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I've been... Busy 👀
Trying to get all 4 arcs from season 1 into books!
(not available for sale, these are print proofs. I'm planning a Kickstarter early next year!)
#this is why i havent been posting much#ive been so busy between making episodes and doing Kickstarter prep#theres been a lot more for Kickstarter prep than i had anticipated#i mean. not really.#i knew it was gonna be a lot#but it's takin longer than i thought#cause i always forget how little time i have outside of making comic updates#I'm also thinking $25 a book#and then itd be $30-60 to ship them#so. if youre reading these tags its not an official announcement#but i want to give people ample warning#cause i know $150 is a lot to save up#also for legal reasons#i can not print all the books at once...#i have to go one at a time??#so I'm planning on making it like.. a box every few months#idk#I'm trying to think of thinfs that make it more worthwhile to do it that way#i want ppl to feel like they got their moneys worth idk#but! tbese two books look really good#I get proofs really early so i can go through for typos or color errors asap#so! hopefully I'll have the ghost and Victorian ones done by end kf year#so i can do the Kickstarter in like... jan/feb#i wanna add some scenes to the Victorian one#so. loads of work to do#printing#books#Kickstarter prep#time and time again
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sorry to the woman in the bookstore who asked what i was reading and caused me to stare like a deer in the headlights and instantly forget everything i knew about hildegard von bingen and her book in my hands in my defense i haven't talked to a person in a week
#like not that i'm an expert to begin with#i saw her talking to someone else about religion so i think she was just going around asking people this?#or possibly she was evangelizing. which would obviously be way worse#also why are books so goddamn expensive now like obviously i'm on the piracy or thriftbooks grind already but $25 for a regular ass#paperback is inhumane. ik this is la but i don't think it's just here. local bookstore (vromans btw 10/10) not even b&n or something#it's dire straits out there boys#me
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I got really lucky at a charity shop today and I wanted to show!! I got a first edition French copy of La Dame Aux Perles by Alexandre Dumas (same guy who wrote the OG The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo!) and an 1951 copy of Jane Austen's Emma!
I love Alexandre Dumas' works to death, especially The Count of Monte Cristo and La Dame Aux Camelias, so I was really surprised to find such an old edition, let alone in French, for only five quid. Let alone the old copy of Emma.
Are they musty? Yes. Is the cover coming off the spine? Yes. But is it cool to think I'm holding a book that has passed by hundreds of hands, sat on hundreds of bookshelves, and has survived two world wars?? Big yes!!
#I'm a massive old book collector so I got super excited when I saw these two#normally old hardcovers (especially any of Alexandre Dumas' works) go for 25-40 in the least so this was an absolute steal#I'd bring it into school to read but I'm very afraid to break it#but at the same time I'm thinking if it survived two world wars it can survive in my school bag y'know#also Emma had a name and a school signed on the front page!#it says it was given as a 'class prize for general good work' and awarded to a girl#I'm not putting the name up because it's a full name and I'm just a bit weary about it#anywho#quite happy :D#mel's thoughts#mel's photos#alexandre dumas#la dame aux perles#jane austen#emma (Jane Austen)
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by the way do you remember at the beginning of september when i was sad because the libby audio book i wanted had like an eight week hold on it? anyway yeah i got the book AND I DONT EVEN LIKE IT
#it has like...4.5 stars on goodreads out of 380k reviews#which is one of the highest ratings i've seen#and it's just. i only made it 25% of the way in my checkout period#there's 4 people waiting behind me and it gets returned in 2 days. i will not be finishing it and i cannot extend#it's just. so slow!! i dont think this slice of life genre is for me! i thought there would be more excitement!#i also only care about 2 povs which are the two that were mentioned in the blurb#and it turns out theres actually like 4 other pov people and i just. dont care about them at all and one is actively annoying lsjfdklsjfks#i'm sure all their stories will eventually converge into something satisfying but for now#i have read 1/4 of it and nothing happened at all#i think by 25% you need to have hooked your reader ??? i accept some books start slow to set up characters and arcs#but by 1/4 you need to get that plot going
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If paranatural ever were to become a show, I would split chapter five into three parts. First of all, I'd split it up because of how long it is. The first part is Chapter 5, Part 1: A Dangerous Game of Hitball. This follows all the way to "It's one of them!" where it cuts off. Next episode is Chapter 5, Part 2: The Hunt & Stalk a Teacher which goes to the big reveal of who's been possessed the whole time. Finally, we have Chapter 5, Part 3: The Final Showdown which is the big arc, everyone's fighting & we end the first season there.
