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#Echecks#Electronic checks#Merchant services#Payment processing#Digital payments#ACH (Automated Clearing House)#Online payments#Payment gateways#Payment solutions#E-commerce payments#Payment processors#Secure transactions#Electronic funds transfer#Payment technology#Payment verification#Payment acceptance#Digital banking#Transaction fees#Fraud prevention#Payment authorization
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do you guys want yet another fic of hot mob boss! Obito?
since the answer is yes (it's always yes) I wanna recommend Ad Metam, Obito is incredibly hot yakuza boss, Kakashi is a spy, there's a honeypot mission, you know, only the Good Stuff™
it's more on the angst side, with little comfort (author is a sadist which means they're so good) and there's gonna be a part two, hopefully, happier than part one but idk
#obikaka#obkk#naruto fanfiction#fic rec#fanfic#kakashi hatake#obito uchiha#mob boss#yakuza au#mafia au#oh yeah baby gimme those mafia au#ima snort that shit like there's no tomorrow#love it#not sponsored#though i’ll admit#i'd like a part two where everybody is happily ever after as payment#why do we love angst? do you people also like to suffer like me?#is the author sadist if the readers are masochists?
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Itamar Marcus and Ephraim D. Tepler
9,750 terrorist prisoners are now recognized by the PA as eligible for monthly terror rewards, up from 4,300 prior to October 7
This means the PA is committing to pay nearly NIS 60 million a month to terrorist prisoners
The PA has recognized Hamas’ Martyr count, and a total of 38,983 new Martyrs' families are currently eligible for terror rewards
This means nearly 55 million shekels in additional monthly payments to the families of Martyrs
899 terrorists who were captured in the Gaza war have been recognized by the Palestinian Authority as prisoners (asra in Arabic = POWs), and 9,750 terrorists are now recognized by the PA as prisoners from PA-controlled areas [PA Commission of Detainees Affairs’ Facebook page, July 21, 2023]. This recognition is significant because it means the PA considers them eligible for monthly terror reward salaries.
“The occupation��s [Israeli] Prison Service announced that 899 are imprisoned under the definition of ‘illegal fighter.’” [WAFA, official PA news agency, June 16, 2024]
“Illegal fighter” is a term that the Israeli Prison Service uses to classify Gazan terrorists.
Salary calculations – new prisoners
Palestinian Media Watch calculates that once the processing of the new prisoners is complete, the PA will be paying a minimum of 59,560,000 shekels (about $16.4 million) a month in salaries to terrorist prisoners, up from 52,000,000 shekels (about $14.3 million) a month prior to October 7.
PMW last reported on January 10, 2024 that the PA had already recognized 661 terrorist prisoners from Gaza and a total of 8,800 prisoners.
The WAFA report shows that among the thousands of terrorists arrested from Hamas-controlled Gaza, 238 have been recognized by the PA as prisoners since January, and the number of individuals that the PA recognizes as prisoners overall has increased by 950 since January. The PA rewards terrorist prisoners a salary of 1,400 shekels a month for the first 3 years in prison, and the salary gradually rises to 12,000 after 30 years. The PA pays an additional 300 shekels/month for each wife, 50 shekels/month per child, 300 shekels/month extra for residents of Jerusalem, and 500 shekels/month extra for Israeli Arabs.
The number of imprisoned terrorists was around 4,300 prior to October 7. The additional monthly terror rewards come to at least an additional 7,630,000 shekels/month (over $2 million) that the PA will pay to terrorist prisoners under PA law (5,450 terrorists X 1,400 shekels).
In reality, the total PA payment for terrorist prisoners is far higher because these sums only represent how much single prisoners with no children receive in their first year of incarceration. It does not include an accounting for how the salaries increase over time or the additions for wives, children, and Israeli residency.
Payments to new Martyrs
The PA also counts 578 new Martyrs since October 7 in the areas under its control, and it recognizes the reports by the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza, which have listed 38,983 Martyrs since October 7.
The families of the 578 new Martyrs from PA-controlled territory plus those of the 38,983 new Martyrs from Hamas-controlled territory are also all eligible to receive a one-time immediate grant of 6,000 shekels and a monthly allowance for life of 1,400 shekels. This makes for a one-time reward that would total 237,366,000 shekels (about $65.4 million) and a minimum of 54,576,200 shekels (about $15 million) per month, once the new Martyrs are processed. After the previous Gaza war with Hamas, it took the PA a number of years to process and start payment.
Even if the PA is unable to get payment to the families of the Gaza Martyrs right away, it will be registered as a debt, and PMW has shown that the PA does its best to pay the terror salaries as soon as possible. In February 2024, PMW reported that the PA was so anxious to start rewarding newly arrested terrorists that it announced that it was bypassing its own regulations and processing requirements in order to be able to pay them immediately.
