hate that the only thing periods give you is tummy pain. i should be able to harness the elements
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Holy, holy, holy
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Constellations * Archives. Book: The witness of the stars, by Bullinger, William. Publication: 1893.
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lost in a fairytale
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I dont want "love at first sight" I want deep connection and understanding between us that could have knocked the breath out of my lungs when I realised just much I love you and need you in my life. feeling a connection with someone when you first meet is very cool and rare, but there's just nothing like love that simmers over time, that just the thought of being with someone else feels wrong.
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ARE YOU SAD BECAUSE THE PARTY WAS OVER TOOO SOOOON? MISS THE PUNGENT SMELL OF DECAYING CORPSES AND CONTAMINATED WATERS?!
Well sit your cute lil tush right down, because now’s YOUR chance to descend into the nightmarish, plagued ridden Vesuvia and save what’s left of it. Can you make it?
ARCANA: OUTBREAK DLC releasing 20-never!
this is good
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I just want a Bloodborne 2.
Made these for a contest last year to pitch a hypothetical sequel idea.
TL;DR Castaway hunter washes up on the shores of Byrgenwerth and meets Laurence. They discover Ebrietus and a masked kid in the dungeons. The sail around, meet some crows, nobles, and see other lands, before encountering Kos in a fishing hamlet. They kill Kos, but this time the hunter and kid are flung into the future. The future is a sunken Yharnam, a world flooded by the Moon Scented hunter who ascended in the previous game. The drowned hunter explores this world and discovers what became of his colleagues and their actions. Now soggy hunter has a choice- undo history, or rebuild the world from the remaining wreckage.
some of y’all never watched bratz as a kid and realized friendship is superior and it shows
#this may just be the ace in me speaking but#you really saw chole fall for a guy (who treated her friends horribly and flirted with other girls) and completely ignore her friendships#you saw how this affected her and her friends and didnt take it as a warning to not choose relationships over friendships??#and to stay away from euro men??#lmfao#fuck relationships im trying to be a super spy in france with my girlies
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the true enemies to lovers grishaverse ship should have been zoya x alina you cant change my mind
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Anonymous asked:
I feel like book piracy has become so normalized now and its honestly so ugly and disappointing. Like I totally understand that some people in other countries have straight up no library access but for people in the US/UK?? saying that pubs are their 'free trial' without even trying to use a library??? I truly think younger readers using them don't realize how badly it could fuck an author over
i think book piracy comes down to people not understanding the differences between the film industry and the book industry. i don’t fully understand the film industry bc it’s not my focus, but i do know that pirating movies or shows is not going to directly impact the actors and/or the little people behind the movie or show. (if someone wants to elaborate on how, please do! i’m not really sure.)
however, pirating books is going to directly impact authors, not publishers or CEOs or any other bigwigs. an author is paid thus: they sign a contract for a certain amount of money, say, $100,000 for a two-book deal. that means that each book will be (technically) worth $50,000. depending on the contract, a check will be written for $25,000 upon the author turning in the version of the manuscript that the editor bought. that check will go to the author’s agent, who will take their 15% commission, which will be $3,750. then, the agent will send the remaining $21,250 to the author, minus taxes. with that same scenario, a check with the remaining $25,000 will be written upon the author turning in the final copy of the manuscript, aka the version that will go to the printer, and the process repeats (the check is sent to the agent, the agent takes their 15%, the author gets the remaining $21,250, minus taxes).
that’s not where this story ends, though: in every contract is a thorough section detailing royalties, aka how much the author will receive per sale of a copy of their book in the book’s entire lifespan. if an agent is good, this will be one of their most important areas they focus on during negotiations. it’s imperative that people know that royalties can make or break an author’s career. it’s better to have larger royalties than a larger advance, bc an advance is only once, whereas royalties will continue as long as the book continues to sell (hardcover, paperback, audiobook, ebook, etc). the higher the author’s advance, the more pressure there is for the author to break even, aka for the author to make back the $50,000 spent on that first book. in a worst case scenario, if an author doesn’t earn back their advance (a big turn of phrase in publishing), they could have book 2 canceled, or they could possibly never be able to sell another book to a publisher again due to a poor sales record. in that case, it’s likely the author will have to re-debut under a pen name so the publisher backing them can treat them like a debut author. or, you’ll see an author’s first printings tank between book 1 and 2 or book 2 and 3 etc etc. for instance, Enchantee by Gita Trelease had a first hardcover printing of 175,000 copies (which is big for a debut!), while book 2 of that series, Everything That Burns, has a first hardcover printing of 75,000 copies. now, i can’t see the sales numbers, but it seems likely a lack of sales is the culprit here.
so when people say that pirating books will directly influence whether or not your favorite author gets to publish more books, they really mean it. it won’t affect the publisher (who has massive protections in place) nearly as much as it will affect the author (who doesn’t have those same protections), and it could mean that your favorite author never gets to finish that series you love or can never publish another book again. in conclusion, don’t pirate books, kids.
I would also like to add that the above primarily applies to big publishers.
There are much smaller publishers that also feel that hit. People don’t realize that another major expense—yes even with the rise of semi-comparable-to-offset-quality digital printing—for a publisher is warehousing. If you are not a big major publisher, odds are you are either paying for shelf space somewhere or your house is full of books. And that’s not just from initial runs either.
