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month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in
yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second
many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third
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i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it
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-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026
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"I'm lying to you but this sentence is technically the truth without context" is such a good trope. Like yes the way that I am spinning these words forms a lie but if you squint I'm actually not lying.
hi! please feel free to ignore this question, but do you have any tips/advice/information sources for someone who wants to start submitting to them for the first time? i did a high amount of writing in uni and got into some student journals, but now i'm trying to get back into it years later i have no fucking clue what i'm doing. love your blog and good luck with the submissions!
hello yes, very happy to!
as a caveat I mostly do science fiction & fantasy submissions and the magazine sectors for different genres have different norms.
these days the easiest way to find potential markets is a submission managers such as The Grinder. Submission managers provide both search engine tools for finding markets and a tracker for logging your submissions.
& that's pretty much it!! there used to be a lot more research n stuff involved but these days it's just like. The Grinder has it for you.
some other tips:
the standard advice is to start by submitting to the highest paying/most prestigious relevant market and work your way down. if you are into SFF I can tell you what the prestige markets are. if not i am afraid i don't know BUT i can tell you that it's surprisingly easy to submit to The New Yorker.
magazines generally ask that you read an issue before submitting to get a feel for what they publish; in practice I think only uhh Extremely diligent writers are actually doing this.
most markets will ask for a cover letter. unlike with cover letters for jobs or for literary agents, there is 0 expectation that you will get creative or even really sell yourself. it is just for information.
many markets will ask for a third person bio upfront. you can get creative in your third person bio but you don't have to. this blog post has some info about what cover letters and bios should look like. this one has some more info on bios including an example with no publication credits.
another good thing to do is follow some fiction magazines you like on social media; in addition to making announcements about their own submission calls many magazines will share calls from other similar magazines so you can learn about all sorts of stuff this way.
ok that's all I can think of for now! good luck! :D
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oh you’re not kidding
Does anyone care if the boulder is happy does anyone imagine the boulder to be happy? Or is everything about that other guy
Why are people now saying "LARP" when they mean "poser". It's confusing.
Everyone is always parroting The Buzzword Of The Month without actually knowing what it means or where it comes from, make it stop
Kinda like how "POV" went from "(implied first person) Point Of View" to "there is a video"
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i am going to get a bad grade in sleeping, something which is normal not to want but terribly easy to achieve.
Another literary magazine gripe: Dear God don't oblige people to give you their pronouns
Like say 'feel free to include your pronouns in your cover letter' sure! 'your cover letter must include your pronouns' 🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️ friend you have not thought this through.
It is a similar issue to when they ask for a photo up front I think. Like no matter how well intentioned you are there's an obvious opening for discrimination. & You don't have to be consciously prejudiced to discriminate.
Also like with photos I do get it bcos obviously they want to publish author photographs in the magazine and don't want to be chasing them down (many magazines ask for your bio up front for this reason) but with pronouns it's like what do you need them for so badly?
Also literally what is stopping them from taking the way better, way easier, and more effective route of asking for data that could open them up to a discrimination lawsuit after they have made their hiring decisions?????
Every study I've seen has shown that the number one easiest most effective way to avoid racial discrimination in hiring is to blank out the candidate's names on their resume
If literary magazines actually want to fix racism or transphobia in publishing or the literary scene, they need to not require people give them information that will blatantly and unavoidably force many, many job candidates to reveal themselves as part of legally protected classes!!!
(aka: it's harder to reject a submission because someone is Black if you are given no information that could indicate their race besides the contents of their submission. every study shows you can't just Decide to Not Be Racist, that's not how prejudice works, as a great many people of color can tell you. whyyyyyyyy would we want to ask for more identity / physical appearance information as part of the hiring process we're trying to make LESS racist. etc. other bigotries. WHY)
I imagine the issue is that they don't want to have authors taking their money and then ghosting them when asked to provide an author bio & photo to go with their work, so from their perspective it's easier to just get everything they might be going to publish at once.
However: they just gotta suck it up and deal with it!!
Some points of information on this:
Alas name on manuscript remains the industry standard so while not ideal it is professional. Photos or pronouns upfront is not a professional standard so no excuse.
It's common to ask for a third person bio up front but other than your name (which you are giving anyway) there's no mandatory information in a bio. This is primarily a space for talking about your writing. Some people do opt to disclose protected characteristics but you absolutely don't have to.
Paid markets do need your legal name so they can pay you but the publication contract should stipulate what name you're to be published under and they should never ever be publicising anyone's legal name without permission.*
*(This did actually happen to me once but fortunately on a document I got to review before publication)
#frankly I dont think author photos are necessary at all#I don’t want an author photo on anything I publish#why is my face relevant.
yeah im not a huge fan of them either. if magazines really wanna have them i think they should explicitly allow you to submit whatever picture you want to represent yourself provided you have the rights to let them publish it.
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Reminds me of Jason Kander, former Missouri Secretary of State. When he went to the VA hospital to treat his PTSD, he told the nurse that Obama told him he should run for president, and she thought he was delusional.
Correction: It was worse. She asked him how long he's been hearing voices.
I think I'm gonna make this my go-to story. It's not the worst I've ever heard, which is an asset because people won't believe you if you tell them the actual bad stuff those people do. And it just perfectly sums up the casual arrogance everyone working in mental health seems to have. The way they treat you as inherently Lesser for being in their care.
If they can't even handle basic, easily verified shit like "I'm a lawyer" they are never going to believe you when you tell them that you know how to manage a condition you've been dealing with for decades better than they can or will.
And then there's Alexander Morris, who was put in a straitjacket, called racial slurs, and denied treatment for his potentially life-threatening heart condition when he told them he was the lead singer of the band he was lead singer of.
The lead singer of the Motown group the Four Tops has filed a federal lawsuit against Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital in Warren, Michigan,
There are multiple parts of that article that are Jae droppingly awful but this one really gets me:
They almost let this man die in a straight jacket simply because they were too racist. And then when they realize their "mistake", they tell him that his life is worth a 25$ supermarket gift card. Of course he's suing them for $75,000 as he should but like. Can you imagine how insulted he must've been. The 4 Tops were one of the top Motown bands of all time. You can be at the top of the music scene and still, they'll kill you because you're black. And they'll use fake claims about mental illness and "aggression" to justify it
this happened in 2023... this wasn't any kind of ignorance or easy middle, they could have looked him up on their phones. holy fuck
Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-
Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me
My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten
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the water in hotel showers will do things to the texture of your hair you didn’t even know were possible
ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs
after the hyperprocessed foods, do you take tranquilizers to simulate getting captured by animal control and returned to the wild?
i would settle for melatonin gummies but well. knock yourself out
