Hey. I'm gonna let you in on something. The book sold 2,111 copies in the week of its release, then fell off significantly after that. This is normal for all but the top-selling novelists. Also, a typical professional novelist (that is, disregarding those who don't make any money at all) will earn around under a thousand in a year from the sale of their books. It's difficult to establish his actual income from ~5,000 copies sold in the two months since release, but a typical author compensation might amount to a dollar in royalties per copy sold (inclusive of the advance). Therefore, Mr. Felker-Martin's novel is an unqualified success, especially given his status as a total unknown prior to its release. Whatever Tor might've expected for him, he probably exceeded their expectations in the first week of sales.
So, the book isn't making him rich. No, he can't quit his day job yet, whatever that might be. But it is selling far better than most novels by unknown (or largely unknown) authors sell. I don't like that fact, and I'd guess most KF users don't either, but it is what it is. Book selling and publishing is a brutal business and very few authors make even enough to feed their cats.
this one really leaves me breathless, tbh. Astounding. they really have no grasp on how their candidness can and should have a profound effect on the care they receive as their biological sex. Also, the fact that physicians are put into a position of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" i e. catering to the delusions of these people.
Ok what is it about trooning out that makes AGP’s in their mid 20’s and beyond think it’s appropriate to dress like a teenage girl specifically? That wouldn’t look good even if they tried to dress in teen clothing of their own sex. Like, could you imagine your middle manager rocking up to the casual Friday in [insert whatever the fuck teenage boys are wearing nowadays because I’m not a groomer]. But, of course, it’s more depraved, because it’s not only teen adult clothing, but of the opposite sex. And it’s usually some overtly feminized and sexualized caricature of youth. It’s always crop tops and “skirt go spinny” and never “bookworm” or “I was a high school athlete”. Which is unfortunate for them because they end up looking like they wrapped a shirt around an Oak cask and the cheap poly skirts usually accentuate the girldique. I rarely see women over 30 in a crop top because at this age it seems like they start to want to project themselves more professionally, whereas I’ve yet to see a troon dress appropriately for their age in a casual setting. (I don’t have much to say about Aidens because I feel bad for them.)
I’m so fed up with the rhetoric that anyone even politely questioning what’s going on is trying to eradicate and eliminate trans people, enact a genocide.
I don’t have screenshots because I wasn’t on the ball, but I saw something circulated on Twitter recently TW HORRIFIC TRANSPHOBIA. THIS IS WHAT WE’RE UP AGAINST!
The tweet was from a doctor and said something along the lines of live how you want, dress and present as you want, change your name if you want, but be very cautious when it comes to taking hormones and pursuing surgery. Think carefully and research thoroughly
ThEy LITeRaLLY WaNt To KIlL Us!
If not allowing transition for children means they all end up dead, why are there so many men transitioning in their 30s/40s/50s? They may not have been particularly happy before, but they didn’t all off themselves, did they? And I’m convinced that the only reason they’re temporarily euphoric, and say they’re so much happier now, is because suddenly they have a ’journey’ to go on, new stuff to explore, goals to achieve, a group that cheers them on, and another group they can whine and complain about and feel victimised by.
I went to that account to find out what the dangers of misgendering are and learned these things:
My favorite part in that nonsense though was the part where they say they want to be "identified correctly without having to explain ourselves" while whining about how people don't use the pronouns they'd prefer.
>three trannies in the same family
they don't even try with their grifts.
thats it, its time for me to finally make a fake-tranny account and start a gofundme for my tranny cats's sex change operation. also known as getting spayed, but I'll leave that part out.
I'm a woman who likes video games and capeshit, talks about them online, and uses gender-neutral usernames everywhere. As you'd expect, I am always he/dude/bro/etc. in male-primary settings. And it doesn't fucking matter! It's not designed to offend, and so I don't get offended when they look at the overwhelming likelihood that the unknown person they're talking to is male and pick pronouns accordingly.
Hmm. Kind of like when a person looks at someone who stands 6'3", with a retreating hairline, lantern jaw, broad shoulders, narrow hips, and brow ridge: the overwhelming likelihood is that this person is male. They pick pronouns accordingly. But you wusses do let it affect you, and then you try to turn it into everyone else's problem.
I'm a woman who likes video games and capeshit, talks about them online, and uses gender-neutral usernames everywhere. As you'd expect, I am always he/dude/bro/etc. in male-primary settings. And it doesn't fucking matter! It's not designed to offend, and so I don't get offended when they look at the overwhelming likelihood that the unknown person they're talking to is male and pick pronouns accordingly.
Hmm. Kind of like when a person looks at someone who stands 6'3", with a retreating hairline, lantern jaw, broad shoulders, narrow hips, and brow ridge: the overwhelming likelihood is that this person is male. They pick pronouns accordingly. But you wusses do let it affect you, and then you try to turn it into everyone else's problem.
I deal with people all around the world and I’ll occasionally get an email addressed to “dear miss”. Might be something to do with my otherwise male western name sounding feminine in east Asia but I get a good laugh out of when it happens. I never correct them as it really doesn’t matter.
