#Invest In Libraries

[a-compass-without-a-needle]

This is what happened after 3.1 isn't it?

[red-garden]

In five years there’s gonna be some fucking app called Tablify where you can try new furniture every month and it costs abillion dollars a year, which is now cheaper than buying a couch that can support the weight of more than one person

[killoraptor]

Just had the worst experience of my life (Woodrow Wilson pointing a gun at me and forcing me to read his 90k words 1980's American Politics x Library of Ruina fanfic on AO3)

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

I love the relationship (or rather, the lack thereof) between the Hilda fandom and Luke Pearson. I don’t know if this is just me, but I feel like we’re just marginally aware that he’s A Guy and that he makes the thing we like and that’s as far as we care to go. You see fandoms researching their favorite creators and following them in every social media and looking for each of their projects and we just. We just want the stills and trailers. Some people care about what he has to say about the plot and animation. And that’s it. He’s just a dude whose name is in the opening and whose self insert shows up sometimes to Be Useless and we’re fine with that! The opposite of a parasocial relationship. We’re parallel playing in the same room

[kuiinncedes]

i’m gonna reread ghosts of the shaodw market for no reason 👍

[intermundia]

the star wars office continues to star-wars-ify 💫

[scionshtola]

good morning. what if i reread nona the ninth already

[marclef]

i uhhh made a little thing for @luigigirl12, a drawing of Library AU Eyhm being protected by a VERY defensive Fake.

dunno what made him like that..... but he sure as hell ain't letting anything touch this cat.

hope you like them 🤗

[drumlincountry]

I was tweaking some worldbuilding i'm working on and realised i'd reinvented fucking. medieval monasteries

[aronarchy]

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Many anarchists have argued that this teleological framework is both ludicrous in its prophetic optimism, and stifling in its programmatic assertions (i.e. that our job is to find ways to advance society into a state of socialism). The progress of society is an illusion created by clever historians and propagandists, and the idea that somehow this historical train is locked into a track that leads to our shared liberation is both intoxicating and toxic. The “progress of society” might be better described as the “evolution of systems of power,” and as Bæden reminds us: “any progressive development can only mean a more sophisticated system of misery and exploitation.” In its refusal of Marxist teleology, Bæden takes up the ideas of Walter Benjamin to call for an attack on this kind of progressivism: “Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train… to activate the emergency break.” Anarcho-nihilism replaces the program of historical acceleration with one of negation. Rather than moving ourselves quickly along the train tracks of history towards a socialist utopia, we must derail the train and rupture history altogether.

Like the trains bound for Auschwitz, this movement of history is heading nowhere good and needs to be sabotaged at every possible turn.

Whereas once this progressivism was the domain of bright-eyed revolutionaries, capitalism has seized the tradition, meaning that we are now assaulted with it from all angles—whether through austerity and democratic participation or through patient and restrained “movement building,” we are constantly being asked to tolerate intolerable conditions today in order to work towards a brighter future. Using Lee Edelman’s queer theory text No Future as a frame work, Bæden sets out to explore how progressivism is used by mainstream society to keep us attached to the existing order. They argue that futurity is ubiquitously packaged with the image of The Child, the ultimate symbol of our commitment to the future—we must work now, we must compromise now, we must be patient now, in order to secure the well being of the next generation. The unspoken and dubious premise of this reasoning is that what is best for future generations is the preservation of the existing order. Through this lens, the widely-felt social pressure to have children is actually an obligation to reproduce society and capitalism. The term “reproductive futurity” refers to the way in which the very concept of reproduction becomes imbued with a commitment to the existing order. Bæden writes: “The ideology of reproductive futurism ensures the sacrifice of all vital energy for the pure abstraction of the idealized continuation of society.” Because this emphasis on securing a future for The Child prevents us from negating our present conditions, Bæden asks us to sever once and for all our attachment to reproductive futurity. The futures that are being dangled in front of our faces are a mirage that will continuously retreat as we move closer, and the cute, sacred image of The Child is often what prevents us from questioning that mirage. Instead, nihilism asks us to cut ourselves from any attachment to reproductive futurity, and instead “fight, hopeless, to tear our lives away from that expanding horizon and to erupt with wild enjoyment now.” What nihilism glimpses outside of progressivism and reproductive futurity is perhaps similar to what Rose Meth saw when she chose to resist despite a lack of hope: the insurrectionary mode of messianic time.