#pay for slay#martyrs#payments to martyrs#payments to new martyrs#palestinian authority#hamas#gaza martyrs#hamas ministry of health
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HOLY MOLYYY. The amount of you that like the timid reader x ascended astarion… astounds me?? At this rate I should genuinely invest into just making it an ongoing fic.
I have been thinking of making an AO3 for my longer work + reposting everything on here. Should… should I just make it a fic?
#my thoughts#baldurs gate 3#bg3#ascended astarion#if I make an AO3 I will likely start taking commissions#fellow writers/authors what payment app/site do I use for that#dms are open#ascended astarion x tav#ascended astarion x reader#baldurs gate 3 x reader#bg3 x reader#baldurs gate iii
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This isn’t directed at anyone in particular. Nor is it about me. Just be kind to authors. If you are reading their stories, and want to leave them a comment, please be kind to them in it. It’ll ensure they feel comfortable to continue writing more stories. If you dislike the story, click out, and find something that you will enjoy instead. There is plenty to choose from. We aren’t steel skinned, emotionless word processors. We’re human.
What we aren’t going to do to writers, who give their free time, energy, and heart to create stories for people to read for free, is DM them multiple times to berate them because of a story they wrote. No. Especially when said readers never interacted with any of the stories until after they were taken down. It is hard and scary enough sharing the things we write without having to worry about this too. It’s never fun when a story we loved is deleted, but that doesn’t give anyone the right to bully others. This is a futile endeavour, but I’ve never been known for holding my tongue, and can’t watch as people are hurt by this.
So please, if you find yourself enjoying a work of fanfiction, or an original story, let the author know you like it. If you just want to read and not interact, that’s fine! We deeply appreciate, and thank you, too. Just don’t be a dick to people.
Leave them Kudos, Votes, Notes, Reblog, or a comment. One or all of them. Anything! It’s the only way they know people are reading, that they enjoy it. You’re free to do as you wish, interact or not, it’s your choice, and we always respect it, we’re just happy you’re reading it at all! But this, sending hate because a story was taken down or it didn’t go the way they wanted, it is beyond a joke. We don’t respect this. So many writers have quit writing for fandoms or stopped writing altogether due to toxicity, entitlement, and lack of support. It runs writers away. And then people complain there’s no new content. But there would be plenty content if this select few could stop themselves from being absolute twuntwaffles to people online. It’s the internet. It’s typically not a nice place. But we don’t have to make it worse than it already is.
Most readers are wonderful, generous, and appreciative! We love them, and can’t believe we are lucky enough to have them. We save the comments, know their usernames, and get excited when they show up on our stories. It’s a gift beyond price that we never feel we truly deserve. The gratitude we feel for our readers is endless, and permanently inked in our lives. You mean the world to us. But our stories also mean everything to us, and we reserve the right to do what we want with them.
Thank you ❤️
#fanfic#fanfiction#duskwood fanfiction#fanfic writers#fanfiction writer#be kind to authors#woman writers#writer life#writers of tumblr#writing life#fanfic writer#fanfic writing#fanfiction author#fanficton#be kind#stop being an asshole#tell writers you like their stories! it’s the only payment they get#on writing#writing is hard#creative writing#fanfiction is art#fanfiction is life#women writers#writers#fanfic readers#readers of tumblr#writer#ao3 author#ao3 writer#wattpad writer
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man another thing that's been very nice about having moved out of my dad's house is that... i am under no obligation to convey anything to anyone <3 i don't have to tell my parents about my doctor appointments, i don't have to tell people my intentions, i don't have to defend making purchases or arranging my life in a way that makes things easier or more pleasant because people don't even have to know about these things in the first place.
it's really fucking nice.
#experienced the unfortunate combination of 'pathological anti-liar' and 'being a fucking doormat by nature or whatever'#and 'controlling father that has to know everything and will directly curtail any attempts at privacy with guilt and authority'#that i sometimes compulsively try to make someone understand things about me even when it the direct outcome of such is unpleasant#here's to breaking these habits lads#discovering that i can do things and have preferences without going to protestant hell or even worse dealing with my dad#i can even pay my Idiot Tax without the external application of guilt#that is payments or late fees or forgetting to return something that doesn't fit and et cetera#that sometimes come up on account of being a fucking mess LMAO and would be less of a thing if i achieved a level of organization#that i simply will not realistically reach at this juncture but am generally working on getting myself in order for#i just make sure i routinely set aside a lil money for potential mistakes and i deal with them as they come#without the song and dance of being actively and repeatedly scolded as an adult for regular person mistakes#prattling about the self#edit to note that yeah i know there are times when i should convey things to people but you know what i mean
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Hi! Turns out you can fix your problems with a phone call sometimes.