If I went all “it’s SIR actually” I’d think it would be weird and drag out an otherwise short and impersonal business transaction action.
Weird that if I put on a dress tomorrow and went into work that they’d have to burn down anyone who called me sir no matter what the interaction was or what name I used or if I didn’t even bother to shave off my beard.
Spinny dress go uwu.
It's not designed to offend, and so I don't get offended when they look at the overwhelming likelihood that the unknown person they're talking to is male and pick pronouns accordingly.
Ah, there's your mistake. You need to understand that the only reason anyone would ever do something you dislike is because they maliciously wish to harm you deliberately. You are the protagonist of the universe and their refusal to know and accept this is an intentional infliction of emotional distress. If you sign up for my expensive unlicensed emotional affirmation care program we can help you to a healthy new you with blinders removed to see the sinister truth that everyone is engaged in a deliberate conspiracy against you due to your cosmic importance.
Jay Hulme, the FTM who runs a gay church and had that viral tweet where the poor English speaker told her she was trans, is seemingly unaware that testosterone gel is cancerous.
Now, I know she has become a lolcow, but Exulansic's stuff on how nasty t-gel was will always be a highlight of her videos. The fact these people are recommending a gel that is so toxic you need proper equipment to dispose of and can spread to others is, well, typical of troons.
And here's a mother bragging about her teenage daughter walking into early cancer:
This one is a bit of a cow crossover between proship discourse, general SJW nonsense, and troon logic.
Link / Archive
This one will be cross posted in the fandom discourse thread we have.
Tom here loves free speech. That's why 'he' reblogs Erin in the Morn. She is almost terminally online, suffers from PTSD and whatever mental illness you can think of.
Or you can accept she's a neurotic Jew. Up to you.
Hm, what was it that Jordan Peterson said about being held to higher and higher standards?
"A lot of zoomers haven't been taught critical thinking skills...btw here's my dissertation on how fictional people fucking promotes gay and trans rights"
Another:
I know it isn't troon related, but since so many of these guys don't realize their own gay right are being thrown out for troon rights is, well. I'll let you decide on that one.
EDIT: added content.
Here's a 'fuck TERFs' good little handmaiden admitting that males and males alone are the only equal ones in a relationship. Link / Archive
I am honestly tired of these stupid cunts. You casually admitting that males are the only ones that are equal to each other in a relationship while saying women are undervalued and underrepresented in fiction is fucking great, honestly. How progressive. When AO3's own data shows that female representation in fics is worse there than there is in Hollywood says a million. You know full well what men are when you write them fucking while saying there isn't enough female representation. Then, when there is, you call them TERFs. Just eat shit and die already.
Not the point, Joss, but you knew that already. She gets death, rape and bomb threats on the regular. You shat out your teeth in a rage when she went for lunch with a bunch of lesbians. So when Grechen Faulkner writes a graphic rape fantasy on how he wants to rape and murder TERFs, suddenly, that's on the level of fanfiction?
Nah, Joss. Pretty sure the guys these enbies masturbate to in their fanfics don't go to women's restrooms to film themselves dancing in their ugly skirts.
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and...
So he has it all planned even down to future surgeries, made and met appointments yet hasn't the money to pay for any of it. Rightio.
More Gretchen. When he is addressing a general audience and wants to gain sympathy and be a victim, he is part of a tiny, oppressed, unpopular group:
But when a woman disagrees with him, he can’t keep up the act. He needs to lord his supposed power over her in a way that attempts to make her feel small:
Why did you write a book about murdering members of a tiny, despised minority Gretchen?
Hey. I'm gonna let you in on something. The book sold 2,111 copies in the week of its release, then fell off significantly after that. This is normal for all but the top-selling novelists. Also, a typical professional novelist (that is, disregarding those who don't make any money at all) will earn around under a thousand in a year from the sale of their books. It's difficult to establish his actual income from ~5,000 copies sold in the two months since release, but a typical author compensation might amount to a dollar in royalties per copy sold (inclusive of the advance). Therefore, Mr. Felker-Martin's novel is an unqualified success, especially given his status as a total unknown prior to its release. Whatever Tor might've expected for him, he probably exceeded their expectations in the first week of sales.
So, the book isn't making him rich. No, he can't quit his day job yet, whatever that might be. But it is selling far better than most novels by unknown (or largely unknown) authors sell. I don't like that fact, and I'd guess most KF users don't either, but it is what it is. Book selling and publishing is a brutal business and very few authors make even enough to feed their cats.
I think you’re partially right, but you’re missing some context. Gretchen has been an active writer for a long time and has published at least a couple of other novels, although it looks like they were self-published. I don’t know what the advance for Manhunt was, but it clearly wasn’t anything life changing, since he lives with roommates and tweeted about taking a Greyhound bus less than two months ago.
But in terms of boosting sales, he’s done everything a niche first-time author should do: build up a readership beforehand, maintain a steady online presence for years, build contacts within the industry that relates to his niche (horror). Definitely not a "total unknown."
As for a day job: LOL, no. He lives off patreon money.
Now, as a bonus: a peek at the type of person who is enjoying "Manhunt":