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I want to know your LU headcanons!
ohHO i will absolutely tell you tysm for asking!! i’ve been wanting to talk abt them for ages but just never got around to it ig ahjdkcka
Time’s actually like 32 and is just really committed to the bit of being ancient
Sky is horrific at making new friends. he grew up with the same small group of people, so he never learned how to make friends with complete strangers because there simply wasn’t the need to. so, when he first starts traveling with the chain, he makes little wooden charms for them because he isn’t entirely sure how else to get close with them. Zelda always enjoyed his woodcarvings, so maybe they will too??
as a result, the entire chain has little trinkets made by Sky. on Legend’s bag there’s charms hanging off the straps, and Twilight wears his as necklaces (both because it looks cool as fuck and it helps the shadow crystal stand out less). yes Wind has specifically commissioned him to make something for Aryll
yeah yeah bunny Legend but consider: the mermaid suit (which I like to think is more of a curse bc get fished pink man <3) giving him some marine animal qualities as well. no matter what tho that bitch is an Ariel kinnie, they’re collecting all the shiny shit they can find
Sky is obsessed with doing puzzles the Right and Proper way, meanwhile Wild cheeses absolutely everything he can
Wind believes in all of those classic pirate superstitions
the witches in Legend’s era adore him. Grandma Syrup dotes on him, Maple is like a teasing older sister, and Irene is like a teasing younger sister. this is where he learned most of his magic skills from, and he takes all potentially enchanted or cursed items to them to check out. he’ll never admit it, but Legend finds lots of comfort in all of them, as they’re one of the few people who’ve stayed in his life this long.
Wild’s a pretty good medic!! during his adventure, he very quickly realized how dangerous infection is, so they learned about a lot of home remedies and medicinal herbs, as well as how to tend to a wound from other travelers at stables and inns. he didn’t really get a choice in learning, considering how he probably got stung or bit by painful insects or accidentally brushed up against painful plants a lot during the early days of their adventure, and thus showed up to stables covered in rashes and hives and such, causing every decent person in the area to flock to them and try to help. their Hyrule is very sweet, okay?
they’re not the only one who’s well acquainted with medicinal herbs, though! while I think all of them would have a basic understanding, Time, Hyrule, Warriors, and Wind would know a lot. dw i’m elaborating
Time quite literally grew up in the forest, was raised by a tree, and had actual forest spirits for siblings—he knows his plants. he and Saria would peel willow bark and collect dandelions together
I like to think that Hyrule being half-fae makes him very sensitive to all magic-based auras, including that of plants, so they’re very good at picking out the healing herbs, even if they’re not quite sure what they’re called
listen ok hear me out about Warriors. young Time was appalled that he knew jackshit about nature and forcefully taught him. also, before modern medicine, medicinal plants were used all the fucking time on the battle field. yarrow, an herb that stops bleeding and prevents infection, is called soldiers’ woundwort because of this. i mention this because he was probably concerned about the health and safety of his troops, so he learned what the medics were doing and using.
Wind grew up on a small, tight-knit island, realistically they would’ve had to have learned how to use the things around them to their fullest advantage. that being said, his knowledge is sort of useless outside of his own era, aside from what he was taught in the war. ok i’m done talking about medicinal herbs now i promise sorry it’s a hobby of mine ahhsjdka
Legend’s terrified of dogs. in Link’s Awakening, the dogs are literally balls on chains with huge mouths full of sharp teeth (basically just Chain Chomps). if you want to get angsty with it: it comes from guard dogs being sent after him on his first adventure. he became a lot less scared to more he spent time with BowBow (the ball and chain dog) but, when he woke up, he got the belief that he could only be safe around a dog in his dreams. he’s pretty damn uncomfortable around Wolfie at first, but after lots of time and learning to trust Twilight, he’s able to slowly overcome his fear. sort of. mostly just with Wolfie. he still hates staying at stables in Wild’s Hyrule.
if Wild doesn’t want to explain/source something he’ll just say it came to him via divine intervention. Sky believes it every single time
I was thinking about Legend’s story a while ago and realized it was kind of similar to Joan of Arc’s so take that as you will. idk if this even counts as a headcanon but i’m putting it here
Warriors and Twilight are really close friends because they both understand the struggles of wrangling dirt worshipping nature freaks. anytime Twilight (lovingly) complains about Wild, Wars will counter with whatever asinine feral child antics young Time got up to and suddenly Twi will feel very blessed and lucky
whenever Four sees someone with their hair in a high ponytail he subconsciously thinks they’re very smart and respectable because Dot always wears her hair in a high ponytail
Hyrule is completely fine with not sleeping on a bedroll. they like the dirt, actually. let them sleep in the dirt.
