Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die.

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[kosmogrl]

[sukimas]

"you should be at the club" i should be in the woods. performing the ritual.

[podddcasttt]

Friendly reminder that if you talk about how representation is important and how there's not enough diverse media, I implore you to seek out the media that already exists. And if you live in an area with a public library, go to see if they're available at your public library. And then go check them out.

As a librarian, it is demoralizing to see how low the circulation statistics are on lgbt+ books and books by BIPOC authors. I include them in displays and readers advisory, but people still don't check them out as much. Libraries only have a finite amount of resources, including space. We don't get a book then keep it forever. If not enough people check it out, we have to get rid of it to make room for more books. And when James Patterson Book #69 gets checked out 30 times in one year and cool, subversive Sci fi novel with a Black trans woman main character has never been checked out once, the librarian (me) has to make a hard decision.

If you're looking for something tangible and easy to do this pride month, look for lgbt+ books (there are millions of lists online that you can find. It's easier than it's ever been to find diverse books) and check them out from your library.

No time to read? Look for a short story or poetry anthology and just read as much as you have time for. Or just check out a book cus it looks interesting and read as much as you can. We have movies too.

As cool as it would be for me to just keep the books I want and get rid of the ones I don't, I have to listen to the community on matters of collection development. And the community tells me what books they want by checking them out and leaving the ones they don't want on the shelf.

If you think this doesn't apply to you because you live in a progressive area and obviously the books are being checked out, you're wrong. I once worked in a community with a large lgbt population. Those books were not getting checked out. If you want to tell me you live in a conservative area and your library doesn't have any diverse books, you are legally obligated to check the catalog before replying to this post. I currently work in a conservative community and we have lgbt+ and bipoc books. And if you still cannot find any, you are legally obligated to see if your library has a collection request form that patrons can fill out before replying to this post.

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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[catchymemes]

[strongermonster]

perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night

[strongermonster]

this is what i mean

[degenderates]

Via @bulbaderp

[itistimetodisappear]

To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit

This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.

orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!

[bexsld]

SwanQueen and everything it could have been will haunt me until the day I die.

[scentedwonderlandpoetry]

A woman who has the confidence of a girlboss but the competence of a cringe failwoman

[parple]

@yamujiburo

[yamujiburo]

and that's why we love her

[mannyblacque]

Gif version

[capturingdisney]

First look at Pinocchio 2022.

[cafe-fotografia]

[lorsanbitch]

bruh if people want me to stop sympathizing with villains they need to stop making the villains the ones who want to change broken systems

[stromuprisahat]

#and stop making heroes fight to maintain the status quo ffs

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

an underrated detail in pride and prejudice is that elizabeth bennett was home alone on the day darcy proposed because she had a headache. can you imagine. this was in the pre-painkillers era. you're at home with a headache and then this asshole walks into the room and tells you he loves you and wants to marry you even though he hates your whole family and you're beneath him. imagine having to deal with that while also having a headache. she doesn't even have ibuprofen

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[water---damage]

Dr. Gachey with foxglove, 1890

[dovewithscales]

Some of Van Gogh’s best work was done during a period of his life that he spent in a hospital being treated for his mental health problems. I could be wrong but I think Starry Night was among those.

This is consistently the case. Creators tend to do their best work when they are in a healthy place and receiving proper treatment and not being self destructive in their efforts to cope. Go figure.

All our experiences, good and bad, inform what we create, but suffering is not the price of great art. Suffering is what prevents artists from completing great art.

[chewbacca]

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) dir. Wes Anderson

Rudeness is merely an expression of fear. People fear they won’t get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved, and they will open up like a flower.

[atlas-the-bastard]

I'm watching the grand Budapest hotel rn and it's actually so fucking funny like apart from just the general AWESOME feel to all Wes Anderson movies, the....idk how to describe it.....well, M. Gustave gives VERY chaotic bisexual vibes. I'm not even finished watching but some of my favourite moments:

"I thought I was a fucking f@ggot" "You are, but you're bisexual"

"I sleep with all my friends"

Just Gustave calling everyone darling

I mean that whole funeral/painting stealing bit was wild - inherits priceless painting, gets called gay, gets punched, gets called gay again, steals painting, vows to never part with painting, immediately decides to liquidate the painting and sell it on the black market, and runs away from the cops when accused of the murder of an old lady he was fucking (who was also the owner of the painting)

"Me and the boys have been talking, and we think you're a real straight guy" "I've never been accused of that before, but thankyou"

Zero's pencil moustache