#( libby w. )

[kiisuuumii]

Ada Limón, "Dead Stars," The Carrying

[rata-novus]

only 2 chapters into the first book and murderbot spilling the tea on whos fuckin and crushin among the doctors is SO funny to me

[alisaismother]

Games Untold extras by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Spoilers

Dudeee the way some of the Alisa stans predicted her whole childhood story

Like even to the fact her mom passed like DUDEE

I remember one of my moots talked abt her childhood made a whole fic abt Alisa’s mom too

[buttercupart]

timeskip Molly concepts - probably when she's around 16-17 ish, maybe even early college? ( I'm not a big fan of the "ooh the bubbly character gets older and is now SUPER SAD" trope so this is more like... Molly is still Molly, she just gets older and faces more hardships/life stressors that come with age, and struggles to maintain the same high level of positivity/resiliency she used to have )

[otrtbs]

atlas six readers …. are nico and gideon end game or what?????

[wizardysseus]

it's hard for me to describe the dread i feel about my job as a librarian—a job i love, which brings me so much joy—because people perceive book banning as a local issue, or an issue of certain states, but it operates on a much broader level, too. if you love your library, you should know what's happening in libraries and how much worse it could get.

yes, on the local level, it matters that you know who is on your library board and what they stand for, even though you might have only indirect control over who those people are. (my library board, for instance, is not voted in but appointed by the mayor, a position that doesn't technically run on partisan lines but in practice absolutely does.) your library board is probably who makes the final call when a book is challenged about whether to remove it from the hands of the people. and if the board is not committed to serving the community the library serves, they can take the freedom to read and access certain information away from people. which is, as you probably know, fascist.

and if you care about your local library, you should care about preventing conservatives from taking positions of power at every level, obviously including the national level. project 2025 explicitly seeks to shut down public institutions and criminalize librarians who distribute "pornographic" material — that is, queer and especially trans books. we have also seen a push to destroy works by authors of color banned for "teaching critical race theory," which means speaking to racism at all.

maybe there's no guarantee that a democrat being president means your local library won't be gutted. but there is every sign that if trump is reelected, public schools and libraries will be defunded, queer literature will be classed as pornography, and librarians will be registered as sex offenders. that affects me as a librarian and a queer person, but i'm white and present female in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and female. we have no shortage of work to do within libraries to change that, but punishing queer librarians and librarians of color will only set us back and make librarianship more hostile, if it remains a viable profession at all. and all of this rebounds for the worst on our most marginalized communities.

i care about our rights, and i care whether you vote.

i recommend book riot's literary activism newsletter to learn more.

[watermelinoe]

reading really does make you calm down

[smittyw]

attacks on @kiitsumiie 's ruby and maria, @/cosmichorrawr's taxidermy, @grimtrespasser 's saburo, and @guardiansgalore 's edyss and @jmorpart 's warf!

my final round of attacks..my final message goodbye..

[xoxochb]

every time libby grambs isn’t casted as a goth girl an angel loses their wings

[britneyshakespeare]

i let my mom use my library card like a week ago or so for her libby account (i don't use libby; occasionally i use hoopla; as far as digital services go i'm a loyal kanopy girl) and i went to check my library account online to see if my inter-library loan request was arrived and it said i had one title checked out already and i was like ???? bc i know i currently don't. and it showed that my mom is using libby to listen to an audiobook of fifty shades of gray. my life is worse now

[lafleshlumpeater]

i did this for tfota series, so let's do it for the inheritance games now. i've read like 200 ish pages of the first book (i forgot to do this lmaoo) and i'm up to the part where avery hears someone in her bedroom walls and she's just gone to libby's room. i went into this completely blind (all i knew was the information from the blurb, and also i knew there was a character called grayson bc of the comparisons ppl make between him and aaron warner from shatter me). so far, i love avery bc she's realistic and relatable and a strong fmc. also i love jameson so so so so much he's so baby, but i feel like if/when grayson starts to come in more i may grow to like him equally or maybe even more (but i doubt it bc idk but at the same time i loved locke sm from the cruel prince and look what happened w him!!) so yeah that's it for now. oh also oren is actually an icon and xander is so cute and funny i love him fr. and i want to shove thea's head down the toilet but yk

[clownrosary]

tagged by @monsterhunting for mid year favorite (first time) reads/listens!! ty for the tag :D

it was hard to pick since ive read SO many great books this year! i tag @f4ggottree and any other book-loving oomfs :') id love to see what everyone has been reading!!!

[mechanicalriddle]

rediscovering audiobooks. to read-

-the icepick surgeon by Sam Kean

-the unseen body by Johnathan Reisman

-bitch by Lucy Cooke

-beasts before us by Elsa Panciroli

[honeybearbi]

i have gottttt to read more louise erdrich and akwaeke emezi books . those would fix me

[very-super-silly]

random but here's my atlas 6 character opinion bingo!!!!!! (characters are in the top left)

[necromycologist]

“hold time: several months” ok well. how about its time you kill yourself