#donated books

[theselkiesea]

Scotts Poetical Works

With a dedication from 1852

#old books #antiquarian books #rare books #bookblr #booklr #book community #donated books #poetry books #charity shop books #pretty books #reader #bookseller #bookselling #bookshop #book girl #booklover #book stuff #books #book tumblr #dark academia #dark aesthetic #dark acadamia aesthetic

[housmania]

hey sorry your boyfriend fell into the public library book donation bin. yeah he’s being used to fund vital community programs and support services. yeah beanbag chairs too. if you pay your overdue fines we’ll give him back though

#public library book donation sale my beloved #e #humor

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

#this was much longer i had to cut it down for legibility #but i do want to say i am aware this post doesnt touch on human rights violations as a result of fast fashion #that is because it deserves its own post with a completely different tone #i am an environmental educator #so that's what i know the most about. it wouldn't be appropriate of me to mention off-hand the real and legitimate suffering #that people are going through #without doing my research and providing real ways to help #this is a vent post about a thing i'm watching happen; not a call to action. it would be INCREDIBLY demeaning #to all those affected by the fast fashion industry to pretend that a post like this could speak to their suffering #unfortunately one of the horrible things about latestage capitalism as an activist is that SO many things are linked to this #and i WANT to talk about all of them but it would be a book in its own right. in fact there ARE books about each level of this #and i encourage you to seek them out and read them!!! i am not an expert on that i am just a person on tumblr doing my favorite activity #(complaining) #and it's like - this is the individual versus the industry problem again right because im blaming myself #for being an expert on environmental disaster (which is fucking important) but not knowing EVERYTHING about fast fashion #i'm blaming myself for not covering the many layers of this incredibly complicated problem im pointing out #rather than being like. yeah so actually the fault here lies with the billion dollar industries actually. #my failure to be able to condense an incredibly immense problem that is BOOK-LENGTH into a single text post that i post for free #is not in ANY fucking way the same amount of harm as. you know. the ACTUAL COMPANIES doing this ACTUAL THING for ACTUAL MONEY. #anyway im gonna go donate money while i'm thinking about it. maybe you can too. we can both just agree - well i fuckin tried didn't i #which is more than their CEOs can say

[dangdfeng]

I don't remember if I made a post about this before but I had scanned the entirety of The Art of Dreamworks Trolls World Tour and put it on my archive.org collection last year. The Trolls franchise has kind of blown up since then so I want to alert new fans since this particular book is quite a hard find

#The Art of Dreamworks Trolls World Tour #trolls #trolls art book #trolls world tour #dreamworks trolls #broppy #dreamworks #troll world tour art book #queen barb #queen poppy #original #photoset #scans #im hoping to donate my copy to the SVA library if they get back to me about that

[potoh]

Donation sale time!

Coloring Book proceeds made between today and January 31st will be donated to Care for Gaza, a grassroot organisation who supplies food packages for people in Palestine. LINK COLORING BOOK It's 50 digital coloring pages for just €6! You can pay more if you want, it will all be donated!

Care for Gaza twitter Gofundme link I will be donating to They also linked a Paypal on their twitter that you can donate to directly: paypal.me/UsmanaliF I might donate to both, but will decide after the sale.

#free gaza #gaza #donations for gaza #cat coloring book

[harriertail]

WARRIOR CATS COLOURING PAGES A tribute to the old days of Deviantart Bases, this is a charity project of 14 colouring pages of the most iconic scenes in warriors. Can be downloaded and printed or coloured digitally as PSD or PNG files All proceeds go to Care for Gaza! Artists - Maeybat Bearflowerr Pigeonleap vvortexccordis harriertail kitraptor powderseas marsopps sootslash/exocynraku Needlepine AElOU grovebeast Marmosetpaw archiepelago

#THANK YOU ALL FOR STICKING WITH ME LMAOOOO #i cant wait to print htese out when i get my printer GGRRR #warrior cats #warrior cats base #colouring book #colouring pages #coloring pages #but consider getting them and donating to support a good cause!!!

