If any of y’all didn’t know, there’s a free online library, aka

https://openlibrary.org/

and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.

Guy there are books on magic on there.

There’s books on EVERYTHING there!

Wouldn’t this be bad for authors though? or is this like a normal library where they get /some/ money?

It’s like a normal library. Libraries can upload ebooks there and let people check them out through openlibrary if you have an openlibrary account, or it can point you to nearby libraries that have physical copies of the book for you to go and check out. If you check out books via openlibrary it counts towards the count of books checked out from the library that uploaded the ebook, and they can use it in their reporting and funding and stuff.

There’s like 150 libraries partnered with openlibrary so far.

They also have copies that you can check out if you are print-disabled.

You can also ‘sponsor a book’, which means you pay the cost of the ebook you want openlibrary to acquire, and then they can add it to their collection and let people check it out.

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL26576A/Tamora_Pierce

I sure did!

And click on a title even if it says ‘no ebook available’ and scroll down, ‘cause sometimes that just means “all of the copies of ebooks are checked out right now but you can get on the waitlist when it’s back in”

This is part of the Internet Archive! I’ve posted about this before. Please go, it’s amazing. 

signal boosting because BOOKS

Oh!

WE MADE IT FOLKS!!!

I cannot believe 'archive of our own was hacked by a Russian cyber terrorist group pretending to be Sudanese because of all the smut and lgbt content' is a real, canon event in 2023

Wuvvy and Riz 🤝 aroace, autistic, and afraid of getting left behind when friends get romantic partners 🤝 me

ghost files is just so compelling because sure it’s about ghosts. sure it’s about trying to find proofs and evidence and explore what’s there. sure it’s about theories and banter. but in the midst of all this there’s another story about standing in the middle of a dark room paralyzed with fear until a friendly face cracks a joke for you. until someone says sure I’ll scream at dust and argue this is all bullshit while you find your courage. I’ll make a silly fool of myself, take goofy selfies of us in haunted mirrors and I’ll hold your hand for something I don’t even believe in. I’ll mock the wind and taunt demons so it’s less scary. I’ll sit there in the dark with you just to make you laugh.

the gf in ghost files stands for ghosts and friendship

Ya’ll are so weird, what do you mean you think he should abandon his son for his own happiness???

i like to entertain myself by thinking about Bad Succession -> (alternate reality succession where it sucks). constant sepia-tinted flashbacks to traumatic childhood memories, with echoey abusive dad dialogue. post-car accident kendall is haunted by a hallucination of the waiter everywhere he goes. shiv has girlboss moments where she triumphs against misogynistic men and they learn not to underestimate women. once you get started you can’t stop.. the ideas are endless. they would try to make kendall into a rebellious bad boy type with personal demons. he would have a scene where he stares into a cracked mirror to represent his fractured psyche

The Meatball Story from Watcher Youtube

If we’re being honest I think Keeley would assume that Roy and Jamie are fucking and the “4 AM training sessions” are an excuse to show up to work together every day. The idea of her two ex boyfriends who hate each other having gay sex is way less insane to her than the idea of someone who has to work out all day getting up at 4 o’clock in the morning in order to work out for an additional 3 hours

Ah. I know. You’re wondering… what is a place like me doing in a girl like this?

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

The Nice Guys (2016)

Watching Supernatural is a such a wild experience because so much happens in it and you can open any given episode and me like, "Oh yeah, I forgot about the demon that took over the antichrist's body and it helps them solve the mystery of Bloody Mary, who's come back from being exorcised in order to get revenge on the Winchesters" because it's not the most consequential story beat and got overshadowed by things like Dean being killed by a piece of rebar

Puppet History RETURNS for another season! Remember the date: JULY 7

Some screencaps from the new Mulaney special that have the best potential to become memes, imho:

Bonus: the line that punched me in the gut the first time I heard it

they’re like Greek sirens for bisexual men

Fully objectified and perfect for eachother

So true king preach it!

Barbie (2023)

we stan asexual Barbie! (x)