#reed library

[detroitlib]

View of guests on veranda at Pike's Summer Tavern in Topinabee, Michigan. Printed on front: "Veranda at Pike's Summer Tavern, Topinabee, Mich." Printed on back: "Post cards of quality. The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y." Handwritten on back: "Dear Marion, I cannot find the big silver Reeds spoon. I have even searched the garbage hole. Thought perhaps you might have put it away for safe keeping. The story of the big fish is not overdrawn. I watched the fight for five hours & it was exciting. Only came in when night came on. The men had it hooked for 30 hours & only gave up when [undecipherable]. With love." Card is postmarked August 5, 1915.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[pdrrook]

What if MC wanted to go to the gym together with the ROs (it seems like all of your ROs attend the gym regularly 😂) but this was basically their first time at one, so being unfit and out of shape, they were just clowning themselves with the equipment? Would ROs resign to being their (unpaid) personal trainer? 🤣

Reed would love to help MC touch MC all over 😏

Flavio would clown around with MC on purpose, they'd probably be booted out quick tho and resume 'training' at home

Laurent would be super happy to help and explain everything, he's living to feel needed tbh

Jewel too, but she prefers jogging or sports so she'd most likely try to talk MC into that instead

Alan 'I know a better way to get you in shape than gym' 🤭 that aside he prefers walking

Nino's bad at training or explaining shit, but she'll use all the patience she has stored in her to help MC out

[revoltingcocks]

kind of insane that john cale’s autobiography starts off like this but okay

[normcore-tertiary-character]

I love the formula between 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lone Star and I want there to be a 9-1-1 for at least every state but preferably every single town in the US

Mostly, I want to see what hyper local and very silly disasters they can write to strike my town

[vroomian]

Do people assume yrz met the library demon through his previous line of wrk?

they do! those who connect yrz with his previous work as Vixxen anyway. it's not actually easy to relate the two because yrz dresses like a lost college student with no money and Vixxen's wardrobe is fit for literal royalty (most of it was gifts from royalty lol).

Vixxen is strictly for sex work and escort services though.

people who don't know about his previous line of work think yrz just got lucky and got hired before the library demon got big.

[rustbeltjessie]

April 11: Found on the new books shelf at my local library. I am so excite.

[krikeymate]

Foster AU - could you think of any scenario where Sam would get really mad at Tara? Maybe for doing something dangerous behind her back when she's in her late teens or something... how would that go?

What would Tara do that would make Sam mad? Not a lot, to be honest. The only thing that really comes to mind is Tara getting drunk. But even then, what is the context behind the action. Why would Tara drink, and why to the extent that Sam gets mad?

Her first heartbreak?

Tara feels so strongly, she falls so quickly, for that first crush, first girlfriend. She feels the heartbreak of seeing her girlfriend of six months making out with someone else, so much. She's never had the chance to work through things like this when she was a teenager, the overwhelmingness of the emotion takes her by surprise, she couldn't prepare herself for how much it hurt.

She knows Sam and Kirby have a date night tonight, so doesn't want to bother them with it. She knows they would cancel it in a heartbeat if she needed them, but Tara doesn't want to do that to them. So she keeps what happened to herself and puts a mask on her face, telling them to have fun and ushering them out the door.

She plants herself in front of her laptop and searches and searches and searches for ways to make this pain go away. None of it helps. Time and Support don't resolve the problem right now. Someone else suggests drinking.

Tara's never had alcohol before, though she's not completely unfamiliar with it. There's a part of her that knows this is stupid, but everything hurts so much and she just needs it to stop. So she drinks and drinks. Eventually, it stops hurting and she just feels good instead.

Sam is furious when they gets home. Tara's never seen her so mad, and she's not even cognizant enough to be scared of her. Even Kirby is surprised, she's never seen this side of Sam before.

