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I am unfortunate enough to have a cow as across the road neighbour. Not only is she a cow, she also can't park to save her life. Which usually means she parks across our drive as soon as the on road parking is less than 2 car lengths in one of her 4 preferred spots.

I only stuck one of these on, but I think I might have to go full monty on her next time.

(Sheffield ftw)

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Just call the police. Obstructing your drive is an offence.

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I have a few armies that I want to get shot of. Primarily Eldar, Blood Angels, Tyranids, and Imperial Guard. All with battlefoam or the large Citadel cases.

Each army is easily 3,000 points or above. Paint ranges from pretty good to unpainted.

I'm willing to accept in the region of £1,000 per army, which is around £1,500 less than they cost. I'll take a lot less (seriously, I'll knock £500 off) if you're willing to come pick them up.

I also have a bunch of Tau minis, some assembled and some on sprues, you can take away for free if you're picking up any of the other armies. Mostly Kroot, fire teams, etc. Original metal Commander Shadowsun. A box full of drones.

I'll go take some photos, then update this post with pictures and a better idea of what each army includes.

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Posting to show interest, waiting on update :)

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Original Poster2 points · 1 year ago

Sorry for the delay, had a lazy-arse day yesterday. I'll get it done today :)

Did you post pictures somewhere else?

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Original Poster1 point · 1 year ago

I'm afraid not. I got horribly ill and have been offline a while. I'll ping everyone who was interested when I post <3

Try /r/pegging and see if that floats your boat :)

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Hey folks! I have the go-ahead from /u/slyder565 to post this here, so I'll dive in!

The Big Gay Fiction Podcast and author Michael Jensen are co-hosting a huge giveaway of LGBTQ+ fiction from over eighty authors this week. Everything from romance to urban fantasy, science fiction to historical, is included.

Some are previews, others are short stories, but the majority are full-length novels. There are gay, bi, lesbian, trans, asexual, demisexual, and main characters from all across the rainbow.

Each download requires a signup to that author's mailing list, but if you read their book and it isn't for you it's a one-click unsubscribe :D

You can find it here: http://biggayfictionpodcast.com/Giveaway

Many thanks for your time <3

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3 points · 1 year ago

Thanks ScarletCox.

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Original Poster2 points · 1 year ago

You're welcome! :)

Because marketing is very expensive, and it's difficult to market books in the hope that they will make an income.

The big 5 publishers already have large marketing budgets - largely gleaned from selling non-LGBT titles for decades - and they aren't about to fix what ain't broke. They might occasionally spend marketing dollars on a book which has an LGBT side-character, but they certainly won't focus on that in the marketing, because the goal is to sell books to as wide an audience as possible (i.e. make money), and there is a large percentage of every target market who will scream "agenda!" at any book with any whiff of LGBT representation within its pages.

Let's look at Richard K. Morgan as an example. He exploded into the science fiction literary world with Altered Carbon, and the rest of his Takeshi Kovacs novels likewise sold hundreds of thousands of copies. There was a period between around 2002-2008 where just about everyone in Science Fiction was recommending Richard K. Morgan's books.

And then he released The Steel Remains.

It's a fantasy novel. The protagonist is gay. There is explicit homosexual sex in the book. If you fancy banging your head against the desk for a few hours, check out some of the glorious 1-star reviews this book earned: https://www.amazon.com/Steel-Remains-Land-Heroes-Book-ebook/product-reviews/B002U94SHA/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewopt_rvwer?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews&showViewpoints=0&pageNumber=1

Here's a handful:

"What really ruins this book is the repeated emphasis on the protagonist being homosexual, which doesn't actually contribute to the plot in any meaningful way, and leaves the reader wondering why he should actually care."

" I swear I'm not a homophobe. Actually, creating a gay main character in a supposedly action focused novel, a genre typically dominated by the manliest of men, is definitely unique and potentially interesting. But really, how many gay people can there be in one story? The two main characters are gay? Hmm, strange coincidence."

"The character's sexual preference didn't bother me, but it didn't interest me either."

"Overuse of overly graphic sex scenes. The fact that the sex is gay, and thus leaves me cold just highlights the authors excess."

"Couldn't get past the first 60 pages, it would have saved me a lot of money if the synopses had warned me about the main characters lifestyle."

The last one pretty much sums up exactly why you don't see LGBT books marketed as such: it apparently breaks readers' brains to intentionally head into a book with non-heterosexual protagonists.

Alas this leaves us LGBT readers and writers with a huge problem: readers can't find books, and writers can't afford to market.

The irony, of course, is that readers also generally despise author self-promotion. Which would help readers find books :D

He's missing his family. Once he realises you're his family he'll be fine.

Original Poster1 point · 2 years ago

why are you writing in bold?? Anyway, yes, the book is on number one as you may see, I have a lot of friends that bought it in one day. No reviews because the book is very young, just trying to have fast sales so amazon start to push it. But the best selling badge would help me my marketing and I still haven't got it...

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why are you writing in bold??

Because they started their post with a #. As in #1.

Like this.

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Hi /u/BookSproutChris. Quick question!

If I make an author account, can I then allow other people with their own accounts access to mine to post notifications on my behalf?

The obvious example is that I would like my Assistant to do all this work but not for her to have ownership of my account.

