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@snugbugbooknook
me, begging, tears in my eyes: please. please just tell me what the book is about. the plot. please
a book annotation on the cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep And Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself
Good Zodiacs - descriptions
Aries ♈ Gabriel: 🔥eager, dynamic, quick, competitive - Once set a goal, an Aries will achieve it. They can take on a seemingly limitless range of qualities but sometimes have a hard time listening to alternative viewpoints.
Taurus ♉ Anathema: 🌱strong, dependable, sensual, creative - Their willpower is their driving force. Persistent, determined and hardworking, a Taurus is willing to tackle any challenge. Yet, they need to learn to consider viewpoints outside their close range, too.
Gemini ♊ Michael: 💨versatile, curious, expressive, kind (they /are/ an angel) - Equipped with a high level of emotional intelligence, a Gemini can read any room easily and knows exactly what others want to hear from them. They can shift their personality according to mood, being energetic and passionate but can sometimes come off as two-faced.
Cancer ♋ Madame Tracy: 💦intuitive, sentimental, compassionate, protective - Easily able to get to the heart of an issue, a Cancer doesn’t need to know all the facts to figure out the right course of action. However, they sometimes expect others to just know what they are thinking - a source for pent-up frustration.
Leo ♌ Adam: 🔥dramatic, outgoing, fiery, self-assured - Born a natural leader, a Leo manages to bring out the best in others. They carry their great responsibility well but often need to learn to quiet down.
Virgo ♍ Newt: 🌱practical, loyal, logical, analytical - Known perfectionists, Virgos are obsessed with making things the very best they can be. They always look for the „Why“. Their perfectionism, however, is a never-ending source for frustration.
Libra ♎ Crowley: 💨social, fair-minded, diplomatic, gracious - Very imaginative, Libra has learnt to use their creativity to solve any issue. Compromise is key for them to keep every side happy. Yet, they often do not focus on their own happiness enough, too busy keeping everyone else’s spirits up.
Scorpio ♏ Pepper: 💦passionate, stubborn, resourceful, brave - Blessed with a deep sense of self, Scorpio is always able to express what’s on their mind - even if others don’t want to hear it. They are forthright and honest but still need to learn how to express their own emotions!
Sagittarius ♐ The International Express Man: 🔥extroverted, optimistic, funny, generous - Able to easily conceptualize ideas, Sagittarius doesn’t need a „roadmap“. Their strong sense of self adds to it, making them always feel sure-footed. Yet, in order to not veer from their values, they tend to put their own needs above others.
Capricorn ♑ Beelzebub: 🌱serious, independent, disciplined, tenacious - Detail-oriented and hardworking, Capricorn can achieve anything they want to and they would never dream of taking no as an answer. However, they can be incredibly hard on themselves - and other people.
Aquarius ♒ Aziraphale: 💨deep, imaginative, original, uncompromising - Equipped with energy, warmth and a deep desire to get things done, Aquarius often follows their deep passions. They believe in the innate goodness of people. And yet, they tend to seem like they do not care about their individual relationships, and sometimes seem to hold something else at higher value.
Pisces ♓ Agnes Nutter: 💦affectionate, empathetic, wise, artistic - Great gut and intuition often guides Pisces to intellectual or creative leaps other people wouldn’t be able to see or consider. They are deeply imaginative which can sometimes lead to overthinking. While they are great at lending an ear, speaking about their own problems often poses a challenge.
Don’t worry… we passed the sign on our way out
Everyone: we want more LGBT+ characters in our stories !
Rick Riordan: okay here have a gay Italian sad boy
Everyone: I mean, it’s all right but-…
Rick Riordan: I understand. Want a bisexual main character, who happens to be a god?
Everyone: oh that’s actually nice…but! How about girls-
Rick Riordan: you’re totally right. Here have a pair of lesbian hunters
Everyone: …um this is actually pretty nice…how about-
Rick Riordan: a pansexual main character?
Everyone: yea-
Rick Riordan: with a gender fluid love interest? Say no more! Anything else?
Everyone:
I don’t know… why not an aro/ace character maybe ?
The Hunters of Artemis
This is why Rick Riordan is so important
He is like little baby
reblog for riordan. love this guy! also, when he got the Stonewall Award for the Magnus Chase series? his response:
“…it’s a call to do better in my own writing. As one of my genderqueer readers told me recently, “Hey, thanks for Alex. You didn’t do a terrible job!” I thought: Yes! Not doing a terrible job was my goal!”
love it.
I can not explain how much I love rick roairdane.
