#books per year

[jamesrodayrodriguezpresents]

SAG-AFTRA is officially set to join the WGA in going on strike. No filming, premiere attendence or other promotion of any kind allowed.

I hope to see nothing but support for this decision.

#SAG-AFTRA #WGA #a shame the DGA isn't joining as well #not like their directors are gonna have a lot of work set out for them for the time being #this will have an interesting effect on the media landscape i'm sure #no more barbie premiere dresses #SDCC this year is gonna return to its more humble “nerds unite” roots at this point #i hope the wealthier writers and actors will support those that rely on the paychecks during the (continued) strike #actually i want a-list actors to step up in general #like why do like 5 people get paid a billion dollars for a few weeks of work per year #while their fellow working actors barely manage to book enough jobs to make their health insurance #IATSE should vote to strike again as well now that i think of it #they spend more time than anyone on set and get the least pay #doesn't seem fair #anyway #hopefully this will cause some positive changes in the industry #i don't want to see any complaints about the continued strikes affecting psych 4 #i'll block your ass if you do

[kuruk]

oh my god I know like it sounds weird to say this when it's just avatar but the original show has aang go back to the southern air temple to show katara and sokka his home only to find evidence of the genocide of his people and the loss of his loved ones and it's quiet until you see his grief and his rage but you just see the aftermath a hundred years later and the netflix adaptation makes it feel like they wanted it to be a cool action movie with an epic scene showing the fighting and running of the airbenders like that side by side with aang running away and it's like ??? okay it's "darker" congratulations I can see that's what the goal is based on the differences in firebending and early on screen deaths go and focus on every bit of violence for the audience's lazy sadistic pleasure instead of any of the characters personal narratives especially the women that can all be taken right out + the discovery of different places all over the world in the earth kingdom and outside of it. put everything in omashu so they don't get to meet people and see the diversity of the world and each town and SEE what life is like for them under war and have these experiences with all these people build up to something bigger at the end

#changing the order of when the audience discovers new information in favor of a more linear storytelling was a bad idea #it came off as so bizarre like adding in these types of scenes so that it's just cooler and more intense #when the original show had 20 min long episodes 20 episodes per book not much time was needed. but so much was missed in the live action? #because they had to add and drag out things like this that just feel wrong #and it's not very good every event in the live action felt very smushed together like no scene stood out no contrast just the same level #of flatness all around you dont even get a chance to really feel anything about what happens on screen #when everything happens so surface level and without much real emotion it just happens so something can happen after that and so it can end #it felt like watching a bad movie everything that gave the cartoon any meaning was taken away #adding in that weird airbenders genocide scene towards the beginning but leaving out katara's inspiration of haru and those earthbenders #was it not cool enough did it take too much away from sokka's romance plotlines #one of the most important book 1 katara episodes #it felt like the natla script was written by people who are writing from memory based on what they watched 10 years ago

[vroomian]

do Reed's people do audiobooks and stuff also

Oh I got another ask about this and yeah! They do! It’s actually how Reed and Val meet up again after the big blowout. By that point vox and Val are a team up (velvet isn’t around yet) so when Reed sets up a meeting as a representative of the Stacks to do some business on Voxs internet it takes place at one of Val’s classier night clubs in the vip suite.

While Reed isn’t an overlord at this point he does have hella connections and the rumors of how safe the stacks are is spreading. So Val and Vox are both inclined to make a deal with the mysterious owner of the stacks.

But then the representative shows up and it’s fucking Reed???? Like to put this into Val’s l perspective: fifteen years ago your sorta boy toy was a hooker who enojoyed nothing so much as hedonism and now he’s somehow the vice president of a very powerful corporation??? Even though you were pretty sure he was dead-dead cause your hacker boyfriend couldn’t find him anywhere!

So for once it’s Val’s turn to blue screen lol.

