#book cull

[nerdynatreads]

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book (un)haul || I’m Becoming One of Those People -- 2nd Quarter Book (un)Haul

out with the old and in with the new!

#book stacks #book stack #book haul #new books #book buying #book unhaul #book cull #getting rid of books #manga #romance books #fantasy books #bookblr #booklr #book tumblr #booktube #booktuber #book youtube

[gabbyp09]

#oficial art #@takeo72 #oficial animation book colourist #jjk #jjk series #jujutsu #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu sorcerer #culling games #呪術廻戦 #呪術2期 #jjk manga #gege akutami #takeji #higuruma hiromi #hiromi higuruma #jjk higuruma #higuruma jjk

[khamomile-kitty]

Only thing I’m gonna say abt it bc I haven’t read the books or participated tje fandom since I was in elementary school but. Ppl’s reaction to Squirrelflight becoming leader is so funny. The misogyny of the authors has rubbed off on the fans I see, how are you gonna tell a victim of domestic abuse that’s she’s a worse leader and suffered less than her husband. And all the alternate leader suggestions from these ppl are the lame ass guys. this is one of the saddest characters in cat fiction let the girlie win at least once good lord

#‘but she’s old so she’ll just die right away’ and? she’s still kickin so far anyway #they’re gonna pull some nightstar shit w her and pull sims bs excuse I just know it but. I’m gonna enjoy the win for now lol #also heard that they introduced TNR to the books. this will my be handled well #*​not be #I loved warriors but it wreaked havoc on cat care. your cat is not a warrior quit letting it outside to die. #and TNR is not a viable long term solution it’s just putting a bandaid on a gaping wound #introducing this controversial tactic into annanthrpromorphic cat book is. NOT gonna help I already know ppl who don’t spay or nueter bc #‘what if they want to have babies later 🥺 I don’t want to take away their freedom’ ma’am they are animals. #and there is such a massive amount of cat overpopulation that the only option to make sure the ones able to be adopted actually get to be #would be to cull massive amounts of them. talk to a shelter worker they are literally up to their knees in cats #and half of them are so feral or sick that the only humane option is euthanasia #anyway. I support women’s rights and wrongs lmao #squirrelflight #squirrelstar #warrior cats

[valiantvillain]

I feel like we as a society need to bring back children's books with cute fuzzy animals murdering and maiming each other.

#some of those books did not pull punches #guardians of ga'hoole's major story conflict was fighting owl nazis #constance the badger from redwall was a nun with a body count #mistmantle chronicles started with the murder of an infant prince and bad guys who did culling & forced labor #warrior cats had some of the most gruesomely graphic deaths i had ever read as a child #including a cat dying in childbirth in the third book #i'm just saying it left one with a very unique reading experience as a child #i also partially wonder if the characters being cute animals “softened the blow” of stories with more complex themes & allegory #oh and also watership down

[samuraisharkie]

that virtualtoybox person literally told me they aren’t reading what I said and then tried to talk to me w about as much in their tags lol. i never understand people that go ‘I’m not reading all of that but you should read what I have to say” bc like. imagine how infuriated ur gonna get when that response is leveled right back at you? and judging by their tags they didn’t read past my very first line. bc they started comparing animals and animal rights to eugenics which is EXACTLY what I was saying is extremely dangerous to do. That’s exactly how people start calling things that happen to animals a ‘Holocaust’ and I’m positive such a statement is made in that book they told me to read. I’m disabled too. I know what I’m talking fucking about too. In the animal section, I for SURE know more than you do! Because if you knew and truly cared about animals and their welfare, you wouldn’t be talking like PETA. Here’s a trick to other disability activists: learn about animal welfare by volunteering on farms and educating yourself on breeders and the industry rather than getting involved in PETA! And another critical trick: NEVER compare animals to people! That’s exactly what the freaks that think any living thing with a deformity that should die are doing. These people would clutch their pearls the moment they hear farms cull undesirable animals bc they can’t afford to keep every single one and have to streamline their breeding and raising to what will help keep the farm running. That doesn’t mean these farmers want to do the same to people, because the animal is NOT a person and doesn’t live like one. Our lives are not even remotely comparable! People like OP are the people that keep a wild bird with an amputated wing alive bc in their mind it would be insinuating all amputees should die if the bird is put down, and next thing the bird is on the Dodo as inspiration porn. Duex Face is an exception to two headed animals, not the rule. Don’t tell me to do my research when you’re spouting talking points from people that have caused more problems for animals as a whole second only to the commercialization of animal industry. Maybe you need some research (field research) instead! They’re going to block me and I’m assuming that’s why I can’t rb the post anymore even if I wanted to (like I said I didn’t want to start a fight so like. I’m not going to be yelling and acting like an asshole. I swore a bit in the tags initially bc I feel very strongly about how animal rights activists have fucked up disability activism by acting like there’s equivalency in our existences, but that’s not targeted. Most was going to respond telling them that if they feel this strongly they need to be reading more about the animal industry rather than relying on people that are in no way experts on animals talking as an authority on them, and using that to tie with their human rights activism as if animals rights and humans rights are even remotely the same in any way. Whatever though at least the tags are there if anyone who cares enough actually reads them and thinks about them. Will most likely just attract militant vegans and ARAs like the op but whatever)

