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wolffyluna · 18 minutes
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Kisses for the baby lion
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wolffyluna · 1 hour
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Arahael for @vattendrag 。.:*☆
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wolffyluna · 3 hours
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do you guys ever think about how Wyll is introduced as an archetypal fantasy hero, but then it turns out he’s a warlock, who made a pact with a devil. Do you ever think about how Ansur is described as this fantastical dragon of myth, but then when you find him, he’s turned into an undead monstrosity. Do you think about how when Wyll does the right thing, he is punished to become more monstrous. Do you think about how as Wyll’s warlock powers grow, his spells get more horrific. Do you think about how Ansur was killed by his closest friend. Do think about how Wyll was cast out by the most important person in his life. do you guys ever think about Ansur and Wyll.
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wolffyluna · 4 hours
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by Magali Villeneuve
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by Irvin Rodriguez
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(probably) by Yongjae Choi
Haven't played Magic in years but needed to share with you all Aragorn, King of Gondor.
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wolffyluna · 5 hours
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⚢ knight and vampire
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wolffyluna · 6 hours
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On 24-25 February 2024 I'll be opening requests so you can get your cat drawn as a wizard. Full details, including how to make a request, are underneath the cut, as I don't want to clutter anyone's dash; but if you've been around for my previous cats-in-wizard-hats events, it's pretty much the same stuff this time.
For this event, I'm only accepting requests in the given time period, defined by "it's still that date somewhere in the world". Most things will be drawn and posted after that date.
Only one request per person; previous art events do NOT count against that limit. You don't have to worry about "taking away from other people who haven't gotten art already" or "giving me extra work".
To make a request, reblog this post with the cat photo you want me to work from. In the body of the post (not the tags), include the cat's name, and what kind of wizard they would be. If you have multiple cats, pick one, because I refuse to choose which cat to draw; likewise, if you have multiple pictures, I'd appreciate it if you specified which photo you want me to use (and the other photos are just for showing off your cat).
Once you've made a request, please don't delete it or make any major changes, as that just makes things harder on my end; I have a system for keeping track of things, so when "what's in your post" doesn't match with "what I recorded", that takes extra time and effort to figure out.
It doesn't have to be a cat you currently have; past pets, or the pets of friends or family, are allowed. The biggest thing is that it has to be a critter you have some form of connection with; I won't draw random pictures you just found online.
Non-cats are allowed, so long as you can explain why the critter is actually a cat.
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wolffyluna · 7 hours
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"she's dead scar.... you won."
my cosplay of scar's secret life red life skin!
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wolffyluna · 9 hours
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2023 Retrospective: What Cammie Learned About Publishing
There are threads of this nature going around on Twitter but since I know a lot of prospective authors are not using that platform I wanted to bring some of the advice I learned going indie onto here if there are people who are interested, scared, or on the fence.
MARKETING
This seems to be the big one that scares people off, I certainly know it was for me, so I want to offer some transparency here from what I learned.
You do not have to get on Tiktok. I know, I know. But you really don't! I've been on there since February and only have 200 followers. My sales are fine. I learned that it's not for me and devoted my energy to other platforms I found more rewarding like Twitter and Instagram, and even Tumblr!
You do have to market, sorry. This is an unavoidable truth of whatever publishing route you choose but especially indie. The market is oversaturated and everyone is clawing for attention so do your best to give yourself a fighting chance to stand out. My advice? Pick the platforms you hate the least and grow there organically. Make connections with people. Be casual. Don't take yourself so seriously. Eventually, you'll come across the audience you need.
Appearances are everything. Do your best to learn some basic form of graphic design as people's eyes are drawn to appealing imagery. That includes your cover. Sorry. You don't have to break the bank making your book beautiful and the tools are there to teach yourself but people DO judge a book by its cover. Again, give yourself a fighting chance.
Trope maps, one-line pitches, and comp titles. I know we hate them on this corner of the internet but I can't deny their utility. They're pithy, easy to consume when someone is scrolling by and easy to remember. You can add a summary if you want but this is just to catch people's eyes NOW.
CONSISTENCY IS KEY. You need to have the persistence to keep posting and posting and posting even if you think you're hitting a constant wall. If you know you're due to take a break get used to scheduling content in advance. Marketing rule says someone needs to see something at least 7 times for it to register in their brain. Silence the troll in your head calling you annoying.
