The worlds ending anyway, you do you

[hylosylphide]

So, about the sexyman polls...

[cheaphalloweencostume]

but really, that was one of the many things i appreciated about LOTR on this last rewatch, its not some mythical monolith of Perfect Movies but damn does it feel good to watch and feel like im watching something from a director and writers who aren’t assuming their audience is dumb as shit by default

[margaretencinos]

you did it, you broke jud duplenticy down to his bare essentials

[mossworth]

Guys, queers. Specifically my fellow queers.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

This isn't a vague post, there's no one person I'm hinting at or calling out. I'm not even talking directly to anyone who's directly in my line of sight. I just want everyone to hear this. Big library, small library, whatever. Doesn't matter. Please, we cannot be losing our shelf visibility like this.

[alanfromrochester]

I work in a different library and can confirm, it's a decision based on popularity not censorship

we're big enough to have lots of shelf space but still have the problem on a different scale. We do have a back storage room rather than completely getting rid of some things, but having to ask for that might be a barrier for sensitive subject matter and prevent people from casually stumbling across something of interest

[paintedpigeon1]

Yep. Different library worker here, we weeded adult non-fiction recently bc it's most rarely used and we needed to clear a bookshelf of space, and there were a decent number of queer books on the list. Thankfully not all of them, but some (we had a lot lol). Our criteria is also no borrows in 3yrs. I can't borrow the whole list by myself. I do try to get these books in, and the local authority are happy to buy them, but we need space for new books every so often and we can't keep everything forever! If you want them, you have to use them!

(incidentally, the whole list was 35 pages long, which... please borrow the books you want people)

[qbdatabase]

I didn't have time to comment the first time I reblogged, but I can add now:

I'm also a librarian and queer books are almost always cut first when we have to weed for space or prioritize new releases over old items because no one reads them

I will say, when I worked at a large downtown location, we had a "browsing card" that we would check out items we found taken off the shelf and left on a table, as an example of a book that had clearly been read, just not checked out by anyone

it's possible queer books do actually get a bit of unfair treatment in this regard because people may be nervous or outright scared to check them out onto an account with their name on it. so they get browsed at a much higher rate, but if a library doesn't have a specific system in place (or need for it) to count browsed items, then it looks like they aren't being used and they get weeded

for other librarians, a browsing card is a great idea if you have enough staff for the extra work / enough items left out to justify it

for patrons, check out queer books even if you don't read them! you're not lying or committing any type of fraud. you're keeping books on the shelf long enough for pride season when people are interested in checking them out again and for people scared to use their own accounts or who don't have library cards

for anyone nervous about using their library card, libraries do not keep search histories of what you check out!! this means even if the government does come back with a warrant, *wet farting noise* too bad! it doesn't exist!

so please check out queer books!

[vtothefun]

I have to wonder how often they aren't checked out because those in an exploratory period may not feel safe enough for them to go home with them, too. Kids, for example, or folks who have ended up in a het marriage that... Doesn't feel like it's quite right (or may be physically abusive).

[mossworth]

This is most definitely one of the causes of this. That's why it's so important for folks who *can* to *do*.

It feels like such a small thing, but all movements are made up of small things! We have this mindset that in order to get everything done, everyone must be doing their (or *the*) absolute best at all times. But not everyone can do the same things, to the same degree, with the same amount of productivity or success. Not everyone can; sometimes, they're the ones that need help. Sometimes people just need help.

This post is very much so intended for the people who can. I've seen a lot of replies from folks who say they don't have to (or don't think about) checking out or requesting queer books from the library specifically because they *can* buy them, can pirate them, or already have them in their house or on their computers or phones. But in instances like that, keeping these books in circulation is less for you and more for the people who can't. The folks who come to the library, who don't have access to internet--or even electricity--at home and would never--have never--been able to interact with this "ubiquitous queer community" we have here online who has made so many of these. materials so avaliable to the rest of us.

And... if I can be a little frank. Sometimes the hyperaccessibility of these materials online (through pirating, cheap e-book copies, etc) gives people a false sense of security. It implies that these things are an infinate resource, good for "When I get around to it".

And often, you won't. There's so much to read and so much to do. So much to download and so much to sit down and stare at for hours. That kind of mental scope puts books in people's hands (or phones), but never in their heads.

But the moment your favorite document archival site gets knocked offline for breaching copyright or your go-to mega corporate audiobook distributor decides it doesn't want "those" materials anymore, what's left? What did you download? What information did you internalize? Did you ever get around to it? If you did, great, but what good does that do for the person who didn't? Are you going to be the one to redistribute that information? Are you going to communicate it in the place of the author whose words are no longer publically accesible or, mostly avaliable, but only behind hefty paywalls and financial gatekeeping? How would someone else get a hold of it? How could they, if they wanted?

[vtothefun]

This is excellent info.

What are some good books to check out for those who can?

[mossworth]

Gosh... there's so many options. I wouldn't know where to start without knowing who I'm talking to and what they're looking for. What I can recommend is for folks to check out creators like @makingqueerhistory who have spent just a ridiculously beautiful amount of time collecting queer history and book lists! You'll find something in seconds reading their page.

Personal pitch: I liked the books Tar Hollow Trans and Gay Poems for Red States. Both great.

[makingqueerhistory]

I'm glad I was tagged in this because it means I can cosign (and also add a little nugget of info).

I live in a province that is currently trying to ban queer books from libraries, and as a library patron, this is terrifying. 95% of the books I read are from the library and a lot of them are way out of my budget to buy personally.

