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clingy

#op im obsessed w you on twitter god bless ur here as well #the recent t4t stsg.... thinkin abt them rn #jjk

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#this is what it shouldve been thank u so much op #my heart HURTS when i think abt canon stsg. like literal palpitations #not healthy. am i writing fixits about it? well. yes i was. right now im torturing gojo with memory #jjk

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my strong husband (x)

#theyre so cute it HURTS!!! #jjk

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this is such a niche fucking post and i've got pretty much nowhere else to put it but this dynamic of "me (hot objectively but so fucking weird and off-putting when opening their mouth for a fucking second) & the bitch (equally hot and moody but so fucking weird and a little bit silly and insufferable and a manic killer) i pulled by being autistic" is serovolk and satosugu and also andreil and it's been fucking Killing me recently and driving me absolutely insane

#like i know it makes sense for them to align because people eat it upppp because it's so GOOD #but the fact that they're so different yet they do fall under this. like #they are all completely different stories and even like wider relationship dynamics are different #but the core. this is their core. #this is the distilled formula #im gonna tag it of course but it's very niche because of serovolk specifically. i am aware #serovolk #andreil #satosugu #mine #god i need to work. good bye

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Catch! Oleg Volkov from mexican special issue (dunno how to spell it correctly) xPPP Somewhere off-screen, Mark Alvaro calls him "cabrón" :D

#MY BABYGIRLLLL LOOK AT HIM #god how i LOVE him. ADORE #bubble comics

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this like a renaissance painting to me

#like an indie horror movie to me tbh #with crinkling white noise in background kinda think ya know like deliberately

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reporting from heaven

#my eyes are so green in these??? was just bored today tbh #procrastinating getting up and making dinner #not even sure we have a kitchen knife here. god #mine #my face

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so. bad news. we have to keep going tomorrow. good news is that I’ll keep going with you

#was a really good day. question. why do i feel existential dread

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jean moreau is so loved. so so so loved right now. he's so loved im sobbing

#i have MANY THOUGHTS but between cat kissing his head and jeremy keeping watch always and neil taking a hit out on grayson #and the coaches watching out and listening and kevin warning and answering questions and looking out #between all of that. jean moreau is so loved. he is healing. i love him and he is so loved #im so incoherent. so so incoherent about this book #tsc #jean moreau #tsc spoilers #aftg #mine

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casually ordering a hit on one of jean’s abusers and being willing to pay any price for it and then just going about his day, all with jean sitting right there, is probably just about the sexiest thing neil josten has ever done

#are we bringing back the url. im afraid we are. in a bit. when im not as sick and actually coherent #aftg #tsc

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On your MOST FOLLOWED blog on Tumblr,

#most followed is very old and i think it's still at over 2.1k as of recent but i havent checked in a while #this one is 1.1k tho! love ya! #tsc thoughts incoming btw as soon as i feel better. god give me mercy!

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finished tsc. do not talk to me rn

#mine #tsc #aftg

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tsc chapter eleven choking me rn as we speak. save me jeremy knox in swimshorts and a bewildered look save me

#tsc #tsc spoilers #aftg

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I AM SICK, I AM AT THE AIRPORT, MY FLIGHT LEAVES IN AN HOUR, I JUST DOWNLOADED THE SUNSHINE COURT. I AM INSANE

#tsc #aftg #LOSING MY ENTIRE MIND

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Poll for real people this time

#19 but of them 2 books (tsh and brideshead revisited) the rest is jjk

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#screaming. crying throwing up. #aftg #tsc #WE HAVE A TAG!!! GOD!!!

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last minute complications alternatively titled: the maddening joys(???) of self-publishing

I hope to god any of this makes sense, brain is feeling a bit fractured & the vodka isn't patching it together fast enough.

(Also this is significantly longer than I meant it to be, jfc.)

It's been a hectic week. Lot of bright points! Lot of chaos. Mom's final post-op checkup to see if she can return to work is next week, so there are quite a few appts she's trying to squeeze in at the last minute now that she has enough energy to be out of the apartment. This afternoon I finally had time to sit down with D2D and KDP to look things over, and I have some mixed news to report.

So the prev English ebooks were published via Smashwords and Amazon, yeah? Smashwords handles like… kobo, apple, overdrive, etc. Smashwords recently merged with Draft2Digital for some reason, so the interface and process are completely new. Before there was a long style guide that helped you reformat a file to be nice & shiny, now it's fully automated. Very very quick. Absolutely no workarounds for minor tweaks. So the formatting for TSC is going to be slightly different from the first book (example: the chapter headers are big, because you literally cannot opt to keep them small).

Anyway!! Here is where it gets a little funky. The earliest D2D will accept as a preorder publication date is the 14th. The earliest Amazon's KDP will allow is the 15th. Obviously neither of these dates are ideal, which means we're doing it manually (see: I have to go in and push the "hell yeah, my book is ready NOW" button). That's where the potential complication arises.

Once you smack the PUBLISH button, the sites do an automated review to check for massive issues. KDP claims it takes 3-10 days for print and up to 72 hours for ebook. I've seen some ppl say it took 48hrs for the book to go live and numerous others say it only took a few minutes or hours. All of this to say: I have no idea what time the books will actually show up online once I poke the "Let's do this" option.

So the current plan is to try and account for this delay. I'm going to try and start the "please go live Now" process early afternoon here on Friday the 12th (central time USA, about 5hrs behind GMT and 7hrs behind CET). If evening comes around here and KDP still hates our guts, I've researched some alternative options to make sure it's actually available somewhere on the 13th (e.g. payhip).

I honestly don't think it'll come down to that--I'm 99% sure even TKM only took a couple hours to get approved, and I'm hoping it helps that I have existing projects on both sites. But!! Because it's a funky situation, wanted to make sure we're all on the same page. And I want to apologize for making it a complicated mess. Maybe we'll take a proper peek at the cover later to cheer us up.

#the dawn of the dinal day or whatever they say