The Child, of course, has very little to do with real children. Like all people, children are enslaved under the political order of the state and capital, expected to bear the burden of being the innocent beneficiaries of political initiatives. No, rather the Child is the fantastic symbol for the eternal proliferation of class society. The Child represents the succession of generations and the continuation of this society beyond the lifespans of its living members. All politics, being concerned primarily with the Child, then reveal themselves to be only ever a process by which to manage and secure the continued existence of society.

[intothestacks]

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[flowerstomeadows]

My desire to own a copy of the Queer Bible Commentary vs. the cheapest used copy I can find still being 70 bucks 😵😵😵

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I always have ideas for multi-chapter fics but I know better than to start them anymore because I never seem to finish them. Oneshots are hard enough, apparently

[kingjasnah]

i would like to ask an honest question... would you genuinely recommend reading wind and truth... i Did like szeth but the last time i thought about stormlight archive was when rhythm of war came out; im afraid ill have forgotten all that is important for the 5th book that is im sure very very long 😭😭 thank u for ur opinion 🙏

hmmmm i dont think i can answer that bc while i enjoyed the book im like. in it you know. like im in this. been reading these things for a decade. i know so much bullshit about nine hundred different magic systems and like the metamagic system that connects them. ive invested (haha) so much time and energy here that unless some insane factor came into play there was no way i wasnt reading this book. if you dont feel that strongly about it but still care about these characters and want some answers to series long mysteries tbh i still think you should try and check it out but like at the library bro. that hardcover is expensive

[chillinglikeashilling]

I don't think TikTok is a net good for society, in the same way I don't think that any social media platforms or even the entire manufacturing apparatus smart phones are a net good for society under it's current conditions but truly the way some of you talk about TikTok users is...bad.

I know better to expect that even a slight majority of Tumblrina's are objectively leftist in their politics and actual engagement with others despite the number of people on here that seem to take that for granted, but even then some of you have gotten comfortable dehumanizing and targeting your frustrations on TikTokers in a way that make you seem hateful and unconcerned with other people to a worrying degree.

I don't want to ally with people that talk about other human beings the way y'all feel comfortable talking about TikTokers, I really don't.

[molagboop]

High-echelon Mawkin suit modules can be pretty wild, and the Energy conversion module in Raven Beak's suit is no exception.

When exposed to an active current or energy field, the module accounts for the level of charged particles in the local atmosphere and converts the detected matter to power. Most substantial forms of power and radiation are compatible with its function, and it's calibrated to work more efficiently when exposed to substantially powerful forms of plasmic matter.

The conversion module is similar to (but should not be confused with) the thermal charge module, which charges the power suit in extreme heat. That technology is also implemented in the protective exosuits found in Cataris' lava zone. The Mawkin use thermal energy to power a number of their facilities: that they'd implement it in their more mobile works is only natural.

Back to the subject at hand, the conversion module's practicality is twofold: to keep Raven Beak's suit sufficiently charged and to maintain his vigor in battle. His particular biometric modifications are such that his suit, combined with his level of physical fitness, can theoretically keep him fighting without fear of exhaustion in perpetuity.

Raven Beak's juiced up version of lightning armor is the inverse of this module: it absorbs charged particles for the purpose of coalescing into a projected wave. The use of lightning armor in this manner negates the function of the conversion module for restorative purposes. Additionally, lightning armor works best against oncoming projectiles, while the reactive conversion module is at its peak when the suit is exposed to ambient radiation or concentrated, consistent flows of power.

Suffice to say, Raven Beak is probably the only person who could stick a fork in an electrical socket and have it do the exact opposite of killing him.