#writing is All the author

[kieraelieson]

I haven’t mentioned on Tumblr in a hot second that I’m still podficcing @tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors ‘s series Laoft! (The main storyline at least)

I’ve made it to posting the 12th chapter, which is just past the halfway point!

#my own work #the audio only #writing is All the author #sanders sides #kiera out loud #(someone pls notice what I’ve been doing with the colors on the thumbnails) #Youtube

[nicosraf]

As per my last post, if yall arent aware — Cait Corrain, the author of the upcoming Crown of Starlight made a bunch of fake accounts on Goodreads to review-bomb other debut authors, almost entirely BIPOC, with 1 star while 5-starring her own book. She also added traditionally published debut authors to a list derogatorily labeling them as "self-published" hacks. She went after random books that are Greek mythology retellings, like her own is, and again targeted BIPOC authors. She even targeted my good friend RM Virtues, who is an indie author who writes queer Black Greek myth reimaginings.

Many of those she attacked were people who considered her a colleague and friend. She's tried to spin a lie about how she's being framed by someone from her Reylo fandom days, but Reylos have disproven that already.

Cait allegedly liked to brag about how her publisher treated her like royalty, and she had a massive Illumicrate deal. Her book was also getting favorable advanced reviews and had a beautiful cover, so she had nothing to be jealous of. She's potentially destroyed her career due to racism alone. Do not buy her book and do not support her.

Here is a thread if you want specifics and here is the 31-page doc of evidence.

#havent seen this on tumblr really so #in case you all weren't aware #this is gravely serious #mine #publishing #writing #author #books #cait corrain #crown of starlight

[inkskinned]

okay if you're really cool about things, i can be honest with you. before you read further, decide if you're a girl's girl. if you're cool and actually cool or like not cool.

men don't talk in my book because i was fuckken tired of the way they're the center of every fucking story. i was tired of how every story takes a moment to let them talk. men can shut up for literally one fucking book.

unfortunately not everyone is cool. professionally what i usually say is i didn't want to add violence to the world. the only men in my book are abusers, so they don't get to talk. they don't get to take up space. they ruined my life, they don't get to have their words echo anymore.

because like, yeah! you find practically any story about a person surviving trauma and... there's a man at the center. men are often rescuing us from these things. a "good man" is always standing around, being a good man, proving to the victim that good men are the real men. that her experience was unique rather than universal.

the redacted text has not been taken well by all of my early readers. there is this weird, crouching growl that keeps occurring with men-of-a-certain-age. why don't we hear his side of the story?

when i sat down to write everything that happened to me, i couldn't look at the frank brutality of my abuser's words on a page and think to myself: i actually let him speak like that. i had to redact his words from the manuscript. i then left it redacted. no victim is going to read this book and hear the person who hurt them. it is a book for the victims to speak. abusers shut up challenge, forever. for eternity.

my father once told me, chuckling, i should just have a page of redaction where i let the man just finally talk. it is funny to joke about how we should make a whole page in my book about a man that hurt me. this was not the only time someone commented - it feels like you're hiding things. how do i know you're actually a victim if he doesn't get to speak?

there are books where women aren't even present. i even genuinely like some of those books. like, who doesn't like the hobbit?

i keep running into people defending this imaginary man. the default narrative is so true to some people that they will defend any man, just by virtue of the assumption - "if he's acting like that, you had to push him." certain people need definitive proof that you didn't accidentally make your partner into an abuser. they need to decide if you deserved it, because they want to be able to judge you.

which makes sense, i guess, from a hind brain perspective. if you can figure out "why" someone was cruel, you can protect yourself against it. if you defend the bully, the bully might side with you. i don't really know their explanation for feeling this about a character in a book. trust me, i wrote the guy. he is not going to protect you.

i guess i just - there was a time in my life where i desperately wanted anyone to defend me. where i could have really used someone saying holy shit are you okay instead of what did you say to make him act like that to you.

instead, over dinner, a friend-of-a-friend i just met is pouring herself wine. i heard you wrote a book, she says. she gives me the kind of chilly smile i associate with knives. i heard it's unfair to men.

#the author is nonbinary. don't get fucking weird. #btw if ur a woman and u do this u go to advanced special hell. like if u defend ab*sers at all #u dont get to pretend ur protected from being misogynistic. ur not. we all have internal work. #writeblr #i can't write lately wtf

[markscherz]

Bad Newts: Amphibians are in Serious Trouble

My colleagues and I have just had a paper published in Nature, based on our efforts to assess almost all amphibian species for the IUCN Red Lists. The major takeaway messages:

It is a bad time to be an amphibian

Two fifths of all amphibians are threatened with extinction.

