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beepboopappreciation · 11 months ago

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Is this anything

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lakecountylibrary · 2 months ago

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🔥 The beacons are lit; the library calls for aid

The Trump administration has issued an executive order aimed at dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services - the ONLY federal agency for America's libraries.

Using just 0.003% of the federal budget, the IMLS funds services at libraries across the country; services like Braille and talking books for the visually impaired, high-speed internet access, and early literacy programs.

Libraries are known for doing more with less, but even we can't work with nothing.

How You Can Help:

🔥 Call your congressperson!

Use the app of your choice or look 'em up here: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Pro tip: If your phone anxiety is high, call at night and leave a voicemail. You can even write yourself a script in advance and read it off. Heck, read them this post if you want to.

Phones a total no-go? The American Library Association has a form for you: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577

🔥Tell your friends!

Tell strangers, for that matter. People in line at the check out, your elderly neighbor, the mail carrier - no one is safe from your library advocacy. Libraries are for everyone and we need all the help we can get.

...Wait, why do we need this IMLS thing again?

The ALA says it best in their official statement and lists some ways libraries across the country use IMLS funding:

But if you want a really specific answer, here at LCPL we use IMLS funding to provide our amazing interlibrary loan service. If we can't purchase an item you request (out of print books, for example) this service lets us borrow it from another library and check it out to you.

IMLS also funds the statewide Indiana Digital Library and Evergreen Indiana, which gives patrons of smaller Indiana libraries access to collections just as large and varied as the big libraries' collections.

As usual, cutting this funding will hurt rural communities the most - but every library user will feel it one way or another. Let's let Congress know that's unacceptable.

#thank you for reading this whole thing!#now inflict it on your followers #libraries have always been political #<- that's our politics tag for filtering purposes #library funding #IMLS #institute of museum and library services #call to action #u.s. politics #public libraries #lcpl recs #current events #tumblarians #tumblrarians #long post

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stil-lindigo · 2 months ago

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the vulture.

a comic about cycles.

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#cw: death mention #learnt about phillip mainlander's theory from a friend. im not normally very well read in deep-cut german philosophers #the mental image of his “earth is god's rotting corpse” was just very striking #i havent been able to make comics like this for a while now. mostly for mental reasons #but this felt good to complete #also i know some people find the creative notes annoying or condescending and i kinda dont care #i like making them if only for myself #thank you tumblr for always being here for me to be my most authentic self (annoying about media analysis)#thank you for reading #comic art #daughter of the birch tree #dotbt #stillindigo comics #stillindigo art

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smoky-moka · 24 days ago

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Do you include Ellie in your Wade's story? And ofc, top tier art love your love for Wade Wilson 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

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#MVP #literally the reason he went and asked Spider-Man to teach him to be a Good Guy #Awful awful man but good dad in my book #spider man #spideypool #fanart #marvel #deadpool #spiderman #wade wilson #ellie camacho #ellie wilson #I have a drawing with Princess as well maybe one day I'll post it here too #thank you sm!#Thank you for all the nice messages guys I read them but I don't always know how to respond!!!#I'm shy...#ask #my art

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h20milk · 3 months ago

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tfw you fall in love with the magicless prefect that keeps running around campus 🤦‍♀️

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teratomatica · 1 month ago

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you always land on all fours