Making Queer History would not exist without the school library I skipped class in to write articles. It would not exist without my friends with library cards for their universities sharing them and getting me access to rare texts. I would not be able to read as much as I do without Libby and Hoopla. If I have ever given you a book recommendation, know that I likely got it from the library first.

I cannot overstate the importance of protecting libraries and checking out queer books. And I want to say thank you to everyone above for being as passionate as I am about queer books in libraries.

Love y'all <3

[depsidase]

[moringmark]

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[dailycatsblog]

[elierlick]

THIS!

[drtanner-dickery]

Every time a cis person complains about being called cis, or a white person complains about being called white, or a neurotypical person complains about being called neurotypical, all I hear is “WAH WAH I’M NOT A VERTEBRATE I’M JUST NORMAL!1!”

[deadgirldreaming]

It’s because they want to be the default standard, and they want everyone else who isn’t the “default” to be viewed and treated as lesser than them.

If you make the playing field equal, what excuse can they hide behind when they do terrible things to people they consider lesser than themself?

They might have to actually acknowledge they’re bad people, and they don’t want to see themselves as they truly are or for other people to see them as they are.

They want to BELIEVE they’re good people without actually having to BE good people.

They want to be SEEN as good people without actually having to BE good people.

[brightlotusmoon]

I can’t find the original post but

They want to be oppressed so bad.

[naamahdarling]

“And besides, you silly queens, I’m not ‘cisgender’! I’m Olivia!!!”

😱 “My God, I think she’s right! She IS an Olivia!!!”

💢😡 “Your 👈 name may be ”“’Olivia”“’ 🤢

‼️but‼️

🔎 I know a 🔍

✨🌸BITCH🌸✨

when I 👁️ see 👁️ one!!!“🫵🫵🫵

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

This is my dog, her name is President Nixon and she didn’t like having a bath

Awwww poor baby forced to have a bath

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Okay so since I know I won’t be able to draw it just imagine the vision:

The Laughing cow in this dress in her colors

The Lactaid Cow in this outfit again in her colors:

In the she-ra pose:

Please tell me you guys see the vision

[queenofshippingcringe]

Please accept this extremely rough sketch in response :)

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

OMG WE GOT ONE ALREADY LETS GO!!!!!!

[ms-gay-sex]

the whole "lipstick on a pig" thing makes no sense because the second we gave a pig access to makeup she became god's cuntiest soldier

[ms-gay-sex]

you cant do this to me

[certified-muppet-posts]

certified muppets post

[ms-gay-sex]

DO NOT

[gigglesister]

lezzing out is such a good phrase its legit so fun. do you lez out. have you lezzed out. will you lez out. when will you lez out.

[jansjo]

when will we lez out

[coldbrewpup]

reblog to lez out with your mutuals

[quasi-normalcy]

Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.

[quasi-normalcy]

I want to stress that I don't want this to be played for comedy, at least not any more than Mulan is.

[quasi-normalcy]

People keep citing things that are comedies. Ask yourself why you think that this should be a comedy when Mulan wasn't.

[quasi-normalcy]

#comments on this post are insane#esp with mulan as reference point- a movie that’s abt someone who immediately performs the other gender well and is fulfilled doing so#idk imagine a better world or something the fiction in your brain doesn’t need to be so afraid of male cross dressing being seen a success#tumblr is fun website full of people obsessed with their own moral clarity who have never questioned anything once

[charlesoberonn]

"average Disney princess killed 127 people" factoid actually just statistical error, average Disney princess killed at most 1 person. Hua Mulan, who lives in China

[21st-century-minutiae]

The above is a reference to a common meme "Spider Georg" which makes fun of how averages are calculated, where extreme outliers can drastically alter the average for a population. If you have 1000 people who eat one apple a day, and one person how eats 100000 apples a day, the average apple consumption would be quite high, because of the single outlier.

"Disney Princesses" refers to female protagonists of classic Disney Movies of the twentieth century, as well as a few in the early twenty-first century. By birth or marriage, many of them are actual princesses or close enough to take on the same trope. It is a category of some specific cultural significance in the early twenty-first century, as the movies were very influential, and the group has been officially linked together for advertisement purposes by Disney. They are somewhat associated with a specific brand of inoffensive innocence, and not associated with killing, with the exception of the villain, who is usually killed by someone other than the princess. The above statistic is intentionally transgressive.

At the time of writing, there are 13 official "Disney Princesses," with eight additional characters that also arguably fit the role.

Fa Mulan, the protagonist of the movie Mulan, based loosely on the myth of Hua Mulan, notably serves as a soldier during a war. In a climactic scene, Mulan deliberately triggers an avalanche on an invading army, killing thousands of enemy soldiers. This would make her the "statistical outlier."

127 is not the real number averaged out. 127 is a common "oddly specific" large number in early twenty-first century culture. It is the correct order of magnitude, though, as Mulan killed around 2000 people, and most other Disney Princesses killed zero or one people. But the number does not need to be accurate for the purpose of the joke and the reference.

[boycritter]

maybe i like my tech a little bit inconvenient

[boycritter]

maybe i like pulling out my debit card instead of using apple pay. maybe i like untangling my wired headphones. maybe i like typing something into the search bar instead of using siri or whatever. maybe i like curating my own social media feeds over an algorithm. i just don’t think everything has to be perfectly streamlined and efficient i like it when things feel tethered to the real world.