What's going on here?

I have wrangled a job somehow, and have now been working on poetry.

[impossibleobservationkryptonite]

Not to go full fandom on main

but could someone do a haunted mansion x Emmrich style of artwork or like fanfic please? Perhaps Emmrich is the new owner of Haunted Mansion. Perhaps Joanna is the hatbox ghost, for example. Or Rook is Madame Leota, and Emmrich falls in love with her. idk just a thought I had

Also support your local library, we're currently getting so much funding cut please. I want to keep my job. (I get paid to read to children who go to school in the equivalent of a factory wasteland of a neighborhood instead of an actual neighborhood. They are surrounded by factories, I mean come on)

[memeuplift]

[bitchesgetriches]

The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There

[gardenspells]

just a friendly reminder that this blog hates ICE

[impossibleobservationkryptonite]

Please Remember

all you gotta do at the library is show up. That counts as using the library

[segamascott]

[littlewhitemouseagain]

Thinking about the homeschooling family who frequent my library and who pulled their teen son out of public school because they wouldn't accommodate his learning disabilities. For context I am in the American South, that mythical land where the education system is so bad that it's not anyone's personal fault that they never learn anything, because they're so helpless and stupid.

Anyway, they were doing basic math and reading and writing at home and had their standard curricula for that, but their project for a year and the reason I saw them every week for a year is that he was learning about 1 country each week. They would get three books, one about the country's history, one about her food, one about language (if possible) or travel (if not). They would read select chapters from all three (he rarely cover-to-covered them, especially if I didn't have books meant for young readers about a particular country, as our collection for such matters is often 'not great buddy') and make up a worksheet of basic facts and history at the end of the week, when the family would also cook something form the cookbook together to eat for dinner.

South of the USA. Public library with books that were not ideal. He didn't even read the whole book if it was too big. They didn't even go looking for the books themselves, they went to a local building with free services, asked a worker there to find them the books, and went home.

You can learn about the world around you! It can be fun and delicious! Your local librarian will not say a word if you want easy books and no one will ever know if you don't read the whole thing! If you have been waiting for a parent or teacher or pastor to tell you what to learn, REBEL! GO LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD AROUND YOU ON YOUR OWN!

[crane12jp]

@official-library-posts

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official library post

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as a public library stan, i felt compelled to draw this 📚

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official library post

[byjove]

British people hate paprika in particular for some reason. Have not changed their stance on that since Jonathan Harker. For some reason it’s the first thing they mention when talking about disgusting American food, presumably because it features in a lot of recipe videos. Perhaps the funniest example of this was when someone commented “WHAT WAS THAT DISGUSTING ARTIFICIAL LOOKING RED POWDER?” under a chicken recipe and everyone tore them to shreds. Anyway, I’m a smoked paprika fanatic and I genuinely think paprika haters are weaklings.

[ghostingpen]

physically go to your local library at least once. seriously.

look around. find a random book with a cover that catches your attention. read the description. read the first page. if you like the sounds of it, borrow it and take it home to read. borrow a handful of books even.

if a book loses your interest, drop it. if a book grips onto you, ride that wave.

i've struggled to read recreationally for years despite having read so much as a kid. a lot of us are frozen by the seemingly infinite choices. even when we buy books to take home, we don't read them because which book is worth reading first? we don't have to decide, we have it right here in our bookshelves, we have an eternity of never deciding.

in this past month, i have read five books, most of them i've never heard of when i spotted their cover at the library. most of them, i've ended up loving. the due date of library books maintains the ability to read a book so i can return them to the library and leave the library with more books. an even better incentive than borrowing ebooks, because i actually have to leave the house and not be a hermit.

so if you used to enjoy reading but struggle with it now, ignore the book recs you hear. go to the library, come across a book that piques your interest, and read one page after another until you either lose interest or finish the book.

then it's onto the next one.

[goth-queen]

[mia-down-under]

[thoughtfulfoxllama]

@official-library-posts

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official library post

[write-on-world]

[libraford]

Also very frustrating as a show producer in certain cultural arts when you are trying to advertise tge show and people feel like they're not allowed to come because theyre not from the culture.

Please come to the drag show even if youre cishet.

Please come to the bellydance showcase even if youre not Middle Eastern.

Please come to the Asian Festival if youre not Asian.

Please dance at the drum circle if youre not African.

If the event is being publicly advertised, you're invited. We want you to come if you intend to come respectfully. If you are asking 'am I allowed,' youre probably bot gonna be disrespectful. Please fill the seats. Cultural events have trouble with attendance sometimes because people who would be curious to go get shy about it. Please go to things that are curious to you. Your presence is not a burden.

I have yet to be kicked out of anything (unless you count the bathroom at a gas station that one time.)

[madtomedgar]

The idea that rural communities wouldn't benefit from public transit of some form is so fucking stupid. There was a guy in my hometown who would hitch hike 15 miles to the grocery store because he was blind that everyone knew and knew to offer rides to if they saw him. You know what else would have fixed this, been more efficient, and helped other disabled people, seniors, and people whose cars got repoed?

A fucking bus.

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[impossibleobservationkryptonite]

Hey y’all. Banks are too nosy. Why do you want to know if I have a credit card? Relax. You already have my money. Chill tf out.

Don’t answer questions you don’t need to answer. For example: stuff about credit cards.

I swear to Christ I’m about to join a credit union.

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