#umineko #umineko spoilers #ikuko hachijo #ikukos turn for a more serious piece... the old man has reigned for too long #now. INCREDIBLY LONG INCOHERENT TAGS RANT INCOMING FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN:#it makes me so so sad how little discussion there is about specifically ikuko because imho she fits so neatly into a lot of the more #overarching Big Themes of the game in a way that i have not ever really seen people take notice of or point out in a meaningful way #like even just off of the top of my head. the significance of names and what it means to go by a name that's Not Yours (she has like 4+)#what it Means to be a witch how it represents a person's deepest insecurities and flaws & how its at its core a coping mechanism #the fact that it takes two to create a universe and trying to do it on your own anyways has the capacity to bring you intense misery #^ (how she's shown to be extremely dismissive of her own work and skill until a collaborator comes into her life and helps/encourages her)#and even the family/patriarchy/misogyny stuff that is so prevalent in the rest of the game comes back around to her. even her Only Friend #(young&stupid atp to be fair) remarks that shes Weird for being unmarried + the little she does say about her past invites the question of #to what extent her self-image stems from her family deeming her a freak outcast & effectively disowning her while celebrating her brothers #and i have lot in my mind about the witch thing specifically because i think her particular situation is very reflective of what umineko's #entire magic system and fantasy facet as a whole is meant to represent for an individual. from what little we see of (what is presumably)#her Real personality she is shown to be deeply self conscious in a way that is JARRINGLY diametrically opposed to both 1.) what we see in #featherine and 2.) what we see when she is acting as a Public Figure. because both of the above are very much purposeful acts that she is #putting on in order to obfuscate her true self. and i have always been very resolute & adamant about not totally equating her to featherine #not only because im very firmly in the camp of “featherine is the avatar of the Pen Name & tohya is part of her too” but also very much b/c #i feel very strongly that the stark differences between the two are very centrally relevant to her character & her psyche. as is the case #with most other witches featherine's personality traits serve to reveal/magnify a lot of ikukos inner workings by playing on her #insecurities/reversing them e.g. ikuko being very quick to downplay her skill/achievements becomes featherine being the COMPLETE opposite #to the point where she barely registers even other witches as living beings rather than just fun touys. BUT even though i do champion the #ikuko/featherine separation so hard i ALSO think it is purposefully relevant that at first glance the line between them seems so blurry #her introduction implying a more nebulous separation between her reality/fantasy counterpart is i think is an intentional move on her part #like it is part of the front she is putting up when acting as the Author. as opposed to Ikuko the person who we (in a way ironically very #similar to the way that the Real Battler is presumably only shown during the boatscene) only very briefly get to see take up screentime #which even on a meta level lines up very well with her apparent underlying nature as a like. extremely private largely reserved/shy person #hit tag limit but if by some miracle anyone is still reading this thank you... please see ikuko with the love she deserves... ok ily byeee

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canisalbus · 2 months ago

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doodled your little guys!!! I have so many thoughts about them. As someone who lives in Italy it has been absolutely wonderful seeing your characters express the country's culture and history!!! It's not often that I see characters be based off Italian history in such an artistic manner.. But that might be me living under a rock, LOL. Anyhow, keep doing what you do, YOU ROCK!!!!

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#aaa you're too sweet! ;_;#and the art!!#I don't know what you did but I love the way they look in your style #they seem so expressive and alive and your linework has such wonderful almost animated fluidity to it #that swooping line from the tip of Machete's ear to his cheek fluff? such a shape #their faces are priceless #Vasco's little blep and Machete's blush and squiggly mouth #thank you so much! you've warmed my heart #gift art #limelemonchi #Vasco #Machete #own characters #it genuinely means a lot to me when someone from Italy says they like my dogs #I'm Finnish so I'm never going to have the insider experience and the full picture of someone who lives there #and sometimes it really worries me like what if I get things wrong and I'm not only embarrassing myself #but also disappointing people who thought I do my research well #but I'm doing my best and I always welcome feedback and tips to make the setting more believable if you want to give them #whether it's the original canon or the modern au #I mean it when I say the history and culture of Italy are extraordinarily rich and interesting #I've been reading about them long before these two came to be #it's a meeting spot for many of my special interests some of which I've had since I was a preschooler

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commsroom · 1 year ago

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the u.s.s. horrible unending nightmare 💥 (once again from the incredible @hehearse)

