#for potentially publishing

[only-one-star-reviews-er]

my hazbin predictions:

Sir Pentious will be the one to die. He’ll die doing something noble (sacrificing himself for his friends, I presume) which will be the final step in his redemption. He’ll be brought back to life and he and the egg bois will go to heaven as the first success story of the hotel. There will be a visual gag of the egg bois running around heaven, all with halos.

Angel will be offered heaven, however he will refuse because he wants to stay with his friends and help more people gain redemption like he did at the hotel (plus he wants to help free Husk). It will be revealed this was a final test and his rejecting heaven means he passed. Either he will be forced to go to heaven and this will drive conflict in season 2 or (most likely) as a gift from heaven his contract with Val will be nullified, perhaps with Val punished. Less poetically: Charlie finally kills Val, which frees angel.

Charlie goes slightly evil bc of emotion. Perhaps she is the one who lashes out with violence and Sir Pentious steps in front of someone to take this blow, and this is what kills him, not the angels. Charlie then has to deal with the fact that she killed her friend and a person she was trying to help. (Plus the biblical connotations of Lucifer’s daughter slaying a snake is poetic af)

Vaggie takes out that one angel’s eye (an eye for an eye, plus it makes sense with the X costume design)

It’s revealed that Alastor is under contract of Lilith and that’s why he’s so dedicated to helping Charlie. Either lilith forces him to be supportive of charlie OR lilith is using the hotel in some evil dastardly way and is forcing alastor to be a little mole and betray all his friends.

Lilith is working with heaven and is possibly an angel. She may be the first example of a soul’s redemption (maybe she was approved by adam bc he thought she was hot and now she’s being evil from inside heaven). This will further work against Charlie’s mission and reverse any progress Charlie has made in the eyes of the angels bc Lilith’s redemption backfired.

#these are my thoughts as a published author #and as someone with a masters degree in creative writing #plot wise these are the strongest climaxes for the characterization they’ve set up #so #potential spoilers i guess?? #i’ll tag it just to be safe #spoilers #hazbin hotel #predictions #hazin hotel predictions #alastor #charlie morningstar #angel dust #sir pentious

[comicaurora]

…what were the rhyming couplets? Were they good or just sort of amateur rhymes?

One of them was an imperfect rhyme but it didn't bother him until he woke up

#for potential future publishing reasons I wrote up some of Erin's journal entries. for the same reason I will not be posting them here #asks #aurora

[starspaces]

uh oh <- guy who has the itch to organize a de zine

#do i put this in tag #disco elysium #im just surprised there haven’t been that many? AIHTM the fashion one and Mnemotechnique which had a rlly cool idea but never took off #and the handful of self published ones #i think self published/underground vibes def fit and there’s a lot of cool fun things u can do w print in that style…. #potential themes…. #key story presented through case file format or accompanied w in game quotes #location based… #sunrise parabellum kimharry au collection one ahah (explained by pale fuckery) #gets eaten by worms #tell me if interested ? ?🥺 #jay rambles

[burn-throughout-eternity]

My non-fiction novelette-with-graphs is still going and slowed down by some additional data in Jason and Chris’s report. However, looking at that extra stuff and the cliff and several cases where it looks like the stats must be for a Chinese work but they have a Western name/work on them, there is a broad conclusion I’m putting here. I’ll probably temper it down a bit in the report. Yes, the stats were rigged. They were rigged at multiple stages during the process and haphazardly. It wasn’t a grand plan but at different points ballots, canonicalisation, counting, and eligibility were used to attempt to curate the balance of Hugo finalists between Western and Chinese finalists. That curation intentionally REDUCED the number of Chinese finalists (this is now extra clear if you look at the leaked eligibility lists) and boosted the vote totals of primarily English-language finalists. I believe Best Novel, Best Novella and Best Series were rigged to ensure that the finalist list ONLY had English-language nominees to ensure that a Chinese work did not win those categories. I assume this was done to ensure the 2023 Hugo Awards would get international coverage. I assume shorter fiction was allowed to have some Chinese works to ensure some Chinese wins for internal media coverage. Similar actions took place sporadically through other categories, including some down ballot categories. The fudging, tinkering, and disqualifications were done shoddily but with intent that was not in good faith or in the spirit of the Hugo Awards. I think that is undeniable looking at the detailed insights we now have on the eligibility process and I assume the ballot counting was done in a similar spirit. I can’t prove that but I think the combination of numerical oddities and what we can see of the inner workings of the 2023 Hugo Award from the leaks, makes this the best match for the actual outcome. Quite what was going through Dave McCarty’s head, I don’t know. I assume he thought he could manage to keep all these plates spinning and I guess he did up to the award ceremony. I remain astonished that he released these stats at all and the only explanation is that he genuinely has convinced himself that his own rationalisation (as seen in Chris Barkley’s interview) are correct.

#hugo awards #I have seen suggestions that the elimination of Chinese works was in part motivated by people involved in Worldcon being rival publishers #and eliminating competitors from the awards #which seems potentially plausible #but other than that this seems like the most likely explanation

[moonshine-nightlight]

Conversation with my sister

Her "oh! Nothing wrong with Dale has another chapter up!"

