#i have access to good books

[trainwreckweather]

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#the great depresso #aka sleeping the day away instead of doing the million things on my list bc fuck it #it is so hard to motivate myself to show up in life for no reason at all #it's hard to find joy in waking up and being #it's not that I'm lacking gratitude #my plants are thriving #i have access to good books #i adore my animals #i have three yarn projects going #my h.s. transcripts came in the mail so i can finally call and start the process to my local ged and maybe like... costometology after #pretty aimless in what to do there #and scared to pick up the phone #I have a couple super cherished friends #the only downfall there is that they're so god damn far away #my highs are high and my lows can be empty and sporadic #and now I have the audacity to wake up at 5 pm to mourn the day and it's missed opportunities 😒 #there was no point to this I'm just frustrated

[lil-grem-draws]

Prompts: "A night under the stars" and "Sneaking out to the roof of Hogwarts (maybe with snacks!)" Even if it was drawn for that closeup, it's long enough for a phone screen. HAPPY SEBINIS DAY!

#hogwarts legacy #Sebastian Sallow #sebinis #Ominis Gaunt #sebinisartevent24 #I know it said Hogwarts but the roof is based on one of the houses in Fieldcroft #Because I flew around Hogwarts and none of those roofs looked good enough or super accessible #And those that did looked a bit boring #Thought Fieldcroft would make for a better roof #It there was a perfect one that wasn't even slated too much #Anyway #Apart from books and candle by their heads everything else is supposed to be floating #I just didn't have the heart to work on it for too long #Sebinis is hard for personal reasons #It feels like a goodbye to this pairing

[plenaurum]

the thing about this z library thing is that I see small authors rejoicing in the fact that ppl can’t steal their books anymore bc they were “losing out on sales” and. this may be immoral to say? but I kinda don’t care

#z library #call me selfish entitled etc #but a girl in India said she lost her sole access to poetry #ppl in countries that don’t have access to libraries and books had good use for z library #and also. #z library was just easier and accessible #if I liked the book I’d go out and buy it in physical form #if I didn’t. well. i can just delete it #also I love pirating I’m sorry u guys #piracy #zlibrary #zlib

[electricmaimer]

"i dont care if people who havent read the books get spoiled for the show" <- words of a person i now want to bite and yell at

#BE FUCKING NICE #A LOT OF THEM ARE CHILDREN??? THEY EITHER HAVENT GOTTEN AROUND TO READING THE BOOKS BECAUSE THEY DIDNT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO YET #OR #ADDITIONALLY IT IS 2023. THE WORLD IS DIFFERENT AND MEDIA IS BEING ADAPTED FOR NEW GENERATIONS #TRY HOLDING SOME WONDER AND JOY IN YOUR HEART AND THINK ABOUT HOWW FUN IT IS TO EXPERIENCE A STORY FOR THE FIRST TIME #STOP SPOILING SHIT ON PURPOSE IT MAKES ME WANT TO COMMIT CRIMES❤️ #literally dont be a spiteful dick and stop ruining things for fun or because you want to gatekeep and have a superiority complex #fuck uou i would personally give ANYTHING to get to experience this story for the first time again #and watching people ruin in in real time for people experiencing it for the firdt time. i hate you #ypure all extremely selfish and shortsighted for doing this whole 'yeah but the books have been out for forever.. :/' bs #absolutely giving yourself away as a fucking clown with no ability to gain anything positive from shared joy. get well soon #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo show #percy jackson show #pjo tv show #eeanpost #ALSO THE FUCKING AUDACITY FOR THE FANBASE OF A BOOK SERIES ABOUT KIDS STRUGGLING WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES TO YELL AT PEOPLE FOR NOTREADING #DO YOU FUCKING HEAR YPURSELVES ???? WHAT THE FUCK??? THE STORY IS MORE ACCESSIBLE NOW. THAT IS A GOOD THING. HTJSJJTJFJG

[ineffably-splendid]

Public Service Announcement:

Maybe it’s old news, but you can listen to the Full Cast Audio Reading of Good Omens on Spotify. That discovery saved me from a slow workday today.

