#emmybody talks

[feypact]

public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):

brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)

seattle (13-26yo us residents)

boston (13-26yo us residents, EDIT: just commonly banned books)

los angeles (13-18yo california residents)

san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)

these books unbanned cards (unless otherwise stated) get you access to each library's complete libby/cloud library collection, no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.

ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!

i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!

i use library extension (firefox/chrome/edge compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.

spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.

#library tag #banned books week #banned books #emmybody talks #for international users... your mileage may vary! #i mean i suppose you could lie about your age/location to get some of these. i doubt theyd check i would just feel bad. personally. #post brought to u by banned book week but also being moderately annoyed at ppl mad about the spotify thing #libraries are wonderful but they have their own limitations and i think using both is good!

[evilautismcas]

SPN tarot back at it again not a drill

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[feypact]

i'm opposed to turning off reblogs on that library post because it's information people should know about. but every 27yo on the face of the planet is howling in pain in my notifs every day about the fact that the project targets younger people. and if i make an addendum explaining this + adding the various non-obvious alternatives people will Engage with me more. which is bad. why does anyone ever post anything.

#stupid thing to complain about. suffering from success. #emmybody talks

[feypact]

pokemon go is making their character creator gender neutral and everyone on all the subreddits can’t stop shitting themselves about Woke I’m so over it

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[feypact]

do u ever think about how alison bechdel wrote the bechdel test comic when she was 25

#emmybody talks #imagine if a shitpost you and your friend made 40 years ago became enshrined as feminist theory like that. i would lose my mind. #dtwof

[feypact]

@librarycards tagged me to post about Books!

cav's list had eir top 9 books of the quarter but i'm a slow reader and often get distracted in the middle, so i only finished 15 books this year (while also having 8 books listed as "currently reading" in storygraph. not counting the 5 i just checked out from the library. this is not a smart or sustainable practice.) so i'm choosing my own adventure and listing my faves from a few different categories

my top 3 Books That Are Just Words of the year:

the spirit bares its teeth (read this in 3hrs on a plane it's KILLER. if you read one book on this list and don't mind its trigger warnings, make it this one)

idlewild (going in my personal canon of non-embarrassing books about fanfiction writers along with dead collections and y/n)

the anthropocene reviewed (i have 2 stay true to myself. and i liked these essays a lot more than any other Book That's Just Words i read this year)

my top 3 comics/graphic novels:

the many deaths of laila starr (finally got around to finishing this miniseries, i loved the ending!)

the essential dykes to watch out for (if you think this book will fix you, you're right. read it slowly though.)

flung out of space: the indecent adventures of patricia highsmith (VERY different from cosmoknights webcomic by the same artist, in a good way!)

3 books-in-progress i'm excited to finish in the coming year:

y/n (this girl has so many problems)

the myth of mars and venus (this was recommended on if books could kill as an alt to You Know What. and it's very insightful about how gender-essentialist stereotypes get perpetuated)

real queer america: lgbt stories from red states (as a Red State Gay. oftentimes i feel like people do too much to defend red states like. If It Sucks, Hit The Bricks. and so this book annoys me sometimes. and focuses too much on urban areas in red states. and is just SO 2017 politically. but maybe i'm being contrary. i want to give it a fair shake and i did think the opening story about that gay guy at her college who fought for trans healthcare coverage for students was very sweet and supported the thesis.)

i never know who to tag. if you want to post about books post about books.

#emmybody talks #8 comics and 7 book-books. normal world. #washingtons gay general: bad gays but with more vibes than facts #frugal wizard: clever time travel mechanics but annoying stupid boy. kind of says acab? if you squint #you will find your people: too much memoir not enough actionable advice. autism moment on my end for real. #boys weekend: mixed feelings the more i look back on it! worth a shot if you subscribed to the nib. #joan of arc in her own words: mostly interesting as a novelty (autobio pieced together from her court hearings)

[feypact]

ever since i was a little boy i always knew i wanted to unsubscribe from emails

#its like slaying a hydra it never ends #emmybody talks

[feypact]

books that would change the game for tumblr users:

-the essential dykes to watch out for

-dykette by jenny fran davis

-you know what I’m sensing a theme here

#I’ve not read hijab butch blues yet but I listened to their gender reveal interview #but if she kept the original title (maryam is a dyke) that would’ve been so iconic and funny for this post specifically #it was such a good interview I need to go put a Libby hold on that book. ok done. #emmybody talks

[feypact]

exhibit #1432 of "lesbians discoursing exactly the same in 1996 dykes to watch out for comics as today"

#dtwof #emmybody talks #I gotta run to work but wow the archive dot org copy is pretty clumpy. I might edit this with a more hd page later watch this space.

