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would you look at that, fandom.com has started adding completely content-blocking popups to their page that totally prevent you from using the site unless you turn ad block off.

Like why would you choose to hate on empy for stuff that's not even that bad or you excuse for the other companions, when he's right there ABSOLUTELY LOSING HIS MIND BC HE CALLED YOU 47 TIMES IN THE 5 MINS YOU SPOKE TO RAPHAEL BUT YOU DIDNT PICK UP THE PHONE BABE WHERE WERE YOU and he's interrogating you like a crazy bf/gf, absolutely not trusting you AT ALL even tho he expects and demand you trust him?

I NEVER see anyone being like emps is out of his fucking MIND trying SO HARD to make you eat tadpoles bc he's secretly very lonely and wants a mind flayer friend and is also DEFINITELY aroused by your total and partial transformation 😂. I never see anyone else be like "if he says 'I'm just like you' one more FUCKING time I'm going to go postal"

Also like. Do you not have a sense of humor. Empys behavior can become so WILD and VILLAINOUS that it's fucking FUNNY like how do you NOT laugh at how he's still trying to keep it cool w/ you, and when ur like I'LL NEVER TRUST U he CRASHES TF OUT 😂. Like yes it pisses me off and is soooo fucked he threatens to enthrall you like he did stelmane but he's become SO unhinged you just have to laugh.

And exactly, put it on a shelf! Way too many people act like "this characters actions pissed me off or made me feel bad so THEY ARE CANONICALLY EVIL" They cannot point to WHERE in the text their beef with the character is. Or they do and it's some shit everyone else has done. Haters do this with Halsin too, being sooooo offended he shoots his shot with Tav in act 3 if they're already partnered when....literally every companion does that 😂 Most notably Minthara, who is like "dump your partner for me 😈" lmao but also the game literally has a jealousy system where the other person you were dating can ask you to leave your partner!

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 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....

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13.21

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WHENCE COMETH NAUGHT BUT LITURGIES

LITURGIES

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