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@darlingofdots
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call me dottie! she/her, queer, 30
my ao3 is here. if you are linking to my tumblr on ao3, please also link my ao3 page!
fic I've written for The Locked Tomb series is linked & organised here
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original posts / my writing / romance on main / dottie academes / ask games / big tiger friday
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[record scratch] [freeze frame]: yeah that's me. that's me in the corner. that's me in the spotlight, losing my religion.
I have GOT to stop skin picking
You can tell a girl is really cool and tough and badass if she's hugging a stuffed animal. Only the most really badass babes hug stuffed animals.
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Hi, it’s me, your Flix Bus driver. I heard some of you back there asking why we’re on this dirt road in the middle of a cow pasture if this is supposed to be a direct line from Berlin to Munich. To that I say: you all need to mind your own damn business and look at the fucking moo cows.
I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.
I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.
Wyatt: I wanted to check that were still on for board game night? Ilya: Yes wyatt we will be be there for boring game night Wyatt: I'm sure that was a typo :) Wyatt: I also just wanted to go over the rules one more time Wyatt: 1. You will talk to Shane about how it’s just a game and that it’s just for fun Wyatt: 2. It doesn’t matter who wins or who loses Ilya: Yes yes I will remind him of these rules Ilya: Even though they are all fucking lies Ilya: Of course winning matters Ilya: And me and my Shane will crush you at your boring game Wyatt: Well this actually does a great job of bringing us to rule 3 Wyatt: Winning cannot be celebrated by having sex in my bathroom
Or: 5 times Ilya tries to fuck his husband, and 1 time he actually does.
Read on AO3! Posting chapters daily :)
Saj Issa - Crocodile Crown
Item: Crown of Command Crocodiles
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thinking about Ilya going to his own Wikipedia page just to see “spouse Shane Hollander (m. 2021)” for himself
i wish my brain were not full of gludge. i would like to be using it & because of the gludge i cannot do that.
ilyas last day at the cottage that first summer there is literally impossible for me to think about. i try to and i immediately black out and when i come to i have a headache and a tummy ache and im dehydrated from crying but i have no memory of my time in that headspace
bbc merlin has a lot of faults but i do think the way they blithely ignored the existence of christianity was very funny of them
"#'old religion' they said. and then simply said nothing of a new religion" yeah Uther Pendragon, noted athiest. Entirely agnostic court. It's crazy that there's no belief system backing anything up. Like, we're going to get by on vague prophecies but also prophecies are magic which is evil. Divine right of kings but no divinity. Mirrors and mirrors but no windows.
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have you guys ever seen a crocodile with its fingies out
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apologies to anyone who followed me for tma. cow studies :) ❤️
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.
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.
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
