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Trey/27/They/She/B♦️ced I reblog stuff that makes me laugh I yell a lot in my tags. I’m here all the time. Thanks for visiting my blog! Hope you like your stay here✨✨✨ "I'll only date someone with a certain amount of teraflops!"(Don’t forget the 8.5 billion transistors!!) ~Forget the Terafloops and gigablots. Let’s get married~ Looking for my next red headed anime girl icon👀

[arowitharrows]

The duality of "If you even imply that being aro or ace condemns someone to a sad and lonely life I will fucking fight you"

and

"being aro and ace is the most isolating thing I will ever experience"

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

i think the tags are important

[myheadisfullofholes]

This.

[axolotlofficial]

Child soldiers exist, war is not an adult topic.

Children die, death/murder is not an adult topic.

The Troubled Teen Industry exists, child trafficking is not an adult topic.

Children get raped, sexual assault is not an adult topic.

Children have alcoholic parents, addiction is not an adult topic.

Children get beat to the point of hospitalization at school, that level of violence is not an adult topic.

That when these things get into "kid friendly" media at all, they tend to be heavily censored is about protecting adult control over kids, not about protecting children.

[kitchenceiling63]

"Children have alcoholic parents, addiction is not an adult topic." also children can be addicts. i was a child back when i was an addict

[earhartsease]

children get trafficked - this is not an adult topic and, more importantly, not just something that happens to kids in "other countries"

[picsthatmakeyougotsuchinokoreal]

DONT LET PEOPLE ON TUMBLR MAKE YOU THINK THAT:

tsuchinoko not real

tsuchinoko “just a fat snake”

its okay EAT tsuchinoko (it’s REALLY NOT)

its okay Capture tsuchinoko

[gunnerychief-archive]

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my mom gets sample CD’s from record companies through work sometimes

she brought this home and just said “track fifteen. you’ll hate it i promise.”

…welp.

[cas-wants-the-dean]

LALALALAL LALALALLALLALLALA LALALALALALALA

[mxybxidk]

so tHIS GIF POPPED UP AND IT GOES WITH THE  TIMING IM LAUGHING SO HARD OMG

[joelletwo]

[description: the song is Go Hard by Kreayshawn, extremely 2012 electropop that’s described on wikipedia as “bland” and “ridiculous.” the reblog gif is a club penguin penguin in a sideways cap dancing in club lighting]

[nightlifemingus]

this is probably the only sex gif i will every reblog, because for some reason i feel like it’s more than just sex. i don’t know if it’s how they’re actually looking at one another or the way they can’t get close enough. he’s actually looking at her like a person and not just a sex object. 

but then again, it could be all in my head. i mean, this is how i would want it to be. but that’s just me.

[moishe-pipick]

[coredumpproject]

Some of this is just called 'monkey wrenching', it's the lost art of simply throwing a wrench in the gears of the system to bring it down.

ICE driving behind you? Forget where you're going and Just ... sit through a green light. Don't have to keep doing it, or get caught ... just PERFORM YOUR TASKS POORLY.

Drop a wrench and say 'oops'.

You can resist while saying sorry, and pretending to comply. it's still resistance.

[lavagoth]

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[tinybed]

[tinybed]

i started playing this in my room and across the hall i hear my roommate go “….ugh ……whatever”

[evilthotiana]

[minionvoice]

Can You Guess Who These Minions Are?

Reblog With The Names Of The Four Minions Show Here For A Chance To Win a Trip To DisneyWorld!

[zsnes]

their names are ass mcdougal dick piece of shit large muscle cock

[minionvoice]

Just Fuck of..

[pmamtraveller]

Fishpond Mosaic designed by artist Gary Drostle

[1968bullittmustang]

@copperbadge I feel like this is something you would appreciate.

[copperbadge]

Oh, that is lovely. And I always appreciate an artist attribution too!

[dduane]

Here's the artist's website.

He's been doing mosaics like this for a while. (I followed up on the one in the top illustration some while ago, when I first ran into it online. I think I remember discovering that the town in Surrey where it originally appeared has removed it: no idea why.)

[squeakst]

sharing from my Facebook

[i-suggest-landback]

i have a suggestion

[isuggestrevolution]

me too

[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.

