Anyway
Possibly the greatest NPR exchange ever recorded
i was like "simon who" and then I saw it was david simon creator of the wire and yeah that scans, that's his voice alright
It's been a while, but I thought I'd post another piece again. Enjoy.
Redrew an old favorite of mine. Energy drink cookie my beloved
you've heard of gaslight gatekeep girl boss now here's selfship self insert self indulgence and it's the new big thing
Gregory: I thought you died!!
Glamrock Freddy: I did, but I sensed you were in danger. So, I put myself back together.
Monty: do you ever sense I'm in danger?
Roxanne: I don't really think about you
Monty: *posts a super low quality Meme to the groupchat*
Glamrock Chica: If I had a dollar for every pixel in this image I'd have 15 cents
Monty: If i had a dollar for every ounce of rage I felt in my body after I read this, I would have enough to buy a cannon to fire at you
Glamrock Freddy: Actually I did the math, Chica would have 225 dollars, not fifteen cents
Monty: I'm right here, dude.
Roxy: if i had a dollar i would buy a can of soda
Glamrock Chica: While you're there could you get me an apply juice please? :)
Roxy: sorry i only have a dollar
Glamrock Chica: :(
Glamrock Freddy: Music Man just corrected my math, it would be 22,500 dollars because it's a dollar for every pixel, not a cent.
Glamrock Chica: If I had 22,500 dollars I would buy a can of soda and an apply juice :)
Monty: You can literally buy anything you want for 22500 dollars
Roxy: yeah and she wants soda and an apply juice
Monty: Apply juice to what
Helpy: Directly to the forehead!
Vanessa: Great job everyone
Are you fucking seeing this??
This dog just demonstrated both object permanence and awareness of the 4th wall
I think I’ve reblogged this before but I love it.
look how mad this lizard gets when you pick them up
You telling me that Jack Black would not be 1000% down to be kidnapped by the muppets for a shenanigan, or possible a hijink?
Mr. The Frog still sends me more than “we all agreed a celebrity is not a people”
i will never complain about a book seeming like a fanfic with the serial numbers filed off because that means the author had the invaluable ability to tell when their au had diverged enough that these were just straight-up different characters now
even as we speak there is probably someone out there writing a delightful 100k+ word gay romance novel about a genderqueer bisexual single parent who lives in a beach town and fixes classic cars and falls in love with the sexy tentacle monster mermaid that saved their life, and that writer could probably make pretty good money self-publishing it, but they won't because that would mean admitting that they aren't really writing destiel anymore
love that despite not being in the fandom i hit the middle of the venn diagram of 'characters that the average person would never in a million years recognize as dean winchester' and 'characters that a certain subset of fans would immediately think are dean winchester' so perfectly that i've since been told i described multiple popular fics
my only disagreement is that nothing over 100,000 words can be "delightful"
file the serial numbers off and get an editor
(or at the VERY least, have the self-respect to hack it into three books and call it a 'triology' if you /want/ to tap into the market of people who want doorstoppers.)
just checking stats in calibre using its wordcounter, it tells me:
- gideon the ninth is 141k
- the welcome to night vale novel is 101k
- the long way to a small angry planet is 132k
- the duchess war is 100k
- good omens is 113k
- dread nation is 105k
- network effect is 117k
- one good earl deserves a lover is 108k
- priory of the orange tree (which i do consider a doorstopper! you could murder mr boddy in the library with this hardcover!) is 266k
have you considered that if you think the average paperback romance novel is a doorstopper, you might prefer novellas
I was reading that comment and thinking to myself, three books out of 100k? Maybe three novellas, but not three novels.
Three YA novels, maybe.
For adult fiction, it's about 60-100k per average for a novel, depending on the genre. Anything under about 50k is a novella, iirc.
Which is fine if that's what you like reading. But 100k is not unwieldy. And many of us churning out those word counts do have very exacting editors :)
(Hunger Pangs was 120k-ish, and people still complain to me that it was too short.)
