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Love life. Create. Enjoy.

[sixspades]

StreamWeek - Day 1

From @nogitsunelichen: “Yay stream week! So for a prompt: sterek. I’ve been so into like futuristic settings. So my idea is; Stiles is a tech guy or something(?) and Derek is like a humanoid cyborg of some sort(?)”

[tevaselmundogiraalreves]

[swimmingblue]

and like ... actors are actors. Their whole thing is pretending to be other people? Can an actor pretend to be an elf or royalty or an alien but not queer? As long as they’re taking the role seriously, it’s fine.

[roach-works]

if a straight person sees something meaningful, beautiful and worthy of emulation in the queer experience, that’s a good thing.

[depsidase]

[profeminist]

[dkpsyhog]

Homophobes: *try to destroy rainbow statue*

Gays: “fine then we’ll make it an actual damn rainbow”

Reblog to put indestructible rainbows everywhere and kill a homophobe

[bundibird]

what generation do you fall into?

silent gen (1928-1945)

baby boomer (1946-1964)

gen x (1965-1980)

gen y/millennial (1981-1996)

gen z/iGen (1997-2010)

gen alpha (2010-2024)

Voting ended onApr 9, 2025

(This post is brought to you by the fact that tumblr are, hilariously, claiming that 50% of current users are gen z, and i wanna see how accurate claim that is.)

[discluded]

oh my god. and they're right.

[clandestinegardenias]

I’m at a sociology conference and just attended a memorial for one of the giants of our field, and one of the panelists told this story…he was at a meeting with this guy, who he got his PhD under and had a long standing relationship with, and he was bemoaning the current state of the world, and he asked this old professor, “how can you be so optimistic? I can’t ever be anything but a pessimist.”

and the old professor said, “you little fucker, I’m going to make a statement and then I’m going to take you out to the parking lot and beat your ass. What good does your pessimism do?”

and that really struck me. not the least because I also knew this old professor and he very rarely swore, so I know this was something he was really worked up about. what good does your pessimism do? What GOOD does your pessimism DO. I’ll be thinking about that for awhile.

[milo-hypno]

I'm certain this is on Tumblr somewhere, but I haven't seen it around, so I'm sharing it myself

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: [phone] (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: [phone]

Trevor Project: Call [phone], text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

[salvadorbonaparte]

I decided to make some positive translation memes

[ID: a picture of kitten looking at a phone edited to be crying and surrounded by heart emoji with text reading 'when a translator worked hard for me to be able to access a piece of media']

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[candycoloredwolf]

Anyone gonna mention how this guy actually preformed live with Carly Rae Jepsen?

[restfromthestreets]

I’m gonna scream is2g

[galaxa-13]

I was thinking of reblogging this again just because the original video is still amazing, but then I see the second video and lost my mind. The upgraded fan, the body glitter, the sheer fact that he got to do this with the actual singer.

[lammergeierdust]

Good for him!

[solastalgiart]

📸 | snapshot

xie lian soft-launches his bf hua cheng and the internet loses it

[forgetmic]

pre-soft launch flirting in the comments 🤭

[thatnerd1634]

Suits!

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[kristenbouchard]

we have GOT to abolish the paperback only being released a year later scheme brother i simply am not purchasing your $40 hardcover book

[ekjohnston]

I am absolutely all for this, but I'm going to need publishers to pay me more than 7% royalties on paperbacks if they do. My paperbacks are between $10 and $15, and I love that for the kids who buy them. The price needs to stay the same for them and the royalty go up for me, and capitalism is the fucking worst, because you KNOW who is going to get socked by the publishing company.

[baybelletrist]

Yeah, way too many publishing deals aren’t that fabulous for the writers.

[ekjohnston]

Yeah, it's a thing.

So, I write YA, which means that for most of my contracts when the book is in hardcover, I get 10% of about $20 (YA books tend to be cheaper bc we want kids to buy them. They are going up in price, which is not ideal for kids). An author writing adult books gets the same percentage, but the books are almost twice the price, so the get a theoretical $4 every time I get a theoretical $2.

Once the paperback comes out (if it does), the percentage AND the price drops, but adult books remain higher than YA.

I got a flat fee for AHSOKA (I try not to think about what my life would look like if I got normal royalties, but...let's just say I'd own my house, and that's not counting the rest of my IP books, which I get 1-5% on), but we have been arguing with Disney every contract since then.

This is why we beg you not to pirate books. We need sales numbers to keep our advances (ie the original amount of money our publishers pay us) in the "livable wage" range, and even then, it's not a regular payment, so we need to keep selling books. Publishers only buy our books if we have a sales record, and pirating torpedoes that. Corporations don't really care if you pirate, but literally every sale is important to the author.

(Libraries buy books, so that's great! And used books are also good because SOMEone bought it, and now we might get a new fan. Buying ARCs is not cool--it literally says so on the cover--but I can't really blame consumers for that: it's the bookstore that should know better.)

Tl;dr, capitalism is the death of art, but also: please buy mine bc I have a mortgage. I promise to do my best work for you.

[wilwheaton]

This is lovely advice.

[florencziya-blog]

[killowave]

[supremeshogunrj]

The longer it takes for this to come across your dash the funnier it is

[libraryogre]

Which will fade first? Memories of the Area 51 "raid", or memories of Internet Explorer?