#I used a different train today and didn't realize the parking required a preexisting permit;#I thought it was a metered spot on the passport all#turns out if you call the town's parking authorities and explain the confusion and have evidence that you PLANNED to pay#(in my case having taken a photo of the parking stall number in preparation for the app payment)#they'll just. help you fix it. wild#make more phone calls I guess!#personal
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i'm still thinking about how i woke up this morning to a white author in my goodreads inbox asking if i could beta her "pan-asian" fantasy novel. because she read my reviews of anglophone chinese fantasy novels and found them insightful. bestie why don't you take a look at your description again and tell me what you think i'd say about that.
#i literally wrote a whole review talking about how much i hated the mixing of jpn/cn/kr cultures and mythologies etc in a novel#a novel which was written by a chinese-american who lived in japan for years btw#what makes you think i'd ever like that premise by a WHITE author 😭#and i took a look at the excerpt she said and it was just pan-east asian with snippets of other asian mythologies LOL as expected#now tbf i did appreciate that she's making the effort and that she knows what xuanhuan and xianxia are. but.#she made no mention of payment :) and her previous chinese beta readers were her friends :)#so. yikes.#@ authors please don't do this when reaching out to marginalised readers for beta services we aren't here to perform free labour for you#especially if you're part of the privileged majority AND if you've never interacted with the person in question before. like this author#rui rambles
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I don't rly mind hand-wavy bs to make the flashback era nice. I'm actually MORE annoyed by fix-its that try to make some characters better people and correct all the issues that led to nightless in the first place bc it's like the author thinks they can outsmart the situation and ummm you can't! point A was always going to lead to point D! otherwise the characters wouldn't be who they are and the political and social setting simply wouldn't matter! but if it's a silly canon divergence where nothing is rly explained that's fine ajehdjs
#would wwx and lwj have gotten together post-ss? in wwx's frame of mind very unlikely#too defensive and secretive. and he also probably thought he was gonna die soon#but eh. if they write it well it can be fun#it just annoys me when authors try to game the system like ohhh all nhs had to do was show nmj they were just old peasants!#all lxc had to do was LOOK! bc it implies it came down to the personal feelings of individuals#when it was more like. the corruption of leaders AND the force of many many cultivators#scapegoating wwx and calling for a payment of blood debts#there was no situation where all the leaders just Decided to protect the wens out of the goodness of their hearts#jc absolutely wouldn't have. nhs had no stake. nmj had a blood fued. jgs was pulling strings bc he wanted wwx's power#lxc intentionally trusted jgy and didn't look too closely and lwj's somewhat meager efforts were steamrolled by his elders#anyway the best case scenario was the wens splitting off and changing their names and hiding in various towns they wouldn't be recognized#but that's not as fun ig bc I've never seen it#ficblogging
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Bruh, read an entire season of a webtoon, the season finale just released, it's a cliffhanger, and that is followed by a notice of indefinite haitus where the artist has no interest in continuing the story.
For the first time ever, I saw comments disabled for a webtoon. She KNOWS she's pissed people off lol. Waste of time.
#She didn't even let people know ahead of time#Finale out then just a note afterwards “oh BTW I won't be continuing this :)”#This happens not uncommonly on webtoons#Because anyone can make and get paid for a story there#So often they don't do proper planning and make it up as they go and then realise they cant come up with an ending#Or they just get bored of writing that story#I support the authors that stop for health or protest reasons#Webtoons do not pay very well#But when you keep writing half stories and dropping them#It feels disrespectful to customers#People PAID not insignificant money to get early access gave extra payments as author support etc.
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#Echecks#Electronic checks#Merchant services#Payment processing#Digital payments#ACH (Automated Clearing House)#Online payments#Payment gateways#Payment solutions#E-commerce payments#Payment processors#Secure transactions#Electronic funds transfer#Payment technology#Payment verification#Payment acceptance#Digital banking#Transaction fees#Fraud prevention#Payment authorization
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GUYS OMGGGG LOOK AT THISSS
What should I do? I want my stories to be available for everyone but money would still be nice yk? Also I think it would put some kind of pressure on me bc I have to write good stories then and ahh idk help me 😫
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please don't start complaining about your books not selling as well as your writing courses when you decide to have people pay you for writing courses because you need to recoup the money your books aren't making for you
ETA: by which i mean: when you're trying to make money as a writer OF BOOKS, you realize you're not making as much as you would if you sold HOW TO courses, so you start selling HOW TO courses while publishing books, and then wonder why your courses are outselling your books and become the thing you're known for
if you want to be known for writing books, focus on the books
talk about the books on your blog, newsletter, website, socials, EVERYWHERE
this is what attracts readers: hearing about what you love about the books, what the books are about, what makes them interesting
all you do when you write about writing is make yourself known to other writers, who are not the audience for your books
as a wiser person than I am once said: PLENTY of people want the tools to build something. not many people want the actual something you are building with those tools.
