#market wrap up

[e-louise-bates]

Instead of "20 books to $50k" or "how to increase readership by writing and publishing a book every month that is exactly like every other popular book out there," I need the kind of marketing advice that goes along the lines of, "hey, here's how to get a modest fanbase and sell enough books to justify this as a side gig without having to go crazy and spend more than you earn on marketing." Because honestly, all the advice I find these days either a) requires me to put way more time and money into marketing than I am able to do, or b) requires me to write fast and sloppy in very specific sub-genres, and that's really not why I write stories.

And like Emily Starr, I would--and will--continue to write stories regardless of how many people read them, but it would be nice to be able to reach more than a dozen readers, and to be able to reasonably look on my writing as a part-time job rather than an expensive hobby.

(It doesn't help that there are so many articles out there claiming that self-publishing is dead! It's gotten too bloated and now only a handful can make a living off it! But wait--traditional publishing is also dead! It's gotten too greedy and now only a handful can make a living off it! Mid-level authors? Whether traditionally published or self-published, they apparently no longer exist)

#I try not to grumble too much about this sort of thing #because it always feels like it comes perilously close to whining #but as my school is wrapping up and I can start thinking more about writing again #and publishing and marketing #it's all feeling like A Lot #oh well #perhaps the new edition of mmd will slowly start to draw more readers into the series #and I know if I were able to release books a tad more quickly the series would gain more fans #without going so over-the-top as a lot of the advice recommends #all we can do is try

[butchviking]

the thing is it is all like one giant ad campaign. you are all trying to sell spotify. it's framed itself as an Experience and everyone wants to be a part of it. and it doesnt even have remember the laughter

#old man yells at cloud. won't someone please come be a hater with me #i have to say it i HATE spotify wrapped #i think this is the best marketing gimmick any streaming service has ever come up with and you are all selling the product for them. #every year. #for what? #YOU DON'T EVEN GET TO KEEP TTHE FUCKING MUSIC THEY CAN JUST DELETE IT ANY TIME. IF YOU STOP PAYING ITS ALL GONE!! #ggrrraarrgrghhhgh. insert tiny image of that one photo of ray screaming with blood pouring from his head.

[agothinhiding]

streaming services should be required to put a warning or disclaimer on shows that got canceled prematurely. I shouldn't have to Google every show I want to watch to see if it got canceled, and I'm tired of investing in a show just to realize after watching that it's never going to continue. it's fucking ridiculous that we have to research shows before getting invested in them. I'm so serious when I say that I'm going to stop watching new shows altogether soon because it's just not worth it anymore. it provides none of the value that tv shows should provide (character and PLOT development, satisfying endings, twists and turns, literally anything that takes longer than 1 season to accomplish). I only have so much time in my week to watch TV and I'm tired of squandering what little free time I have on fucking bullshit that leaves me unsatisfied and pissed off.

maybe if these companies see the popularity of the new original series dropping itll make them scared enough to actually give their viewers what they fucking signed up for

#wga strike #netflix #tv #show cancelation #can you tell that i watched the midnight club #without realizing it got canceled after 1 season #it got canceled before any of the plot was actually resolved #like literally any of it #it was marketed as a scary show and none of the scary things were actually wrapped up #zero fucking answers or closure #im so fucking pissed off dude #i wouldn't have invested 10 hours of my life watching it if i had known #the midnight club

[canongayermo]

criminal that we didn’t get a conclusion scene for guillermo and nandor after all that

#legit the last thing we saw was nandor cheering holding guillermo’s ‘dead body’ #and I know airing time is important and they can’t film everything I feel like that would be important to wrap up #does that mean they’ll address it in the next episode immediately? probably not #episodes don’t usually pick up right where the last one left off unfortunately #like I NEED TO KNOW HOW THE REST OF THEIR NIGHT WENT DOWN #WHAT WAS THEIR CONVERSATION LIKE #HOW LONG DID NANDOR HAVE TO CARRY HIM #DOES GUILLERMO YELL AT HIM? (rightfully so) #WHAT HAPPENS #i haven’t read wwdits fics in a while but I might have to for this lmao #if anyone writes anything please tell me! #wwdits #the night market #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #nandermo #nandor x guillermo #what we do in the shadows season 4 #what we do in the shadows #wwdits spoilers #mine

[gensnix]

