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it’s good to keep in mind that climate change denial is a myth. there are no actual climate change deniers, there are just people for whom the destruction of the planet is a profitable venture and who realise that their wealth will protect them from the worst repercussions. taking these people at the word and trying to point out to them the relevant science is pointless. they know.

#interesting

a-wlw-reads

Do the wlw end up together : YES!

I don’t review every book that ends up on this site, so here is a big long list of books where the characters do in fact end up in a relationship (that’s not to say that the book is without drama or violence, simply that the characters’ relationship withstands it).

Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (YA)

Jam Jars by Yonnette Anderson (tw: H)

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (YA)

The Prince and Her Dreamer by Kayla Bashe

Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (YA) (tw: R, SV)

Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (MG)

Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock (YA) (tw: H)

Waiting in the Wings by Melissa Brayden

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown (YA)

Far From Home by Lorelie Brown

Double Exposure by Chelsea M. Cameron

Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (YA)

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (YA)

Dreadnought and Sovereign by April Daniels (YA) (tw: T)

The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer (tw: SV)

The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer

Landing by Emma Donoghue

The Dirt Chronicles by Kristyn Dunnion (tw: H, R, SV)

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (YA)

Wildthorn by Jane Eagland (YA) (tw: H)

Moonstruck by Grace Ellis (graphic novel, MG)

Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge

Motor Crush by Brendan Fletcher (comic)

Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin (YA) (tw: H)

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin (graphic novel)

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (YA) (tw: H)

Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (YA) (tw: H)

Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard (YA)

Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor by Shira Glassman

The Second Mango by Shira Glassman

Being Emily by Rachel Gold (tw: T)

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Challah and Callaloo by La Toya Hankins

Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann (YA)

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (tw: H)

Robins in the Night by Dajo Jago (tw: T)

Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha (YA)

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston (YA)

The Dime by Kathleen Kent (tw: H, R, SV, T)

Run by Kody Keplinger (YA)

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King (YA)

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

The Paths of Marriage by Mala Kumar (tw: H)

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour (YA)

You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan

Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (YA)

Adaptation and Inheritance by Malinda Lo (YA)

Ash by Malinda Lo (YA)

Huntress by Malinda Lo (YA)

Ship It by Britta Lundin (YA)

37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon (YA)

Dating Sarah Cooper by Siera Maley (YA)

The Ada Decades by Paula Martinac

In the Silence by Jaimie Leigh McGovern

Heart of Brass by Morven Moeller

Sappho’s Bar and Grill by Bonnie J. Morris

Gretel: A Fairy Tale Retold by Niamh Murphy

Roller Girl by Vanessa North

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (tw: H)

Idaho Code by Joan Opyr

The Year of the Knife by G.D. Penman

P.S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy (MG)

Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult (tw: H)

Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen (YA) (tw: H)

Scars by Cheryl Rainfield (YA) (tw: SV)

Empress of the World by Sara Ryan (YA)

I Can’t Think Straight by Shamim Sarif (tw: H)

Everfair by Nisi Shawl (tw: R)

Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley (tw: H, R, SV)

The Abyss Surrounds Us and The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie (YA)

The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding

Edge of Glory by Rachel Spangler (tw: H)

Thaw by Elyse Springer

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley (YA) (tw: R)

Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley (YA) (tw: H)

Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin (comic, YA)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (tw: H, R, SV)

24/7 by Yolanda Wallace

Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace

Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward (YA)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (tw: H)

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (tw: H)

Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (YA)

Trigger warning key:

H - homophobia

R - racism

SV - sexual violence

T - transphobia

#reading list

insomniac-arrest

reasons I’ve seen people staying on tumblr:

don’t understand twitter

posts are in chronological order

spite

no other website has the same ambiance of gothic confusion and unrelatable obtuse content

they are a hapless pornbot who knows not of the end coming for their quivering female presenting nipples

mega spite

like normal spite but you’re posting dick pics before The End

Direct Contact with the Memes

god, wht the fuk even is twitter

they tried to leave but woke up again on tumblr like it’s the Groundhog’s Day movie

#funny #the sacking of tumblr

knitmeapony

District Attorney George Gascon seeks to address 'failures of the war on drugs' and 'harm done not only to entire nation but specifically to communities of colour'

Well holy shit, I never thought I’d see this.

#hope

kingofbeartraps

It’s really not about the titties.

I’m gonna be honest here, I don’t post a lot of explicit content. I’m not the person who is consuming it, either. If that were all tumblr had in mind with this, it wouldn’t honestly make a huge difference for my browsing experience. I work in an adult store, I see enough of people doing the frick-frack on the daily while dusting video bins and reorganizing the rental room.

If this would get rid of the porn bots I’d be fine with it, but that’s not what it’s doing. It’s removing art, it’s removing years and years of content and a decade-plus of people’s hard work building up a clientbase, a niche in a fandom, a livelihood. But there are either too many flesh-colored pixels or someone doesn’t like the content and spam-reported it, so these users have to go.

