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ough…

(inspired by this post by @piratecaptainscaptainpirates)

[ID: A digital drawing made to look like a selfie of Ed and Stede at pride. Stede’s smiling in a smoldery way, wearing rainbow aviator sunglasses and an unbuttoned teal shirt with rainbow stripes. Ed is smiling widely, eyes crinkled, wearing a purple tshirt and a trans flag tied around his shoulders like a cape. Ed has on rainbow eyeliner, small pink, blue, and purple heart stickers on his right cheek, and a trans flag in facepaint on his left cheek. Stede has a matching trans flag on his right cheek. Behind them is a blurred background of buildings, blue sky, and various rainbow flag decorations. There’s an overlay on the image to give it a rainbow light leak effect at the left and right edges.]

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@beardedelectron

TINY WRLD (2020)

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Got tagged by @jaskierx to show what my blog would look like if it was a person

Finally, a mirror that actually works

I tag @nordarknessdimsthesky @epersonae @emi--rose @appleteeth @krakenteacups @beardedelectron @ghostalservice @oatmilktruther @zacharybosch @amuseoffyre @parrlen @adhduck @xray-vex

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Untitled.

i made a comic in google slides for some ungodly reason

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ed um. if ed was uh. if ed was an android and he asked stede to do him a favor and open up the hard-to-reach panel in his lower back and clean out his slightly dusty insides with a microfiber cloth or perhaps his bare fingers and maybe sharply blow in there a couple times like a gameboy cartridge

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POV: You’re Stede and you see him, wyd

Hope this Ed’s not too hot for Tumblr lmao

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Oh, this is so lovely! I love this style😍

thank you so much!

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Link to the fic is here!

This Ed is inspired by Wave Hello to the Void @mxmollusca @eefaevie @zacharybosch

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“A weak hearted, soft handed, lily-livered little rich boy.”

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So @oatmilktruther and I watched Strange Way of Life and we spent the whole time yelling

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@krakenteacups

lets appreciate geese ok? i love geese

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everyday I pray Zillow makes a comment section

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@epersonae

For all the artists and creators out there :з You are marvellous, keep going! 💜

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so I’m looking at short story publishers (fantasy)

Tor, cream of the crop. 25 cents a word. Stories can be read for free (YES). Slowish response time at ~3 months. Prefer under 12k, absolute maximum is 17.5k. Don’t bother if it’s not highly professional quality. SFWA qualifying.

Crossed Genres. 6 cents a word. Different theme each month (this month’s is “failure”). Submissions must combine either sci-fi or fantasy with the theme. Response time 1 month. 1k-6k, no exceptions. SFWA qualifying.

Long Hidden, anthology from CG. 6 cents a word. 2k-8k, no exceptions. Must take place before 1935. Protagonist(s) must be under 18 and marginalized in their time and place. Must be sci-fi/fantasy/horror. Deadline 30 April. Response by 1 October.

Queers Destroy Science Fiction. Sci-fi only right now, author must identify as queer (gay, lesbian, bi, ace, pan, trans, genderfluid, etc, just not cishet). 7.5k max. Deadline 15 February. Responses by 1 March. You can submit one flash fiction and one short story at the same time. (My network blocks the Lightspeed site for some reason, so I can’t get all the submission details. >_>) Probably SFWA qualifying?

Women in Practical Armor. 6 cents a word. 2k-5k. Must be about 1) a female warrior who 2) is already empowered and 3) wears sensible armour. Deadline 1 April. Response within three months.

Fiction Vortex. $10 per story, with $20 and $30 for editor’s and readers’ choice stories (hoping to improve). Speculative fiction only. Imaginative but non-florid stories. 7.5k maximum, preference for 5k and under. (I kind of want to support them on general principle.)

Urban Fantasy Magazine. 6 cents a word. 8k max, under 4k preferred. Must be urban fantasy (aka, the modern world, doesn’t need to be a literal city). 

Nightmare. 6 cents a word. 1.5-7.5k, preference for under 5k. Horror and dark fantasy. Response time up to two weeks. SFWA and HWA qualifying.

Apex Magazine. 6 cents a word. 7.5k max, no exceptions. Dark sci-fi/fantasy/horror. SFWA qualifying.

Asimov’s Science Fiction. 8-10 cents a word. 20k max, 1k minimum. Sci-fi; borderline fantasy is ok, but not S&S. Prefer character focused. Response time 5 weeks; query at 3 months. SFWA qualifying, ofc.

Buzzy Mag. 10 cents a word. 10k max. Should be acceptable for anyone 15+. Response time 6-8 weeks. SFWA qualifying.

Strange Horizons. 8 cents a word. Speculative fiction. 10k max, prefers under 5k. Response time 40 days. Particularly interested in diverse perspectives, nuanced approahces to political issues, and hypertexts. SFWA qualifying. 

Fantasy and Science Fiction. 7-12 cents a word. Speculative fiction, preference for character focus, would like more science-fiction or humour. 25k maximum. Prefers Courier. Response time 15 days.

Scigentasy. 3 cents a word. .5-5k. Science-fiction and fantasy, progressive/feminist emphasis. Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. 15 cents a word. 3k maximum. Any sci-fi/fantasy, they like a literary bent. (psst, steinbecks!) They also like to see both traditional and experimental approaches. Response time two weeks. 

Beneath Ceaseless Skies. 6 cents a word. 10k maximum. Fantasy in secondary worlds only (it can be Earth, but drastically different—alternate history or whatever). Character focus, prefer styles that are lush yet clear, limited first or third person narration. Response time usually 2-4 weeks, can be 5-7 weeks. SFWA qualifying.

Clarkesworld. 10 cents a word up to 4000, 7 afterwards. 1-8k, preferred is 4k. Science-fiction and fantasy. Needs to be well-written and convenient to read on-screen. Appreciates rigour. No talking cats. Response time 2 days. SFWA qualifying.

Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. 6 cents a word. Any length. Science-fiction and fantasy (along with fantastic horror). Good world-building and characterization. Clear straightforward prose. Response time three months. Yes, OSC is editor-in-chief. SFWA qualifying.

Interzone. Sub-pro rates if anything (but highly respected). 10k max. Short cover letter. Science-fiction and fantasy.

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new favorite bit is saying "I would be fangirling so hard if I met him in real life 😍" about random species of fish

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Do you have any post-s2 fic recs?

riding double by @forpiratereasons

Good Bones by B29, unfortunately unfinished & not updated in a while

YellowMustard has several i like: Magpie, its sequel Swan, and The Thing About Snakes

Dear Ed (sorry, wrong chat) by @chaotic-neutral-knitter

Works For Spiders by @mxmollusca

three in the "ed tells stede about izzy" genre, Talking About Things by @chocolatepot, Outburst by @piratecaptainscaptainpirates and I Spit On Your Grave by @epersonae

lost and found also by @epersonae

I hope that someone gets my... by @maeglinthebold