Y'know when I first beat botw it really did feel like a nice wrap up of the "timeline" what with all the references, the world building,the impact calamity ganon had etc

So I'm hoping that the next zelda games have nothing to do with the timeliness. It was already confusing enough for a lot and it be nice to just start fresh now

#kinda like security breech and it's dlc #we should start a new #obviously we'd still have zelda and link and maybe even a Ganondorf that's actually present in the story #like botw felt like a nice wrap up #and we obviously could have more timeline shit i mean just look at those gaps but i think it would be nice to leave those to rest #tears fealt like they wanted to start new and fresh #but like you marketed it as a sequel to botw #don't do that #zelda #legend of zelda #botw #loz #zelda timeline #totk

[ana-cantskywalker]

Reabsorbing childhood media and saying it’s for nostalgia but really its because they had no right to make it THAT GOOD

#this post is not about like pjo or the clone wars #because those are genuinely good media wrapped up and marketed for children #no I’m talking about like actual children’s media #this post is about my little pony and warrior cats #like it’s cringe I know #but mlp the movie is GOOD #Warriors: The darkest hour?? GOOD #cinderpelts character arc? MAKES ME CRY EVERY TIME #it’s good and I hate that it is

[angelsdean]

i think dean is someone who really panics when he the people he cares about aren’t in his line of sight / presence. like watching people leave (not even in the dramatic sense, like. just leaving the house / where he can see them) freaks him out. he’s gotten used to masking it really well at this point so like. no one knows but it manifests in little controlling actions and anger which obvs is annoying to other people like dean NEEDS to know where sam is going when, when he expects to be back, he NEEDS cas to check in when he’s gone for longer than a few hours and it’s yes, deeply rooted in his abandonment issues but also. extremely rooted in his fear as a child that whenever john walked out the door might be the last....like he literally was a little kid waiting anxiously and scared shitless for his dad to come back from hunts, knowing that it was very very possible he might never come back. like kid dean has bobby and pastor jim’s numbers memorized and knows that if john’s not back / doesn’t check in after three weeks (long, long after the grocery money has run out) he’s supposed to call them. anyways. yeah...so dean seeing someone walk out the door. instantly flooded with anxiety and freeze response 

#which is partly why. 'i didn't stop you i just let you go' bc like. he was frozen he was angry he was panicking !! #thinking like. oh god he's leaving oh god what if i never see him again he's leaving for good he's not gonna call he's not gonna check in !! #but yeah so like. in general tho he's really really a control freak abt knowing where ppl are #when people don't check in he gets. SO mad and most of them don't get it bc of course dean WILL NOT explain it #he doesn't even really fully understand it himself bc obvs he's never sat down and analyzed the inner workings of his mind lol #but yeah like sam especially gets so annoyed and thinks its like. a controlling older brother thing #cas doesn't get it for a long long time bc he doesn't think anyone would ever worry abt him :( #but once they get together he always always checks in! #the one time he forgets bc he got caught up chit chatting with one of the vendors at the farmers market....is catastrophic #like dean's worried out of his mind blowing up cas's phone (which died bc he was taking so many videos of jack at the petting zoo) #dean would've come to the market but he wanted to work on restoring the barn #anyways so like. yeah he's freaking out jumping to the worst case scenarios thinks something terrible's happened to cas and jack #when they finally walk thru the door at like 6pm dean starts sobbing and wraps his arms around his family like. why why didnt u call? #he's both sad relieved and a lil pissed like. obvs logically he understand once cas explains but he's still like. #channeling some of that fear into anger bc it's a hardwired habit he's still struggling to break #so there's a bit of grumping and cold shoulders while he's making dinner but then once they all sit down together he's like. i love you #got carried away w these tags whooops #dean studies #vic.txt

[strawberryghostlight]

3 of you asked for it so here it is: my rating of all the Witch’s cut/alternate lines in Into the Woods

#into the woods #into the woods musical #stephen sondheim #bernadette peters #meryl streep #vanessa williams #hannah waddingham #julia mckenzie #I think that's all the witches I mentioned #I listened to the new album while making this and I love how much dialogue they include in the recording #I was surprised they made a new recording because the new revival doesn't change any lyrics from the original broadway version #though they use several updated lines in other scenes #notably the version of the baker & wife's argument in act 2 where he doesn't let her leave but she goes anyway #also when jack's mother says she's going to market to sell the harp in the act 2 prologue #in the original she didn't give a reason for leaving lol #and in the plan to kill the giant it's cinderella who mentions pitch and they use rapunzel's tower instead of a tree #those last two changes are mostly just clearing up plot holes and wrapping things up nicely #but the baker's argument is actually really interesting #depending on which version you play it recontextualizes pretty much everything involving the two for the rest of the show #anyway what other tags are there #james lapine #musical theatre #long post #idk

[worstloki]

all I could think of during Thanos' plan reveal in the final chapter of You Screamed For So Long We Forgot To Care Anymore by @galaxythreads was Thanos' POV on the whole thing.