#ableism tw #why are people caring more about animal rights than human rights. acting like an animal has the same existence a human does #why aren’t we instead pointing and making books about the HUMAN eugenics happening right in front of our eyes. #why do we have to talk through fantasized anthropromorphized animals #why do you people have to imagine an animal feels like you do in order for people to care. #to an extent I’m sure there is a level to which you can say ‘yeah this person is ableist’ judging by how they talk about outside subjects #and I agree that the people who want Deux Face put down are ignorant and a few likely are ableist #but treating it like there is ZERO NUANCE and that every person who holds concern for whether the animal is suffering or not is ableist #is ignorant and harmful #this situation is way way more than what op made it out to be and you can already see in the replies how ARAs have latched onto it #to get on their soapbox and declare that anyone that treats animals as anything less than human are ableist eugenists #(while simultaneously disrespecting people that are actually living through those situations aka comparing animal culling to a Holocaust.) #it doesn’t matter if you’re part of the demographic that’s being harmed and you have no problem with it you don’t speak for all of us #and despite being an activist you CAN be misinformed and fueled by bias! #if animals are fur babies with human emotions to you than of course you will prefer the ‘beast of burden’ argument #I’ll check that book out honestly. would be good to know how to refute what OP built their beliefs off of

[beaft]

Could one of your friends potentially store your books for you until you have room for them? I would be so sad if I had to get rid of my books

honestly i'm being a little dramatic, it was only a couple of boxes of tattered paperbacks - but when it comes to books i always feel so irrationally guilty about letting them go. like, i know i don't need three separate copies of lord of the rings, especially when two of them are falling to pieces, but i'm gay and have attachment issues and it feels like i'm shoving a friend in the garbage.

#i try and operate on a buy-one toss-one basis #but because i've been neglecting that system for a while i'm now having to do a mini-cull and i'm Upset About It #if i had the choice i'd keep every book i ever acquired #but given the rate i go through them that's just not practical #one of my main motivations for getting my own place is legit so i can have more storage space for books. i wish i was joking. #(obviously i do get books out of the library as well because i like libraries and i do not have the money to be buying three books a week)

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

Apparently AO3 is down-

SK questions! Sunny focused!

1. So in the winter / colder months, would Sun make some temporary homes for the stray cats? With heating and food too. (Bonus points if there's a cat cam installed within the home)

2. As a Librarian, does Sun 'cull' books that contain misleading/outdated information? I'm torn between all information being available to the public, regardless of the content and only truthful infomation being available to the public. (Is this a morality issue? Idk anymore)

3. So you mentioned Sun uses chemicals to clean the blood. Does he buy speciality chemicals or just household products? And well... if he needed more heavy duty chemicals, could he ask one of the connections for help?

Im tempted to see if you'll recognise who I am just through these questions alone, hence me being on anon. Just curious to see if I do have a writing style.

Also sidenote, the next set of questions I plan to send do have mentions of deaths and funerals. I can switch it out for a more wholesome set, if it's not a good time to talk about that.

Thanks for answering these questions, and I hope you have a decent day!

