses have started outsourcing all their editorial work to either third-party contractors or, even worse, to genAI.
In short, venture capital has broken the publication industry the same way it's broken the retail, restaurant, and travel industries.
I didn't go into this side of it in my original post but YES! Fuck! I know this is a huge issue for translators too because they're being asked to do more work in less time for less money and I've heard rumblings about human translators being brought in only to essentially proofread work done by AI, which is so disrespectful to the sheer skill and artistic abilities of (literary) translation...
Anyway, I love editing. I think I love editing almost more than writing, and I'm pretty sure that I'm better at it. Last year I edited an academic article from 11k to 9k words for my supervisor and I felt like a god when I finished it, but when my supervisor asked if I'd thought about doing this professionally, I had to tell her that there's just not a viable career in editing anymore. Publishers used to employ! editors! Several different kinds of editors for different stages of the process! That used to be my dream job!
Editing is so essential to making a text good. It doesn't matter how talented or dedicated you are as a writer, you cannot achieve the level of quality by yourself that you could achieve by working with a skilled editor. That's normal! The lone genius who comes out of the cave with the perfect novel does not exist! The manuscript that gets sold to a publisher is supposed to be handed off to an editor who tells you to tighten up that plotline and reminds you that every day can't be Tuesday and sharpens your prose so your voice really shines. Skimping out on that part of the publication process takes money out of the hands of skilled professionals, leads to consumers (ew) receiving subpar products (ew!), and is such an injustice to the writers whose work can't reach its full potential (and the writers who won't get published because they can't afford to pay an editor out of pocket!).
It drives me up the wall. I hate reading a mediocre book and knowing that a skilled editor could have easily raised it from 3 stars to 4. We should all be way angrier about it, frankly.
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