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Large fandoms—things like Doctor Who, or Supernatural, or Star Trek, or any superhero comic—tend to have unique and separate sides to them: curative and transformative. Curative fandom is all about knowledge. It’s about making sure that everything is lined up and in order, knowing how it works, and finding out which one is the best. What is the Doctor Who canon? Who is the best Doctor? How do Weeping Angels work? Etc etc. Curative fandom is p. much the norm on reddit, especially r/gallifrey. Transformative fandom is about change. Let’s write fic! Let’s make art! Let’s make a fan vid! Let’s cosplay! Let’s somehow change the text. Why is Three easier to ship, while Seven is more difficult? What would happen if ______? Transformative fandom is more or less the norm on tumblr. (And livejournal, and dreamwidth, and fanfiction websites, and…) Here’s the big thing: there’s a gender split. Find a random male fan, and they’ll probably be in curative fandom. Pick a random transformative fandom-er, and they’ll probably be female. Note that this is phrased in a very particular way—obviously there’s guys who cosplay and write fic, obviously there’s women who don’t. But men tend to be in the curative fandom, while transformative fandom is predominately women—and/or queer people, POC, etc. Why? Because the majority of professionally-made media is catered towards a straight white male demographic, leaving little room for ‘outsiders.’ Outsiders who, if they want to see themselves in media, have to attack it and change it—hence slash fic, hence long essays claiming that Hermione Granger is black, hence canons about trans characters or genderqueer characters. And then curative/male fandom tends to view most things that transformative/female fandom does with disdain. Why? Because, in their eyes, it devalues canon. Who cares about knowing about Tony Stark’s lovers if somebody’s gonna write a fic where Toni Stark is flying about? Their power is lessened. Scream of the Shalka is unambiguously not canon—but it doesn’t have to be in order for me to read and enjoy a 30k fic where the robotic Master was secretly in the TARDIS during Nine and Ten’s time and they shagged behind the scenes. Canon? No, but who gives a shit? Also, as transformative fandom tends to be an outsider looking in, they’re much more likely to analyze the work from a queer/PoC/neurodivergent/gender perspective. If I come to /r/gallifrey and start to talk about how ‘In the Forest of the Night’ had a questionable portrayal of mental health/autism, I get blank stare. If I go on tumblr, I get a conversation. This is also where the ‘overreacting, shrieking SJW’ trope plays in, either because of a redditor’s misunderstanding of terms and therefore assuming that a mild critique is a scathing one, or because the tumblr user in question is young/inexperienced and jumping the gun. So, there you have it: /r/gallifrey’s bashing of reddit is part of a larger split in how men and women tend to enjoy fandom, and a lashing against how fanfiction/related things addresses fandom because it’s not the right “kind” of fandom. And also because tumblr is popular with teenage girls, and there’s nothing reddit loves more than shitting on whatever teenage girls like.
reddit user lordbyonic on the difference between reddit and tumblr fandom
but it also explains WHY fanfic (and the population of people who read it) is largely written by women
(via iloveyouandilikeyou)
Presented without comment.
EXCEPT to say- commonplacecaz.
Everyone in my dorm who listens to obnoxious music in the shower deserves to find a spider on their nose when they wake up
My boyfriend lives on a floor with such a rampant obnoxious-shower-music offender that we've given him the nickname "gangster-rap-Matt," which is surprisingly fun to say.
BF's room is also right across from the bathrooms -- not that it would make much difference, since Matt BLASTS his music and you can hear it clearly from the far end of the hallway. And he only listens to gangsta rap. At the highest volume possible. Did I make it clear how INCREDIBLY LOUD it is?
One time I was hanging out in my boyfriend's room. Matt started taking a shower, predictably playing his music as loud as possible. In a tiled bathroom. Where it echoes. very. loudly.
Then I overheard this shouted conversation:
Some guy: HEY! DUDE, TURN IT DOWN!
Gangster-rap-Matt: WHAT??
Some guy: WE GET IT! YOU LIKE MUSIC! TURN IT DOWN!!
Gangster-rap-Matt: SORRY BRO, CAN'T HEAR YOU!
[music continues at same volume forever]
so proud of all my girls out there unlearning their internalized misogyny and to support other girls and call people out on their sexism and misogyny. also proud of my girls out there learning to love themselves and realizing it’s okay to go against beauty standards. y’all are strong and amazing and im right here with you
December Book Photo Challenge. Day 25. Gift Giving.
OMG!!! These are my Christmas gifts from my awesome husband! A beautiful F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection.