[allieinarden]

Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body different from one another and each contributing what no other could. When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things. On the other hand, when you are tempted not to bother about someone else’s troubles because they are ‘no business of yours,’ remember that though he is different from you he is part of the same organism as you. If you forget that he belongs to the same organism as yourself you will become an individualist. If you forget that he is a different organ from you, if you want to suppress differences and make people all alike, you will become a Totalitarian. But a Christian must not be either a Totalitarian or an Individualist. I feel a strong desire to tell you—and I expect you feel a strong desire to tell me—which of these two errors is the worse. That is the devil getting at us. He always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

#I wish I could donate a copy of this book to everybody who uses the internet #C.S. Lewis #Mere Christianity

[knifefightscene]

Near the place I currently live there is this small library run by this guy who will let you borrow book with no late fees or anything. He has been running it for ten years thanks to donations and also he sells tiny cactuses. He also teaches math and physics for free. Like people here love him. He graduated top of his class in college and now he’s just running a library and teaches people and takes care of plants and I’m reminded that some people are just good because they’re.

#most libraries are public #government run so #he runs two libraries actually #him and a few volunteers #ppl have been donating books to him over the years #7

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

I'm a genuinely-confused adult with poor understanding of social media. Are you John Green, the author who wrote those books, or are you John Green, the unpaid intern that happens to have the same name as the John Green author person?

#theyre the same me #i am both an unpaid intern for a coffee company that donates its profit to charity #and an author of books like the fault in our stars and the anthropocene reviewed #coffee company

[a-ramblinrose]

Spent this week stuffing the local little free libraries!

I went through all my books, read and unread, a massive undertaking that took days. Also sweat and tears. Plus some screaming. Maybe some screeching.

But: ✨️ Over 100 Books Unhauled!!!!! ✨️

#little free library #books #unhaul #book photography #about rose #not out of void but out of chaos #this was an incredibly hard task #necessary but evil #most of the books will end up in LFL or donated #but a select few are destined for trade for credit at a couple bookshops

[almondcroissantsandink]

I'm moving and was going through my books today and found the Book of Mormon script book I bought in like 2016 so I could illustrate Kevin Price's coffee monologue and opened it up to the Spooky Mormon Hell Dream section and this line has no right to be so funny

#bom #book of mormon #spooky mormon hell dream #kevin price #andrew rannells #so THEN I tracked down a bom slime tutorial and my GOODNESS this musical is so nuts #i used to listen to it driving to college and back #2016 me would be so pleased with how I've progressed #i love drawing things that I haven't drawn for 5+ yrs #i was gonna donate the book to the library but now maybe i will keep it lmao #musical #book of mormon fanart #when I drew the coffee monologue ppl asked for prints of it and i got so nervous lol #that tumblr doesn't even exist anymore and it had all traditional stuff #i drew so many broadway musicals #i was in so deep

[theselkiesea]

T e n n y s o n ' s W o r k s

1887 Edition

#old books #rare books #antiquarian books #book stuff #tennyson #blue books #pretty books #bookworm #bookseller #bookselling #book pages #book covers #poet #blue and gold #donated books #charity shop books #dark academia #book photo #booklr #bookblr #book cover #book community #book lover #book life #book pic #readers

[cock-holliday]

I keep seeing sentiments about how Americans knowing about JKR being a terf is a very tumblr thing and that a lot of people don’t know she sucks ass.

I will say that 1. Even American mainstream news reports on her bullshit a lot and frequently and has for years so if you consume literally any news you’ve probably heard this 2. I do not know a single UK citizen, tumblr-poisoned or not who isn’t aware of this now if they give the slightest fuck about queer people because she is very very publicly funding hate drives and speaking at events and continuously writing thinkpieces affecting public life. Somehow because it’s not HERE it allegedly requires niche SJW knowledge to be aware of her open, public campaign.

I do agree that not everyone who still participates in HP shit “must” know, especially kids, but I think it’s very ignorant to pretend it’s a minority of people who are aware when 5+ years ago NBC and NPR and EW and US weekly and fucking Business Insider wrote pieces like “Rowling Under Fire For Transphobia Once More”

It is wholeheartedly a public conversation here.

