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Watching people not do any cooking in Project Zomboid drives me up the wall sometimes. It cures your sadness and boredom! It's a more efficient way to get calories! It's nice for your survivor! Stop eating loose mushrooms and sticks of butter!
hello i offer this to the oc/character alignment landscape
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
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.
Trad publishing contracts person here to co-sign everything in this post. If you want to support an author you really like but are broke as hell, then you can buy their book when it's discounted, buy it used, borrow it from a friend, or use the library. The first step as an author is to get your book read, not to get it bought. The important thing for you as a reader is to spread the word about how good the book is so the publisher knows the audience is there even if sales aren't spectacular. Piracy of books, especially books from small/indie publishers, means the publisher will print fewer copies of their next book, and sometimes if it's an ongoing series the next books in the series will be canceled, either to be replaced by a book with a different premise or they'll cancel the contract for the next books entirely. The "hack" where you buy the ebook or audiobook and then return it for a credit also takes money directly out of the author's pocket since those payment/royalty systems are set up differently than if you were to buy a book from a bookstore and return it. In that situation the bookstore absorbs that loss, but returning the ebook means the money gets clawed back from the author's advance or royalties and they'll have to earn that back.
Pre-orders and Amazon/Goodreads reviews are used as a gauge by publishers to predict how many copies they are likely to sell and therefore how many copies they want to print. They want to sell most of what they print rather than print too many and end up with a bunch of copies no one wants that they'll have to pay to store or sell at a huge discount or recycle, which is what happens to unsold books. Most publishers have a limited amount of money and manpower to dedicate to any particular book, so if there's a book building up a lot of buzz, that'll give them reason to put their resources towards promoting that book to get a better return on their investment. If the publisher can't make money off a book or author they'll dump them.
Generally, every aspect of the publishing and book industries, including writers, agents, publishing employees, librarians, and booksellers are overworked and underpaid. Unless you're Stephen King or already famous, you don't make money off of books. We do it for sheer love of the game.
Use your library! Publishers have a whole department dedicated to selling their books to libraries and the author gets part of those sales. Increasing circulation of library resources means the libraries can make a better case to get more money from the government to buy more books that you want to read and they're a place to hang out for free. Libraries are the best gift humanity gave itself, use yours as often as possible.
does your oc like to be the big or the little spoon?
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I wondered about this. I'm allergic to penicillin, anyway.
The problem isn't the penicillin
The problem is that the amount of penicillin in a slice of bread is so miniscule that you'd need to eat a vast amount to receive a medical dose.
Bread mold also has a shit load of toxins that vastly outnumber the amount of penicillin. These mycotoxins over time cause liver, kidney, immune system, brain and heart damage, hemmhoraging, ovulation disruption and damage to semen production.
That's what's gonna kill you first.
I have a question:
If you get pre-sliced bread, and one slice has visible mold, are the other slices ok. Some people I know find it gross , but I've been doing it since I was young because my mum said it's ok
Mold has invisible root networks throughout the porous material of the bread. Also, the spores get airborne so it's likely that it has spread through the rest of the bread.
It's literally impossible with the naked eye to tell how far it has spread, so best case scenario is to chuck the whole loaf.
feedist kinktober 27 : boozy belly
this was one of the first things i wrote about em. i'm not the best at writing dialogues so i hope it's not to clunky, enjoy!
forget everything anyone has ever told you on the matter the truest marker of adulthood is starting to hear the siren call of high quality kitchenware
to be clear you SHOULD buy that cast iron pan and you SHOULD buy that knife set and you SHOULD buy that fancy rice cooker and you SHOULD buy that novelty mug. high quality kitchenware is always worth it you’re literally gonna be using that almost every day
This seems like a good post to include this link on:
One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still wort
Talking about popular kitchenware companies undergoing enshittification, and gives you a list of brands towards the end that are more reliable.
(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)
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after i made my wooden doll, i was musing about what other unusual materials i might use for a bjd. my partner suggested paper, and also gave me access to their craft paper collection -> i made this.
she is almost entirely made of paper & cardboard. the joints are wooden beads & worbla, because i did figure out a way to make ball joints out of paper, but it really was not worth the effort. all her limbs have tubes of rolled-up cardboard in them to keep the structure sturdy, and the origami flowers are glued around those.
this is extremely different from any doll i've made before, and i had so much fun working with pretty papers & figuring out how to turn them into a poseable 3d object.
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i am terminally A Sucker for characters who have a towering and generally earned ego about their own ability and absolutely no self-worth about themselves as a person at all. intoxicating combo.
can I talk about my new vampire the masquerade pc I think I really went off with this concept. never seen this as a pc in a vtm game before tbh. he's a responsible adult with a job
I'm running this campaign and it's so fun to give him challenges like "the local newspaper is reviewing your business", or "your high strung show pony employee has gotten into trouble with the mafia". he will deal with these obstacles by going to talk to the offending party like they're both in their thirties.
his name is Sam. he's managing payroll. he's appeasing investors. he's requesting a receipt from the police precinct when he reclaims an inappropriately confiscated object from evidence lockup. his favorite Discipline is Summon because he can use it to make people show up to places on time (cell phones don't exist yet). obviously yes he is a Ventrue.
one of his employees who turns out to have a Dark and Mysterious past offered to kill somebody (anybody) for him and instead of thinking that was sexy or cool Sam was just like "that's a weird way to approach solving your problems. have you tried using your words"
Sam is a guy who just wants to run a successful night club but unfortunately necromancers are trying to take over the city, and he might be the only person in a position to stop them. And he's a responsible adult so he's taking that on, but please understand that he will not let that effort come at the expense of opening his night club's private gambling room on schedule.
imagine a goat with a hat
STOP-
what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 16/16 Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Mobei-jun/Xiang Fei | Shang Qinghua, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu/Yue Qingyuan, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu & Xiang Fei | Shang Qinghua Characters: Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghe, Xiang Fei | Shang Qinghua, Mobei-jun, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu, Yue Qingyuan, Liu Mingyan, Liu Qingge Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Gods & Goddesses, Slow Burn, Misunderstandings, Action/Adventure Series: Part 1 of Those Whom the Gods Love Summary:
Shen Yuan does not believe in the gods. An unusual way of thinking for a priest, but he didn’t choose this life. His desperate family offered him to Luo Binghe’s temple in the hope that the river god could save his life. But that was many years ago, and now the temple stands empty and forgotten. There’s no one to stop him from leaving. And so he does.
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I just saw this on my youtube recommends and holy FUCK.
I lowkey wanna gif this...
“We hope this email finds you well” babe, the only emails I hope find me well are the ones from Archive of Our Own
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