a Crossroad

I am June. I work as a librarian, I love science fiction and fantasy books. I have 2 cats (Loki & Atlas) and 2 chinchillas (Hugo & Milo). I'm a Holmesian, I am faceblind. I'm a proud Hufflepuffer. I'm a ginger and tend to be an INFP!

[doctorwho]

Incoming transmission… #MessageFromTheDoctor

[awesomesockes]

does whatever a spider can

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[trytogethappy]

the humanity of the AIDS crisis: the ward by gideon mendel

colorized by me

[tigerleggies-deactivated2019121]

Never forget 🏳️‍🌈😔

[toddreu-deactivated20191220]

OP you did a beautiful job colourising these shots

[artsymeeshee]

don’t really like how this turned out but eh ┐(´∀｀)┌

[daphneblakess]

cats (2019, dir. tom hooper)

[flikkerij]

its WEIRD its UNIQUE its GAY its BDSM its EUROVISION

[librarianproblems]

AFTER A FULL DAY OF VISITING CLASSES TO PROMOTE SUMMER READING

[raksulovesdogs]

💛 💚 💛

[charlesoberonn]

Norwegian prisons are nicer than my apartment.

[postmaritalsex-deactivated20210]

holy shit dude

[firebirdscratches]

I was really shocked by this and dubious, so I decided to read further. There’s a great article about this here: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35813470 As it turns out, this is more like a halfway house. Prisoners usually begin their term in a prison more like one we’d typically recognize - bars on the windows, locked in their cells. But the emphasis there is on successful reintegration into society.  As their sentence progresses, with good behavior, they can move into a facility more like this, where their freedoms are still restricted, but they can do things like network with people outside of prison, search for employment, cook and clean and look after themselves, and begin making plans for their reintegration into society.  As a result, Norway has one of the lowest rates of recidisvism. 20% as opposed to America’s 76%.  It seems like a shocking idea to us because of where and how we live, but apparently, Norwegians are addressing the real problem. When you take people who can’t function well in society, and then…help them do that?…they….do. Without the crime-ing. 

[daxlo-ren]

Turns out treating people like human beings makes them more likely to act like human beings….

[liquidsodanium]

But won’t that incentivize some people to go back there since they get treated so well and get a nice room versus the streets?

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

If you read the post above, it says Norway’s recidivism rate - that is, the rate of released criminals who go on to be arrested again - is 20% versus 76% in the United States, so for the most part, no.

[theyoungestwhateleydaughter-dea]

Isn’t that white-lined black cross on a red field flag a Nazi flag? Are we going to talk about how wonderful it is a Nazi gets a nice halfway house?

[charlesoberonn]

[midnight-defender-deactivated20]

[butch-king-frankenstein]

My favorite thing about Thomas the Tank Engine is that it canonically takes place in a train post-apocalypse where the Island of Sodor is the only safe zone in a totalitarian dystopia in which steam trains are routinely killed and their body parts are sold or cannibalized for repair

If you think I’m kidding you need to read the original books

could you please direct me to a source? i would feel much better if this was validated.

[butch-king-frankenstein]

It took me so long to find this quote online but I did it because it’s so much darker than one might expect from Thomas the Tank Engine:

“…Engines on the Other Railway aren’t safe now. Their controllers are cruel. They don’t like engines any more. They put them on cold damp sidings, and then,” Percy nearly sobbed, “they…they c-c-cut them up.” -”The Bluebells of England.”  Stepney the Bluebell Engine.  Rev. Awdry, Wilbert.  London: Egmont Publishing, 1963.

This illustration, by Gunvor and Peter Edwards, accompanied the above text in the original book, and depicts a pair of unfortunate Other Railway engines moments before being disassembled with a blowtorch.

[nightjarring]

HOLY FUCK LOOK AT THE ONE IN THE BACKGROUND THEY TOOK ITS FUCKING FACE OMG

[butch-king-frankenstein]

[zidane-xv]

the early thomas the tank engine books are pretty standard stuff. saccharine bubblegum type stories and illustrations. if you watched the show, it’s like that in book form. the second half of the railway series are so fucking dark and surreal i’m convinced they were a result of reverend wilbur awdry doing copious amounts of lsd and having hallucinations of his own death.

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Excuse me but the very first story in the Railway Series is about an engine who hides in a tunnel and refuses to run because he doesn’t want to get his paint job ruined in the rain, so railway management seals off the tunnel.

They eventually let him out because another engine breaks down or something, but the original plan was to just leave him in there forever.

[shulamithbond]

On the show, didn’t they also hook up one engine to a generator, so he’d never move again? That was literally one of the lines, I think. It’s on some other post on here. It was chilling.

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Yes!  This also happened in the books, to an engine referred to only as “No. 2″, but the television series applied the same scenario to an invented character named “Smudger”, in the episode “Granpuff”.

“Smudger,” said Duke. “Was a show-off. He rode roughly and often came off the rails. I warned him to be careful, but he took no notice.” “Listen, Dukie” he snared. “Who worries about a few spills?” “We do here! I said, but Smudger just laughed.” “Hahaha!” “Until one day, Manager said he was going to make him useful at last. Smudger stopped laughing then!” “W-w-why? What did he do?!” “He turned him into a generator. He’s still there behind our shed. He’ll never move again.”

