Arin Hanson 1987-2017
Tragically died today from severe diaper overload.
“Hey, wanna hear my impression of a Japanese person?”
-Arin Hansom
I dont think you’re prepared for me to describe what I just saw an advertisement for
like seriously sit down. you’re not ready. I’m not overhyping this I’m not being dramatic you seriously aren’t equipped for me to tell you about this even if you think you are
in the year 2023 . Twenty Twenty Three. They are making an assumedly officially licensed and officially approved Hamilton The musical game. Ok. Yeah. Right. Got that. Yeah that’s not all
It also from the looks of it appears to be banking off the popularity of genshin by being an rpg where you gamble on gacha mechanics to get party members. And said party members…are the American colonizers that feature prominently in the Hamilton musical. and they even have set rarities to them as is conventional with mobile gacha games
and once you get those American colonizers in your little rpg party, you can then roam around the world of early america and…like….make them attack people by making them sing songs from hamilton the musical at …enemies, which does damage and functions like how an attack in any other rpg would. uh. ????????
now there’s one thing I haven’t mentioned yet because I’ve been building to it. Like I can’t just preface the post with it or else it will just ruin the suspense um. This game is apparently real. Like it’s not a bit. And. It either is or it’s going to be on Roblox.
So now you know about Colonizer Sympathizer Genshin Impact. Exclusive to Roblox. I hope you’re happy knowing this because I can’t say that I am
and here’s what it looks like by the way. Um. So now you know about. This
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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I find it personally offensive how many bad writers can get published so easily.
I used to find it reassuring, like, "Haha, wow, if THIS can get published..." but now I take it to mean "It doesn't matter if your book is good or not, all that matters is if you're in the right social circles (and you're not)"
As someone who used to acquire for an indie publisher ... it sucks on the other end, too. We don't WANT to work on shitty books with shitty writing. But bossman wants to make money, and shitty writer has marketing clout/knows the right people/is already published (even if it's only online/ebook).
I used to read the most AMAZING submissions I'd be forced to pass on. Like, there was one, a literary fantasy featuring a bi deaf protagonist who learns how to navigate a spectrum of relationships while discovering herself (I don't want to give too many details out of respect to the author/don't want her concept stolen) and I couldn't get it acquired no matter how thorough my proposal and marketing plan was because she was a debut author with fewer than 10k Twitter followers and we needed that advance money for another Fifty Shades knockoff (this was a few years ago lol).
BUT PLEASE DON'T LET THAT DISCOURAGE YOU! If you're a writer, and you're trying to get published, don't give up!! If your first novel isn't getting traction with either a house or agency, publish it yourself on amazon. Get that "debut" moniker away from your name. Prove you can sell your shit and keep working.
A good agent will work with you to come up with a marketing/publicity proposal. That will be huge in getting houses to notice your work - makes the acquisitions team's job easier as they can point to it and tell bossman "we have a plan". Look online for titles that have high ratings/are on the NYT list that can be compared to yours. That helps give acquisitions an idea of what they're getting into - and how to represent your book to their ED/publisher.
A good agent will also help you target editors/imprints whose lists match your book, increasing your odds of getting positive feedback or even constructive feedback. If I had a submission that just wasn't quite ready for publication, I'd give detailed notes of what I wanted and ask them to revise and resubmit.
Keep writing! Even if a book isn't picked up, start your next. It's so attractive to see an author with several unpublished works ready to be polished if you already like the work that's submitted. And more writing only refines your skills.
Yes, bad writers get published. And too many good writers, even when published, go unrecognized (if you like southern gothic fiction a la Where the Crawdads Sing, go read The Past is Never, which came out four months earlier and got NO national attention but is BEAUTIFUL). Be such a good writer that you break those odds.
Because you can. I've read your stuff on Tumblr. On Ao3. On Fanfiction.net. On Wattpad. You can do it.
This is actually practical advice; thank you.
Man I love vine and I’m gonna miss it! I’m totally jumping on the bandwagon but hey why not? Here is some of my favs!
Bless these human beings for simply being alive and living life.
Treasure trove
Vine had pure chaotic energy that tiktok just cannot match and I miss it so much
Like looking at the ancient scriptures
its a shame ditherpunk never took off
What’s that?
pixel art but in 1-bit, i.e. only black or white pixels. you create shading via dithering, or densities of black pixels vs white pixels, hence “dither punk.”
It’s lo-fi and retro in a very goth way
it’ll never fail to amaze me that chessex, the game dice company - like if you bought your first dice set from a game store/comic shop/card shop you most certainly bought a chessex set - has such an ugly and poorly designed website. it looks like they went out of business 15 years ago.
i don’t know what’s better, the fact that they only sell five different things and felt like they needed a site map, the single uk location with the giant union jack, or simply the times new roman header which reads:
“The coolest dice on the planet.”
™
THEY HAVEN’T UPDATED THEIR WEBSITE IN TEN YEARS????
my mistake, literally every single page you click on has a different copyright date. so far I’ve seen 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and most recently 2012. amazing. well done chessex.
BUT LANA
HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO ORDER DICE?????
you….you have to email them your order form. oh, gods. you…have to type your credit card information. into an email. so they can charge you seven dollars in shipping or 7% of the total order cost if it’s over $100. fuck. if you have questions about the cost of air shipping, you can fax them anytime. jesus christ. oh gods. fuck. fuck me up. chessex. the coolest dice on the planet. ™
this is another reason why I let my friendly local store make my chessex orders for me
Me: The Chessex website isn’t real and can’t hurt me:
The Chessex website:
oh my god
These are the only people doing internet sales correctly
wow players having to stand in lines for a quest because a relevant npc can only talk to one player at a time. is the funniest image on the planet
i need to correct this: wow classic doesn’t have any npcs that can only talk to one player at a time. these lines actually formed for a quest npc that players had to kill to complete the objective. knowing that i think this image is even funnier.
Literally this
My favourite is the guy saying, “This is like being at the dmv”
She (train chugging) on my (bicycle bell) till I (foghorn)
She (xylophone noise) on my (loud trumpet blare) till I (fire truck siren)
She (xylophone noise)
on my (loud trumpet blare) till
I (fire truck siren)
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
you wear griPPy socks cause youre mentally ill, i wear griPPy socks because i went to skyzone once. we are not the same.