Terms of service like this are absolutely ridiculous, not because we all want to look at porn all day, but because that’s absolutely not what’s being targeted. I’ve been through this before, on more than one occasion; it’s never about porn. It’s usually about a bunch of people in a group deciding that their opinion is the only valid opinion and doing whatever it takes to get dissenters removed. It’s staff that doesn’t care about the userbase they’re supposed to be working with and will just kill everything that seems slightly controversial rather than do the necessary footwork to keep younger users safe.

They’re not doing this because of social extremists, they’re not doing it because there are literal Nazis on the site, they’re not doing this because young people are starving themselves to look “better” so that maybe someone will love them, they’re not doing this in the hopes that it will remove the toxicity from fandom that has literally made it impossible to talk to anyone on this site like an adult for years.

They’re doing it because it’s the easiest, simplest way to excuse the systematic shutdown of one of the most vocal subcultures on their site, and it makes them look better to their shareholders.

Tumblr doesn’t care about explicit content. They don’t care about protecting anyone. They don’t want to foster a safe environment for younger users. They want to kill their own social network so they don’t have to do the work it would require to actually clean it up.

What’s particularly great about this post is that there’s nothing to tag it with, because tumblr is purging all tags we choose to relate to this event. The only thing any of us can do is hope that the things we say get signal boosted enough to be visible to other people.

#the sacking of tumblr

thankyousirmayihaveanother

just to be clear, I’m staying here as long as this site functions. I have 0 intentions of deleting this blog, I will go down with this ship if only to see exactly how bad it gets

#the sacking of tumblr

arthistorianmindswirls

Austrian School, Saint Agatha, 18th century

Giovanni Cariani, Portrait of a young woman as Saint Agatha, 1516-17

Lorenzo Lippi, Saint Agatha, 1638-44

Francisco de Zubarán, Santa Agueda (detail), 1630-33

Saint Agatha is the patron saint of breast cancer patients, wet nurses, bakers, and quite recently also of the Tumblr-community.

#funny #saint agatha #the sacking of tumblr

simonalkenmayer

If you’re discouraged about the election results

Don’t be. You’re hearing media do what it does: harp on one person’s lack of enthusiasm and make it seem that that one opinion is held by thousands.

This race went precisely as I thought it would. Precisely.

And it was absolutely a massive success.

So let me tell you why, so that you feel better and can easily put down the annoying crowing that republicans are going to do, because they managed to cling to a few things.

If the votes fall as I believe they will, the democrats will have retaken the house by some 30 seats. This is impressive and somewhat unique in our country’s history. The GOP, upon taking the house originally, jerrimandered these districts in impressively screwball ways. Wherever that rigging has been overturned, the districts have gone blue. Which is, of course, why they did it. Democrats have the house now, 30ish flips in republican rugged districts. 15 of those being female candidates.

That is absolutely impressive.

A few key candidates to whom many people were paying close attention did not perform as people desired. Abrams, O’Rourke, Gillum. Well…I’m not surprised. Abrams faces absolute state wide fraud. Her opponent being the person also in charge of voter registration, withholding some 50k votes of which 70% were black. Voter intimidation. This is blatant corruption. And yet still…her race was very close. So too with Beto. Ted Crews was a presidential candidate! When he took Texas, he did so with a wide margin. Last night in Texas he was fighting tooth and nail. Gillum’s goobenatorial race for Florida was a figurative dead heat. 99% of the vote in—49% Gillum, 49.7% DeSantis. These are CLASSICALLY and FULLY republican regions in which Trump took the presidency by huge margins. That these races, with all those challenges, were as close as they were PROVES that something unprecedented happened.

3-400% voter turnout increases for a midterm election. Mostly with the youth.

But let’s talk about what it means to have the house.

Now I know you’re probably concerned about the federal judgeships that are about to pop up for consideration, and it’s true that the Senate was needed to stop approvals of those candidates, but…

Control of the house means that Democrats now take hold of some critical committees. These committees are the very ones that will be overseeing corruption allegations. Ways and Means, energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Intelligence, appropriations, foreign affairs, armed services, judiciary, transportation and infrastructure, and…government reform.

How do you feel now?

The worst political fallout of a GOP controlled government, the worst sound bites that weren’t Trump’s, the worst slaps across the face? All came from footage of those very same committees. Those committees now belong to Democrats.

Massive policy shifts also occurred in many classically conservative states—legalizing marijuana votes, Florida giving the vote back to former criminals who’ve served their time thus giving the vote back to a HUGE portion of the African-American Community that has been held in check by a racist and classicist policing method, then there were upsets in many small ways too.

I promise you…this is all excellent and it will have truly important and forceful impact. In 2020, if we can keep that same enthusiasm and rage, the entire government will shift. But that can only happen if we keep moving forward, if the candidates who won keep their noses to the grindstone and push back hard, if you and I and everyone on the ground continues to talk about this and force out bigots and greed.

Do not be discouraged. I promise you…this was an amazing election. Don’t focus on a few bright stars and think that all is lost because they fell. There is a great deal happening here, and one thing I know from being at sea—when a wave is building, there is first a terrifying shift, as the water level begins to build. The ship will begin to dip and then of a sudden, the swell will begin. The ship raises and passengers suddenly realize that the were much higher than before, with an incredible view. Then the wave crests and destroys what’s in its path.

