We’re celebrating reading self-published authors. Here’s our interview with Christine Manzari, a successful self-published author. If you’re interested in getting into self-publishing be sure to check out her advice!

Guys! Our march issue is out! Celebrate with us by reading some amazing sci-fi and fantasy works. 

Now accepting submissions for our April issue.

We’re putting together a book, and you’re going to help us.

Here’s the concept: A choose your own adventure story, written through Tumblr! Where everyone writes a paragraph of two and then reblogs. (for everyone’s sake please try and add a ‘read more’ so that there isn’t a repetitive long post going around.

How to play:

We’ll start the story off with a little intro. If you see this post on your dashboard, read through the story and then add your own little piece. You can add as many pieces to as many stories as you want, just make sure at least one person has written something between your own. 

At the end, we’ll gather everything up, find any loose ends or unfinished stories, and finish them. Then we’ll publish a PDF of all the stories along with the names of who wrote what. This’ll be in a choose your own adventure style.

The game will go on for as long as we feel it needs to. Basically until there’s so many branching stories it becomes overwhelming. 

Rules:

Only 1-2 paragraphs per writer per section.

At the start of your section, add whatever name you want to appear on the final project. Put anonymous if you don’t want to be credited. If nothing is written we will use your tumblr username.

Everybody understand? Good. Let’s get started

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i hate when recipes try to get fancy with their ingredients like “1 vanilla bean” like just tell me how much artificial vanilla extract i need 

honestly being a classics student is so great bc you can get away with all kinds of shit just by calling it “part of ur lessons.” got really drunk one night and were too hungover to come to class? you were just studying the revels of dionysus and wanted to see how the ancients experienced them. got caught drawing a dick on the wall somewhere? well you see it’s art based off of roman graffiti, you’re just reconstructing it for others to see and learn from it. murdered someone out in the woods? he stumbled upon your reenactment of a bacchanalia so that’s on dionysus again, haha that scamp

If you go North you will eventually be going South. But if you go West you will always be going West.

Whenever a celebrity dies, there is a person whose task it is to change that person’s Wikipedia article from present tense to past tense.

People talk about how hard long distance relationships are but nobody talks about the struggle of long distance friendships. I would give my left leg right now to just be able to sit in our pjs and watch movies or to just be able to give a big fucking hug. 

In the event of a fire consult this 5-year-old. On Wednesday Cloe Woods of Louisiana saved her dog and blind grandmother when a fire broke out in her house. When the smoke alarm woke Cloe, she immediately went to her grandmother’s room and led her outside. Why she ran door to door after escaping.

Is there a gofundme to help her and her grandmother get back on her feet? Because this girl needs all the things!!!

Yes! The GoFundMe is here; donate if you can to this heroic little girl and her family.

New lit mag now accepting submissions!!!

Sailing to the Moon is a new online literary magazine that focuses on the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Magical Realism. The goal of the magazine is to promote these genres in the literary world.

We accept poems and stories from 1-15000 words. Open to anyone IN THE WORLD over the age of 13. 

We currently have a contest for art relating to the fantasy genre to serve as our main image for the site. 

Visit the website or send your submissions directly to:

sailingtothemoonlitmag@gmail.com 

why commit murder when you can have one of these

come on guys 

I’d kill for one of those.

I think you’re missing the point

Last week, a judge ruled that pop singer Kesha is required to fulfill her contract with Sony, despite the fact that, by her account, her former producer Dr. Luke raped her. Kesha doesn’t want to record with Sony, which has a close relationship with Luke. But, thanks to the judge, she can’t record anywhere else. She is horribly trapped.

Luckily, the Internet has identified just the person to blame for Kesha’s troubles—Taylor Swift.

You’d think that the main culprits to denounce here would be Luke and Sony, not some random pop star who has never done anything to Kesha. But many commenters felt otherwise. Swift, the argument goes, has a reputation as a feminist and as a critic of the music industry’s exploitive practices. Therefore, she’s being a hypocrite and a bad person if she doesn’t join celebrities like Lorde and Lady Gaga in speaking up in Kesha’s defense.

Then Swift did speak up … and revealed that she’d contributed $250,000 to defray Kesha’s legal costs. But even that wasn’t sufficient. Singer Demi Lovato on social media, apparently referring to Swift, said, “I… would rather start a dialogue ABOUT WOMEN COMING FORWARD ABOUT BEING RAPED than throw money at one person.” She had some support on social media, as various Swift haters argued that the singer’s contribution did not do enough, or did the wrong thing, to support Kesha.

Lost in all this is an important question. Or rather, a series of questions that tap into a deeper issue. Has Bruno Mars offered support to Kesha? What about Coldplay, or Robin Thicke, or Justin Bieber? They’re all pop stars; they’re all in the music industry. Why aren’t they weighing in on the #FreeKesha hashtag?

#han was such a little bitch #i love it #he outbitched leia #and she was pretty goddamn bitchy #bitchy snarky best haired otp