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Head kiss

#bakudeku #I melt

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What is artfight?? :0

artists, this is ur reminder to start drawing references or redesign your original characters before artfight in july this year

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my number one skill is being sooo cute and my number two skill is the ancient curse

#Haó shih #ASB

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#I want it

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Important hot tip for literally anyone purchasing art

If an artist you rly like doesn’t have a public commission sheet or perhaps you have an odd but reasonable request your best friend will be “I will gladly compensate you for your time.” Literally the moment an artist sees that you’re actually going to pay them for whatever weird request you’ve got, they’re like a million percent more likely to respond positively to whatever your weird request is. For example: I love birds, and I was seeking out a nice state bird cross stitch pattern that wasn’t too complicated. I found one I liked on Etsy, but it was actually selling the finished product (a gorgeous quilt for about $2000) and not the charts, which was what I wanted. No problem! I messaged the seller and said “hi! I love your beautiful quilt, but I am actually interested in the cross stitch charts. Do you still have them? I would be more than happy to compensate you for the trouble.” I have no doubt that this lovely woman has been demanded for free labor countless times. It has happened to every quilter on planet earth. She told me that she would mail me HER ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN CHARTS for about $30, since she drafted them herself and wasn’t planning on making another quilt. I gladly sent $50 her way and told her she could just scan them for me if that was easier for her. Artists are, by and large, lovely people who want to help you. Please, just promise them that you will fucking compensate them for their time and labor.

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When I was little my mom’s meatloaf was my favorite food. But ONLY her meatloaf. I didn’t like anyone else’s, and she told me that she would teach me how to make it when I was older. And when I was like 19? She finally taught me, but she told me never to tell anyone else and I was like weird but okay

Anyway, she was super fucking homophobic and abusive to me when I told her I was gay, so here’s the recipe

4-6 lbs of Hamburger/turkey burger

1 pk onion soup mix OR ranch mix

1 TBs ketchup

1 Tbs spicy brown mustard,

1 Tbs bbq sauce

1 Tbs steak sauce

1 egg

mix, shape into a loaf in a big pan, and bake at 350 for 2 hrs (maybe 2 and a half if you’re feeling dangerous)

You can get almost all of these ingredients at the dollar store, and have leftovers if it’s just you. The leftovers make great tacos if (taco seasoning is also like a dollar). Enjoy your revenge loaf

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I sometimes still see people tagging #please don't reblog but the post is rebloggable so just making sure you know about this feature:

It's in the post settings under the little gear wheel in the corner and the options are Anyone or No One

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How much authors make on print vs ebook

In looking at a $17.99 paperback vs a $7.99 ebook of the same title, you might assume it would help the author more if you bought the paperback. After all, it's fully $10 more! But: nope. At least with the book contracts I have, I get more money from the ebook, even at those prices.

How? Because I get a higher royalty rate on ebooks than on print. I get 10% (usually) of the profit on print books, so from that $17.99 book sale, $1.79 comes to me. (That's simplifying things. It's actually a bit less, since I get 10% of NET profits, not gross. But the numbers are close enough.) With ebooks, meanwhile, I usually get 35% of the profits, so I get $2.79 coming to me from that $7.99 ebook. And with some of my titles, I get 50% of ebook profits, so even better!

These exact percentages vary based on one's publishing contracts (they even vary among my different titles), but the above is the basic idea, and is probably pretty true across most of the industry.

Print books just cost a lot more than ebooks, since they have to be printed, bound, shipped, and stored, which means more people needing to be paid for their part in the process. We all want brick-and-mortar bookstores to thrive, and we all love physical books, so by all means, let us keep supporting those places. But ebooks do often pay authors better than print does, so no need to feel bad if you buy a lot of those too. :)

#same for self publishing #ebooks are so much easier with a higher amount back

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what if i risked my life and put up (affectionate) with your unhinged monsterfucker brother to save you. and then revealed i was an expert in illegal black magic just so i could resurrect you from a pile of bones. and what if i later explored your body in the bath. and you laced our fingers together and offered to share your energy with me. and what if after all that… there was only one bed. what then.

#delicious in dungeon spoilers

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OK so this is the whole AI situation summarized

• AIs have already been scraping data from sites for free for years

• Companies got pissed at this a little too late and are now trying to put it behind a paywall by offering things like data packs in paid partnerships

• Your data wasn't safe before or now

• Capitalism babey

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ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

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go to settings > to the right, under "Blogs," pick the blog you want to change the settings of > scroll down to visibility settings > turn on "Prevent third-party sharing for [blog url]" > do this for each individual blog you have

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normalize platonic “flirting”!!!! i just wanna be able to compliment my friends and point out little things i like about them!! i want to make them smile and have playful banter and laugh together and see them smile!!!!!!!!!!

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top 5 scariest things to do

phone call

driving

have a job

not have a job