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woke up, mxster freethem... woke up and... smell the pronouns

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BAN ON CONVERSION PRACTICES IN THE EU. GO SIGN IT. DEADLINE IS FUCKING MAY 17. WE'RE STILL MISSING 800.000 signatures. FUCKING DO IT.

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RRAAUUGGHH I'M WORKING OVERNIGHT SHIFT AND I HAVE TO DRAW MADNESS COMBAT CHARACTERS!!!

GIVE ME YOUR OCS!! YOUR BLORBOS!!! BESTOW UPON THEM TO ME, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!

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RRAAUUGGHH I'M WORKING OVERNIGHT SHIFT AND I HAVE TO DRAW MADNESS COMBAT CHARACTERS!!!

GIVE ME YOUR OCS!! YOUR BLORBOS!!! BESTOW UPON THEM TO ME, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!

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shoulda stayed home, babe.

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RECKLESS DESTRUCTION

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slowly getting back into it... i am babysitting my computer because it tends to bluescreen whenever i use sketchbook lol

ruckus... my dearest

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all this madness on my dash. i have to draw madness lesbians again. i mean madness wyvern. yeah

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Vibrant Skies is a roleplay lightly modded SMP set in a sky island world. Applications are linked below and are open for all to apply! Send it to anyone who might be interested! Accepted applicants will receive a discord message.

https://forms.gle/P834S4cDL9Lc9ZVD6

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TPOH VOLUME 4 KICKSTARTER IS HAPPENING NOW RIGHT NOW!

We are already over halfway, but things have started to slow down- help give RGB, Hero and Assok the extra push they need!

GO HELP SUPPORT OUR FOURTH EVER BOOK!

We also have some cool stuff in the wings if we make it to the stretch goals! Go check it out! :D

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Do you ever just...

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Queers

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Queers

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don’t know what parent of an autistic child needs to hear this but as long as they’re not harming anyone your kid’s stimming is not a “problem behaviour”

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take a closer look at that queer!

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So, there's a dirty little secret in indie publishing a lot of people won't tell you, and if you aren't aware of it, self-publishing feels even scarier than it actually is.

There's a subset of self-published indie authors who write a ludicrous number of books a year, we're talking double digit releases of full novels, and these folks make a lot of money telling you how you can do the same thing. A lot of them feature in breathless puff pieces about how "competitive" self-publishing is as an industry now.

A lot of these authors aren't being completely honest with you, though. They'll give you secrets for time management and plotting and outlining and marketing and what have you. But the way they're able to write, edit, and publish 10+ books a year, by and large, is that they're hiring ghostwriters.

They're using upwork or fiverr to find people to outline, draft, edit, and market their books. Most of them, presumably, do write some of their own stuff! But many "prolific" indie writers are absolutely using ghostwriters to speed up their process, get higher Amazon best-seller ratings, and, bluntly, make more money faster.

When you see some godawful puff piece floating around about how some indie writer is thinking about having to start using AI to "stay competitive in self-publishing", the part the journalist isn't telling you is that the 'indie writer' in question is planning to use AI instead of paying some guy on Upwork to do the drafting.

If you are writing your books the old fashioned way and are trying to build a readerbase who cares about your work, you don't need to use AI to 'stay competitive', because you're not competing with these people. You're playing an entirely different game.