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Burpengary East http://www.cmweller.com 12629 posts

I learned something today

The nice folks at Smashwords control when I get my payment from them.

They take a percentage of the sales. That’s fine.

They hold my money in escrow until the end of the month. That’s peachy.

Then they charge me withholding fees for hanging on to my money before they deign to give me that money?

Of the $84.22 I had in escrow for them to give me, they charged $25.27, and handed me almost $60.

It’s a good thing I have a day job…

But let me get this straight:

  • they take a percentage off the top

  • I have no control of when I get my money from them

  • and then they charge me a fee for hanging on to my money

As I understand fiscal relationships, the delay in clearing a cheque comes from the banks gambling with that money before they give you a cut of the profits that looks exactly like the money one expects to get.

So Smashwords has my money and -I assume- they are making interest off of it in the meantime… then they charge me for doing that?

I think I found the fishhook in this deal.

Edit - It’s tax. I’m paying tax. I am derp.

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demoncolbert:


did you hear the one about the florists?

there are two florists - normal guys, just selling flowers in their town. they do well, make an honest living, business is blooming, things seem great. a few months later, two friars move in. the friars decide to become florists…

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Challenge #00582 - A207: Visiting an Ailing Friend

Hatchworth and Fluttershy in the world of SPG 

[AN: I almost tossed this and then I realised it was a different prompt]

Hatchworth was certainly an interesting friend. He spoke of interesting things, of humans and dragons and an assortment of interesting beings in a place called Kazooland.

Rather like Equestria, it was part of something bigger, and also made up of smaller realms. And, like Equestria, it thrived on magic.

Fluttershy watched as Hatchworth hammered a road sign into the earth

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With the Aesthetic changes the band has gone through, how do you see SPG looking in 5 years time? 10 years?

sigmacavalcadium:

davidmichaelbennett:

davidmichaelbennett:

We’re probably just going to wear giant solid color foam three dimensional shapes on stage. I’ll be a green pyramid, Hatchworth will be an orange sphere, and Rabbit will be a blue dodecahedron.

People will question our aesthetic choices…and we will simply flip them the bird under our giant solid color foam three dimensional shape costumes.

Art prompt?

image

Here’s my quick MS Paint interpretation. Someone else’s turn now :P

So this is what that

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What is a writing prompt exactly? Would it be something like "The Spine's ex-hat" or would it be a descriptive paragraph, or maybe even a...

People send me any darn thing they like. Links to art posts, art, quasi-coherent ramblings… They send me quotes, phrases, paragraphs and, on at least one occasion, single words [“catbug” in case you were wondering. I didn’t know what that was and added a new genetech abomination to my pet universe].

Some scene openers folks have sent me wound up being punchlines. Some have remained scene openers. Some, like today, have been crossover requests.

I will use

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Challenge #00581 - A206: At the Other End of a Tunnel Through Snornia

(( You did say to stop the promptspam when you hit like 70, I think the plan was to try and keep things at a steady level of around 20 instead of spamming all at once and then waiting for things to drop off ))

Prompt: Hatchworth and Fluttershy in Equestria

[AN: The amount of prompts is an ongoing problem. Too many and my readers get bored waiting for any of theirs to turn up. Too few and I start fretting about having enough

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figsandtea: niiicethings: "Noun is a playful artist's book about words and their definitions. It is like an exquisite corpse with...

figsandtea:

niiicethings:

“Noun is a playful artist’s book about words and their definitions. It is like an exquisite corpse with words.

Starting with 27 real English words, each word and its definition has been divided into two parts. By turning the pages, you get to mix and match the word halves to create humorous and nonsensical new words and meanings.

With over 700 different combinations, this book is the perfect item for bibiophiles, lexicographers, writers, and any lover of words.

Here

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Challenge #00580 - A205: Hug-a-bunch

Thomas’s very first run in with The Spine’s sleepy stranglehold

Somewhere in San Diego, there is a mansion with no doors. Well. Technically, it has two, but they’re in nonstandard locations. Theoretically, there is absolutely nothing to stop friend or foe from just wandering in and doing what they pleased.

That is, until you know what Walter Manor contains.

Thomas, a sleek silver robot made in the 1990’s, had no idea what he was getting into

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Challenge #00579 - A204: Imp-ossible Lover

Sorry, it’s just too cute

http://ofools.tumblr.com/post/88653271705/a-mass-photoset-for-all-your-giant-demon-bf-and

Sometimes, G'xyf'l did not know what was wrong with him. Maybe he’d been on Earth too long. Maybe seeing what humans could do in comparison to demonic lack of imagination had jaded him to the usual temptations.

Either way, he found himself looking off a bridge at the rocky canyon below and not thinking of anything very much, at all.

Then She walked into his life and

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yiffkirigiri: if i mutually follow you it's a free pass to talk to me whenever you want you can literally just send me an ask saying...

yiffkirigiri:

if i mutually follow you it’s a free pass to talk to me whenever you want 

you can literally just send me an ask saying “piss” 10 times

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Challenge #00578 - A203: You Swallowed What?

As one of the tech review magazines said a few years ago when the first 32 GB micro SD cards came out, “At last it is possible for a single human being to accidentally swallow all of the data collected by the Apollo Program.”

“This is it?” Shayde held aloft a crystal with a metal disk on one end. “All'o the survivin’ media from the twentieth century?”

“And some derivative works, yes,” said Rael. “

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