Legend uses apples in his red potions, both to increase their potency and to make them taste better. he also learned how to enchant apples to be healing on their own so sometimes when someone’s hurt he’ll just shove an apple in their face
uhh so ik this is a lot but this isn’t even close to of all my headcanons so yeah there’s that lmao
#i saved y’all from my angstier headcanons btw. and also my magic system headcanons. be grateful /lh#i also restricted myself from telling y’all the queer headcanons bc there’s so many ppl posting theirs rn that i don’t rlly feel the need to#i have so many thoughts abt these guys it’s almost humiliating#linked universe#lu#linkeduniverse#lu headcanons#linked universe headcanons#sorry for any typos or if things are worded weirdly i ran out of my adhd meds and also lost my glasses so#i’m trying my best ok#ALSO AGAIN TY STORMY FOR ASKING <333#i do rlly appreciate it tyyy <3
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Going from dead/non-updating media to technically-updating-but-games-take-years-to-make media to qsmp is wild. From nothing to “the link is still missing where is missing link<-(it’s been a year)” to “do you remember,,,, QSMP,,,, it’s been decades<-(it has been five days. It is coming back in another five days. You people are fascinating(pos))”
#the link that is missing is kingdom hearts missing link btw. where is she#I am saying all of this affectionately y’all were being fed daily for ages it makes sense you’d miss it even for a bit#the dramatics is just very funny. we have fun here，if this was any other media you people would have starved/j#shout out to qsmp for being that good that people freak out when it’s gone for a few days#just all the fandoms I’ve been in before have been for wildly different types of media. the closest would have been hlvrai and#I got into that after it ended. seeing how fandom works for such an active story with so many different perspectives to watch from and#so many languages all at the same time is so interesting to me. hearing about things happening second hand from people live as they are#happening is wild. the interesting new lore happenings and the mundane yet entertaining chaos of non-lore days#the clips in languages I don’t speak being lovingly translated by people who are excited to share their sides of this story#how this is one story but it is also a thousand other stories each just as interesting and the fact that you people will tell us about#the bits that you focus on that we might have missed in a way that can spark our own interest and just#I love this thing I love it it’s great#this turned into me just talking about how cool qsmp is and the pocket of fans I follow huh. no regrets#blue babbles
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I wish the f/f shipping crowd would realize lots of people are motivated by engagement so if you just ENGAGE with the f/f content that IS available then you’ll naturally bring more people interested in sharing and creating.
#like pls I understand wanting content you didn’t make!!!!#at the same time literally just scrolling the TL I’ll see Fanart for an f/f ship with lots of likes and retweets#but like 2 replies#and ZERO QUOTES#like??? fuckers??? TALK TO THE CREATORS!!! TELL THEM WHAT YOU LOVED!!!!!#MAKE THEM FEEL INCLUDED AND NOT LIKE A MACHINE CHURNING OUT MATERIAL#AND THEN PEOPLE WILL WANT TO STAY/JOIN#speaking as your local woman leaning bisexual#also a LOT of women just like m/m purely because it’s so easy to not project into the characters#I know I was one of those people#when I wasn’t comfortable in my sexuality#so I also think just this convo isn’t fair in that regard#cuz people have all kinds of reasons for their preferences#and it’s fucking fiction#of all the things to do some soul searching over#your fictional preferences is pretty low on that ladder#especially since none yall discuss why so many of y’all are anti masc women
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Okay OP nation I have some (maybe controversial) statements about the Straw Hats and I need y’all to listEN FIRST OKAY- HEAR ME OUT
Boyfriend: Zoro and Franky
Husband: Usopp and Sanji
Girlfriend: Nami
Wife: Robin
Luffy: Aroace king