This Side of Paradise
Flappers and Philosophers
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Last Tycoon
The Beautiful and the Damned
Tender is the Night
The Great Gatsby
I definitely made a noise that sounded a lot like "unf" when I saw these. Gorgeous.
Fanfiction doesn't need to be a springboard to earn legitimacy.
Even in the conversations recognizing fanfiction as a valuable, legitimate form of writing, I feel like there’s something flawed happening. I’ve certainly been guilty of thinking this way in the past.
Fanfiction may be a training ground for writers who move on to original work, but that is not the reason it is a legitimate art form.
Writing is not a straight line where original work is the only possible endgame.
Fanfiction is art in and of itself. Some writers use it as practice for moving on to original fiction, but that doesn’t mean its only legitimate purpose is as a stepping-stone or a means to an ultimately origfic end.
Fanfiction can be an end in and of itself.
And what a lot of people don't realize is that fanfiction has existed for thousands of years.
Homer's Iliad was probably composed in the 8th century BCE.
800 years later, Virgil wrote Homeric fanfiction. He took a character from the Iliad, spun a new story around him, and published it as The Aeneid. You may have heard of it. It's only considered one of the most important Latin texts of the Western world.
And then Dante wrote his Divine Comedy over a thousand years later, which both references the Aeneid AND INCLUDES VIRGIL HIMSELF as a character, who leads Dante the character (you might identify this now as "self insert") on his tour of the underworld.
From medieval authors going crazy trying to "finish" Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to modern day Rent, which was based on Puccini's La boheme, which was ITSELF inspired by Henri Murger's novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème...fanfiction has always been around.
Here is a very thorough list of examples.
52 Weeks, 52 Projects
I don’t usually undertake New Year’s Resolutions — I prefer instead to adopt New Year’s Projects.
Rather than making a single change or modifying a habit, I use the structure and benchmark of a year to push and challenge myself in new and interesting ways.
In past years, I split my goals into 12, focusing on one each month. But this year, I’ve decided to commit to goals-on-overdrive — one new project or challenge or goal each week.
This works well for me because I’m the definition of a “three-day-monk” — someone who takes on new projects and pursues them with enthusiasm…but for only a few days before moving onto the next cool thing. And because I have so many hobbies and interests and passions, I often find myself overwhelmed by all the opportunities and choices available to me whenever I have free time.
This is why timed artistic challenges like NaNoWriMo work so well for me — I can sustain great energy for short bursts on cool projects. But on the other hand, I’m impatient, quick to get bored and move on to other pursuits, and it’s hard to sustain small amounts of energy over the long term.
So I’m going to try to let this short-term enthusiasm work for me, instead of against me. I’m not going to worry about sustaining long-term projects, but give myself a 7-day deadline within which to accomplish as much as I possibly can. If I don’t get to everything, it’s too bad — I move on to the next project only a few days later. I’m hoping an immediate deadline will prompt me to accomplish more than I would if the deadline stretched out 30 days in the future.
The first part of the year is going to focus on education — filling in essential gaps of knowledge, reading relevant nonfiction, watching documentaries I’ve always wanted to see, etc. In general, the goal is to make myself a more well-rounded, compassionate, educated citizen of the world — and to expose myself to more non-Eurocentric perspectives.
I’m going to start with general overviews of various subjects: world history, space, earth science, philosophy, psychology, etc.
For February, which is Black History Month here, my goal is to thoroughly educate myself beyond the pitiful amount of black history I learned in school, which was limited to:
- a very small section on African history in the 9th grade (of course, it focused only on Africa once Europe took a vested interest in it and I learned almost nothing about pre-colonialist Africa)
- a small segment on Africa and African literature in the 12th grade (during which I read Things Fall Apart, Fiela’s Child, and Heart of Darkness)
- a tiny nod to Afro-Caribbean history
- a slightly-more-cohesive overview of black history in America, i.e. slavery and the fight for civil rights
- slightly more studied understanding of the Harlem Renaissance in college
So February will be my month to learn more about pre-colonialist Africa and its history, filling in gaps in my education, reading more Afrocentric literature, biographies of relevant personages, etc. If anyone has any book or documentary recommendations in particular, please let me know!
This was a slightly vague introduction to my intentions, but over the next few weeks I’ll be updating the blog with concrete project ideas and updates. I welcome anyone to join me!
I'm absurdly proud of the fact that I've filled in an entire year. My January 1st entry from 2014? "Rang in the New Year by dancing until 9am at Lindy Focus." Now to start year #2 in my five-year sentence-a-day journal...
