The Next Time You Think Youre Lonely, Just Remember You Have About 25 Billion White Blood Cells In Your

the next time you think you’re lonely, just remember you have about 25 billion white blood cells in your body protecting your sorry little ass with their life. you have 25 billion friends who would die for you. no need for tears.

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why you should watch young royals on Netflix

1. themes

lgbt, healthy friendships, anxiety, panic attacks, ADHD, aspergers sindrome, anti monarchy feelings

2. characters

the protagonist is a prince who is sent to a boarding school and starts figuring out his ideas, his sexuality and deals with anxiety

the most beautiful girl in the school is a middle sized black woman, she understand she needs no prince to be the queen she always been. she is friend with

Sara, a girl with asperger sindrome and i’ve never seen a show in which it was not stereotyped, Sara is not pitied or complained and not identified/defined by that!

3. healthy friendship rep

you never see girls against each other! although felice and her friends are supposed to be the most popular they are actually nice and not a bunch of mean girls. i could say more but i don’t want to spoil one of my fav moment… watch it i promise their friendship is cool

4. lgbt couple

it’s the lead couple instead of a sided one???? they have a beautiful chemistry on screen

5. the cast

they look like real teenagers!! and i’m not talking only about the fact they are not 30 y/o with clear skin but also to the behaviours they have in the show. nowdays you see all those shows with teens being comfortable with everything, playing cool while here you see them struggling and being real

6. cinematography is worth a mention

7. support good foreign shows!!

i think language barrier shouldn’t be a thing at all, there is so many beautiful show in the world and not only us is capable of producing them so please give it a chance

8. get is renew so we can have season 2 !!

9. it has only 6 episodes of 40 minutes circa so it’s easy to bingewatch

I’m 100% sure i forgot something cause this show is unbelivable and there is so much to talk about so i’ll update this if something else comes in my mind ALSO feel free to add something if u want

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. 

Lainey Molnar

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