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dollymyfolly-deactivated2026032

I’m the type of person who holds on to ticket stubs and photos and presses flowers but never puts them into a scrapbook I just have them scattered everywhere which brilliantly illustrates how I’m a sentimental piece of shit who can’t put their life together

#same #queue

amehtanas

We can’t wait for the Siege of Lothal on Saturday! Here’s how House Organa Shop is celebrating the return of Star Wars Rebels:

- Loth Cats Against Imperialism (t-shirts, pillows, tote bags, mugs, and more) - Three Rebel queens of our heart Rebels (t-shirts, pillows, tote bags, mugs, and more) - A Little Less Attitude and a Little More Altitude (t-shirts, pillows, tote bags, mugs, and more) - House Syndulla (t-shirts, pillows, tote bags, mugs, and more) Also, all four of these designs are available on RedBubble’s new spiral notebooks. I’m excited to order one and test out the quality:

#star wars #rebels #house organa #ooooo the ghost one #stop coming out with cool designs you guys i don't have the money for them all

ommanyte

I HAVE COMPLETED THE JOEY CHALLENGE, I HAVE BEATEN TEAM ROCKET, COLLECTED 16 BADGES, BEATEN THE LEAGUE TWICE, AND HAVE DEFEATED RED, I HAVE COMPLETED THE ENTIRE GAME USING ONLY A TOP PERCENTAGE RATTATA, I HAVE NOT FAINTED ONCE, TOP % TOP % TOP %

slimezaku

THIS MAN DESERVES THE HIGHEST AWARD!

ommanyte

#pokemon #gifs #all of this is beautiful

taylorswift

To Apple, Love Taylor

I write this to explain why I’ll be holding back my album, 1989, from the new streaming service, Apple Music. I feel this deserves an explanation because Apple has been and will continue to be one of my best partners in selling music and creating ways for me to connect with my fans. I respect the company and the truly ingenious minds that have created a legacy based on innovation and pushing the right boundaries.

I’m sure you are aware that Apple Music will be offering a free 3 month trial to anyone who signs up for the service. I’m not sure you know that Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, or artists for those three months. I find it to be shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company. This is not about me. Thankfully I am on my fifth album and can support myself, my band, crew, and entire management team by playing live shows. This is about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success. This is about the young songwriter who just got his or her first cut and thought that the royalties from that would get them out of debt. This is about the producer who works tirelessly to innovate and create, just like the innovators and creators at Apple are pioneering in their field…but will not get paid for a quarter of a year’s worth of plays on his or her songs.

These are not the complaints of a spoiled, petulant child. These are the echoed sentiments of every artist, writer and producer in my social circles who are afraid to speak up publicly because we admire and respect Apple so much. We simply do not respect this particular call.

I realize that Apple is working towards a goal of paid streaming. I think that is beautiful progress. We know how astronomically successful Apple has been and we know that this incredible company has the money to pay artists, writers and producers for the 3 month trial period… even if it is free for the fans trying it out.

Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing. I say this with love, reverence, and admiration for everything else Apple has done. I hope that soon I can join them in the progression towards a streaming model that seems fair to those who create this music. I think this could be the platform that gets it right.

But I say to Apple with all due respect, it’s not too late to change this policy and change the minds of those in the music industry who will be deeply and gravely affected by this. We don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.

Taylor

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B L E S S

#music things #fair compensation

the-thought-emporium-imperial

Wait... Hold on a second.

A Bush and a Clinton are running for president

A Jurassic Park movie is #1 at the Box Office

A Terminator movie is coming out next month

Final Fantasy VII

WHAT YEAR IS IT?!

pandavalkyrie

GET OUT YER FLANNEL AND YER NANO PETS IT’S TIME TO GET JIGGY WITH IT AND WATCH SOME SNICK

#queue

jeffbritta-deactivated20201018

#Brooklyn 99 #gifs

inkskinned

dear universe;

hello. i am writing to let you know you did good job on the stars, and also on dogs.

yours respectfully, me

#queue

colorblindtyedye

FIRE EMBLEM AMIIBO GIVEAWAY

(Please forgive the absolutely terrible quality of the photo - my phone is half-broken and giving me issues. Hopefully you’ll overlook that when you see what we’re giving away!)

