#etc. etc.

[milfjinart]

#star wars #star wars shitpost #this is specifically about #thrawn #btw #idk why thrawn (2017) put me in a chokehold bc none of the heir to the empire books did but here we are #fuck it let’s add a bunch of other tags too #rogue one #andor #the mandalorian #ahsoka tano #the clone wars #star wars rebels #arc trooper fives #darth maul #etc. etc.

[carouselunique]

No one important, don't worry about it.

#my little pony #mlp #mlp g4 #rainbow dash #Sunny Rays #mlpfim #my art #mlp fim #my little pony friendship is magic #swap six #side stars AU #I'll explain later but the Mane 6 (canon version) play a wide range of side character roles: #Rainbow Dash is a Trixie level antagonist for Sunny Rays while Applejack is family to Ginger Gold and of course Twilight is a villain - #Rarity and Shy and Pinkie also have side character roles with the Swap Six I'll sketch it at some point I'm sure. #etc. etc. #this is also - according to some - gay #some have said that this is giving rivals to lovers #I'm not /not/ saying that... #do with that what you will. #my sketches

[shortnotsweet]

[ “GOSSIP” ] :

Sip the gossip, drink ‘til you choke

Sip the gossip, burn down your throat.

You’re not iconic, you are just like them all

Don’t act like you don’t know.

— Maneskin ft. Tom Morello, “GOSSIP” from RUSH!

#rhaenicent #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #rhaenyra x alicent #house of the dragon #hotd #my art #so basically gossip has followed Alicent + Rhaenyra all their lives for different reasons #and it was gossip that deteriorated the lives of their children and built up to the Dance #even after Alicent is on house arrest #the whispers of the court and the image of Rhaenyra never leave her #etc. etc.

[avalonlights]

"Guess you finally learned to plant your feet." "Yeah, some asshole wouldn't shut up about it."

Here is my creation for the @harringrove-relay-race! Next up, please look forward to a wonderful work from @hargrove-mayfields! 🏁

#harringrove #billy hargrove #steve harrington #stranger things #harringrove relay race #harringrove fanart #avalonlights art #monster hunting #billy joins the party #etc. etc. #those demodogs are toast 🍞🏏🪓

[tumhara-raghav]

Me during 8am lectures

#desiblr #etc. etc. #woosh woosh give this post 10000000k notes

[toastandjamie]

Are we ready to admit that every character in WoT is polyamorous and bisexual or are we not ready for that conversation yet

#wheel of time #wheel of time meme #wot on prime #wot book #mat cauthon #rand al'thor #perrin aybara #egwene al'vere #nynaeve al'meara #elayne trakand #etc. etc.

[askymzbuki]

#sketch #furry #anthro #personal work #commission #original characters #ballroom #western #And they were roommates #etc. etc.

[jaarijani]

actually i respect all of you commited enough to be a [x] girlie i am not strong enough to stick to any single one of these men they are all beautiful and i am a weakass bisexual

#me early in the morning: today feels like a nace girlie day #me after seeing one (1) gif of kris looking etherial: nvm im a kris girlie #me seeing a single photo of jure looking cute after: no wait im a jure girlie #etc. etc. #im just a jere girlie at heart and the joker out boys are always a wonderful added bonus they are all beautiful :) #am i putting this in the tag? #... yes #joker out #mine*

[leonsliga]

A mother always protects her his own

#manuel neuer #mama manu #I’m definitely not gonna tag everyone cuz that would take a century but #timo werner #benjamin pavard #david alaba #philippe coutinho #serge gnabry #xabi alonso #leon goretzka #antonio rüdiger #joshua kimmich #sadio mané #matthijs de ligt #jamal musiala #robert lewandowski #etc. etc. #fc bayern münchen #fc bayern munich #fc bayern #die mannschaft #germany nt #german nt #fc schalke 04 #schalke 04 #compilations

[subtle-as-an-earthquake]

#made these just because he looked so terribly pretty here #and I felt like it #he's a vision #absolute angel #love of my life #etc. etc. #alex turner #submarine #submarine premiere #2011

[tarysande]

Hi! I’m considering becoming an editor but I’m not sure if it’s the right fit for me. If you don’t mind answering, what was your path like for becoming an editor, and what does the job mostly consist of for you?

Additionally, while I really do like helping other people’s work become better, I get too in my head to release a lot of my own work. Does editing require you to also be a writer most of the time, or could I get by mostly just editing?

Thanks!

Hi, anonymous friend!

These are really good questions for a potential editor to ask.

To (sort-of) answer your question, the amount of writing involved depends on the type of editing, honestly. So, first you have to decide what kind of editor you want to be.

Roughly, editing breaks down into three-to-four types: developmental/substantive, line/stylistic, copy editing, and proofreading. These terms are mixed up and interchanged ... often. Increasingly, line editing includes or incorporates copy editing, which is why I say "three-to-four."

Developmental is the big picture stuff, including manuscript critiques. Books of all kinds usually undergo some kind of developmental editing--by editorial agents, acquisitions editors, freelance developmental editors, etc. In my experience, this is also the kind of editing that requires the most writing and/or the most author/editor interaction.

Stylistic/line editing tends to be editing at the sentence level, looking at diction, structure, clarity, consistency, etc. Copy editing, on the other hand, is what many people think of when they think of editing--it's the mechanics of writing, like spelling, grammar, punctuation.

Proofreading is the rather specialized skill of editing proofs. They're the final eyes on a pre-published piece; they're looking for typos and errors rather than anything that will involve significant authorial changes because a proof page has already been "set" (as it were).

