Hello! I do continually use this blog! But here are my other accounts if you want to follow.
Instagram: RollTheBones
TikTok: RollBones
Flickr: StrangeBiology
I’m also working on a book about carcasses, so I have a few accounts dedicated to that process:
Twitter: BestCarcass
Tumblr: @carcassafterlives
Facebook: Carcass: The Afterlives of Animal Bodies
Instagram: CarcassAfterlives
You can read my writing here.
I love social media, I use it all the time and have a lot of followers! I love how you can communicate with the public without such strong gatekeepers, and I love talking to the community of people who like my book topic (@carcassafterlives.)
But the majority of people trying to “grow their readership” by starting a TikTok/Twitter/etc account they don’t really enjoy are just wasting their time. Write articles for actual professional outlets first; if you’re a writer, write, and the outlet will have their professional marketer do the marketing. Same with a traditional publisher for your book. Notice people selling “social media marketing for authors” courses will happily take your money but they NEVER tell you the ROI from their customers.
From this piece:
“If anyone tells you they are successfully using Twitter to sell books, ask to see their recent sales numbers and then watch them clam up.”
“While many unpublished authors spend lots of time sharing advice and guiding each other on social media, bestselling authors spend that time writing.”
Some things you didn’t know about buffalo jumps!
Vore Buffalo Jump and Tatanka: Story of the Bison.
Golden horsies at golden hour
I’m running a panel on vertical video (like TikTok, Instagram Reels etc) in October and I’m going to be the change I wish to see: I’m going to actually include the money/ROI situation that no one ever wants to talk about
Man I’ve been to a lot of panels and read so much writing advice online, and no one talks about money. If they’re asked, they just spout “this isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme” Like OK great. Is anyone making a living wage ever? Is the average person? Is the person giving advice here making anything off of this? I have bills to pay, and yes I do lots of fun and charitable things for free, but money is a factor in everything so you should be discussing it if you’re getting up on a podium and promoting it! And make sure the numbers are useful to the audience: just talking about the success of a handful of people is not relevant to most people. Averages can be ok but the more specific, the better.
I’m gonna dedicate like 20% of this talk to money. Maybe once I get a nice document together with exact numbers I’ll post it here.
Once I posted my salary here and I got a message saying basically “you’re so rich and privileged” and then others amounting to basically “aren’t you ashamed that you’re in your 30’s and still making so little money? If you weren’t so entitled you’d give up your career and do something more practical.” So, admittedly I understand why people don’t want to say anything about money because there is literally no number that will stop people from having extreme opinions about it.
But, I’m going to share anyway because it will help people make choices and maybe mitigate some pay discrepancies.
Antler Rendezvous in Alpine, Wyoming
More pics in my Antler Album on Flickr (newest pics at the bottom)
Some pictures I took of the sheepie sheeps. The Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival was right here in Kemmerer and they let people come see the actual sheep moving!
Some of these didn’t upload but you can see a lot more here on Flickr.
The little baby boys I was fostering, Tik Tok and Flip Flop, went to a bigger rescue yesterday, so I did a photoshoot with them before saying goodbye! If you are anywhere near Sheridan, Wyoming, and want the sweetest little crazy dudes ever, go adopt them! They are brothers and best friends!
My newest article for LiveScience is about a ton of Pleistocene bones found in a cave in Siberia!
We’re talking:
All the bones are chewed up too
(Image credit: V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy)
My first article for LiveScience. Look at the teeth on that (extinct) dolphin!
The scientists examined the bones and made some educated guesses as to what, and how, they ate…
i saw a purple pegasus bringing in the storm at sunset
There’s been a lot of rain here lately. Caught a shooting star on camera last night.
I’m writing the “preservation” chapter of my book about dead animals right now and I keep using the word “process” to mean “make a carcass into bones and/or other preserved body parts.”
“Process” is such a vague word. What else do you say? I guess I can say “skeletonizing” sometimes. Makes me sound like a piranha.
Look at how the little guy’s eyes are changing colours!
Also they play hard and they sleep hard. Look at Bijou over there giving the Bombastic Side Eye.
eccentwrit asked:
My mom was gifted a cow skull and some miscellaneous bones by some friends who found them on their property. They're obviously a few years old and seem to have some demineralization going on.
My mom asked me to do what I can to clean them, as she would like to display them. I'm concerned about the fragility of the bones. All the resources I've found online assume you have somewhat fresh bones. Any advice for strengthening the bones? Can I still do a peroxide soak or would that be too risky?
Hi! Well if they’re clean, that’s generally enough. If they’re disintegrating that could be from being improperly cleaned. Peroxide can do a little damage. Maybe just make sure you’re applying it to the parts you want clean and not parts that are damaged?
Some people strengthen bones using glue or this thread on Reddit suggests Polaroid B72.
Someone was telling me there is no way you could eat dandelions, otherwise they’d all be harvested and sold in the market and you’d never be able to pick any
I mean that is some Grade A capitalist brain rot