Me "it's not finished yet" (she insists on waiting until the story is finished)

Her "..... has the author said how long it's going to be?

Me "36/37 chapters?"

Her "...and HOW often do they update?"

Me- practically squealing over the last chapter"about once a week"

Her. "........ok......"

@lunalocura

lol that's great!

i get why some people want to wait - its been a long journey!

Nothing's Wrong with Dale will update tomorrow and officially every Sunday until Oct 29 when Chapter 35, the last chapter of the main story, will be posted! it's ridiculous the end is in sight lol

#asks #nothing's wrong with dale #story asks #dale #story status #baring Life getting in the way of course #i didnt mean for there to b such a break after chap 30 but DSM publishing and work both kicked into high gear #i do hav ideas for little oneshot side story/sequels etc #and potentially some other stories set in the Dale-verse #so its not the end end #but its the main end of the main story

[harryshouse]

Harry Styles in Don’t Worry Darling (2022) | “Dinner” Clip

#harry styles #don't worry darling #spoilers #potentially? i mean they did publish it themselves so

[luimnigh]

If I had a massive internet following I would absolutely be hesitant about even rightfully criticising anyone with a smaller internet presence than mine.

You cannot control your audience, you cannot control how far or fast your message spreads, and you cannot control how it's going to change in transmission.

Internet hate mobs can spring up over the smallest things. They are no joke.

And if that person was making a career from their internet presence... you can effectively cost them their job, and their ability to make a career in their field. This is on top of nuking their reputation, and making them a public laughingstock and punchline for literal years.

We know what that sort of thing can push people towards.

You have to be very fucking careful over what power you wield over others, because bringing you influence down on someone can be massively disproportionate to the sins a person has committed. And you ultimately do not have full control over the consequences.

So you have to be very aware of the potential for harm in your actions. Or you can end up with blood on your hands.

#suicide tw #is what i'm implying could be the potential consequences of bringing a massive internet presence down on a less influential creator #i don't care what someone's done sometimes you're just too big to break a story in such a way that it gets #a proportional response #you don't publish a random person's drink driving conviction in a national newspaper

[artbytesslyn]

don't like complaining about my job since I do still enjoy it but man publishing in graphic novels is just completely fucked right now

#and thats WITH an agent #GNs are straight up treated as nothing but screenplays #for potential television #so you have to not only pitch based on what publishing houses want #but also netflix and hulu and disney and bro #they all want second screen work #they want reboots #they want easy listening #when you say “man everything is the same now” #trust me from inside its way way worse #and it's so demoralizing #everything is demographics #pigeon holes #no risk #label everything #summarize in a sentence #set it in a school #characters must be teenagers #nothing too scary #nothing too real #and man as a creative #it feels like the world is caving in #delete later #tess talks

[facetsofthecloset]

i'm sure it's been said but i feel like both Raxtus and Ronodin can be argued as "the only gay kid in the family and consequently shunned/rejected" and it's like. so weird bc Mull is so Mormon he'd probably rather eat his shorts than even acknowledge the possible existence of gays but

i mean. Raxtus literally has a fairy form. he's a fairy dragon.

Ronodin was just emo lol

and they both get so thoroughly rejected and sidelined by their families their whole lives and it turns Raxtus into an awkward but basically decent guy who runs back to the approval of his family once he's performed masculinity/violence enough to be accepted, only to then realize that he's basically just being used and still not fully trusted/accepted and having to betray them to save his real friends

(who sadly are probably actually homophobic but that's ok bc they're not dragon-phobic so that works out for him)

while Ronodin's like "fuck it. chaos and murder then!" and can you really blame him? he spent his entire life trying to conform to the "right" (in this case, Light) way of life, started spending time with the outgroup and learned to question things, then was told he was "too corrupt" to remain in his home

like. the symbolism is right there.

it's so funny, because sure Raxtus isn't a bad guy, but Ronodin definitely is and he pretty much gets sent to a type of hell at the end of Dragonwatch

and while Raxtus gets kind of a happy ending, like, him becoming an effective killer in a war and being accepted by his dad for being Good At Murder in the first Fablehaven series is presented as a happy ending. if Celebrant didn't wind up being the main villain for Dragonwatch, that probably would've been the end of it! gay kid learns how to soldier and is finally accepted by his homophobic family bc he's finally aggressive enough for them to love him

(i mean i have MANY issues with Celebrant being the main villain later and the reasons he's framed as bad but like. that's a separate rant lol)

the queer reading is right there. but also it's very bad and you can tell completely unintentional. or at the very least highly repressed. idk man i don't look into Mull as a personal individual bc i doubt i'll like what i see and i don't care that much but Dragonwatch was SO MUCH MORE MORMON than Fablehaven already was and it's so weird, seeing the fingerprints of it all over.

i feel like he either has a new editor or he's been doing this for long enough and sold enough books that he has the clout to veto changes made by editors or SOMETHING, bc i feel like? he's gotten worse?? and more unfiltered?? that or something happened and he's like. even more religious than before or something idk

like fablehaven was just kinda generic/bland fantasy with some fun ideas for magic items/powers/one sentence character premises, with just a hint of sus Mormon ideology, and then Dragonwatch just went. Full Mormon.

