the human urge to ask the people around you a question you have before googling it
it’s about the process of reasoning through a question and connecting with the people around you but it’s also about seeing who’s right. good sportsmanlike fun.
Can everyone who reads this PLEASE reblog it?!?!? Libraries literally saved my life as a child!
Being abused at home, bullied at school and lost in the world, the library and all the books I could escape to the most amazing worlds, kept me alive!
I would walk to the library, and spend all day, from 10 am to 9 pm reading there!! I got special awards for how many books I read, I wrote little blurbs on why i loved the books (probably why I love to BETA and do ARCs)
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Just hit the green arrows and the reblog!!!
As a 50 year old woman, the library offers me so much. Digital art pads to borrow, 3D printing, book clubs that are face to face (yeah, the introvert likes face to face because a moderator will stomp on anyone getting snarky)
New books in LARGE PRINT! I’m visually challenged and as much as I love my kindle, The feel of a real book in my hands will always be a beloved feeling!
Our library also has quarterly books sales of almost free books!! For 5$USD we get in a day early and can buy as many as we want. Anyone else has to wait and there is a limit for the first 2 days.
Also many, many libraries have inter library loan(it may be called something different). This means if they don’t have the item you want, they can get it for you. This may include photocopy/pdf of articles. This can also include along with books and DVDs, microfilm/fiche which is also a huge resource. Check around for libraries that are listed as depositories if you want to look at government documents.
Remember that many colleges and universities have open stacks for the public. You will likely have to pay a membership fee but you will get to stuff.
I think as adults with our own living spaces it’s important to have your friends over periodically for a sleepover. And i mean a real sleepover. Staying up late to watch movies with junkfood and popcorn and then going to bed only to stay up even later talking in the dark and laughing because you’re so exhausted that everything’s funny but you still don’t want to fall asleep.
every time you ridicule a nasty person’s appearance there is chance it’s going to reach a vulnerable person who sees themselves in their features
This. It really frustrates me when someone is being problematic and then people start attacking their looks. Like go ahead and call out the person for bad behavior all you want but when you start making it about their appearance you become part of the problem.
The most fucked up thing about getting older is that it starts to feel normal. Like you’ll just be going about your daily routine and it’ll hit you that this is your house and your room and your living room. And you mop the floors and you do the laundry and you make dinner and you’re in charge of you. And you’ve just been taking it for granted since the last time you had this realization, but really you’re responsible for yourself and you’re still alive so I guess you’re doing an okay job? Fucked up. I remember being a scared kid in my parents house so afraid of taking care of myself so afraid of the world and all it’s adult responsibilities, but it all gets so mundane. Incredible.
no offence but is this seriously what we’re doing for the rest of our lives. like. just work minimum wage and drink soy lattes? be a 4.75/10? I half-heartedly thrift for my clothes and watch the world collapse around me in a very boring and predictable way? sure I can go hike the fucking pacific crest trail and I romanticise my bus ride and listen to hozier or whatever the tiktok girlies say these days. but this can’t be it.
i love when i plug the charger into the wall and see a little spark but i survive. we live so close to dying every day. and in this terror our hearts only delight