Everyone knows Amiibos have been suffering from Supply and Demand issues (thanks, Nintendo). Well, we’ve been lucky to get our hands on an extra Robin, Marth, and even a Lucina – and we’d love to pass them along to you! Yep, that’s right - it’s a Fire Emblem Amiibo Giveaway!

(PLEASE NOTE: We have been unable to get our hands on an extra Ike as of posting this, but if we are able to aquire one by the end of the Giveaway, he will be added as well)

Extra Nintendo swag will be thrown in as well, but what will it be? Who knows. You’ll have to wait and see!

Likes and Reblogs all count as an entry - ONLY ONE REBLOG WILL COUNT. Please do not spam your friends’ dashboards, that’s rude :( Following either myself or haganeart is not required but is always appreciated :)

WE WILL SHIP INTERNATIONALLY – However, please note some of the products we get may only work in the US/Canada (for example, Nintendo e-shop cards), so please keep that in mind!

The giveaway will run from today, May 31st, until Sunday, June 21st. Hopefully in that time my phone will be cooperating and I can get some non-terrible pictures for you all. HAVE FUN!

BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL

Josie and the Pussycats (2001) - written and directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan. Starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson and Tara Reid.

kateordie

Greatest film of all time.

burgerwave-deactivated20200607

Such a phenomenal film.

#josie and the pussycats #gifs #i'm still mad that i lost my copy

nellachronism

Ok, so NOW can we agree that America has a problem? Like, a HUGE problem that starts with “R” and ends with “acism”? And that history is not a beautiful, linear march towards ethical perfection, not a story with a 3-act structure? That just because a thing was “fixed” (ha.) a generation ago doesn’t mean it’s gone never to return? That the only thing between us and the sins of our fathers is if we confront those sins head on, instead of downplaying them with words like “State’s rights” and “loner”?

Can we agree on that?

#racism #charleston #current events #discrimination

ohmykarma

Ok but hear me out, the scene where the twins meet Ultron in the church is actually hilarious, because when you think about it

Ultron went to the church in the center of the city, sat down in the most important chair there, and then said to himself

WAIT A MINUTE

I CAN DO A DRAMATIC REVEAL THAT I’M A ROBOT

…and that thought became such a high priority that he actually went and got a pretty blanket and draped it over his head for the SOLE PURPOSE of tossing it off to go HAHA BITCHES I WAS A ROBOT THE WHOOOOLE TIME

and then it gets even better, because if you look, he’s sitting in the thinking man pose - which means he put the blanket on, then realized the sides of his face glow through the thing, and instead of going “maybe this is a dumb idea” just sHOVED HIS FIST OVER HIS STUPID CHEEK IN ORDER TO CONTINUE WITH THE DRAMATIC REVEAL PLAN

like I can’t stop laughing because we have no idea how long he was sitting there, head under a blanket, covering up the glowing side of his face, probably snickering to himself “oh man they are gonna be so surprised” jfc what a huge fucking robot nERD

sweetsassymusic

joons

frostylurv

he’s definitely Tony’s kid…

#oh gosh #age of ultros #avengers

punpunichu

Dang, I missed this show! Connie was amazing!

#connie maheswaran #steven universe #fanart

kierongillen

In this week's Market Maven, Josh looks at Gillen and McKelvie's THE WICKED + THE DIVINE to figure out if the book's trend is a suggestion of bigger issues.

To save you clicking through, the answer is “No.”

The slightly longer answer is “While I generally object to jumping on a singular writer when talking about a larger issue which I see all over industry commentary columns, if you think that you can look at WicDiv’s sales and think they’re in any way in trouble, you have no business writing an industry commentary column. You simply don’t know enough to be doing this, and in doing so, you are hurting people’s perspective of the industry.”

