The Thing with Feathers

Living this life, To what shall I compare it? It's a bird with iridescent wings Flying into the night.

[makemedopushupsindraag]

going to rest now love you silly people in my phone . terrified but we will get through this together

[jimmyhkim]

This. We've lived through this before. But, for now, everyone - rest.

Also, remember: Impeachment is not off the menu.

[bleuzombie]

[jimmyhkim]

I’m full on panicking. I am TOO OLD for this!!

[libraryjournal]

[signal-failure]

Person with housemates can study.

Person who has spent all their cash on rent and food still has a place to get out of the house and do something interesting.

Cool community classes and community art shows.

ESL tutoring.

Tax prep and forms.

[talixagain]

tbh fuck anyone who says a single bad thing about libraries

[diplotomodon]

Not content I normally reblog but libraries are super important and our world would be diminished without them.

[smallswingshoes]

The library was how I was able to read so many books as a kid that my parents wouldn’t have been able to afford.

[insomination]

Libraries are one of the only places on Earth that treats people the same no matter how much money you have. We can’t lose that.

[sewickedthread]

And nowadays many libraries also rent ebooks, movies, and some even have tools. Many libraries have computer basics classes (I knew someone who taught those to older adults and every class, she would sit on a keyboard at one point, just to remove some of the fear of ‘messing up’ from her students).

There’s a library near me that uses their old card catalog for a seed library (you don’t literally return the seed that you borrow, you collect seeds from your plant and return those).

Some have rooms available to non-profits for meetings. Does your philatelist club need a place to meet? What about your caps for preemies group?

Some sponsor lectures, on information like local history. There’s a couple near me that have ‘meet the artist’ days where an artist sets up shop to show how they do their art. A crocheter friend of mine takes hooks and yarn to show kids how to do a chain.

Remember: WE PAY TAXES to support them. Use them.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I was a poor kid. Did not have access to much. But my parents got me a library card early and I spent my whole childhood there. Every dino book, every science book, heck - even VHS tapes on dinosaurs and science. I devoured them.

Libraries are gateways. I would not be a scientist without them. And the better they are - the more we fund and support them - the more doorways open up for everyone.

Protect libraries. Fund libraries. Knowledge is power, and libraries make knowledge available to ALL.

[jimmyhkim]

I lived in inner NYC from late 70′s to early 2000′s. Our apartment building was pre-Eisenhower, so air conditioning was non existent. We didn’t even have window units back then. So, the only places that had A/C were public buildings.

Guess which buildings allowed kids to stay for hours? Free? Libraries, only. They are performing miracles every day. So, support your local libraries!

[peachysap]

WHAT

[jimmyhkim]

Yeah, this one slapped me hard when I moved from Boston to PNW. Tennis requires specific types of sneakers, and not the ones people usually wear for workout and/or round town.

[prokopetz]

Between the Arkenstone, the One Ring, and that cache of magic swords Bilbo uncovered during Thorin and company’s confrontation with the trolls that just happened to be the former property of the High King of the Noldor, Bilbo and Gandalf’s relationship is just a constant process of Bilbo showing up with some random artifact of world-changing significance and Gandalf sagely stroking his beard and making a pithy remark while internally screaming “WHERE DO YOU KEEP FINDING THESE THINGS”.

[honourablejester]

Alternately, this is why Gandalf always brings/sends hobbits on adventures. Because if you take a hobbit out of their nice safe holding-pen in the Shire, it will take them approximately ten minutes to stumble across whatever item of world-shaking importance is currently knocking around the vicinity. You take a hobbit out and set them loose and they will find ancient weapons of a godly age, ancient beings that pre-date the world, the one treasure in the middle of a hoard of treasure that you actually need, the single most deadly magic item in the world in the middle of a river, the same magic item in the middle of a cave centuries later, the local magic rock with a direct link to the current villain’s mind (which, in this case, was not necessarily a blessing, Pippin) …

If you put a hobbit down, basically, and there is an item of plot importance within a fifty mile radius, they will put their hand down and pick it up. Guaranteed. (Again, as with Pippin and the Palantir, this is not necessarily a good thing, but at least you’ll know where shit is)

