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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · 7d

I have had this stuck in my head all day so by God someone else will too.

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Say Potato Song by Lewky

YouTube video by Righteous Rawb ➊

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · 8d

I think that's what I mean but I'm as guilty of terminology blurring as anyone, as much as it try to resist it

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · 8d

"AI ≠ LLM" is my personal hill but I don't think I'm going to win that one either

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · 8d

The good and bad news is that this is a shared burden

Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · 10d

Good on ya! It's hard to walk away from a useful thing, even when the reasons are good ones. I don't say that lightly.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · 14d

The future of US Education
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The “authenticity” of books.😂😂😂#viral #trending #shorts #comedy

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · 24d

Or just throw gobs of mashed potatoes at someone while screaming "THIS MEANS SOMETHING" at the top of your lungs

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 26d

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 26

I love good satire... this is fucking BRILLIANT satire. It's so good it makes me jealous - the best kind of seething jealousy that permeates every fibre of my being. Francesca Fiorentini is a goddamn legend.

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Why Winning Is Bad for Democrats

Oh, you want life to get better now, do you? Do you even understand politics?

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 26

It took me five posts and an hour and a half to form that reply so I'll go collapse from mental exhaustion unless there are follow up questions or strongly-worded objections.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 26

...whereas webcartoonists mostly ignored syndicates after a certain point and focused on each other.

Well, and Wiley. He was a pretty solid source of entertainment for a while.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 26

Though I will say they were targeted differently. For the most part (with exceptions) the self publishers tended to target publishing houses and any traditionally published authors they thought was pulling a Wiley. They _usually_ left other self publishing authors alone...

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 26

Webcomics predates social media, but it doesn't predate Trying To Attract People's Attention: writing angry screeds about how bad a popular webcomic or webcartoonist was generated attention. Webcomics was the first place I saw that done for Marketing Purposes. Self Publishing was the second.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 26

Webcomics may have invented "clout chasing." Pre-webcomics, all the pie fights I remember were gleefully voluntary, mostly about operating systems, religion, and whether Robert Jordan would ever finish the Wheel of Time.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 26

I've been trying to reply to this intelligently for almost an hour and failing. I think the problem is that so many of the parallels I saw fifteen years ago have just turned into "This is how the internet works" today so the observations aren't particularly meaningful. But I'll give it a shot.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 26

Well, first a caveat: I think early self-publishing was probably a larger community than early webcomics, simply because all the tools were better developed and more accessible, so it's possible I was just seeing a small sub-community and erroneously assumed it was like that for the whole thing...

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 26

What I thought was wild was when self publishing started to get big and the self publishers started doing almost all of the same stupid things we did in webcomicsland. Slightly tilted and distorted, but pretty much the same stuff. It was eerie.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 25

Hadn't thought of that! But yeah, that could be.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 25

If that's all the info they provide I think odds favor it being a job in NYC just because commuting from NJ to NYC is a stronger default assumption than anything else I can think of. But they're not perfect odds.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 25

Yeah, it feels like the world is just carving out a little space for the Super Expensive Thing About To Happen.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · Sep 24

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 23

Christ, I spend so much online time half-writing posts and replies on BlueSky and then forcing myself to discard them. So much time. Most of my time. I really don't trust my online judgment these days.

I need to write faster so I can have something to talk about.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 22

I just ran across the term "Gen Z stare" and had to google it and now I feel soiled. What the fuck fellow old people??? Don't even pretend you've never stared blankly at someone talking nonsense before.

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 22

Maybe the guy at the event was the impostor!

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Self-Publishing Supervillain @eviscerati.org · Sep 20

What did Blue Sky do now???

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