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Deeply dispiriting post: testimony from a DOJ antitrust action reveals the entire book publishing industry is celebrity memoirs, established franchise authors like James Patterson, children's books, Bibles, and back catalogues (e.g. Lord of the Rings). Publishing new authors is not even a rounding error; you get the sense it's only done anymore out of a vague sense of obligation, and the moment one of the Big Five decides on the defect strategy, and stops doing that to save a few more bucks, it will end entirely.

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picked up random nietzsche book at used bookstore. i now understand what people did before twitter when they needed to tweet

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"i'm mr sterling's right hand arm. man." is to say: i am the unutterable wisdom that precedes and gives rise to verbal understanding.

"i'm mr sterling everything" is to say: i am the undifferentiated matrix through which the phenomenon of "mr sterling" is apprehended.

"his confidant. his best friend. his silly rabbit." is to say: the unity of the two, differentiated and undifferentiated, quiescence and clarity, produces a third which is motion, who then goes on reproduce itself indefinitely.

"does he call you that? no." is to say: the name which can be spoken is not the eternal name.

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Paul Newman calling Tom Cruise “kitten” in an interview Christmas has come early to amanda marisatomay nation

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it's so funny switching from the home broadcast to the away one, one set of announcers was like "beautiful play by kuznetsov, he's showing that talent that was so essential in the 2018 cap run" and the other "ughh that's dumb luck. and he's ugly."

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obsessed with this exchange

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#radio eli #🕺🕺🕺 #Spotify

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2024 is not looking good for reylo writers (or just marketed for reylos?? I don't know if the second one is also a fandom reylo) trying to publish their romantasy like:

On the one hand, Cait Corrain (who is white) got their entire book torpedoed because they used sock puppet accounts on Goodreads to 1 star review bomb a ton of almost entirely poc authors with books also releasing in 2024.

On the OTHER hand, one of the YA books that Cait reviewbombed, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by debut author Molly X. Chang (who is 1st gen Chinese American), is now getting serious advanced reader copy reviews with 1/5 stars for being an "enemies to lovers" romance that actually involves the main character falling in love with a genocidal colonizing prince who has her kidnapped, bound, and blackmailed. People are mentioning a shock collar??? MULTIPLE people in good reads reviews mentioned parallels to the atrocities of Unit 731 enacted by Japanese forces during WWII being committed by the supposed male lead in this romance?????!!!!

And NOW she's attempting to doxx reviewers??

This shit is W I L D

#so you are saying that the first author was right in trying to prevent this monstrosity from hitting the shelves

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remember that post with like "stay here long enough and mutuals will turn into hockey rpf blogs"? well.

#it's playoffs time and it's not ironic anymore

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now, the most important part of planning the trip: what should i listen to for the 11h bus ride?

#🤔 #i have a lot of podcasts to download but those require a minimum of brain cells #and i think that after hour 8 the brain will be offline

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in the club headbutting the speakers to show affection for the music

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Watching some of the supplements to the pink flamingos criterion and this performer in the movie, Elizabeth Coffey was pre-op while filming, and if you’ve seen the movie you know she famously or infamously exposes herself on camera. Fast forward 50 years to a retrospective of John waters in 2022 in a Baltimore art museum, and I guess they’d made their bathrooms gender neutral somewhat recently and also named the bathrooms after John waters. So John invited Elizabeth Coffey who is also still alive and an advocate for trans seniors to come and be the first person to piss in their newly gender neutral bathrooms lol which seems like a very John waters thing to do lol

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gay cactus and trans flowers!!

#the vegetation brothers

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was lamenting the fact that my eczema is flaring up when the thought "the itcher" popped into my head fully formed and unprompted and now i can't stop laughing

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tswift fans telling critics to log off, but sadly i logged off and had to go to the mall and guess what was being blasted there. that dogshit album. 😐

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this is the only person in the notes of my post that i respect

#gansta rap kayfabe is not the same thing as tswift complaining about her childhood be so so ernst rn