Ad revenue, doing public appearances like cons, donate buttons. Some enter sponsorship deals like Michelle Phan did with Dr Pepper.

I keep amassing copies of them and giving them out to people, mostly by accident. But I'm holding onto my eighth-grade copy of A Swiftly Tilting Planet. You can pry that one from my cold dead fingers...and then expect the ghost version of me to read over your shoulder.

Many Waters. :) Charles Wallace rides a unicorn back in time in A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

Well in one of the universes, she's literally the female version of Peter Parker (cloned from his DNA)? In others, of course, she has the Hydra beginnings. On the one hand, I'd love for her to have a name that isn't modeled after a man's, but on the other... can't women be just as powerful? Why is the name woman…

Eh, completely disagree. If a person wants to read solely YA, let that person read what they like. Plus, honestly, there's so much good YA out there, there's no reason to be shaming people for doing the things that make them happy. As long as those things aren't, you know, murder and stuff.

Nah, TMI wasn't fanfic directly. Only one scene was lifted from her fic, I think. It does employ a lot of tropes she wrote about when she wrote her incredibly dubious Ron/Ginny story and she reuses characters, but in my opinion, it's not that much different than Nora Roberts having about 10 common character archetypes…

I wonder if that was one of the dubious consentacles fics.

I'm happy to share anytime. Also, I agree with you. Name of the Rose would be the way to go. Anything but Widow Hunt.

"They're doing a Spider-Woman comic—" "YESSSSSSSSSS!" "—with Greg Land as the artist." "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

That's why I *do* want a Black Widow movie. They can fix this little misconception (I mean, they have Bucky's birth year listed on his plaque as 1916 in the SAME shot as the narrator reads 1917, and then Steve and Zola can't seem to figure out what year Steve's plane went down into the ice) and treat it like the first…

If you search Tumblr tags, DO NOT go into the Dashcon tag. 4Chan has been launching a systematic attack on Tumblr by posting disturbing images in various tags (mostly to do with feminism, anti-ableism, social justice, etc), and I've heard reports that Dashcon is their latest target.

My first thought when I saw preserve was aw, yiss, time for some low down on delicious jams and jellies. The reality appears to be decidedly un-jelly.

The last funeral I attended, we were asked to wear Cubs or Cards shirts, so I wore jeans and a T-shirt with the Cardinals logo on it. I think it's mostly about gauging the situation, and if you don't have much to go on, muted colors, yeah.

I got mine the same day my middle school had a bomb threat! I had no idea what was going on because I hadn't, um, actually talked to anybody about periods or anything, so I woke up in the middle of the night with cramps and was very confused until my mom explained everything. She let me sleep in and I got to school…

The happiness on this lady's face just makes my DAY. Also, I'm not crying, you're crying.

Spoilers, but yes, he does discover that she's a clone and yes, what she does to him (sleeping with him while pretending to be Beth to distract him) is viewed in the show as problematic. It's actually kind of refreshing because it doesn't become a Revenge of the Nerds scenario. Loyalties shift all over the place and…

Crap yes I name my toaster. He's Jeffords. The oven is Buffy because she's small but mighty, the car is the Silver Surfer, my laptop is Lady Sif, and the wonky overhead light is George because whenever it flickers off, it's very satisfying to shout, "SHUT UP GEORGE" and confuse the neighbors. ...doesn't everybody do…

It was ONTD. Annnnd I'm totally on her side with this one.

"Day of the Day" is sometimes referred to as "Mexican Halloween."