People who think this planet was created for humans to be ours are so wild to me

Dustin Tebbutt

Woodlock

Thomas Bradley Adams

HAEVN

Zoe Sky Jordan

Forester

Comforting music artists to listen to when feeling overwhelmed:

Mehro

Aurora

Agnes Obel

Meimuna

CLANN

Evgeny Grinko

How Great Were the Robins

Novo Amor

MreeMusic

Alice In Winter

Equador

Imogen Heap

Jan Kalter

PHILDEL

Andrew Belle

Portair

Cosmo Sheldrake

Enya

Thaehan

Hazlett

Add more if you want!

"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.

“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

Type A white woman writer: “He’s kidnapping me but he’s gentle when he touches me and when we have sex he’s very possessive so 109% sure its love.”

Type B white woman writer: *retelling that classic romance tale but from the woman’s perspective* “Men are actually stupid and selfish and trick you into thinking they just need love but actually they need burned alive, the MC is actually a lesbian”

Type C white woman writer: “I am a strong female character and I show this by not being ashamed of my stretch marks and eating men.”

Sharing this here too

I do not usually make posts like this but recently I have seen a lot of content on Instagram, Twitter and I think tiktok too misunderstanding the meaning of intrusive thoughts, which may cause people experiencing them to be upset.

I have tried to shortly explain the difference of impulsive and intrusive and hope it will help people to understand and use the words correctly.

Reblogs are very much appreciated!

So many people, mostly men in my experience, act like having a good philosophical or emotional conversation means something your connection/relationship. Bro it doesn’t. I’ll talk to anyone about what morality truly means. I’ll tell anyone a story or two about my struggle with mental illness or how my trauma has affected me. My ability to listen and share my thoughts doesn’t reflect how compatible we are or how much I like you. I just like hearing everyone’s perspectives on complicated topics.

tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like

“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”

and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent

i want to share with you some of my favourite graffiti from Pompeii

“Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!“ 

“Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.“ 

“We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus.“

“Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.“

“On April 19th, I made bread.“

“ I have buggered men.“

“If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.“

“It took 640 paces to walk back and forth between here and there ten times.“

“Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!“

“Epaphra is not good at ball games.”

“Two friends were here.  While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy named Epaphroditus.  They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii most agreeably on whores.“

“Secundus likes to screw boys.“

I’m constantly torn between wanting to be impossible to hate because I’m such a genuinely kind and compassionate person and wanting bigots to hate me so much they fantasize about me dying conveniently.

There is so much blood on the Bible. There are lakes of blood on the Bible. At mass, in church, people bleed out together. The carpets are too thin to soak it up, the pastors and priests gorge themselves. Children and babies lost and sacrificed for their parents souls, and across centuries and continents millions died in the name of Christianity, the Heavenly Father. The Bible lays at the bottom of oceans of blood, so tarnished and worshipped we don’t know what the holy words mean anymore.

Adults who are attracted to teens are so weird. Like, you want to boink this person who doesn’t know how to properly shave or keep their crotch clean? Someone that is still figuring out how to wear makeup and perfume? Someone that gets into online arguments and has all kinds of friend drama? Being a teen is fucking hard and you want to make it weirder? Do you remember how incredibly difficult it was to keep up with your body while you were a teen? And you want to go back there?? You think that’s sexy? What the hell is wrong with you???