Sam snatches the bottle from Tara's hand and pours it down the sink. Then she starts throwing open cupboards, searching for every last bottle and can of alcohol they may have squirrelled away and emptying it down the drain, berating Tara for being so stupid the entire time, while Kirby focuses on getting some water into the drunk girl. As the buzz starts to fade and nausea sets in, Tara begins to cry, and in an instant, she's wrapped in two sets of arms.

"Sam, what was that about," Kirby whispers, attempting not to wake the dozing girl sleeping against Sam's chest.

Sam's jaw twitches as she attempts to find the right words, a hand rubbing up and down Tara's arm. "You know about my history... and our mother, and Tara's father... we- I should never have kept alcohol in the house in the first place."

Understanding sets in.

"I feel so stupid," Sam continues. "I thought it was safe, that it would be fine because I'm ok with it now, because she never showed any interest before."

"Oh, Sam." Kirby reaches out to place a hand on hers. "This isn't your fault. You couldn't have known this would happen. We don't know what triggered this, but we'll find out, and we'll be better prepared for the future."

"What if... what if something happened, what if someone hurt her?" Sam confesses, terrified at the thought. What else could drive her girl to do this?

"Don't torture yourself with those thoughts, Sam."

[inlovewithquotes]

The last greenseer, the singers called him, but in Bran's dream he was still a three-eyed crow. When Meera Reed had asked him his true name, he made a ghastly sound that might have been a chuckle. "I wore many names when I was quick, but even I once had a mother, and the name she gave me at her breast was Brynden."

-Brynden Rivers

[banjofilia]

Standing from left: Lily May Ledford, Janette Carter, Ramona Jones, Ola Belle Reed, Rose Maddox. Seated: Elizabeth Cotten. From the Mike Seeger Collection (#20009_pf0072).

source: https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/sfc/2022/03/24/ola-belle-reed-resources-and-subject-guide/

[lifesarchive]

SACRIFICIO by ERNESTO MESTRE-REED (AFTERTHOUGTS)

quickly: a young afro-cuban discovers an underground revolution while investigating the last days of his dead boyfriend ('la revolucion!' won’t die / tourists who won’t leave / sex on the beach / bonfire orgies / little explosions everywhere / the ghost of che guevara / fidel castro as the voice of god / the body is the battleground / the oppressed becoming the oppressor / little brothers following big brothers / individuals finding community / families split by politics / quarantined confinement / dark liquor / kitchens turned into restaurants / HIV as radicalism / radicalism as an artform / queer people in love / men who are afraid to die / cities in the sky).

This is not a review, but I wish it was. Just thoughts as I recollect on the books I've read this year.

This is a book that transformed my views on sex, partnership, and revolution. I read this book in March of 2023 and it is now December. This story (along with THE BOOKS OF JACOB and BELOVED and PIRANESI) has sat with me all year, challenging me to think about who I am in relation to my community, my government, and my body. It has made me think more about what I require (or desire) in a partner, and what I want for the people around me. While reading THE BOOKS OF JACOB, watching LOVE HAS WON: THE CULT OF MOTHER GOD, and simply watching the news, I kept asking myself the same question the book provokes… when do movements become cults? is the oppressed always doomed to become the oppressor? how do you disrupt a negative feedback loop? is it possible to start over and build something totally new?

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

[tudorgothic]

[vencarna]

#biblioteca #library #libros #books #lectura #reeding #starfieldlibrary #seúl #seoul🇰🇷 #corea #korea (en Starfield Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/CprgoXRrtDi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Please excuse me for a sec while I swoon over this man...

We have no choice but to stan Darius Reed.

[lesenbyan]

Suddenly thinking about seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo and about how there has got to be an intimacy in sharing a story, no matter if you hate each other after. Even if the story is less confession than fact

[insidecroydon]

Dear Angela: It's time for you to act and fund Croydon fairly

Last month, the Croydon Mayor wrote to the Deputy Prime Minister begging for an urgent meeting to resolve the council’s long-standing financial problems after 14 years of Tory austerity. Angela Rayner did not reply. So now ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, on behalf of Croydon, and of Inside Croydon, has written this open letter Dear Angela, Across the country councils are in financial crisis. This…