We didn’t see a wave crest tonight. So what. That means it’s a much larger wave than we realized. It will crest in the future. But only if that fluid pressure is maintained.

This is good. It is. So long as everyone keeps working. This is good.

Calm down. Have a glass of champagne. A cup of tea. When they Trumpet all their noise…say nothing. Nothing needs to be said. You’re higher than you were with an excellent view of the ending. So relax. Don’t fret.

systlin

Listen to Simon, y’all. Simon is wise.

#politics #relevant data #hope

Apparently you can report and/or block the “Staff” blog on Tumblr. What anyone chooses to do with this information is up to them...

#I do not run a quality blog #disseminate #the sacking of tumblr

thebibliosphere

*watching my entire dash burn like the sacking of Rome*

amorphousturtle

*Gets a fiddle for Staff*

thebibliosphere

Not pictured: the actual problem.

Although I suppose you could also tag that under “Staff not paying attention to the actual problem until it all hit the fan and exploded in a shower of fire and shit and now Verizon is angry over Apple removing them form the store and now someone has to get thrown under the bus so it might as well be the users.”

But it’s a little hard to fit all that into a meme.

#funny #tumblr #staff

At some point my blog turned into a shitpost blog, not because I consciously decided to make it so, but because things have gotten so absurd I just find it fatalistically funny and now any post I reblog that has relevance to the ‘real world’ is a shitpost

#I do not run a quality blog

truckhole-deactivated20181203

not to sound sex-positive but what on earth is a female presenting nipple

inprnt

“knight” by Lena Sayaphoum on INPRNT

#art

sndwave

the funniest thing in the entire pirates of the caribbean series is definitely that one scene in At World’s End where they have parlay but davy jones is part of it, and rather than have him stand in the shallows or something they get a big bucket of water and have in stand on it on shore

who thought of that idea? who thought “put davy jones in a bucket of water” and had the guts to suggest it aloud? and then who went “hey that sounds like a great idea!”

at some point someone told davy jones their idea was for him to stand in a bucket of water and he agreed to it

sndwave

*stands majestically in a bucket*

stemmmm

ok but notice the trail of buckets behind him meaning he walked from the ocean through three other buckets of water before he got into the one hes standing in

prokopetz

It’s even funnier when you consider how he must have figured all this out in the first place.

Some folks are asking “well, if he can avoid the no-dry-land curse simply by standing in a bucket, doesn’t that ruin his whole motivation?”, but he’s not on dry land here.

The parley takes place on a sandbar - which, for the unfamiliar, is a temporary “island” of sand deposited by breaking waves, unconnected with the shore, that spends most of its time submerged, being exposed only at low tide.

What Jones is doing here is rules-lawyering his curse. Can you imagine the trial and error he must have gone through in order to determine that this would actually work?

“Okay, do islands count as dry land? How about parts of the shore below the high tide mark? Reefs? Shoals? What if I stand in a pool of water on a shoal? Does it have to be seawater, or will any water do? Does it have to be a natural tidepool, or can it be something artificial, like a bucket?”

What I am saying is that there must have been a process.

stumblngrumbl

Pretty sure that this implies that the reverse - a bucket of sand, floating on the water (big bucket with just a bit of sand), would qualify as dry land. That’s absurd, so I’m pretty sure that his lawyer pulled a fast one over the curse governor.

prokopetz

It may be absurd, but the text of the film bears it out. Davy Jones can sense the presence of his heart while it’s at sea, but not while it’s on land (indeed, that’s why he buried it on land in the first place: to break his connection with it) - yet placing the heart in a simple jar of dirt conceals it from Jones’ awareness just as surely as burial on land does, even if the jar is on a boat at the time. Suitably prepared vessels filled with dirt absolutely count as dry land for the purpose of Jones’ curse.

silver-tongues-blog

Then the reverse should also be true. If he buried it in a jar of water, no matter how far inland it is, he would be able to sense it. So by this logic, any container of seawater counts as not dry land, ergo, the bucket is a perfectly viable loophole.

prokopetz

Not necessarily. It’s traditionally a lot easier to accidentally get whammied by a curse than it is to weasel around it - I figure that’s why he’s using multiple layers of indirection here. He’s forbidden to set foot on dry land, but it’s technically not dry land (it’s a sandbar, a non-permanent landform exposed only at low tide) and he technically didn’t set foot on it (he’s standing in a bucket of water). It’s entirely possible that either one of those things alone wouldn’t make the grade.

officialharshnoise

okay but this all raises one further, very important question: if it’s specifically “dry land” he’s forbidden from, what about wetlands. can Davy Jones fight you in salt marshes? can he throw down in a peat bog?Swamp Battle?

musicalhell

This is the quality content I come to Tumblr for.

karometeenk

could he step on land if his shoes are wet?

there-was-a-girl

No matter how ridiculous PotC gets I will love it. Especially when it results in conversations like this

glumshoe

What if he crawls around on his hands and knees, with his feet raised slightly into the air? Can he walk on his hands? Can he ride around in a litter or a wheelchair?