#paranatural#pnat#it would be so cool to have a show#that being said#I think Stephen's chapter & The Activity Club & the Final Hole would make great filler episodes#i think the episodes would be full 25 minute epsisodes while the last 3 get longer like big specials#I can't decide if chapter 7 should be split up or kept in one big episode cause in theory#you definitely could#but at the same time I feel like some parts are too short or just can't really be separated yknow?#anyways I'm excited for the book & how that's gonna be like with Zack's injury#on one hand I'd love to see the first couple of chapters redrawn#but on the other hand the text style let's us know the characters more indepthly#is that even a word? I also just like Zack's writing style
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#also in that vein#the one roommate that I did know ahead of time—#—ok so like for context I bought all the furniture in my room from the previous occupant#and I mentioned in passing that the only other thing I was going to look for was a bookshelf#bc I brought all my books obviously#and anyway when I got home from work she was leaving on another errand#and then text me like oh I'm looking for a bookshelf for you#and then went to ANOthER STORE bc they didn't have any at the first one#and was asking me size and color and stuff#anyway they didn't have the size that I wanted so I said it was fine to just get a smaller one#bc like! I didn't want to be too picky she was going out of her way#and ofc I would just venmo her for it except I don't know her venmo yet#and I can't ask things like a normal person#anyway still a little stressed out by the whole thing like that was literally SO nice of her#and now I just have this one which is fine and I owe her 25 dollars#and also I was so tired by the time I came home and made dinner I just wanted to lie facedown and think of nothing#but instead I had to make furniture decisions and also feel guilty#but yes anyway they are being very nice to me but I am still stressed#the floors are creaky and every time I'm like walking around I feel so exposed it's so loud and I have this stupid need to make no noise
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switched from the fairyloot full ya box + book only adult to the book-only combo box
so if there's any good swag in future ya boxes you're obligated to tell me so i can ebay them :V
#original#i think the $25 a month i'm saving is worth it tbh#bc there's too many fucking mugs#all i care about are pins and bookmarks and stickers and maybe socks#also i saw spoilers for may and skipped it so even more savings!#feel bad skipping my first month but also you have to sign up as soon as a slot opens soooo#also if you were wondering it's still only 4 skips and you can't skip only one book
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Shoutout to all the little guys in my phone who help to bring joy to my day. I love you all equally I swear! there is absolutely no blatant favouritism towards @mockspector here absolutely none.
#me#my stuff#beloved mutuals#not gonna tag all of you because save for two of these guys you all follow me#but in order: mockspector (new bestie <3). be-they-do-crimes. smokeyrutilequartz. pizzee (beloved). tiptapricot (also beloved)#ayratheaverage (BEST FRIEND TO WHOM I AM DEVOTED). owlpip (art envy and my new secret crush). mrcspectr. rabblerebelreject.#love how all my favs are either 1. nonbinary/trans or 2. bisexual (or both)#don't mind me just playing a game of Nonbinary/Trans or Bi Tic Tac Toe with my favourite mutuals#Also Moon Knight or Queer Blog Tic Tac Toe#(though let's be honest most Moon Knight blogs are ALSO queer it's just a fact)#happy to be everyones lil cryptid who just shows up in their notes constantly but barely says a word#was inspired to make this post thanks to a conversation that will not be mentioned here because i know a certain someone will hear#and i'm not ready for the horrors#(but hell yeah mockspector we are totally besties now as if i wasn't already secretly in love with you)#(you were almost at 25% the other day and I was like 'damn i think i might be a bit little too obsessed with your posts')#ALSO COMMEMORATING ME FINALLY REACHING 4000 TOTAL LIKES AFTER 7 YEARS ON HERE#that's like 571 likes a year#which is not a lot in the scheme of things I have seen ayra's total like amount and it scares me#it's like that big book little book meme#with your help beloved mutuals i can shorten the distance
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AU where we mix Danny Phantom and The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod.
Basically replace all the vampire stuff with ghost stuff, make Val a frienemy/let her know his secret, give us uncle Plasmius, etc. It would be interesting to see how that plays out relationship-wise. I have ideas of who other DP characters could be in it too if anyone wants to discuss these two pieces of media/combining them.
