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wait guys. reblog this and tell me what the last movie you watched was. bonus points if you add a short review <333

#the woman in question (1950) #it was interesting but not all that emotionally compelling #it came out a few months after rashomon and has a kind of similar approach (differing perspectives on one character/set of events) #but that seeeeeems to be a coincidence? #jean kent was great in the lead #but it was no jose chung’s from outer space lol

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we used to get prescribed a summer on the seaside. now we just get told to go touch grass. the economy is in shambles

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Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

#i would LOVE it if the wind blew colder around me #built in air conditioning!

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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.

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Charles Baudelaire, “Clouded Sky”

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Homer, The Odyssey (trans. by Emily Wilson)

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I love nautical and seaside town horror stories. Tell me more about the fog and water that eats people

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tshirt that reads "I Went on the Lost Franklin Expedition and All I Got Was Frostbite and Hypothermia and Scurvy and Lead Poisoning and Zinc Deficiency and Also This Shirt"

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Just because we aren't seeing more posts about Palestine, doesn't mean the genocide has stopped. Let's keep Praying and speaking up for Gaza, Palestine.

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No "other" option. If you don't like multi POV books, please keep scrolling!

#just read a book with several more than six povs and it was great #it was also 600 pages but it was deserved #it’s just that the more pov characters you have the more mindful you have to be of keeping the action moving

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what im learning is that you cannot avoid your way into a life you enjoy

#augh

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FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

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I'm just saying, if there's a curse that runs along your family line and you don't tell your kids about it, how the hell are they supposed to go on a quest to stop it?

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the crushing ocean depths are unfathomable TO YOU. i live there though.

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rb if you’re a bi bitch who loves carbs