They get rid of VAs that don’t consent btw

Years ago I wrote a piece on my site about how every MFA writing program should have at least elective courses on the business aspects of writing/publishing (how to read contracts, get agents, current state of the industry, etc). I got some pushback on that, which I thought was... odd.

Rarepair Week is one month away!! Are we getting hyped? I’m getting hyped! (oh god I still have so much writing to do)

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Today I’m talking about what it means to have a writing practice (and how it’s probably not what you thought), over at @writerunboxed.bsky.social, writerunboxed.com/2026/05/05/w...

This has become my approach to rp and fic writing lately. It's gonna be messy. It's not going to be some piece of literary genius. It's just going to exist imperfectly because that's how we defeat the shit spewing machine and its people

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We're happy to hear so many of you enjoyed our recent writing prompt...📝 Here's another, hot off the press!

Yes, this. You don't even need to buy a dedicated e-reader if you don't want to, there are e-reading apps on phones (as well as audiobook apps).

It's not just an issue of publishers deciding not to print mass market paperbacks, it's book distributors deciding not to put them into the retail chain. To be fair mmpb sales have collapsed by 80+% in the last few years. People might be nostalgic about mmpbs, but that's not the same as sales.

The 2026 Calarts Producers' Show Opening is a lovely tribute to art & animation (directed by Sofia Kondrasheva & Veda Lee). Every year, Calarts school has a showcase where they select a handful of student films to be screened in a Hollywood theater. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsmu...

How easy would it have been to just hire the girl and pay her instead of stealing her likeness. They spent tens of millions on special effects, but still robbed a child

finally, perspective grid knowledge will be useful irl

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Real growth is eventually getting disgusted with the raider-centic content creators and dropping their asses especially after the Sfia situation

I'm not saying the author's perspective must be treated as paramount in media criticism, but sometimes the most reasonable analysis of a text on its face genuinely is "the author is universalising an experience which they possibly do not realise is not in fact universal".

Yotsuyu, Imperial Agent #FFXIV #FFXIVART

Doctor: I’m sorry to tell you that the best option for you is a hysterectomy. Middle-aged cis woman, hope slowly dawning in her eyes: …Yeeterus? Middle-aged cis woman’s friends, leaping out from behind the furniture and dangling from the ceiling: YEETERUS! YEETERUS! YEETERUS! YEETERUS!

Texas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for his heartrending, first-person account of his family’s fight for survival during last year’s devastating Central Texas floods.

🫡 CJ Cherryh. Fifty years of publishing and probably close to a hundred books—what a body of work, and so full of gems. One of the very few authors of whom one can say, yeah, I've read a dozen of her books and haven't even started yet

And evergreen advice for any kind of alarming email/phone call. Something I have struggled to remember when I've been phished, for real.

Passing this along - fucking scammers leveling up, here's a new one to pay attention to.

Zero and Golbez #FFXIV #FFXIVART

WAKE UP BABE NEW COMMISSION OPTIONS JUST DROPPED ko-fi.com/punchelf/com... #CommissionsAreOpen #ffxivart

Prishe and Alxaal! [ #ffxiv #ffxi #prishe #alxaal #joyeart ]

That's some good writing, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social. www.ms.now/news/the-lig...

Books with happy endings are not automatically moral. Tragic books are not always tragic experiences. Cynical doesn’t always mean the characters and reader won’t find anything positive in the story. Good things happen in the midst of bad all the time, and bad has a way of growing like weeds.

Alright Miqo'te appreciators, here's your prompt list for Mayqote 2026! Have fun with it everyone - We look forward to seeing many creations in May so remember to tag your work with #mayqote & #mayqote2026! ฅ₍^•⩊ •マⳊ #ffxiv

If I were writing YA I'm not sure I would want to be published by an imprint that advertised ahead of time that my book was purposefully neutered to appeal to busybodies who would still be likely to find fault at anything that did not exactly conform to their own particular brand of repression

I offer to you this overworked Office Thancred in these trying times...may he nourish your soul 😌👐🧑‍💼 #ffxivart #thancredwaters

forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums... historically ffxiv HAS listened to complaints made on their forum; if you're upset about the changes in battle high, i highly recommend chiming in

I’d add words of wisdom from my stepmother—“A hobby is something you spend money on. If you make money on it, it’s a job and you’ll eventually need a new hobby.”

Zoissette Vauban and Y'shtola Rhul being adorable! For @biot08.bsky.social, thank you so much for helping 💛 Emergency Commission 3/7 #ffxiv

The second round of #FFXIV Fan Festival 2026 merchandise is open for pre-order! ✨ sqex.to/Qo6Bo Join Thancred as he showcases his treasure trove of fan-tastic goodies with his assistant (and VA), Peter Bramhill! Watch the full video on the official YouTube channel ▶️ youtu.be/_FLPeurwdXI

People already pointed this out when they discovered it during the beta test but they were drowned out quickly while being accused to be hoyoshills. NTE community is just as toxic as any other gacha game community. Who woulda thunk?

"you should skip arr" my handholder in hydaelyn when is the last time you wandered through an arr zone. on foot, or on a mount on the ground (not flying), and just... experienced it? arr is beautiful - the places, the music, everything. take 10 minutes to explore it sometime! really see it!

ok so if KO no longer reduces rating/BH what if we balanced it with a respawn timer instead

I am considering a read through of Cherryh's complete works in publication order in honor of her retirement. Might be a good excuse to hunt down any remaining short fiction or essays that are available but which I am missing.

FFXIV: a new mount you can obtain is this brilliant legendary creature in mesmerizing colours and patterns glowing with majestic power - players: we want a normal horse FFXIV: w…what players: normal. horse.

Evercold trailer keeps making me think of the oldest non-religious song in English is about the fear of cold. I expect soregh and murne and fast in 8.0

omfg xiv people are so insufferable its only the SECOND day of the new patch what the fuck do you mean you're throwing hissy fits and are being pissy and angry that I DONT KNOW THE MECHANICS OF A BRAND NEW DUNGEON THATS JUST BEEN RELEASED god forbid i dont obsessively learn mechanics on release

the anti-woke/doomer content creators are getting too hyped about evercold. i need them to be miserable again. yoshi p, it's time to announce pronoun selection for the character creator.

One thing you can do to be in solidarity with game devs is stop calling social/community staff "interns." It's a job that typically requires 3-5+ years of direct experience—and C/SMMs still face disproportionate layoffs among their peers, plus harassment from an increasingly hostile public.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

Since our lovely lizards are getting their well-deserved turn in the spotlight, and I know this is a linguistic nitpick for some: The English localization spells "Au Ra" as two words. There's no apostrophe in there. "Au Ra" is both singular and plural. The adjective form is "Auri".

Here is the source for the current shadow hand trend. Illustrator x photographer solidarity forever. Source: www.instagram.com/p/BWiFj5VBq64/

I'm just gonna leave this here.

i know that “hand shadow meme/trend” has become pretty popular but it’s a shame none of the artists i’ve seen it from know or post where the original comes from to properly credit it— i linked it in my own on main, but marinachoyy on insta is the original 🥺💕