Ever been to a Barnes and Noble book signing? They’ll often buy 20-30 books to have for the author to sign. Great news for everyone, right? Except, those 20-30 books might not sell. So what then? Barnes and Noble sell it back to the publisher at full price. Even if the books are damaged.
Say an author worked their ass off and did dozens of signings (a good thing, this is not me saying that authors shouldnt try and self promote) at different Barnes and Nobles. Do the B&N maybe pass the extra books from the previous signings to the other subsequent chain stores for the tour? NO!! OF COURSE NOT!! THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE!! IDIOT!!!
So now that publisher has to buy back thousands of dollars worth of potentially damaged books that they can’t sell back at full price to paying customers. AND THEN!! they have to store it.
All of this is money that comes out of authors royalties. And if there isn’t enough royalties, that might tank a small business that has more that one author to support.
If you don’t have the cash to pay for books, the very best thing you can do for an author is to request a book at your local libraries (the more the merrier!) and write reviews on Amazon, Good Reads, B&N, etc.
Libraries pay publishers a certain amount of money each time a book is checked out.
Most book aggregate websites have a threshold of reviews that a book has to receive before it can be recommended to people browsing.
A lot of small publishers don’t even have the cash to pay for advances. They can only offer high royalties to their authors. When you pirate books, you may also be taking an author’s ONLY form of income for a book AND taking a small business.
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Hey, so I was rereading The Stepford Wives (1972) a few months ago, and…
[For screenreaders: Sylvia called to apologize – she had been passed up for a promotion she damn well knew she deserved-and Charmaine called to say they’d had a great time and to postpone a tentative Tuesday tennis date. “Ed’s got a bee in his bonnet,” she said. “He’s taking a few days off, we’re putting Merrill with the DaCostas-you don’t know them, lucky you-and he and I are going to ‘rediscover each other.’ That means he chases me around the bed. And my period’s not till next week, God damn it.”
“Why not let him catch you?” Joanna said.
“Oh God,” Charmaine said. “Look, I just don’t enjoy having a big cock shoved into me, that’s all. Never have and never will. And I’m not a lez either, because I tried it and that’s no big deal. I’m just not interested in sex. I don’t think any woman is, really, not even Pisces women. Are you?”
“Well I’m not a nympho,” Joanna said, “but I’m interested in it, sure I am.”]
[For screenreaders: ‘Really, or do you just feel you’re supposed to be?“
“Really.”
“Well, to each his own,” Charmaine said.
“Let’s make it Thursday, all right? He’s got a conference he can’t get out of, thank God.”
“Okay, Thursday, unless something comes up.”
“Don’t let anything.”
“It’s getting cold.”
“We’ll wear sweaters.”]
That's… that’s a canonically asexual character.
A pretty accurate one as well— if you hang out in the ace community today, you’ll find loads of stories from people who spent time assuming that they must be gay (“because if I’m not attracted to the opposite gender, then what else is there?”), or coming to the conclusion that nobody really feels sexual attraction and everybody’s just pretending to do so to fit in.
And it’s clearly intentional representation, since the author goes to the trouble of clarifying in the text that this isn’t just gay coding, or an example of the ‘women just don’t enjoy sex’ stereotype.
It’s canon ace rep. In 1972. In the form of a female character who is confident, social, sexually experienced and basically the opposite of all aphobic stereotypes you’ll find.
Yep. We’ve always existed.
I find the casual reference to being forced into sex by her husband so chilling (Especially in the context of what I know the book/movie which [SPOILERS] is about men murdering and replacing their wives with sex robots who also clean and take care of the children because it’s more convenient to them than having to deal with full human beings with their own wants and needs that’s different than theirs).
Idk if the author was aware of asexuality as an identity/orientation that exist but they clearly knew about the experience of women irl like this fictional character who aren’t into sex and aren’t attracted to men or women but who still have to perform a “marital duty” because it’s their assumed role in the marriage (and as a woman) despite obviously despising it. And the author also clearly knew that a woman talking about despising sex but having to go through it unless they can “prove” they can’t (with their period for example) to another woman wouldn’t even be cause for alarm to other women either. It’s just understood that it’s how it is.
And it’s just so sad to think about how many women who had to live like this (and i’m not saying men didn’t live through this either but there’s the added pressure of not having sexual agency or much power for women in the past - also not even getting into issues of gender identity either). The fact that she knew of another option (being attracted to/having sex with women) but because she didn’t fit in that category either she went back to heterosexuality assuming that there was nothing else out there and that it must be what everybody feels …
This is why knowing about asexuality is important. To give people more choices, more possibilities in what exist so that they don’t force themselves to do thing when they don’t have to or be people they aren’t. Even if asexuality isn’t the ultimate answer for someone, even if they never identify as asexual at all but just have a lower libido in general or just for a short period of time … it’s better to know that not wanting to have sex and/or not being attracted to people is something that exist and is completely normal and valid and that some people never even ever want to have sex at all so there’s plenty of the room in the middle between the extremes … if it allow them to avoid getting stuck in a situation like this. If it allow them to say no and to know they have options.