Paid ads are hit or miss. I've tried several at this point and I have my pet platforms, I'm open to talking about this more if someone is interested. More expensive =/= better. If you've got even £2-5 to spare on a Pinterest ad that can make all the difference.
Character art is an unexpected marketing push. I see a lot of interest when people post art of their OCs but of course that depends on expenses. But if you have artistic skill of your own that's something you can use to your advantage.
SELLING
I sold 1100 copies of WTSA in under six months. To be transparent, this was a combination of paid advertising and jumping on opportunities when I saw them. Here's what I learned.
Try and hold off on pre-orders until you have a cover reveal. It goes back to the image thing I mentioned, people are more likely to be invested when they see the finished product.
Short pre-order window if possible. You may end up losing steam otherwise but if you have a more fixed idea of your timeline this can vary.
Amazon is king. I went wide and the results have been disappointing. I am still wide with WTSA but I went into KU with TSS and will likely stay there for the promotional opportunities. I still think wide is a valuable endeavour but Amazon has a chokehold on the market.
Genre is queen. The best indie titles are selling mostly if they're hitting the right niche. That doesn't mean you have to "write to market" but it does mean that if you know your title is unconventional and goes against the grain then be prepared to KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE. Find out where they gather and make sure you're there.
Be on the lookout for promotions. I use the Kobo promotions window frequently, joined a sales campaign and ran my own free campaigns. The biggest one was Bookbub of course but that's the Holy Grail for a reason. It's pricey and it's exclusive. But prior to Bookbub I sold 400 books on my own steam.
REVIEWS
It's fine and okay to be exclusive with ARCs. Readers aren't entitled to ARCs anymore than authors are entitled to ARC readers. It's a marketing tool and it makes sense to narrow in on your demographic.
Don't read them unless you can handle it. Most people say don't read them at all and I'm inclined to agree. But if you really can't control the curiosity then make sure you have the stomach for it. There will be people who will make unjust criticisms about your work and by extension you as a person. You have to let it slide as best as you can.
Bad reviews will not kill your book and GR ratings are not everything. Search up your favourite book and look at the average score if you feel like you've fucked up, it's an instant mood lifter.
Reviews do help the algo but word of mouth is key. You're going to want to help inspire readers to recommend your book and keep talking about it everywhere to drum up interest. This is something you cannot control, however, but being present on social media can help.
DO NOT NEGATIVELY REVIEW ANOTHER INDIE AUTHOR'S BOOK. Just don't. It will breed bad faith between you and colleagues and might kill networking opportunities. Just don't do it.
GENERAL ADVICE
There is still a stigma about self-publishing but it is going away. The success of the giants is indisputable and many indies are going hybrid and getting 6-7 figure deals from interested publishers.
Find your people. You do not have to put up with fellow writers who disrespect you and your work.
You do not have to break the bank to go indie. Seek out connections with fellow authors and ask them what they paid. They may be able to help you out securing a cheaper deal.
It's all going to be okay. 💕
That's all from me!
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wolffyluna · 10 hours
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Tumblr ad that is failing to account for tumblr's demographics: live comedy writing presentation... by Graham Lineham
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wolffyluna · 11 hours
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this image is slaughtering me
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wolffyluna · 12 hours
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Kissin
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wolffyluna · 13 hours
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💙💜💛✨ venti comm for Drakonix24 on twitter
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wolffyluna · 14 hours
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I was reading up on sinuses in order to distract myself from the Agonies of the Head Cold, and I discovered that actually we have no idea what these head holes are even for other than being incredibly uncomfortable when you have a cold. There are some theories, that range from your embryonic contractors going "bone is expensive, just put air in there, no one will notice," to ideas about them being architecturally useful for distributing face stress, or good for sound, but it honestly seems like we just don't really know.
Anyway, the rabbithole then led me to discover that while carnivorans in general have frontal sinuses, pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, etc.) don't, on account of how diving to eldritch McCrush-depth with giant air pockets in your face is probably not the best idea, and I'd just like to say that it feels extremely unfair that an animal that looks like THIS will never experience nasal congestion.
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(Northern Elephant Seal, My original photo, taken in San Simeon, CA)
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wolffyluna · 14 hours
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Tomorrow, I am going to be Deliberately Resting.