#DO YOU SEE THE VISION ????#like I am a Certified Zoro Girlie but thats not a husband... he has Boyfriend written all over him#I cant call him husband in my head - ‘oh that’s my Husband Zoro’ - ew no - 'thats my BOYFRIEND Zoro' - yes !#Franky is just cool and sensitive like that -> the boyfren to defeat all boyfrends -> i'd fall hard and fast -> like embarrassingly so#SANJI OH MY GOD !!! THE FIRST MAN WHO DARED TO MALEWIFE#and of course anime he has a couple red flags but I always put those on ‘annoying anime trope’ rather than accepting thats a part of him (C#(OPLA IS HERE TO PROVE THAT) shit like in canon they kinda set him up as this totally uncool Wannabe Casanova (which he is !!)#but he’s also just effortlessly charming ???? me at 7 y/o watching his intro for the very first time ??? a goner !!! -> me at 20 yo watchin#GOD !! USOPP !! THE MAN ! THE KING ! THE LEGEND -> I have ALWAYS been an Usopp girlie -> cause im always right and i love to win#y’all gonna give a pathetic cowardly little man with huge dreams and an even bigger heart who ALWAYS stands up for whats right#DESPITE BEING SCARED ???? I’m in the chapel baby lets do this 👰🏻 -> also his tiddies are always out ??? DUNGAREES WITH NO SHIRT !! WHATS NO#risking his life fighting an incredibly powerful and scary pirate for an entire village who didn’t treat him fairly and DIDNT BELIEVE HIM#him going to a place he was Not Welcomed and constantly mistreated at only to tell a DYING girl incredibly fun stories and keep her company#cause he saw his mom go through the same thing as a kid ? -> i love him yall 🥺#NAMI !!! thats Girlfriend with a capital G -> shes pretty greedy and a little bit (very) mean -> i love her sm i want her to rule my life#RO !! BIN !! the crush I have on that woman is honestly embarrassing -> she is THE wife -> do not be mistaken#i dont really see Luffy wanting a romantic relationship but that’s not gonna stop me from reading fanfic about him ; p#i had to edit this and glue some tags together so they'd all fit -> thats why theres so many arrows -> I have Thoughts okay -> let me live#one piece#opla#one piece live action#straw hats
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if these people on tiktok don’t start putting spoiler warnings when they talk about fanfiction i might actually lose my mind
#i have had so many things spoiled for me in the fic im reading rn#it’s genuinely so annoying#the last spoiler i got#they didn’t even tell u it was tcopt until the tags#like y’all i stg#it’s not that fucking hard to put a spoiler warning#like im SO TIRED of getting things spoiled for me#and i can’t even block tags#i hate spoilers
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discord servers love having a thousand channels both vague enough to be incredibly confusing in what you’re allowed to post where and hyper-specific enough that you’ll get yelled at for posting the “wrong” thing in place where any reasonable person would think it belongs
#i do not understand why so many servers are so rigidly structured. this is needlessly difficult to moderate#and if the amount of people “accidentally” posting the same similar kind of wrong stuff in specific channels is any indication#is clearly confusing and ill-designed for any regular members.#i wish i could reorganize so many servers y’all NEED to cut down on and combine at least half the channels#rewrite the channel description and also my god you do not need twenty pages of rules#nobody i mean Nobody is reading all that and that is 100% why people are consistently baffled and confused when you tell them they’re#violating a much more niche rule. because nobody is remembering every single facet of that wall of text#brother i don’t think YOU are either.#this bugs me so much. i’m not a neurotic control freak (<— liar) i’m just a regular guy who knows that this is#obviously inefficient poorly-designed and difficult to actually follow even when people are trying to act in good faith#and abide by the server rules and structure. this is to say nothing of anyone that wants to be malicious about it#because it being this confusing and ill-constructed means there’s a lot of opportunity for abuse and things to fly under mods’ radars#like you have to have a huge staff to be able to moderate all these channels and remember actually harmful rule violations#it’s completely infeasible unless you have a Massive admin structure and lots of mods with lots of time and care#rant over i am simply annoyed at any server i enter that’s like this and is only a few hundred members large at most.
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i would die for lae’zel. that is all.