#danny phantom#chronicles of vladimir todd#au idea#idk it sounds like it is time for a reread because my brain just went you know it would match out of nowhere#cool uncle vlad teaching danny to ghost#wes keeps trying to out danny as being an abomination#vlad takes him on a trip to learn about ghost culture#sam hangs out at the goth club#this has potential for both au and crossovers#bro I grew up with these books and dp and both hold special places in my heart#dp on tv as a kid#and tcovt when I was around the same age as the protage#i think the 8th grade book was big either when I was in 7th or 8th?#for the record I'm 25#as a treat Danny's parents dont have to be dead#because IDK who would be his guardian then anyway#idk how it fits#but it fits#also I mean Vlad the half vamp and Danny Fenton the half ghost meeting could be cool if a crossover happened#whoops used the wrong spelling in the tags and i am not fixing it#look tod vs todd is really confusing to me spellingwise#blame this on me having a pet squirrel named todd when I was a kid#i mean the books have seriously aged or I got old#but it still seems fun
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Books are really expensive here lmao...
#I dont know if it is because I'm just cheap#and like 90% of the times I buy second hand books#but some of the books are just outrageously expensive#like I debated buying a copy of secret history because I've wanted my own copy#and whenever I've tried to buy it was out of stock#so I'm picking up the book and I turn it around#and it is $32 my jaw dropped#which is approximately like £25 I think#I checked my local bookshops website and they were selling it for like £10 😭😭😭#so instead I bought some book merch#I bought a jumper?hoodie?sweatshirt? that had the bookshop name in it#I did buy two books that I was interested in plus they were affordable#I bought I must betray you by ruta sepetys and the sun also rises by ernest hemingway#there were these books that were covered so it would've been a surprise what book you got#I've seen something similar on etsy so I might buy it#looking back I think I’m just cheap because it wasn’t that bad#but I didn’t want to spend all my money on one bookshop#whilst getting my stuff the till wasn't working#I had originally picked up 3 books and was debating if I should return the third one or not#so whilst we are waiting for someone to come I'm like debating in my head if it is too much hassle to ask if I can leave one of the books#I felt really bad since there was already an issue with the machine#but I asked and lady was really nice and said it was fine#gatherrambles
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prongsfoot week day#1
•when and why did you begin to ship prongsfoot? what makes you ship it ?
i had always loved james and sirius as friends and their friendship, and just their dynamic, used to get grumpy when authors at times replaced or sidelined either of them in favour of a different character, or just made them two friends on paper and didn't give them the material. i always just looked at them with the "bestie lens"
the person who got me into prongsfoot was lovely miss– @padfootastic
intially i came across her fantastic opinions of sirius on someone else's blog and immediately thought - must follow this person she thinks on a similar brain wavelength to mine. stalked her blog and just was on a cotton candy moonland when i found her ao3 account. loved all her fics and her portrayal of james/sirius/harry to bits
(shovel talk , the whole notes app drabbles have become my comfort reads)
she's the one (well more like me stalking her blog and her wide variety of very enjoyable tags introduced me to romantic and queerplatonic prongsfoot)
also camichats on ao3 works of prongsfoot are like fresh rain on parched land, much needed and very well loved.
the why?
see, describing prongsfoot is very hard to me they just exist in their own bubble just orbiting next to each other. two peas in a pod– i could go on with epithets for them. something about the how every marauder has james as a best friend ™ but James has sirus does it to me. the almost devotional level of loyalty that these two have in each other, the extent of comfort and stability they see in each other how they are each other's home, hope and responsibility.
it's funny how they only have like five paragraphs in books (actually nvm- 5 is fine, jkr probably would have made james a figment of sirius plan's to bully Snape or something if she wrote their whole story) but almost every other dialogue sirius had he was like - james my beloved (and rip james you were dead from page 1 you couldnt get dialogues).
everytime i think about how sirius just went mad with grief after seeing james die – it fully breaks me. like there was just this one person who always used to cover for him, save him and excuse his actions who used to be the shield for sirius's rough edges and that person is gone now. for the first time since he was 11, he's unsupported. his home was killed
like it's hilarious to think about (not really) a group that was known for it's unending friendship (animagus, supporting financially) just broke like strings of marionette before even james potter body was fully cooled down. fuck he wasn't even buried when sirius was thrown in askaban (and turning 21)
in the end it's really intresting to think about a chance meeting with james on the train- pretty much changes his life path entirely– talk about a butterfly effect indeed.