#writing#publishing#writing courses#this is a subtweet#a subtweet of a nonexistent tweet#authors#creative writing#payment#books#selling books#if you don't want to be known for your writing advice then stop making that the thing you talk about most#indie publishing#this is why writing blogs make me cringe#this is why advice about STARTING A BLOG AS A WRITER makes me pull my hair out#you want readers to buy your books?#talk about the content of the books#stop telling readers [who are not necessarily writers] about your word count and craft problems and how you'll fix them.#talk about why you love the books and why you think the readers will love the books because YOU WERE A READER FIRST#newsletters#author newsletters#advice#writing advice
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What is Tradewinds?
Tradewinds was an original Fae Tales novel set in the canonical universe, that has been shelved due to me not being able to find Aboriginal Australian sensitivity readers who were happy to read gay male/male sex scenes.
It was based on a separate cast and set in Australia and Malaysia, with their series being part of the 'MerchantVerse.' Basically how merchants trade, who they trade with, and the stronger Seelie and Unseelie divide among fae.
The story features Matan, a Malay Seelie peacock pheasant shifter and master merchant specialising in selling batik, needing to find a cure for an Unseelie curse placed on his cousin. To go on the journey necessary to get information, he pretends to be Unseelie, and joins an Unseelie merchant caravan of birds of prey (almost all raptor shifters are Unseelie). There, he meets Udir, a Romansh bearded vulture/lammergeier shifter who is frequently down on his luck, and has worked as an assassin in the past.
Udir finds out Matan is actually Seelie, and then blackmails him into sex, thinking that he's being clever, only to not realise that Matan's very clever too.
And then it was basically about Matan and Udir falling in love, Matan going on an Eran-like journey of learning to understand that the difference between Seelie and Unseelie isn't as black and white as he thought, and finding the cure for his cousin, and learning about trading in Australia with his Unseelie merchant friends, while dealing with a pretty awful villain in the meantime.
It's very found family.
I really like the story, and I think with a little reworking, the novel would be super strong. However there's literally only one white main character, and everyone else is either Maori or Aboriginal Australian or Malay etc. so while I was able to get some of the sensitivity reading done, some of it I couldn't get done (and I lost money in the process, because one person said they would sensitivity read for me, asked for a $150 deposit about 7 years ago, and then took it and never talked to me again, which was frankly very demoralising and depressing, because like, as a disabled, chronically ill person with cancer, I kind of needed that money too, lmao).
So...the book is pretty much permanently shelved. I did share some chapters on Patreon under a redundant tier (which would now be the $10+ tier, but I need to edit those posts to reflect that). And everyone who's ever read it thinks I should publish it. I just...don't feel comfortable with that given I'm writing Indigenous side characters.
Sula did a really lovely sketch of Matan though:
#tradewinds#asks and answers#fae tales verse#fae tales#matan#udir#merchantverse#it kind of kills me that it's shelved but like#i also don't trust upfront payments anymore re: sensitivity readers#which is frustrating because i believe they should get paid half upfront to secure the commitment#but for all of the 'authors flake on us' rhetoric i've heard#even as a sensitivity reader myself#i had my money stolen#and that was not a small amount of money to have stolen#so it's also just kind of too depressing to go back into#it will be forever shelved#idk maybe glen will put it up posthumously or something#i have considered also posting it on AO3 because i feel like#it not being sensitivity read on at least some aspects#wouldn't matter as much there#but anyway it's complicated
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AUGUSTDICK + cruel summer - a sinners song, a dick grayson story.
#oc: augustine finley#dick grayson fic#story: a sinners song#author: nightwvngs on wattpad/ashton#can I just jump to a time when they're together?#please#let me just have them being happy#and in love#and not at this weird standstill of being friends but also not#I need them carnally#anyways pls read their story#I am going to update#I promise#take this gif set as payment for me to updating
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Put up some pretty lights in the living room, and tbh just used hammer in hooks because we’re not getting that damn security deposit back 😭
#it’s been three years and we’ve uhh not been amazing about cleaning 😭#the only way we get our security deposit back is if my mom wants to challenge herself#because I think my mom takes it as a challenge to fight authority in the most Legal Way possible#which is why I think she’d make excellent work in mutual aid and legal help orgs if she wasn’t a fucking centrist 😩#everytime I say we’re not getting that security deposit back#she’s like ‘oh I can make sure you do’ and I just believe her because she got my aunt incredible car payment plans#and did my cousins taxes? and my other cousin went into the military and she looked over what the recruiter was offering and told them#how to get better from it 💀#GOD I wish she wasn’t stubbornly centrist 😭
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