#ooc. o kaptain.#[I have been awake since five and running errands since like ten and I’m just sitting down to chill now. so it’s self care time. think I’ll#fuck with the gith file I made to romance laezel. might continue the Selina run where I’m somehow in hell (it’s so ic I can’t wait to tell#y’all about it I’ve accidentally recreates the back breaker). she’s committed accidental atrocities and she’s nowhere near act II. and they#ONLY worse. on a note: I love the fact that bg3 has encouraged y’all to be so much more oc friendly. and made it fashionable to have cool#oc’s!!! I saw some stupid shit about oc/canon negativity and like… get fucked dude let people enjoy boinking their Barbies together. kitty#is 100% an oc and if you think I’ve ever given a shit. she is canon!! the thing is it’s MY canon!!!!! and bg3 has given so many of you guys#the freedom and encouragement to explore oc’s as your main blogs and like. I’ve been writing kitty for so fucking long it makes me cry to#see this so encouraged now. it’s been a haaaaaaard fuckening time but I’m resilient. and honestly? being delightfully awarded by it. I’m#excited to give kitty a companion verse to write with y’all. excited to explore a lot of possibilities. just gotta get up the nerve.]
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on a tomgreg betrayal, i honestly don’t think it will actually happen. the chances of it genuinely happening seem very slim. i think there’s probably gonna be the possibility offered to one or both of them, one or both of them will get scared the other will actually go through with it (most likely, tom will be worried that greg will turn against him somehow) honestly? i just imagine a boar on the floor style situation where it’s tense and there’s a moment where you think one of them will betray the other, but they don’t. this later solidifies their relationship and could perhaps lead into the meaty stuff, i.e, the romantic side of things.
#if we get a parallel to boar on the floor but it’s greg not betraying tom?#i think i’d combust on the spot#ppl who actually think greg is gonna betray tom are very strange individuals#like people literally think greg is just using him and tom’s love is unrequited#are we even watching the same show????#if greg doesn’t love tom back then i’m a straight woman (impossibility)#how can you honestly believe that?#have you seen the way greg looks at him?#just because he’s not aware of it yet doesn’t mean he isn’t#idk ppl who genuinely think it’s unrequited are weird#tom would probably think it’s unrequited if he was aware (which im not sure if he is yet)#or he’d be afraid to do anything even if he doesn’t think it’s unrequited#but like in general it’s obvious tom is in love with greg and it’s semi hard to tell about greg#but literally don’t just take things at face value? there are so many signs it’s requited like???#y’all confuse the hell out of me#the love being requited makes the most sense#but that’s my opinion sure disagree with me if you wanna#i just don’t see a world where greg doesn’t return tom’s feelings that’s all#okay ramble over lol
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Hello lovely people
It’s me? Yes!
I know it’s been I don’t want to say a while but it’s been a hot second since I have posted myself and I will be explaining that in this post
In the super short version: gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia where really getting to me and it was really really weighing on my mental health to take photos of myself but now I’m feeling a bit better so I want to try and push myself to post things I don’t think of as ‘perfect’
Longer version: I was being sexually harassed.