~ That does sound like a very Sun thing to do. Though he'd use it more as a lure to catch them so he can bring them to the rescue shelter

~And maybe, if he deemed necessary. He certainly doesn't want the children to read such misinformation, or have adults spread that info to them. If it's harmless enough he will leave it be.

~A bit of both. He will buy mainly household remedies and rarely buy the "good stuff". Avoids suspicion that way. If it's a necessity though, then yes he and Moon can rely on their special connections to get what they need.

and yes I know who you are, haha. And it doesn't matter what questions you send first, I'll get to them eventually

you too!

#answered ask #dca!serial killer au #sk sun #sun the librarian #sun loves cats #culling books #clean up

[mountainmaven]

Remember that post the other day about me wanting ALL the books??

Yeah, I just eliminated 29 books off my TBR shelf this morning. I clearly need to be more choosy when acquiring books.

But also, WHY are books so gosh darn enticing????

#books #about me #personal #booklr #culling the TBR herd #I still have 34 books on the TBR shelf

[eddis-not-eeddis]

Okay, but how hard is it to just.

Not.

Write a love-triangle.

It cannot possibly be that hard.

#i'm going through my shelves and weeding out the good from the bad starting with the books that i suspect are not so good #and if there is a love triangle is immediately goes in the box #i am too tired for this #(i bought a LOT of books at book fairs over the past three years) #and even though i typically read 50-100 books a year #when i buy 300 every book sale #there is no way to make it through them all #i must cull #starting with triangles #(i've even found some squares) #(one might have been a hexagon but i stopped skimming when the third dude arrived on scene) #good grief #most girls struggle to net even one man #and here are all of these heroines barely able to beat off entire hordes with broom-sticks #it's being laid on a bit thick when there are three+ gents hanging around #i'm just saying #at that point i think all four+ people involved need to have a sit-down and reevaluate life choices #the problem with these books is a lot of them are vintage and i bought them based on title and prettiness since they have no blurbs #i've found a few truly wonderful treasures #but most are mediocre at best #and a few have been absolutely tragically awful

[rap541]

Oh Hey, Look At This!

Just saying… my book is out. If you like books where the young heroes are being testing in a high stakes dystopian battle royal for rank and status, check out the first book of my series.

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#a shameless plug #The book is The Culling by SA Moffett #The Culling #The Primacy Crucible

[dietraumerei]

Hi! 2, 3, and/or 19 for the book meme??

Did you reread anything? What?

Oh, this is a really good question, I generally re-read much less than I want to. Going through my Storygraph account, I re-read Hogfather, The Wee Free Men, The Return of the King (though I admittedly remembered almost nothing from my first read, 20ish years ago), Matrix, The Two Towers, and One Summer: America 1927. Huh, ok, that was better than I'd feared!

What were your top five books of the year?

Oooooh. Okay, in no particular order: The Custom of the Country

The Path to Power

When The Angels Left The Old Country

Menewood

The Vaster Wilds

Learned by Heart

Our Wives Under the Sea

1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and A Tour de France Obsession

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Redshift

Against Memoir (especially this essay which is breathtaking)

The Tummy Trilogy (the first two books make up for the third, which is skippable)

Bad Land: An American Romance (RIP Jonathan Raban)

I thought I would cut this down but pixels are free so you get my top, um, 13. One for each month plus one to grow on!

Did you use your library?

....sooooooort of? Despite a shameful number of years living here, I haven't yet registered with my current city's library system (and, sigh, since I'll probably have to move out of said city in a year or two in order to afford property....is it worth it?) I borrowed tons of books through Libby via my previous city's system. I used to love a good wander through the stacks, but with a completely understandable pivot away from retaining acres of stacks of non-James Patterson books, I find the physical wander less rewarding. (I have such warm memories of various Free Library of Philadelphia stacks and finding gems there. I don't blame a single person involved, but still. Sigh.)

