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ebookporn · 10 months

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Elegy for the Publishing Industry

Recent wave of editorial layoffs reminds us that the book world we loved is gone

by Rebecca Kurson

A decade ago, Penguin and Random House merged in a blockbuster deal. In December 2022, the courts blocked that megamouth behemoth from swallowing up Simon & Schuster. A federal judge finally noticed that publishing houses had become essentially a turducken, which creates a stranglehold for authors, agents, competition, and readers. The continued contraction of publishing houses ensures fewer real editors. There are even fewer of the glorious old guard this week, as a recent round of layoffs at Penguin Random House specifically targeted employees older than 60. Reports indicate that buyouts are coming as well at HarperCollins and Hachette. The blood-letting in publishing continues.

The editors who are leaving represent decades of experience, thousands of pages of margin notes, and millions of books sold. Remember when you fell in love with Joan Didion’s Slouching Toward Bethlehem? How about all the gelato you sampled while devouring Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love? Hope you have a good memory, because the editors responsible for signing and shaping those books are gone.

Worse than losing the institutional memory in publishing is what it means for writers and ultimately readers. Before publishing was corporate, publishing houses allowed editors to take chances on authors who might not be bestsellers. When Cormac McCarthy died in June, Dan Sinykin eulogized both him and the glory days of boutique publishing. Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that McCarthy’s career would be impossible today: “true that most writers of McCarthy’s generation, & younger, were supported by editors & publishers through early careers of modest sales, careers-in-the-making that probably could not be replicated today.” Yeah, her editor just took the retirement package too.

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onekisstotakewithme · 1 year

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"this is me trying" (taylor swift) // "Institutional Memory" (7x22)

#cj cregg #danny concannon #cj x danny #the west wing #tww #creggcannon #cj/danny #web weave #institutional memory #taylor swift

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in-sightpublishing · 3 months

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The Greenhorn Chronicles 57: Lynne Denison Foster on Recognition & Repetition (4)

Publisher: In-Sight Publishing Publisher Founding: March 1, 2014 Web Domain: http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Location: Fort Langley, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada Journal: In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal Journal Founding: August 2, 2012 Frequency: Three (3) Times Per Year Review Status: Non-Peer-Reviewed Access: Electronic/Digital & Open…

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alwaysbewoke · 3 months

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On March 5th, 1959, 69 African American boys, ages 13 to 17, were padlocked in their dormitory for the night at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville. Around 4 a.m., a fire mysteriously ignited, forcing the boys to fight and claw their way out of the burning building. The old, run-down, & low-funded facility, just 15 minutes south of Little Rock, housed 69 teens from ages 13-17. Most were either homeless or incarcerated for petty crimes such as doing pranks. 48 boys managed to escape the fire. The doors were locked from the outside and fire mysteriously ignited on a cold, wet morning, following earlier thunderstorms in the same area of rural Pulaski County. The horrific event brought attention to the deplorable conditions in which the boys lived. The boys all slept in a space barely big enough for them to move around & theyre one foot apart from one another & their bathroom was a bucket at the corner where they had to defecate in. In an ironic twist, the land in which the school stood is now the Arkansas Department of Correction Facility Wrightsville Unit. In 2019 a plaque was finally placed after 60 years.

PURE EVIL!!! MY GOD!!

#white racial hatred #white people are evil #racism #civil rights #history #black history #historical injustice #institutional neglect #fire tragedy #juvenile justice #systemic racism #correctional facilities #commemoration #memorialization #social reform

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garadinervi · 3 months

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Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Forgotten Game), (box construction), ca. 1949 [The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / ARS, New York]

#art #assemblage #box #structure #geometry #mixed media #joseph cornell #the art institute of chicago #lindy and edwin bergman joseph cornell collection #the joseph and robert cornell memorial foundation #1940s

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bumblingbabooshka · 4 days

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Archery Science Professor at the Vulcan Institute of Defensive Arts [Patreon | Commissions]

#someone in the tags of a post [I can't remember which or I'd have put it in the caption]#said Tuvok is like those male english/history teachers that you're convinced are gay until they drop the fact that they have a wife and kid #that's all I was thinking as I drew this HEHEHE #Professor Tuvok/Young Dad can have longer hair as a treat #his hair does not grow downward - he's using products clips and accessories #bea art tag #happy Tuvok Tuesday <3 #Tuvok #st voy #st voyager #star trek voyager #apparently (memory beta) the institute is located in Xen'tal which is on the outskirts of Gol #and the institute is really more for ceremonial practice and honing discipline since Vulcans have cast away violence & most of what's taugh #doesn't do much good if your enemy has - say - a phaser #but anyway all this to say it's a very small one-horse type of town with nothing much to do and I think that makes a lot of sense for Tuvok #imagine you're Sek and you grow up in Xen'tal and then one day your dad's like guys we're going to space #It's fun to imagine Tuvok's oldest thinking of him primarily as a professor while his youngest thinks of him primarily as Starfleet #Tuvok's kids bored out of their mind trying to think of something to do while wandering around town <3 #Good image!!#It's fun to think of your favorite characters' pre-canon lives!#I like how even though Tuvok decided to raise a family rather than work in the temple he still has monk tendencies #he's so ascetic <3

