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For those who don’t know, Elon Musk has recently been directing his assholery towards Wikipedia — calling them ‘Wokepedia’ due to the amount they spend on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and calling for people to stop giving them money “until they restore balance to their editing authority” —, now is a great time to consider donating to Wikipedia!
i swear to god if one more stupid fandom ruins a beautiful text post i am calling the police
I am obligated to reblog this again, because it is now Superwholock, and therefore perfection.
people need to remember that every tumblr post in 2012 was like this
They’re streaming Coachella on WeChat in China and I’m losing my mind at this poor censor who was trying to move this black box around to censor the dancers’ asses while Megan Thee Stallion was performing “WAP.” Someone please find the clip and post it on here, I can’t explain how funny it was to watch this black box frantically bounce around from ass to ass while being controlled by a man desperately trying not to lose his job
he's trying his best
Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
I'm already seeing advice from people in the US to purchase queer books and other banned or "controversial" books on paper as a way to combat the wave of government censorship that is coming. While this is a good idea (it is! absolutely!), it's not accessible to everyone, and truly, we're not going to be able to consumerism our way out of this one.
If you can buy the books, do. Whether you can buy the books or not, borrow them from your library.
Borrow the paper versions. Borrow the ebook or audiobook versions. Request the titles you want that your library doesn't have. The more a title circulates or is requested, the better librarians are going to be able to defend keeping it if and when it's ever challenged.
Use libraries like @queerliblib too. The more members they have, the better they'll be able to fundraise.
Your community resources depend on you using them. Borrow the books before they go away.
InB4: Piracy is not the solution here. We're trying to keep community resources available, not make sure individual people can read individual books. Different problems.
The books are still available. Borrowing them from your library and returning them on time and in good condition will help keep them that way.
This this this!
Libraries and librarians are going to be under attack in the coming years.
Please help us by showing the people in charge that these materials are important in the only way they really understand - the number of checkouts.
We need your help now more than ever.
For some additional context, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is the primary funding mechanism for libraries on a national level. It distributes grants to State Libraries (every state has one, though it may not be called exactly that) who then distribute that money further to individual libraries in their states. It's a federal entity that has to be reauthorized every year or that huge chunk of funding goes away, and every year of the first Trump administration the fight for reauthorization was a white-knuckle event. We got it through by the skin of our teeth each year, but it was harrowing.
Libraries are mentioned on page one of Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership (the big book of horrible policy plans). Choosing not to reauthorize the IMLS will be an easy way for the incoming administration to gut library services nationwide, especially in small communities that don't have a thriving donor base to fill those budget gaps. They'll be able to stop the "porn peddlers" and "groomers" at the cost of vital services to those communities.
One of the best tools we have to try and avoid that outcome is to prove, definitively, that libraries matter by presenting robust use statistics. Checking out books, using library spaces, attending library programs, all of that gets captured and reported to the IMLS each year. They're imperfect measures of the value the library provides to the community, but they're what we have.
At the local level it's going to be just as, if not more important to educate the community about what the library does. Your local governing authorities aren't going to be persuaded by the librarian alone, but they can be persuaded by vocal community support. That will also inoculate your community against "grassroots" attempts to shut the library down, like almost happened in Dayton, Washington in 2023.
To bring it back around to OP's original point, the imperfect nature of the stats gathered can work in libraries' favor on both fronts. It might actually be detrimental to present record-breaking circulation numbers for queer titles to the incoming administration, but the IMLS doesn't collect that level of detail. Any book you check out adds to the bottom line total that gets reported, queer or not. At the local level librarians have more control over the stories they tell with their data. If you're in a progressive community, they can be open with those more granular numbers as a way to underscore their importance as a resource to queer community. If you're in a conservative community they can lean on the bigger picture to show the impact on everyone, while knowing internally what materials are actually circulating and how best to curate the collection to serve their patrons.
Also, checking out books prevents them from being removed from shelves for non-malicious reasons.
Libraries weed their collections routinely so we can continue to have space to add new books. We run a report on the whole collection and books that haven't been circulated in x amount of time get put on the list. We can decide if a book is going to be discarded from there. For example, I won't discard a book if it's part of a series and we have the other books. I also try to avoid discarding award-winning books (especially Stonewall Winners and Honors).
Checking out the books prevents them from going on the weed list in the first place.
If a book does get weeded, it doesn't mean the library has bad intentions. It just means there's no demand for that particular title, and we need the space.
So use your library to check out queer books and other challenged books so that we know they're being read! Keep them well-circulated so we can buy new copies when they get battered and torn rather than removing the title from the collection all together!
me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home
me when I get home:
me every single week: I'll do it on the weekend!
me the entire weekend:
all of us rn
I can barely contain myself right now
holy shit
HOLY SHIT
holy CRAP.
Artists, creators, students, and researchers of all types, take note:
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There is a lot wrong with the world at the moment, but the Smithsonian… the Smithsonian is right.
The archive includes fashion images!
this is your thanksgiving reminder that the chinook tribe is still fighting for federal recognition, which means they are unable to access programs and resources. please take some time today to sign their petition and donate if you’re able to. and if you live in washington or oregon please write to your elected officials.
and another reminder that the quileute tribe (the very real tribe that was featured in twilight and received no compensation) is still located in a tsunami zone and is trying to move to higher ground. please consider donating.
Art by Aquirax Uno, 1970s
”this file type is not supported” umm grow up?
death and the girl
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Possession (1981)
Art by Aquirax Uno, 1970s
I didn't go into this as much in my last post b/c it's tangential to the point I was making but it really is funny to me how fandom people are so much more insane with their hornyness than everyone else. Like before I got into fandom shit I thought I was a very horny person. One day I gave one of my friends who reads a lot of m/m (but is attracted to women) access to my NSFW Twitter and she said she had to unfollow because it was "boring". What do you mean boring??? How are fat titties and assess boring??? Would you get bored of watching the sunset? Bored of The Mona Lisa??? Bored of Beethoven's 5th????? What level of gooning are you people on!!!!!!
I can't even do a "hear me out" with you ppl cause I'd throw out what for me is my most outrageous pick:
And the consensus would be that she's too conventionally attractive to count as a hear me out. My brother in christ she has a boomerang designed by H.R. Geiger instead of a face please listen to yourself
This is the funniest fucking thing I have ever read oh my god
Edwige Fenech in Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment (1973)
Stay safe, guys
Get immediate help 24/7/365. The Trevor Project's crisis counselors are just a text, chat, or phone call away. Completely confidential and f
it’s three taps anywhere on the screen on a smartphone!
This is important punks. Deadly important.
I’ve texted their hotline before. It was super helpful and even if it hadn’t been the amount of time you’re there can be enough to let your urges fade and stay safe.