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE FOR YOUNG WRITERS (PART ONE)
Not sure what to get that young/budding/amateur writer in your life? Here are my top recommendations.
On Technique (Resources, Lessons, and Prompts)
The Describer’s Dictionary: A Treasury of Terms & Literary Quotations (Expanded Second Edition)
The dictionary uses a unique reverse definition-to-term format that makes it easy to zero in on the term you’re seeking. Turn to the new section on sensory impressions, for example, to find vivid terms for “loud or jarring.”
And at the end of each section dozens of illustrative passages by notable fiction and nonfiction authors—including Donna Tartt, Michael Lewis, Zadie Smith, Khaled Hosseini, and Paul Theroux—bring the terminology to life.
Story Engineering
Story Engineering starts with the criteria and the architecture of storytelling, the engineering and design of a story—and uses it as the basis for narrative.
The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises that Transform Your Fiction
The 3 A.M. Epiphany offers more than 200 intriguing writing exercises designed to help you think, write, and revise like never before - without having to wait for creative inspiration.
The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
From classic poetry to pop lyrics, from Charles Dickens to Dolly Parton, even from Jesus to James Bond, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase—such as “O Captain! My Captain!” or “To be or not to be”—memorable.
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times
Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and even self-descriptions for online dating services. With examples from the long tradition of short-form writing in Western culture, HOW TO WRITE SHORT guides writers to crafting brilliant prose, even in 140 characters.
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.
On Inspiration (Memoir, Motivation, and Leading by Example)
Letters to a Young Poet
These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the 20th century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon subjects that will interest writers, artists, and thinkers.
Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn’t get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way.
This is a book written by artists, for artists -— it’s about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do.
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
Beginning with the metaphor of the archer’s arrow that cannot travel in a direct line but must rise and fall before it hits its target, Lewis deftly weaves together theories on failure from hundreds of sources. Moving smoothly from Wynton Marsalis’ thoughts on jazz improvisation to Al Gore’s reflection on presidential loss, Lewis’ chapters profile those who have achieved mastery in their field by following the indirect path, often moving backwards, losing out, experimenting, and playing the amateur.
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, 2nd Edition
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice —”it is backed by two thousand years of studying the mind.”
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Though aimed at writers, this book is full of sage advice and razor-edged honesty for the average joe. If you’re a writer—and I claim to be one—it’s more than a few anecdotes and good advice; it’s a lifeline in the thrashing seas of rough-draftdom, a foothold on the sands of jealousy and vain ambition. Anne makes it clear that writing must be pursued for something other than mere publication.
Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
At once a memoir, a meditation on the artistic process, and advice on craft, Still Writing is an intimate companion to living a creative life.
Make Good Art
In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art.
The bookMake Good Art, designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd, contains the full text of Gaiman’s inspiring speech.
The Artist’s Way
With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
Journaling Your Goals: Prompts, Motivation, and Advice to Help You Achieve Your Dreams
Journaling Your Goals is a self-help book which introduces writing and journaling techniques for dreamers to help set, track, and follow through with personal goals and development.
Week One: Here and Now -evaluate the current balance of your life -realize your values -start implementing small changes to make you more productive -learn how to track your productivity Week Two: Reflect: -look carefully at what you’ve accomplished -how your current behavior could bring you joy…or regret -how to overcome paralyzing doubt -how to combat fear -how to become a better you Week Three: Act On It: -associate hard work with good things -visualize your goals -automate your routines -use various techniques to “hack” your brain to respond positively to your efforts at productivity. Week Four: Moving Forward: -create your own manifesto -start a spiritual routine -celebrate your achievements -support yourself with self-care and healing techniques
On Getting Work Done (Discipline, Habit, and Ritual)
Make It Mighty Ugly: Exercises & Advice for Getting Creative Even When It Ain’t Pretty
The number one fear of all creative types—crafters, DIYers, makers, artists—is that failure lurks right around the corner. Crafty blogger and creativity guru Kim Piper Werker urges everyone to pick up their pen or paintbrush or scissors and make something mighty ugly: get that “failure” out of the way. This friendly book offers up a multi-pronged approach to overcoming creative fears through inspiring essays and anecdotes, interviews, exercises and prompts, and sage advice from all over the creative spectrum to help individuals slay their creative demons.
No Plot? No Problem! Revised and Expanded Edition: A Low-stress, High-velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
Chris Baty, founder of the wildly successful literary marathon known as National Novel Writing Month, has completely revised and expanded his definitive handbook for extreme noveling.
Write: 10 Days to Overcome Writer’s Block. Period.
