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Stephan Bakalowicz - The Walls of Pompeii (1885)
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saw a car dragging a labubu facedown through the street
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nice pair of characters who trust each other more than anyone else in the whole entire world it would sure be a shame if one of them betrayed that trust for the sake of trying to keep the other alive. it would sure be a shame to love someone so much you destroy them
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Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!
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"Wrocław girl", Poland, 1982. Photo by Chris Niedenthal.
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Why don’t we let the guy whose every plan could be reasonably construed as an abstract suicide attempt take a crack it
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𝐈𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐍 as 𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐉𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐇 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓
Game of Thrones. Season 8, Episode 2.
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em dash = AI is so crazy to me. the em dash is my best friend. i couldn’t stop using her if i tried — and i would never try because i love her.
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lol ok anyways *makes my character go through unnecessery amounts of trauma*
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99% of repressors give up right before they successfully don't feel anything. Don't stop shoving it down. You can get through this unscathed
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“I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.”
— ANGELA CARTER, from ‘The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories’.
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Discussing sales and booksellers and how too many insist indie authors stop using the big ones because 'they're evil' but refuse to actually buy anything from the smaller ones... has me pondering things.
I am, of course, going to make this your problem.
The complaint I've been seeing is 'where do we go if Amazon is crap but no one will buy our books anywhere else (because they don't, there's enough numbers to prove this)?'
Now, I love itch.io. To fucking pieces. I will stand on mountain tops and I will sing their praises until I am hoarse. I used them when I was trying to make games, I still use them to buy indie games and follow devs, and I adore them for books.
I've sold more through them in months than I have in years on Amazon. I love itch because they love us. 'Us' being the creatives making and selling our stuffs. It is obvious in the way they run their site, how they interact when there's problems, how they promote people (because they actually do). They love having us there and want us to succeed. No matter what we make.
Problem is... Amazon readers don't love itch. They look at it and see little games and 'weird' books and miss their shiny store that they already trust. I would love if we could break them of this and show them how, with itch, they would actually own what they purchase. No chance of it being taken back or suddenly deleted from their kindle. It's theirs forever.
I don't know how to do that.
So instead, I propose more of us go to itch. Take your books off Amazon. Starve them of the indie titles they insist they want and make them come to where they are.
If you are afraid of the site, there's guides (this one is literally itch's) and also I am here and willing to share whatever I can and will always share your links when I see them. //I encourage you to actually use the site and the tags and try to find things through those, because that's how your readers are navigating and you need to understand it.
No one's going to help us, clearly, and readers can't really be trusted to find our books organically (the big sellers seem hellbent on assuring this) so we have to do this ourselves... and help each other in it.
We're not in competition.
We're in a community.
So get out there and promote your frens, rate the books you read on itch, put them on lists of favorites. Link them to others you think might like them.
For your own stuff: SALES, GIVEAWAYS, do them.
If you're on itch and you're not running these things every so often you are letting your books rot. Yes, I know it's scary to give things away for free but a lot of people tip when something is free and even if they don't... they might rate it or list it or remember you for later. They'll come back, buy your new release because you've proven to be something they like.
And, AND, when you have things up for free and people are downloading them it puts you higher on the genre pages. This can last weeks. That's weeks of top attention for a day of freebies. Do you see why this is important?
Have faith in your words, the goal is to get them out there and get people interested and a place like itch is honestly the safest one to do that in. You can even link a tipjar site like 'ko-fi' or 'buy me a coffee' if you want a way for someone to download it for free and pay you later if they love it. They'll do it! I've seen it happen! It is awesome.
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A trope that gets to me: 'guard dog' character and their partner who are both fully aware of it and honestly don't care/kind of like it. Someone says "call your guard dog off" and their partner does call them off. That person, their 'guard dog', is someone who is unreservedly, irrefutably loyal to them. Someone undoubtedly dangerous who is willing to kill, to maim, to obey, simply because of their love for one another. There's no manipulation involved— it is loyalty, brutal, dogged loyalty. And it goes both ways.
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"And even if we'd been granted freedom, we'd have still felt alone. Because humans are the cause of all this pain. We're creatures who can't seem to love without exploiting" is actually very The house of Atreus coded. If you think about it
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@tragedieds @lady-redshield-writes @vellichor-virgo @livvywrites @i-shall-not-show-mercy @authorisada @zmwrites @aureliobooks @avi-why @byjillianmaria @blradley-reblogs @weaver-of-fantasies-and-fables @chishiio @fuyugomori @sam-glade @poetinprose @souverian-are-we

I started a substack!!!! first newsletter posted today. will be posting short updates weekly regarding my writing, reading, and whatever else I want :)
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