Fanfic hub. Currently down for a few weeks due to security issues.

ArchiveOfOurOwn. Cultural heritage site.

I don't even know what AO3 is, and I'm not sure I want to at this point. 😅

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I used a monochrome MDA monitor when I was a kid...

"Sally Rooney has said she is being forced to withdraw her books from sale in the UK because of her support for the banned organisation Palestine Action.

The Irish novelist, whose books include Normal People and Conversations With Friends, said her public support for the direct action group meant she could no longer receive royalties from UK sales.

After Palestine Action was banned last year, Rooney said she would use proceeds from her sales to support Palestine Action. Supporting organisations banned under the Terrorism Act is an offence and she subsequently cancelled a trip to the UK to pick up an award, for fear of arrest."

Is it masturbation? 🤷🏼‍♂️

It's sad to see artists willingly accept slop outside of their craft.

I've seen musicians defend their use of ai slop on the cover art because what matters is the music, I recall an interview of a book author defending the usage of ai slop on his book cover because, well, don't judge a book by it's cover.

I even attended a photography book launch where the author proudly announced that the foreword was written by a LLM.

With the RN trying to take power, I'm surprised the angle of a black man winning the prize isn't front and center. I'm glad there is at least a mention but holy shit, it is so fucking obvious a reason to attack him... Did we analyze all the other previous Goncourt winner?

A disappointing number of people are against slop when it negatively affects their income but will all too readily use slop themselves when it saves them money on some other task they would normally pay someone else to do

IIRC they're buying older books that may not have been digitized. The way they scan them destroys the book (I'm guessing the binding is removed so each page is loose/can lie flat).

What the hell would the market for this even be? Anna's Archive has a torrent where you can download the whole freakin' library.

Its easy: Dont buy locked down shit from crap companies. Buy stuff you have control over.

The Curious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I'd completely recommend it.

Im going through the discworld books again. Made it to Snuff. Cant recommend this one its too far towards the end of the run, but do recommend Small Gods, Reaper Man or Guards Guards.

Also im not really reading, just audiobooks. I'm missing out on a lot that way, but at least I'm getting the voices done for me.

I finished Man's Search for Meaning but want to reread it. Yes, everyone should read it. It adds context and more complexity to the horrors of the holocaust that we choose not to teach in the primary education of the subject.

Also whatever in life we're going through in life, somehow Victor F. went through worse and then made intentionally decisions to keep living on the days afterward. It's probably important to understand why he would

about to start "A Column of Fire" by Ken Follett. I've read three other books in this series already. It's about the lives of several people around a fictional english town throughout the ages. First book is 1100s, second 1300s, this one 1500s, next one 1700s and a prequel set around 998 AD. Can only recommend.

I started "The Great When" by Alan Moore today. Not deep enough in to give a thumb direction but I liked most of his short story collection "Illuminations", except the long short story in the middle about the comic industry, which felt a bit fart sniffy to me.

Technically speaking putting your work on Wattpad and slapping in a Patreon link is self publishing.

Writing Excuses has a couple episodes on making a professional go at it that you probably want to listen to, the best advice I recall from it is that you need to understand you're effectively running a small business. Market research/writing for the market, advertising, networking, these are what you need to do to have a realistic shot at making real money doing it.

If that doesn't effect your writing you don't understand the assignment. The first question you need to ask is if you're out to make money with your writing or just doing it as a creative exercise.

@notsosure I had an excellent experience working with #GrosvenorHousePublishing They have clear transparent pricing, are professional yet friendly and happy to answer any questions. They care about their authors. I wrote, edited and published my novel Ideality within 18 months. I would definitely publish with them again.

Not much to share, especially since I use a pen name and don't shill my stuff under this screen name.

That being said, I only self publish digitally. It's just not worth the hassle to try and do it in print.

But it's not difficult. All the platforms have self publishing options; Amazon, kobo, etc. You follow their instructions, and boom! Self published.

Not for free I can't 😅

(Seriously my wife do books and she's going through the editor route, but it's a very long and frustrating process. Good luck <3)

https://web.archive.org/web/20260310060407/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/thousands-authors-publish-empty-book-protest-ai-work-copyright

What a loss. Tremendous writer.

I first read him while working towards an English degree. The obvious Canterbury Tales plot was fun. I recently reread the series for the first time in 35 years or so and they still hold up. His books definitely stand out in the genre. A great author, and from what I've read about him personally, a good man.