Am I more than you bargained for yet?

she/her || 21 || professional dork || meme lord || the memes and sarcasm guy || chaotic good boy || *pokes my gender and sexuality with a stick* wtf is that ||

[kosmogrl]

what do you mean I can't control everything, why not

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

may february be good to all of us

[booksinmythorax]

I'm already seeing advice from people in the US to purchase queer books and other banned or "controversial" books on paper as a way to combat the wave of government censorship that is coming. While this is a good idea (it is! absolutely!), it's not accessible to everyone, and truly, we're not going to be able to consumerism our way out of this one.

If you can buy the books, do. Whether you can buy the books or not, borrow them from your library.

Borrow the paper versions. Borrow the ebook or audiobook versions. Request the titles you want that your library doesn't have. The more a title circulates or is requested, the better librarians are going to be able to defend keeping it if and when it's ever challenged.

Use libraries like @queerliblib too. The more members they have, the better they'll be able to fundraise.

Your community resources depend on you using them. Borrow the books before they go away.

InB4: Piracy is not the solution here. We're trying to keep community resources available, not make sure individual people can read individual books. Different problems.

The books are still available. Borrowing them from your library and returning them on time and in good condition will help keep them that way.

[perpetuallyexhaustedlibrarian]

This this this!

Libraries and librarians are going to be under attack in the coming years.

Please help us by showing the people in charge that these materials are important in the only way they really understand - the number of checkouts.

We need your help now more than ever.

[thewonderfulwizardofwords]

For some additional context, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is the primary funding mechanism for libraries on a national level. It distributes grants to State Libraries (every state has one, though it may not be called exactly that) who then distribute that money further to individual libraries in their states. It's a federal entity that has to be reauthorized every year or that huge chunk of funding goes away, and every year of the first Trump administration the fight for reauthorization was a white-knuckle event. We got it through by the skin of our teeth each year, but it was harrowing.

Libraries are mentioned on page one of Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership (the big book of horrible policy plans). Choosing not to reauthorize the IMLS will be an easy way for the incoming administration to gut library services nationwide, especially in small communities that don't have a thriving donor base to fill those budget gaps. They'll be able to stop the "porn peddlers" and "groomers" at the cost of vital services to those communities.

One of the best tools we have to try and avoid that outcome is to prove, definitively, that libraries matter by presenting robust use statistics. Checking out books, using library spaces, attending library programs, all of that gets captured and reported to the IMLS each year. They're imperfect measures of the value the library provides to the community, but they're what we have.

At the local level it's going to be just as, if not more important to educate the community about what the library does. Your local governing authorities aren't going to be persuaded by the librarian alone, but they can be persuaded by vocal community support. That will also inoculate your community against "grassroots" attempts to shut the library down, like almost happened in Dayton, Washington in 2023.

To bring it back around to OP's original point, the imperfect nature of the stats gathered can work in libraries' favor on both fronts. It might actually be detrimental to present record-breaking circulation numbers for queer titles to the incoming administration, but the IMLS doesn't collect that level of detail. Any book you check out adds to the bottom line total that gets reported, queer or not. At the local level librarians have more control over the stories they tell with their data. If you're in a progressive community, they can be open with those more granular numbers as a way to underscore their importance as a resource to queer community. If you're in a conservative community they can lean on the bigger picture to show the impact on everyone, while knowing internally what materials are actually circulating and how best to curate the collection to serve their patrons.

[catchymemes]

[writing-prompt-s]

"You're a vampire?! Why can I see you in the mirror then?!" "You idiot, mirrors haven't been using silver since the 1950s!!"

[writing-prompt-s]

She hadn't made a milkshake in years for fear that they would return.. She starts the blender reluctantly.. In the distance, screams.. The boys had returned. They were. coming to her yard.

[blahblahblah2cargarage]

dude perry the platypus is such a funny character to me because like. i’ll be thinking abt him and be like oh he’s just like an adult man he has a government job and he loves his family and he has a weird homoerotic relationship with his nemesis and he’s nonverbal. just an overall normal guy character. i love him im going to read 7000 fics about him now. but then i take a step back and im like. he’s a platypus. i’m going crazy over a teal cartoon platypus. what am i doing. but then i take another step back and im like oh shiiiiitt. he’s a platypus. what kind of experiments were they doing on him to make him evolve the way he has? what kind of training did he go through? man this guy has some trauma he’s a lil fucked up actually! and then i take ANOTHER step back and im like. this is literally about a phineas and ferb character

[thoughtportal]

cleaning along desire paths

[lady-griffin]

Fantastic advice!! And something I’ve realized I’ve been doing for myself these last 6-7 years, even though I never had a name for it.

Seriously, this is such a great way to go about organizing your home.

