Utroba Cave In The Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Carved By Hand More Than 3000 Years Ago (?), It Was

You are the Moon

It's really not that hard to tell actors from their characters

Like, this is Loki

And this is Tom. They have different colored hair.

This is Castiel

And this is Misha. They wear different clothes.

This is Tony Stark

And this is Robert Downey Jr. They have different names.

Simple

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.

Was tagged by @okayboomerang to post 10 songs I've been listening to, plus 10 songs that fit my URL. Thanks so much for tagging me!

I tag @tipolover22 and @certifiedcoolkidno1, feel free to not do the challenge if you don't want to

1. This is Berk by John Powell

2. The Last Goodbye by Billy Boyd

3. Grace Kelly by MIKA

4. The Other Side of Hollywood ft Cheyenne Jackson

5. Unsaid Emily ft. Charlie Gillespie

6. Bummerland by AJR

7. Be My Eyes by Pentatonix

8. Happy Now by Pentatonix

9. Take On Me by A-ha

10. Would You Come Home by Tyler Blackburn

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A - After Ever After by PAINT

S - Show Stoppin Number by Robert Manion

K - Karma by AJR

Y - Y.A.S by Todrick Hall

R - Rollercoaster by Bleachers

I - I'll Make A Man Out of You by Donny Osmond

D - Deliver Us by Eden Riegel and Ofra Haza

E - Eleonora by Marianas Trench

R - Rise by Superfruit ft  Mary Lambert, Brian Justin Crum and Mario Jose

S - Spirits by the Strumbrellas

D - Dick Turpin, Highwayman by Matthew Baynton

O - Oh No! by Marina and the Diamonds

M - Make Me Feel by Janelle Monae

A - Amen by Todrick Hall

I - I Wish by Hayley Kiyoko

N - Now or Never ft Charlie Gillespie, Owen Patrick Joyner and Jeremy Shada

CBC

These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males | CBC Radio

Photographers Hawaii captured what scientists say is the first documentation of humpback whale sex.

let's hear it for gay whale sex

I LAUGHED AT THIS FOR 2 WHOLE MINUTES I HAVE NO IDEA WHY

Kylo Pen!

It is so fucking on I can’t even begin to tell you.