Salamanders are the most threatened group; three fifths of all salamanders are threatened with extinction!

Climate change is a major driver of amphibian declines globally

Habitat loss, especially due to agriculture, is a problem for the vast majority of amphibians

Chytrid pandemics have caused and continue to cause catastrophic declines of both salamanders and frogs

Protected areas and careful management are working as strategies! They are actively improving the outlook of some species

As many as 222 amphibian species may have gone extinct in recent times; of those, 185 are suspected extinct but not yet confirmed.

Our paper is Open Access, you can read it here!

Photo of Atelopus hoogmoedi by Jaime Culebras, used with permission

#frogs #science #news #biology #zoology #newts #salamanders #amphibians #Nature #it's all over me #conservation #bad news bears #animals #this is my first Nature paper #sure I am just one of >100 authors #but I am still very excited #can you tell? #I wish I could write more about this #but I am in a grant crunch so no time #and also I have to run off to play d&d in like ten minutes #so here we are

[juniorectobiologist]

ouppies PART TWO

PART ONE <-here

#homestuck #my art #karkat vantas #jade harley #kanaya maryam #terezi pyrope #rosemary #davekat #johnrezi #hs fanart #AUTHORS NOTE: im not too fond of the writing in this one feels would have made it more wordy but the page legit couldnt fit all the dialog

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

a self-esteem guidebook: learning to embrace your imperfect self (1992) - kenneth a. beavers

"exploding you with my mind"

#i say this a lot #sorry i havent been active like #AT ALL #ive been dealing with some health issues #and also school stuff #writing a research paper about the renaissance #love the renaissance am normal about it #hmu if you love henrician england or hans holbein #anyway #blackout poem #blackout poetry #author #book #poetry

[deancaskiss]

to all the fic writers out there- whether you get 5 notes or 500 notes, 1 kudo or 1k kudos, no comments or 20 comments- please know how appreciated and amazing you are! fandoms are forever grateful for the continued stories and adventures, and none of that would be possible without you. thank you fic writers, we love you!

#fic writing #writers #fic writers #ao3 #writing #writing fanfic #fanfic #on writing #fic #authors #fanfic authors #fanfic writing #fanfic writers #txt #txt post #text #text post #seeing all the people who created drabbles for my lil event #im just so grateful to yall #and to every writer out there #yall are the real mvps

[vanhelsingapologist]

Publishing has always been a fucking nightmare, but now it’s a layer of hell. It’s not enough that writers be good at what they do. Writers have to maintain an active social media presence and cultivate a following. Be available.

They have to be conventionally attractive enough to look good enough to see on a screen, aesthetically pleasing, kind, funny, up-to-date on trends, socially aware but not so controversial that they turn off a brand from California from slapping their discount code on a video promoting a book.

They have to do all of this with no media training, with little help from the companies that are supposed to be doing this for them.

Of course, a lot of this isn't possible for say, the 40-something mother of two who teaches English at a school and writes on the side. She’s boxed out of an already complex industry that already has enough walls.

On some level, I think authors have always marketed themselves a little, but we’ve reached such a crazy point where we’re demanding the author become the influencer. Accessibility in publishing has narrowed from an inch to a sliver. And that inch was hard enough to get in as is.

#This is about traditional publishing but there’s pretty privilege and ageism in self publishing too #I can’t think of the last time I saw an up and coming author recording videos who was over thirty #And frankly that’s a shame #It could be that I’m not looking hard enough #but it’s more likely that algorithms are trained the way they are #truly I don’t think they should have to do any of that at all #And forgive me but (and I know it’s rich because I’m an artist on a platform) but art shouldn’t be at the mercy of an algorithm #Now there’s also something to be said about self publishing becoming easier and easier to achieve success in #And doors opening because of influencer status is real and makes publishing wider in a way #But that doesn’t mean it’s accessible #I’m not gonna plaster my health issues over the wall but that life is certainly not accessible to me! #are you healthy enough to write and make sure people on social media still want to like your stuff #are you mentally well enough to be your own pr #I’m sure people who have studied this have more to say and have said it better but this is what I’ve observed #writing #publishing #publishing industry

[lyss-sketchbox]

That last bit didnt exactly happen like that but i like making dramatic comic shots. STILL yall should read this fic. Its such a wonderful experience that people should know about, I PROMISE ITS GOOD

Bonus scene

Now you HAVE to read it :)

