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[systlin]

If any of y’all didn’t know, there’s a free online library, aka

https://openlibrary.org/

and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.

[skaldish]

Guy there are books on magic on there.

[systlin]

There’s books on EVERYTHING there!

[eudevie]

Wouldn’t this be bad for authors though? or is this like a normal library where they get /some/ money?

[systlin]

It’s like a normal library. Libraries can upload ebooks there and let people check them out through openlibrary if you have an openlibrary account, or it can point you to nearby libraries that have physical copies of the book for you to go and check out. If you check out books via openlibrary it counts towards the count of books checked out from the library that uploaded the ebook, and they can use it in their reporting and funding and stuff.

There’s like 150 libraries partnered with openlibrary so far.

They also have copies that you can check out if you are print-disabled.

[systlin]

You can also ‘sponsor a book’, which means you pay the cost of the ebook you want openlibrary to acquire, and then they can add it to their collection and let people check it out.

[systlin]

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL26576A/Tamora_Pierce

I sure did!

And click on a title even if it says ‘no ebook available’ and scroll down, ‘cause sometimes that just means “all of the copies of ebooks are checked out right now but you can get on the waitlist when it’s back in”

[kayliemalinza]

This is part of the Internet Archive! I’ve posted about this before. Please go, it’s amazing. 

[deehellcat]

signal boosting because BOOKS

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Oh!

[anonbeadraws]

today's warm up: Oldest sister syndrome, I'm so sorry baby girl

[leavemebetosleep]

ngl I just wanted to draw angry expressions

[1chezpop]

Ripped Seams

[latinotiktok]

[moonsetsoda]

changeling

[toughtsalot]

yor x loid ♡

[sophdoodlee]

i love them so bad they are my parents in my head

[sillyscarecrow]

Windows to the soul

[dipch1t]

Loid and Yor based on that one dance pose

[ideksams]

i can't resist the cute trends ✨️

[o0kawaii0o]

pov: you try to threaten his wife and daughter

[noircartoons]

Patchwork system's pieces about DID for the neurodivergent perspective exposition:

"Self portrait of the artists"

42x18x22 cm

Featuring masks out of paper mache and PVA paint of every alter but the host and a small mirror at the center, the piece represents the body dysphoria an alter can feel within the body, unable to look at it's own face on the mirror.

"Were does you begin and I end?" by @xilogravura-punk (who posts his photographies at @no.nome_provisorio on instagram)

A photography made with a game of mirrors to represent the mindspace of a system and how messy it can be, not always being perfectly divided by every alter but sometimes alters co-hosting or blending or not realizing the other is there

"The red strings of this phone

That curl up around my finger...

Haven't I already started a poem like this?

Apologies, I'm afraid that the strings of my memory

Have been cut recently

Did we not share this phone?

Buying a new one never was an option,

Not when you are born with this

red plastic as our nerves

I just hear, "ring, ring..."

Hello? Who's speaking?"

"Hello? Who's speaking?" by @cupidsclown (@efemero.sq on insta). A poem about the frustration an alter can feel at someone from outside the system not realizing they are speaking to that alter, only referring to them by the host's or body's name instead

"The conductor.

Clock-in(entry register)

Her pannels are higher than her, covered in levers, buttons, and entries that I can not begin to comprehend. She does not realize the power she has, but even if she did, I believe her to be far too humble to not use it wisely.

Clock-out(leaving register)

The ticking of her clock echoes through my ear when I sit near her and watch the manner her hands dance through her pannel, inserting and removing cards with our names, deciding who will be the next puppeteer on our rented body.

Clock-in(enter register)

Her movements are rigid, although certain. She lives and breathes her role, taking it with pride. She moves through the systems of our brains effortlessly, the wires are her veins, the oil is her blood.

Clock-out(leaving register)

Simple as that. What is a rare condition to many, becomes another day of work she takes without being asked to. Her shift begins when we open our eyes, and ends when we close them. A thankless job she finds herself to be proud of, and I find myself on my seat with my train ticket on hand."

"The conductor" by @abstract-mind (@ofeliaqueiroz.poemas on insta). An observational poem about our system's gatekeeper, The conductor, who chooses which alter gets to host and when they stop hosting.

[alabasterpickles]

Y’all ready for some REAL oc stuff?? Excellent cause I’ve got plenty

For the last couple weeks of the school term I’ve been pumping out exploratory sketches of the cast of my ya novel to get a better handle on how I’d like them to look

Have some drawings of Lilith at various stages of her life with all the people she knows and has known in the six thousand years she’s been alive!

(There’ll be a companion post with some stuff I couldn’t fit here)

[dodovoxo]

I love Sekhmet

[capricorntheplatypus]

I was rushing to finish this, so if you spot any mistakes - no you didn’t. Unfortunately i can't go any further here on tumblr... but i actually gone wild on my BSKY. This is an continuation with an EXPLICIT content, so be aware and have fun Bunnyteeth nation!

[bearloonz]

Something about bees

[sunny-knight]

This