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It's A Lie!

@kokichiomakin / kokichiomakin.tumblr.com

Hey, I'm Kokichi, aka Orson. This is my blog. The fact that you're here probably means you messed up somehow. icon by pridebicons
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Please go watch Sex Explained on Netflix. Not only is it a great resource for the basic sex education that is sorely lacking in the U.S., but some of ya’ll need to take a deep breath and remember the difference between fantasy vs reality. This purity culture thing that we’re going through right now is directly harmful to responsible, healthy sexual expression. BTW this woman, Lisa Diamond, is a noted psychologist and has been pushing for greater understanding of womens sexuality as a whole.

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i love having online friends . hello university students from europe . hello childrens show enthusiasts from the united states . hello baby gays from oceania . do you want to talk about soup

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reblogged

Pretty 5 is so beloved bc we have:

Arashi "I dream of being a beautiful woman and also had explicit attraction to girls and my male teacher" Narukami.

Tori "I'm in love with my unit leader but he's in an arranged marriage to my sister and I feel selfish for wishing it was me" Himemiya.

Mika "I'm going to live with my beloved partner in Paris as a direct parallel to the life his queer grandfather never got to have" Kagehira.

Hiyori "I'm a princess in the units with the most fanservice imaginable and almost kissed my partner in an mv 3 times" Tomoe.

And Aira "I blush over idol fanservice and am a tsundere towards my unit leader and enamored with my former online friend" Shiratori

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mellowmooon

therges the thoughts

the thinkerrr

the character thinkerrr

ihave the thoughts

i have them

i cannot talk about any of them but i am rotating them in my brain and somewhat trying to not explode

if this gets 10k notes ill feel obligated to start posting about the Characters in my Brain but also this post was just me throwing words at the wall

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shitboss

characterpilled thinkmaxxer

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anistarrose

when a streamer's cat is entirely off-camera but you can tell by the streamer's reaction that the cat is getting up to some mischief and perhaps even Creating a Situation... that's a form of haunting the narrative

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You Don't Need an Agent! Publishers That Accept Unsolicited Submissions

I see a few people sayin that you definitely need an agent to get published traditionally. Guess what? That's not remotely true. While an agent can be a very useful tool in finding and negotiating with publishers, going without is not as large of a hurdle as people might make it out to be!

Below is a list of some of the traditional publishers that offer reading periods for agent-less manuscripts. There might be more! Try looking for yourself - I promise it's not that scary!

  • Albert Whitman & Company: for picture books, middle-grade, and young adult fiction
  • Hydra (Part of Random House): for mainly LitRPG
  • Kensington Publishing: for a range of fiction and nonfiction
  • NCM Publishing: for all genres of fiction (YA included) and nonfiction
  • Pants of Fire Press: for middle-grade, YA, and adult fiction
  • Tin House Books: very limited submission period, but a good avenue for fiction, literary fiction, and poetry written by underrepresented communities
  • Quirk Fiction: offers odd-genre rep for represented and unagented authors. Unsolicited submissions inbox is closed at the moment but this is the page that'll update when it's open, and they produced some pretty big books so I'd keep an eye on this
  • Persea Books: for lit fiction, creative nonfiction, YA novels, and books focusing on contemporary issues
  • Baen: considered one of the best known publishers of sci-fi and fantasy. They don't need a history of publication.
  • Chicago Review Press: only accepting nonfiction at the moment, but maybe someone here writes nonfiction
  • Acre: for poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Special interest in underrepresented authors. Submission period just passed but for next year!
  • Coffeehouse Press: for lit fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation. Reading period closed at time of posting, but keep an eye out
  • Ig: for queries on literary fiction and political/cultural nonfiction
  • Schaffner Press: for lit fiction, historical/crime fiction, or short fiction collections (cool)
  • Feminist Press: for international lit, hybrid memoirs, sci-fi and fantasy fiction especially from BIPOC, queer and trans voices
  • Evernight Publishing: for erotica. Royalties seem good and their response time is solid
  • Felony & Mayhem: for literary mystery fiction. Not currently looking for new work, but check back later

This is all what I could find in an hour. And it's not even everything, because I sifted out the expired links, the repeat genres (there are a lot of options for YA and children's authors), and I didn't even include a majority of smaller indie pubs where you can really do that weird shit.

A lot of them want you to query, but that's easy stuff once you figure it out. Lots of guides, and some even say how they want you to do it for them.

Not submitting to a Big 5 Trad Pub House does not make you any less of a writer. If you choose to work with any publishing house it can take a fair bit of weight off your shoulders in terms of design and distribution. You don't have to do it - I'm not - but if that's the way you want to go it's very, very, very possible.

Have a weirder manuscript that you don't think fits? Here's a list of 50 Indie Publishers looking for more experimental works to showcase and sell!

If Random House won't take your work - guess what? Maybe you're too cool for Random House.

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