Yeah that’s really blunt but it was what was happening thank god not here (all of you people are so polite to the little Italian boy who post here) but on ig I was being dm’d by random people getting horrible comments on my videos and it was really triggering because I have experience with CSA and so I was just becoming more then it was worth
And beyond that I had a full mental breakdown about a photo I had taken and that point i decided that my own mental health was more important then all of this so I took a break
But I have decided that it’s important to take photos of myself wether good or not for a rather cheesy reason
I want to document my transition it’s actually why I started my ig to keep a place for my art to see my progression and now I wish to use this tumblr for similar reasons I may hate myself now it may make me cringe to post me but 20 years from now ill look back and be able to see how far iv come so yeah that’s a long rant
I love y’all my tumblr followers and fans are so respectful, your reblogs are hilarious and very flustering at times and I appreciate it and I hope all of you never stop
So here’s the man the microwave enjoying some tea and chocolates :)
#transman#ftm#trans man#fashion#trans man fashion#I love this corset it’s the one thing I ever splurged on and I don’t regret it a bit#since I’m putting all my photo junk here now y’all are about to know of the alter ego that has gotten me quit popular irl and online#people of instagram you know it :)#I’m honestly excited to start posting photos again I have so many fits to wear!! cuz schools starting#also this outfit is to go see my boyfriend!!#MY BOYFRIEND I NEED TO TELL YOU ABOUT THEM!!#we have been dating for 6 years and we both forgot the date so we don’t celebrate a single anniversary#he loves this shirt on me but also he kinda just loves whatever I wear#he is adorable he’s 5 foot and loves hyper pop#I will make a whole post dedicated to him promise me that :)))
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Okay so this is gonna sound very unhinged
But the screenshot you posted of the doc for Omega Yamo had text
And I may have zoomed in and been able to decipher the words
And I’m obsessed with there being more than one Alpha in that scenario
And I think you’re a genius and I love your writing even though I probably wasn’t supposed to be able to read it
Again I’m sorry for being so insane but I couldn’t help it 🙃
SCREAMINGGGG anon i am in love with you. i appreciate the level of unhinged sooo much, the only thing you have to be sorry for is inflating my ego to an enormous size
howmstever!!! i may have tricked you!!! there are actually two omega yamo fics in the works 🤐🤫 they just happen to exist in the same document right now because ??? why not
#until one of them gets enough words to kick the other out they will coexist peacefully &i will hop between them sooo chaotic &unproductively#i keep typing things and then redacting them about the other omega yamo fic for literally no reason like. i’m telling you about it??#it’s not gonna be a surprise??? but for clarity’s sake they are not related to each other/in the same universe#and yes one of them does have multiple alphas 🤭#both fics are incredibly self-indulgent (and by extension incredibly For Y’all in my inbox) like it is just y’all 🤝 me 🤝 omega yamo#also to the other yamo/nuge anon please do not fret i see your message!! it is in my inbox!!! i just have been keeping it there#so that i can look at it because it makes me happy and also is very good motivation 🥺🥰😭#do i have a tag for omega yamo??? do i need a tag for omega yamo???? at this point probably yes#liv in the replies#i am being soooooo normal in this message and i feel like i should tell you that irl when i read this each paragraph was my jaw dropping#and then i sat there and 💕🥰🦋💗 <- shrieking for like. five minutes while trying to type. what an honor#the!!! highest!!! compliment!!!!#once again reiterating though i am so slow at writing 😭 however!! i am planning to wrap up with apps & coursework next week#& if i don’t pick up an insane amount of shifts in the four days between moves i want to write sooo much. in so many different documents 🫡#bro ALSO??? i just went to the screenshot to see what you could’ve read out from the ask and do you got eagle eyes or a magnifying glass or#how tf did you read that. what witchcraft did you work to make my blurry ass picture readable zoomed in &can i have it bc i’m using this now
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Sav clears out her camera roll: Sam pt. 11
#y’all I fr have like 50 of these in my drafts#I should start dating them so I can see how long they sit in there before I post them hehe#like I’m up to pt 36 with josh I think?? that’s a lot of pics. too many one might say.#gvf#anyway hello have some Sammy boy#he’s so cute in that first pic (and all of them) what a lovely guy#if you’re reading this please tell me something nice in my ask box bc I could use that#either something good that you learned or saw or that happened to you today or just something kind#I’d just like to hear some sweet things rn#even if you see this like 6 months after I posted it#greta van fleet#Sam kiszka#crco
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Mutuals based on the group I stans, what group should I stan next ? 🤔
#send an ask or comment please 🥺👉👈#mostly base on my ults cause I stan so many groups so I this point I’m sure y’all are like everything ???? BDKSBSJJSN#I have one in mind but I’m curious of what you all think#also I’m always scared of trying new things so you telling me what to do will help me bfkdbdj#leaving this rebloggable if people wanna transform this in a ask game fjbsjdjs#alex.txt#ok to reblog
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I so desperately wish that tumblr let you organize your side blogs and like change the order they’re in
