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You can find almost all of my writing on my website: matthollandauthor.com One of the few surviving websites that doesn't have ads or pop-ups of any kind. Everything on there is free, but it is Patreon supported if you feel like paying for it. No pressure though: patreon.com/gallaetha_matt
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creating Novels, short stories, and weird fiction
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Trying to imagine what it would be like if other businesses worked like creative freelance. "Cheers for providing the food I asked for, Tesco. Invoice me and, while there are no guarantees, we'll see if we can get you paid within the next couple of months"
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Every other guy online is a debate pervert who gets paid like $750k a year by the Liberty Flame Institute LLC, which nobody has ever heard of, to alternate between saying that the age of consent is too high and that puberty blockers "destroy fertility."
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Matt Holland Author Dot Only Fans coming 2026
I think in the new year I'm gonna start looking at money making ideas. Some kind of plot, or scheme if you will, to acquire a lot of money in a short period of time
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Seeing the replies and the discussions on this issue, the realisation that writing is extremely unlikely to get me out of the rat race is hitting me like a punch to the liver.

I mean, I'll still write my garbage. But man. That sucks on ice
my income is only books and another similar art in a different field, but definitely no day job, so this does not apply to me, but i think my trot is to acknowledge that this is very very rare and that while talent and persistence matter the most important factor of me being here is luck
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Watch her go through the stages of grief in, like, fifteen seconds as she realises that her worldview is nonsense. Hopefully she reaches acceptance soon.
The Labour Government: there to serve the
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Here's some good news for a change, I went down another belt loop. Pretty soon I'm gonna need another belt entirely and that'll be another whole thing
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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While everyone is worrying about a Reform government, a Labour one is already taking away our rights
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Can any generous souls out there please help my partner and I cover £20 of basic groceries to last us the rest of the week? We're pretty much out of ingredients ♿🏳️‍⚧️

paypal.me/StuffOfMemes
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Well said.
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Labour party today:
- Disabled people can’t drive Audis, BMWs and Mercedes on Motability. No to £25k Audis but £36k Nissans are fine
- Discredited PFI to return for funding NHS projects
- Trial by jury to be axed except for most serious cases

That’s just today
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Conservation or genocide? A new video is premiering tonight at 19:00! Give it a like and a share and tune in for the premier
youtu.be/d-9I69WZrU0?...
Conservation or Genocide?
YouTube video by JohntheDuncan
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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U.K. court un-divorces linehan in recent ruling
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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the alt-right playbook, 2017-2025
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?

And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I know I banged on about this yesterday and I know it pisses a lot of people off when I advocate for my career. But it's not just about the money. In the attention economy where everyone is fighting to get noticed by the algorithm, stealing a book actively pushes it down in the algorithm >
I do feel like people love to steal from authors more than they do from most other creatives. People tend to keep their heads down and have the decency to feel bad about pirating from musicians, but there are people almost proud of stealing the work from authors
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”

Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
His safeword is "Get up. Go home. I'm opposed to what you're umm doing."
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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this years charity tee is available to preorder for 2 weeks, 100% of proceeds go to Crisis UK - a charity dedicated to ending homelessness

nobody owns this design yet, it is available in a range of colours as i appreciate we're not all emos (long sleeves and a chunky sweater are avail too)

🔗 ⬇️
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Pacino is amazing, I think James Caan is terrific, both of those roles just seem obviously well performed and then there’s a big cartoon cat
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Gonna pull this out, since you added me to the "classism" thread.

People pirated from Skyla Dawn Cameron, who has talked about how much she's struggling this year. I'm pretty sure Skyla know how poor "poor" can be.

And you made a giant ass thread justifying stealing from people like her.
People in my social circles, myself included, are saving up scraps of money just for some groceries.

I don't think you get how poor "poor" can be.
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I sniff glue gun paste, now my face is plastic (Plastic)
Having a gang bang to Jackson Five (That's right)
I'm a ratchet guy
Lost my wife, what a prat, goodbye
No (Bitch), don't talk to me
Unless it's an emergency
I gotta go, I gotta take a number three
That's a piss and a shit and a wank in a tree
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM