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she/her - twenty something reborn bookworm - the Night Court inner circle lives rent free in my head Book count 2024: 5

[autistichalsin]

It's tax season in the USA and that means it's time for a yearly PSA for fellow USAmericans!

Don't be fooled by bullshit like Turbotax. If you make less than $89,000 a year (I'd say confidently that's 99% of Tumblr), you are entitled to use the IRS free file tool for your taxes. This page from the IRS lists all the software providers they have partnered with to provide this service. I have only used one on the list, but it was as good as or maybe better than Turbotax, and I repeat, free for the federal tax return. You MIGHT still have to pay a fee to file a state tax return, but it should be nominal. If you don't want to do it online, you can also go to the IRS to print out the forms directly and turn them in.

DO NOT let Turbotax trick you out of money. Drop them like a hot potato. This is a "fuck Turbotax" account.

[labelleizzy]

USians hit up your library if you lose this post!!

[britts-books]

I feel like the soup ladle moment is a misdirection…

The scene from the green light trailer in question:

Now there’s been many theories about what on earth this could mean, so I’m going to add my own.

This scene isn’t of Gwen bashing Frankie with a weaponized ladle….

It’s Frankie seeing a memory of one of Gwen’s escape attempts!

There’s another scene in the trailer where it looks like Frankie is tangled up in what looks similar to Gwen’s machinery, and it’s pretty visceral:

Followed by this shot of her turning ghostly white. While there’s no audio, I can only imagine there’s a gasp here:

Judging by the dreamy lighting in the first screenshot, one can assume that it’s one of Frankie’s hallucinations.

But when taken with the fact that it seems to be this mechanical connection that brought her to what might be the palace of Park Planet, it’s clear that she’s being shown something.

What remains to be seen is if it was something Gwen meant her to see, if it was an accident, or even an antagonistic faction purposely using the blue goo in an effort to literally feed Frankie a propagandized version of Gwen’s story (with the craziest possible option being an attempt to keep her trapped in her own mind).

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[britts-books]

We all know Gwen has aspects of the Disney Princesses, but she shares a surprising amount of motifs with another animated leading lady….

Emily!

Both are blue haired women in opulent, white gowns who should’ve had the world at their feet but instead were grievously abused and discarded.

Interestingly, the similarities don’t end there.

Both have heavy symbolism tied to their fingers. Gwen with the middle finger that was repaired by Frankie; Emily with the wedding ring from Victor. Adding to this, on both characters the important finger is on the left hand.

Both have narratively relevant injuries inflicted on their abdomens. Gwen is sliced open by Olivia to where her “intestines” are spilling out, Emily was fatally stabbed with the wound still being visible in death. As a bonus, the resemblance in body type only becomes stronger after Gwen’s stint in the ocean adds more deterioration to her outer layers.

Both have damaged right eyes. Emily’s pops out a few times due to decay and her maggot, Gwen’s was sewn shut at some point and is forced open again during her repair process.

Both are characters who outwardly appear frightening but in reality are kind hearted and are victims of their circumstances.

Both characters defend those who have helped them from sword-wielding opponents. Emily shielded Victor from Lord Barkus’s sword with her own body before turning the blade on him in a show of intimidation; Gwen, while we don’t know exactly how, ran Sir Arthur through with his own massive blade to protect Andi and Frankie.

Both of their narratives have themes of escape from an otherworldly place in pursuit of happiness. Gwen wants to flee the manufactured, unchanging world of Park Planet (though exact reasons are unknown, most likely from Olivia’s abuse); Emily is stuck in the unchanging, party-loving Underworld and originally seeks the love of someone from “upstairs” to set her free.

It will be interesting to see if any further narrative beats in Gwen’s story took influence from Emily’s, but if they did, then signs are pointing to an ending that’s on the sweeter side of bittersweet.

(Not directly related but a fun side note, in KoG there’s a fatal illness called Blue Lung that seems to be an epidemic, meanwhile in Corpse Bride the character Mayhue dies of a lung condition.)

[aliteralchicken]

What’s a book you had to read/movie you had to watch in school that you really enjoyed

[theusernameiwantisntavailable]

Technically it's a play so idk how much it counts, but inspector calls was so fun to learn

[britts-books]

The Importance of Being Earnest, The Great Gatsby, The Giver

[mostlyjustgoose]

please help me return this book

I borrowed this book in the year 2000 from a friend. Unfortunately, I have since forgotten her full name, have dropped off of any and all social media that might be tied to my legal name, and the last screen name I have for her is for AIM which has been gone for longer than I care to think about.

I feel extremely guilty because it’s autographed, and thus irreplaceable to the person who loaned it to me. And I’ve had it for 23 years, keeping track of it through every house and dorm and apartment I’ve lived in. I still don’t think of it as “my” copy, because it’s not really.

23 years is long enough. If this sounds familiar to you, please get in touch. I just want to return it.

[image descriptions: The book is a paperback edition of Greer Ilene Gilman’s Moonwise, autographed by the author.]

[arahir]

libby app guide

aka how to support libraries and get books and audiobooks for free without pirating them.

disclaimer: this is so easy. it is also really fun.

one: download the libby app. you'll open it and it'll ask you to add a library.

two: get a library card. don't have one? good news, it's really easy and i am saying this as the laziest person on earth. it varies what you need to have to get a card library to library but almost all libraries will let you get one online. i have a card for my home town and for the town i moved to. sometimes you only need an email address, sometimes you need an area code. to get mine it took me about 5 minutes of lying on the couch aimlessly tapping on my phone. follow your heart. you can get cards for places you don't currently live. i will leave the ethics of that up to you but it's probably better than pirating and either way you're creating traffic for libraries which is what they need to exist.

three: add your card. you can add multiple cards for multiple libraries. you need the number. i have never had libby fail to recognize a valid account.

four: search for your book! some will be ready to borrow right away. others have an estimated delivery time. libby will always pick the one that's the fastest from the options available at all the libraries you have cards at. you can borrow audiobooks and ebooks. libby will send you a notification when you're book is ready to borrow. in my experience it's a lot faster than the estimate. if you aren't ready to read it, you can ask to be skipped over in line so you keep your place at the front but let someone else read it first.

five: read it!!! kindle is the most common way to do this. you can go to your loan and click read with kindle. it'll download it to all your devices where you have kindle. as long as you have the loan, it'll act like your book. when the loan ends, if the device is connected to the internet, it'll automatically be returned. it will save all your notes and highlights. (if you disconnect your device from the internet, it won't return the book. weewoo.)

anyway in case anyone else has been wondering about it, i really love it. is a nice surprise to see what i'm going to get and it's cut my reading costs down big time! it's also neat because i get to synch my books between devices unlike downloading books through cough cough other means. good luck!

[theroseunblown]

Reblogging again to say that you do not need Kindle, the app or the device, to read ebooks on Libby!! You can read any book you borrow WITHIN the Libby app, and you can change the font and dark/light mode for accessibility too.

[arahir]

please be aware the libby app does NOT let you read or listen offline so the app itself is unusable for me for actual reading unfortunately! you guys who have access to the internet steadily can use it but be aware. you can't use it on a plane, for example, but if you download to kindle you can.

[cntarella]

You should actually be able to use libby app offline (for those allergic to kindle like I am lmao). You just have to change your download permissions in settings. The web browser version of libby is online only though.

Go to Settings > Change Download Rules > toggle to “Everything” (and recommended to “Download only on Wi-fi” if you are worried about your data)

Then Settings > Read Books With… > Libby, so that it downloads to the correct app. You should be able to change your preferences on the main page by clicking the cloud icon to see where you’ve downloaded it too.

[shesegwin]

ALL OF THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING!!!!

[britts-books]

Do you ever just try to read something, and even though it’s a fun premise, the style of it manages to hit a ton of your writing pet peeves and you just can’t do it?

That was my experience tonight with “A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon” by Sarah Hawley.

[14mg]

quick what’s ur opinion on tea. everyone who sees this is obligated to answer in some way

[prokopetz]

Mickey Mouse's entry into the public domain comes with significant caveats. While the Mickey Mouse who appears in Steamboat Willie (and other media published in 1928 or earlier) is free to use, there's established precedent that specific elements of a character which appear exclusively in later works which still fall under copyright may be protected, if sufficiently distinctive.

(This is the basis of, e.g., the infamous "Sherlock Holmes can't respect women" lawsuit: the Doyle estate, which at the time owned only a tiny handful of the latest-written stories, the others having already fallen into the public domain, argued that specific personality traits which Holmes exhibits only in those later stories are sufficiently distinctive as to be the valid subject of an infringement claim.)