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #hera wolf 359 #hera w359 #art #id in alt text #i've been holding onto this one for a little while. for no particular reason i just wanted to.#but here it is #thank you so so much!!#incredible eye for detail as always and i'm obsessed with how you draw people. and also. everything #this is such a good eiffel. the circle kind of suggesting a helmet worked out so well. the way you did the star!! the glitch effects!!#the use of an actual sound clip and the heart monitor through it and all of it through his chest. genius to me.#and this ended up leaning more in the direction of eiffel's general repeated misfortune but i also really love the element of #eiffel and hera both being prisoners treated as test subjects. i like how it can read as much like him being pulled away as falling.#and with the soundwave and communication as a bridge and that specific clip from mayday and hera being the voice in his head that saves him #etc. etc. i love it thank you so much again!! <3

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mimimar · 1 year ago

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finally completed my comic based on the song ivy by taylor swift!✿ please zoom in to read the text and see the details~

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you can get the digital zine pdf here! it includes extras like character profiles, costume design, more art of willow and ivy, zine-exclusive sketches and an illustrated guide to the symbolism of all the flowers in this comic.

you can also get prints of individual pages here!

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#ivy comic #it's finally complete!!!♡ this was the longest project ever but i really wanted to do my best on every spread #i also worked really hard on the extra pages for the zine. i hope you like those as well if you decide to get it!#i've been wanting to make this comic since evermore came out in 2020 and i listened to ivy for the first time #i posted the first sketches from this comic on my patreon in 2022 and released the first page last year in 2023 #so it's been a loooong time coming working on this in between other art #i was always disappointed that i got a hand injury back when i was making my dorothea/'tis the damn season comic #so i couldn't give my 100% on every page of that one. that's part of why i wanted to go all out for my ivy comic #and it has a happy ending this time!♡#thank you for sticking around if you've been reading since page 1 #and thank you also if you just read it for the first time today!#also i didn't plan it but i coincidentally finished this comic exactly on lesbian visibility week. love that #ivy comic mimimar #oc #ivy #willow #taylor swift #taylor swift ivy #ivy taylor swift #evermore #illustration #illo #comic #lesbian #wlw #sapphic #lesbian visibility week #lesbian art #wlw art #sapphic art

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stealingpotatoes · 5 months ago

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Hello you had a dc era? I need more of your Batfamily they’re so delicious! Also happy birthday

i'm always in my dc era deep down, but my absolute Peak batfam/dc phase was when batgirl of burnside and grayson were running so in honour of tweenage me, Them:

(commission info // tip jar!)

#ONCE AGAIN IM SORRY IM ONLY ANSWERING THIS LIKE A MONTH AFTER MY BIRTHDAY THANK YOU BTW!!#basically young justice had an absolute CHOKEHOLD on me (robin/nightwing was obvs my fave) n then i got to comic buying age and yh #batgirl of burnside is like one of THE most formative pieces of media ever for me i don't think i'd be making comics if i'd never read it #anyway yeah im always in my dc era if someone says batfam or the flash (OR HAL/BARRY HIII) i am THERE i am SAT i am SEATED #dick grayson #batgirl #barbara gordon #agent grayson #dc #my doods #thanks for the ask!#askbox closed #batfam

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stil-lindigo · 9 months ago

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lighthearted.

if this comic resonated with you, please consider donating to this palestinian escape fund (vetted by @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein) as it is less than $7,000 away from it's goal.

i turn 24 today. To celebrate, I made this comic to be a spiritual successor to lead balloon, a comic in which I talked about the darkest period of my life so far.

A lot has changed since my 23rd birthday and this one. My priorities have shifted a lot, in ways that I think are mostly good. But i think the best part about today is that suicide has gone back to being a far away notion. I'm really lucky, and I'm grateful for that.

#yet another largely personal comic that kind of only has real impact to maybe four people #it's crazy what a difference a few months makes #and a trip to the beach that makes you glad you're still alive.#the last page is just me drawing my friends and I as our respective art sonas #credit to my best friend for inventing the designs #i keep copying their shit but its their fault for always having good ideas #ugghhh i love the people in my life so much and im so thankful for them #one of my friends gave me a vintage camera for my birthday #im going to take so many photos i could paper my walls with them #thank you for reading #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics

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lady-arryn · 5 months ago

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