[deducecanoe-deactivated20161213]

This is so fucked up

No, listen.

Okay, so we see Railway Management doing all this shit, right, but supposedly it’s so much worse in the Other Railways? I mean, sure, you might get turned into a generator or bricked into a tunnel for not doing as you’re told, but at least you’re not cut up and sold for parts, right? It’s not so bad on the island of Sodor, right?

Or maybe that’s just what Railway Management wants the engines to think.

Maybe the island of Sodor is the real totalitarian regime, and the engine citizens (slaves) are fed propaganda, illustrated in hellish grays and sulfuric yellows, about how bad it is everywhere else, at all the Other Railways.

You are lucky to be an engine of Sodor.

Railway Management cares about you.

Trust Railway Management.

Stay on Your Track.

It Could Be So Much Worse.

[noobtheloser]

:)  More Behind the GIFs. 

[randomslasher]

This…I actually…really needed this. Like.For real legit thank you.

[darkbookworm13-deactivated20240]

me too

[blackness-by-your-side]

The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

[cuntybearjamboree]

FARENHEIT 451 IS ON THE BANNED BOOKS LIST??? IT’S LITERALLY ABOUT THE SOCIETAL DANGERS OF BANNING/OUTLAWING/BURNING BOOKS ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[dancing-coyote]

That’s the reason it’s on the bloody list.

BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT HOW BANNING AND BURNING BOOKS IS WRONG.

[homiedepot]

The Great Gatsby: “rich people can get away with a lot of shit”

America: “hmmmm 🤔 can’t let people know that”

[dramaticnipples]

Invisible Man is fucking amazing as well!

[peachesandpunk]

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE NEEDS TO BE READ BY EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES

[goldentrio]

Beloved too? Damn

[just-getting-bi-in-life]

Its insane that any of these should be banned but can we talk about how Where The Wild Things Are is also on there?!?! Its a childrens book???

[leftlines]

Leelah Alcorn’s blog was deleted and posts about her are being removed. Don’t stop spreading this. Reblog everything you can, post everything you can. 

These are her pictures

here are some of her drawings

this is her note

Don’t let this die.

Not this.

[greywardang]

I don’t give a flying fart what type of blog you have, this is relevant for everyone.

[saa-aham]

This is absolutely something everyone needs to read

[blog-ahuva-herut]

REBLOGGING.

[pepperstrawberry]

This is important, but wasn’t there also one with some trans women/girls of color too? I need to reblog both now and then as a reminder

I also want to add that I am so thankful for my family and friends irl as well as here. It is so so important how others treat you and it can effect so much of your outlook. In the end it should only matter what is in your heart, but when what is inside is being told its wrong or evil from the outside, that devastates.

Like Leelah said, parents don’t do this to your kids.

[pepperstrawberry]

(Reblog for my added commentary, since my original felt dismissive in a way, and I -really- dont want that to be the takeaway as athat is not how I feel. The color comment is only in the tendency of many to forget the plight of those of color while memorializing white folk, when we need to lift them all up and remember.)

[e-mira-ld-blog]

I almost fudging cried

[rialxoan]

[maderadearquitecto]

Thermochromic table by Jay Watson

[babyseraphim]

imagine banging someone on that table

[captain-snark]

imagine being home alone and seeing imprints on that table

[morbidamusement]

noooooo stop

[sevey6]

Imagine having a friend sit at that table for a long while, but when they get up there’s no imprints at all.

[phoenixfire-thewizardgoddess]

What if you got up after trying to console a crying friend, and found that you had no imprints… and they were crying because they missed you?

[gammywank]

[felposgreen]

[galmiahthepigeon]

*Kicks down door and breaks into your house* BE AWARE OF ASEXUALITY BITCH!!!!!!

On this week, one year ago, I came out for the first time, to my best friend. Her good reaction encouraged me to be progressively more open about it ever since. Today I’m able to confidently say it: I’m ace, I’m proud, and the world can die mad about it. Happy asexual awareness week you beautiful people! Love, support and respect your ace-spec friends and relatives!!

(Click the images for better quality. This comic and this story really mean a lot to me and I’d be forever grateful if you could reblog it! Thanks!)

[honeymushroom]

The Sivas Kumru Güvercin or Sivas Dove Pigeon is a very small pigeon breed originated from the Sivas Province of Turkey. It belongs to the class of pigeons called voice pigeons, bred to sing or “trumpet.” Its main characteristic is its distinctive high pitch singing, which is unlike any other known breed. 

[teratocybernetics]

holy shit, it sounds like a very concerned squeak toy

[thehmn]

I haven’t posted a lot of art lately because I’ve been busy with “airport school”. Our first teacher called in sick after the first day, then Blue Shirt took over, and eventually he had to get Green Jumper for assistance. This scene literally happened last Friday. I swear we’re not trying to be difficult. We just don’t know the correct questions to ask yet.

The answer to the Mr or Ms question is “what it says on the passport” btw.

Also, Blue Shirt’s word for effeminate gay man is “cute” which I’m not over yet. “He has a chihuahua because he is cute”