the fact that movie adaptations of The Three Musketeers aren’t consistently giving me crazy cat man Richelieu is honestly so outrageous I want to see - NO I DEMAND to see the Red Eminence draw up important documents and plot to destroy France’s enemies while Soumise naps in his lap and Ludoviska tries to knock ink bottles off the table!!! Wake up how are movie studios not taking this excellent opportunity to give us Richelieu lounging on an armchair in the dark and petting cats like a moustache twirling Bond villain hello??????????????????????????????????????
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.
"shit, his dick's on fire" is in the first line of the show
his dick really was on fire
the gay cop who shows up to the crime scene on the way to a yoga class dressed in yoga pants because he "just got a five day pass" and didn't want waste it over a murder investigation if he could help it
"i loved that cunt like a brother." "he was your brother."
the town's mayor-doctor swimming up to the beach where the crime scene is "like a russian sub"
the coroner's caravan transports trent's body to a dramatic score in a cinematic sequence inspired by something out of a german opera
the caravan is told they're going the wrong way so the score stops for them to reverse in the middle of the road
the score continues as the caravan continues
the police station staffed by three cops made their wifi password "three little pigs"
eddie getting everyone's names wrong, including thinking trent the murder victim's name was "jason" for a good portion of the initial police briefing
eddie trying a croissant, and, disliking the taste, takes the chewed up piece out of her mouth to put it back with the rest of it
eddie spending the first few hours in deadloch thinking she's in adelaide
before the discovery of a serial killer, deadloch's main villain was kevin the seal
when dulcie asks jimmy what happened to the smashed security camera footage at the dock, jimmy very obviously panics and says "birds?"
turns out birds did ruin the security camera footage
fay opening her "welcome to country" with "actually this is an acknowledgement of country. i'm not fucking welcoming any of you" and proceeding to give the best/funniest fuck-off to white settlers i've ever seen on tv
oh, and the fact that the dead body prop was made the show's prosthetic artist who stopped by the supermarket to run an errand whilst the prop was in her car and had the cops called on her in real life
The lower house of parliament overwhelmingly voted in favour of the bill, with 400 supporting its passage and just 10 against it in a final reading on Wednesday. Should the bill take effect, Thailand would be just the third Asian country to legalise gay marriage.
The bill now requires approval from the country’s Senate, and finally endorsement from the king, before becoming law. More than a decade in the making, the legislation could take effect within 120 days of royal approval.
This is the second time in my voting history that I’ve participated in flipping a red seat in Alabama for Democrats (the previous time being my beloved Doug Jones) so it’s always funny to see people turn around and say voting doesn’t matter when I’ve seen it twice in the past ten years flip seats in what is supposed to be safe Republican country. Republicans are digging their own grave with their radicalization and it is making them lose (and with your help we can make them lose harder). Vote.
worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.
"Burginda’s letter is instructing the young man in his spiritual endeavours, and the contents of the (albeit short) letter reveal that she was highly educated and well-read. Written in a period that many still refer to erroneously as an intellectual ‘Dark Ages’, Burginda’s letter uses Greek words, utilises biblical exegesis, imitates Christian poetry like the fifth-century Psychomachia of Prudentius, and references both the sixth-century Italian poet Arator and the classical Roman poet Virgil. It also contains a reworking of a description of heaven found in a Latin poem from Africa that dates to c. 500. Burginda was clearly a very well-read intellectual.
This letter can be used as an example to refute many popular misconceptions about the early middle ages. The first misconception is that antique texts were neglected or unknown in this period. The second misconception is that medieval women were uneducated and unintellectual. The third misconception is that there was little or no intellectual transmission between Africa and Europe in this period. Burginda’s letter proves all these assumptions false. Not bad for two paragraphs of Latin."
Male Stoicism is backed up by an incredible amount of emotional labor from women
Like men are able to get away with never expressing of requesting help with their feelings because women are trained from a very young age to observe men, watch for signs of emotional need and environmental stressors and deal with them without being asked. It’s why women worry constantly about emasculating the men in their lives but men never worry about “efeminating” the women in their lives.
Men are “stoic” only because they don’t have to communicate in order to get their emotional needs met.
I love Ed Teach. I love that he's smart and funny and goofy. I love that he wants to play and that he loves Stede not just as a boyfriend but as a best friend. I love that he's not a perfect victim, and he lashes out and gets angry and the story allows him to have imperfect, human reactions. I love that when he hurts people he's not framed as irredeemable because of it, just in need of the support to heal. I love that he has so much hope, that even after he's tried to commit suicide he still feels like he's supposed to choose to live. I love that he panics and tries to run away and does his best when he can. I love that he loves fine fabrics and sugary food and the world's tackiest animal-print blankets. I love that he thinks the simple things in life, good food and warmth and orgasms, are worth staying alive for even when he feels hopeless, and that a heartfelt letter from his boyfriend is his favorite thing in the world. I love that even if he leaves he'll come back.
One 2015 study found that just seeing fat men more regularly increased attraction toward them in women who date men. The politics of desirability are shaped by who we are allowed to see as desirable, which is in turn shaped by who we are allowed to see.
-from "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths about Fat Peopleby Aubrey Gordon
For many of us, culturally dominant definitions of happy and healthy are out of reach. For people with mental illnesses, happiness can be more a battle than a point of arrival. For chronically ill people, health may feel forever out of reach, all stick and no carrot. And for any of us, regardless of ability or mental health, happiness and health are never static states. All of us fall ill, all of us experience emotions beyond some point of arrival called "happiness." And when those things happen--when we get sick, when we get sad--they shouldn't impinge on our perceived right to embrace and care for our own bodies. Ultimately, "as long as you're happy and healthy" just moves the goalposts from a beauty standard to equally finicky and unattainable standards of health and happiness.
-from "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths about Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
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