The other reason he always brings/sends hobbits on adventures is that they will also kickstart world-shaking actions if left unattended for more than five minutes. See also: Merry and Pippin toppling Isengard the minute they were left alone near people they could trick into war-slash-mischief. See also: Bilbo giving Bard and Thranduil the Arkenstone in an attempt to negotiate because the dwarves left him unsupervised and somebody needed to at least try and keep the peace. See also: Pippin suborning a Gondorian guard into outright treason in the place of the dead to save Faramir and the Gondorian Stewardship from Denethor’s madness. See also: Frodo, Sam and Gollum royally mucking up Sauron’s everything while entirely alone and unsupervised under his very nose.

Like, it’s a gamble. Taking hobbits out into the wider world and letting them loose unsupervised is not an action for the risk-adverse or the faint of heart. But if you want results in a relatively short time-frame, by the Valar it’s effective.

[jimmyhkim]

Middle Earth’s most lethal agents: Hobbits

[persephinae]

i am legit crying here

[jimmyhkim]

Having hope is no small thing. Sometimes, it’s the bravest thing.

[veryfalsedocuments]

the new park by my house has some interesting features

[spamaohno]

real ones know why looking at this image immediately fills you with dread

[astraltrickster]

#okay whats funny is that in singapore there was a park with stones like this and it was person shaped so i jokingly#went in yknow and holy fucking shit i got stuck so bad i almost started crying n i was panicking but i didnt want to look#like a fucking idiot in a normally serene park so i just squiggled around until i eventually got lose and im never#doin that shit again#so imagine my fear when i found out there was a junjo ito comic with that exact premise. lmao. lmfao#i had a panic attack 💀💀💀

(Via @kunikyuzushi)

oh NO–

[jimmyhkim]

So, Junji Ito has branched out to ... actually I have no idea. But I ain’t going anywhere near that thing!

[gsirvitor]

[jimmyhkim]

This is just brilliant!

[butchstrahd]

Quite possibly THE funniest way to frame a former president being deemed a criminal in court

[jimmyhkim]

This is gold. Above the fold, in big bold letters.

[nitramaraho]

I figure in honor of the dearly departed Vine (RIP) I'd make some compilations (like the ones I did for Vine back in the day) of Tiktoks that fill that void in my soul.

Hopefully more to come and this is a Vol. 1 of sorts.

[jimmyhkim]

I’ve laughed way too long, or not enough, watching this!

[icedbatik]

x x

[jimmyhkim]

Honestly, we deserve at least an article in Psychiatry Today.

[turnpikeghosts]

goncharov

[jimmyhkim]

I’m just gonna say it. Goncharov is 2022′s version of Destiel/Putin Dying/2020 Election!

[mister13eyond]

Fans of Goncharov i am begging you to watch the Navidson Record next

[jimmyhkim]

I swear ... what does an NHL hockey player have to do with any of this?

[spn4x02-deactivated20230106]

What is going on today! Love it

[jimmyhkim]

I’m just gonna leave it here, so if anyone trips over it? It’s their fault.

[forever-let-it-burn]

[officialboredom]

This is how I found out

[jimmyhkim]

Yeah, I got nothing!

[tentacletenshi]

Idk what I was expecting from that video, but it wasn't that 🤣❤️

[drgrlfriend]

I feel like some poor marketing guy was like, "So, people associate vodka with Russian gangsters, so we want to try to counteract that association ..." And Daniel Craig and Taika Waititi just looked at each other and were like, "What if we just LEANED INTO that instead???"

[jimmyhkim]

This strongly reminds me of the music video that featured Christopher Walken doing a damn good soft shoe dance routine!

[rotmance-deactivated20210324]

i feel these needed to be compiled. feel free to add more genre related posts in the notes if you want

[drumandbassdoll-deactivated2023]

[powersnuffgirls]

[juxhex]

[asingularcanadian]

[karnalesbian]

[bromojumbo]

[carnival-phantasm]

[paranoidgemsbok]

[d-racu1a]

[paranoidgemsbok]

[sstrange-cloudss]

[5weekdays]

[vamp1rate]

[jimmyhkim]

I’m laughing