Rick Riordan is also using his money and fame to lift marginalized authors. He started a whole imprint called Rick Riordan Presents. The books published there have mythology and folklore from all over the world, and they’re written by authors who actually belong to those cultures. The first three books announced have stories based in Korean, Mayan, and Indian cultures, written by Yoon Ha Lee, Jennifer Cervantes, and Roshani Chokshi respectively.
Rick Riordan is pretty fucking cool. Ive never seen a YA put as much care and effort into growing as a writer, specifically with a focus on increasing diversity, as him.
The fact that he’s a UT alum from San Antonio who taught middle school English just warms my heart.
@theweirdautumn
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Can we figure out a way to do this to student loan debt.
I would read Ayn Rand to pay down my student loans
Our library ran the expenses and realized we spent about 3,000$ MORE than what we got back in trying to collect late fees. So? We dropped them completely. No late fees. Period.
If you keep a book, it auto renews two times. Then it comes up as overdue. If your overdue items exceed a certain amount, your account freezes. You can’t use any of the local libraries anymore until you return the items or claim them lost and pay for them. If someone else is waiting for the book, you can’t renew. Its that simple.
And guess what. Not only did we save money, but we /got more materials back/. More materials were turned in than declared lost as compared to before. There was no stigma to it. If you had already paid for the item, the money was credited back to you.
Because the people late fees actually affected were children and elderly adults - people unable to regularly get to the library. And the stigma of late items was dropped. Attitude and mindset are important.
we still have no late fees. And we are considered to be one of the top public systems in our state. People from out of state PAY to get library cards for a year because our online Overdrive system is amazing, and we have a ton of partnerships and interlibrary loan systems in place. AND we suffer less losses of both materials and patrons due to our “no late fee” policy.
Serve your public. Don’t belittle them.
I saw this and thought of @fleamontpotter.
me after a shower
@elodieunderglass Swans. Being horrible.
This is from the palaeo-art/speculative art book All Yesterdays.
Among other things, it is a gently obstinate call-out of the “shrink-wrapping” trend of palaeo-art (in which all animals are presented as if their flesh was shrink-wrapped over their jutting bones, rather than having normal things like chubby fat deposits or feathers or fluff) and the “killer claw” trend of writing about these beasts, in which the writer must make the creature out to be a VIOLENT destroyer of COMPETITORS in the BRUTAL MARKETPLACE world with its SHARP TALONS and LITHE BODY, as if one is writing fanfiction about an action figure that goes to the gym a lot, rather than describing the natural history of a living animal.
Effective and funny.
@theleeryone
friends, lemme share this little gem with you
FIRST! The inner flap:
oh dear indeed…
some people crayons are jerks.
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i just have a lot of feelings about this book and think everyone should own it
i lovethis so much
trans… trans crayon?
Reblog if you’re a trans crayon, love trans crayons, or you thought this book was friggin adorable
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Hey sex workers!
I want to make a master post of your favourite sex worker books, from trashy memoir to labour theory! Please add on and I’ll keep editing this post to include additions.
_______________ Indecent (except for the epilogue) Flesh for Fantasy-ed Kate Frank, Merri Lisa Johnson, R Danielle Egan Making Work, Making Trouble -Deborah R Brock Playing the Whore -Melissa Gira Grant G-Strings and Sympathy - Kate Frank In My Skin - Kate Holden How to Make Love Like a Porn Star - Jenna Jameson Concertina - Susan Winemaker Call Me Sasha - Geena Leigh
Callgirl by Jeanette Angell
Prostitutes: Our Life ed by Claude Jaget
Back issues of $pread Magazine (a collection is upcoming! TAS will be interviewing Eliyanna Kaiser, one of the founding editors)
All four volumes of Prose and Lore The Encyclopedia of Sex Work and Prostitution (now scanned online for free) The Pleasure’s All Mine by Joan Kelly (v. weird pro sub memoir, not much on s work as labor but extremely compelling) Honey, Honey, Miss Thang ed by Leon Pettiway ( Pettiway collects oral histories of black drug using trans women street workers in his city) The Feminist Porn Book Working by Dolores French (overlooked but essential!!! Memoir abt sex working her way across the world by early sex workers’ rights activist) Tricks and Treats ed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Working Sex ed by Annie Oakley The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs Mcneil Workin It ed by Leon Pettiway (Pettiway collects oral histories by cis women drug using street workers/informal sex workers in his city) Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R Delany (scope is wider than just swork, but this is an important read) Live Sex Acts by Wendy Chapkis The Sexual Outlaw by John Rechy (plus City of Night) Sex At The Margins by Laura Agustin I’ve Got To Make My Livin’: Black Women’s Sex Work In Turn Of The Century Chicago Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brian
“Whore Carnival” ed Shannon Bell (is a bunch of interviews and art of mostly Canadian sex workers in the early nineties. It’s cheesy and weird and delightful, and oh so very nineties.
