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Happy belated Valentine’s Day from Historically Informed! Modchaut got so into her Renaissance improvisation readings that she forgot to post these.

justanotherpiccplayer

@elemental-puppydragon belated thingy, am genuinely surprised dowland flow my tears is not mentioned…

10 years since Fireflies came out….. and I still can’t believe my eyes

heliophobek

“Why don’t you go outside anymore?”

‘You used to love eating that!”

“What happened to you?”

Me:

zomblequeen-deactivated20181123

It is officially spring because the turkey vulture is back at work and is sitting outside my window trying to make me his vulture bride.

zomblequeen-deactivated20181123

imaginationbully

LET HIM WOO YOU.

todaysbird

refined goth gentleman

voregeoisie

excuse me sir this is my emotional support balloon animal

yungduhm

The signs as sines

Aries: sin(θ)

Taurus: sin(360°)

Gemini: sin(270°)

Cancer: sin(π/2)

Leo: sin(π/4)

Virgo: sin(40°)

Libra: sin(3π/4)

Scorpio: sin(π/6)

Sagittarius: sin(80°)

Capricorn: sin(10π)

Aquarius: sin(420°)

Pisces: sin(2π/3)

nobodytoldthehorse

Love logging on to tumblr dot com and seeing posts about why libraries should be Cancelled because they don’t pull problematique books

nobodytoldthehorse

Also let’s be real, Problematic Books are one of the strongest arguments for libraries’ continued existence?

Let’s say you need an outdated queer theory textbook that uses biphobic and cissexist rhetoric for your gender studies thesis, but you don’t particularly want to own that book.

Let’s say you need a primary source to strengthen your argument to your college as to why a certain political figure does not deserve to be a speaker at your graduation because they perpetuate hate speech.

Let’s say you and your friends want to hateread a book by your least favorite author but you don’t want to give him your money.

You deserve the ability to access that content legally without having to purchase and own it. And so does everyone else, no matter how suspicious you might be of their motives for reading a Problematic book.

haunted-hideaway

When I was doing my masters in library science, they reiterated over and over: there should be something in a library to offend everyone. Believe me. There are books in my library that I find offensive. But my job is to provide access. Not to question WHY people need stuff or to judge them. Libraries should function as a neutral space. We are providing information, which in and of itself is neutral. It’s what people DO with that information that matters. And even then, it’s not my place to judge.

lyricwritesprose

When I was in college, I was doing a paper for an African-American Studies class, and I found myself suddenly in need of info on exactly what sort of self-justification white people were using during the days of slavery.

And I found one in the college library. An original slave-owner’s apologia from eighteen hundred or so.

Nasty stuff. But studying the mechanics of evil is a useful pursuit. One that has relevance in today’s world, certainly.

(My African-American Studies professor thought so too; he gave me an A.)

The point being, no matter how bad a book is, there is value in preserving it—if only to demonstrate, “This, this right here, this is a bad thing.“ Mein Kampf? Worth picking through to note the psychology of a depraved leader. (Did you know that Hitler framed every damn thing as a war, including farming, which he characterized as wrestling food from an unwilling land, or some such bullshit? Might be a characteristic worth paying attention to. Be cautious about leaders who use “war” rhetoric for things that aren’t actually wars, such as … oh, to pull an example out of a hat, how about “drugs.”) Slavery apologia? Leans heavily into Biblical justification, from the one I read, so maybe, just maybe, we should examine Biblical justifications very carefully. Even the worst stuff teaches us things.

Which is part of what a library is there for.

iworkinretail-myguy

one time in freshman history class the teacher asked if we supported women’s suffrage. one kid didn’t raise his hand because “women shouldn’t have to suffer”

gen-zee

imagine being him thinking women’s suffrage is women suffering and the entire class raises their hands and just being like w hat th e fu ck gu ys

schubird

Those two comments made my day.

magicaldolan

plot twist in which a new york man is not crushed comically by a piano, but instead saved from being crushed compassionately by multiple pianos

funkyness

minimalism is dead adopt the goblin way of life. fill your house with pebbles and shinnies.

captainesc

funkyness

BUT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE 32 ROCKS I FOUND ON THE STREET SPARK JOY MRS MARIE KONDO

andthentheywilleatthestars

wembleyfragglesarchive

glorianas

the hag in folklore actually is symbolic of men being afraid that when women get older we’ll realize how shit they really are and eat them which is fair and they should be

ghostlyspirits

Sorry to interrupt your scrolling Just wanted to remind you that you're beautiful & you're alive for a reason. So smile you little goof nugget, I love you