but then there's somehow even more weirdly queer shit. like. he's repressing so hard he's approaching queer from the other side??

idk man i wish this deeply mediocre man's writing wasn't a formative piece of middle school reading, leading to me still giving more of a shit than i really should over questionable children's literature now

#i mean it seems like his wife may or may not have divorced him between the series's so maybe that had something to do with it #i didn't look too deeply into it i just kinda guessed from his about the author blurbs wording changes #also wtf was up with the weird borderline piss/humiliation kink thing in the latest candy shop war book? #like. that was. that was not funny at all if it was meant to be comedic. like the execution was SO BOTCHED if so #and if it wasn't??? it was just????? UNCOMFY??? #sorry i'm tired and kind of delirious and for whatever reason this man's writing's squandered potential still haunts me #like genuinely if i ever publish original fiction there's a good chance it'll be fanfic of this with the serial numbers filed off #like 'MINE I'LL DO IT /RIGHT/ OK GIMME' #fablehaven #dragonwatch #i know ronodin is overrated and like. yeah he's not really a sexyman to me but he IS still compelling as a character #i think he's funny i wanna be his therapist #like stereotypical him lying down on a chaise longue thing #but also i reserve the right to make fun of him so like. not a very ethical therapist lol #get it all out queer boy let's get you to a gay club and find some fairies who WILL accept you #just cool it with the murder and the manipulation a bit y'know

[anjanahalo]

Working on the outline of my ghost story which, so far, feels like two fics of the two time periods I’m hoping to release in parallel, and I found the key way to write Heartbroken Kid Danny right is the same reason Damian, of all the batfam, connects with him fastest:

Treat the kid like a formally socialized cat that’s gone feral.

#dp x dc #crack fic idea #Damian might be bad at humans but he’s good at other critters #danny phantom #have no idea if the parallel publishing will work but this idea already has some interesting features #like a Vlad who’s still a douche but not the level he reaches in the show #Jazz also gets adopted cause cps is not into you potentially killing your kid #Need to brainstorm on Sam and Tucker #it’s hard to incorporate out of town eight year olds through since they have even LESS autonomy #Teens getting bus tickets sure #little kids getting tickets is a red flag #ghost story au

[jnyfmg]

I am still looking for work in case anyone needs an artist :-) it's been slow lol

pinup commissions are $100 and sequential comic pages in print books are Whatever you will pay me. I do my own lettering and I make all my own brushes for retro colors. I've been published by A Wave Blue World, Odyssey, and Band of Bards

#honestly i don't think comic writers or publishers are scoping tumblr for potential artists but it's worth a shot

[southsidestory]

Currently imagining a future in which I filed the serial numbers off The Valley of the End or In Times of Peace and got a book deal.

The world of publishing is so damn grim now. The industry seems to have forgotten that part of its job is marketing debut authors!

Sometimes it feels like, if you don't bring an established audience to them, they don't want you. Simple as that.

#sasusaku #TVOTE #publishing #fanfiction #I'm all for filing the serial numbers off fanfic and selling it! I think that's awesome #but it's fucking depressing to consider the underlying reality #which is that publishing houses don't believe in debut authors #they want to milk their established authors for easy profits #and it seems like if you don't have some kind of platform already #trad pub doesn't give a fuck how good your book is or how much potential it has #vent post

[captainjonnitkessler]

I'm not the first to notice this but tbh from what I've seen half the time when people say "culturally christian" they basically specifically mean "culturally not [specific religion accuser is a part of]" because shocker, they also don't know about every religious doctrine ever. Of course it's fair to point out how a criticism of religion does not apply to your specific one, but also many many aspects that people on Tumblr think are unique to Christianity (e.g. proselytizing, focus on purity and guilt) really... aren't. And that's how you get the "Indian blogger complaining about Hindu Nationalism gets accused of Cultural Christianity" incident.

Yeah, a lot of people using the term have replaced "this thing you're objecting to is not universal to all religions" - a totally reasonable critique - with "this thing you're objecting to is exclusive to Christianity and Christianity alone", even when that's like . . . blatantly untrue

#and no worries about not seeing the tags #i don't mind getting asks i just may or may not publish them depending on my mood and how much potential bullshit i'm willing to deal with #atheism

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

John Mann - Encounter: A Weekend With Intimate Strangers - Pocket Books - 1971

#witches #intimate strangers #occult #vintage #encounter #a weekend with intimate strangers #pocket books #john mann #a human potential book #the 1969 new york university book publishing workshop #1971

[officialbabayaga]

stoned af lost in the sauce in google scholar searching for articles on the ethical tension between mandatory reporting laws for infectious diseases and the importance of medical privacy/HIPAA protection of PHI having a GRAND time

#my other firefox page is 25 tabs on the potential HIPAA compliance risks of AI #my professor says if our writing is good enough he’ll have our stuff published in one of the 2 legal journals #that he apparently has enough clout with to do that?? wild #zoe stuff