And yes, Michael Sheen and David Tennant read Aziraphale and Crowley.

Just in case you’ve ever wanted to hear Michael Sheen call Crowley “my dear”…

#or dear boy #if you have Spotify anyway this might be a nice accessible way for you to “read the book #even if you’ve read the book it is lovely to hear Michael and David reenact ist #i had to try so hard not to laugh on my commute home #I failed #and people stared at me #worth it #good omens #good omens audio #book omens #Spotify #Michael Sheen #David Tennant #Neil Gaiman #audio omens #good omens book #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #berethil

[uglyfruit]

what’s aba

ABA stands for applied behavior analysis. It’s a super common and pervasive “treatment”/“intervention” for autistic children-- because they're showing "disruptive" distress behaviors, because their autistic traits are seen as needing to be assimilated to fit into capitalist society, because it's just seen as the thing you do with autistic kids

Basically it tries to change someone’s outward behavior using rewards or punishments. When it was first invented (by the guy also involved in creating conversion therapy!), these included slaps and electric shocks. Today, most of the methods have been made much “friendlier”, but still arguably work to make an autistic child’s behavior easier to deal with, more “normal”, more compliant.

While it often /is/ effective in changing outward behaviors, that says nothing of its potential to teach shame, masking of autistic traits, reliance upon prompts/rewards to do things, teaching that you must always obey authority figures, that your internal feelings are unimportant, the trauma of potentially aversive punishments, the fact that kids as young as 2 get recommended to spend up to 40hours a week in intensive ABA, the fact that it rarely addresses (or even worsens) the actual issues underlying distress behaviors…. and ultimately the message is that disabled people must be changed to fit into abled society, rather than abled society changing.

As that post I reblogged said, it's important to nuance to the discussion beyond "ABA=abuse", especially regarding how so many social forces shape the reality and power and experience of ABA, incl the absence of better types of care.

#thanks for letting me infodump. I think i don't realize that this is sort of a niche area of discourse #perhaps? #which is in part bc those most impacted by it often communicate in different ways and/or don't have access to social media #i'm readying a rlly good (if dense) book rn about aba and capitalism called the autism industrial complex - highly rec #mail #anon

[dragonsongmakhali]

Come visit Makhali's house!

Mateus || Lavender Beds || Ward 27 || Plot 59

#ffxiv #ffxiv gpose #ch: makhali khatayin #it's. done enough so i finally opened up access OTL probably will still mess around with it but it's a good first draft. it feels cozy :) #i have a lil guest book so feel free to say hello! :'> #might even reblog this at a sensible time tomorrow you never know

[trash-gremlin]

could you imagine how good spirit animals would be if it wasn't written as a children's series

#thats the country that is bad and full of bad people that deserve to be mistreated and suffer a horrible disease that is easily curable - #- that the rest of the world has access to because a long time ago they started a war #i feel like bc they were kids books they couldnt really touch on the horrors of war #or how vile The Many were #it could also explore the greencloaks more in the way that they werent good guys. in the slightest #it would have so much more nuance #GOD IMAGINE IMAGINE IMAGINE #IT COULD BE SO SO SO GOOD #i need someone to write the books in a grittier way. #i mean obviously they touched on the fact that these kids were fighting in wars at 11 years old #and that stetriol was justified in rising up #and shane is already a really complex character but we never really got to see the like super gritty side only glimpses in the book of shan #spirit animals books #spirit animals series #and the fucking bile???? thats a terrifying concept that didnt get treated as seriously as it shouldve i think #especially how the fact it can turn regular animals into brutish killing machines was mentioned only once or twice #the amount of proper angst you can explore in the main four as well holy shit

[yoiasa]

one more thing that i love about the japanese version of the novels is that the maps were all unique to each book

just look at them !

it really highlights just where our heroes went as the stories progressed in the books, and i think that's some good attention to detail

#i only had access to the first three books (1st is physical copy the other two books were excerpts) #buttt i think i'm gonna assume that the maps of the other books will be different in each book as well #guardians of ga'hoole #the map is even better irl because it's a fold out mini poster ! #fantasy books having maps in them ? amazing. spectacular. #the maps are detailed and are different and unique throughout each book to highlight where the characters went to as the story progressed ? #REAL GOOD SHIT

[chronicpaingirlie]

would love to hear about your books and poems recs about disabilities!!!