All of these kinds of editing can be applied to many different areas of communication, and the editors who perform them can be self-employed (like me) or work for an employer (i.e., as a more traditional employee). Employee editors might work in-house at a publisher (of books, magazines, academic journals, etc.), or they might have any number of editing-focused roles in business, government, education, etc. Self-employed editors may also end up working as contractors for other companies; this is pretty normal.

Many book publishers, including the Big Five, farm out a lot of their editing these days, by the way. Especially the copy editing and proofreading. So, those particular jobs are dwindling as in-house options. Publishers can pay freelancers less ... and avoid paying benefits. (#capitalism)

I will also say that, especially in jobs with anything to do with marketing or advertising, there's a lot of annoying scope creep where "copy editor" is often expected to be a copy writer, too. Again, it's a symptom of employers wanting to pay fewer people to do more jobs (and it's really annoying).

My path has mostly involved trying as many things as possible and slowly weeding out the ones I don't like. I've pretty much always been self-employed because the personal benefits (setting my own schedule, rates, deadlines) works better for me. That said, I'm Canadian (so I don't have to worry about employer-covered healthcare), and I have a partner whose salary is regular and whose benefits cover me, so I don't have some of the worries a freelancer in the US or a single-income household might have. I'm increasingly working on the development side of things because big-picture storytelling, including writing and editor/author interaction, is my jam. But I have also done a ton of line/copy editing on fiction, non-fiction, academic work, etc.

Without knowing what kind of editing you're looking to get into, it's harder for me to offer suggestions for next steps, but generally, I'd say it's important to get SOME training--whether through a school, a certificate program, or the various workshops and professional development offered by editing associations (Editors Canada, the CIEP, ACES, the EFA, ...there's an Australian one whose acronym has slipped my mind). Researching the flavor of editing you're interested in will probably offer up avenues for study, too. For example, most US publishers/authors use iterations of the Chicago Manual of Style. Most UK publishers/authors use Hart's Rules/Oxford. Academic journals/schools/students have different style guides (APA, AMA, MLA, Harvard, Vancouver). Law uses the Blue Book. It's good to have working knowledge of a few style guides--and then you have to keep up with the changes (Chicago's 18th edition is coming out this year, and I hear some significant changes are afoot--such as fully embracing the singular they!).

The tl;dr here is that yes, there are a lot of writer-editors. But there are also a lot of editors who aren't writers at all, or who have no interest in becoming writers, or who don't want their writing and editing to overlap, or who edit because they like helping people and they value clarity. At the end of the day, editing and writing are two very different hats, and you don't necessarily need to wear both.

...this is already a bit long, but if you have other questions or want me to get more specific about something, please ask!

#on editing #tara talks work #this post brought to you by abuse of etc. #someone should really have edited some of those out #etc. etc.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Maybe the poll is like Mario Party and we can still win through bonus stars. I think we could win a lot of bonus stars... Most sketch requests completed... Most people bribed... Most fandoms pissed off... Most friends made along the way... Most enemies made along the way...

#sexiest #etc. etc. #dndads #hehe #glenn close #hot glenn autumn #dungeons and daddies

[worstloki]

Thor: I think I just… realized something. I had a bad childhood. Loki: Yes, I know Thor: What?! What do you mean you know?! Loki: Thor, I was literally there

#it takes Thor crying over his hammer for the 13th time in a day to realize this #Thor not really feeling anything @ Odin's death and having to work through how he feels about that #bc he recognized he was growing detached to Odin and didn't want anything to do with him #but that was still his father and he thinks he should have to process that he's gone now but instead of feeling bad he feels better #etc. #VS Loki who worked all this out about Odin and Frigga being bad parents like at least a decade ago but IS still mourning them #etc. etc.

[wraithsoutlaws]

It starts with a touch across the torso, quick enough Dagger doesn't notice his own smile before his boots lift off the ground. Dum Dum makes easy work of him, lifting him up and over as if he weighed nothing more than a pillow. "Fucker..." He bites through a grin as he flips backward. His body follows the momentum, shoulders hitting the floor almost gently. The moves to this dance are etched into the grooves of his mind, and he rolls through gracefully enough to recover quickly and tackle Dum Dum back to the floor. "You're gonna regret that..." His voice is an enthusiastic whisper, arms wrapping tight around his chrome middle. Dum Dum answers with a laugh. "Fucking prove it."

#cyberpunk 2077 #oc: dagger #dum dum #x: perfect drug #cyberpunk photomode #they're wrestling UwU #that pose is so cute but my first thought was 'suplex his ass' so. #well his hands should be lower but it doesn't matter fdlsjakfkdlajf ANYWAY #ofc this escalates. yknow. #and obviously they don't stop until that tiny apartment is trashed #just guys bein dudes #the rituals are intricate #etc. etc.

[zevranunderstander]

being in the wwdits fandom is so funny because there is this portion of people whose theories make me believe that they are watching a wholly different show? like, no, the vampires are not fucking with guillermo and all secretly already know hes a vampire, nothing in this show ever played like that and it makes zero sense for how the characters have been characterized until now, and no, nadja and guillermo are not gonna have some sincere heart to heart this season, and no, none of them will ever sincerely become better people, lmao

#myposts #like. these are fun ideas and im not saying you cant HOPE for that #but like. the show NEVER plays anything really sincerely with very very few exceptions #etc. etc. #wwdits

[tumhara-raghav]

There are few certainties in life; possibly only three: death, taxes, and ghar ka kalesh

#desiblr #etc. etc. #woosh woosh give this post 10000k notes