Yack Attack! 🐈‍⬛🌙

@PinchofPeppers Stay away from that new show on Amazon, Company Retreat. Everyone is an actor except one guy they hire as an intern, and they make things as uncomfortable as possible. 😭 I literally had to put on headphones and try to ignore it while my husband was watching.

Movies where a character embarrasses themselves are worse than getting shot. I genuinely have to pause the movie to do a lap around my living room so that I don't jump off a building. Second-hand embarrassment is agony untold.

@BLwifey Which cases? I could only find one, and it's the NYT trying to get their legal bills paid.

A much needed reminder : only the lawsuit with Blake lively has been settled, Justin Baldoni's studio has four more different lawsuits against them, which includes claims of sexual discrimination (Ofc), racial discrimination and plagiarism.

@SDDonovan Arctodus by L.J. Vitanza

What's an indie book you highly recommend everyone should read?

@authorslmurray Whoops! No, it's betabooks.co and it is, in fact, still there. You just have to type in the right url. 😄 There's a reader directory that costs $15 a month, and I've met some wonderful beta readers that way. You can pause it easily when you don't need it.

@authorslmurray I used to use a service called betabooks.io but I'm not sure if it's still around.

How is everyone finding beta readers? I’ve tried a few methods. I don’t want people I know. I want random strangers who are t afraid to hurt my feelings. I need honest feedback. #writingcommunity #authors #betareaders

@ahliviyuhh This makes me sad.

Just found out Blake Lively is set to play the main character in a movie adaptation of my favorite book at the moment, “we used to live here”. This ruined my day.

@HRH_SHP Why do MAGA fight so hard to protect predators?? Please realize, that makes YOU skeevy and gross.

There’s no popular definition for a term of law, just people lying and being hyperbolic. There were thousands of posts yesterday accusing him of statutory rape, it’s incorrect and I addressed it, on my own. I already said he was skeevy, it was gross, etc. To lie and say he’s a rapist when he hasn’t been convicted of rape it’s disgusting as well and no, it’s not okay to call skeevy people rapists. It’s actually actionable.

Russell Brand sleeping with a 16 year old at the age of 30 was gross. It was skeevy. It was nasty. 16 years old is the age of consent in England. It was not statutory rape. Words matter and if we misuse them to be hyperbolic it erodes trust.

@HazelAppleyard There's enough going on in the world already. We shouldn't be making up these horrible stories and spreading them around.

She just gave birth a few months ago and he asked for a THREESOME

@smoettii Yes. I would change doctors. These visits are uncomfortable enough without the doctor making things worse.

Should I change my gynecologist? During my annual check-up I asked if she could also check on my breasts this time, simply because she has never done so in the past couple years. And her reply was a cold "Why?" as if I'd need a reason to do preventive care?😭 I suppose she was

@cheersitskatie File a sexual harassment claim with HR. This shirt isn't inappropriate just because your supervisor is insecure.

got dress coded for "serious cleavage" at work today

@Halalcoholism It seems pretty obvious that this woman is writing fiction and they're publishing it as fact. Do they even care how much damage they might be doing to their readership?

I perused some of this writer’s other work, and… yeah there’s a lot going on

I just got a full-page pop-up on Twitter for their premium blue-check service. Distasteful.

@lizttlefrog I see everything.

I genuienly don't care how fast anyone reads and I think its (like most on booktwt) a stupid discussion BUT as a self proclaimed slow reader I was always curious do fast readers have time to picture every scene in their minds or do you guys just read the words

@Gabino_Iglesias I would get SICK.

I’m not telling you what to do, but many of us don’t use beta readers, so unless you have some you’d trust with your life, maybe right now is not a good time to start looking. I’ve seen dozens of angry/sad “My beta reader told me they fed my book to AI” posts, and fuck that.

@SpiritsofIdaho I think most good stories are a little disconnected from reality, which is what allows us to feel them so deeply. Fear doesn't hold us back bc we know we could never be in those situations for real.

I had an existential crisis the other day I was re-writing a chapter in a mystery/adventure book, and I thought, “How would real people deal with this situation?” which led to the question of “how would I have dealt with this situation?” which led to the thought that, in my life, I would never have been in this situation. It made me realize a couple of things, like (1) there are probably fewer than 1 percent of people who live lives depicted in 99 percent of the adventure/action books, and (2) I have lived a very dull life. But the actual question is: how does a writer reconcile reality with fiction if they are writing about believable people?

@justinwcronk Oh. Oh no.

Have any self-published, do-it-all authors ever realized too late that they somehow left out an entire chapter in their final manuscript?!? Good lord.

@JustinLync91747 Shabby behavior.

Don't apply to be a beta reader and tell me you charge AFTER I accepted you and not BEFORE.

@alyssaleann The only attention some people ever get is the bad kind, and they make it a little too obvious.

@llumiinat Something tells me that's the husband.

i cant make ts up oh my god