<3 !!

books i really liked & highly recommend:

- being heumann (judy heumann)

- disfigured (amanda leduc)

- disability visibility (alice wong)

- the cancer journals (audre lorde)

- klara and the sun (kazuo ishiguro)*

- how to keep house while drowning (kc davis)**

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*fiction, but i think it deals really well with the subject of chronic/terminal illness; it really struck a chord with me

**not necessarily about disability but it’s got a lot of tips for being gentle & working kindly & effectively with your neurodivergent self & it’s genuinely one of the best nonfiction books i’ve ever read

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books i haven’t read but want to:

- capitalism and disability (keith rosenthal)

- black disability politics (sami schalk)

- show me where it hurts (kylie maslen)

- brilliant imperfection (eli clare)

- allies and obstacles (pamela block)

- the tiger and the cage (emma bolden)

- the care we dream of (zena sharman)

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my favorite poems about disability:

- ode to the chronically ill body (camisha jones)

- cachexia (max ritvo)

- the cancer diagnosis & chronic illness (fortesa latifi)

- upon receiving my inheritance (william fargason)

- ode to plastic cups (naomi oritz)

- i’m rewatching the she-ra episode where glimmer gets sick for the first time (arianna monet)

- advice to the able-bodied poet entering the disability poetics workshop (liv mammone)

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a few miscellaneous things:

- my spirit burns through this body (an essay by akwaeke emezi)

- things that able me (an essay by christy tending)

- grappling with cure (a recording of a speech by eli clare)

(ps, if anyone has any recommendations or thoughts on any of these, please share!! i’d love to hear)

#unfortunately the books i listed as want to read arent ones i have access to & i can’t afford to buy them due to Not Able To Work </3 #but thank u for this ask!! im bedbound rn and it was a good distraction :’) <3 #asks #disability #disabled #chronic fatigue #chronic pain

[non-un-topo]

Forever fucked up over the fact that sometimes you have to write the thing you desperately want to read/watch because it doesn't exist yet

#this isn't about fanfiction btw dfghfds #i love writing but at what cost !!! also in this economy ??? #and all of my ideas are so niche and silly but at least i have a feeling my dad would love them !!! we have a similar brain #inherited the brain while i also inherited his entire face #anyway one of these days i'm going to write a long rant about how almost EVERY novel that takes place in the middle ages - #- takes place in fucking england and has something to do with monarchs or the construction of a church. #or it's all fantasy OR the story of king arthur a hundred thousand times. #don't be a coward. tell stories about non-english commoners. and stop making the crusades sound like a noble thing. #were it not for The State of The World and the Economy i would quit everything and write movies and books #because all of my writing is very visual. like i think a lot of my ideas would translate better on film. #ohhh you know what it is? a lot of these books i'm thinking of are written by historians and i think historians of the english type - #- get really hard over royals and famous battles and such. #and that's all well and good but it's not very accessible to readers just starting out in the genre. i've complained about this before lol

[eisthenameofme]

Impulsively painted the Sabbat symbol on my jacket because I am being So Autistic about them and needed an outlet apparently

#and this is way i shouldnt have carte blanche access to leather paint. #it turned out bigger than i initially intended but whatever. whatever. #i still need to do the finishing coat but i thought i'd take a break + make sure it's properly dry first #i might also do a couple touch ups. but considering i freehanded it i think it's pretty good #but now my jackets starting to look lopsided and i need to counterbalance it lmao #mypost #*why #and before you ask yes. i do indeed have other things i should really be doing instead of this. #the book is just there because i needed a hard surface to put inside the jacket so i could paint properly

[brother-emperors]

