just another girl that wants to save the world.

Hi, I'm Cleo, book lover & librarian from east of the Rhine. I ride a brave brown steel horse named  Solovey aand lend little TARDISes for a living (books are the best time and space travel machines there are!). I enjoy meeting all kinds of animals, talking about stories (books, films, shows, songs...) and wreaking havoc in my kitchen. I try to live by these words: "Be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Avatar by toerning @ DeviantArt

[tpwrtrmnky]

Like. Look. Listen. I have taught introductory quantum physics at a university level, and I need you all to incorporate this into your trans advocacy: There are situations where you need to make a decision to prioritize being comprehensible to your target audience above being The Most Unassailably Correct.

[diamonds-wood]

[catchymemes]

[animentality]

[dogpuppy]

Yeah no I get it

[kosmogrl]

[queer-as-in-fuck-12]

drug addicts deserve housing, food, water, and healthcare btw

[assignedmale]

[997]

this bitch is so iconic fr

[k-wame]

[depsidase]

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[creatingblackcharacters]

My next Black History Month request:

Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!

[malwareproductions]

hey. you have to love your trans brothers of color okay. and your trans sisters of color. and your nonbinary siblings of color. you have to okay. its simply non-optional

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's always "stop harming yourself or we'll have to lock you up!!!" and never "what do you need to change to want to harm yourself less and how can we help you make some of these changes?" and that's why we're not getting anywhere

[mondo-grosso]

[squeakitties]

art prompt: draw a creature/animal that fits the name Scrimpering Whimperlet

[roomwithavoid]

this thing

[law-the-lewd]

I love himb.

[law-the-lewd]

Another

[law-the-lewd]

...oh dear...

[astargatelover]

@creatures-in-posts

[creatures-in-posts]

[squeakitties]

i drew this also

[zooophagous]

I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I'm like. Wow. I get it.

I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They're happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I'd fight a wolf for these guys. I'd go way the Hell out of my way for them. I'd carry their young for miles on my own back.

[upward-bound]

nearly 80k reblogs and how many of you eat lamb

[zooophagous]

The ancient shepherds I'm referencing also ate lamb lol