#whimsy whispers#i wish my aesthetic blog was the third most blog to choose from but I’m p sure the third one is the blog themed around my dnd character#it would just be so nice to be able to quick reblog to my aes/insp blog if it were one of the first three#cause fast reblog suggests your first three unless you recently reblog to a diff blog and it’s like#please can I just switch the blogs around??? pls???#if one of y’all tell me this actually already js a feature but only on desktop idk I’ll scream but also be happy#so many times I go ‘I wish I could do x thing’ and one of y’all informs me that you can but only on desktop#i use mobile because I don’t have a computer#and sure I could login to tumblr on a browser (which I already do) but i am simply lazy and that’s too tedious for me
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I think we’re at a stalemate after that text which tbh is better than I tweet and then he tweets about being annoyed
#and me and Lucy chatted when she fronted :) I was wrong about her age it’s 13#for those not caught up she is said friend’s alter (one of many) and I think she’s the second youngest? I’m bad about forgetting their ages#I have work tomorrow so honestly I hope things are chill but then again work is now a good distraction#even if I have weird ass nightmares about it#it was so strange y’all like I was being held hostage to work there?? which doesn’t reflect how I feel about that place at all idk#anyway in happy news it’s me and my bf’s 2 months c:#he’s been busy setting up a Pokémon gym circuit hehe I’m learning more about competitive battling so I can be a challenger!!#there’s a gym leader for each type and then the elite four and a champion! he’s the ice gym leader c:#his team is really good hehe and I’m getting better! idk if I can beat his team for a while but I’ve gotten him down to 2 before so >:)#it’s very fun but he’s balancing that on top of college so I just hope he doesn’t get too stressed#he’s been having welding classes hehe I keep forgetting the exact name of his major but it’s a type of engineering I’m pretty sure#my memory is so weird man some things just never stick#anyway just wanted to give a last update of the day for those who are following this#I wonder if I’ll still be him and his bf’s friend in a weeks time lol#but yeah I sleep now thank you to everyone who has been sending their input it really means a lot#because it’s always hard for me to tell if I’m ever actually justified in my feelings ever since some real shitty ex friends#which this year will be six years free of them!!#hope everyone who sees this gets some great rest and has a great day/night
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boys be mad asl when i don’t giggle n tehe n show cute emotions like bitch my wounded inner child just got done drunk sniveling begging for daddy not to yell n hate her while her intoxicated narcissistic father screamed n gaslit her until she dissociated to euthymic plane 🙄🙄🙄
#‘trauma dumping’ eat my shorts loser assholss#so funny he said if my narcissistic sociopathic insane brother killed himself then it’s ‘goodbye to the rest of y’all too’#like ohhhhh so ur eldest daughter n youngest son don’t mean jack fuckjn shit to u right??? lmfao lolll#yeah just go rot with that selfish egotistic psycho while ur 15yr old son who lost his mom at 7yrs old#i want to strangle my fuckjgnf dad sometimes he’s so cruel n said so many mean things to me#he always has to defend my middle brother ‘he’s depressed what if he kms’ like???#my middle brother literally manipulates tf out of my dumbass emotionally unintelligent father he’s tearing this family apart#meanwhile i never planned on seeing 18 nor living past 22 n now i have to go exist n find a job when i never thought i’d have to do this sh#shit ever b. i was supposed to#be dead 4 years ago lololllll#god forbid i tell him that or my plan to kms at 27 lollll#so worried abt a fucking LOST SOCIOPATH SEFISH NARCISSITIC CAUSE ur gonna make me and my baby brother suffer?? as orphans ??#my dad n i used to get breakfast every sunday in middle school n talk abt life n drive around after n those days meant the world to me#i never realized how much i missed them. how much i looked forward to him saying he’d call me while i’m away at college#but my middle brother egosticizl fuck is like ‘lolyh i just nod n say what dad wants me to hear’ when my dad is trying so hard to save him f#my dad admitted to neglecting my lil bro lol it makes me so fkcing angry he doesn’t give af abt us#says ‘im worth more im the ground than i am alive’ n my inner teen bursts into tears bc she experienced that already#yeah moms life insurance money was so fun!! until it ran out bc of college n impulsive manic spending n the materialistic thrill never laste#i want to hate him but i can’t even deny i love him so much he hurts me and everyone i love and disappoints us all n we still care for him#he’s letting my brother fuckjgn kill him literlaly my dad is physically sick bc of my sociopath narcissistic bros drama#he blames me for not going to him n telling him abt my ‘’mental issues’ as if i didn’t have to grow up n become mom the day after my 16th#i am my mothers child he didn’t know anything abt our childhoods until she died and he had to step up n parent us himself#he doesn’t know what it means to be a parent he shouldn’t be a parent but oh fuckjgn well oh my god WE ARE YOUR KIDSMWE NEED YOU WH#WHY CANT YOU SHOW US YOU CARE WHEN WE ALL HAD TO LEARN ALL WE HAVE IS OURSELVES#i am so angry he tried to throw me under the bus abt not having a job as a new grad nurse instead of my brother for dropping out everything#ur son wants to drop his ap classes bc he procrastinated n doesn’t wNna do the work so now he’s manipulating u to let him quit#i am just not exiting the identity crisis coming to terms w the fact that i’m 22yrs old n alive n need to start living n working#tonight was a shitshow but the ending calmed down but i couldn’t stop crying sniveling whimpering when dad yelled#yelled n accused n attacked me n chose to defend my middle bro over me like..he’s trying to kill u n i freaked out bc stepmom said u cut#ramblings
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Tell me you haven’t worked in publishing without telling me…….