Here is a selection of Restful Activities, if you wish to influence which one I do:
I have never played video games for an entire day, and I do feel like at least once I should try
Work on the f/f streamers in not a death game
Somehow I ended up with 2 Wyllstarion wips??? don't know how i did that
Work on Hurt Comfort exchange assignment
craft while listening to podcasts
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wolffyluna · 15 hours
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Why do MultiFandom Exchanges Run on Don't Like: Don't Read?
I was writing that writeup about the amperslash exchange last night, and I realized that some people don't know this. So. Say you are running a multifandom exchange. You got a big amount of people sign up for it, there's like 84 people signed up, and they all nominated 3 fandoms, and there's a bunch of overlap, but you are stil looking at like 120 different fandoms. You have a big mod team, for an exchange that isn't Yuletide, cause there's two of you running this exchange. Do you think that you are intimately familiar with all of those fandoms?
I have been around the internet for a long time, and I know a lot of fandoms by sight, but let me tell you, I could not tell you on-sight which of the Mass Effect relationships are canonically (or even fanonically) considered to be toxic/abusive/problematic. If you are running a multifandom exchange, there is simply no viable way to know the network of these relationships in canon, much less once you consider in fandon stuff like "these people are commonly headcanoned as siblings".
So like, say you wanted to say "no abusive relationships?" or "no incest?" I've seen exchanges try to run with that rule. You are immediately vulnerable to people coming in and saying "oh these people are canonically related" when what happened is a queercoded relationship got translated as "cousins" in the english dub. Or they mean "he's like a brother to me" that gets used as family headcanon fodder. Or a relationship where people were enemies to lovers is presented as "abusive" because of their past. And then suddenly you, the mod team of two people, is poring over localization notes and clips and fanon essays instead of doing the hundred other things that an exchange needs. Even in MCYTblr, I am aware of a lot of lore, and I keep being surprised by things like people saying "oh empires and hermit false are canonically sisters", and I watched the empires crossover. It is simply not viable to keep up with which relationships might be toxic/problematic in every relationship in every fandom on the internet. AND you're faced with things like "well this apepars to be canonically okay, but fanon would say otherwise, so if we let it through, people are still gonna be mad/hurt because the fanon is so pervasive, but if we turn it down, people are gonna be mad because canonically it's fine, so—"
It's a moderating nightmare. So the only viable way forward is to say "we will let literally anything into the exchange, be warned that there might be stuff you find objectionable in the tag set, by participating you agree that even if you disagree you're not gonna harass anyone for it" and we go. But you do want to make sure that nobody has to write a relationship they have a problem with, right? Well, that's why the "you only have to write what you offered" rule. The way the matching works is you only match to what you offered, so if there are five ships you don't agree with and two you do in the tag set, you just offer your two, and then you'll be matched on the two.
You offer what you're comfortable with, and then the algorithm does its work, and then even if you match to someone who requested something you go "oh boy" to, everyone agrees to ignore everything they didn't match to, so you just put a sticky note over that part of the screen, and continue with the one relationship you do agree with that person on.
But how do you make sure that the person who thinks that this popular relationship is abusive (they hate it and wants them to break up) and the person who thinks this relationship is actually fine and hcs it as fluffy, and the person thinks it's bad but wants to watch them destroy each other hand in unloveable hand, all get what they want? There are 84 people in your exchange, it absolutely does not work to match fluff writers to fluff writers by hand.
That's when DNWs and defaults happen. Your DNW is everything you don't want to see, so the person who wants fluff can write down "I do not want toxic dynamics" and the person who wants them to break up can DNW "happy endings", and everyone will get a gift that matches their specifications. And defaults— that's for if you match on a relationship you like, but it turns out the person you requested only wanted canon-typical homophobia and unhappy endings, and you want fluff, so you can say "actually I can't write this", you send it back to the mods, they post it as a pitch hit, and it gets picked up by someone who can look at the whole request, go "yeah I can rock with some canon-typical homophobia and unhappy endings" and opt in specifically to the request.
The whole system is set up to try and balance "everything is welcome, we are not passing judgement on your fandom" (the dl:dr attitude about what's allowed in) and "you only have to opt in to anything, nobody gets forced to write something they don't like/agree with" (you only match on what you offered and requested, you can default if someone asks something you don't like). That's the exchange space standard.
