AMAZON FINISHED?

another open letter. this time re: takedown of draft magazine from amazon yesterday. started with a typical redshill-style coercive antic executed by an upstart button hero and was followed by a more professional ‘doubling down’ by mauren after i’d replied such essentially editorial decisons will result in my taking down all draft issues as a result.

hope this is found enlightening for many.


Hi Mauren,

so I regard your email as being the ‘official’ confirmation of Vaisakh’s earlier decision to block the draft literary magazine issue from being available for sale on Amazon by a higher instance within the Amazon framework? Is this reading correct?

As I clarified earlier, there hasn’t been an issue for many years with this. All I have done is tweak commas and republish the ‘culprit’. What changed?

As to your ‘guidelines’ as such – well, I have to say as long as it isn’t stated what specifically triggered the alarm bells – what is it? the dwarves offering sweets to the goddess, her not wearing any pants, the hideous cretins imprisoned between her legs in an earth buried trail emanating from the horizon, the ghostly fun fair without humans entertained in it whatsoever? – I do not feel confident publishing anything anymore in the future with you guys. Most of the things I know and say can be ‘bent’ to infringing empty ‘guidelines’ if taken out of intellectual discourse that is art and fiction. If sticklers and hypocrites are at work hiding behind their pathetic buttons.

Mind you – you didn’t have a problem listing a publication that was specifically produced as ‘pornography’ (Rear Entry by Eros Comix / Fantagraphics) as apparently having been authored by me – even though I have only been contributing with 5 pages as a graphic novel ‘illustrator’ (authored anonymously by an ex-girlfriend) and it has de-facto been authored – uncredited, as editor in chief – by Michael Dowers. And I’m certain this hasn’t changed at all. Listing is still up and deceiving just fine, lol. (And I don’t have a problem if credits are adjusted and depicted accurately for listings as this to be available on Amazon.)

Which is to say while you make a fuzz about first class artwork that is not at all considered ‘pornographic’ by anyone with a fine art education (slandering it insinuatingly, not daring to do it explicitly, as if it wasn’t clear to anyone how professionally and considerately this artwork has been created) – you turn a blind eye on the really important things such as those of copyright and credits.

And here comes the greatest irony of our present discourse – the plot twist that only those who read with a pure heart were able to see from the get-go – pieces of art such as this (as well as other artworks along those borderlines using people’s buried anxieties and desires, stirring psychological undercurrents both of vileness and goodness) raise precisely the entire issue of child abuse and women objectification – opening wide the darkest abyss – in a literary context that has the full backing of professional psychology.

Wouldn’t you then call this present head-slapping episode ‘hypocrisy’ by human standards and ‘professional misconduct’ by intellectual ones? What is an author of literary fiction today if they’re lectured by rogue unprofessionalism pretending to uphold ‘content guidelines’ while in reality they’re with self-righteous impunity enforcing extremely serious censorship of creative expression and thus partaining editorial license to an independent author’s creative work?

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A NEW PATH PAVED

so, yeah, i finally also jumped on the NFT train, only i didn’t plan it or even expect. like nearly everything in my life now, this new path came right to me, paved itself in front of me and all i had to do was just walking it. it’s an interesting development in so many ways and i’ll surely elaborate a lot more about the manifold angles of it in the future.

for now i’m sharing a registered etherium address (reinhardschleining.eth) to serve as the official announcement of my getting a foot into the metaverse and i’ll begin to share some of the available NFT’s i’ve been minting from my two portfolios (old style & new style):

rarible.com/reinhardschleining

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DONATIONS AND PASSWORDS

just a quick note – i’m getting too much traffic lately, so that my provider keeps reprimanding me. yeah, funny situation. but anyway, puts reality straight. the worthless is pushed and hustled and shared millionfold while the pearls are meant to be low key and laid low. it seems a universal law and makes totally sense to me.

as a result, i’m password protecting most of the fiction work (my main art) and some of the non-fiction. i think you’re better off having the hard copy in your hand, anyway, also considering the very likely blackout of the internet the moment ‘truth’ hits the critical cue on the game theory perception management algos.

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SYSTEMICS II BOOK

 

out now

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TWITTER PRESENCE

i’ve been doing some writing in the form of daily commentaries on all sorts of relevant things that pop up. interesting and powerful project on x | twitter. it does provide quite some valuable insights for anyone ‘reading’ into what immediate, tangible ‘reality’ we’re really facing and how it  presently unfolds.

there are lots of dots connected. areas are vast. angles are deep. why not tune in? link on picture.

FACEBOOK PRESENCE

on facebook i’ve been doing my WEEKEND FUNNIES project for many months now. all the craziest memes i come across every week i’m sharing there (link on picture).

it’s quite fascinating that humour can express things that can’t be uttered with words anymore. time being what it is now. so many sensitive topics. so outrageous the anger and laughter and general state of the world. it can truly bring about epiphany and i’m not boasting. see for yourself?

TELEGRAM PRESENCE

‘reader’ sculpture from egypt dated ca. 3600BC

amidst all this censorship nonsense, corporate headslapping and prepotent babysitting, telegram has certainly emerged as the hub where every intelligent and openminded person will come to. “i can breathe”, lol.

draft MAGAZINE is a neat new space. for now, i’ve uploaded all the major promotional activities. as you know, so far, everything happened on-site and directly.

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STICKY PRO MOTION

***UPDATE spring 2024:

while repairing my present website (another server explosion / deep hack) i decided to keep these stickers as a historic reference. i did quite some sticking with these.

there are no ebooks anymore.  while amazon is still an option i am actively encouraging LULU as my vendor as the author options are more reasonable and pretty over there.

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