In this revolutionary book, psychologist and novelist Karen E. Peterson presents an easy, effective way to beat writer’s block in only ten days. Based on new brain research and sound psychological principles, this innovative program shows writers how to conquer writer’s block using a variety of exercises.
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” Kafka is one of 161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do,
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives. So if habits are a key to change, then what we really need to know is: How do we change our habits? Better than Before answers that question.
2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
Have you ever wanted to double your daily word counts? Do you feel like you’re crawling through your story, struggling for each paragraph? Would you like to get more words every day without increasing the time you spend writing or sacrificing quality? It’s not impossible, it’s not even that hard. This is the story of how, with a few simple changes, I boosted my daily writing from 2000 words to over 10k a day, and how you can, too.
Writing, afternoon tea, and scones at the Duck and Bunny #snuggery #amwriting #nanowrimo
TIPS AND TRICKS FOR GETTING YOUR NANO WRITING DONE
When I’m responsible for churning out a certain amount of words every day (coughNanowrimocoughfastdraftcough), it can sometimes be tough to get up-and-at-‘em immediately. This is why I have a handy list in my writing journal which I go through every day to force myself into sitting down and getting stuff done.
It starts by asking: Have you written today?
If yes, then good job. Congratulations. You can now keep writing or do something else.
If no, then: Why not?
I must then answer this question. If I don’t immediately realize the solution just by recognizing the problem, there’s a list of items for responses I may encounter, and methodical routines that will get me into the writing process.
These items should be taken as a complete whole, going down the list one-by-one and completing each to satisfaction.
If You Need Help Getting Started
1. Move location.
Go to a desk, or a library, or a cafe. Move to a different room in the house. Take a notebook and pen outside. Go wherever you want, as long as it’s somewhere other than where you were just procrastinating.
2. Queue a music playlist.
Any music playlist. Don’t MAKE one. Don’t waste time on that. Find one (quickly) online, or use one you already have on your Spotify.
(If you're at a loss, go search the #writing tag on 8tracks, or check out my favorite epic music playlist on youtube.)
3. Need an incentive?
Fine. Make or buy a cup of tea or coffee. Energy drinks only under extreme circumstances. Okay, okay. Line your pockets with candy if you must. Just as long as you get writing done. (Reward systems get rescinded if abused. No writing today, no espresso drinks tomorrow.)
4. Set a 20 minute timer.
Pomodoro it up and participate in some word sprints and word wars. Use the forums or twitter hashtags or chatrooms to engage with other people for an extra challenge. Otherwise just set a timer or open Write or Die.
5. Still not quite in the mood?
Put on a literal thinking cap. Display a writing totem nearby. Chant an invocation to a muse. Burn incense. Light a candle. Ritualize and romanticize the shit out of it.
Blocked?
1. Look back at notes and outlines.
Where did you leave off? Where are you going next? What can you do to get from Point A to Point B?
If you're totally stumped, set a 10 minute timer and brainstorm a list of AS MANY next-steps as possible. You'll come up with a lot of bad ideas, but also a lot of fantastic ones that will make any lightbulbs above your head flash in strobe.
2. Develop characters.
Forget plot, just think about the little guys for a second. What are their motivations and aspirations? What do they want and why? Flesh out their back-story, complicate their goals, or just think for a minute about their personality and their stunning blue eyes…
3. Write something outside the main story.
Take your characters and put them somewhere else. Write about a typical evening in the life. Or about an event in their past. Pretend to interview them. Yank them into an unrelated scenario. Write something that explores your world and your characters, knowing that it’s unrelated to your plot, and that’s okay.
4. Accept a dare or a challenge.
You can find them in the Nano forums. Add it into your story whenever you stall.
5. Use more vocabulary.
I like challenging myself by going on a dictionary website and incorporating their word of the day into my daily word count. It’s like a little mini prompt or a challenge, trying to figure out how to shape your story to include that word. You can always take it out later, and you might discover something new about your story along the way.
Unmotivated?
1. Will a reward help?
See above — “Need an incentive?”
But really, do you want something more? Will that help? Okay, fine. What? What is it? What do you want?
Write up a contract with yourself outlining the terms of the agreement (If I write 2000 words today, then I agree to buy myself the new book I really want), then sign and date it. And then write.
2. Pictures of notebooks.
I keep a tumblr blog of pictures of notebooks for a reason. If I see pages covered in pen and ink and doodles, I get this itch to fill up the nearest blank page.
3. Visualize the future.
You know. The one where your book is published and it’s received stellar reviews and you are adored by critics and fans alike.