1. Cover artists aren’t all specifically commissioned for books. Unless there’s a specific art direction they will use assets from bigger companies cause art directors have to work with an excess of 30+ books PER SEASON. It’s highly likely (and confirmed by Tor) that they bought this asset from a vendor that they weren’t aware was using AI art. Does that excuse usage? No. But it’s also pretty normal that they can’t vet what amounts to literally thousands of assets. They have to trust vendors and sometimes it doesn’t pay off.
2. When an author “approves” a cover, they literally get the jpg and made comments on if they like it or not. That’s basically it. Then it gets sent to marketing and sales, who look at their clients like BN and Amazon and see what’s selling. Even if the author likes it, the sales dept might ask for changes and it’s a protracted fight that usually the sales dept wins—even with big authors. It’s not authors commissioning their own covers 🙄 usually they get several versions and they say yes to the one they like best. Paolini prob had no idea that the cover was not produced in-house.
3. Depending on how big a print run is, the components have to be made in advance. The bigger the print run the more time you need to print more—months ahead especially with the supply shortage in publishing at the moment. They also print ARCs ahead with the cover if it is done by that time to hand out to publications and other authors for quotes and reviews. It’s part of the marketing strategy for cover recognition (but neither here nor there for this point). It just means this cover is OUT. In the world. Likely the jackets have finished printing and they had to make the call to spend more to commission and reprint covers and create more waste—or to go with the first print run of this cover until it sells out and they have to do a second run. Print runs for big authors can run into the tens of thousands of books. As the OP pointed out—this is an author with 24 million books sold. The print run is Not Small.
4. All this leads to—often, publishing imprints don’t have individual budgets for their authors. Their pool comes out of a bigger budget for their authors, and allocated per book of the season depending on their P&L projections. This means they’ve already spent the money on Paolini’s books, and exceeding that by prob more than double given that rush jobs ALWAYS cost more leads to depriving their other smaller authors of their marketing share. Authors who would hurt a lot more than Paolini will if he doesn’t get a new cover.
Thus doesn’t mean that the use of AI art should be accepted as a cost saving measure—just that this fuck up got so far in the process it actively hurts more people than it helps to pull out in the middle of it. If Tor does it again, then yeah they don’t give a fuck about their artists. But them not doing it now is a careful calculation about how much they can give to other authors they also have responsibilities too. Paolini is also not someone who is exactly at fault here, just a lesson that he should ask more questions abt his cover in the future. Given that Eragon was self-published at first before it was picked up and commissioned with a specific artist, he prob doesn’t know all the details of in-house cover making.
#anyway I know no one cares abt this#but also the people working in pub are human too#they make mistakes and they have to look at things in larger contexts than just one book#if corporations had more leeway for profit and loss then yeah they could prob fix this#but telling your manager you cost the company what amounts to tens of thousands of dollars on a vendor fucking you over#will get you fired 🫠#publishing is not a nice industry to ANYONE but the top of corporate#publishing#my new tag for this ig. I have so many issues w trade given that I worked there#and still have many friends suffering shit conditions at that job#but god some of y’all treat them as inhuman
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