ERNST BALLUF

Hayden Clay

guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is a beautiful film but my god no one has adapted that story like neverafter. you can never look at it the same way again after listening to lou wilson, a black man, explaining that he chose to play as pinocchio because it’s a story about a little boy who isn’t allowed to make mistakes. that in pinocchio's story, he is fundamentally barred from childhood at once upon a time. he must earn something that everyone else is granted from birth. the other boys get to tell lies and play and get into trouble, but when pinocchio does the same thing there are grave and violent consequences. his pinocchio is trying to understand why the world is so unfair, why the rules are so different for him, why everyone else gets to be a real boy.

and I think about it every day.

not supposed to be on the table but she looks so polite

my poetry book got its first 1 star + mean review ❤️

is it too much to ask?

2007

Untitled (Spring Time, Caldwell, New Jersey), 1928. Hayley Lever. Oil on canvas

“Sofia” 2009

Volcano Eruptions seen from Space photos: NASA

what if i told u ive been doing music things for the past few months .... and what if i also told you that my song "Tell Me You Love Me (And You'll Never Leave)" is out now on spotify/apple music/wherever you stream music 👀👀👀

lyrics & more info below!!

Credits:

Performed by Poets Walking

Written by Michael Gray Bulla, Deborah G Bulla, Wesley A Bulla

Produced by Wesley A Bulla

poetswalking.com

Lyrics:

I need to be needed by you, by you I need to be wanted by you, by you I want to be wanted by you, by you I want to be haunted by you, by you

Tell me you love me and you'll never leave Tell me you think of me every time you breathe Tell me I seep into you until I'm in deep Tell me without me you're running on empty

You need to be needed by me, by me You need to be wanted by me, by me You want to be wanted by me, by me You want to be haunted by me, by me

Tell me you've never felt like this before Tell me you'll always come back for more Tell me I'm everything you adore Tell me you just can't take it anymore

I'll tell you (just tell me) I love you (promise one thing) If you tell me (you'll never leave me) You love me

I need to be needed by you, by you You need to be needed by me, by me

Tell me you've never felt like this before Tell me you'll always come back for more Tell me I'm everything you adore Tell me you just can't take it anymore

Tell me you love me and you'll never leave Tell me you think of me every time you breathe Tell me I seep into you until I'm in deep Tell me without me you're running on empty

Tell me you've never felt like this before Tell me you'll always come back for more Tell me I'm everything you adore Tell me you just can't take it anymore

"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

Ozzy   -    Sebastian Blanck , 2023.

American, b. 1976 -

Pen and ink with gouache on paper , 12 x 15 in.

nothing worse than when the premise of something captivates you but then it sucks ass. bro you put this idea out into the world and you didn't even do it a shred of justice

"cops are called because students aren't allowed to shut down campus" more lies! first of all, campuses aren't getting shut down: students can get to wherever they need to be—if they can't, it's because of the cops. but over the last few years, graduate students did thoroughly shut down campuses with strikes. columbia was again a notable center of labor action, with a 10-week strike during which TAs, discussion sections, grading, and any other graduate labor was cut out, grinding courses to a halt; sporadic picketing shut down access to campus. columbia took illegal measures by threatening to suspend all graduate students, but at no point were any cops called. other key graduate strikes took place at nyu, the university of michigan, and temple university, with no cops called despite other intimidation tactics by university administrations. this is not to mention hundreds of sit-ins, die-ins, encampments, and other protests that take place yearly across the country with no notice. yet tents honoring palestinians is just cause to unleash the police?

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