AltAizhit

Hi I'm Michael! :D! I exist. Uni is kicking my ass! He/It Artfight: AltAizhits

[kalatannya]

"Age in bio or i'll kill you"

You better pay close attention to the first one, and read it very carefully. I will quiz you on it later.

[kalatannya]

So much good tags

[gvtsfvkk]

Had the urge to sketch these two

[bioluminescent-fungus]

no amount of butter or salt removes the nutrients from vegetables

[ivy-michaels]

the thing about "people have talked about it you're just 21" is that it's not really "young people are stupid" it's more "if you come into an academic discussion you should know what people have said on the matter lest you talk out your ass"

[lynati]

Research is the PPE that prevents you from taking sick burns during a flame war.

[aureutr]

Unfriendly reminder that if you're displeased with a piece of fanfiction your courses of action are:

Read something else

Bitch PRIVATELY to friends

Write your own take on the premise (strongly recommend!)

All of the above

Under no circumstances should you try to "politely" critique the author who put the story up as a hobby. For free. Especially if the story in question is multiple years old. Ao3 is not Goodreads

[willgrahamscock]

if you see me liking contradicting headcanons for the same character just know it's because I do not give a fuck and I have an active imagination #hewouldsaythat

[willgrahamscock]

sometimes it’s not about ‘would he say that or do that’ it’s more like that would be hilarious if he did because I have a jester’s heart

[gvtsfvkk]

I did it again oops 🥀

[skoople]

another heavy handed symbolism moment: my mom has a potted sunflower in the kitchen. because it is a sunflower, it keeps turning towards the light from the window. my mother keeps rotating it so it faces inward because she wants "to see its beautiful petals and have it really brighten up the space!" . the sunflower is visibly wilting .

[imperialinquisition]

are you going to tell her or

[skoople]

her masters degree is in biology

[i-am-a-fish]

whose dumb ass idiot fuck idea was it to make medicine cost money

[koiagain]

Stop saying “do it scared” i do everything scared I sleep scared Boy i’ll kill u

[leavingautumn13]

i paused my game to draw this

edit: you can now catch me on @aurora-radiation-zone if you want more subnautica posting 🩵

[pbeltarts]

happy bday deku

[synister09]

convict is crashing the FUCK out

[nyankorafs]

Some cute little drawings I don't feel like finishing it

Also my hc of why I think Simon bonded with Adrian first (MerSimon was just for funsies 😭 I don't like to imagine him suffering anymore)

[yoki-loves-stars]

I REALLY love when he talks to the tape recorders… there’s another moment from s4 i wanna draw that I can’t get quite right yet

[pangur-and-grim]

I won't publish the ask (they asked me not to), but I thought I'd still answer it publicly!

no, royalties are not a significant source of income for most authors. if you wrote something like Project Hail Mary, then absolutely, the royalties would be substantial! but that's like winning the lottery. Ryan Gosling is not starring in the movie adaption of most books.

when you sell a book to a publisher, you get what's called 'an advance against royalties'. it's usually split into multiple parts, so you might get one third for the initial sale, one third for the final revised manuscript, and one third on the publishing date.

an advance against royalties is the publisher saying "we believe you will eventually make X amount in royalties, so here it is ahead of time." and then you don't actually see any money from royalties until the advance is paid off. most books do not make enough in royalties to pay off the advance (I have two children's books and one fiction book, and have yet to see royalties for any of them).

advances are still great, but you need to make them stretch! for instance, last year my net income was about 30k Canadian (21k USD), which is fantastic when you consider that I mostly made it through writing. but I'm definitely not a millionaire. I can live off my writing (not trying to undersell that!) but I'll probably remain in a low income bracket for the foreseeable future.

this isn't meant to discourage anyone from seeking out writing as a career! however, there is a reason that many authors have alternate jobs with writing on the side. or, you know, rich spouses.

[pangur-and-grim]

this isn't me making a fuss about pirating (I've pirated way too many shows to run my mouth on that lmao), but there IS actually a financial incentive to having people buy your books!

buying books shows the publisher that they can make money off you, which means they're more likely to give you advances for future books. and advances are what authors live off (if they don't have a side job). that's why I always push pre-orders so hard! you have to be a racehorse worth betting on, or else they send you to the glue factory....

if I can offer one alternative to pirating: asking your library to stock the book also helps authors, and doesn't cost anything. the only downside is the patience required.

[pangur-and-grim]

OOPS yes, @stjohnstarling makes a good point! everything I'm saying is from the perspective of traditional publishing, but it's a very different game if you're a self-published author

[gollancz]

I will also add that this is why pre-orders can make a HUGE difference to authors - because if there's enough hype, publishers can pull more levers to build that momentum and reach more readers to help authors earn out their advance faster.

[lynati]

Also, if you have to sell a certain number of books before you start seeing new royalties from sales, how does piating books NOT affect that? Encouraging people to steal the book instead of buying it just further delays the time it takes for sales of that book to reach the minimum requirement needed before that author starts to see that money.

Saying "well, the chances are low you'll ever reach that goal!" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when you use that reasoning to perform an action which ensures the chance *stays* low.

An author can choose not to care about how their sales affect their prospects. You* do not get to decide an author doesn't care about that on their behalf.

*The generalized "you"; not directed at prevs.

[prokopetz]

Malicious unreliable narrator who really wants to lie to the audience for fun getting increasingly frustrated as every bit of bullshit they spin inexplicably later turns out to be technically true.