what do you learn from your lover?

✨ Artie/Jacobi ✨ they/he ✨ 23 ✨ [header: scpkid]

[oatseverymorning]

[pangur-and-grim]

sorry, had to capture the way he’s sitting on me. what’s going on here

[pangur-and-grim]

THIS ISN’T ABOUT ME

[snototter]

An adult male fantastic least gecko (Sphaerodactylus fantasticus) in Guadeloupe

[snototter]

i'm actually not sure why sphaerodactylus are often called least geckos but i have to assume its just one of the least amounts of gecko you can get

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

[c-53]

Please take my white ass to anor londo

[shadowysiren]

*grabs you with my long gargoyle-like arms and flies off witj you*

[c-53]

Oh thank god hold me tight you scary motherfucker

[sendentaryworm]

Some wide angle shots I took back in the start of May. It was the transition of seasons and introduction of new palettes.

[bodhi-devotee]

ough the ocean,,,,, she makes me emotional,,,,

[anphivenas]

do you think you'll ever do a hole stream?

come down here with me

[gooeykit]

so when i post hole its creepy and nobody likes it but when this dipshit does it its automatically hip and trendy.. Y'KNOW WHAT IM TURNING THIS INTO MY OWN DESCENT POST!

entering the pipe, as you can see ive left a pile of shit behind me because theres no time for bathroom breaks while i explore!! i always leave that last minute :3 now lets keep going! update you later!

[gooeykit]

any one else see it 0-o no? XD JUST ME!!

[gooeykit]

luckyyy i found roots! let me get my snack on before i get too far in 😈

[gooeykit]

no roots left made the soil loose and caved behind me :(

[gooeykit]

farther in!

[gooeykit]

what turn do i take? ummm i think left!

[gooeykit]

turning around because of massive eyeball :(

[gooeykit]

lost

[gooeykit]

found a ways up! with some sludges!

[gooeykit]

got cold and mad a fire :3 yay!

its getting pretty big tho... i better be careful

[gooeykit]

burned :(

[gooeykit]

haha been away for a bit because it hurt to hold my phone and camera but i found some water to sooth my burns ^-^ things are starting to look up!

[gooeykit]

legs tired from wading but im in shalow enough water to sit ^.^ yay!

[gooeykit]

think this is an exit?

[gooeykit]

hm, really cold and dark here :( caant tell if outside but after i get a good strech in ill go back in 2 find a betr egress :3

[gooeykit]

FUCKING HELP ME WHY IS IT SO BIG

[gooeykit]

ITS FUCKING GOING TO CATCH ME

[gooeykit]

Im making aheadway buti lm running out of tuneland it can still esee mea the air down heier is nt so godo i cant breahe so ewll

[gooeykit]

HIDING BUT LIGHT WONT TURN OFF TURN OFF TURN ORFF TURN OFF

[gooeykit]

foud a spot it cant get too... bleeding bad but keep going :(

[gooeykit]

so tired but if i stop its over

[gooeykit]

light maybe ext talk l8r

[gooeykit]

been followi g thia dim hoep for a few day ws nwoijust wajtnt to bre awrm agin haha

[gooeykit]

[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

[kosmogrl]

[sailatina3]

Transandrophobia theory vs transfeminism can be boiled down to whether you value assigned genders or actual genders more.

[seabeck]

I met a friendly ball of lint today

[n3bulas-and-satelites]

@pangur-and-grim found your ideal dog

[segamascott]

[spindle-and-nima]

Rounded Huge

Woag

[moviequotes3]

the logic of this is making me laugh a lot 

[mellifexfarm]

[turnipoddity]

not me

[transexualpirate]

"trans women are stealing cis women's places" what places exactly. your house? how many trans women have been to your house? women in stem? how many trans women engineers have you met? or even heard of. how many trans women doctors do you know or know of. how many trans businesswomen do you know or know of. hey let's be less specific! how many bosses do you know or know of that happened to be cis women? how many trans bosses do you know or know of. fuck it. let's go to areas where most people reading this actually know or know of trans women being successful in. how many trans women teachers do you know or know of compared to cis women teachers. artists. researchers. healthcare. do you actually see trans women taking over cis women's spaces or have you just been told that it's happening and you should be angry about it. or even, for some people, are you actually afraid of trans women invading cis women's spaces or are you afraid of them having a space at all