OR you can visualize a future where you haven’t written a damn thing, your electricity has been turned off for months, and you’re about to get evicted from your bug-infested apartment. Both are pretty effective.
I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again -
Menstruation is caused by change in hormonal levels to stop the creation of a uterine lining and encourage the body to flush the lining out. The body does this by lowering estrogen levels and raising testosterone.
Or, to put it more plainly “That time of the month” is when female hormones most closely resemble male hormones. So if (cis) women aren’t suited to office at “That time of the month” then (cis) men are NEVER suited to office.
If you are a dude and don’t dig the ladies around you at their time of the month, just think! That is you all of the time.
And, on a final note, post-menopausal (cis) women are the most hormonally stable of all human demographics. They have fewer hormonal fluctuations of anyone, meaning older women like Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would theoretically be among the least likely candidates to make an irrational decision due to hormonal fluctuations, and if we were basing our leadership decisions on hormone levels, then only women over fifty should ever be allowed to hold office.
Reblogging hard for that last comment.
I WANTED TO SAY THIS BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE DID and I’m damn proud.
If you could hug any Doctor Who writer, which one would you hug? I think personally I would go for Robert Shearman, he looks cuddly and that beard would probably feel nice rubbing on your head. Russell T Davies also looks quite huggable but his propensity towards suits and lack of facial hair might not make it as pleasurable as Mr Shearman.
I would like to hug all the women who have written for Doctor Who since 2008. All of them! I would start with…
What, nobody? That can’t be right…. (goes off, puzzled).
Time for a life update! I’ll make it quick.
For about a month, I’ve been working part-time at a local indie bookstore — and having a blast.
I am writing up a storm and thus not devoting much time to tumblr and other online pursuits.
I started a self-initiated challenge mid-September. My goal: to read 25 books and write 100,000 words before the end of the year. So far I’m six books down and 12000 words in.
I got my hands on an advanced reader’s copy of Uprooted by Naomi Novik (coming out 2015). It’s—seriously—now one of my all-time favorites. If you like fairy tales, stories with language as lush as Robin McKinley’s or plots as clever as Diana Wynne Jones’, amazing female heroines, an unusual love story (I could keep listing positive qualities forever), then do yourself a favor and pre-order it or pick up a copy — preferably from your local indie bookstore.
Loving life in my cheap tiny apartment on my starving artist’s salary. Really. Loving it.
Interviewer: In an interview that you did with “The Great Discontent” in 2012, you said that you thought that, “You needed to be in love with the reality of your own life in order to produce beautiful, meaningful, and intelligent things creatively.” What did you mean by that?
Maria Popova: Basically, it’s this notion that if you are not grounded in who you are—which includes what you love, what makes your heart sing, what makes you get up in the morning and be excited, and what makes you go to bed at night and be satisfied and fulfilled—if you are not rooted in the things that move you, then you’re not really going to be able to produce things that are meaningful. You’re just simulating what it is like to be a person who feels those things, right?
-from interview with Maria Popova on 99u
The fact that the ALA shared this link is so gloriously bitter and angry and I love it.
Is there a portmanteau for that? Angritter? Bangry?
My library card already gets me multiple “real” books, e-books, audiobooks, magazines and movies per month. For free.
Kindle Unlimited offers nothing from big presses, and no guarantee the authors will get paid fairly for their work. Libraries buy the book up front for a higher price (and a better binding). Kindle Unlimited offers the authors a variable percentage of a as-yet-undetermined-and-unannounced amount of money.
While Amazon touts Kindle Unlimited at “Netflix For Books!” the reality is Netflix signed contracts with everyone whose work they offer so that actors, screen writers, best boys, and the rest of those people get paid for the shows and movies you watch. Amazon does not.
That means your favorite author isn’t being compensated for their time or work. If you love a book series and want to see the next one get published: buy the book or hit the library. Starving authors quit writing because they like eating.
I couldn’t hit the reblog button fast enough.
So much reblog.
womp womp
Touts…as “Netflix For Books!” …you mean…A LIBRARY?
This makes me sick.
Signal boosting this in the hopes that someone decides to join their local library instead of supporting selfish, money-grubbing companies with no regard for a community. Please join me, this is important for our future.
Imagine if we had no libraries, and this $150 a month was your only choice.
That’s where we’re headed. Support your local library, not greedy corporate monsters.
JOIN YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, THERE IS SO MUCH COOL SHIT IN LIBRARIES ours has an electric piano and language lessons and an art gallery and fucking cafe run by a pirate.
Libraries are already paid for by taxes and other means, make use of them if you can.