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Wow the job market is absolute shit. (hexbear.net)
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Started applying today to put my feelers out there to see if anyone even responds. Like the best I can find is $18 an hour factory work. This was the same kind of work that existed during covid, nothings changed! It's still shit!!

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[–] 55 points 2 days ago (6 children)

This is why i'm trying to get published

But apparently publishers are afraid of a book where cops die by the hundreds and the ending has the protagonists taking over the US's nuclear missile silos and starting a 2nd Civil War

I figure i might need some more clout before anyone wants to touch that right now

Which is why i'm writing up something called I KILL WIZZARDS

I think it'll probably end up a comic or animated series

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  • [–] 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    My current literary project has the Chinese invading the USA. I can dream, can’t I? 🥺

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  • [–] 36 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    This was the original version of the 2012 Red Dawn, but they changed it to the DPRK so they could make money in China. Apparently it still wasn't released in China peltier-laugh

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  • [–] 21 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Except don’t the good guys lose in red dawn? My book has the USA attack china, lose badly, then get invaded and fracture into warring states. I actually wrote the first draft before the iran war started so it’s kind of outdated now 😳.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I don't remember what happens in the shitty new one (all I really remember is the Subway product placement), in the old one all the ”heroic” high school kids die by the end and it's at least a little ambiguous.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Oh lol I only saw the old one and got bored when the kids started winning. It was pretty good until that point though.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago

    Yeah same. I watch a lot of old Cold War crap just 'til us commies start losing, though, most of it's good til then and crap the rest of the way to the end.

    ⓘ This user is suspected of being a bear. Please report any suspawcious behaviour.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago

    I'm about a 3rd of the way through a SciFi novel about an frozen mining planet that's under occupation but the resistance gets it's hands what's basically a large version of a Star Trek replicator to start 3D printing rockets.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    You got something against Rincewind?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Rincewind isn't an immortal god-king forcing the people to toil for his own benefit

    I mean, i don't think he is, I never finished all the Discworld books

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Can I read that first work?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I'll post some snippets soon

    I'm going to do some edits over the next week so you'll be getting the real deal

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Why let publishers gatekeep you? Indie publishing is easier than it's ever been (not joking). You do probably have to make a deal with the devil (Amazon), but it's definitely doable.

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