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“The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I” from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Willy Pogany (1910)

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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.

#the amount of people i know who got library cards after i explained libby to them #some folks need that access barrier removed to use their local library at all! its a great service and we should use it as much as we can

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how come there are so many unreleased mountain goats songs which are the best song you've ever heard in your life

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The Ballad of Tam Lin, or The Devil’s Widow (1970)

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#tam lin 1970

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Ava Gardner and Ian McShane in The Devil's Widow (The Ballad of Tam Lin, 1970).

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There was a version with Ava Gardner and Ian McShane that was reworked as late 60s folk-horror, which is kind of fun in its own right but feels like a whole different story to me. I'd love to see it done with more magic and history

Daydreaming about a feature-length film adaptation of Tam Lin done out like the Green Knight, all beautiful colours and endless scenery and reality blurred at the edges

#ava gardners floaty rainbow dress can stay though

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Daydreaming about a feature-length film adaptation of Tam Lin done out like the Green Knight, all beautiful colours and endless scenery and reality blurred at the edges

#courtly yearning!! pro abortion!! love and metamorphosis and getting kidnapped by a fairy queen!!

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dev patel really said "i support trans ppls rights....... trans ppls rights to kill bigots with guns and metal pipes and chairs and cool knives'' anyway watch monkey man

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if yr doing a final girl in yr horror movie YOU NEED TO KILL HER BOYFRIEND that's the absolute rule

#fr hellraiser did not need steve kill that man

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#death and taxes: going to jail for being bad at paperwork 😔

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does anyone know if this exists/would be interested in joining if I set it up?

Work book-club has shut down and I'm actually heartbroken. We never read the same things, just got coffee every couple of weeks and swapped recommendations, talked about what we were reading. I'm going to miss it so much, I need a book discord server or something

#i will wither without a reading community help

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Work book-club has shut down and I'm actually heartbroken. We never read the same things, just got coffee every couple of weeks and swapped recommendations, talked about what we were reading. I'm going to miss it so much, I need a book discord server or something

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if I forgot your favorite subgenre or misclassified a band feel free to argue in the replies 👍

#doom doom doom doom #sludge+stoner are so relaxing to me

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public library save me

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Recently on Unhelpful File Labels in the Archives:

On-Going Project. Folders were empty.

Well Written Articles, 1999. There were no articles in this folder. There were a lot of budget reports though.

Stuff. You are killing me smalls.

Section 569-055 Knowingly burning or exploding. This was just papers shoved between files, I have a lot of questions and zero answers.

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