If you are within 3 hours of Tulsa, and you love cats,
I need you all to consider, right now, whether you would be willing to take Jasper and Juniper’s little brothers as a bonded pair, and/or their wonderful daddy (unneutered) together or separate.
I need to place them as soon as possible. Unlike I usually am able to I currently am not able to keep them or get them neutered and vetted. When we lost the boys I’m maxed out our CareCredit.
Edit: too slow to get Winston surrendered, babies available.
Jesus.
Oh. Oh.
Oh my god.
If you’re looking for knockoff ragdoll, casa de naamah’s got ‘em
Yep! Nebulously Himalayan/Raggie like! HIGH QUALITY babies and I can vouch for their future temperament. I know their daddy and have two of their sibs. They’ll be amazing cuddlebugs, possibly stupid, possibly clever, full of trouble, and stuning. They’re bonded enough to be mirroring each other, like Jasper and Junie, and can’t be separated. One is braver and one is more reserved, but their sibs are steady. Junie is fearless.
Daddy Winston btw:
They’re flame points like him.
Oh, little babies. They’re so, so precious. They have had a rough week, but they’re trying to be so brave.
I’m calling them Chicken and Waffles for the 30 minutes I have known them. Their big brother is Burger Boy after all!
*squints at them* Are they white, or are they colourpoint cream babies?
I forgot to say! They will probably wind up like their daddy:
A dilute flame-point dumbass! PRECIOUS but has never ever had a turn with the brain cell.
so my brother was telling me about this human resources certification he attended a while ago. in a panel, the panelist asked a bunch of people in attendance, “who here knows if an applicant for a job is right for it in under 60 seconds?”
hands shot up around the room, people smug about their ability to “weed out the riff-raff” when it came to hiring for their fortune 500.
“you should all be fired and probably in jail,” they said, waiting for the whole room to get uncomfortable, then continued, “because the only things you can really learn about a human being in under 60 seconds are all things that are fueled by prejudices and biases covered by american law. so now, i will teach you how to stop being racist, sexist, judgmental assholes and hire people that will better your company of employ.”
usually our birdfeeder is overrun by 100 horrible crime sparrows (a compliment, never change) but yesterday a TUFTED TITMOUSE came by to delicately snip up some of the crumbs the hooligans were wasting all over the balcony and girl i almost lost my mind. could’ve started a new religion in that moment. kelly was trying to read and i kept hissing at her like “babe. look at him. look at him. you need to LOOK at HIM.” you all need to look at him. have you guys seen Tufted Titmouse? this is not the one that was on my balcony, this is from cornell ornithology lab, but please look at him.
soft kitty feathers. delicate rusty armpit blush. lash liner for days. lil extra spot on the nose for mammalian appeal. keep an eye out for this perfect angel.
“who me?” yes you, showstopping spectacular never the same etc!! truly an irl anime sparkles everywhere little guy. thank you tufted titmouse, i hope you stop by again for habanero sunflower seeds someday
Republicans have lost their ever-loving minds if they think Democrats will join them to cut Social Security. I thought y’all had a mandate? What do y’all need us for? The answer is NO! THERE IS NO COMMON GROUND ON THIS
That’s just what Space Karen disclosed. The total was without a doubt much higher. Add in what Koch, Walton, Mercer, Thiel, DeVos, Crow, and the rest of oligarchs forked over and it’s many times what Harris took in. Three dedicated right-wing cable news outlets giving free 24/7 promotion and a literal army of conservative talk radio hosts, podcasters, etc and you have the most coordinated and best funded political machine in history.
Democrats can not survive in this modern age if they don’t build their own political machine.
we have GOT to abolish the paperback only being released a year later scheme brother i simply am not purchasing your $40 hardcover book
I am absolutely all for this, but I’m going to need publishers to pay me more than 7% royalties on paperbacks if they do. My paperbacks are between $10 and $15, and I love that for the kids who buy them. The price needs to stay the same for them and the royalty go up for me, and capitalism is the fucking worst, because you KNOW who is going to get socked by the publishing company.
Yeah, way too many publishing deals aren’t that fabulous for the writers.
Yeah, it’s a thing.
So, I write YA, which means that for most of my contracts when the book is in hardcover, I get 10% of about $20 (YA books tend to be cheaper bc we want kids to buy them. They are going up in price, which is not ideal for kids). An author writing adult books gets the same percentage, but the books are almost twice the price, so the get a theoretical $4 every time I get a theoretical $2.
Once the paperback comes out (if it does), the percentage AND the price drops, but adult books remain higher than YA.
I got a flat fee for AHSOKA (I try not to think about what my life would look like if I got normal royalties, but…let’s just say I’d own my house, and that’s not counting the rest of my IP books, which I get 1-5% on), but we have been arguing with Disney every contract since then.
This is why we beg you not to pirate books. We need sales numbers to keep our advances (ie the original amount of money our publishers pay us) in the “livable wage” range, and even then, it’s not a regular payment, so we need to keep selling books. Publishers only buy our books if we have a sales record, and pirating torpedoes that. Corporations don’t really care if you pirate, but literally every sale is important to the author.
(Libraries buy books, so that’s great! And used books are also good because SOMEone bought it, and now we might get a new fan. Buying ARCs is not cool–it literally says so on the cover–but I can’t really blame consumers for that: it’s the bookstore that should know better.)
Tl;dr, capitalism is the death of art, but also: please buy mine bc I have a mortgage. I promise to do my best work for you.
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