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Does anyone have recs for literary #editors? I need help with my #query letter and probably my novel overall.

No discussion of Hollywood is complete without discussing this revolting trend. The people who make what art are running out of places to work, and their slices of pie are being handed to useless, out of touch executives.

It's saying they're on the hook for whatever LLM they subscribed to and can't cancel it

I am so excited Letterboxd is offering it and I love Dark Sky so goodbye everyone I will go watch this like four times.

When I was like 8 this was playing at like 2 PM on a Saturday on UPN 38 and the scene where the cop is attacked came on and I was TRAUMATIZED for ages.

Remember, AI is the future and very useful and great. That's why it has to be crammed down people's throats endlessly and if you push back you'll be told "It's the future. Get over it."

Look I’m gonna be real here. The last handful of horror movies the nation has collectively popped their pants over have been shit. Rarely have I seen something worthy of the level of rabid praise it has received. With this in mind, I’m sure Obsession is firmly mid.

Am I gonna need to mute OBSESSION or are youse all gonna be normal about spoilers and remember some people have jobs 😇

these are concentration camps

Coffee shop. I worked in food service for more than a decade and do kind of miss it.

#r #hfic #Q #questpit THE HAWK: A Slow River Novel A sex worker with a troubled past and a lieutenant to the most notorious gang in the region fall for each other in the dying days of the west. Do they choose their found families or forge a new path together?

Somebody convince me to send out more queries today, I haven’t been rejected in a couple days.

So I’m starting to think that I was lied to about the Nazis and the Confederates in much the same way as I was lied to about the Magas, and part of that was purely malicious — I was told the story in a way to make these monsters seem more sympathetic. But there’s something else —

Babe. I’ve been writing the script. I have feelings. Red dead redemption. I have three books written.

As ever, two things are true: 1. Caitlyn Jenner is an awful person who does not give the slightest shit about other trans folks and will throw us all under the bus without a second thought 2. If you misgender her, you also don't give a shit about trans folks except as a club against Republicans

I have been looking forward to this movie since I saw the first announcement like more than a year ago. Hoping for a Boston screening!

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

This shit makes me feel like the joker!!! It doesn't work, it has demonstrably made everything worse, it is actively killing both people and our planet and yet we are constantly being told 'get used to it'!!!

This was so…fun maybe isn’t the right word, but it’s a really solid horror movie in the vein of respecting somebody else’s history or else.

My resolution for this year was to Get Somewhere with my writing, which has meant more queries that are more focused and subsequently way more emotionally taxing rejections.

Open letter to our Senators: Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow. We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.

BUT: #questpit anyway! #r #hfic #Q THE HAWK: A Slow River Novel A sex worker with a troubled past and a lieutenant to the most notorious gang in the region fall for each other in the dying days of the west. Do they choose their found families or forge a new path together?

Just learned about #questpit today! And it was two days ago. That’s not ideal. Welp save it for next time anyway.

This but it’s being a novelist.

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

A fun fact is I had one, ONE film school professor who taught us this, rather than the racist made up malarkey. We watched Oscar Mischaux instead of Griffith, and I was a big fan.

I forgot I had this thing but tbh this is as good as any other place to post that we’re moving back to the US. The ship is obviously going down but if I can sit in a lifeboat alone or swim back and maybe bail out a boat with my family on it, I know which I’m opting for.

We're doing a 'freedom to read' event and Harry Potter was on the list of suggested books to read, and I've been loudly advocating for people not to. Read a book not by a hateful bigot. Please.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

Well team, I'm finally a real Canadian. An idiot told me to go back to my own country.

we're not animals. we use gender affirming insults (stupid cunt)

YOU DON'T GET TO MISGENDER TRANS PEOPLE YOU DON'T LIKE. THAT IS NOT HOW THIS WORKS. IF YOU NEED THIS PETTY SHIT EXPLAINED TO YOU, YOU ARE IN THE FUCKING WAY AND NEED TO MOVE.

I also had a schmuck on Letterboxd say I had the worst taste in movies he had ever seen when I said the Eggers Nosferatu movie wasn't good, and honestly? I now have a goal: have the taste in movies that make neckbeards on the internet mad.

Fuck Pierre Poilievre (I'm preemptively tensing up at the prospect of this fucko running for office)

Related: I don't understand why every major streamer does not have a "New" tab on its homepage with every recent original addition listed in order from newest to, say, a month ago. These algorithm-obsessed companies are still failing their subscribers on the most basic level of customer service.

it’s about damn time

**ever in any election but yeah same.

There's something I need people to understand. The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad. The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

wvreyone says “learn to code” btu perhaps people shuold “learn to read” instead

"learn to code" what so i can spend half my adult life coasting between layoffs until my job is outsourced to an underaged robot in the Philippines? no thank u I shall learn A Trade

Got rejected by another agent ~*~*ooh yeah my self-esteem is doing great~*~* I'm wondering at what point I just #selfpublish and move on with my life. I have two nice smutty #historical #fiction books and I can't get anybody to consider them. But self publishing kinda feels like giving up.

I want to take a moment to thank my boss for having sub-10 minute meetings as policy, and giving us a heads up on the topic of the meeting in advance. Dude knows how to run shit.

Well I haven't had a breakdown about money and how helpless I feel about it in like 6 weeks so I guess we're about due.

As we all know from history, being nice to Hitler is a great strategy that will result in the Nazis being appeased and not doing anything scary

Asked IATSE if I could do installments, because I do not have $600 after not working for eight months. They knocked $40 off what I owe but otherwise nope just owe the full amount.

1. For my education to count on an application for a state job I'd need to pay to send official transcripts. 2. To join my local IATSE branch I'd need to pay more than $600 beyond what I paid to join in the first place. I am not paying [any more] to be eligible to apply for jobs, but what the shit?