Open For Registration: What To Do If You F%#! Up webinar

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer of fiction will, in the course of their career, f%#! screw up. Authors worry that screwing up could negatively impact their career for years, or even forever. For some, that fear is paralyzing, keeping them from engaging in community or with their readers or with learning opportunities.

A truth not universally acknowledged is that authors can recover from a screw up, even a highly public one*. In this webinar, authors Nisi Shawl and @ktempestbradford will break down what authors should not do and advise on what they should do, instead.

When: March 3, 2024, 11AM – 2PM Pacific Join us live or get the recording after! Price: $40 - $50 or Whatever You Can Afford

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*Assuming your screw up wasn't malicious. Like, say, making fake Goodreads accounts to 1 star authors you're pre-emptively jealous of and then pretending it was a "friend" who did it and then making a eyeroll-worthy nonpology....

this pic is so funny, Soldier Boy looks like he caught them making out, and they're trying very hard to act sorry but they're way too proud of themselves for the quick blowjob behind the tree that they can't quite get it right.

Got reminded of something that happened this year so here's your friendly reminder that just because you're mutuals with someone, you aren't obligated to give them the benefit of the doubt.

If a mutual is doing some sketchy shit, you can always block them and move on.

Guys please don't be rude to people you don't know. If you see me riffing on someone there's a high chance it's because I'm friends with that person. The same thing does not apply to you. You being brash will not be taken well by them because they don't know you :<

my office is hiring a bunch of new people and a lot of them are Russians who recently came into the country to avoid getting drafted to Ukraine. Anyway the guy who's showing them around (also Russian) doesn't bother keeping his voice down and I heard him say "a lot of the employees here are locals unfortunately but it's tolerable"

@kisumshi replied to your post “Anonymous said: Kazutora, do you smash or pass...”:

You can win your own arcade prizes from now on!!!!

" . . . " Kazutora blinks in silence for a moment. " I didn't realize you were interested in me like that, Draken. " Well that's something new to process, and clearly Kazutora's contemplating it by the thoughtful expression. " And I haven't asked you since I've been out of juvie anyways ! " He sticks his tongue out in response, because that's the mature thing to do.

rule of thumb

if your dragon lady has a dragon face- No Dragon Titties

if your dragon lady has a human face- Y e s  Dragon Titties(but u better make them good or i’ll hunt you for sport)

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.

they should invent a new type of "staying in bed for 2-3 hours after you wake up repeatedly opening and closing apps on your phone" where it makes you feel awesome and energized and emotionally fulfilled

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

The math just adds up!

today on the train home the guy next to me was on his phone and at one point i saw him go on tumblr and he just had like. a normie dash. like it was all photography. of nature and architecture. he was using tumblr the way a heterosexual landscaper for rich people might use instagram. i actually had to watch his screen for a few seconds to be sure it really was tumblr because i was so taken aback by the content he was viewing. this is why algorithmless websites are so beautiful btw because i genuinely didn't know that this side of tumblr even existed. he didn't even so much as scroll past any text posts.

EDIT: look i'm not going to turn off reblogs but i cannot stress enough that THIS WASN'T A HIPSTER BLOG DASH IT WASN'T AN AESTHETIC BLOG DASH IT WAS THE MOST WILDLY GENERIC COLLECTION OF IMAGES YOU HAVE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE. I AM NOT EXAGGERATING OR BEING A QUIRKY FANDOM TUMBLRINA WHEN I SAY "NORMIE" I GENUINELY MEAN "SO NORMAL THAT IT CIRCLES AROUND TO WEIRD". CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME? HELLO?

I gotta say, one of the greatest achievements of my 20s was that I learned (mostly) to differentiate between:

"I truly do not want to go" and

"I'm just feeling the Demand Avoidance, and I will like it once I get there."