Putting the RAD in Radical Highway

Dont usually care too much about reposters because you cant fight them all, but this person is reposting peoples art AND pretending to be the artist and offering commissions.

This piece WAS a commission and they scrubbed out the commission overlay and also tried to scrub out my watermark (you can see the remains of it on the forearm because they did a pretty piss poor job of it lol)

mojeek.com (private searching, prioritizes smaller websites that get buried)

qwant.com (prioritizes privacy, french made)

These are just a few I found after a short search. Google is expecting everyone to adapt, but it’s only because it’s so baked in. We must go out of our way to find and actively use alternatives.

Because publishing houses will not continue printing paper books if libraries are their only customers.

Publishers make a ton of money from selling paper books (and ebooks) to libraries. Public libraries, university libraries, K-12 school libraries...every major publisher has school and library marketing teams, school and library sales teams, school and library imprints...Libraries are a HUGE chunk of the market. Especially for children's literature, where, historically, school and library purchases accounted for around 75% of a book's earnings.

So the concerted attacks on books in schools and libraries since 2021 has had a devastating effect. Authors who used to make a living writing books that schools and libraries bought in large quantities (and then would go visit those schools and libraries to talk about books with kids) have seen their income plummet. Publishers have shuttered entire school and library imprints—one of which was 65 years old and had won every major award for children's literature multiple times. (Full disclosure they published MY award winning children's books!)

AND did you know right now the house is considering HR2616, which would ban books that have any mention of "gender ideology" from schools? That means any book written by or including trans people.