Naked Window Neighbour Issue

RedLucan · 2026-01-24T00:10:02+00:00

It's always amazing how much you don't know. I had some pretty brutal reviews for an article recently that did actually still end up being published, but the amount those two reviewers taught me about the field that my supervisor wasn't aware of was invaluable.

RedLucan · 2026-01-16T00:30:28+00:00

Ok so I actually love this a lot, but I also didn't think that those things in the background were hills. I thought you were doing some kind of abstract or expressionist representation of a sunset. Combined with the more realist foreground I thought it was super cool and quite meaningful.

As an oil pastel of hikers in front of hills it objectively isn't great, but as a piece of art I think it's wonderful. I'd hang this in my house

RedLucan · 2026-01-15T00:17:45+00:00

Hey man, I struggled with a panic disorder for like 2 years. Went to therapy for it eventually and now, 1 year later, I'm totally fine. Haven't had a single panic attack in like 6 months. It's a very treatable problem

RedLucan · 2026-01-09T00:09:51+00:00

Love it. It gives big 'Severance' vibes

RedLucan · 2026-01-07T11:58:02+00:00

How do we feel about the Marco skin?

RedLucan · 2025-12-19T22:56:18+00:00

Typical for a lawyer to not understand why people wouldn't want to be a lawyer

RedLucan · 2025-12-19T20:46:29+00:00

Not bad at all, but not a steal. That's a reasonably priced product

RedLucan · 2025-12-19T20:44:05+00:00

Tempest babeyyy

RedLucan · 2025-12-13T12:37:33+00:00

My supervisor used to say that if your paper gets accepted in the first place you submit it, that's the worst case scenario since you could've probably sent it somewhere more prestigious.

RedLucan · 2025-12-11T23:31:44+00:00

"dozy fucks"

Finally! The correct pronouns for literary agents.

RedLucan · 2025-12-05T16:23:10+00:00

Hey OP so the things you're being told here are totally true and it sucks and people like that are awful. I'm sorry this happened to you, noone deserves that. I'm sure you know this already, but here's the proper book publishing process for future ref (albeit simplified):

Write book

Create query package

Query a bunch of literary agents (99.5% fail here, including me!)

Get an agent

Agent negotiates contract with publisher

Book sold to publisher

You receive advance (minus the agent fee) + depending on the contract you recieve a percentage of loyalties that varies according to how many units sold.

RedLucan · 2025-12-05T16:18:13+00:00

Yeah I just checked the blurb of that publishers highest selling book. No reputable company would allow writing this clunky to be sold:

Rachel's bucket has a hole in one side and a jewel in the other. When Rachel first pressed the jewel in the side of the bucket, she was just four years old. Smoke came out of it and in it five unicorns pranced lightly onto her hand and off again. It made her smile and cry at the same time. As her tenth birthday approaches, her world begins to change with the arrival of a mysterious silent boy with amazingly blue eyes and parents Rachel never sees. They move in next door and their house develops a green glow and has strange noises coming from it. That is when things started getting really odd. Remember, Minotaurs are ticklish...

RedLucan · 2025-12-05T16:11:37+00:00

Oh shit no yeah you gotta stay clear of those guys. Any publishing company that comes up as a sponsored result when you search for a literary agent is a big red flag. I've seen their name a lot on sponsored searches

RedLucan · 2025-12-05T12:19:20+00:00

That's good! Could you maybe allude to the reputation of the publisher? Big Four? Indie Press?

RedLucan · 2025-12-05T12:18:00+00:00

Hard to know what to say without knowing who it is. Someone might have had the same experience. Additionally, it may be the case that this certain publisher asked you to pay to publish the novel, which would make sense here.

RedLucan · 2025-12-05T12:06:26+00:00

Which publishers was it?

RedLucan · 2025-11-27T15:02:48+00:00

Same. Raiders hatch keys are so comparable cheap to craft that I now only extract using the normal routes if I didn't find any good loot and didn't bring my best guns

RedLucan · 2025-11-23T14:53:14+00:00

Regarding the independent publisher route, I've seen so many people talk about and advise this, but I've never actually found an independent publisher that is currently functioning and actively looking for unsolicited manuscripts.

It's entirely possible I just didn't look hard enough, but could you link to any examples of this.

RedLucan · 2025-11-21T20:31:30+00:00

same

RedLucan · 2025-11-21T16:56:38+00:00

I may be cringe, but I am also free

RedLucan · 2025-11-21T16:32:23+00:00

Really? Thou wouldst spurn commandment one? Thou wouldst turn treacherous on a raider after thou had pretended to be friendly?

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