#dino needs help

[nonbino-the-dino]

A Million Lives Book Festival

Okay so I am not the best at explaining things, but I will try to make this a relatively coherent post.

As of this recent weekend, Friday May 2nd-3rd, a book festival called A Million Lives went on in Baltimore, Maryland. The event planners, Archer Management, promised a weekend of vendor halls, cosplay, a ball, competitions, and ways for indie authors and indie bookish businesses to promote their books and products.

For those who don't know, an indie author is someone who takes it upon themselves to write, edit, and publish their work. Some may hire freelance copy editors or cover designers to help with their ideas, or they may do it all themselves. Either way, their content doesn't gain nearly enough recognition than those of the traditional publishing scene do.

It is often hard for indie authors to gain traction and recognition in the bookish space, and events like book festivals can help them immensely. While this one was supposed to hold the promise of indie authors having a moment in the spotlight, it turned out to be a financially taxing and scam like event that gave no real apology.

The event had many red flags to begin with, from lack of communication with the authors to poor planning on the events part, the festival was a train wreck from start to finish. The tickets and promotion positions cost anywhere from fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars. Indie authors and businesses spent thousands of dollars in their own money buying and shipping product to the space in hopes of a large turnout as they were promised, only to be met with a half empty concrete room and barely fifty attendees.

There were no decorations, hardly a schedule, and a dj that turned out to be just a speaker. The staff and volunteer workers were non-existent and there were no announcers for the event, the only staff being one to two people from the management organization that made the event.

The authors and businesses were naturally upset by this, and the situation only got worse. I will link some videos here where those who attended the event give a more in-depth analysis of what happened, along with news articles and videos from youtubers who explain it from an outside perspective.

The main reason I wanted to make this post was to link the authors and businesses affected here, so anyone who was interested in their content could help support those who lost thousands of dollars and were ripped off by this situation. One of the authors put together a site consisting of all those who attended, and their websites and businesses. I implore you to check them out and give these authors and businesses the support they deserve, and at the very least, reblog this so more people can have access to this information. Links ◈ Authors' Website ◈

CBS Article MSN Article Book Lover Laura Youtube Video I am not in any way promoting or encouraging the harassment of the people who put this event together. It will do nothing in the end, and there is no purpose in spreading hatred when you can instead spread your support for these authors and anyone else effected. If anyone else has any updates on this situation, I would love to discuss more in the comments.

[puppetmaster13u]

Meme Prompt 10

[mondverde]

god bless lee chan

[oh-surprise-its-me]

I’m really drunkso I think that Jamie really likes soft things but never lets himself have them.

Like his dad threw out childhood stuffed animals when he was back in Jamie’s life. And Jamie was crushed so from that point on he literally never let himself have anything.

But once when he was with Roy and they had Phoebe over she passed out animals to them for story time. Jamie ended up with a bear in a rainbow tutu and a skull shirt.

Phoebe fell asleep and Jamie just kept holding the bear. Roy watched and when he tugged Jamie back to his room he still had the bear.

From about that day on Roy would notice when they were out at shops that Jamie wouldn’t really look at any of the stuffies. He couldn’t figure out why until they went to Georgie’s house and he saw that there weren’t really any around. He made some guesses and figured it out and Jamie begged him not to think he was stupid or childish.

Roy of course didn’t think that, he was mostly furious at Jamie’s dad and planning on how to get Jamie a good first stuffie- he took him to a place that sells jellycats and told Jamie to pick out three, one for Phoebe, one for himself and one for Roy.

[cable-salamdr]

Need to draw more dinosaurs

[cranberrytea451]

Holiday memes

Mayby this one, but with Sans loafing off a red armchair surrounded by presents like that instead. https://www.memesmonkey.com/images/memesmonkey/dc/dc84671ca3a7251a6ba7655d4918ee24.jpeg

I was gonna do that but I saw the image and was like “sans needs to be in that dog house”

featuring a little annoying dog totally not named Toby Fox

[skyland2703]

Heyyyy ranger fam :3 I’m doing a kinda big thing:

I made a Javelia shipping wiki page... It's far from complete, and I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions?? Trivia, quotes, anything! Yeah so feel free to tell me andddd I hope you guys like it :3

[strigops]

all of my coworkers and i have been going crazy for these blind bag mystery keychains that were in our work mandated easter egg hunt and i had to spend 20 min fondling every bag of them in Joanns until i found the diplocaulus shaped trike

[deservingporcupine]

My daughter has chickens and one of them is golden brown and named Beef, and Beef is the friendliest, most curious bird I’ve ever known. Beef also really wants to come in the house every time the back door is open, she is READY. Someday she will figure out the cat flap and then god help us all

[nonbino-the-dino]

✒️ ῳɛƖƈơɱɛ ✒️

"Introductions"

Hey, welcome to my writing blog! Here I will be posting blurbs from my AO3 fics, mood boards for characters, and perhaps even blurbs from my own personal projects. I won't post much about my own WIPs just because I am paranoid about my stuff getting stolen, but that doesn't mean I won't share the vibes or other stuff about my characters! I will also be posting short stories from writing prompts (with the person who wrote the prompt's permission of course) and just other writerly things!

◈ About Me ◈

Dino (they/them)

American

Novelist, Plant Enthusiast, Fandom Nerd

Nonbinary Lesbian

Love genres such as horror, fantasy, sci-fi, fiction, thriller, dystopian, adventure, and LGBTQ+

I have another blog or more of my unhinged and chaotic fandom shit @lonk-the-twonk

My AO3 is Flaming_Emeralds however it may change to fit this writing blog's name

↹ What You'll Find ↹

Blurbs and scenes of my own writing (fanfic, prompts, possibly WIPs)

Writing tips, tricks, and my own personal asks for help from other writers

Bookish recommendations

Mood boards and faceclaims for fanfic characters and WIPs

More added in the future!

My tags will be #Dino Asks, #Dino Writes, #Dino Book Recs, #Dino Needs Help.

Thank you for checking out my blog, and feel free to send asks and stuff for prompts or questions, and even your own tips and tricks for writing! I am always looking to improve, so any CONSTRUCTIVE feedback and criticism will be accepted in kind. As long as it isn't bigoted or some other shit, I will happily answer! This will probably be updated more in the future, but for now this is all I have, so enjoy!

(Note: I am firmly against generative AI in writing and art, so anyone who supports it or says I should use it will be blocked.)

[thegrinningghost]

you know it’s bad when I’m listening to the Jurassic World soundtrack and imagining scenarios for OCs, characters and AUs with every beat and note I hear

[simplerainbow]

it's been several many years and Squalo beating yamamoto is still funny. He didn't have to like at all any. Yamamoto is genuinely happy to see Squalo and excited to be he's student and gets unconscioused for he's trouble while everyone watches in horror.

Except Dino whose supervising

[fandom-puzzle-peaces]

another little thought experiment

it's prolly cuz i'm tired as heck, but I have a slightly weird question for ya'll

if the LCF/TCF characters were dinosaurs (or anything from that era) which one would they be?

cuz I got dinos on the brain and they wont leave me alone 🦖🥲🦖

[di4mndeyez]

kinning steven has made me realize that im kinda a therian in a sense because i also REALLY identify with his monster form?? so thats cool, i guess?

[dino--draws]

sits bolt upright

its 3 am i need to make my logician design freakier and i know how morning dino do NOT FORGET

[mondverde]

no but WHAT THE FUCKK????? LEE CHAN??????

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