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The Road to El Dorado but with Keith and Lance, 

These were fun to draw so if you want more, let me know :3  

did you know there are bisexual flowers and they’re perfect

So, there's a dirty little secret in indie publishing a lot of people won't tell you, and if you aren't aware of it, self-publishing feels even scarier than it actually is.

There's a subset of self-published indie authors who write a ludicrous number of books a year, we're talking double digit releases of full novels, and these folks make a lot of money telling you how you can do the same thing. A lot of them feature in breathless puff pieces about how "competitive" self-publishing is as an industry now.

A lot of these authors aren't being completely honest with you, though. They'll give you secrets for time management and plotting and outlining and marketing and what have you. But the way they're able to write, edit, and publish 10+ books a year, by and large, is that they're hiring ghostwriters.

They're using upwork or fiverr to find people to outline, draft, edit, and market their books. Most of them, presumably, do write some of their own stuff! But many "prolific" indie writers are absolutely using ghostwriters to speed up their process, get higher Amazon best-seller ratings, and, bluntly, make more money faster.

When you see some godawful puff piece floating around about how some indie writer is thinking about having to start using AI to "stay competitive in self-publishing", the part the journalist isn't telling you is that the 'indie writer' in question is planning to use AI instead of paying some guy on Upwork to do the drafting.

If you are writing your books the old fashioned way and are trying to build a readerbase who cares about your work, you don't need to use AI to 'stay competitive', because you're not competing with these people. You're playing an entirely different game.

Prompt #568

“See, I finally figured it out.” The hero yanked the villain’s sidekick up by their hair until they yelped, scrabbling helplessly at their iron grip. “You’re the problem, the root of all this evil. You’re the one that breaks the villain out of jail; you build their weapons and help them plan and support them. Well,” the hero yanked a little harder, “let’s see how they do without their little support structure, shall we?”

Utroba Cave in the Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria. Carved by hand more than 3000 years ago (?), it was rediscovered in 2001.

Archeologists hypothesize that an altar built at the end of the cave, which is about 22 m deep, represents either the cervix or the uterus.

At midday, light seeps into the temple through an opening in the ceiling, projecting an image of a phallus on to the floor.

When the sun is at the right angle, in late February or early March, the phallus grows longer and reaches the alter, symbolically fertilizing the womb before the sowing of the spring crops.

Hey, fam, just FYI that even though Gaiman isn't the showrunner for GO3 anymore, he still owns the IP and therefore still gets a bunch of credits and will still be paid for his work on the show.

More info at this link, with receipts: https://www.reddit.com/r/neilgaiman/comments/1i6s6yk/neils_involvement_with_amazon/

Gaiman will continue to get residuals from all three seasons of GO and from any other show that has already been produced as long as they are streaming or broadcast anywhere. Presumably he will also continue to get royalties from sales of his books, along with advances for anything that anyone publishes in the future, assuming anyone still wants to publish his stuff at all.

Streaming any show Gaiman worked for, including GO3, will give more money to Gaiman. Buying Gaiman's books will give more money to Gaiman.

It's not possible to divest Gaiman of his own intellectual property, no matter how much we might want to do so. If you want to avoid supporting him financially, you need to not stream the shows or buy any more of his writing.

Please note that I'm not telling people that they shouldn't stream the shows or buy the books. It's up to each of us as individuals to decide whether or how we want to interact with Gaiman's work going forward.

I have a friend who is really depressed..she is not well at all. She's borderline, her family situation is really bad. I don't want her to....go. She can't hold on at all. Please save her.

I have somehow convinced her that for every 50 notes this gets, she'll live another day.

Can you please save her?

people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to

your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:

Befriend

Tell story

Make Thing

Investigate

Share knowledge

Laugh

Sing

Dance

Empathize with

Create

we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands

your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way