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Inspiration for my WIP New Amsterdam - Atmosphere, Setting, Character (Eli)

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Inspiration for my WIP New Amsterdam - Atmosphere, Setting

Source: Henri Prestes

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When even the mainstream media sees that @staff is okay with nazis while getting offended at the female nipple.

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Tumblr Purge - it’s about money

I’ve seen a couple of posts now advocating to not migrate from Tumblr to other services, but to stay and fight. And while I applaud that mindset to resist and I am all for contacting @staff and telling them (in a respectful manner) that you are unhappy, I don’t believe it will do anything.

It hasn’t in the past.

And this is why:

Tumblr is about creating revenue. Those ads and stuff? It creates revenue. Companies pay to have Tumblr show them to you. So the more users there are on a platform, the more companies are interested to pay Tumblr for the ‘privilege’ of showing their ads to you. Tumblr users are literally revenue creating golden geese. And this is the only thing we are to them. This is why Tumblr is free (it is not in fact: you don’t pay money, but you pay by consuming ads whether you want to or not)

This Purge is not about making Tumblr a ‘safer, friendlier place’. It is not about stopping child pornography or nudity or sex or any of that. It is not about an ethical or moral obligation (as evidenced by Tumblr not caring one bit about fascist propaganda, etc.).

It is about being taken off Apple app store

Being taken off that means loss in revenue, because the Tumblr app reaches less people’s devices -> less people interact with it -> less chances to show ads -> less companies interested in paying Tumblr to show you ads -> less money for Tumblr. It is about money, not some moral or ethical obligation (but those reasons sell better in PR)

This Purge is Tumblr’s idea to get back into that sweet app store as quickly as possible to recover revenue

The reason Tumblr never really handled the porn bot issue? It was not profitable

The reason Tumblr didn’t (and still doesn’t) care about fascist ideas percolating freely here? It is not profitable. (after all, they didn’t get taken off the app store for allowing those ideas…)

The reason Tumblr doesn’t care about harassment cases? It is not profitable

The reason they act now (with this knee-jerk reaction) is because it is actually hurting them in their bottom line.

I get you like Tumblr, heck, I like(d) Tumblr! But I am happy to not update and do much here anymore (basically let my blog slowly die (or even remove it, I’m not sure yet), go some place else that maybe even has an ounce of ethics left (or more than an ounce), give my money to them (in form of actual cash, or the time I spend looking at ads to keep them in business) rather than support a system that really does not care at all about anything but the revenue.

I know you’re scared of loosing your content, people you have connected with, the network you have created (and also the connections you have made that actually pay you money). However, this is something you can have some place else. Yes, it will take time and effort (and I am aware that it hurts people financially right now), but it is not like you, or fandom, or your safe space will drop off the face of the earth.

I say, fine, if my content (and therefore the driving force for people to connect with me -  and be shown the ads displayed by Tumblr) is not wanted here, I go some place else.

And hurt their bottom line. That is the only thing Tumblr cares about. It is the only thing that will  interest them.

Maybe they will even create a better site in a few year’s time to gain those golden geese back. Doubt it though.

If they do, I consider coming back.

If not, fuck you. I take my business elsewhere, cause loss of revenue is the only language they understand.

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Woman: “Your wife died of exposure to the cold.”

Husband: *Cries*

Woman: “She was cold when she died.”

Husband: ...

Husband: “No. Shit. Sherlock!”

- Suspiria (2018)

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I know a big tip you have for writers is to finish things, but if you find you can’t give the right ideas or knowledge that a work calls for does taking a break from a that work have a place?

Sure. You can go and learn how to write something. You can learn about the subject you’re writing about. You can investigate. You can work on your craft.

And you can get stuck, and not know what happens next, and wait until you do.

And you can discover that showrunning a tv show you’ve written takes all of your time, and put the novel you’ve been writing to sleep knowing that you won’t be waking it up and carrying on with chapter four until about 20 months have passed.

There aren’t any rules. I wrote a first draft of a first chapter of The Graveyard Book when I was 24, in 1985, and wrote the book between 2004 and the end of 2007. I started Coraline in 1990ish, stopped when I moved to the US in 1992, and finished it in 2000.

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With all the Tumblr craziness that’s going on,

I’ve been thinking of branching out to other sites, but don’t know where to start. In no way am I abandoning tumblr! but I just keep hearing about the writing communities on Instagram and Twitter, and I’ve gotten curious.

If anyone knows things about the writeblr-esque communities on Instagram or Twitter I’d really appreciate it if you could tell me a bit about them! If I do make some accounts it’d be great to have some ppl I know right off the bat, so feel free to do some self-promo~

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Whuu

DIDN’T WRITE A THING

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‘Tis I, a writer, togetherslapper of words.

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We know characters better than we know our friends because a character is eternal and unchanging, while people shift - just when we think we understand them, we don't. In fact, I know Rick Blaine in CASABLANCA better than I know myself. Rick is always Rick. I'm a bit iffy.

Robert McKee, Story

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My new favourite words are:

hullabaloo and brouhaha

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I’m trying to pitch this idea to myself to see if I like it, and I think I do. Working title right now is Home Beings. Inked the whole thing with a green gel pen because Why Not. 

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(via alyssemazakian)

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I want to write a french speaking character that only talks in insults

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Vampyre, 1#2

Talia felt old just thinking about those early days.

Staying at one place for so long had its costs. A strange sense of sentimentality would creep over her, and she would feel something like sadness, though she was only grateful that it was all now behind her.

Not that there weren’t benefits too. Seeing a place develop, grow, change, reinvent and blossom into something new over so many years. It could sometime feel like being born again anew.

The red warning lights on top of the skyscrapers blinked like the invisible stars. Where something was missing, something new would take its place.

She leaned back into the chair, and wondered for a second if she herself had taken someone else’s place. If she been the right or the flaw. But it was never good to dive too far down that rabbit hole. Getting too existential.

Anyway it was the weed that made her get this way. Existential. Philosophical. A highbrow melancholist.

PART 1

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Homes are really hard to find, moving to Denmark is hard, friends are really hard to find, demons are REALLY hard to find!

The worse the explanation, the better.