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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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i’m such a “i want your attention” but “won’t bother you” kinda person

#my problem forever #damn vampire traits

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It makes me happy when they listen

#people should be like this more #the times I've started talking about something and people have just... talked over me and ignored me

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

#the reason why I despise that TERFs are somehow considered 'feminists' #they are BLATANTLY NOT #there is NOTHING feminist about being concerned with what someone does or does not do based on what is in their pants

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#very accurate #seriously more awareness of that being in your twenties and thirties is still actually young as owt is important #although I am LESS chronically uncomfortable now #have three different chronic conditions that were much worse in my twenties especially

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we're fucked

#hahaha..-wait oh no #shining force

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I've met him in person btw and he's a fucking sweetheart

[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]

I don't usually talk about celebrities; artists, when I do, and I'm keenly aware that one needn't be a good person to be a hell of a heartwrenching artist. But Peter S. Beagle has written a few of my favorite things in the world, he's an excellent singer and filker, and this Twitter thread was dreadfully important to me. I don't want it going away as Twitter becomes Shitter, because it's so often bad news, isn't it? It's important to me to share trans joy.

#i had a chance to meet Peter once #unfortunately it did not pan out #i was scared to read the book for YEARS in case it somehow ruined the movie for me #IT MADE IT BETTER #the last unicorn

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#new role model spotted

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#yessss #like omg seriously do not let them tell you being young is the best it gets #they are LIARS #sarah andersen

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Green thoughts ✨🌿✨

#lovely work #i love fluffy hair pics #the green is very soothing and the vines really add a lil something

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it's dawned on me that no one can stop me from my childhood dream of having a bed tent

#oooooh #those are neat

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furious that i am not a playable character in this game

#everything about this post is fantastic

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The weirdest guy I ever met in a church was this boy who referred to “Buzz Aldrin and his husband” going to the moon. I was completely baffled, and when I asked if he’d misspoken, he got really angry and accused me of being deliberately ignorant of the facts. It turned out that he was somehow comvinced that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were married. It took five Wikipedia articles to convince him otherwise.

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#was showing a younger friend Shoes and they were just like... tf. #my friends we were rolling laughing #sense of humour is so different between people and ages and even changes as you get older

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Hey btw I don't know who needs to hear this, but those adults telling you that your teen years are the best years of your life? Yeah I don't know what the hell they're smoking, either. I'm 29 and every once in a while I just sit here and think "man, it sure sucked to be 14. Glad I never have to do that again."

#yes like wtf #being a teenager sucks #i know we all complain about adulting but like #teenagering was the worst

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You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

#i am very happy that I am drawing and writing again #even if it's only a little

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NOTE TO SELF-SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!

#always look closer