I really can’t express how much easier your life can be when you accept that there’s no objectively right way to do this kind of stuff, especially when you let go of the idea that it’s a moral failure when you can’t do something the “correct way” nor is it evidence of you being lazy.

Working with (leaning into) your natural limits and instincts can do wonders for you in your day-to-day life.

[moringmark]

[cowboyandshortstack]

Riarkle/Lucaya → Corpanga Wardrobe Parallels

Bonus: Caurpanga|Rucaya Triangles

[cowboyandshortstack]

So, I wanted to add some commentary to this post originally, but I didn’t want to bog the gifs down with a bunch of text, but going to go back and add in some thoughts now.

For some reason, the idea that wardrobe can act as an important visual cue to what’s happening/will happen in a story, is super controversial in this fandom and I don’t quite understand it (remember the debate future Riley & Maya in a burnt orange turtleneck and red plaid respectively, kicked up?) This is an incredibly common reality in TV (and all visual mediums, TBH), even on shows with a large contingent of child aged viewers. 

In a show like GMW, that’s constantly telling you to essentially take a closer look, I don’t quite understand why this concept is so bizarre to some people. Honestly, I think it’s a little unfortunate, because I think people who outright dismiss this sort of stuff as “over analyzing” and “silly” are really missing out on some great bits, as shown above.

Topanga & Cory’s first kiss is paralleled, not only in the very very basic actions of Riley and Farkle, but also in their wardrobe (note Farkle in the red, white, & blue shirt in parallel to Cory’s shirt and Riley in purple/almost fuschia, paralleling Topanga’s dress.) Or the fact that Farkle is wearing a jean jacket when he & Riley say I love you, much like the first time Cory & Topanga first said I love you. In Girl Meets Cory & Topanga, Maya has a similar moment to Topanga and the styling refflects that (note the purple top with a similar pattern, and even the styling in the hair). And Texas, oh man. Anyone that talks to me knows how much I love this whole Texas/Popular parallel. I kind of don’t shut up about it, but it’s because I think it’s super important to Lucaya’s development. Plus, it’s a total double whammy. Not only do you have Maya wearing the same necklace Topanga did when she revisitied who she was “inside”, i.e. the part of her that Cory first fell in love with, but she’s also got the white lace dress+choker combo that Topanga donned in Cory’s Alternative Friends, which Topanga later references in Resurrection as the moment when she believes Cory first fell in love with her. Like, it’s such heavy handed symbolism and I really appreciate it.

In each of these moments, there’s so much symbolism, not just in the paralleled actions themselves (like in Truth and Cory & Topanga), but in the wardrobe as well, and both of those things together certainly make me stop and question what the show is trying to tell me/show me (especially when it keeps happening over and over again for particular sets of characters.)

[lucayaismypluto]

Not to mention Cory & Topanga is littered with parallels associating Lucas with Cory and Maya with Topanga through STAGING

First of all, Lucas is shown wearing red (gym uniform) teaching Farkle how to play basketball.

Not much later Riley and Maya return us to Cory’s childhood living room and we see Cory (also in red) teaching Topanga (who Maya is dressed and styled like) how to play sock basketball.

(Also Maya’s “How you doin’ Matthews?”)

In the next flashback, Maya literally shadows Topanga as she duplicates the “Donut in the Sky” choreography. Even though this interpretive dance-poem is such a Riley thing to do (Creativity), Riley stands still and watches. 

There’s a reason this is happening. This is what the writers want us to see (CRAZY HAT, FISH). These are the graham cracker crumbs.

(The lipstick reminds me of GMRules. Maybe you can guess why).

[cowboyandshortstack]

[apocalypticrush]

#cuteness overload alert

[incorrectgmw]

Lucas: Weird. All my shirts are disappearing.

Maya [wearing a shirt that’s like 5 sizes too big for her and ends above her knees]: Spooky.

[incorrectgmw]

Maya: My hands are cold.

Lucas, holding Maya’s hands: There you go.

Maya:

Maya: Huh, for some reason, my lips are getting cold too.

[catfairymeow]

I don’t even remember making this but here it is lol

[feetdavidson]

I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight

[feetdavidson]

this same idiot: what kind of animal is the pink panther

me, already taking off my clothes: benjamin you’re so fucking stupid

[servalias]

oh my god the original out in the wild

[itsqueenshroom]

my bf and I have the same fucking brain

Quiplash is the greatest game ever made because it allows for things like this and you can’t change my mind.

[wooferdill]

[raideo]

[starshinebeaches]

[natsumischwartz]

[nylarac]

[ragsy]

[glowstickhaloboy]

question was how to get kicked out of hogwarts

[worldheritagepostorganization]

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