Hi! My name's Solus, I use any/all pronouns, and I have no idea what I'm doing as a general rule of thumb. See pinned post for more info. Avatar and header both by me.
Hi! My name is Solus and I use any/all pronouns. I will also happily respond to Axel, Chimera, Glitch, Engima, and Quit. I'm an adult and generally a disaster.
I mostly lurk on here, you won't really catch me doing anything but rapid-fire reblogging stuff. I don't tag most of my reblogs, and I'm in a lot of horror and horror-adjacent fandoms, so be wary before scrolling through my posts. The only tag I use regularly is #oc-callout, which is pretty much what it says on the tin. More info about me and my hobbies/fandoms under the cut. Have a good day, and thanks for stopping by!
Basic DNI, as in no racism, queerphobia, ableism, ect. Just don't be bigoted or a dick and we'll get along fine.
Other Socials: You can find me on Toyhouse and Art Fight, also as sleepy-chimera.
Misc. About Me
Pansexual + Graysexual + Panromantic
Polyamorous (I love my fiances <3)
Genderfluid + Genderflux
Alterhuman (Faekin + Merkin + Polytherian)
Resident of Mental Illinois
Hobbies
Writing/RP
TTRPGs (mostly 5E D&D, both DMing and playing)
Tormenting My OCs
Being Pretentious about Horror Media
Being Pretentious about Movies In General
Digital Art (2D & 3D)
Board Games (favs include Ark Nova, Dinosaur Island, and Anachrony)
Staring at my Cat
Thinking about Reptiles
Fandoms (alphabetized)
35MM: A Musical Exhibition
The Amazing Digital Circus
The Backrooms/Liminal Spaces in General
Baldur's Gate 3
Danny Phantom
Dead As Disco
Dispatch
Dropout Shows (specifically Game Changer, Dirty Laundry, Um Actually, + Smartypants)
D&D + TTRPGs in General
Epic: The Musical
The Evil Within
The Expanse
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
Guardians of Ga'Hoole
Hollow Knight/Silksong
Horror Movies/Games in General
Inscryption
Iron Lung
JSE Egos/Altrverse
Life Series (and other various MCYT things here and there as a treat)
The Magnus Archives/Protocol
Malevolent
Markiplier Egos
Percy Jackson (I dabble in other Riordan series but OG PJO was my favorite growing up)
Pluribus
Project Hail Mary
Project Moon Games (especially Lobotomy Corp)
Resident Evil
Scavengers Reign
Silent Hill
SIX: The Musical
Slay The Princess
StarKid Musicals
Supernatural
Teen Wolf
The Terror AMC
Utopia UK
Fav Content Creators (mostly youtubers, also alphabetized)
Andy King
Bizly
Brian David Gilbert
Chad Chad
CoryxKenshin
D'Angelo
Danny Gonzalez
Dead Meat
Drew Gooden
Eddy Burback
Evasive
FunkyFrogBait
Jacksepticeye
Jeffiot
Kurtis Conner
MacDoesIt
Markiplier
NakeyJakey
Queen Coke Francis
Slimecicle
Ted Nivison
Fav Musical Artists (es this one is alphabetized too)
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.
The one thing about gender is that frankly my ideal gender situation has very little to do with me and infinitely more to do with everyone else on the earth who cannot be fuuuuuuuuucking cool about anything ever
anyway. last night I had a dream that my local lesbian bar was hosting a “motionless dance party”. it was sort of like the inverse of a silent disco—the music is playing out loud but you’re doing all the dancing inside your own head. it was really successful like a lot of lesbians showed up to stand perfectly still in a room together and imagine what dancing would be like.
Usually when the electrician goes 'hey.... there's something you should see' it's because someone set up shoddy wiring. This time it was because he pulled two snakes out of my wall
When I say "godspeed" (I say it a lot) I like to imagine I'm a member of a futurism religion that worships velocity above all else. Like its the standard well-wishing in my culture. Speedliness is next to godliness. Someday we'll catch him! And the closer we get the more he loves us
I love it when a classicist has clearly gotten so lost in the BCE sauce that their perception of time has become deeply warped. Case in point: the article I’m currently reading just described the Byzantine era as “a period relatively modern.”
its funny to me how warmups for instruments generally sound nice and pretty. like just basic scales or chords. the exercises i do on my guitar could be mistaken for actual music at times.
and then vocal warmups are shit like. bark like a seal. grunt like a thwomp from mario 64. now sing the melody but instead of the lyrics youre saying 'moo moo mee mee mah mah' even the scales you gotta moo mee mah through that shit and its just so goofy every time. and this is why im not a singer
I do enjoy a good visual gag, and an old favorite of mine is “there is Math on a Board in the background that contextually makes no sense.” This broadly comes in 3 flavors I enjoy:
• the board is in front of a classroom, and the Math is waaay too advanced for whatever level of pupil these kids are supposed to be; like having the calculus integral in front of kindergartners, or relativistic physics in front of high schoolers.
• the board is in front of Criminals, who are Planning Something, and by all rights there ought to be no Math there to begin with. Like. You’re planning a Heist why do you have the Full Lagrangian on there. Are we taking a rocket to the bank.
• the characters are super-genius science fiction people. The Math is “Pi≈3.24” with an unlabeled pie chart.
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