#yrz has a lending library of digital and audio books cause they can’t be stolen stolen. #it’s not free but it’s basically chump change for hell #so pretty much everyone in pentagram city has it #and it’s starting to spread to the other rings :) #it makes Yrz a metric fuck to. of money per year btw #and more as hellborn authors start negotiating for more access #all the authors are paid fairly of course #you've got questions we've got answers #hazbin au

[goodfellowe]

happy twtt thursday!!! here’s a little collab @the-gigilefache-arthole and i did where they drew the sketches and i colored them… happy pride!! 🧡🤍💖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#obligatory these are not canon per se disclaimer here!!! but ouughghg i love them so much #gigi if u see this ive already gushed about this separately like billions of times but i really love these sketches #and i am always so insanely grateful an going nutty every time you pull up with something new 🙏🏾😭 THANKYOU for all of the love to twtt #<- throughout the years #and thankyou again for letting me color these… it’s like a lil coloring book and i definitely want to do more!!! #namely the one of timmy crying with shades on LOL #twtt thursdays #twtt posting #collab #ahit #a hat in time #hat kid #Hat adult #mustache girl #hatstache #timmy #bow kid #timbow #fanart #twtt spoilers #tb #tb posting

[acotars]

i think i'll do 30 days of romance novels this april again so if you have any recs, please send them my way! anything goes but i'm not a fan of billionaire/mafia/macho man content so bonus points for soft mmcs, queer recs (of all kinds!), and underrated faves.

#i also do a majority of my reading via audiobook now because it's so convenient at my office #so while i love love love supporting indies... i will likely be too busy this year to do many ebooks #especially now that my commute contains exactly zero trains :( #but i welcome any recs you have! last year almost all the books were contemporary #but im very inclined to open it up to more variety ie. historical/romantasy/paranormal/etc etc etc #so pleeease send me your favorite recent romances or your most anticipated romance reads of all kinds ! #pers

[commonpigeon]

my new years resolutions for 2024 are to learn how to crochet, be vegan fr, exercise at least once a week, read at least 12 books, and buy a well fitting pair of jeans. the last one has been on my list for like 3 years but this year is my year fr

#i read 17 or 18 books this year but i was unemployed for most of it. so back down to one per month

[britneyshakespeare]

barnes and noble has been raising the prices of everything and further pushing for their premium membership option (which they raised the price of by 60 percent this year!) and then when they have big sales events, they're less than what they used to be.

last year at this time you could get one of their leather-bound book annex tomes for $12.50 (without a member discount) because of the 50 percent off all hardcover sales. but they raised the price of those tomes from 25 bucks to 30, and they decreased the sale from 50 percent off all hardcovers to 1/3rd off. so that same book that was $12.50 at last year's end-of-year sale is now 20 bucks. and that's supposed to be savings enough to induce me to walk into one of their stores this week?

i'm sorry but b&n has just gotten so greedy, even though their business has only been doing better and better in previous years. they do not have to be raising prices like they have been, and they can damn well afford to have the same savings events they used to. if you went to one of those hardcover sales a year or two ago, even if you lived in a less populated area like i do, you had never seen a b&n so busy in your life. things were flying off the shelves. they WERE making bank.

and as a company they've only been growing and growing (as much as the publishing industry has been, in recent years). but there are so many other ways to buy books. CHEAPER ways to buy books. MORE SUSTAINABLE ways to buy books. and since books and booksellers are doing really well right now, i don't see why barnes and noble is getting so greedy when they don't have to be. i dont like new shiny books that much. people buy books for the content, ultimately. sometimes we as consumers might make the choice that a new shiny book is worth paying a bit more for, but not that much. barnes and noble has just been demanding more and more of their customers' money for less and less benefit.

