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isaacbookclub · 2 months ago

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New profile pictures for Isaac and Charlie in season 3 - both photos from Paris

The Outsider by Albert Camus

The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

#isaacbookclub #heartstopper #isaac heartstopper #isaac henderson #charlie spring #heartstopper season 3 #the outsider #albert camus #Alan Hollinghurst #the swimming pool library

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adam-trademark · 4 days ago

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Jabberwock Island

(March 19, 2023)

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detroitlib · 8 months ago

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View of indoor swimming pool at the Women's City Club of Detroit. Swimmers, wearing bathing caps, are lined up at edge of pool, kicking the water. Women and girls sit at card tables and chairs poolside. Stamped on back: "Mar 28, 1946."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

#swimming pool #women's city club of detroit #detroit #detroit history #pool #pools #swimming #vintage #1946 #1940s #swimmers #women's city club #detroit public library

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icewindandboringhorror · 6 months ago

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If you became super rich and could design your own house, but could only add THREE unnecessary/random/expensive home additions (like how people will have bowling alleys, movie theatres, closets with museums of shoes, car display rooms, spa rooms, wine cellars, etc. in their mansions) - what three would you choose?

#I think I would have: an indoor pool (but like heavily customized with a faux weather system so I could get the feeling of swimming in #rain or fog or snow etc.). a very small arcade consisting only of skee-ball and DDR machines. and an old Library Room with authentic #historical furniture/interior design to store old books/tapestries/study room equipment/whatever other antiques I'd collect. It'd be #like some fully intricate movie set or something that would feel completely like stepping into another world/time.#Though I might would trade out the arcade for a roller skating rink.. i DO love skating....#And I wouldve put rock climbing gym because I love indoor rock climbing but.. as I understand it they have to change out the rock things #on the walls every once in a while so that you can have new routes and it doesnt get boring. and I'd rather have an activty room thats like #self sustaining and doesnt require me to hire some person to come switch things around once every month. Otherwise I would #totally do that instead.#I'm also personally not counting ''craft'' type stuff like having a pottery room kiln sort of thing because #that doesn't count as 'unnessecary' to me. since stuff like that would not at all be just a hobby I 'happen to #do sometimes for fun'#but would definitely be a career sort of thing. Like if I had the money for a fully stocked sculpture room and and a sewing room #with a good machine and etc. then I would literally be professionally selling pottery and designing clothing and etc.#so I wouldn't count it as 'just a random side room I dont need' etc.#The same way that if I played tennis professionally or as a very intense hobby that takes up most of my life/time #then I wouldn't count having a tennis court in your house to practice in as 'unncesscarry' etc.#wow that is the worst I have ever spelt that word ghbjh #Un Cess Carry #ALSO would obviously have an underground bunker of some sort with food and emergency supplies which also does not count as unnecessary to m #since it's literally like... survival.. And I thought most health organizations literally reccomend that even #the common person has a small 'go bag' prepared in their house. and like an evacuation plan in case of fire or other things #It WOULD be an unnecessary rich person thing to have a full on undergRound village or something stocked with 9000 guns and #whaetever. but I think just a basic emergency room with basic supplies could still be counted under the 'not unnecessary' requirement.#Like I would say that a sprawling courtyard of flower gardens and fountains and hedge mazes that takes up like a hundred thousand #dollars a year in maintenance would count as one of the three 'unnecessary and expensive' things. But having a small garden in the #back yard with a few planters in a little greenhouse or whatever would not. The 'excessiveness' of the thing matters lol #ANYWAY!!!#Just curious what other peoples Three Main things would be... hrrmm

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headlesshorsemanxiii · 1 year ago

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A small selection of some more digitally derived delights from @unstabledreams. Head over to their blog for more, many of which are far spicier than these.

Reposted with permission.

#unstabledreams #unstable dreams #ai created imagery #ai image #stable diffusion #redheads are my kryptonite #girls with glasses #tight and shiny #tight clothes #catsuit #space babe #smexy #girls with tattoos #beautiful lighting #swimwear #swimming pool #by the pool #books & libraries #hot librarian

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gayskogul · 1 year ago

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Listed off some of the books I’ve read in the past year to my little sister, who works as a librarian, and she just gave me this pitying look and said a soft, “Oh, babes...”

#shitpost #she has a point though #Maurice #dorian gray #the song of achilles #fire from heaven #The Charioteer #Goodbye To Berlin #some Sassoon poetry lol #Frankenstein #and some more modern stuff like #History of Sound #the swimming-pool library #Silver in the Wood #a marvellous light

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soldiertransgender · 1 year ago

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Guys did you know the Level 3 Dormitories are a level in Half-Life Decay. Guys.

