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@davidalleynes

i run an "opinions nobody asked for" blog | cole. 32. preferred pronouns are she/her. Butch Dyke. Bipolar. HOU. Librarian but I'm built different from that Mychal guy. | this blog is not for minors or miners. if you're under 18 or you own a pickaxe, i will block you. | don't call me soft butch

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dominacetrix

Saw someone on Reddit asking what the requirements are for going to the library. Not to get a card and check stuff out. Just to hang out there. I don't mean to make fun of the poster for not knowing. I blame capitalism and the reduction of third spaces for making the idea of being able to just exist in a free public space seem like a strange concept to people. Anyway. This inspired a meme.

stoneantler

Wait actually the weirdest repeat question I would get while working at the public library was "what's a good book for a man to read?" or "will a man enjoy reading this book?" It was always a woman asking me, the only man on staff, what I thought men would like to read. Which is hilarious because I am a precocious little nonbinary fag but also because when I started asking follow-up questions--what are his interests? what does he like to read? what are some other books he's enjoyed?--I would be met with outright hostility. These men do not have interests. The women simply need me to find a Man Book For Men. Could I please just hand over Manly Men's Book for Very Straight Men Who Have No Interests? Like c'mon now. Name one thing your husband likes. Please just one thing? No? Does he have a personality? Is he real? Can you bring him here? Surely we can straighten this out with just one conversation?

#Stuart Woods and Clive Cussler for normies #Pierce Brown and Brandon Sanderson for nerds #James Patterson is always a staple for these guys too

yr-bed

To read War and Peace or The Lord of the Rings plainly is not "work" - you do it for pleasure. And if it cannot be justified as "educational" or as "self-improvement," then, in the Puritan value system, it can only be self-indulgence or escapism. For pleasure is not a value, to the Puritan; on the contrary, it is a sin.

Equally, in the businessman's value system, if an act does not bring in an immediate, tangible profit, it has no justification at all. Thus the only person who has an excuse to read Tolstoy or Tolkien is the English teacher, because he gets paid for it. But our businessman might allow himself to read a best-seller now and then: not because it is a good book, but because it is a best-seller - it is a success, it has made money. To the strangely mystical mind of the money-changer, this justifies its existence; and by reading it he may participate, a little, in the power and manna of its success. If this is not magic, by the way, I don't know what is.

From "Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons?" (1974) by Ursula K. LeGuin

#she was so right #ukl was a prophet fuck that elron hummer or whatever the fuck his name was

geekynerfherder

'Sabriel', 'Lirael' and 'Abhorsen' by Tommy Arnold, cover art for the Daphne Press Deluxe editions of the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy books, written by Garth Nix.

12" x 17" Gallery-quality giclée prints on 100% cotton rag archival paper, in a signed and numbered TIMED release editions for $67 each, and as a 3 print set for $179.

16" x 12" Gallery-quality giclée prints on 100% cotton rag archival paper, in a signed and numbered TIMED release editions for $67 each, and as a 3 print set for $179.

24" x 18" Gallery-quality giclée prints on 100% cotton rag archival paper, in a signed and numbered TIMED release editions for $119 each, and as a 3 print set for $335.

On sale in a TIMED Release until Saturday April 12 at 12pm ET from Tommy's website.

verdiris

✨️"It had been such a stupid question, I had forgotten not to have an expression." A mood board.✨️

verdiris

Here to provide your regularly scheduled MB fanart 😌🤝😌

murdercore-powerfuneral-deactiv

We know that Facebook is brainscorching your parents and tiktok is brainscorching your cousins, but some of you refuse to admit that you got your brain scorched here. However unlike those sites there isn't an algorithm here you just make bad choices.

not to be a cunt but imagine watching the apple TV+ mb show and thinking it was worth watching twice

#Could not be me!!!

karawra

Manfred can talk now but at what cost

also who taught him this

orlesian-menace

There’s a whole exchange in one of my fics where my rook taught Manfred to swear. I love this so much 😂

thepaisleyelf

everyone having a very normal time over at Queen City Deli

thepaisleyelf

Queen City Deli bringing the heat into 2022 with a new sign

thepaisleyelf

It’s 2025 and we’re still so normal ♥️🪞

thepaisleyelf

Never kill yourself, new wet beef drop

justsomeguycore

kid told me today i’m “way too old to not have a girlfriend by now”. i’m like i know but hey

justsomeguycore

crucially this conversation ended with her saying “what if you never get a girlfriend but you get old and die and then the grave next to you is a girl and then your spirits make out in the cemetery” and i had to be like “ok let’s talk about something else” instead of “that would be sick as hell i would love to be a ghost making out in the cemetery”

#Me daily working with teens