My love for fictional characters will never die

[depsidase]

[fangirl-overload13]

Wealthy neighborhoods are too busy protesting children's hospitals, thrift stores, cell towers, and homeless shelters

[bowlby4]

[bowlby4]

[byjove]

Medieval scribes writing things like “fuck the abbot” (their boss) and “I am so hung over I feel dead” and “that goddamn cat got in here and pissed on the manuscript” and drawing penis monsters and purposefully unflattering portraits of public figures and animals in the marginalia is funny, yes. But more than that it is so deeply quintessentially human. It reminds you that they were largely just frustrated young adults who did an extremely repetitive and tedious job 6 days a week during daylight hours in poor conditions and felt the same malaise young adults feel now.

[zippythewondersquirrel]

[psychocoffeeaddict]

I love that these have survived the centuries !

[petermorwood]

NB those pointing fingers, drawing attention to a pee-stain and an Irritated Clerk Comment about what happened one night in about 1420:

“Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam. Confundatur pessimus cattus qui minxit super librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne permittantur libri aperti per noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.” "This is not an error, but the place where a cat peed from above one night. Confusion to that worst of cats who peed upon this book in the night at Deventer (city in the Netherlands) and because of him, all others likewise. And take care not to let books be open by night where cats are able to get at them."

We once had to bury a book in baking soda for about a week because of a similar incident. 600 years difference, and no difference; cats will do what they do... :->

[kisseism]

"omg you remembered!" of course i did. I have a file on you

[moreauver]

neil with his binder

[depsidase]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[oneheadtoanother]

[depsidase]

[schmergo]

Jane Eyre still captures what it’s like to be a weird angry little girl (which isn’t something you grow out of being, you just get better at hiding it) better than anything I’ve ever read

[facts-i-just-made-up]

[eastern-bloc-party-archive]

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[cookieboojar]

Spent an embarrassingly long time rereading the stargoth portion of the chapter

[hiveswap]

I clicked on a youtube video about someone called "teacherbae" because it was presenting itself as like, a drama thing, but i swear to fucking god this entire video is this white girl calling a completely innocent black teacher a pedophile for "dressing unprofessionally" AND NOTHING ELSE. Half an hour of policing a black woman's body, saying that her dressing in normal summer clothes is predatory towards kids. What are we doing anymore.

[hiveswap]

THIS IS A NORMAL WOMAN IN NORMAL CLOTHES! Not even gonna talk about the one where she's on her day off because who gives a fuck what people wear on their days off. Next you're gonna tell me teachers dont live at school

[hiveswap]

she even talks about how she "has to be careful not to police women's bodies" while DOING JUST THAT? The whole video even starts off with a racist podcast clip she cut in calling the teacher an "ebony godess (<- porn term!!!!) who knows what she's doing" she hearted a comment about it being racist but did nothing to remove it or put a disclaimer.

[sciammas]

[moon-meerkat]

never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

[fangtastic-bastard]

"Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all of these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them. Whatever can take a child beyond such circumstances, therefore, is an alleviation and a blessing."

I find this passage from the Mary Oliver essay "Staying Alive" very poignant and true.

[cetitanhasmoved]

[seabassapologist]

[stupidbeecandle]

This is a part if my daily use lexicon and in my whole household