#kaily and i shared a membership account for several years but she cancelled it over the summer #bc of them raising it from 25 dollars per year to 40. i'm sorry but we just were not spending enough to make that worth it #the benefits for a member used to be 10 percent off everything in-store and free shipping online. #now it's 10 percent off everything in-store AND online with free shipping. which sounds good enough #but not for a 60 percent pricehike. and a bunch of other supposed benefits no one would ask for #like a free tote (geez. thanks. yeah i really need a free tote every year) and like. a free treat at a cafe on your kids' birthday? #i dont have a kid. #between the two of us. we were not buying 400 dollars worth of stuff at b&n every year #oh and it's also 10 percent off the in-store starbucks. but im pretty sure that USED to be a benefit they had #years ago?? like i SWEAR ive gotten money off at the b&n starbucks so i guess they got RID of that at some point #and gave it BACK when they HIKED UP THE PRICE TO 40 BUCKS A YEAR #text post #barnes and noble #it's a shame bc where i live. barnes and noble is the only like fancy bookstore #and i live in an area that my barnes and noble... is like. what a boston barnes and noble eats for breakfast. #it's two floors. there are plenty of books that it doesn't have. plenty of sections that are very small #like the poetry section is just pathetic. i look at it every time i go and it just makes me sad. #i guess a lot of the book annex stuff contains poetry but still that's not really enough to entertain a rich interest in the genre for long #i outgrew the limited selection at my own local b&n poetry section by the time i was twenty. i was like i already know everything here. #which isn't to say i'm an expert in poetry. it's to say that the poetry section is barely bigger than a shelf #in fact ive never thought about it before but I OWN more poetry books than you'll find in the poetry section #at my local b&n. lol #i have a lot of nostalgia for b&n even though it is a big company that does not love me. i have very few books i bought new #that are not from barnes and noble. i got so many books that changed my life from them #i guess it's like a childhood/teenage attachment at this point bc ive had more mixed feelings abt the direction theyve been taking #for several years at this point. #and no i dont mean that theyve been expanding to selling more toys/games etc. theyve literally always done that in my lifetime. who cares. #they still have books #as an adult ive been more capable of seeing how limited their book selection is and how i have so many problems w that. #and it ultimately comes down to them being a big greedy company

[syntax6]

Some publishing math: The publisher paid me $25,000 for this book back in 2018, which is better than a lot of authors are paid. Still, the book did not come out until 2021, which means that the $25,000 had to stretch over four years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Suddenly, it’s not looking like a lot of money!

The 25K was also kind of like a loan. The publisher “advanced” me the money and then I had to earn it back through book sales before I could make another dime. I make about $2 per sale, so it takes many thousands of book sales before I make any additional money. 

This book has now earned me $600 since its publication two years ago.

#only 1 percent of authors make 10k per year from writing #they have day jobs #or like me a spouse with a real job #I love this book #you have to love writing to do this job #and also have another source of money if you want to eat

[clonerightsagenda]

Graphic novel adaptations are big right now, and graphic adaptations of MG fiction in particular have been common for a while (presumably because the audience is made of younger and possibly weaker readers) but I want to know who greenlit a graphic adaptation of Animorphs. The artist is going to die of old age.

#yeah sure they were churning the NOVELS out at several books per year #but I don't think the artist can do that

[fantastic-nonsense]

wait hang on there are anti Kanej people justifying their dislike of the ship by saying that Kaz...............owns Inej and has power over her? Did we.........read the same books?

#per haskell owns her contract? Kaz was a 16 year old boy using what little power he had to get a girl out of a shitty situation? #he literally liquidated his entire life savings to set her free in CK? #also saying that Kaz has any legitimate leverage or power over Inej is literally laughable lmfao #like yeah he's TECHNICALLY her boss (kind of) #but if you're looking at that relationship going 'abuse of power' and 'Inej has no choice' I genuinely don't know what books you read #(I didn't even know anti kanej people existed this is genuinely a revelation...next you're going to tell me anti wesper people exist) #kanej #six of crows #soc fanwank

[literallyjusttoa]

Feeling just a lil bit uninspired rn so you know what that means? Time to reread all of ToA again!!!!

