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04 September 2025
This event began 09/04/2025 and repeats every year forever
Deep Space Nine is my favorite Star Trek show and yes, I love Sisko but it is the storytelling + characters. I think it is the best series in that way.
and yes I love Discovery, and yes I love Michael Burnham, but it is the voyage. Discovery went more unknown places than any star trek since VOyager while absent Voyager's overall storyline which I think hurt the show... Voyager should never had made it back home , and started a federation in the delta quadrant.
https://youtu.be/DxgDqv-Uqnw?si=1AQQ8wiDCJQKhOfz
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04 September 2025
This event began 09/04/2025 and repeats every year forever
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04 September 2025
This event began 09/04/2025 and repeats every year forever
Ne Zha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwBIY-EK7h8
my comment
Thank you for introducing Ne Zha's origins.
Yes, I see how Ne Zha has transformed into a new character.
I wonder Ne Zha did outside China in non Asian audiences. Do you know a way to find out?
Movies need to be quiet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEAQm8Op3Hw
my comment
Milius + Donner were purposeful film storytellers who came from a time where quiet was common in more movies than meets the eye.
But so many directors were raised on movies that were never quiet, it has formed their artistic sense.
I like Dungeons and Dragons honor among thieves and the last guardians movie too.
YEs, peter Jackson is a purposeful storyteller as well. He can know what silence says.
Good point on Inside Out 2. Did Inside Out 1 have more silence?
I already subscribed but I am paying attention. The problem then is the execs. But that is an old problem in Hollywood or film making. How do you get money from the coiffeurs of the Hollywoods of the world absent the influence of the coiffeurs owners?
Forbes statistics are brilliant. 1200 malls closed in twenty years.
I had to research what a lifestyle center is, it seems to me, just a tiny mall.
5,700 movie theaters shut down.
Excellent industrial assessment. simple/honest/straight forward
My question to you is , with the modern culture in the usa cementing, even though you are raised in north America, have you ever considered going to china?
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04 September 2025
This event began 09/04/2025 and repeats every year forever
KWL Live Q&A – Multiple Streams of Income with Lisa Lang Blakeney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpjzgWx2B0w
ARTICLE
https://www.kobo.com/kobo-writing-life/blog/kwl-live-q-a-multiple-streams-of-income-with-lisa-lang-blakeney
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THOUGHTS
3:00 Blakeney was in journalism but wanted to be a writer before. 2013 seriously writing, 2015 first novel
5:00 Took her a long time to write the first book, she wasn't sure. Had a lot of nonfiction. The first book she had been writing for a long time.
6:00 Her talk at romance author mastermind was invigorating
7:00 Why did she go wide? For many authors the easiest route is to be exclusive. She originally selected the easiest path which was a mistake. The first book was pulled from am*zon cause it had a racy title, it shocked her. So her series was obliterated overnight. That was when she decided to go wide.
LISA's BOOKS ON KOBO
https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/search?query=lisa+lang+blakeney&ac=1&acp=lisa+lang+blakeney&ac.author=lisa+lang+blakeney&sort=Temperature&fclanguages=en
9:00 All income streams add up, it is not as hard as you think
10:00 When she went wide first, she looked for other authors going wide. The good thing is many niche community groups exist. She just learned that even in am*zon you can put your books in libraries. Being active in writing groups to seek information. When she works with new authors the first thing she finds is they are isolated, they don't speak to other authors. She feels you have to do that.
12:00 Wide for the win is a great group
you will start with the big five: Kobo/Apple/Google/Barnes and Noble/am*zon
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/writinglife
https://press.barnesandnoble.com/
https://authors.apple.com/publish
https://support.google.com/books/partner/answer/3289675?hl=en
14:00 if it is overwhelming to be on all five, then use an aggregator
15:00 Multiple streams of income mean , for google work on SEO of books, for kobo or barnes and nobles that means promotions.
19:00 For apple you have to wait but for others it is top of the month
20:00 It all starts with the building of the newsletter
21:00 always have a part in your newsletter like your treating someone as if they have been their for the first time
22:00 Best way to get kobo is to mention in your newsletter
25:00 Audio was more expensive than translation
28:00 Germany has been her most profitable translated genre for her, and in romance. She translates in French/Italian
Translations
https://lisalangblakeney.com/translations/
29:00 If money is the goal and it doesn't seem overwhelming. All translations is the same as English, just having someone translate.