Jamie and I eye-rolled when we saw the above article, but realised it may be a good opportunity to talk about this stuff, as it happens a lot, for a lot of books. I meant to write it back in may, but I got distracted by working myself to death. However, I appear to have a few minutes spare, and as there’s a lot of comics economics talk going around in the last few days, it strikes me as a good time to throw this into the mix.

In August 2006, the month that our first issue of Phonogram launched, the Walking Dead’s sales figures were estimated at 20,501.

I can tell you, this wasn’t a failure or a cause of concern. Every single creator envied Kirkman and Allard.

In the same month, Invincible’s sales were estimated as 13,584.

Maybe that was a cause for concern? It’s basically 2/3rds of Walking Dead. It’s well beneath the line Marvel would cancel a book.

No, it wasn’t a cause for concern. Almost every Image Creator would have also killed for those numbers.

Walking Dead then wasn’t what Walking Dead is now, but it was still the book which set the conversation in terms of what Indie books were capable of. That Kirkman had his name on two books with that level of success made him the go-to example of how to indie comics.

No, I don’t mean “hey, you get to do your own thing and make some money.” I mean “you are doing financially better than you would by doing a WFH book for the big two.”

I’ll give you some really basic rule of thumbs for indie comic commentary:

Anything selling stably over 10k in single issues is a cause for celebration and joy. The creators are almost certainly extremely happy.

If you’re selling over (ooh) 12k, you’re probably making more than either of the big two would pay you, unless you’re one of the very biggest names.

If you’re selling anything near 20k, you probably have to buy drinks for your friends.

And in a real way, if Phonogram settled around 6k back in 2006, I suspect Jamie and I would have settled into doing it for another 40 or 50 issues.

There’s all manner of exceptions to the above, but if you look at the charts and bear that in mind, you’ll be closer to how the industry looks at those numbers.

None of the above includes digital sales.

None of the above include trades. You throw trades in, and you change everything entirely. A cursory look at hit indie comic numbers reveals that their trades sell much more than Marvel/DC main universe trades, with a few exceptions (There’s a reason why Matt and David’s Hawkeye was such a big thing, and it wasn’t its monthly sales). Let’s bold another sentence.

You cannot do an industry commentary column on indie books without including the impact of trades.

There are books that are selling well beneath 10k and are doing just fine.

All the three sentences I bolded in a block were about making money from the single issues. They do not include any other revenue source, such as trades. If the single issues break even and you make your money in trades, that’s also fine. With a few exceptions, big two comics primarily make their money in single issues. That is one reason why their single issue sales matter so much more.

There’s other reasons why single issue sales need to be higher…

Overheads. They have more editors staff, etc. What a creator owned book makes, generally speaking, a creator owned book keeps. The overheads are lower.

Profit targets. Books don’t just need to be profitable. They need to be profitable to a level which has been corporately pre-determined, in a set period of time.

A relatively low selling book is taking the place of a book which could abstractly sell higher. Why keep a book which sells 18k on the shelf when you could have one which sells more?

All those factors interacting are amongst the reasons why the bar is higher for a monthly audience at the big two.

Equally, it would be a mistake to confuse the audience of a book with its monthly sales. As said above, you would have to include a trades for that, and the trades are not a small thing.

On a personal level, we’ve sold over 50,000 copies of the first WicDiv Trade. Last I looked at Amazon’s stats we were selling about 1000 a month via book shops alone (i.e. not including comic shops, which is usually more.) The orders for 12 were 22k. The initial orders of the second trade are up 33% on the first trade. Realistically, we were hoping to stabilise at around 13k, and we’d have been enormously happy with that, even if we weren’t selling trades. Which we are. WicDiv is a ludicrous success, by far the biggest thing in our entire career. And thanks to everyone’s support in achieving that.

The idea that there’s articles being written which try and frame discussion of indie comics like this - and it’s an approach which is picked up by comment threads - is entirely counter to the reality of the comics industry.