#I’m in the 400s……..

[khytal]

i’m still watching detco I just had to take a break for tristamp. gonna go through movie 9 tomorrow :]c

[p0th]

[moominmammaonheroin]

Jonathan Sims is like a shit wizard with googly eyes stuck to his head claiming he’s the prophet

[thebibliosphere]

I’ve talked about this with some friends, but the whole Spotify/audiobook drama legitimately makes me want to cry.

If you are unaware, earlier in the month, Spotify, who now owns FindawayVoices -- an audiobook distributor and one of the only major rivals to Audible on the creator end -- announced that their ToS would be updating.

The ToS updates were horrendous and basically allowed Spotify to make royalty-free translations of our works, as well as create derivatives, and basically just fuck us all over and feed all of our hard work into AI.

The backlash was so swift that less than 12 hours later, Spotify sent out a panicked “Sorry our wording wasn’t clear!” email with a promised update. Less than 24 hours later they issued a statement walking back the changes to the ToS, and have since been pulling a “we never said that, you misread our unclear verbiage” when in reality the verbiage was very clear (Not Spotify trying to pull a “gaslight gatekeep girl boss ✌️”), they just didn't expect to get dragged out into the metaphorical court of social media and get publicly annihilated with authors withdrawing their work from the platform and customers canceling their subscriptions left right and center.

Anyway, the walk back was acceptable enough for me to not feel the need to remove my work entirely from FindAway -- which is good because I would have lost access to the global audiobook market if I had, not to mention global library access. Which, again, is good. A significant chunk of my audiobook earnings comes from Libby, and I’d honestly be lost without that $20 every month. (we get paid quarterly but it breaks out to about $20 a month.)

What the walk back was not good enough for, was for me to trust them to keep streaming Hunger Pangs on their Spotify streaming service. Because quite frankly, I don't trust them not to pull some more ToS bullshit, and this is the part making me want to cry.

Why? Because I’m going through my royalty reports, and for the single month of December 2023 alone, Hunger Pangs was streamed so often it earned $400.

In one month.

That's more than I earn from Audible in a year.

That's more than I earn from kobo, b&n, libby, libro.fm and several author distributors combined in a year.

I’m going to scream.

[yourlocalmissingtexture]

*pries open your casket, smirking* Decomposing down there all by yourself, gorgeous?

[silksongeveryday]

Drawing Hornet everyday until Silksong comes out - Day 388

microwave

[housecow]

i love that youre only 21. i bet your metabolism hasnt even started slowing down yet. keep eating like this and you're gonna be over 400 pounds before age 30

that’s the goal… bmi of 50 before 22 is another one and i’m already so close to that 🥺

[beacon-lamp]

etho and his fiscally responsible adventures in the hermitcraft shopping district

[tacosaysroar]

Soooo my dishwasher caught fire today.

Yep.

I started a load, sat down in the living room to work, and a little while later there was a burning plastic smell in the air. I ran into the kitchen to find whitish gray smoke billowing out of the top of the door.

Bad News: the dishwasher is toast and must now be replaced.

Good news: it was old and not-so-great anyway and it’s Labor Day weekend, a rather lucky time to need a new appliance.

I spent more money than I would’ve liked but around $400 less than I would’ve if I’d needed to do this some other week, so I’m at peace.

And it’ll be nice to have a dishwasher where the top rack isn’t constantly falling out of the track and there aren’t holes in the silverware basket big enough for the silverware to fall through. (The new one has a top rack for silverware. Luxury of luxuries.)

Now I wait to get the call that lets me know when they can schedule my delivery. Might be as much as two weeks.

I have my fingers crossed it’ll be a day when I’m supposed to be in the office, so I can say I have to work from home that day.

Keep those silver linings coming.

[zukkaart]

Sokka: how can I love you when all the world hates you?

Zuko: because I love you more than all the world

[oddberryshortcake]

Dawn Knight and Leah scraps 🥹

I’m so sad for them, I imagine they both wanted a peaceful life together with their son but that was lost the moment they were subjected to Henrick’s orders

Now they’ve been lost to history and no one remembers them

[doctorsiren]

OKAY Y’ALL I LISTENED TO DEATH SHROUD TODAY AND I ALSO IMMEDIATELY WROTE A SONG BASED OFF OF IT, SO I’M GONNA TRY AND GET THAT RECORDED AND OUT AS SOON AS I CAN BECAUSE MY BRAIN HAS BEEN CONSUMED BY THIS

[neoncolorblocks]

I had to, they’re my favs from both shows… and they need to work through their gd traumas.

Bonus:

Technically this is more Mamanardo stuff but since I’ve placed them around the same age the dynamic works a lil differently.

[yourlocalmissingtexture]

Unhinged “trust me, I’m a doctor” scientist & their partner whom they perform questionable experiments on is my favorite dynamic

[horton-hears-a-who-cares]

Emails to the boss 😎

(also happy late birthday giorno and happy early birthday me 🥳)