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Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

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I love Pacific Rim because they really said "you can defeat giant monsters with the power of queerplatonic relationships and unspeakable mecha violence".

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JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.

Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.

However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.

But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.

It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.

We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something

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Anonymous Flemish artist - Touch, detail. The Lady and the Unicorn series of tapestries (Musée national du Moyen Âge). Around 1484 – 1500

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Cancel ALL student debt.

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I see a lot of posts on tumblr that imply borrowing a book from a library is less supportive of the author than buying it outright and I would like to offer a few unsolicited thoughts as to why that’s not true:

Every book in a public library has to earn its spot on the shelf. If no one checks it out, then it will be weeded from the collection to make way for a book that will circulate. So, if you check out a book, you’ve just given it a much a better chance at being there for someone else to discover!

A recently returned book is more likely to be propped up as a display in the tiny nooks around the library. Every shelver loves an empty display space because it means they can quickly get rid of several books. A book on display is more likely to catch someone’s eye and on and on!

You might not be able to tell this just by looking at the shelves, but when a book first comes out from an author, the library often buys several copies and based on how many people have reserved the title and how heavily it circulates, they might buy even more copies! Also, when purchasing a new title from an established author, many librarians will look at the circ stats of the author’s other books and will use that as a guide for how many copies to buy of the new book. In case you didn’t know, libraries buy a lot of books - we make up a huge portion of the book sales market.

Many people use the library as a way to discover new authors. It’s a risk-free investment and helps them experiment with a lot of different titles that they wouldn’t be able to if they had to buy all of them. And if they really love an author, they might become a life-long fan who will buy their books for years to come, all because of kismet at the library.

If you check out the book at the library, your librarian can make a better case for inviting the author to come to the library for an event for which they can get paid! This is especially true for lesser-known authors.

In conclusion, borrowing a book from the library is a wonderful thing to do. It helps make sure other people have access to that book in the future, creating an ever-wider audience for the author.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t buy books, I’m just saying, borrowing books from the library has just as many positive effects and you don’t ever have to feel bad that you’re somehow not supporting an author by borrowing their book instead of buying it. :)

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Neil Banged out his tunes today, on a train you have the comfort and relaxation to bang out your own tunes

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i love whenever gloria comes up with a crazy plan and executes it and the entire time the crew is just behind her going absolutely feral. they hype each other up, make inside jokes, work almost flawlessly as a team, and shit on everyone else while doing it. it’s amazing, it’s found family, it’s exhilarating, it’s camaraderie. i love it.

#Midnight Burger #Midnight Burger podcast #Midnight Burger Gloria

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every friend group has:

- a sad man who loves history and chaos

- a theoretical physicist who loves bullying

- a chef from Arizona who becomes an empire slayer

- a space pirate who is also an engineer

- a sentient plant

- a robot lady who can create a simulacrum of your most prominent ex

extras:

+ the space pirate/engineer's two older selves from alternate realities

+ the space pirate/engineer's "fully platonic" friend who is obsessed with journalism

#Midnight Burger #Midnight Burger podcast

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Having finally watched Everything, Everywhere, all At Once…..are there Universes where Evelyn is Charles Williams? And Vice versa?

#everything everywhere all at once #cotig #Charles Williams #Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica

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I forgot that writing is very fun and that you're playing pretend. like all this shit and pressure about craftsmanship and art! NO!!!! you are a grown up playing with dolls! it is silly and you should have sooooo much fun pushing their heads together to make them smooch!!! or torturing them, which is what I did to my toys as a child, to the point where my mom thought I was going to grow up evil

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If Stranger Things was british

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Discworld: Wyrd Sisters Director: Jean Flynn | Studio: Cosgrove Hall | UK, 1997

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New Donk City workers