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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

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"But I need wizard school media to live" just develop bad opinions about the X-Men like a normal person.

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Guys, queers. Specifically my fellow queers.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

This isn't a vague post, there's no one person I'm hinting at or calling out. I'm not even talking directly to anyone who's directly in my line of sight. I just want everyone to hear this. Big library, small library, whatever. Doesn't matter. Please, we cannot be losing our shelf visibility like this.

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Planes aren't real. Every plane is DB cooper in disguise.

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University really is about looking at the worst pdf known to man huh

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BABE WAKE UP NEW COLOSSAL SQUID FOOTAGE!!!!

and it's a

BABY!!!!

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If you think about a coupons are like the Jokers in the balatro that is the grocery store

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when you sleep late and realize the heat is still on because it was in the 40s last night and now in the 80s and you're brain feels sluggish and look now there's pretty patterns in all of your thoughts and where's the pen with the notebook for notes and lyrics that are stuck in your head that you have to write them down before they get lost and now you're stuck writing about traffic and being Southern but not Civil War southern and how you're supposed to love everyone and the country is going crazy and then you remember that you need to drink water

Then, you remember to take your OCD meds and everything makes sense again.

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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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if you published A Modest Proposal on tumblr you would get about a 45 minute grace period before people started helpfully informing you in the notes that cannibalism is a real thing that does happen sometimes and also if you think about it poor people are effectively being eaten by the rich, especially children, so even though op was joking it's actually a serious issue

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WAITING FOR THE BUS IN THE RAIN

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I couldn’t reboot it for some reason

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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My husband accidentally left his stash of Celsius at my parents house, and my nonverbal autistic brother who has literally zero access to caffeine other then the occasion Pepsi found one and chugged it.

Needless to say my husband is now overnight shipping an apology basket to my mom because nobody in that house slept last night.