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me when i get my student loan

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this is the money cat. reblog in 30 seconds and you will find yourself with more wealth

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#this is the only money cat i will reblog because it’s actually doing the manekineko pose151,646 notes (via lolwhutninja)

OMG YOU’RE RIGHT

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and it has its right paw up! the correct paw for this. and from the markings on its ears, it looks like it might be a calico cat. which is the luckiest kind!

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extremely lucky cat

ladynorbert

I don’t even care if it actually works, I’m mostly reblogging because it’s freaking adorable.

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cute cat and need money, good post, 10/10

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in case anyones interested in the other versions

http://www.namaii.com/manekineko/maneki-neko-types.html

mmusclechan

Y’know I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.

winjennster

Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.

cyggiestardust

Can’t move, can barely work… You’ve come through three times already, Money Cat

Want to backup every single artwork on your Tumblr?

With Tumblr nuking accounts, I made a rudimentary backup script in NodeJS that will dump all your pictures, and the post data, to your computer: https://gitlab.com/westj/tumblrartscraper Note if you are already nuked, this won’t work. This script is pretty intensive, and literally downloads every image in 1280px quality, along with dumping the raw JSON data that contains the description in the post, as well as note counts and stuff. You’ll need to install NodeJS, and use a scary terminal/CMD prompt, and register an API key at https://www.tumblr.com/oauth/apps but it’ll do the trick if you want to download your entire Tumblr in less than 15 minutes (depending entirely on your internet speed!). Entire project is open source and MIT licensed.

BIG OLD SCARY TERMINAL.

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PROFIT!!!!

#tumblr #nuke #terminated-account #curse you tumblr

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Shrek (2001)

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Why is this so well rendered?

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I’m fucking speechless

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Todd Howard is now in the same protection level as articles about Gamergate and Israeli-Palestinian conflict

westjgames

Nice

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me when i see a hilariously bad video that i want to send to my friend instantly, knowing that its bad enough to make them want to hire a deep web hitman to kill me

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How Authors Get Paid

This is pretty simple. Authors get paid when you buy their books. If you don’t buy their books, they don’t get paid. They get paid a percentage of the price you pay for their books. If you buy highly discounted books (from amazon or B&N or Scholastic book fairs), they get paid a lot less. If you borrow a book from the library, they got paid for that one time (in the US), but at least they got that. If you read a book from a pirated site, they don’t get paid.

The problem I see is that most people don’t understand this very simple equation. They think that authors get paid by publishers just to be authors. Hint: we don’t. Authors don’t get paid to do book tours. Unless people buy their books. Authors don’t get paid by the government to be authors. Authors don’t get paid by Hollywood for their books unless they get a pittance if they’re actually given an option (1% of authors get books optioned, 1% of those get made into movies). If an author gets a movie made, they still make very little of that money, except for if books are purchased. If an author wins an award, most of the time, they make no money from that directly, only if more books are sold.

Are you starting to understand what my point is here?

Yes, some authors make money on the side doing school visits for children. A lot of them don’t even make that, especially in Utah, where local publishers are using school visits as a promotional opportunity and have nearly eliminated the market for paid visits from authors who AREN’T trying to push books on kids. (Yes, I have strong feelings about this.)

Yes, these days authors make money sometimes by being youtube celebrities (I can count on one hand the number of authors doing this). Yes, authors sometimes make money through Patreon, though this is pretty new and we’re still figuring it out. Think about this for a minute. Authors have to hustle to make money because actually writing books doesn’t pay them very much. What? Yeah, even NYT best-selling authors are not making enough to pay mortgages sometimes.

Lots of authors are offered lots of opportunities to write for “promotion.” We do need to promote ourselves if we’re going to stay in the game and keep getting contracts for new books. But promotion is pennies. I’m not trying to complain about my chosen profession. This part of it sucks, but there are other wonderful parts, clearly, or I wouldn’t stay. But if you want to help me out and thank me for any of my writing you’ve gotten to read for free, it’s really simple. Buy one of my books. And while you’re at it, buy a book from another author you love.

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If you can’t afford to buy the book, get it from the library. As OP states, at least then there’s one sale. And if it’s there on the shelves, people who haven’t heard of the author might pick it up, and mention it to someone, and spread the word of mouth about it. And if the book gets borrowed a lot, then the library is much more likely to buy the next book the author writes.

In the UK, there’s something called Public Lending Rights, where an author gets about 8 pence per borrow of their books (it’s a little more complicated than that, because they sample from a subset of libraries, but that’s the basic idea). So if a hundred people borrowed my book over the course of a year, I would get about £8. That may not sound like much, but that’s kinda the point OP is making.

Authors aren’t making a lot of money, so every little bit helps. Piracy doesn’t help at all.

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Don’t fucking pirate books.

westjgames

Books are usually too expensive for me to buy, but I would totally be down for paying a couple dollars a month to an artist on Patreon if I can get access to their books.