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i will do the other music ask games tomorrow ty folks i love this one
Hi! I’m Max! I take editing commissions now!
SERVICES I OFFER:
- proofreading (grammar & spelling checks)
- line editing & copy editing (sentence-level critique involving word choice, phrasing, rhythm, & clarity)
- beta reading (line editing plus general thoughts about a project’s characters, plot, pacing, and general development)
- sensitivity reading (offering thoughts on representation of particular groups)
I’m comfortable sensitivity reading for the following:
- general transgender issues (I cannot speak, for example, to questions specific to a transfemme character, as I am transmisogyny-exempt, but I can give my overall thoughts as a trans person on how trans characters are presented), as well as specific thoughts on nonbinary/transmasculine representation
- general WLW issues (again: I can’t give personal thoughts on bisexuality, femme identity, etc.), as well as specific thoughts on butch lesbian representation
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- generalized anxiety disorder
- ADHD
CREDENTIALS: I’m an English-major-in-progress, I’ve been writing as long as I can recall, & I’m one of those people who gets weirdly frustrated by incorrect grammar. I have a published short story to my name in Strange Horizons, and you can find other examples of my writing hereandhere.
PRICING:
- proofreading: $.02/word
line editing: $.03/word
beta reading: $.05/word
sensitivity reading: $.05/word
Because I’m pricing by word count, I would prefer to edit pieces with a minimum of 500 words. Tentatively no maximum word count. If you want to pay me to proofread every line of your novel, let’s do it, comrade.
CONTENT
- I’m most familiar with fantasy & contemporary fiction, so I can give the best genre-related advice there, but in general I’ll read anything, including nonfiction.
- I don’t mind NSFW content in a piece. I am willing to proofread erotica, but I’m not familiar enough with erotica as a genre to feel comfortable line editing and critiquing content there.
- I am willing to read fic!
- I reserve the right to turn down any offer that makes me uncomfortable.
If you’re interested, or if you have questions, DM me here at goose-books or email me at [email protected]!
sometimes i think about taking writing commissions but i’ve never tried to write something on demand / by request and i’m not sure my brain’s strange bouts of inspiration would take to it. editing commissions, maybe. i could do editing commissions. i like to think i am good at line editing and both fun and constructive comments and also thinking about Themes. and i know i’m good at grammar. i could do. idk. sensitivity reading. flags you down to tell you i have ocd and adhd and generalized anxiety and also i’m Lesbian Trans Gender
this is prompted by the fact that i’m jobsearching rn and every time i look at jobs i think “god it would be so nice to make even a little bit of money off writing-related things.” the obvious answer here is “sell more short stories” which i haven’t got any good comeback for. the second obvious answer is “start a patreon” but like. to my knowledge 99% of the people who read my writing are my friends (unless i have a silent fanbase of strangers out there, in which case, come into my inbox so i can kiss you chastely and platonically on the mouth) and i don’t want to make my friends pay for my writing man Come On. i mean i Choose to follow my friends who have patreon but i don’t want to expect anyone to do tht for me yknow. maybe i will tunnel into the earth and become a hermit . maybe i will work food service again
in case anyone was wondering, yes, i have spent multiple days writing essays for finals and maybe i just talk like this now.
Something Weird I Heard About Rebecca / 1.7K
“You have to do that stuff.” Brooke traced her hand in the dirt to draw jewelry. Unlike Rebecca, Brooke had no siblings, but she did have working parents, and that meant a lot of time to watch the channels on TV she wasn’t supposed to know anything about. “When you get older you have to do sex with guys and shave your legs.”
A realistic fiction short story about a little girl (…?) who wants to be a vampire. Originally released as part of the LGBT vampire zine Blood & Breath by@vermilionzines; I am very happy to finally be sharing it with everyone here. Gender, monsters, and our worst literary fears: this one goes out to all the weird kids.
Image Credit: Igam Ogam on Unsplash.
first of all, this is a really good fucking story and you should read it.
second of all, the behind-the-scenes patreon post is GALAXY brain and worth the money and you should read that too.
third of all, i want to take a moment to analyze the way this story addresses girlhood and childhood and girlchildhood (which is sort of its own specific thing. read the behind-the-scenes of this post).
from the very first lines, rebecca is not Performing Femininity; she is doing what is natural to her (and literally natural in the sense that she is drawing in the dirt in front of a tree). when she brushes her hair out of her eyes, she leaves “a trace of mud by her lips.” to say this is a “perversion of lipstick” isn’t exactly right because that indicates that lipstick is the natural thing here & mud the artificial, when in fact it’s very much the other way around. i won’t get into the choice feminism question of “can lipstick be feminist” “is it antifeminist inherently to wear lipstick” (nuance, comrades, these aren’t questions with yes and no answers); i just want to draw attention to the way a story about Being A Child But Not A Gendered Object Yet starts with the main character mindlessly wiping her face & ending up with mud near her lip, in contrast to (adult) women deliberately applying lipstick and other makeup. yes my dms with yves look like this frequently. you wish you were us
the natural/artificial thing is especially important imo because the story goes on to imply that both rebecca’s mother and sister have body image issues (concerned with losing weight and banishing pimples). there’s a grittiness to rebecca’s childhood that it seems her sister has lost: she’s in the dirt thinking about drinking blood rather than becoming like her sister and “not eating real food.” (which i’m sure someone could call a Not Like Other Girlsism, but hey, rebecca’s like ten at most and her “i don’t want to be like that because it sounds like it sucks” instinct is imo perfectly understandable). throughout the whole story, brooke and rebecca show a disregard for their appearances. they keep brushing their hair over their shoulders because they don’t care how their hair looks; they’re drawing in the dirt; they need it out of the way for functionality reasons. (speaking of which, i really love how this story deals with kids. everything happening here is absolutely real to them; the narrative gives “rebecca wants to grow up to be a vampire” the weight of any adult litfic conflict, and the kids are both clearly children but also not patronized on a meta level.)