And THAT is why matching in a big exchange is always an adventure, and that's why the entire exchange space has agreed, to make this whole thing we're doing together to work, to just go "that's not for me, but you do you" and just move on when they see something they don't personally vibe with.
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wolffyluna · 16 hours
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Why do MultiFandom Exchanges Run on Don't Like: Don't Read?
I was writing that writeup about the amperslash exchange last night, and I realized that some people don't know this. So. Say you are running a multifandom exchange. You got a big amount of people sign up for it, there's like 84 people signed up, and they all nominated 3 fandoms, and there's a bunch of overlap, but you are stil looking at like 120 different fandoms. You have a big mod team, for an exchange that isn't Yuletide, cause there's two of you running this exchange. Do you think that you are intimately familiar with all of those fandoms?
I have been around the internet for a long time, and I know a lot of fandoms by sight, but let me tell you, I could not tell you on-sight which of the Mass Effect relationships are canonically (or even fanonically) considered to be toxic/abusive/problematic. If you are running a multifandom exchange, there is simply no viable way to know the network of these relationships in canon, much less once you consider in fandon stuff like "these people are commonly headcanoned as siblings".
So like, say you wanted to say "no abusive relationships?" or "no incest?" I've seen exchanges try to run with that rule. You are immediately vulnerable to people coming in and saying "oh these people are canonically related" when what happened is a queercoded relationship got translated as "cousins" in the english dub. Or they mean "he's like a brother to me" that gets used as family headcanon fodder. Or a relationship where people were enemies to lovers is presented as "abusive" because of their past. And then suddenly you, the mod team of two people, is poring over localization notes and clips and fanon essays instead of doing the hundred other things that an exchange needs. Even in MCYTblr, I am aware of a lot of lore, and I keep being surprised by things like people saying "oh empires and hermit false are canonically sisters", and I watched the empires crossover. It is simply not viable to keep up with which relationships might be toxic/problematic in every relationship in every fandom on the internet. AND you're faced with things like "well this apepars to be canonically okay, but fanon would say otherwise, so if we let it through, people are still gonna be mad/hurt because the fanon is so pervasive, but if we turn it down, people are gonna be mad because canonically it's fine, so—"
It's a moderating nightmare. So the only viable way forward is to say "we will let literally anything into the exchange, be warned that there might be stuff you find objectionable in the tag set, by participating you agree that even if you disagree you're not gonna harass anyone for it" and we go. But you do want to make sure that nobody has to write a relationship they have a problem with, right? Well, that's why the "you only have to write what you offered" rule. The way the matching works is you only match to what you offered, so if there are five ships you don't agree with and two you do in the tag set, you just offer your two, and then you'll be matched on the two.
You offer what you're comfortable with, and then the algorithm does its work, and then even if you match to someone who requested something you go "oh boy" to, everyone agrees to ignore everything they didn't match to, so you just put a sticky note over that part of the screen, and continue with the one relationship you do agree with that person on.
But how do you make sure that the person who thinks that this popular relationship is abusive (they hate it and wants them to break up) and the person who thinks this relationship is actually fine and hcs it as fluffy, and the person thinks it's bad but wants to watch them destroy each other hand in unloveable hand, all get what they want? There are 84 people in your exchange, it absolutely does not work to match fluff writers to fluff writers by hand.
That's when DNWs and defaults happen. Your DNW is everything you don't want to see, so the person who wants fluff can write down "I do not want toxic dynamics" and the person who wants them to break up can DNW "happy endings", and everyone will get a gift that matches their specifications. And defaults— that's for if you match on a relationship you like, but it turns out the person you requested only wanted canon-typical homophobia and unhappy endings, and you want fluff, so you can say "actually I can't write this", you send it back to the mods, they post it as a pitch hit, and it gets picked up by someone who can look at the whole request, go "yeah I can rock with some canon-typical homophobia and unhappy endings" and opt in specifically to the request.
The whole system is set up to try and balance "everything is welcome, we are not passing judgement on your fandom" (the dl:dr attitude about what's allowed in) and "you only have to opt in to anything, nobody gets forced to write something they don't like/agree with" (you only match on what you offered and requested, you can default if someone asks something you don't like). That's the exchange space standard.
And THAT is why matching in a big exchange is always an adventure, and that's why the entire exchange space has agreed, to make this whole thing we're doing together to work, to just go "that's not for me, but you do you" and just move on when they see something they don't personally vibe with.
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