The library I'm working at is in a small town and I wouldn't necessarily say they are conservative, but they are not really used to queer stuff. For pride month I took a little table, put all queer books we had (and currently I'm buying a lot more) on it and decorated it with my pride flag. And no joke, the look on some teenagers (and some adults) faces... heartwarming 😭 Walked straight to the table and looked through the books. It makes me so happy.

Mariam's Library in Tanzania, Zanzibar by Nassor Othman

a few more of those annihilation inspired mock stamps :)

img sources: blue and white abstract painting (2020), emily bernal, unsplash id: emilybernal / forest view in the menterschweige district near munich (1841), heinrich dreber / a book of whales (1900), frank evers beddard, w. sidney berridge

how do you become so well read?

by reading

unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

Free Books for a Free Palestine

Learn about the history & perspectives of Palestinians with this drive full of ebooks.

phrases like "the house always wins" and "it's on the house" but used to imply that the building you're in is alive and personally invested in the situation

Her story is a phenomenon. Her life is a disaster. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she’s LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try. Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea’s biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile. But when Eliza’s secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she’s built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.

If you haven't read Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke this is your sign to read Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke

"i wish i could exfoliate my brain" you can. by reading things that challenge you.

“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.” – Maya Angelou

@/fridacashflow

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.

Day 131: News Commentator Sam Hannity Pounded In The Butt By The Fact That He Didn't Disclose He Has The Same Lawyer As The President

I think often about the outsider perception of tinglers, the contingent of people who mostly consume nothing but the titles and covers. A big thing I notice with people who aren't actually reading them, is how often they assume the pounding is something violent and/or humiliating. See how often people have asked for tinglers about tragic events, to the point that Dr. Tingle has made multiple statements that this is a kind of topic he will not cover. I think these people see titles like a good half of political tinglers and expect it to be about the degradation of the subject through gay sex.

Now, don't get me wrong, I love a good combination of degradation and gay sex in the right contexts... but that is not the direction Dr. Tingle goes with these stories. It would be counter the way he portrays sex in the Tingleverse. Characters receive retribution for their actions in some tinglers, and they have gay sex in all tinglers (at least up until November of 2018) but the sex is anything but the source of disgrace, though it is sometimes used for manipulation, as in this tingler. It struck me reading this one, which emphasizes that focusing on a partner's pleasure is an uncharacteristically generous act for the protagonist to be performing, that this is what I've always loved about tinglers, why I've always found reading them comforting. Tinglers aren't all happy, some of them end with the characters' deaths or them confronting their end, but even when the events around them are ultimately negative, even when the sex is part of some plan resulting in the protagonist's downfall, it exists as a moment of connection and pleasure in the middle of it all.

Because of the breaking-news nature of this tingler, it will never be one I recommend to new readers. However, it really exemplifies how Dr. Tingle uses sex in a story about a disliked figure while still portraying sex as a positive act.