[gudgercollege]

Trad publishing contracts person here to co-sign everything in this post. If you want to support an author you really like but are broke as hell, then you can buy their book when it's discounted, buy it used, borrow it from a friend, or use the library. The first step as an author is to get your book read, not to get it bought. The important thing for you as a reader is to spread the word about how good the book is so the publisher knows the audience is there even if sales aren't spectacular. Piracy of books, especially books from small/indie publishers, means the publisher will print fewer copies of their next book, and sometimes if it's an ongoing series the next books in the series will be canceled, either to be replaced by a book with a different premise or they'll cancel the contract for the next books entirely. The "hack" where you buy the ebook or audiobook and then return it for a credit also takes money directly out of the author's pocket since those payment/royalty systems are set up differently than if you were to buy a book from a bookstore and return it. In that situation the bookstore absorbs that loss, but returning the ebook means the money gets clawed back from the author's advance or royalties and they'll have to earn that back.

Pre-orders and Amazon/Goodreads reviews are used as a gauge by publishers to predict how many copies they are likely to sell and therefore how many copies they want to print. They want to sell most of what they print rather than print too many and end up with a bunch of copies no one wants that they'll have to pay to store or sell at a huge discount or recycle, which is what happens to unsold books. Most publishers have a limited amount of money and manpower to dedicate to any particular book, so if there's a book building up a lot of buzz, that'll give them reason to put their resources towards promoting that book to get a better return on their investment. If the publisher can't make money off a book or author they'll dump them.

Generally, every aspect of the publishing and book industries, including writers, agents, publishing employees, librarians, and booksellers are overworked and underpaid. Unless you're Stephen King or already famous, you don't make money off of books. We do it for sheer love of the game.

Use your library! Publishers have a whole department dedicated to selling their books to libraries and the author gets part of those sales. Increasing circulation of library resources means the libraries can make a better case to get more money from the government to buy more books that you want to read and they're a place to hang out for free. Libraries are the best gift humanity gave itself, use yours as often as possible.

[mirasmirages]

Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear On Pirate Sites - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Several independent publishers have had their books removed from Kindle Unlimited bec

Sign the Petition

Stop the unfair removal of titles on Amazon — Change the KDP Select Policy!

You are absolutely hurting indie writer by pirating books. This is not the same as pirating popular movies or tv shows. Don't pirate books.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

this is fucking killing me bro. computah, show me more hot hockey firefighters whaling on cops

[asooffa]

dual destiny

[greatcheshire]

Hah. Just pulled a fast one on Hades. He’s going to let us both go. All we have to do is walk one after the other and I don’t have to look back. This is going to be SO easy.

[kevinbikes]

Is she still there?

[greatcheshire]

Of course she’s still there! Why wouldn’t she be? In fact, I’m pretty sure I can hear her still walking behind me! Then again, maybe that’s the sound of my own footsteps…

[lily-valley-hyperfixates]

I mean, it is Hades, lord of the dead. He’s pretty territorial about the souls that cross the Styx. Maybe he pulled a fast one on you?

[greatcheshire]

That’s a good point… why would he let me win? This is a trap, isn’t it? He’s trying to fool me into leaving without her. But no. No, I shouldn’t look. I know she’s right behind me. I just know it… right?

[doggirlpaws]

She's being awfully quiet, isn't she? I wonder what she thinks of all this

[greatcheshire]

That’s a good point…. I can’t hear her anymore. I can hear the walls echoing my feet but not her. Surely she’s not there. I can see the light but I can’t hear her. Maybe just a quick glance back. Just to make sure she’s there. Hades probably won’t even notice. I can’t leave without her. I just gotta be sur-

[greatcheshire]

It’s you

[rumwik]

Strange haunted photo where Winifred looks like she's a painting

[needs-more-hugs]

I have placed her in a more fitting setting

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

For the first time in my tenure on tumblr, it's "THAT'S A PHOTOGRAPH?" and not "THAT'S AN OIL PAINTING?"

[zyzscribbles]

Important question

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Okay but I think these two are onto something

[verbrannt74]

Test subject

(no bird was harmed)

[beemovieerotica]