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stoat-party · 2 months

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Hey, all. It’s your friendly neighborhood synth biology expert,* here to remind you of the horrifying reality that Gen 3 synths can canonically glitch out.

*this user is not a biology expert, synth or otherwise

Update: The primary drive message is confirmed in dialogue to be about early-Gen synths. Which means that A#-## designations do apply to them, meaning J2-84 could have also been a robo-synth.

#not impossible that j2 was just sneaking out on some clandestine activity #and covering with the time-honored ‘oh i’m just cleaning the boardroom sir:)” maneuver #idk how to square this with the fact that they’re identical to humans in nearly every way #i imagine the component just feeds them with memories and basic knowledge that humans develop as children #which would include speech patterns/language/coordination/sense of direction #also important to remember that human brains glitch too (especially under great stress)#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #the institute #now what the heck is a primary drive #also teaching a courser mandarin is a real ‘why does c3p0 know the ancient Sith language’ situation

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memepipboy · 1 year

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#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #fo4 comic #fallout 4 comic #dependent #kellar curtis #nick valentine #kellogg #conrad kellogg #the institute #dr amari #sole survivor #sosu #fallout oc #the memory den #good neighbor

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softer-ua · 1 year

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Bakugo can posture his blasé delinquent front all he likes but we ain’t seen him put his feet on his desk since Iida called him out for it

#sure it could be the repeated humblings he got that same week #or it could be that it’s the first time he was yelled at for it by someone other than his mom #and that he actually got an explanation beyond ‘because it’s rude and it’s rude just because I said so’#respecting the property of an institution he admires and respecting the memories of those who came before him aka All Might #probably made sense to him #because he’s a nerd #a nerd who respected the establishment (gross)#after the war he leaves burn marks on everything because fuck em’

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mtkanna · 6 months

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once again i am thinking about the fact that jakob only uses rene's name on the eve of his return, and narzissenkreuz only goes by rene because that's how mary-ann recognises him, and narzissenkreuz never once mentions jakob by name... how at the start of the quests it's mary-ann whose absence is most keenly felt, but by the end it is alain who seems to have shaped the world the most, and yet we never get to see (excluding neuvillette's cutscene, of course.) is it guillotin's world in that alain was the one whose ideals best shaped it, or guillotin's world in that everything comes back to mary-ann at the end?

#genshin impact #tower of daffodils #ann is mary-ann. 'mary-ann' is mary-ann. sandrone is mary-ann #if you are feeling adventurous. then even furina de fontaine is a kind of mary-ann #we see her everywhere #her absence is felt in the clockwork meka and in the shape of the fontaine research institute #even as far as the opera house at erinnyes... and the depths of elynas too #and it is her presence and her memory which makes annapausis into annapausis #the princess locks herself in her tower. though others may try and convince her she is the only one who can open the door

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archersartcorner · 11 months

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Rewatching ASO (againnnnnn) and made some date observations… I love concrete dates!!! I love knowing time frames!!!!

#my art #described #a starstruck odyssey #dimension 20 #norman takamori #skip takamori #the details for Norman was when Skip asked Gnosis about him for the first time and Gnosis honed in on the surgical institute and said-#-Norman was operated on in 198. then the Skip details were from him thinking back on his own memories to try and determine if there were-#-other slugs with him or it was just him. can’t remember the specific episodes but those were the scenes.#oh the second part of Norman’s details were from Riva and Skip mind probing in fantanimaland. ‘vacation’ then served a few more cycles and-#-was discharged. not much specifics other than ‘a few cycles.’

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ichayalovesyou · 1 year

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Learning Modern Golic Vulcan (Vulkansu)

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Primary Resources

Kir'Shara: Vulcan Language Page

Offers a Wayback Machine link to the Vulcan Language Dictionary and the basics of Vulcan word, tense, and grammatical structure.

*Vulcan Language Dictionary

Not the same as the VLD provided by Kir'Shara's Wayback Machine, rudimentary search engine to quickly find Vulkansu translations to english words and storehouses specific Vulcan cultural references that cannot be translated into an English word.

