oh my fuckin' unholy goodness, tfw you see an "international quarterly fiction magazine" proudly saying that they're "close" to being able to "consistently" pay two Canadian cents per word
close to
That's substantially worse than TTRPGs, notoriously Not An Industry Whose Conditions One Should Aspire To
...scrupulousness compels me to add: worse than the kind of TTRPG publishers who talk about their rates, so, y'know, spotty plane go brrr
(also, at the amount we're talking, "substantially more" is, like, TTRPGs may make you as much as THREE TIMES that! But three times two fucking Canadian cents per word, that's, um.)