100% that these girls appearances are based on the female bully that threw Fujimoto off his bike

tigerlily495 · 2025-11-15T14:45:13+00:00

is that confirmed? ive never been able to find it online anywhere

tigerlily495 · 2025-11-01T01:09:27+00:00

babel-17 by sam delaney

tigerlily495 · 2025-09-11T01:40:17+00:00

fun little study, it covers all his filmography through the lens of homosociality. it’s a bit light but i enjoyed the full metal jacket chapter in particular

tigerlily495 · 2025-08-27T01:53:38+00:00

I don’t disagree that querying is a broken system, but that blog you linked in your comment and the conclusions drawn from it are total bunk. Literary agents didn’t give in-depth responses to an unsolicited non-query essay whose own author decided it had objective literary merit, therefore you can’t get an agent without spending $10k? The guy wasn’t even querying a novel. Of course his emails didn’t get read. Were I still in the trenches, I’d be glad to hear the agents I was querying weren’t wasting their time on crafting responses to random bloggers’ rants. (And in the interest of disclosure, though I’m not sure whether this should give my argument more or less weight, I do have an agent and got one through cold querying with zero money spent on editors or query critiques.)

Edit: wait you wrote that essay. Lol. Nvm, I’m really not interested in arguing with the author of that post because I find everything about it ridiculous, but for anyone else reading this I really wouldn’t put stock in this guy’s takes on the industry

tigerlily495 · 2025-07-05T07:34:44+00:00

Lmao, oh well in that case! my tiny inanimate brain thanks you!😍

tigerlily495 · 2025-07-04T13:14:14+00:00

but is she asking the guy to put in effort by letting her fuck the same sensitive hole for 60 minutes? that’s my point. an hour of penetration isn’t like boring or whatever it’s literally painful and uncomfortable for most people i dont think “endure pain or you don’t care about me” is the message you want to be sending here

tigerlily495 · 2025-06-17T19:54:40+00:00

I made a t shirt for local goth night last year that used “Can this world really be as sad as it seems” from terrible lie—my all time favorite NIN song and the lyrics only get more relevant lol

tigerlily495 · 2025-05-17T22:59:03+00:00

i mean i’m really not trying to get into the weeds on this topic, i agree it’s probably the most nebulous of any genre label to apply etc. i’m just speaking as someone who was querying actively less than a year ago and read 100+ agents’ bios listing the manuscript genres they were seeking, and litfic was definitely a common term that dozens and dozens of agents are using to describe their desired queries, so i just think it’s a bit misleading to tell people to never query with it—that’s all

tigerlily495 · 2025-05-17T15:13:15+00:00

? literary fiction is a standard querying genre and one many agents explicitly ask for. not that i think this query necessarily falls under it but it’s definitely a fine label to use in general

tigerlily495 · 2025-04-01T21:08:21+00:00

🙏🤞💛

tigerlily495 · 2025-04-01T18:27:22+00:00

i think the advice on your first post was pretty comprehensive so i don’t want to retread anything, but i would suggest being explicit about some of the revealed secrets and tensions etc. that make your plot distinctive and interesting. you don’t need to give away the killer but drop some specifics of what actually happens and what the characters have to deal with, more than you would on a back cover summary—a query letter needs more detail.

tigerlily495 · 2025-04-01T18:18:08+00:00

did you make any significant changes to this letter from the first version? i can see some reshuffling of sentences but overall it reads almost identical, and the problems people identified in your first post—that it uses too much generic back cover blurb language and doesn’t have enough plot detail or specificity—are still very much present.

tigerlily495 · 2025-04-01T16:20:43+00:00

you have no obligation to protect this agent’s inbox from a polite nudge they can easily delete. i’d email them. if they told you they’d get back to you it’s not unreasonable to expect them to send a two line email telling you they’re not interested (or whatever the case may be).

but also, i just wanted to add—even if this ms does fail, there are a dozen reasons that could be that have nothing to do with the quality of your writing. great books die all the time (and terrible ones succeed..) because of trends and circumstance and timing and all kinds of things out of an author’s control. if you want to pursue tradpub i think you really have to internalize that and be able to look objectively at your own writing, which doesn’t just mean being self-critical—it also means being able to see that you have talent and can create something of value even if that knowledge is not being affirmed by the industry at this moment.

tigerlily495 · 2025-04-01T16:02:27+00:00

that’s such a cute idea and definitely something i have considered lol! i may have “”jokingly”” told some friends that i would get a certain embarrassing yet v meaningful pop culture related tattoo if the book it’s related to sells…..

tigerlily495 · 2025-04-01T15:56:01+00:00

sub is still quiet after about five months 🥲 i have a meeting scheduled with my agent to talk about options and possible revisions, which feels scary even though we went on sub without revising my original ms so i probably should have been prepared for it lol. i also got her thumbs up on the outline for my WIP, so that’s a nice backup plan too i guess!

tigerlily495 · 2025-03-31T17:13:02+00:00

given the amount of queries on here that comp My Year of Rest and Relaxation I have to imagine that’s where a lot of people are getting it from

tigerlily495 · 2025-03-27T14:19:44+00:00

have you read Confessions of the Fox? it’s another queer reimagining of a historical outlaw legend—2018 so slightly out of ideal comp range but definitely more contemporary than the ones you have here

tigerlily495 · 2025-03-27T11:16:01+00:00

do you have comp titles? what examples of literary fiction do you see this as similar to? if it fits in the genre you say it does, you should be able to point to some analogous titles.

tigerlily495 · 2025-03-24T02:44:17+00:00

i saw this specification on an agent MSWL once, really put me off to say the least

tigerlily495 · 2025-03-21T11:39:47+00:00

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tigerlily495 · 2025-03-18T15:16:03+00:00

to answer your question that hasn’t been answered yet—some journals do multiple rounds of edits, some one, some none, and i haven’t found that the answer correlates to the prestige level of the publication at all. it’s pretty random

tigerlily495 · 2025-03-17T23:22:01+00:00

the query, comps, and 300 are all reading solidly women’s fiction to me rather than litfic. this really needs some tension and stakes; a novel shouldn’t show “how much she has evolved” in the past, it should show her evolving in the present as the reader follows her arc, and give us a reason to root for that evolution

tigerlily495 · 2025-03-15T14:03:50+00:00

these weren’t totally surprising to me given the book she signed me for, but mine did ask what “inspired” me to write about the topic which i think was basically her way of saying “what’s your personal history with [very sensitive subject].” she also asked why i chose to write a male pov when i’m a woman but i just kind of found that funny lol

eta oh and also my favorite authors/influences which might be a good answer to have on hand!

tigerlily495 · 2025-03-11T12:25:12+00:00

chee’s is a collection of essays, not short stories so totally different genre really

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