Hi! Could you please recommend more books like Great effusion of blood? Many thanks. P.S. I love, LOVE what you do. You are amazingly talented and interesting person. Hope you're having a great week!

oh man it took me a minute to think of some recs for this bc I forgot what I had been reading that book for*

so! if you enjoyed the Great Effusion of Blood, you might ALSO enjoy

Violence and Civil Disorder in Italian Cities, 1200-1500, ed. Lauro Martines

Robin Hood in the Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in English Outlaw Tradition, Stephen Knight

*I was reading this book for one essay in it about Robin Hood, so I'm basing these recs off of that

#also tysm anon! i hope you're having a good week too! #i've mostly been reading essays and texts on philippine history and politics lately so it took me a full week to remember anything #about what i usually post on this blog. if it's not 2pm kanjani8 or the philippines my brain starts making a dial up tone #like all i can think of that's most like this book is a collection of essays on ph history UP made open access #ask tag #rec tag

[imagionary]

Some stuff about Benjamin, past and present (AU stuff of course); Barry is none the wiser to Benjamin's hopeless crush

#fine Evils you win #Thee Mingler was too good and managed to get the info from Benjamin at the 4th street bar xD #Benjamin and Barry have been friends for around 12 years in our AU #Benjamin has worked for COGS.INC for around 15 years I think? #and the two didn't really hang out and get to know each other until Benjamin had been there for 3 #poor Benjamin has had a crush on Barry for awhile but Barry has a wife and son so he's kept this feeling to himself #he likes their friendship and has accepted that his feelings could never be reciprocated #he still loves Barry though; he never wants this crush to get in the way of his friendship with him #Barry has a wife named Marie and a son named Murray #Marie is a scrivenar and Murray is a book keeper back at their home conglomerate #Barry has a special contract similar to Belle's that allows him train access to other conglomerates for family trips #ttcc #toontown corporate clash #imagionary rambles #toontown: corporate clash #toontown #benjamin biggs #bellringer #barry brief #case manager #ttcc oc #ttcc au

[soldier-poet-king]

God forgive me I got bored and looked at my tumblr fyp and got blasted with blatant antisemitism AND vaccine conspiracy theories AND anti public school libertarian sentiment

The problem with being religious, specifically christian (i can't speak to if this is a universal experience across faiths, I somehow doubt it), is that I cannot stand the vast majority of my co-religionists, and online it seems that I'm only ever 3 degrees of association away from the most batshit godawful opinions I've ever had the misfortune to read

#franposting #i dont wish evil on anyone #but i think some people would benefit GREATLY from never being on the internet or having access to a public platform again #go join a monastery and engage in good wholesome work and contemplate your actions #and most importantly. stop annoying ME. i am SO ANGRY all the TIME #anyway whining but this is not abt anyone i follow directly or who follows me #so its fine. its 7 degrees of kevin bacon but evil #today is in essence a monday since yesterday was a stat holiday #and i am TOO tired to deal with this on a monday #where im bored out of my mind at work bc boss is STILL away #and i can only generate so much busywork #but my scruples keep me from just. blatantly watching tv on my phone. #im gonna go reas that data bias invisible women book and make myself even more mad #its not even new info to me. some of her examples maybe. but like simone de beauvior was right oh we're really in it now #i havent read the secind sex cover to cover yet only bc i think i will get so angry depressed that I'll never recover #the parts i have read. v good.

[platykool]

Hi there ! I've been quite unactive recently because I've started an internship at a bookshop and it's AMAZING I'm having a blast and everyone's very nice ! But I don't have a lot of time to reblog (when I want to say stuff in the tags) / interact much or drawing, but don't worry I'm still around !

^ have this guy for good luck

#just adjusting to my new schedule #good thing is I have access to a shit ton of books (mostly comics and manga) so I can read plenty and I am overjoyed #I'm discovering a lot of things #but I do miss it here ! I'll try to get back on the reblogs at leats #wishing you well everyone take care !! <3 #sounds like a goodbye but it is not dw #me talking