#meme #this is so nice as I recover from covid vax and flu shot yesterday #and plan to re-sort and cull my books tomorrow

[annamariedarkholmes]

the way that adult men working both in the x-men office and “influencer” fan-adjacent spaces always behave so performatively extra about gambit will never stop being weird to me. it’s such a nasty underhanded way to gatekeep his (mostly female lbr) fans under the guise of (repeatedly asserting) mere personal preference

#this isn’t the same as fandom arguments btw bc it’s often unprovoked out of nowhere bashing #gambit #x #he’s not real #but his fans that you keep trying to gatekeep are #this shit isn’t new btw #the office tried to kill him ever since antarctica #i’ve read account of people attending cons in the early aughts #and the x-office men on the panel would pull this shit on the FANS ASKING QUESTIONS #the x-office keeps getting more homogenous the further we get from summer 2020 #i knew it was just corporate pinkwashing and there you go #otherwise then where is vita #where is kelly thompson #why is leah only getting an occasional mini #treating tini howard like their peggy olson ‘superstar’ while culling all other female/nb/non-white writers…. tells you everything #we’re finally getting stephanie williams after how many years of the same yt men #and is she actually getting a book #or just a story included in marvel pride? #i don’t give a shit about what those men like and they don’t have to share my interests #but the fact that they’re actively trying to sabotage everything outside their specific personal preference? #not promoting r&g until presales ended for 1 #while they promoted captain britain and x23 EARLY? #was a very specific choice #i remember this song and dance from long ago #see also ‘you’re not real fans’ levied at girls/women who loved movie rogue and her kinship w wolverine #even though they’re super close in the comics too #i know it’s partly the subset of weirdo kitty pryde fans (including our current x-editor lol) #who think any female character who logan mentors is a ~threat~ but it’s mostly misogyny

[officialbillhader]

I finished plain bad heroines which is the longest book ive read since probably middle school and i dont think i liked the ending

#awesomepie3221 #like idk.. it could've wrapped up into something more #than just.. witches. i guess? #the book probably needed to be culled down tbh

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Not gonna lie Gold was a bit meandering (I still really enjoyed it though) but the ending was really heating up and then it left it on that cliffhanger! And now I'm just supposed to wait however long for the next book!! Cruel honestly 😭

#you're telling me to wait when auren might have forgotten everything!! forgotten slade!!!! i cry 😭 #man so excited for the next book #but *thranduil voice* I'm patient i can wait #and if cull hurts a single hair on elore's head so help me i will jump through the pages and go all slade revenge style on him #gold #gold spoilers #the plated prisoner #lisa reads gold

[ego-sum-arbor]

I’m so normal abt my bookcase organization

#doing the regular post finals new book shelving #slash book cull #wherein I become very agitated abt shelf space #organization #and what childhood books to keep around #srsly I am unlikely to pick up many of these #but can’t possibly part with them #my blather

[theaestheticofsound]

i remember

circa 2006, first grade.

I remember hearing about the Bermuda Triangle and planes getting lost all over the world. I remember being terrified of quicksand. I vaguely remember thinking "Why aren't my parents afraid of this?" but my parents' constant reassurance quenched my fear to merely distant worry, even as we flew to Bermuda right the year after.

circa 2009, fourth grade.

I remember hearung about the chicken industry. I remember the documentary we had to watch, and to see chicken held in tiny cages. Born in captivity, living in darkness, their only worth seen as egg machines. I remember hearing about mass chick culling. I remember laying in my high bed, thinking about these poor animals, unable to stop crying. Eventually my mum heard me, and she might've cried a little with me, but she reassured me that most chickens were not held that way anymore, and my tears dried up.

Looking back I also remember only seeing egg cartons labeled "cage system housing" because those were cheaper than free-range eggs.

circa 2012, sixth grade.

I remember having to prepare a presentation on global warming and emissions. I remember knowing my parents were not the biggest fans of "climate change". I remember looking up pictures and seeing a picture that showed volcanoes made up 90% of gas emissions, and humans only about 6%. I remember complaining about confusing sources to my parents, and them exclaiming "You finally understand it!"

I remember holding that very presentation, unenthusiastically and deeply unconvinced of what I said, loudly exclaiming to my peers during the break that I also found controversial sources about global warming.

2015, ninth grade.

I remember the war in Syria, and the waves if refugees coming to Europe. I remember the horrible, horrible pictures of basic camps set up in Turkey, far below any humanitarian standard we usually have. I remember Angela Merkel's "We can do this." ("Wir schaffen das.")

I remember talking to friends in school and discussing this in Social Studies, almost unevoquial consent of opinion that this is right and that we, in fact, can do this.

