The Lonely Mountain

29, Librarian, enby

[shilyas]

02.13.2001 🎉 Happy Birthday, Hudson Williams!

[scarliefrancis]

#merry crisis — Die Hard (1988) dir. John McTiernan

[rylandsgrace]

#Merry crisis

[mentally-retired]

neil newborn this neil newborn that, WHAT ABOUT THEO SOLOMON???

HELLO SAILOR

[landsccape]

[kosmogrl]

ur seriously advocating death Lol

AND I WILL DO IT AGAIN! Lol

[kosmogrl]

i’m so sorry I don’t feel bad for a man that spent his whole life promoting hate against those that have done nothing wrong and has said that “gun deaths are unfortunately worth it to keep the 2nd amendment”

now get fucking lost

[oleander-teacup]

and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay, I'll rebark that!

[magicratfingers]

[nerdygaymormon]

[chiefwinnernacho]

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the best/worst things to occur in my lifetime. Absolutely devastating but also an example of the incredible good people can do when they work together. Let this be an example of what happens when governments turn their backs on their people. And an example of what people can do to help in spite of that. A quick timeline gleaned from Wikipedia and other sites (I am just a layperson).

I was born in 1981, the year multiple agencies reported unusual clusters of symptoms in various groups of people. The AIDS epidemic officially begins June 5, 1981. Research over the next five years leads to the identification and naming of the HIV virus in 1986. AZT is put to use as the first antiretroviral drug treatment in 1987. Combination treatments of these drugs emerge over the following years.

In 1996, highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) is introduced, using protease inhibitors and becomes the standard of care.

The combo drug Truvada is approved as a treatment in 2004 and then by 2012 is approved as prophylactic/preventative treatment (PrEP).

THIS IS OUR TIMELINE!! By the time I turned 31, we had effective drugs that allowed HIV positive people to have such undetectable viral loads there was very little chance of passing it on to a sexual partner. 30 fucking years. Look what people can do.

The epidemic was devastating in so many ways. Millions died all over the world. The situation on the African continent was unbelievable. Lack of treatment, huge stigma, etc. And yet science peristed.

During this Pride month, please remember how far we have come. I am an Old Millenial cis straight lady living on the west coast of the US. I had fairly decent sex Ed in the 90s but HIV was always a spectre. I think of my Gen X coworkers and Boomer family and friends who saw people die from this. The lack of resources and compassion was heartbreaking. LGBT+ folks have always existed and always will. So many beautiful souls gone far too soon from this disease. Humans are awful and wonderful. There will always be helpers and scientists and activists because we would never have made it this far without each other. Keep on keeping on ❤️

[allsortsoffuckedup]

Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

[theesteppenwolf]

Wyll “The Arrow of The Frontiers” Ravengard

Basically I mod him into robin hood. Also gave him the unique design the man deserves!💛

[venusislesbian]

Already seeing people on tiktok saying “I still hate trump but he ate with this one” like … babes … you just got propagandized … that’s literally exactly what he created this situation in the hopes you would say …

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Quotes marguaxpoetry on Instagram / Sarah Kay}

[smallnico]

no, spotify, i don't want to use ai to "turn my ideas into playlists". i already fucking do that with my brain and hands and i do it for fun. what, should i get ai to pet my cat for me? to play my silly games for me? to spend time with my beautiful wife for me? how about i rend you asunder

[everythingfox]

[hamletthedane]

“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”

[slotted-spoon]

Best go vote add I’ve seen, maybe ever

[hamletthedane]

I remember posting this back in 2020, not even intending the message to be “go vote”. The last photo was chosen among many others simply because it was a nice visual conclusion to the preceding chaos. The post was made many months before the election, and I had intended more to speak to the overall terrifying political climate of 2020 and all the small things we were doing to fight back and make changes that year.

But upon posting this, I received over 400 asks (I stopped counting) from different people demanding that I take the post down, telling me how dare I suggest that people vote in this political climate, and even several dozen anonymous asks threatening to attack/kill me for “spreading nationalistic propaganda”

It’s hard to remember, but that was the general sentiment around the election online in 2020: Rampant disinformation. Large-scale campaigns dissuading people from voting. Hundreds of negative comments on any post that even MENTIONED voting. You couldn’t get away.

But this election? It’s night and day. While I’m sure there’s still some people whining in a sad dark corner somewhere that moral purity is dead and they’re the last chosen saints of leftism, etc etc, the vast, VAST majority of people have zero tolerance for that bullshit this time around.

We are voting. We are talking to our friends and family about voting. We are reading the actual news and trying to cut through BS online quick-takes. We are getting people to the polls and donating to Harris and standing in line with others waiting to vote.

I’ve voted in every primary and election since I turned 18, but I have never seen young people voting on this level before. It’s truly mind-boggling just how much the younger voting block has mobilized in this election. This is the kind of thing that can change a nation if we let it.

Honestly, regardless of how the election turns out tomorrow, everybody should be so proud of what we tried to accomplish here. Keep up the good fight.

[everythingfox]

He needs a napkin

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

The hard cut to the berry massacre is just killing me

[todaysbird]

this man is iconic. his one skill is needing an enclosure for berry eating due to his fervor

[sniperct]

"I live in a red state my vote doesn't ma-"

If your vote didn't matter they wouldn't try so hard to make it harder to vote in red states. Voting in red states can turn them into swing states like Georgia, Ohio, and Arizona. And voting in blue states can keep them from becoming swing states.

California used to be Red. Texas was Blue long ago. Florida was once a swing state. Obama took Indiana but it's gone redder since. Ten years ago Arizona and Georgia going blue was unthinkable.

Things change and we can make them change.

And that's before getting into more local elections. Turning cities blue, the state legislature.

Red states have flipped blue in recent years at those levels too.

Because people vote, and if we vote in high enough numbers we can turn a tight election into a walk in the park. If we vote in high enough numbers, we can turn a loss into a win. So many good things have happened in states where someone won by like 100 votes. (arizona is one)