#I think it also does a disservice to conflate ignorance with willful ignorance #I have heard the expressions #‘death of the author’ #and ‘well I still like it’ #or ‘but hp means a lot to me’ #or ‘well I don’t think that was ACTUALLY transphobic’ #infinitely more times irl than in any online space #there IS a high level of awareness here #but a super strong discomfort with doing something about it #HP books showed up everywhere in donation drives and for sale #having grown up in the heart of US fandom space for it—I went to book releases and saw every movie in theater #there has been a remarkable shift since like 2018? in how HP is viewed here #quiet shame from fans in a place where Disney adults are unapologetic #is not because it’s ‘nerdy’ suddenly #people are AWARE here #we needn’t cover for that

[marblerose-rue]

click for better quality!!

here are my full designs for these two <3

#my art #do not copy trace or steal #dovewing #ivypool #warriors #waca #wc art #warrior cats #IF I CAN FIND MY OLD IVYPOOL DESIGN. ill do a silly comparison bc i have dovewings old design and i can compare her old + new designs but i #cant do that with ivys </3 #i meant to do this earlier but we had to run emergency errands #what if i claimed both of them for the autism adhd nation. bc i already did #OK SO technically the first book that got me into warriors was the tigerstar and sasha comic #BUT REALLY my first Actual Book was the fourth apprentice i lovewing dovewing so much #im planning on rereading some of the books this fall bc i associate this weather were getting with warriors and i have like 30 of the books #before my grandma passed she would always save the wc books that got donated for me <3 i wish she wouldve read them too bc she loved cats #just as much as i did #me saying im not gonna do anything w ocs was a lie i was on tiktok earlier and saw a few funny screenshots so im recreating them w mrb #whether or not i post them is up to future me . aka me in a few hours . but i would also like to eat supper before doing anything else #i love turning my tags into my diary you all have to read all of the thoughts that plague my mind AHKDNBFHBDFG #also me giving dove super heterochromia is a way to dodge the eye color thing. she has green eyes <3 when i read the books growing up #she had green eyes in my head . and my mind designs for the cats r different from my drawn designs #bc my mind designs r super boring tbh. just normal cats with nothing fun going on #OK now im posting for realsies

[queerliblib]

anyone heard of QT Library??!? got any physical queer books that need a new home?

@qtlibrary is a new lending library & sober space in Boston, and they’re currently building up their collection! You can learn how to donate here.

QLL may be a fully digital library but we love our sibling physical queer library spaces too~

#qt library #donate your queer books!

[makingqueerhistory]

I know you used to have a book wishlist, where did that go?

Yes I did, it was gently retired, though we had some very generous people who sent me books (THANK YOU <3 I continue to be shocked and warmed by this community's generosity) I found that I am much more of an audiobook person. I have trouble keeping information in my mind if I am reading it physically. That being said, I have also begun requesting books from my local library, which has been a massive resource that has assisted me more than I could have imagined before I started using it.

That being said, there are some books that I wish I had access to still, just because they don't have audiobooks. Currently my list is made up of:

Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History by Heather Love: "Feeling Backward" makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. It looks at early-twentieth-century queer novels often dismissed as "too depressing" and asks how we might value and reclaim the dark feelings that they represent. Heather Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present.

Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 by Valerie Korinek: Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on five major urban centres, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairie Fairies explores the regional experiences and activism of queer men and women by looking at the community centres, newsletters, magazines, and organizations that they created from 1930 to 1985.　

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love by Laurie Marhoefer: Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas. Yet on his journey with Li, Hirschfeld also had inspiring moments - including when he formulated gay rights as a broad, anti-colonial struggle and as a movement that could be linked to Jewish emancipation. Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and British empires, from Manila to Tel Aviv to having tea with Langston Hughes in New York City, and then into exile in Hitler's Europe, Laurie Marhoefer provides a vivid portrait of queer lives in the 1930s and of the turbulent, often-forgotten first chapter of gay rights.

If you wanted to fund my ability to get my queer hands on these books, here is the link:

#dont feel pressured to pay #and know any and all donations are split #so not all of it is going directly into my book fund lol #answered