Does BookSprout have allowance for this?

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Hey again Scarlet! Just thought I'd drop in and let you know that Book Sprout now has a feature to import books from Amazon. It's not quite letting a VA in, but it should make things a lot less painful!

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Original Poster1 point · 2 years ago

Woohoo! Cheers! <3

Ah Scarlet! Glad to see you again :P

Unfortunately, as of right now, that's not a feature Book Sprout supports. I can keep it in mind and see if there's demand for such a feature though!

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Original Poster2 points · 2 years ago

This is me, demandin' it :D

You would have a canine doorbell, yes. Also it isn't yapping. It's barking. They may look small but they are loud :D

For some reason this made me laugh unreasonably hard :D

That looks phenomenal! I love the way you've blended the colour up through the eyebrows too.

2 points · 2 years ago

Got here that way too!

This might just inspire me to go back and play with makeup again! But the cost now, ugh. ;.;

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You can get some damn good makeup without a huge cost. Morphe Brushes, for example, do huge palettes like this shimmery beauty for $20: https://www.morphebrushes.com/collections/pro-makeup-palettes/products/35u-multi-color-shimmer-palette

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Hi folks, I'm organising an event in February 2017 and need to find a meeting room for ~30 delegates.

I realise all the Western chain hotels have meeting facilities I could book, but I wondered whether there were other options available. Do any museums, libraries, or more esoteric locations have interesting facilities available for hire?

Thanks :D

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Original Poster1 point · 2 years ago

That looks PERFECT! Thank you! <3

20 points · 2 years ago

Yeah, I thought it looked very quintessentially British somehow. If you'd told me it was put together from scrap metal by a half a dozen burly men in a shed in Yorkshire, I'd probably believe you.

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Eeee, tha' were lucky t'ave shed!

For true next level Britishness, correct use of the word bloody is something we all learn by diffusion, cannot explain the rules of, yet will instantly pick up when it's being used incorrectly by a non-British writer.

Sorry about that.

Also your fella should likely say sorry a lot :D

1 point · 2 years ago · edited 2 years ago

The cooker can also be called the "Aga." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGA_cooker

Pretty sure most students would call it "uni," as opposed to "university," although the alpha billionaire might be more formal and talk about his time "at university." Speaking of schooling, "public school" is private school. Not that your erotica story would involve a character in "public school" but if someone wanted to insult someone else, they might call them a "public school [fill in insulting word]."

Also, "cunt" seems to be much more regularly used in conversation, and seems to be used to mean something along the lines of "bitch."

I enjoy Brit humor, so I tend to watch a lot of Brit movies/read a lot of Brit lit, but also have close friends who are British

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You've gotta be well posh to have an Aga, innit!

Uh-huh. Yep. Alrighty then.

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This is a random thread for me to wander into, but s/he's correct.

1-10 inclusive means including the 1 and the 10. 1-10 exclusive means excluding the 1 and the 10.

So there you have it! Random Scarlet drive-by! :D

'Course I can't think of why anyone would use 1-10 exclusive rather than 2-9 inclusive. It seems like an opportunity for changing the sentence to clarify meaning.

I have to ask how "1-10 (or one through ten to write it out long form) exclusive" is equivalent to "exclusive of 1 & 10" or "exclusive of 1, 10". One is a range of ten numbers, the other is two specific numbers of that set. This is a unicode type text which doesn't have en dashes afaik, so I can't say I've ever seen the dash between two numbers used to indicate a separator between those numbers rather than a range indicator on Reddit. Excepting for phone numbers and parts of addresses which likely shouldn't be posted on Reddit in the first place.

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Yeah, like I say, I can't think of why anyone would write it like that when there are considerably clearer ways of communicating :D

4 points · 2 years ago

I feel like this goes past the realm of inexperienced owner and into "has no common sense at all"

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I think it goes past inexperienced owner and into the realm of "this will be a funny YouTube video which will get lots of likes! I will endanger my dog's life for internet points!"

Original Poster3 points · 2 years ago

Source.

https://youtu.be/yEtg7QZCbPk

This resulted in a fire. :(

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I'm confused. Why the f was she letting her dog play around in a cupboard full of dangerous chemicals anyway?!

I tend to think of him as the spirit of destruction, but unfortunately the show did refer to him as the spirit of evil one or more times (Jinora reading the book in the spirit library for example), which I think cheapened the potential for something more interesting.

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Wasn't that more that the author of that book considered him evil, though? Not that he was actually evil?

5 points · 2 years ago · edited 2 years ago

He is 100% being a jackass. He could have done whatever it was he did, WITHOUT posting about his actions. You both could have handled it in PMs.

He is being a jackass.

ETA: The more I think about this the more annoyed I get. A forum moderator should know the right way to handle something against their rules is not publicly on another forum. Is your rule for him to come whine on EA about someone breaking your rules?

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He's not one of my moderators. But by all means claim that he is.

I didn't think nor claim he was. I was talking to you.

You should know the right way to handle this was not to bring it up publicly on a completely different forum from your own. I was shocked you were attempting to defend his actions. It's not like you'd want that sort of thing posted publicly on your forum, so why is it OK on EA?

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Is your rule for him to come whine on EA about someone breaking your rules?

Make up your mind who you're complaining about, eh?

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