murmurations / reading the augury

hello my name is iri he/xey 25 💉 22.09.2020!

[trainstationsparrow]

interests: birds, warrior cats, small press comics, indie video games

i like making friends and i like messages :) tell me about your day, tell me about a bird you saw, tell me about something you're reading. yes, you.

if i like loads of your posts it's because you're in my blog subs special tab, feel free to ask me to stop if it's annoying

op tags

birds i see, library books, video games, talking

rb tags

#bird #art #video #library posting #from friends #draw this #poetry #wnq #hopepunk #how to live #clay #sewing #plushmaking

[charl0ttan]

I think if Ben Affleck transitions she should just change her name to Bena Ffleck. Just shift it up a little bit. That or maybe Chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemum would be a beautiful name

i think there's a lot of beauty that can never be explored. we need to grasp on to whatever we can find

[swagophile]

elder trying to pass on good advice: be careful mori. keep your gaurd up. it's a dog eat dog world out there.

me: (remembering i'm a cat) Damn that sucks for them

[jessaerys]

what in the world are "pity likes" you guys are inventing new ways to be insecure. every like i give is a like with my whole pussy

[mlarayoukai]

life changing tweet

[avatarmerida]

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

[futurakid]

[leg-stealing-bee]

[closetedguyy]

[knitordeath]

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

[song-of-sea-and-sky]

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

[msue0027]

[maxstarfall]

[gengaritez]

[pumpkin--rabbit]

[minyicho]

[cute-catts]

Cats logic 🤷🐱🐈

[purplesaline]

It's not that kitty is saying she can't make the wheel go. Kitty is saying she wants to do the wheel WITH her person. Much the same way many cats won't wat unless their person is eating at the same time.

This is a request for social togetherness and it's incredibly sweet

[thebibliosphere]

Every so often I catch a glimpse of the book drama going on over on the Insta/Threads sphere of the Internet, and it makes me so glad I’m considered too Tumblrina to sit at their tables.

What do you mean an author is railing against people using libraries/the Libby app because it’s “free” (it’s not. you as the author get money from the library purchasing the digital lending license) and meanwhile their book is on Amazon for free to try and get readers??? Hello????

[thebibliosphere]

“But if people read it for free they might like it want to buy the rest of my work!”

You mean like how people read books at libraries, and end up buying them if they like them?

“That’s not the same 😡”

Correct! Because again, libraries pay us. You putting your books up on Amazon for free means you get nothing.

[thebookewyrme]

I am staring directly into the camera like I’m on the Office in Librarian. Libraries are literally an author’s best friend. We get books to people they never would have known about otherwise, & create Fans out of disinterested bystanders. And! Libraries are often paying MORE for a book than the average user, at least for digital editions, because it is expected that the library will lend it to more people, so theoretically we need to pay more to compensate the authors! (This is not I think how it works in practice, it more often just benefits the digital lending company instead of the actual author but. Greed is ever thus). Also, in some countries (sadly not the US, boo hiss) authors get paid for every checkout of a book. So, you can literally get royalties on those “free” books. (Also, they’re not free, they’re paid for with tax dollars for the good of everyone). How some fool can think temporary freeness on Amazon Kindle is superior to libraries I cannot fathom. Like, how does this person even manage to function in the real world?

Anyway. Authors. Love your librarians. We love you and seek only to help you get more readers so you can write more books. We have a symbiotic relationship, each needs the other.

[thebibliosphere]

#I thought if you were self pubed#you basically couldn't get into the library#sounds like being mad at a club#that won't let them in

Just saw this in my notes and thought I'd reply. You can't get into libraries if you only use Amazon, but platforms like Draft2Digital, Ingram and Kobo Writing Life make it possible for self-pub authors to have their work made available to libraries across the global network.

You're sometimes more likely to get picked up by libraries if you list yourself as having a publisher, but as a self-pub author you can do that by registering as an LLC (which for me was $250 back in 2020, I don't know what it is now) and then listing the name you used as the publisher. But even that's becoming an unnecessary step with how prominent self-pub has become.

Really at this stage, this person is shooting themselves in the foot by opting to remain an Amazon exclusive author and being a twit about it on main, but that's their hill. They can die on it.

[brucebocchi]

[marvelousmop]

In my experience, they tend to actually go with the way dumber option of "Okay so this means that, every time we pit the hare against the tortoise, the tortoise would win, and therefore a tortoise can also beat all the other animals a hare could ordinarily beat in a race"

[rosekin]

"I should have made sure I got a full 16 hours the night before... this is Base Banana Slug I'm up against!"

[werederg]

Pigeon pit show last night went so hard. Lead singer was up there talking about how she just did a bunch of mushrooms a few days ago and then preceded to continually forget the words to the songs. She was fucked up. It was awesome. And hearing the fiddle in person, up close, ough that’s my shit dude.

And then my homie spent the night at my place and we got breakfast and took a nap. Truly, I have been to a world worth living in.

[trainstationsparrow]

anyone feel like falling in love with me this pride month 🥰

[trainstationsparrow]

monkey's fucking paw curled with this one lads.

[trainstationsparrow]

Apollo's gift except it FUCKING sucks

[trainstationsparrow]

take two 😌

[theblogginggoth]

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

[nadiacreek]

This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

[elodieunderglass]

This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.

[blackpyrefly]

my friend and i were waiting for the bus and some guy walked up to us, pointed sort of halfheartedly, and said "dykes." in a monotone voice with no particular identifiable facial expression then walked away. most half-assed hate speech i've ever been subject to

[blackpyrefly]

[dailyjermasparkle]

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

people have said good things about you behind your back, without your knowledge. people have shared their love for you with others.

[yellow-cat]

the small stinker spends time with me on the couch

[yellow-cat]

[yellow-cat]

the small stinker has a resting angry face

[mosslingg]

My liege im sorry to break it to you but your advisor that's actually evil and wants you dead turned out to be straight. I know you really wanted to have an enemies to lovers situation with him. Yeah I'm afraid the poisoning didn't hold any romantic intent behind it. The king of the enemy kingdom is bisexual though, I could send him a letter? Yes, I'll make sure to include multiple threats of homoerotic nature. You will have your toxic yaoi, my liege