31:00 she found her first translator through a referral . Looking reviews, asking who they worked before, and you pull the trigger.
34:00 In France many books are translations of English while in holland many still read english. She earned her money in translation quicker than in audio.
35:00 Don't translate until it sells in English
36:00 What is setting smart goals? The downside of all the groups is you get a ton of information.
Take time and give specific tasks for days
39:00 She loves marketing while she has to be in the zone to write. so the journey is unique for all writers.
42:00 How important is direct revenue? I didn't have huge hopes for a direct store. But she did it. Loe and behold direct sales is a big deal. She doesn't put half the energy some authors do and it is her second biggest income stream and stems from the newsletter.
45:00 she sets monthly goals, then her direct sales store is the lever to make magic happen
Her ebooks sell the most from direct sales
46:00 when she found out she was a six figure author it was an accident. She spends more time now auditing herself and having revenue + writing goals.
48:00 she will release 4 books a year.
49:00 we all started on book funnel, the support was there for writers or readers. That is unheard of today.
50:00 she hasn't done a kickstarter.
51:00 Her newsletter really started growing with actual people who are going to read it?
Every time you write a book, you need to make bonus material.
52:00 What do you wish you knew when you started? If you want to sustain a business you have to find more eyes. One thing about the business of writing, early adopting of things helps you.
57:00 she has a place for kobo writers to grow
https://lisalangblakeney.com/kobo-live/
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04 September 2025
This event began 09/04/2025 and repeats every year forever
Final Fantasy- A Nollywood Film
video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgsAPZ7kL9Y
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Starring Stan Nze , Chy Nwakanma,Scarlet Gomez, Thelma Iheanacho, Alez Ayalogu, Uche Inyamah
Directed by Chidi Udensi
Produced by Thelma Iheanacho
Production manager Emeka Adibe
Continuity Cent Micah Duke
Soundman Ifeanyi Ochuba
Cinematography : Jide Otutu + Tareotu III Fidel
Soundtrack Tareotu IV Kennedy
A.D. 1 Jide Otutu
A.D. 2 John Ugoji
Story by Thelma Iheanacho
Editor Chidi Udensi
Screenplay Chidi Udensi
Executive producer Matthew Gbinije
Executive producers Thelma Iheanacho + Chidi Udensi
Distributed Mogson Production + Movienatics Entertainment
Referral
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thelma-victoria-iheanacho-964368121_watch-and-share-this-scintillating-drama-activity-7363838381488750594-vOQd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAC9jwHcBhMdyfurNH2JmdlAPjJgXHivmWR8
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04 September 2025
This event began 09/04/2025 and repeats every year forever
No, THIS is WORST FILM of 2025! (War of the Worlds Remake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbH3fux3Thoembed
my comment
Is this funnier than the Room?
Worst Film List
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/503248/15-worst-movies-ever-made
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04 September 2025
This event began 09/04/2025 and repeats every year forever
Work in progress 2 Which is your favorite?
the center + bottom right are the best covers for any mens magazine. That pose in the center, male fantasy. And all men love a woman to do a little ball play:)
but my personal favorite is the left center. It is a battle axe, the axe blade doesn't need to be so bearded cause the cutting motion from the top of the axe will get the area and less weight makes it easier to swing. The pike can be more dense which will make it better for armor. the short handle is slick making it ideal for close combat, but the chain , I like it , you can swing this ax and use as a whip gaining very nice distance:)
https://www.deviantart.com/dualmask/art/WIPs-set-2-1234842324
I couldn't resist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M36j_mu6L-c
WIP set 1, have all been completed
https://www.deviantart.com/dualmask/art/WIPs-1232689278
an earlier sketch card
https://www.deviantart.com/dualmask/art/Sketch-Card-Plans-1221990444
AND EN EXTRA TREAT!!
Babes with no buttons an October Challenge
https://www.deviantart.com/dualmask/art/October-Art-Challenge-991195683
OF all the works, which is your favorite row?
I chose mine as the banner image from the following, top row in each image is 1
wip 1 - row 3
WIp 2- row 2
october - row 6
sketch card- row 2
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