and hey, speaking of drawing in the dirt - they’re drawing houses, specifically, literally, and on a metaphorical level they’re drawing futures and narratives. both of them have an idea of what The World Looks Like (rebecca’s being that “everyone ends up married anyway,” brooke’s being that “you have to shave your legs and do sex with guys” when you grow up into a woman). the problem is that rebecca’s making a new one. unlike brooke, she hasn’t seen the vampire movies or read dracula; she’s constructing a vampirism that suits her purposes and desires. the vampires she describes aren’t, like, bram stoker’s. they are her own personal mythos, a contrast to the mythos of What Womanhood Is that both of them have absorbed.
which is where the goth girl comes in - dahlia’s the only girl rebecca’s sister knows who breaks gender roles. she “wears all black and she’s mean to boys.” and rebecca thinks she’s cool. and of course she does, because in a way dahlia is exactly the vampirism rebecca is creating. barring a few obvious differences (i’m assuming dahlia ages and doesn’t drink blood), everything rebecca has defined as vampiric (fighting mean boys, living alone or with other girls, not falling prey to gender roles) is just as doable by a goth girl as a vampire. which really drives home that the vampire thing is far less important here than the self-fashioning. rebecca’s drawing her house; she’s also drawing herself.
fourthly, the last line of this story fucks hard thank you & goodnight
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at last, after finishing the canon, i can update this. (template here; image description under the cut; feel free to reblog/ask/reply and ask me for my reasoning or add your own!) (my last version is here and my takes. have changed a little lmao)
the tiers in the tiermaker are, in order:
s tier: hamlet, lear
favorites: julius caesar, twelfth night, henry iv part 1, macbeth, romeo and juliet
great: much ado about nothing, richard iii, the tempest
good: othello, as you like it, henry iv part 2, henry v, coriolanus
embarrassed by how much i enjoy it: titus andronicus, troilus & cressida, antony & cleopatra
good but not for me personally: a midsummer night’s dream, richard ii, measure for measure
it’s fine: the winter’s tale, king john, the merchant of venice, henry vi part 3
eh: henry vi part 2, timon of athens, pericles, all’s well that ends well, the merry wives of windsor, cymbeline
criminally boring: henry viii, love’s labour’s lost, the comedy of errors, henry vi part 1
criminally boring AND misogynist: the two gentlemen of verona, the taming of the shrew
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well. four years ago in freshman year english class i read romeo and juliet for the first time. now i am sitting in the university library in my first year of college and i’ve just finished the canon.
oh my god i literally exited pursued by a bear
well. four years ago in freshman year english class i read romeo and juliet for the first time. now i am sitting in the university library in my first year of college and i’ve just finished the canon.
the thing about florizel is that he will just lie
love this line though. paulina voice too bad your son dropped dead he could have hooked up with florizel
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Hi! I’m Max! I take editing commissions now!
SERVICES I OFFER:
- proofreading (grammar & spelling checks)
- line editing & copy editing (sentence-level critique involving word choice, phrasing, rhythm, & clarity)
- beta reading (line editing plus general thoughts about a project’s characters, plot, pacing, and general development)
- sensitivity reading (offering thoughts on representation of particular groups)
I’m comfortable sensitivity reading for the following:
- general transgender issues (I cannot speak, for example, to questions specific to a transfemme character, as I am transmisogyny-exempt, but I can give my overall thoughts as a trans person on how trans characters are presented), as well as specific thoughts on nonbinary/transmasculine representation
- general WLW issues (again: I can’t give personal thoughts on bisexuality, femme identity, etc.), as well as specific thoughts on butch lesbian representation
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- generalized anxiety disorder
- ADHD
CREDENTIALS: I’m an English-major-in-progress, I’ve been writing as long as I can recall, & I’m one of those people who gets weirdly frustrated by incorrect grammar. I have a published short story to my name in Strange Horizons, and you can find other examples of my writing hereandhere.
PRICING:
- proofreading: $.02/word
line editing: $.03/word
beta reading: $.05/word
sensitivity reading: $.05/word
Because I’m pricing by word count, I would prefer to edit pieces with a minimum of 500 words. Tentatively no maximum word count. If you want to pay me to proofread every line of your novel, let’s do it, comrade.
CONTENT
- I’m most familiar with fantasy & contemporary fiction, so I can give the best genre-related advice there, but in general I’ll read anything, including nonfiction.
- I don’t mind NSFW content in a piece. I am willing to proofread erotica, but I’m not familiar enough with erotica as a genre to feel comfortable line editing and critiquing content there.
- I am willing to read fic!
- I reserve the right to turn down any offer that makes me uncomfortable.
If you’re interested, or if you have questions, DM me here at goose-books or email me at [email protected]!
“he had not been there–bless the mark!–a pissing while, but all the chamber smelt him” is such a banger line you’d think it’s from shakespeare or something but it’s actually from homestuck