#serious moments happening and characters finding out what was going on and who was betraying and hurting who #and i was sitting there thinking of Thanos POV during the whole thing like #WHAT was that purple man SELLING #he had EVERYONE all wrapped up #knew what Loki was up to #knew what Odin and Frigga and Thor were up to #Sigyn wrapped up in it all #literally WHAT #WHAT WAS UP WITH THE BARGAINING #man must have crazy skills when he goes to the open market #i spent most of the chapter thinking of Thanos dressed as the street vendor in Hercules selling time dials specifically #going around and opening his cloak of bargains in front of everyone #he let them take turns browsing #AND IT WORKED-- #almost #if it wasn't for those Avengers and their pesky found family

[ventiswampwater]

top three “yikes the girls are goin thru it”-books

sharp objects by gillian flynn 🔪

wilder girls by rory power 🌿

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson 🪦

#feat. the editions that I wish I owned jfdhjhfdjhdsf #I have that edition of wilder's girls!! but only the mass market paperback of sharp objects #and most tragically. the penguin's classics edition of whalitc. I'LL GET MY HANDS ON THAT COVER EVENTUALLY jhdsjhsdfj #anyways. whatever!!! I love all these books sm and have reread them multiple times #heavy recommendations for all of em!!!! #if I can get back on a consistent reading schedule I'd love to start doin mini reading wrap-ups on here. #idk! I used to do that on my ancient old blog and it was p fun #I started The Troop by Nick Cutter on the plane a couple weeks ago and got about halfway thru before we landed #and I was enjoying it? enjoying it is a weird word to describe the reading experience. hdsjhdsfj it's just misery MISERY PAIN AWFUL #but it was good. I need to pick it back up and finish it lmao #I'm so OOOH SQUIRREL these days ndsfjhfdsjhfds so we'll see about that #sam speaks

[ailurinae]

#my posts #I don't fully understand my hatred of Spotify #but it burns brightest during Spotify Wrapped season #sure they are bad for artists #sure they are too big and control too much of the market #etc #and I am a Pandora user #and at least twice in the past I tried to sign up #and the process was broken/unusable both times #but that still doesn't fully explain how I feel IMO #oh well #(no issue with the people who do use it) #(damn hard to avoid it)

[naomiknight-17]

I was all excited to finally find a small tree skirt that would work for my rustic-themed, buffalo-check-heavy little Christmas tree this year, but when I went to check out, the shipping cost extra AND it may not arrive until January 10????

Bullshit, man. I need it like, a week from now, not 2 weeks+ AFTER the dang holiday. Goddammit

The search resumes

#i am going to a big country market tomorrow maybe i'll find something there #if not... i am planning to hit KSP and Michael's next payday so worst case scenario #if i don't find a tree skirt i will just pick up some thematically appropriate fabric and wrap it around the base #unfinished and rustic is kind of the vibe i want so it'll work #mod post #shopping #christmas #christmas decorating

[catboybrain]

sniffles sadly. every day im so sad that fnaf didnt go with placing vanny into aftons role.... god forbid women do anything ! ! !