With respect to various elements of Mickey's visual design, such as his red shorts and signature gloves, the matter is clear: just don't use those for another few years. However, there's another thing Mickey's public domain iterations don't exhibit: speech.

The present consensus among copyright scholars seems to be that "a character speaking" is not sufficiently distinctive as to qualify for protection, but the vocal characterisation with which Mickey Mouse is famously associated may so qualify. So, if you want to be scrupulously safe, you can have him talk, but not in that exact specific voice.

Which raises a fun question: what voice would you give him? Wrong answers only.

[britts-books]

Joe Pesci or Danny Devito

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[yeehawpim]

[princesszeldazbyebye-deactivate]

Cannot Stress Enough how important it is to read Howl’s Moving Castle written by Diana Wynn Jones immediately after watching Howl’s Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki. When he made the movie he was of course upset with war and thus included it in the film, but you gotta understand. You really Gotta Understand. Every time in the movie where Howl turns the door dial black to travel to an absolutely hellish warscape? You know where that same dial takes him in the book? The Real World Country Of Wales

[britts-books]

I once heard someone describe the differences between the two as “Sophie wrote the book, Howl directed the movie” and couldn’t agree more.

[britts-books]

Saying it now, Grape is King Boo’s wifey

[britts-books]

Not About A Book, But A “Fun Fun Fun” Theory

So this idea has been rattling around my pink-hyped brain ever since that full trailer for Barbie dropped and I’m shocked no one is taking about this.

The music for the trailer is of course the Malibu beachy classic “Fun Fun Fun” by The Beach Boys, even getting its own parody of the album “Pet Songs” on the record player. However, it’s the way the lyrics are cut off from the main chorus that makes me think that not only is Barbie’s car going to be a bigger plot feature than expected, but Lord Business Will Ferel’s Mattel CEO character will be involved.

This is because the full lyrics to the song’s chorus are “and she’ll have fun fun fun til her daddy takes the T-bird away”.

Well, considering she’s going to the real world and ends up meeting this antagonistically framed CEO, it’s not a far stretch to say that she finds out some deep dirt/pisses him off to where he pulls a few strings and somehow leaves her without the easiest way to get back to Barbieland.

However, the song also foreshadows hope by way of Ken.

In the song, the singer consoles his gal with the lines:

“And since he took your set of keys

You've been thinking that your fun is all through now-

But you can come along with me

'Cause we gotta a lot of things to do now-”

Now this sets up the perfect opportunity for Ken to swoop in, either with another ridiculous ride or hell even the roller-skates, to lift Barbie’s spirits and then they set off to stop whatever plot the CEO has cooking up.

[silberschillerndesglurak]

if you're from europe and haven't done so yet, please please please sign the petition for unconditional basic income!

it needs 1 million signatures by the 25th june, as well as reach a certain threshold in at least seven countries which it only has in three, and it's also still missing so many signatures to reach 1 million and time is running out)

please just do it, it's free, it should be safe cause it's quite literally an official EU site, and literally all you need to do is put your name and address on there (not visible to the public, but they will check if the signatures are legit so please don't fake any signatures, that'll just make it look like the goal was reached when it wasn't)

please just do this, time is running out for this initiative. if there's any reason you haven't signed it yet and won't do it, tell me the reason, maybe i can debunk it

here's the link to the petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/014/public/#/screen/home

[cannibal-rainbow]

let's do this!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/014/public/#/screen/home/allcountries

[kaamosnoita]

Objectives Our aim is to establish the introduction of unconditional basic incomes throughout the EU which ensure every person’s material existence and opportunity to participate in society as part of its economic policy. This aim shall be reached while remaining within the competences conferred to the EU by the Treaties. We request the EU Commission to make a proposal for unconditional basic incomes throughout the EU, which reduce regional disparities in order to strengthen the economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU. This shall realize the aim of the joint statement by the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission, stated in 2017, that “the EU and its member states will also support efficient, sustainable and equitable social protection systems to guarantee basic income” in order to combat inequality.

Webpage of the initiative in the European Commission's register

[jackdaw-kraai]

For the love of all you hold dear, sign this if you can. It’s literally five minutes of work and you’re voting for yourself to get more money and financial security. Please get whatever amount of spoons is required for you to do sign this and sign it. You can do this. I believe in you.

[addition added June 19th, 2022]

[britts-books]

Anyone have that Gangrene Gang meme? Bc the Mood is definitely "Hey Jonathan, we thought you were dead!"