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they. Dutch or English. Personal/interests blog.

[desk-drawerr]

He eat a nemon

[underwhelmingalchemist]

I'm so tired

[elegiczny]

Whenever I post something that's important to me no one gaf but that's ok

I wanted to write some deep motivational quote here but as I thought about it, I couldn't come up with anything that would speak to me. Whenever I stumbled opon these types of quotes online they all feel either fake or invalidating to me and overall make me feel worse. So I settled on it's ok because I think it's ok

[dappermouth]

You dream, some nights, of a labyrinth deep underground, where you’ve learned to fear halogen lights and distant booming sounds.

[shirozen]

Stealth mode failed

[sioltach]

Person in the grocery store had amazon rainforest sounds blasting on their phone as they shopped and I think that's a beautiful use of free will

[sioltach]

"people who don't wear headphones in public are a nuisance" except this one. I respect their indomitable human spirit

[redstonedust]

"i know this show was made for children but i enjoy it too." > awesome and cool. watch whatever you want forever.

"i know it LOOKS like it was made for children but its SECRETLY for us. calling it a kids show is an insult cause kids could never understand these THEMES and EMOTIONS. we're the TRUE fans." > i dont think i trust your opinions. you seem lame as fuck.

[jadewolf-writes]

Check out this twenty mule team, pulling some absolutely gargantuan freight wagons!

This is from the Mule Days parade this morning in Bishop, California. It's the culmination of a week long celebration of mules! It's one of the largest gathering of mules from all over the country!

Mules have a long, proud history in the Eastern Sierra. From the 20 mule teams that hauled borax and other minerals from mines across Owens and Death Valley to the mule packers who hauled supplies high into the Sierra Nevada mountains, mules have been an integral part of this region and its history.

Mules are still in use today across much of the Eastern Sierra, too!

There are still several mule pack stations that run supplies into the mountains, as well as leading multi-day recreational camping/fishing expeditions. Some even act as a delivery service for hikers on the PCT needing resupply.

The forestry service uses them trail maintenance, as well as for bringing supplies to wildland fire fighters when working on active fire lines!

The military still uses mules out here. These are from the Mountain Warfare Training Center up in Bridgeport and are used to train Marines how to use pack animals in mountain terrain, where mechanized vehicles cannot navigate.

Inyo County's Search & Rescue team is another group that still uses mules to navigate the backcountry!

Even the Mayor of Bishop can ride a mule!

We love our mules in this part of the world!

[kittenhurricane-sso]

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

[ktchewy]

[dirt-secret]

a fun batch of sketches for folks on my patreon.

if you would like to help support me and my work through hard times and see exclusive and early art check out my patreon and subscribestar! https://linktr.ee/dirtsecret

[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.

[systembomb]

TBH this whole thing is also about why we *need* to be pushing back against "write from the heart, wanting to get paid is clout chasing/immoral/scamming/whatever" takes.

[lesbianbreadwhore]

diet culture is so evil like. an older woman friend said to me (in response to me saying my gf isn't really into chocolate) "i WISH i didn't like chocolate" like. do you wish you didn't have skin to feel a summer breeze. do you wish you didn't have eyes to see the sunrise

[paponela]

heart of the team (and space heater)

for butch yang week day 4 - warmth

[purple--starrrs]

By the way it's like. Really fucked how society's thoughts on epilepsy is just "get over it." Seizures can cause permanent brain damage. Seizures can kill people. Seizures hurt like hell. Allow me to reiterate that seizures can kill people. And you're just gonna casually put flashing lights, a common trigger for seizures in your advertisement, in your animation meme, in your edit, on your billboards, without even thinking about putting a simple disclaimer? That's unbelievable. Your little anime edit could deadass cost a life and you're not gonna put a warning because it's "inconvenient" or "people like that shouldn't be on the internet" (ableist) (the problem exists outside the internet also). Or you'll give insufficient ones like putting it in the captions or only giving like one second before the flashing lights appear, meaning that the trigger's already in motion before anyone who needs the warning can read it and save themselves from literal physical danger.

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

Anyways this Disability Pride, and for every month that comes after, think about epileptic people and others who are triggered by flashing lights/eyestrain. Happy pride to those who experience seizures too frequently due to the unaccommodating and ableist societies we live in!

[phleb0tomist]

he would not fucking say that, but with disability.. he would not fucking be able bodied. sick n tired of characters walking away from multiple life changing injuries without a scratch. let’s get some natural consequences in here.

give that knife/sword fight survivor nerve damage. give the character who was shot in the gut a stoma. give that fire survivor lung damage and an oxygen cannula. give that leg injury survivor a cane. give that starvation survivor gastroparesis. give that spinal injury survivor a manual chair or powerchair.

while we’re at it, give your characters congenital disabilities too, just because. give them intellectual and development disabilities. give them acquired and postviral illnesses. dare to make somebody bedbound. for me.

[elliespectacular]

Yep, I'm a city slicker. Wake up one morning and your city's all slick? That was me.