Looking Up

[lynettethemadscientist]

The best tragedies teach us that even losing battles are worth fighting

[chrisfarleychubrub]

Remember the Alamo.

[memeuplift]

@memeuplift

[hoshi-neko-hikari]

The very definitions of everyday heroes

[lionsandtigers]

We need more of this hero compassion

[salty-red-mage]

When I fuck up during a stealth game and have to kill everyone in a five mile radius

[catchymemes]

[peneigh-dzredfohl]

Can everyone who reads this PLEASE reblog it?!?!?  Libraries literally saved my life as a child!

Being abused at home, bullied at school and lost in the world, the library and all the books I could escape to the most amazing worlds, kept me alive!

I would walk to the library, and spend all day, from 10 am to 9 pm reading there!! I got special awards for how many books I read, I wrote little blurbs on why i loved the books (probably why I love to BETA and do ARCs) 

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Just hit the green arrows and the reblog!!!

As a 50 year old woman, the library offers me so much. Digital art pads to borrow, 3D printing, book clubs that are face to face (yeah, the introvert likes face to face because a moderator will stomp on anyone getting snarky)

New books in LARGE PRINT! I’m visually challenged and as much as I love my kindle, The feel of a real book in my hands will always be a beloved feeling!

Our library also has quarterly books sales of almost free books!! For 5$USD we get in a day early and can buy as many as we want. Anyone else has to wait and there is a limit for the first 2 days.

[stevviefox]

Also many, many libraries have inter library loan(it may be called something different). This means if they don’t have the item you want, they can get it for you. This may include photocopy/pdf of articles. This can also include along with books and DVDs, microfilm/fiche which is also a huge resource. Check around for libraries that are listed as depositories if you want to look at government documents.

Remember that many colleges and universities have open stacks for the public. You will likely have to pay a membership fee but you will get to stuff.

[psi1998]

I love the library ☺

[icycove]

The library was one of my favorite places to go as a kid and I still live to go and just. Sit and read. Or do homework. The university I’m at has a massive 8-story one I love to just wonder around in~ Great places

[jaks21]

Libraries are amazing places, we need to protect them to ensure their continued existence.

[maureenrn]

I remember as a child of 8 riding the city bus with my 6 year old sister and spending the whole day on Saturdays at the downtown library. It was huge and had so many books and books and crannies. My dad would check out Ary to put on the wall as of our apartment. This tradition continued into my teen years with 2 additional little sisters and the amount of books that I read was amazing. Thank god for that safe space.

[sliversoakley3-deactivated20220]

[woodrider]

this is real btw and they put stuff like this on their sign all the time

[ommanyte]

I want a pangolin Pokémon :(

[ommanyte]

[ommanyte]

[iamthesweeper]

i cant wait till she tries to figure out why pineco is a bug type

[ommanyte]

[tracobuttons]

This has got to be the funniest discourse I’ve seen on this hellsite

[sci-fi-gifs]

“You know what the first rule of flying is?” Serenity (2005) - dir. Joss Whedon

[romantictensions]

[2000ish]

Her name was Terra.  She was gifted with tremendous power, and cursed with it as well.  She was a dangerous enemy, and a good friend.  And she was one of the bravest people that I have ever known.

[nestyanyan]

No biggie, just a young Affleck training to be Bruce Wayne. 

Chatting with Two-Face, flirting with Poison Ivy and all. 

[iilluussoorr]

Total Recall (1990, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

[lessboogey]

Junji Ito  //  Hayao Miyazaki

[leanderqueenie]

The world if your favourite band is the Beatles:

The world if you fucking hate the Beatles:

[sixpenceee]

Cuttlefish are master of disguise | source                          

[tiger-stripped-cat]

“A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.” -Bruce Lee

[chrisfarleychubrub]

“Still waters run deep.”

This doesn’t mean you are quiet

This doesn’t mean you are silent

This doesn’t mean you don’t speak

This means you stay cool and calm in the middle of adversity and the current of passion and emotion runs strong, true and deep. Deep deep rivers are calm and so are deep people.

[loganalexander94]

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

— (via amargedom)

[latinlingo-blog]

““There will be no free rides, no excuses. You already have two strikes against you: your name and your complexion. Because of those two strikes, there are some people in this world who will assume that you know less than you do. Math is the great equalizer… When you go for a job, the person giving you that job will not want to hear your problems; ergo, neither do I. You’re going to work harder here than you’ve ever worked anywhere else. And the only thing I ask from you is ganas. Desire.””

— Jaime Escalante, Stand and Deliver

[lifeinpoetry]

“to still be learning how deep the waters of desire can run to be unafraid of drowning”

— Andrew McMillan, from “local train,” published in Lambda Literary