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Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

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I wrote a book! It's a fantasy novel called Reignclowd Palace and it's out on 12th June. Honestly at this point I don't even know how I managed to write a novel while my twins were still toddlers. This comic is a simplified version of how it went down!

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sunday — bookstore, then art gallery

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This is an advertisement for When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT:

The moon has turned to cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. When the Moon Hits Your Eye is a very scientific, insightful, and hilarious exploration into what really WOULD happen if the moon suddenly turned into cheese. How would the different density affect the moon’s movement? And what about cheese’s notorious lack of an internal core? And more insidious, who would try to profit off of this, and what lengths would they go to protect their self-interest in the face of scientific integrity and a world on the brink?

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The stacks are getting out of hand again

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“You should be at the club.” No, I should be at the scholastic book fair.

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so after, when he whispers, “you love me. real or not real?” i tell him, “real.”

prints + merch + commission info pinned to profile :)

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love elizabeth s.

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here’s a little meme I made

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Hellloo!!

I’m going to book-shopping later, recommend some books I read almost everything and willing to try new genres,

Help a girl out 🎀🌐

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A mind is a terrible thing to erase. This advertisement is for Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite.

WHAT’S IT ABOUT:

Aboard the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty’s most luxurious interstellar passenger liner, minds are carefully preserved in glass in the library, shielded from every danger while passengers amuse themselves for the years it takes to reach their destination. Ship detective Dorothy Gentleman is still mourning the accidental death of her beloved wife, but when she wakes up in a body that isn’t hers just as someone else is discovered murdered she finds herself on the hunt for a killer.

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Guys, queers. Specifically my fellow queers.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

This isn't a vague post, there's no one person I'm hinting at or calling out. I'm not even talking directly to anyone who's directly in my line of sight. I just want everyone to hear this. Big library, small library, whatever. Doesn't matter. Please, we cannot be losing our shelf visibility like this.

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Writers when it's time to write the story no one forced them to come up with in the first place 🙄

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People aren't homes, they never will be. People are rivers, always changing, forever flowing. They will disappear with everything you put inside them.

~ Nikita Gill

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hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.