My Next Art Piece Really Will Just Be Building A Functioning Guillotine

Trans women (me) will text like ":3 !! >:3c ehehe" and then have a black book that no one should EVER be allowed to read:3

I somehow managed to pull this off dispute having a horrible time telling slight color variations apart

How well do you see color?

I’m cry I scored 60, I feel blind

I was high off my ass last night and had this dream where I was in this dense ass forest and sitting there was a tall woman. She was so tall I couldn’t see her face but she was wearing gold and I was like “uh…hi?” And she said “I made you, do you know that?” And I nodded and she was like “I hear your thoughts. Why do you hate my creation? Why do you try to destroy yourself? I made you perfect as you are. Please don’t break my heart”. Then she started crying and it flooded and I woke up with fucking heart palpitations like what does it Mean™️????

I switched phones, it's good to be back

Having fun with Rimworld. Also known as the mod list I used just yesterday now crashes on startup. . .and I unsubscribed from half my mods with a single click because I'm "very smart"

How to protect yourself during stampede

Word Count Matters

If you’re aiming to get your manuscript actually published, word counts are just one more thing you have to be aware of—especially in traditional publishing. Unfortunately, no one is going to publish a 100K children’s storybook, or a 40K high fantasy. That’s because each genre comes with its own expected word count, and while you might get away with being a bit under or over, you should be aiming for that ideal range.

Here's the genres and their typical word count ranges ~

Mysteries/Suspense: 70K-90K

Crime: 90K-100K

High-Fantasy: 100K+

General Fantasy: 90K-120K

Horror: 80K-100K

Sci-Fi: 90K-125K

Speculative: 75K-125K

Romance: 40K-100K

New Adult: 60K-85K

YA: 70K-90K

Middle Grade: 25K-40K

Picture Books: 50-1000

And some general guidelines for what counts as a novel vs a short etc:

Novel: 50K+

Novella: 20K-50K

Novelette: 10K-20K

Short Story: 1000-10K, but ideally 3K-8K

Flash fiction: 1-1000

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Reading the entire article made me sick to my stomach.

These Israelis are incredibly deranged and evil. They’re real life monsters. Demons.

Palestinians have been enduring them for 76 whole years.

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