#this fic makes me feel things #im serious #it reads like a max0r video #its so funny then it hits me with the saddest facking lines of all time #please go read it im literally begging you #also the author is writing blind wrio #but i dont think i depicted it well #sorry bout that i tried #lyss' sketch #genshin impact #genshin fanart #genshin #wriothesley #neuvillette #wriolette #neuvithesley #fontaine #comic

[panevanbuckley]

i hope fic authors who put songs that inspired the fic in the notes know that i am immediately adding those songs to that ship's playlist

#and will then spend far too long explaining to people why i have a random song in a playlist that isn't connected at all #for example: currently have a song from barbie in my f1 playlist and it gives me oscar piastri vibes #purely because i read a landoscar fic and the author said they listened to this repeatedly whilst writing it #my fandom playlists are a mess basically #ao3 #fanfic

[im-really-confused121]

Shout out to all the fanfic authors out there. You’re the reason I even vaguely resemble a functional human being

#fanfic #ao3 #fanfiction #fanfom #authors #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #fanfic authors #lol #gay #aftg #all for the game #writing #archive of our own #ao3 fanfic

[magnusbae]

I am so smitten with fic writers who take the time to actually respond to comments, it is the loveliest sweetest thing, and I think it is not appriciated often enough. They anyways spend countless hours writing, and when not writing editing and trying to manage some other activities also. To sit down and reply to comments takes time and energy, and they chose to do this instead of the myriad of other obligations or, well— writing. I love this. Truly.

#It's easy to say 'of course I reply I appriciate all comments I get' #And it's obvious. #But it's harder when you consider the person who sits down and spends a few hours responding to things. #I'm just saying that I find it to be really sweet and lovely to have the author write back like this. #buns.txt #ao3

[elumish]

Maybe this is me just trying to articulate the same thing over and over in different ways, but I think some people in fiction (fanfiction and original fiction) circles have overcorrected and basically ended up at "all writing is value-neutral and nothing that is written is bad and nobody ever has the right to tell anyone not to write anything ever and we can never criticize old books with modern sensibilities."

And I think we should figure out how to have a useful and nuanced conversation about the fact that some things are bad and probably shouldn't be put out in public. And that's not me saying that anyone should be drawn and quartered or or harassed or cancelled or whatever. But we have to be able to think critically of writing and get past the knee-jerk reaction that any criticism ever is purity culture or censorship or conservativism in a gay hat.

#ethical writing #this also requires the recognition #that not all criticism is saying the thing shouldn't exist #not all criticism is saying the author is bad #and saying “this probably shouldn't be given a platform” is not actually censorship

[bloodybellycomb]

It really sucks that creative people are now also expected become their own marketing team or become experts in business ventures in order to keep making art. Literally cannot think of a group of people less inclined to tedious number punching work than passionate artists.

#watcher #just kinda sucks that a couple of dudes who just wanted to make videos had to become a business in the first place #it also sucks how authors are expected to promote themselves on tiktok #and how they might write one of the best novels in the world #but if they dont have a high enough number of followers #they will never get publised at all #idk just the way art is treated on social media makes me so mad #birdy chirps

[fluoresensitive]

FLUORESENSITIVE'S GROSS N GORY DOUBLE FEATURE!

Experience thrills, chills and ewwwwssss @ the fluoresensitive GROSS N GORY DOUBLE FEATURE! Read cult classics FILTHINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS and INGRID IS HUNGRY!

Filthiness is Next to Godliness: The Final Interview of Viola Vile (dir. yah yah scholfield, 2023): Witness the final interview of adult film star and performance artist, Viola Vile, the Goddess of Gore! + bonus features: soundtrack, director's commentary Ingrid is Hungry (dir. yah yah scholfield, 2023): Hungry, Hungry Ingrid's mother went away for the weekend...SOMETHING ELSE CAME BACK!

edit: ingrid is hungry has the right link now

#🦢 #my writing #horror author #black horror author #i am. high as hell and i did all this work and no one is awake #digital collage #bricolage #peep how they look like vhs covers omg im so. im so tired but this eats.

[unmellowyellowfellow]

please soothe my curiosity by answering this poll. i've been thinking about it forever

#i write each chapter in a different doc so i can find what i need to edit easier and break it into sections #writing #but i have found that a lot of you do it all in one doc??? that sounds so exhausting and impressive #writeblr #zoey says shit #writers on tumblr #writing community #authors #currently writing #writeblr intro #nanowrimo #nanowrimo 2023 #writing poll #writeblr community