I remember my family scoffing at the "We can do this"; protesting and cursing about the refugees who "only come here to profit off of Germany's economy" behind closed doors. I remember the right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) getting popular, echoing my parents' views and fears of the incoming wave of immigrants. I barely remember ever speaking up against this, but rather rolling eyes at my parents and sighing when they went off on a tirade. I do however remember them saying to me "You're always so terribly tolerant."

I remember keeping my opinion to myself, because I would not get any backup.

2017, eleventh grade.

I remember sitting on my parents' grey couch when a news reporter spoke about the official decision of the German parliament to legalise same-sex marriage. I was generally not keeping up with daily news as it has proven to be a constant source of conflict between me and my parents, since we usually were on opposite sides when it came to humanitarian problems of our society. So hearing this news out of the blue came as a big, but happy surprise for me.

I remember my parents getting annoyed with that decision, and me for once picking a fight; arguing with them, telling them it wouldn't make a difference to their lives at all, but it would a huge difference to others and that Germany should be ashamed to be so late to the game. I remember my parents significantly quieting down after that, rather grumbling to themselves than arguing with me.

I remember my heart breaking as I realised my suspicions were proven true, and that my parents would not be happy with me coming out.

I remember sheltering in my room, keeping my opinions close to my chest for an indefinite future.

2018, final grade of school / first year of university.

I remember the beginning of Skolstrejk för klimatet and when the name Greta Thunberg started appearing in the news. I remember being awed with her bravery and resilience to start such a thing all by herself. I remember the regular Fridays for Future and scoffing at pupils who would ditch school to go to the strikes but then also wouldn't turn up during holidays.

I remember meeting my friends from university, who had much more radical and decisive opinions about Climate Change. I remember finally freeing myself from the last doubts of the veracity of Climate Change, despite my parents' constant quotation of news articles that proved the whole thing to be blown out of proportions. I remember starting to pick fights with my parents again, trying to shoot holes in opinions they've had since before my existence, and failing.

I also remember them keeping their opinions more to themselves around me, as they too weren't keen on having constant debates about politics.

September 2019, second year of uni.

I remember Greta Thunberg's iconic UN Climate Action Summit speech - How dare you. I remember breaking into tears, as all of my fears and anger were finally put into words and brought up to some of the most influential people on Earth.

I remember the relentless taunts of grownups on the internet, mocking Greta's words, twisting and mocking everything she said, not taking any of this seriously.

2020-2021, second-third year of uni.

I remember Covid starting, and the first lockdown happening. I remember feeling celebratory at the thought of having an additional free month before the new semester starts. I remember triple the stress of a normal semester once it did start. I remember a long gruesome summer as I prepared for a state exam. I remember high tensions when my oarents were around, and my hope of moving out once the exam was finally over.

I remember uni starting up again in October, and feeling empty and unmotivated during dark mornings in front of my laptop. I remember starting a job and looking for flats. I remember a warm Christmas and signing a contract for my new flat a couple weeks later. I remember getting bullied at work, but unable to quit as I needed the money to move out. I remember a cold, extremely snowy winter that followed two months later. I remember heaps of snow as high as cars piling up everywhere, blocking cars in, in a desperate attempt to keep the sidewalks walkable.

I remember taking fitfy-five minutes for a twenty minute walk through knee deep snow to my end-of-term exams when all the other transportation options failed.

I remember my parents gloating "Look who's talking now about Global Warming."

2022.

I remember talking to friends about the possibility of having children. I remember half of them saying they wouldn't want to set kids into a world that is doomed to fail.

2023.

I bought The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg on a whim. As I'm slowly progressing through the book, I'm recognising the impact of my parents' opinions and my inability and unwillingness to deal with pressing matters for the first time.

I'm also fully realising for the first time how utterly fucked we are in terms of the future and how little it seems we can change about this as individuals.

I'm humbled and so very grateful that a girl three years younger than me has had the realisation way before me, and that she stuck to her guns and fought for all of us, despite any hardships and mocking and hatred you can do easily find on the internet. She's truly an icon of our time, and i hope that with our current climate movement we can prevent the worst of outcomes and live a long and happy life on our little blue planet, the only home that we have.

So now, instead of remembering I try to live in the present to change the future.

But i will not forget.

I will remember.

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