#trials of apollo #sunny speaks #literally brought my books to college just so I could do this #Maybe I'll finally get back to my doodle per chapter thing #I'll finish that in 10 years lmfao

[usareiis]

Lost my original post of this from the other day but I genuinely don't understand how Black Butler discourse ever shifted into the does Sebastian ~really~ like Ciel or is Ciel just dinner line of conversation that is pervasive as it is because Sebastian is the one that has absorbed his whole existence into Ciel's. Sebastian's face is what Ciel wants Sebastian's whole purpose is doing things for Ciel Sebastian's every hell of a butler yes my lord speech is about how he's Ciel's and Ciel is the one going around saying shit like whatever Sebastian is just my pawn 💅

#like sjdjdkdd?????? #it's not that i don't think ciel loves sebastian per se bc. well. i don't think he'd ever process it in terms like that no matter what... #...kind of relationship they have bc the most important thing to him is getting him to do tasks like a dog and proving he will over and over #which is why sebastian does it all so overkill #but the most acknowledgement you ever get that ciel likes sebastian is stuff like idk the fucking book of atlantic you did good today #or if we're feeling really crazy the you were the only demon there line #like the dynamic has gotten way skewed in fandom away from the actual text #and i know why but it's still annoying bc i am not even saying this in a shippy way bc i don't give a fuck about ships #but they're so crazy entwined and in completely incomparable inhuman situations that it literally has no merit on this story to sit and... #...definitely piece together how this relationship works with real life normie standards like it literally is going to fit into no box of... #...what we think of as friends or siblings or parents or partners bc no victorian guy on the face of the earth has a real pet demon. #it's so boring you're missing the bigger picture that they're everything to each other and completely stuck together forever #does x mean y mean z? (least problematic answer only) they're stuck together! forever! #and no one has demons in real life it's all comparable to real life nothing #other than the asthma that's real #anyway. it's like fandom has made up a version of this story in their heads that is so devoid of anything that makes the story the story #twitter is like another planet for this i am mostly talking about twitter where i have been looking for news about the anime and oh boy #i have said this before but sebastian doesn't have a grip on human relationships bc he's not one and ciel doesn't give a fuck #but like this post started with and strayed from. well. sebastian isn't even trying to act like he's indifferent. ciel actually is. #and we're all missing several funny bits from that just trying to fit everything into a box #we could have more interesting conversations if we got past the same three people have been having for 20 years #kuroshitsuji #my kuro posts

[myhyperfixationisback]

hey. what the fuck is up with Ratchet and Clank merch

#ratchet and clank #I was like ‘I have literally three pieces of merch of R&C despite it being my special interest since elementary school I should fix that’ #*goes online* the fucking horrors #what do you MEAN everything is at least $100 dollars or more??? excuse me??? #the employee exclusive one is almost always over a thousand dollars. y’all see the one priced like a small car right. #the fucking PLUSHIES ARE A HUNDRED DOLLARS??? #why. #the TINY FUCKING PIN IS $90???? #btw the three pieces I have are the Funko Pops (I am not a huge Funko Pop person but I saw them release and pre-ordered them for my b-day) #and then the Ratchet and Clank art book. that is all #I have all of the games but like. that’s not /merch/ per se it’s the actual series content #actually I take it back I no longer have all the games bc I’m missing the very first game in physical copy + the PSP games + the PS4-5 ones #and I am the most fucking rabid Ratchet and Clank fan. I am autism insane about it. and I don’t have ANYTHING #do you see how much of a tragedy this is. do you understand how damaging this is to me every single day #that I do not have a Clank plushie to hold. a Ratchet plushie to keep him company. and an Alister Azimuth action figure to abuse. #my goal is to make that video essay I’ve had in my brain for years and make Insomniac feel so seen that they gift me something. #bc of the heartfelt please of a disabled poor person that has loved their series so much all their life #I’m going to punch through a steel wall

[starstuffandalotofcoffee]

I trust neither the 365 books in 365 days people nor the people who are like HOW COULD YOU READ 50 BOOKS IN A YEAR. the secret is that basically anyone who is on booktok or who uses goodreads as anything but a personal list is an idiot but plenty of very reasonable people get through 50 or 100 books in a year

#when i was shomer shabbat? i'm positive i got through 50+ books per year bc what else could you fucking do on saturday/holidays #now i don't but that's bc i fuck around online too much and that's my fault