[feypact]

idgaf what you call them I’m just asking if you break them up into slushies

#I think it is the only way to do so but I feel like saying so is asking to get ratioed #emmybody talks

[feypact]

shuffle your On Repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people ✨

tagged by @star-fissure love u mwah!

Mr. Loverman / Ricky Montgomery (classic. rory moment.)

My Kink Is Karma / Chappell Roan (such a SP:TO song)

OFF MY FACE / Måneskin

What If It Doesn’t End Well / chloe moriondo (such a Gwen/Miles song)

HONEY (ARE YOU COMING?) / Måneskin (such a TBOSAS song)

telepatía / Kali Uchis (saw this morphine love dion look)

Tennis Court / Lorde (would love to vid this but she’s so strict on YouTube strikes)

Fkn Around / Phony Ppl and Megan Thee Stallion (the Megan verse is Dean Winchester to me SORRY!)

Cobra / Megan Thee Stallion (I started a Grace Monroe vid with this idk if I’ll finish)

I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE / Måneskin (I got really into this album)

tagging. @bitchdisorder @notauri @amberdawn @fembard @dracxula @dandelight @cykelops @sqoiler @otto-von-stirlitz @rugessnome

#crowley is the European poppy out in Italy #benny is the down south daddy cool never stressing me #and cas is the guy he’s fucking around on :/ #this is how I experience music you can tell I’m trying to be more of an album person with the måneskin #but it’s also a lot of imagining amvs #omg song 11 was Wall Street Noise from Theater Camp #emmybody talks

[feypact]

reconstructing the sides of the background by screenshotting other frames from the scene and resizing them. I think I can get the rest of the way in photoshop but yeah this is always a fun challenge. take that generative ai fill.

#emmybody talks #mep part with yr most nostalgic tv holiday special were going :plane emoji: spots magical christmas

[feypact]

i just found this ad-free youtube browser for roku tvs it is so wonderful... its on the regular app marketplace you don't need to jailbreak anything... it's integrated with sponsorblock... the only thing that would make it perfect is captions but they appear to actively be working on that... thank you playlet

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[feypact]

this article (nsfw illustrations at the link; it’s for playboy) was cited in broey deschanel’s new nebula original and I was hoping it would have cool graphs or data but this is as deep as it gets.

I suppose this info is easy to grab from IMDb? “sex scenes” is very vague and I’d be interested to see how this correlates to more PG13 movies getting made or aspects of the sex scenes

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[feypact]

how I look with xe/xem in my bio

#emmybody talks #this granularity is SO crazy to me especially from the official letterboxd account #I gotta see if they have data on like. people who use xe vs people who use ze vs people who use they #because they do not have lists like this for other pronouns that I can see #edit: they don’t have a they/them list because they/them is the default pronoun and it would catch a lot of cis casuals

[feypact]

personally humbly in my opinion imho I would like my favorite twitter artists to migrate to tumblr rather than Instagram because I am Not going to be using Instagram. but if they already use tumblr and want an extra backup site the new upstart social media I want to see succeed the most is cohost.

especially helpful on account of this hack that lets them have a working mobile app and still host erotic content. also like I think their approach to non-addictive metrics & encouragement of positive+meaningful social interactions is so valuable but the NSFW guidelines I can see being the most directly relevant for people already using tumblr.

#emmybody talks #post a censored preview on tumblr and link to the uncensored cohost post. chost if you will. #cohost #but that’s just my opinionnnnn. i recognize that insta is where the normies are.