there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter
tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks… that website still lives on
truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that
I apologise for having a nuanced opinion on the Internet, but “The destruction of a vast network that many creators rely on to reach their audience is heartbreaking” and “Watching the multibillion-dollar impulsive purchase of an entitled man-child crash and burn within days of getting his hands on it is objectively funny” are two statements that can and should co-exist
For me, they must co-exist, because if I can’t have the latter, the former is unbearable. It’s the brutal satisfaction of watching your own crops burn and knowing that the invaders will starve.
It’s the brutal satisfaction of watching your own crops burn and knowing that the invaders will starve.
If you’re going to suggest pirating books please stay the fuck away from my posts, you selfish soul sucking twatwaffles. I have been an author out of work as a result of piracy. I know many authors who have lost contracts or had reduced contracts, series left unfinished, due to piracy. When you pirate a genre you enjoy, you make it unprofitable, and unprofitable genres don’t get lots of publications. Love queer books? Don’t pirate them. Love diversity in books? Don’t pirate them. Love YA stories that take a risk? Don’t pirate them.
i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: book piracy isn’t okay. if you come into my inbox with some argument that you believe i will agree with despite the argument being in favor of piracy, you’re wrong. i will never agree with or condone book piracy, and coming to me with some bullshit argument you believe makes it okay to pirate books proves you have already made your decision on the morals of stealing from authors, and therefore you are wasting both my time and yours. don’t come to me expecting me to pat you on the back and say “you’re right, book piracy is okay bc of this argument,” bc it’ll never happen.
if you’re that determined to say your piece and that convinced your opinion on book piracy is morally sound, make your own blog and say it instead of dumping a four-parter in my inbox. tumblr is full of people who agree with you, so go find them instead of wasting your time trying to convince me that authors—even hugely successful authors like Riordan, Clare, Aveyard, Maas, and more—shouldn’t get paid for their work bc it’ll never happen.
Honestly, as writer, I am going to come out and say right now, I’m glad that book piracy sites are getting taken down. If you want free books, use a library. Artists and writers have a hard enough time making ends meet as it is.
“Well, if I can’t pirate books anymore, what am I supposed to read?!”
I don’t know, Janet, maybe try any of the literally THOUSANDS of legitimately free books out there instead of whining that authors choose to ask for payment for their work.
I’m not exaggerating, I literally just saw someone bitch about not being able to read the newest releases for free because they can’t afford it, so they are allegedly justified in pirating them. No. You do not have an inherent right to read the hot new releases of the week. There are millions of words out there, freely available at no cost to you. Just because it’s not the immediate thing that you want doesn’t mean you just get to steal that instead.
Piracy is theft. At least own the fuck up to that, and stop trying to justify your stealing from small press and indie authors because of your staggering sense of entitlement to our work.
If your reasoning is “well, I know that this book is legit free, but I wanted to read that book so it’s fine to steal it”, kindly go sit on a cactus and spin.