the fic i was talking about in tags
#Prongsfootweek2022#i spent like 25% of this just complimenting pen and I'm not taking it back#seriously prongsfoot is just soo#filled with oceans if love for each other#I'm pretty sure i have a rolled reel of all the book prongsfoot moment always playing in loop#in my head#there's not a dat that goes by when i don't think about your father harry#also can we talk about how fkn annoying it is when people puch james or sirius away from each other's life in fics#like i know not every fic is prongsfoot but they were best friends as well#please respect that#people out here putting james as sirius's best friend without any material#oh yeah he just exists–#also another annoying opinion i have seen a few times#is when people say james matured for Lily#like people nooo#you and i wouldn't like if we made Lily's character development all about James#same should be said about James#dude out here growing up and learning all about privilege he has and leveraging it to help others#but no let's Just make it so he wants it date lily#if it was about lily it was more about how prejudiced the ww was about muggleborns and doing something about it#not about her love#there's this fic that i read years ago that I'll link in the post#it had a really good take on how and why james matured#it also had prongsfoot vibes so that's a bonus as well#phew#this was alot#i had to edit it three tines cause it was becoming way too ranty
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While I'm so interested in what they're doing in the pachinko show, I also freak out whenever it differentiates from the book
#I'm surprised they made Solomon a prevalent character! I mean I guess so since it 'starts' with sunja and 'ends' with solomon#idk about the timeline though I think it would have been better if we followed linearly down the generations#but that wouldn't even be true would it? cause it doesn't end with solomon. the stories and generations continue on#and they're reeeally focusing on his bank job and so him turning to the pachinko business at the end is gonna hold more meaning#I just finished episode 2 and like im surprised at where we are in the story#Sunja and hansu are JUST starting their affair like we spent the whole first episode in sunjas childhood?? setting up some stuff idk#that could have probably been done in like 25-30 min if we rushed it#it's just we have SO much ground to cover#and we're 1/4 done already#and we've also ADDED STUFF THAT WASNT IN THE BOOK HELLO!?!?#hnnng changes need to be made when a work is adapted. changes need to be made. it's FINE#BUT STILL#also are we cutting out noa???? LIKE#noa's character was SUCH an important journey. his and mozasu being character foils of each other and each contrasting their different#fathers#like noa wanting to be Japanese to cover his heritage to be a good Korean#THAT ENTIRE CONVERSATION HE HAD WITH HIS JAPANESE COLLEGE GIRLFRIEND IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PASSAGES IN THE WHOLE BOOK#also I do not like this romanticization of hansu. idc that lee minho is playing him that man has never been in a valid drama#when this show was airing I saw so many clips of their first time and all and people going 👀😱🥵#AND ALL I FELT WAS DREAD????#AHHHHH POOR SUNJA#it just hurts so much.#we're also including Hana's storyline?? I'm shocked that we did I thought we'd cut that one out#also why is this white guy here with solomon. smh you can really tell this was picked up by western media to adapt when they#romanticize america#sksjsjdb there is so much stress on Solomon's accent and that whole speech hansu said about America??? never in the book#I swear if they try to do something with Solomon working in America#THATS NOT THE POINT THE POINT IS THE STRUGGLE IN IDENTITY IN BEING ETHNICALLY KOREAN NOT ALLOWED TO BE CULTURALLY JAPANESE WANTING TO BELONG#also didn't like that it was shown that mozasu tampered with the machines cause in the book it was SO stressed that he was an honest#pachinko businessman
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What I wouldn't give to have a romance like the ones we write before we sleep, as we just barely pull ourselves into waking, while we walk through a thunderstorm alone for just the joy and thrill of it, when we grocery shop with a list written on a scrap of paper found in your desk, while our minds are filled with the gentle haze of comfort and safety.
What I wouldn't give for a romance like that...
