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nora dropping the kevin duology announcement out of nowhere same energy as kevin switching to his left hand mid game

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“Why are you scared of dating” I’m not scared of dating, I just haven’t found anyone’s company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I don’t care

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I'm so sleepy all the time

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i opened my new print shop with a small selection of prints available if anyone is interested <3

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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

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Ipolit Strâmbu

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oh little coffee drink we're really in it now

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Ouroboros Pie Crust by Danielle Baskin

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cuddling

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Pádraig Ó Tuama, "There Is Time for Time", Kitchen Hymns

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im readinge the book with mama

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the world is green again and so are your metaphors. go unhinged with it. compare your characters to vines and bees and blooming wounds. make it weirdly poetic. they deserve it.

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Every time I see a post that says traditionally-published books are better because they've "been vetted for quality" or some shit, I cringe.

Do y'all have any idea how many marginalized authors are passed over because their work isn't "marketable" enough? Do y'all have any idea how many people I've known who gave up writing entirely after facing rejection after rejection after rejection because the trad pub industry deems their identity and their work too "niche" or "controversial" or "hard to market"? Do you know how many authors have been pressured by trad pub to "tone down" their work?

Trad pub isn't sacred. If you genuinely want weirder art, more diverse art, more experimental art, you have got to look outside the incredibly narrow mainstream publishing industry. Fuck's sake. Indies and self-pubbed books are not lesser just because some random lit agent in NYC decided that books about marginalized people won't sell enough in the current market.

I've been running in publishing circles since I was 14. Fuck the pedestal that folks have trad pub on. Trad pub is a fucking nightmare. I've watched it eat people alive and destroy the art they actually intended to make, all for the sake of "marketability." I've known multiple other authors who have confided in me that they wish they'd gone indie or self-pub instead.

Trad pub works well for some people. I wasn't one of them, and neither were several of my other author friends, because we're too weird and queer and disabled and don't give a shit about being palatable to a mainstream audience.

Read indies. Read self-pub. Reject the idea that the traditional publishing industry is the most important arbiter of quality.

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Every Riven Thing, Christian Wiman

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Water Meadow Morning - Laura Boswell

British , b . ?

Coloured Linocut , 50 x 40 cm. Ed. 13.

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Many years after the evil overlord was deafeated by the forces of the light, there are whispers rumors that the evil overlord has secretly returned to his citadel. You know immediately it could only be an imposter, as you are in fact the evil overlord, living a peaceful simple life in exile.