SurroundedByBooks

Librarian by day, voracious reader by day, night and the spaces in between. When not reading, writing or shelving, I can be found watching, cooking, wondering, celebrating and snarking.

[jabberding0]

tree grafting techniques

[lorevelvet]

Hear me out- Heated Rivalry called The Kingfisher. The whole thing is set in the Kingfisher. Some parts are very Kyle centric, others he’s basically a background actor.

They could do his and Eric’s romance (would have to be adjusted to fit, but like Eric could have his birthday party there and he serves him the mocktails there, they fool around in the bathroom, it could work), then followed by Eric and Scott buying the bar.

Elena and Matti’s fling just happening in the background, Ilya shows up sometimes, we could get Troy and Ilya hanging out there when they come out to each other. Maybe we skip forward and see Ilya bring Shane for the first time.

Each ep could be self contained, hell, it would be fun if each one is a different genre. First one is very romantic, second is kind of a dramedy with them trying to buy and Reno the bar and there’s never ending disasters. They have a Pride night that’s like all the best teen party movies, with one couple trying to connect and lots of hijinks.

There could even be a horror/thriller where someone gets locked in the bathroom after closing and they get convinced someone is trying to get them (it’s a raccoon). There could be a heist where someone is dared to steal something from the bar but Kyle keeps thwarting them. The opportunities are endless!

[intothestacks]

[intothestacks]

@atomicturbocharged, the warning is part of the Rights of the Reader. I didn't add it on. Daniel Pennac, a famous writer and educator, wrote it.

And even if he hadn't, I'm a school librarian with a Master's degree in my field and read English at a university level after only speaking English for a year after moving to Canada when I was 10.

I guarantee you, I read.

Going around shaming people for not reading only makes them associate reading with negative feelings, which will ensure they don't ever feel inclined to pick up a book.

And, unlike you seem to think, it IS possible to get reluctant readers to become readers, just not with your attitude. I've done it before.

[depsidase]

[nycswebhead]

theres a new villain roaming around new york that has all the powers of a tapir. give me an hour or two im gonna go google what the fuck tapirs do ill let you know if we need to be scared

[nycswebhead]

OK it seems if you are fruits or berries this is really really bad news for you otherwise youre fine

[memewhore]

[juniper-petunia]

they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

[kimsfavs]

Great Egret dancing, Hungary. Photo by Bence Máté

[dragongirlsnout]

don't cry okay? huge as fuck bowl of strawberry

[dragongirlsnout]

Don't cry okay? Huge as fuck container of blueberry

[dragongirlsnout]

don't cry okay? huge as fuck bag of blackberry

[dragongirlsnout]

if i had a quantity of raspberries this large i would end up on the news

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[montereybayaquarium]

This Pride Month, we’re celebrating the beauty of diversity above and below the surface. The ocean is full of vibrant life in every color imaginable. It reminds us that nature thrives when everyone has space to belong.

Environmental advocacy and the LGBTQ+ rights movement share a common purpose: protecting vulnerable communities, caring for the spaces we all call home, and creating a world where we all can flourish. Our world is brightest when people can live authentically, love freely, and be embraced for who they are. From rainbow reefs to shimmering tides, diversity makes our blue planet stronger, healthier, and more inspiring.

Here’s to protecting our ocean, uplifting every voice, and honoring the colorful communities that make this world so wonderful.

[8nin]

MAKE CONCERTS CHEAP AGAIN

[summoningspark]

BUY MUSIC

[minmos]

this reddit post isgoing to make me cry literally let's bask in the sun

[rathockey]

there are some ships out there that do not speak to me personally but i am an understander for. like i see what you are seeing. it just doesn't personally intrigue me. but i support you. you're right. we don't need to fight, let us hold hands.

[racethewind10]

#i can appreciate a fine ship from the dock via @mylittleredgirl

[basketcasemp3]

The Muppet Movie (1979) dir. James Frawley

[oldwayout]

My anthro professor has three forbidden words for his essays: problematic, interesting, and large. Point being they’re all filler words, he wants you to just skip straight to why it’s interesting or why it’s problematic. But anyway, any time I disagree with him in class I say to him “mm, interesting, but largely problematic.”

[teruterusky]

[thehmn]

“lol Arthur Conan Doyle clearly didn’t know anything about drugs. Sherlock Holmes did cocaine but it calmed him down. That’s not how cocaine works!”

There are two options: Arthur Conan Doyle had never met someone addicted to cocaine or he met some with ADHD who was addicted to cocaine

[cerothenull]

#you cannot convince me sherlock 'i don't see a use for this common knowledge i shall forget it immediately' holmes wasn't adhd as hell #sherlock 'if i have nothing to do for a day i will literally start shooting the walls out of boredom' holmes #sherlock 'i have built a perfect wax replica of myself - why? iunno' holmes

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

He specifically took drugs when he didn't have a case to occupy himself, that man was ADHD as fuck

[fission-mailure]

ACD was a practicing doctor and ship's surgeon during the period where cocaine was routinely used as medicine and described by medical journals as "the blessed instrument of Christ," so not only is there exactly zero chance that he'd never met anyone addicted to cocaine, he also almost certainly administered cocaine to people.

It's also definitely not a stretch at all to say he'd probably met people who self-medicated with cocaine to deal with what we'd now call ADHD. Like, the second ever Sherlock Holmes story begins with Watson protesting Holmes' overuse of cocaine, and Holmes replying that he needs it to deal with his overactive brain -- it's entirely plausible that ACD had had that exact conversation with someone or multiple someones.

Like, the man had been a ship's surgeon. On a whaling ship. The number one place in Victorian times to find men who either couldn't get or couldn't hold down work elsewhere. He was almost certainly extremely familiar with a pretty broad spectrum of neurodivergence and self-medication thereof, even if medical science didn't yet have the terminology to apply to it.

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Not only did ACD probably have this conversation with someone in real life, he clearly knew and understood how dangerous cocaine was.

At a time when cocaine was regularly administered by other doctors, Doyle wrote Watson to have a clear aversion and dislike of the drug and understood that it was bad for you. It’s written as a clear indication that Sherlock, despite all his brilliance and genius, is still a human being who can make very bad decisions for himself.

Not only that, but Watson does ultimately win and gets Sherlock off of his addition to cocaine in the end. It takes him a while, but Sherlock is weened off the drug and this is seen as a good thing for everyone involved. In fact in a later story Watson comes home and sees a needle and fears that Sherlock might’ve had a relapse (he didn’t, the needle was just being used for something else involving a case).

Doyle knew what he was doing. He wasn’t writing it as an endorsement or as an indication that Sherlock knew better than Watson. It’s made very clear in the books that Sherlock is highly limited in a lot of ways that Watson is not. Watson was a skilled physician and both he and ACD knew cocaine was not good for someone like Holmes.

[copperbadge]

Conan Doyle was hyperfixated on history and very mad his excited infodumping historical fiction didn't get the attention the Holmes stories did. He wrote bestselling serialized novels and short stories (that all tend to follow a specific structure) while full time practicing medicine, and by all accounts had a Holmes-like way of Noticing Fucking Everything.

He had a clear disdain for social convention while understanding deeply how to conform to it in order to survive; a lot of Holmes' deductions actually depend on assumptions about typical human behavior in a given situation rather than physical evidence alone. It's the kind of encyclopedic conscious knowledge of unwritten social rules you might develop in order to mask successfully.

He was almost certainly neurodivergent himself. There's a reason classic Holmes fans tend to be Like That. Game recognize game.