I just started “God’s Callgirl” by Carla Van Raay today, but so far so good.
Must add Erika Langley’s _The Lusty Lady_;
Norma Jean Almodovar’s _Cop to Call Girl_;
Annie Sprinkle’s _Post-Porn Modernist_.
wornsmooth: Probably my favorite is Danielle Willis’s writing (a lot of it is here:http://www.languageisavirus.com/danielle_willis/ also check the #danielle willistag)
The butch perspective on their femme sex worker partners in both Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues and Lynn Breedlove’s Godspeed (spoilers: it’s not particularly nuanced in either case, even though the books are set 30 years apart).
Also Luke Davies’ Candy for the economics/tensions of a drug using couple where the woman brings home the majority of the money because she’s a sex worker.
Heather Lewis’s Notice, because I want everyone to love her work (though House Rules is probably the more readable book). Caty Simon’s essay is required co-reading
I’m currently reading (i.e. I started reading them at some point in the past and haven’t given up on them yet):
David Henry Sterry’s Chicken — not that you always need to get a man’s point of view, but so many of the arguments about sex work are so gendered, it’s interesting to see how it plays out with the genders reversed
Colette’s La Vagabonde — because, historical
I’m still working my way through Captive Genders (ed. by Nat Smith and Eric A Stanley). I mostly bought it for the piece on pre-Stonewall activism in the SF Tenderloin.
marginalite: Oh, yeah, I was going to put _Notice_ and _Captive Genders_ in there, but I feel like I’ve talked about them too much lately as is. And _Chicken_ is one of the worst/best memoirs ever. Also, I’ve wanted to read both the Collette and _Candy_ forever—gotta start working harder on getting a copy of the latter, the film is one of my favorite bad 90s movies, not to start a theme, here.
Good connection re: _Stone Butch Blues_ and _Godspeed_, the butch perspectives are so alike in both. Someone should write a paper.
clarawebbwillcutoffyourhead:
I haven’t seen these added, so ALL of Doezema and Kempadoo’s work on trafficking and sex worker organising in the third world:
Global Sex Workers
Sex Work and Trafficking Revisited
And of course The Comforts of Home by Luise White
Sex Work and Sex Workers ed Dark and Refinetti
The Winding Stair Dublin, Ireland.
[cover of „Lieb und teuer. Was ich im Puff über das Leben gelernt habe.“ by Ilan Stephani. („Beloved and treasured. What I learned about life from working in a bordello.“)]
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Ursula K. Le Guin (via quotemadness)
A year of binding and books
I’ve been an Apprentice Bookbinder for just over a year and its unbelievable how much information I’ve managed to take in – not only the practical aspects of book binding but the history and social context that so often surrounds it, the strikes, the working conditions (luckily for me my apprenticeship is rather modern and I don’t have to sleep under my bench). When I started my training I found it challenging to make a single section pamphlet and now I have no problems sewing a textblock together, it’s funny how you don’t see the progression until you force yourself to look back.
Binding books is a fantastic craft – it’s amazing to be able to say you make books for a living and your world isn’t totally dominated by the ‘digital’ although my design background really comes in handy. Luckily while I was at art school I had time to focus on the disciplines that interested me, I spent my time mainly printing, letterpress and making artist books. The idea of mixing these disciplines together with traditional bookbinding really interests me, and I’m sure as I learn more I will experiment more.
During my apprenticeship I have been learning the basics of bookbinding focusing primarily on case binding for the first year, although have done some inboard work. Starting with simple case bindings in full cloth and half and quarter leather, I’ve been focusing on accumulating knowledge of materials, tools and fundamental bookbinding skills.
It’s only been a year and I’ve met so many amazing people who are happy to pass on their skills and knowledge. Can’t believe I met the legendary bookbinder Bernard Middleton who apprenticed at the British Museum Bindery, when bookbinding was a far harsher working conditions than it is today with an initial salary of £1 a week and only a seven minute tea break each day: “We had to stand all day and that was hard work when I first went there. We were allowed to sit down for seven minutes at four o’clock to have tea, not in the morning – you had to stand up to have it then…I think it had been five minutes and then two more minutes were negotiated, and then the deputy foreman would bang with a stick on his press to indicate that we should stand up and get on with our work again.”
I’ve still got so much to learn – keep an eye out for more posts!
„Ein Buch kann vielleicht nicht die ganze Welt verändern, aber die Welt der Menschen, die es lesen. Es erweitert Horizonte und schafft neue Blickwinkel und Perspektiven. Sprache, auch geschriebene und Bildsprache, prägt unser Bewusstsein und unsere Wirklichkeit.“