#just saw gtlive finish the first ending n like. urgh #maybe if i liked eclipse more i wouldnt mind how prevalent they r but woof man #like i get it its charlie and evil baby or whatever in the same body but come onnnnn #that and the candy cadet stories just bashing the same kid going into woods framework into the ground #i miss when it was like. this dude sewed 5 kittens together! this lady melted 7 keys! stuff like that yk that was different and scarier #i do rlly think the series is going toward this like polished marketable thing instead of the grimy sludge i liked .... </3 and the AI stuf #is sooooo boring like fuuuuck its so boring. i wouldnt mind if its charliebots bc at least theyre interesting !!!! #but mimic as the new villian? bro. dude. thats so boring come on... afton was interesting bc he was fucked up severly #and robots r just like. theyre just robots dude its not even scary its just a thing being programmed smh #without the afton behind it its kinda just ..... bleh #honestly i wish they would cap the story? like make vanny take aftons role; do some shit; end it in a tragic but cathartic way #and then if they want to make more games do either other families in universe (like fazbear frights) or prequels/ world building shit like #something set in circus babys pizza world or w/e .i mean you could argue its about cassie now but if her dad is bonnie bro we're still stuc #in the afton central place. and i dont like that hteyre moving on without wrapping up the 102938120 loose ends they already made URGH ! ! #is it too much to ask for a fnaf game thats crusty round the edges and really metaphorical for theorists to dig into but logical enough it #can be solved and also creates a good plotline . yeah i guess hell will freeze over before that #d.txt #sorry im sooooo normal about fnaf <- is abnormal. fuhnaffs theories r GREAT thoguh i love that guy he makes me happy about the franchise :o

[r0semultiverse]

Wait, that last Bleach episode ended with animation playing over the ending song? Is Bleach on hiatus again??? 😭

At this pacing, we’ll end up with 4-6 cours. 😱

#I hate the concept of cours so much dude I stg #just call them season seasons or something lmao like what are we doing? #do you think someday they’ll make cours cour? like a season within a season within a season?? #how many terms will we come up with? where did cour even come from? pretty sure that’s an American beer or something #if it’s already finished in production don’t leave us waiting for it 😩 it’s probably a marketing strategy #if it isn’t finished though I totally get that; don’t overwork animators jfc animators deserve better in general but idk how much we know #about the anime’s current production pipeline publicly given they tend to keep that stuff under wraps #mine #OP #bleach tybw #bleach #bleach thousand year blood war

[khalesci]

I will never forgive the gross mischaracterization of Daenerys as a heartless girlboss when all Dany has ever really wanted for herself is a home and a family of her own. She is driven by love, not power, and she wants to be queen because she wants to be able to protect people the way she herself was never protected.

And she wants to be queen of the seven kingdoms *specifically* because she has been told all her life that the smallfolk were waiting for the Targaryens to return and "save" them, and even if she doesn't wholly believe the grandiosity of those claims, all she's heard of Westeros in the past few years is how it's been riddled with war and famine and other horrible things, and it's her duty as someone with the power to potentially put a stop to all of that to do so.

She doesn't care about power, but she recognizes the power she does have, and she thinks it's wrong for people with that power to sit by and do nothing while there are innocents dying. Her "entitlement" to the throne does not come from any sort of Targaryen pride, it stems from her belief that she MUST take the throne in order to do more good, that if she does, she can fix her "home".

#♛ ooc. ⊱ ❝ 𝘖𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪. ❞ #dany is not an ice queen!! she is not a 'girlboss' !! #hate that d&d made that idea prevelant #they had a horrible habit over the course of the show of stripping the women of 'femininity' and portraying that as weakness #they made arya think other girls were all stupid simply for being girly but book arya was a fierce protector of other girls #and demanded that other people treat them like they mattered too #show brienne completely shunned any idea of domesticity and saw traditional femininity as a weakness #but book brienne found it admirable in others. she deeply admired catelyn and remarked that women have a different kind of strength #book brienne wanted that for herself too but felt she could never have it bc she did not conform wholly to societal expectations #I can go on and on about this stupid trend of the erasure of anything traditionally associated with 'femininity' #because these traits are deemed as 'weak' #but the idea that women cannot want to be in love or to have families or else they are 'weak' and 'powerless' is SO FUCKING DUMB #so is the idea that masc-leaning & gnc women aren't allowed to want these things either bc it somehow 'invalidates' them????? #tying all of these *extremely human* wants desires and emotions to gender at all #is just another form of toxic masculinity and misogyny wrapped up in a bundle that gets marketed as empowering #everyone should be allowed to want what they want and *not* want what they don't and it doesn't make anyone more or less of ANYTHING for it

[colubrina]

I missed a drama.

#I just don’t care if anybody binds my stuff #send me a picture #charge what the market will bear #if people will pay you $100 for my words wrapped up in your art take the money #The words are available for free #what they’re buying is the physical object you made #which wouldn’t exist without your talent and hours of practice