#Booktok

[swordandstars]

Friends!

Are you feeling hopeless in the face of the oncoming MAGA-pocalypse? Want to do something fast, easy, and free that will make a difference?

If you're in Michigan, keep reading! If you're not, signal boost this to your Mitten State Mutuals!

Michiganders, it's time to contact your state reps and tell them to vote YES on HB 6034 and HB 6035. Together, these two bills comprise the Freedom to Read Act and they severely limit the ability of assholes to ban books in the state of Michigan.

Want to read the bills for yourself? Click here:

https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Search/ExecuteSearch?sessions=2023-2024&docTypes=House%20Bill,Senate%20Bill&contentFullText=%22freedom%20to%20read%22

Tl;dr? Here's an article and video summarizing the Act from CBS News:

Not sure how to contact your Michigan state representatives? Text RESIST to 50409 and Resistbot will walk you through it.

It's easy, it takes about 5 minutes, and you can do it from your couch/bed/puddle of despair.

Tips for contacting elected officials:

1) If you're asking them to vote YES or NO on something, say that in the first line. Bonus points if you can tag the actual bill (HB/House Bill) number.

2) Only include ONE issue per communication.

3) 1&2 are because these are being skimmed by interns who keep a running tally of what each communication is about. One communication = one point.

3a) Don't be a dick to the interns. Their lives are hard enough.

4) Keep it short. One sentence very clearly stating what you want. One or two sentences about why they should care about what you want ("As a resident of your district, I know you agree that SOMETHING SOMETHING FREEDOM, SOMETHING SOMETHING LIBERTY, SOMETHING SOMETHING THINK OF THE CHILDREN.") Appeal to the person they claim to be in their campaign ads. Get it, give them clear instructions, get out.

5) No profanity.

6) No threats.

7) No memes/ slang/ sarcasm/ lols. You are cosplaying as someone who thinks salt is too spicy and whose greatest joy in life is sorting their collection of plain white socks.

8) 5, 6, & 7 are because anything you communicate to an elected official will become a matter of public record. It goes into a file. And if anyone ever pulls that file, you want to be on record as the most boring, conscientious, polite, non-threatening motherfucker who ever lived.

Now go forth and make your voice heard!

(Hey @unpretty and @official-michigan-posts, can you help get the word out?)

[inthemirrordorkly2]

Holy shit y'all refuse to apply nuance to 99% of things, but break out the nuance when it comes to Dr. Seuss????

Kids' books are like candy or mindless video games. There's nothing wrong with liking them, but if they're the only thing you consume it's gonna fuck you up

Or like, to put it in terms that the "read what you like, who cares if you exclusively read kids' stuff" crowd are at a reading level to understand:

In the book "Green Eggs and Ham," the main character insists that he will only eat things he likes, and refuses under all circumstances when presented with an opportunity to try something new. At the end of the novel [spoiler alert] he agrees to Sam-I-Am's request and tries them, and he realizes that he was depriving himself of a favorite food for years, just out of fear of disliking something he ate. He learns a lesson, moving forward, that if he tries new things outside his comfort zone, that he may dislike some of them, but will enjoy many of them, and if he doesn't try new things outside his comfort zone, he will not like anything but the one thing he already eats.

Can you think of any situations in your own life where Sam-I-Am's teachings might be applicable?

[mouthfxllofwhiteliess]

This has quickly become a fav of mine 🥀🖤✨

[juneacademia]

When he touched her, he felt human in the way a glass teetered on the edge of a table —blinding when the sun scattered him, lovely when he slipped into unimaginable ruin.

— Immortal Dark, Tigest Girma

[bookstackxyz]

Check out books by order

Guido Lafigliola

Generative landscape

artist found @glitchdo.tumblr.com

[silverystardustt]

there is a peace beyond anything I've ever known. a peace only found in your fingertips, in your embrace, in your smell, as fleeting as the passing moment.

-on truest love

[starrynightsxo]

jude: cardan, you're in my way.

cardan: oh *feigning surprise* am I?

jude: well... yes? can you move?

cardan: *cocking his head* now jude, you know better than that.

jude: *through gritted teeth* my dear husband, would you do me the honour in granting me passage?

cardan: *with a grin* why of course, my dear wife! *moves out of the way*

jude: *one foot out the door* thank you *under her breath* snake. cardan: *gasping, covering his mouth* YOU. DID. NOT.

[bookstackxyz]

Check out books by order

February 1st

studying again, reading lots and escaping reality

[bookaddict24-7]

I tried to be funny on Tik tok 😂

[writtenroses1813]

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

[animentality]

kicking a hornets nest.

[bookstackxyz]

Check out books by order

Botanical Photo Holders via Shrimp Salad Circus

[serial-unaliver]

booktok videos should be categorized as some sort of threat to public health

[foxglovedforest]

AND THEY’RE FUCKING CORRECT

[sugas6thtooth]

Remember Hind. Remember Reem. Remember all the little boys and girls who are more than mere numbers. They are dreams, humanity's innocence, and most importantly they are not to be forgotten.