sooooo calm about everything

she/her. grad student. usually making noise about themes

[ethanmaldridge]

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

[valtsv]

feeling pretty dissociative and alienated from personhood rn if any bad bitches want to exploit me as a living weapon

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

Last time I posted an attractive women doing some absolutely dope shit the lesbians claimed her and you know what? Fair... but this... this is for the bisexuals

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

she thinks she's drinks

[faithschaffer]

[nealashitposts]

I cant go to my local libary anymore because last year when I stopped by a librarian was reading a book I wrote under a pen name years ago. This book sold under 10k copies and I've literally only heard people talk about this book online *if* I went looking for it so I went up to them and tried to start a conversation like "oh hey I've heard of that book is it good?" Like hoping for some real feedback and she goes "yeah I love reading things by queer writers" and in a moment of terror I was like "oh but- hold on, I thought the author was some old hetero white guy?!" A thing I thought because I used my own dead grandpa's picture for the author pic because grandpa never had internet. I fake looked it up and was like "yeah if he was queer its not public?" And without looking up this absolute unit goes "oh the author bio is obviously fake. I'd bet my left leg the author is a west coast millennial non-binary queer who has never lived on the east coast." And then proceeded to rattle off a dozen linguistic flourishes that are specfic to the pacific northwest that are in the book and several that are nearly ubiquitous in the state where I said my pen name lives that are somehow completely absent from the book.

So you know. Got read for fifth and didn't even find out if she liked it.

[esoteric-merit]

OP, there's a very good chance they knew before talking to you that you were actually the author.

part 1: "is the book good? yeah, gotta read queer authors" *proceeds to rattle off things they could only know after a close reading of the book*

so . . . why did they pick up the book in the first place? did someone else tell them? Did they look up the author when cataloging the book? Sounds like they had suspicion or pre-knowlesge before touching the book

part 2: unless you're always leaning over to check the covers of what people are reading, how often are the books at a good tilt for you to catch the cover? I've done it before, and deliberately tilting a book so other people can read the cover is most times, a pretty unnatural stance to read in

part 3: making a point of reading a book just so the victim can come up and walk into a read like that is exactly the type of commitment to the bit, (plus the confidence that the victim will ask), that librarians have.

[stupiderat]

Ghodrey's brightest star

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Inspired by this outfit Shirahama has lovinly drawn for us, the sluttiest sleep wear I absolutely love it

[miraclemaya]

dress up is one of the most important pillars of gameplay that is often ignored by game developers to disasterous results

[nothingbizzare]

You have a good heart

[scribeherself]

I think one of the gentlest things in the world is when a friend just gets your weird little brain. like you say half a sentence and they finish it. you reference something incredibly niche from seven years ago and they’re already nodding. they understand your strange vocabulary for emotions that don’t have real words yet. it’s being seen and known and still loved. maybe especially because you’re known. god. what a gift.

[queerliblib]

it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library

[asteriart]

PERFORMANCE RELIABILITY: 60%

[katleyh]

I've been dying to embroider a manga panel for a while now. I was gonna start with One Piece, but Kamome Shirahama's art called to me haha. Some of her lines are too delicate for my thread, but I'm gonna try to get it as close as possible.

[afterthemovie]

hello everyone. my name is harrowhark nonagesimus welcome to my meal. i have never cooked before but god asked me to try because he wants us all to eat & exist in union <3 of course i will oblige him because i harrowhark nonagesimus am the most devout worshipper of the locked tomb and the king undying. first up on the menu is soup. i hate flavours so i didn’t put any salt or anything. but don’t worry i put something better :) haha you guessed it! i sectioned my tibia and put it in the soup :) yeah :) so i can explode people :)

[bodyintheriver]

#goodforher #harrowharkcandonowrong

[mayasaura]

I want to see Eva "nuked Antarctica" Stratt fight John "nuked Melbourne" Gaius. In one corner we have slowly deliberately killing the Earth to save humanity. In the other we have wiping out humanity in revenge for killing the Earth. Ultimate boss battle.

[trainwreckgenerator]

a face you'd find on the side of a milk carton

[tansytaseis]

how it feels to be playing Character with your friend