Vulcan Language Institute

A website in development by @yel-halansu among other contributors to composite a very large index of Vulcan languages (including dialects), words, and Vulcan stories in both English & Vulkansu.

The Vulcan Language PDF

A somewhat outdated but still useful Vulkansu dictionary, primarily helpful for the language lessons in the latter half.

Kor'saya: Vulkansu Script

Lore on the development of the ancient script, there are other fonts like “handwriting” and “Dzhaleyl” but AGV (Ancient Golic Vulcan) is the one which contains the letter-by-letter breakdown.

Vulcan Alphabet Song

A rudimentary children's song "ghost written" by Amanda Grayson on the absolute basics of the Vulcan alphabet from consonants, to vowels, punctuation, self-identification, to digits. (Hopefully I will be able to put it to music soon instead of just lyrics!)

Names

City Names

Monastery Names

Name Prefixes & Suffixes

Translations for the apostrophes and hyphens in Vulcan names.

Vulcan Name Repository

A glossary of Vulcan names and their meanings. Explanations for types of names in Vulcan culture:

Place of Origin ~ Ancestry ~ te-Vikram (the Deep Desert Tribe) ~ Childhood Names ~ Personality ~ Occupation ~ Survival ~ Mysticism

Anecdotes & Ancillary Material

Vulcan Alphabet Song

A rudimentary children's song "ghost written" by Amanda Grayson on the absolute basics of the Vulcan alphabet from consonants, to vowels, punctuation, self-identification, to digits. (Hopefully I will be able to put it to music soon instead of just lyrics!)

Vulcan Flashcards

Beautifully designed flashcards for the Vulkansu alphabet from A through T in the phonetic alphabet.

The Vulcan Accent

What does a Vulcan accent sound like in Federation Standard? Question posited by @sporkandpringles, answer provided by @nuclear-wessels!

The Origin of "Fool"

Anecdote provided by @porthos-stew and lore provided by @yel-halansu

Vulcan Colloquialisms

Though logical only in specific contexts, @makeallthingsyours has accrued a handful of common Vulcan expressions and translated them into Federation Standard

Click Here to Return to the Vulcan Masterpost (Coming Soon!)

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nineyellowgirl · 1 month

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Meadowville, Green Hills University, Institute of History / hallways and classrooms

#i built it back in 2019-20... ah memories #the institute of history *i* studied at was far from this pretty #but it was a fun exercise in wishful thinking lol!#meadowville #ts2 #lots #green hills university

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mvshortcut · 11 months

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hey. hey uh. just wondering what happened to all the children Curtain barged and brainswept. I'm assuming he didn't have a child services worker politely waiting at the dock for them. uh. where did they go.

#the mysterious benedict society #tmbs #ld curtain #sometimes in the Big Things that Curtain's done stuff like this gets overlooked #did the kids get dropped off at the orphanage? would he really waste the time? raise suspicion about where all these kids are coming from?#assuming one student gets barged a week from the leaderboard every Thursday. in all the years the Institute's been running.#that's a lot of kids.#did the kids just get left on the docks. left to wander around Stonetown with no memories and nowhere to go #also. the fact that unlike the books. not all/most of the kids at LIVE were orphans #Martina had parents #now granted the Whisperer's messages 'the missing aren't missing' probably discouraged them from looking for their kid #but like. did the parents ever wonder. after months of not hearing from their kid.#did they go into town one day for some shopping only for their child to stumble out of an alleyway #dirty and alone and scared and with a completely blank expression #and doesn't even blink twice at their own parents? not even a spark of recognition?#thinking about when the Emergency lifted and the Whisperer's messages stopped.#how many parents suddenly remembered their children have been missing #how many parents rushed to the Institute only to find out their child disappeared years ago?#'what happened to them?'not sure. only they never say goodbye to any of their friends before they leave #like they don't even recognize them at all.#how many parents kept searching. kept following that thread. found their child in an orphanage with no memory of how they'd gotten there #anyways. food for thought!

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thefiresontheheight · 1 year

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One thing I do genuinely find comforting is that assuming we don’t do some silly things with nukes when the last humans are alive and civilization as we know it has entirely collapsed and the world moved on, I think people will still be doing fun and sexy things with their genders.

#and the Catholic Church and every other shit fuck institution that tried to stop us #will be dust #and not one memory of them will remain

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garadinervi · 3 months

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Joseph Cornell, Ann-In Memory, (box construction), 1954 [The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / ARS, New York]

#art #assemblage #box #structure #collage #mixed media #joseph cornell #the art institute of chicago #lindy and edwin bergman joseph cornell collection #the joseph and robert cornell memorial foundation #1950s

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