#cof talks#i'm back baybee#and I've been going through ut with media consumption!!#dimension 20 is still my lord and saviour#lou wilson zac oyama aabria iyengar my loves#but also we've read if we were villains five times and we're writing an unoffixial sequel that happens 25-30 years (i think) after the book#thise kids are doing great the narrative is treating them okay not great but okay (elaine and elliot our shining twins with such talent)#and also i've taken to coping with having a single idea about a narrative as the indication i need ti write another fic so i've Several more#Cari Dolly and my seven Elaines are all doing wonderfully and have healthy relationships (mothers and daughters and daughters and mothers)#but we're back and my weekly poetics about math and food are going here!#also we'll probably change the tag to pdf.talks because that's where most of my visible socials are pivoting to (url stays mine)
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2024 Reading Log
The Secret History by Donna Tartt : 1/4 - 1/6
Venus in Fur (play) by David Ives : 1/27
#ren's reading#reading log#bookblr#here we fucking go guys#im super stoked for this one#hoping for 25 books this year#will I do it? who even knows#if I keep reading as voraciously as I have been in the latter part of this year I think we might even exceed our goal#but probably not haha#also hoping to read at least one Shakespeare play via my own volition#technically I listened to 2 acts of Midsummer Night's Dream but idk if I'm gonna finish it or not#I don't have long until my semester starts and I wanna finish Secret history first
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thinking about it as i re-read the original sins volume, and i know i say constantine enjoys pissing people off, but really it's more like? not letting people get away with the small shit? the snide side-comments, the sideways looks, the baldfaced assumptions, the microaggressions — he likes to rub people's nose in their own shit, make them face it, own it, try to defend it. which, as an openly queer, working class, actively anti-racist man in the 80s, does end up causing a lot of fights.
#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS.#he still loves pissing people off but the part that mostly Does piss people off is the confrontation. the lack of patience for bullshit#like something i forget a lot about the comics until i come up against it is the amount of homophobia john faces??#i never really think of him as being super visibly queer but he gets called slurs Quite a few fucking times#and part of that is that he's unconventional & an old punk rocker & a dandy & stopped performing toxic masculinity a loooong time ago#but he also just. does not seem afraid of being Perceived. and when he is he doubles down and owns it#like that panel in i think 'books of magic' where someone tells him gin & tonic is a queer's drink & he goes 'pay u $25 to suck my dick ;)'#his magic is all about misdirection but he's only so good at it bc at heart he is a person who will always look you dead in the eye#all your internalized garbage and nasty assumptions? he sees it. he meets it head-on. he might care but he won't seem like it#he's too old to internalize that kind of nonsense. fix your hearts cowards#this is also why he's such a good manipulator: you're the one making it clear what you want. he just has to pretend to give it#anyway. i love him your honor#( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE.#homophobia cw#just in case
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I was already on a hair trigger today trying not to snap at a mutual for reblogging a "fuck authors who use Amazon" post, but, like, this shit is why some authors can only afford to use Amazon.
They don't have the $75+ to distribute through Ingram Spark. They don't have the $25 it takes to change your files if you need to update them after they've been accepted. They can't afford to take the cost of printing hit to their sales. They can't afford to lose an additional 40% of their income to retailer discounts.
And just so we're clear, Ingram isn't a vanity publisher. They're one of the largest print monopolies in the world. They're used by most mainstream traditional publishers and indie and self-pub authors alike. Amazon uses them when their print demand is too high.
My friend, whose work is published by Gollancz, is printed through Ingram, the same as mine. The difference is their publisher takes the hit for them. In theory. We won't get into dwindling advances here or how publishers are increasingly putting the onus of marketing and sales onto their authors or the fact that their editors can't afford rent or food while the executives get richer and richer.
So what do you do when the mainstream doesn't want you? What do you do when you're told if you can't keep up with the rat race, that you don't deserve to have your work published? What do you do if all you have is the ability to tell stories for a living, and no one wants you?
Well, you could die of starvation. I'm sure there are several people on here who'd be happy if that happened to me. (I know. Because they tell me. Often.) Or, you can shake hands with the devil, knowing it's a bum deal, knowing everything is fucked, but also knowing that every other aspect of this fucking industry is just as fucking bad.
There's no escape. It's relentless.
And you've got people out there posting things like, "Actually, I think authors who charge for their books are part of the problem."
And yeah, in an ideal world, I'd be making art for art's sake.
But we're not in that world. We're in the bad place, and you're actively making it worse. You're encouraging people to steal from people who are struggling just like you and calling it activism against billionaires or putting them in the same moral category as said billionaires as though we're not trapped in this system, same as you. Some of you are fellow fucking authors. And, like, my mind boggles at what it would take to stab a fellow creative in the back like that, but here we are.
Hell world.
#long post#vent post#publishing#author stuff I get#anyone clowning on this post gets put in the wood chipper
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