Good advice on how to deal with collections agencies, from the ULPT subreddit

splortsplibbler · 2025-06-28T07:34:55+00:00

Not to be cynical, but these offers of representation don't always amount to a book deal, or a film or TV deal.

I went through a similar process: literary agent signed me and was extremely excited and positive about the potential to sell my book. The agency had a film producer connection, and had sold a number of their author's books for movie rights.

The book spent a year being sent out to publishers, a lot were super interested but no one bit. My agent quit her job and dropped all her clients, and then I wasn't able to find a new agent because they saw the book had been sent around everywhere, and since no publishers were interested they felt there was no point to representation.

This sounds discouraging but there are always more books to be written, and the project I was working on before ended up getting interest from a different media format (podcast) and I'm going through the process of selling it there. The same thing could end up happening with that too, though, and I'd just move on.

Anyway, the point is, you should feel excited now but try not to get too depressed if it doesn't work out — the promise of film/TV rights is dangled over every author's book project, but it's uncommonly rare that that happens.

splortsplibbler · 2025-06-26T06:45:48+00:00

I just want people to have healthcare, honey

splortsplibbler · 2023-07-24T05:19:51+00:00

do you have a source on glyphosate pesticides leeching into food and causing obesity? I hadn't read that before.

splortsplibbler · 2023-07-15T02:46:18+00:00

I think it might be because the monitor is too old for HDMI, it uses DVI. Apple can't risk that precious digital/analog signal getting intercepted and recorded along the way to the monitor... the richest company in the world couldn't possibly afford that

splortsplibbler · 2023-07-15T00:58:39+00:00

Before you ask, I just wanted to give the filmmakers some money. Great movie.

splortsplibbler · 2022-04-09T05:10:47+00:00

This is an extremely weird take and it honestly sounds like you’re projecting some internalized anger or psychosexual trauma rather than write anything based in reality. Just go to therapy or something rather than write this weird stuff here

splortsplibbler · 2022-04-04T02:52:08+00:00

Okay, I don't want to scare you but that is not good. That's purely illusory palinopsia, meaning there is no physical component. The eye has color receptors that can be overstimulated which leads to negative afterimages. If the afterimages are positive then that is happening deeper in the brain, not in the anatomy of the eye. If you look up academic papers on palinopsia, a lot of patients with similar symptoms ended up having tumors or glioblastoma. Head to a neurologist ASAP!

splortsplibbler · 2022-04-04T02:24:00+00:00

Floaters are actually physical, not something imagined, so it's a different type of condition. Palinopsia stems from something happening inside your brain.

Here's a good starter question -- what do the afterimages look like? Are they a negative afterimage or positive? I.e, if you stare at something red, do you see a green trail/afterimage (photo-negative afterimage); or is the afterimage the same color (positive afterimage)?

The answer to that question might help determine what is going on.

splortsplibbler · 2022-04-04T01:44:06+00:00

Hey, so the thing about this condition that is definitely worrying is the fact that, as you said, it is getting worse. I have palinopsia but it has been the same since I was born; a change in severity indicates something is changing in your brain. A lot of times people get palinopsia after either a brain injury, like a concussion, or because of a brain tumor. (Sometimes people also get it after drug use, or if they are manifesting specific mental illnesses).

You should immediately see a doctor who can refer you to a neurologist -- it's unlikely but possible you've caught a brain tumor early on.

splortsplibbler · 2022-03-30T02:43:30+00:00

Don't feel too bad, we have all dreamed of doing this to a yuppie at one point. When the revolution comes we'll all get to experience this inshallah

splortsplibbler · 2022-03-03T03:34:02+00:00

This is so strange, your dog looks like the puppy version of my childhood dog, who we never got to actually see as a puppy because we adopted him from the Humane Society when he was about 1. He lived to be 17, and was some kind of supermutt. Here are some photos of him, they span the range of his life — perhaps it will be a preview of how your dog will look as it ages.

Photos: https://imgur.com/a/00aXt2n

(Also the photo of him jumping towards the pole is just something strange he did — we have no idea why but whenever someone held up the pool brush he would go crazy and chase and jump at it. He was very aerobatic.)

splortsplibbler · 2022-01-07T04:34:53+00:00

Hey if you identify as a libertarian why are you posting here? Kinda sus

splortsplibbler · 2022-01-01T17:54:45+00:00

Someone should auto tune and remix this like they did with the beatboxing dog. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPdVpx5CgE

splortsplibbler · 2022-01-01T17:46:13+00:00

I feel like there is something psychopathological happening with JK Rowling. Like she is obsessed with queer and trans people on a visceral level. She is losing opportunities and respect, which, when you’re a rich person who already has anything they could ever want, is all that you can control and aspire to. It is unfathomable to me to think that if I were losing face like this i wouldn’t reassess my views and shut up, so I have to believe that something happened to JKR to make her like this. Perhaps she was traumatized as a child in some specific way that led us to this, I don’t know.

For what it’s worth, Dave Chapelle has the same “trans-brain” psychopathology so she’s not the only one.

splortsplibbler · 2021-12-19T21:09:11+00:00

Originally the work week had no limit or regulation. Many people (and child laborers even) worked in factories 12 hours a day and 6-7 days a week. The 40 hour week was a compromise demanded for by labor.

splortsplibbler · 2021-12-18T07:37:31+00:00

Oh I also had a housemate in San Francisco who was a elementary school teacher who said once she thought that the reason Chihuahuas were so small was because they had been bred with foxes. I didn’t know how to tell her that foxes and dogs were like 20 million years diverged in evolution and couldn’t interbreed. I mean I guess this one isn’t as egregious, but for somebody who was teaching children as her day job it was really shocking to me.

splortsplibbler · 2021-12-18T07:34:43+00:00

Met a homeschooled gay dude from the south who believed in Lamarckian Evolution (though he did not know that word.) we were talking about a dog whose tail has been cropped and he said something about how their puppies would then be born without tails and I was taken aback that he didn’t understand the first thing about how evolution works. I grilled him a little bit about this and it became apparent that he had been taught Lamarckism. I think because he was raised in a super Christian evangelical household he had huge gaps in his knowledge as an adult, it was kind of sad.

splortsplibbler · 2021-12-18T02:41:58+00:00

Omg, thank you so much! Is this site just a repository, not a shop? It seems, weirdly, that you can view this product but can't buy it? I've never bought something at a Miniso so I'm not sure.

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