#there's a swimming pool. and a library

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quenthel · 6 months ago

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im starting to get a bit depressed again after having a horrible stressful week so thats awesome -_- trying to stay positive and hopeful but its kind of difficult... and i was thinking i might not need therapy anymore LOL

#quenthel special #i definetly need to leave my house more often...#i was thinking abt going to some local library to read classics but idk if i have the brainpower to read still...#or going to the swimming pool but i would have to shave my legs n pits bc otherwise i get so scared of being judged...

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narutomaki · 7 months ago

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I hate that I hate doing things in my own dude but it's so fucking boring !!!

#i dont go out to eat and i dont go to the movie theater so like the two biggest Default Hang activities are completely non-options for me #i dont like seeing movies in theatre 1) the local one sucks and 2) i cant sit still for over a half hour in a chair that makes me want to #become an arsonist.#ive been to Fancy Good Fun movie theatres and seen Incredible Higjly Rated films and still been like #20 mins in. is it going to be over soon? can i leave? please?#i like going to the library and shopping and walking down by the river and in the woods #but i also Dont Like The Beach because sand makes me want to become a fucking terrorist and the water safety index thing #sent me on a spiral sooo bad ♡ also im too body conscious to enjoy myself #the public pools okay excepts its expensive and over crowded 100% of the time #rock beachs are good i like swimming i just eugh #i also. dont like going to the gyms indoor pool.#its so fucking echoy in there i get a migraine thinking about it #i do like their sauna tho but. again. priced out of that experience! wahoo! also the stairs there are designed to torture me #i like eating outside i like picnics in theory i just cant get comfortable sitting in like 98% of places for more than like 30 mins.#at some point some part of my body is going to start hurting so bad i want to throw up.#i like playing video games and board games but i dont have any consoles or board games so like.#man. idk!#i hate doing things alone bcus i Was Alone for 3 years with my only social contact being my abusive family #i would speak to them maybe 3 times a month and get out of the house maybe 2 times and #idk! idk its just like! okay! im done being socialy isolated!!!#>every activity that you can do to hang out with people is unappealing to me or causes me physical damage #😭 okay nvm!!!

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holoprisms · 1 year ago

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#i cannot describe to you how much this has shaped me like how many times i listened to this laying face to the ceiling #this one changed my brain chemistry forever #I listened to this on the bus and watching sun play on the pool water before swim team and getting ready for school dances #looking at space and science articles in the library and doing math homework and when i couldn’t sleep at night #alan palomo

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isaacbookclub · 6 months ago

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The Swimming Pool-Library by Alan Hollinghurst.

Charlie selects this book at Shakespeare and Company in Season 2 Episode 6.

#heartstopper #isaacbookclub #charlie spring #the swimming-pool library #shakespeare and company

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onebluebookworm · 1 year ago

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30 Days of Literary Pride 2023 - June 24

The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst

#30 days of pride 2023 #30 days of pride #the swimming-pool library #alan hollinghurst

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detroitlib · 1 year ago

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View of the swimming pool at the Blythefield Club in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Printed on front: "Swimming pool, Blythfield Club, Grand Rapids, Mich." Printed on back: "Pub. by the Wayne Calendar and Novelty Co., Fort Wayne, Ind." Handwritten on back: "Dear Gaga, How are you. I just went out to the farm to see [undecipherable]." Card is postmarked August 1940.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

#dear gaga #swimming pool #blythefield #grand rapids #michigan #1940 #michigan history #postcards #vintage #vintage postcards #wayne calendar and novelty co #gaga #pool #empty spaces #detroit public library

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unsoundorange · 3 months ago

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Vacation in The Paradise 🌴💙

#travel photography #sea #bookstagram #book blog #book photography #food photography #book quotes #vacation #booklr #books & libraries #fall in love #take a breath #taken by me #take a break #take my breath away #swimming #swimmin pool #tatil #yaz tatili

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thebraxiatelcollection · 9 months ago

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Debating whether to join a gym near work...

#about me #the gym looks really cool and it has two swimming pools and a library too #and its next to the tram link which is great for me #but ive been looking at things to get into and its difficult with where i live and i dont drive #and because i finish work early this might be good for me because just finish work and go gym then get train home #but its whether or not i'll actually use it thats the thing

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americano-psycho · 1 year ago

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Had a real peasantpilled moment at work today. Backstory is, my current worksite is in the laundry room in this fancy hotel. I was ironing sheets and folding pillowcases all day. The iron was this big conveyor belt thing that ironed and folded the sheets. The iron was 210°f. The current weather outside is 90°f. All in all, I was extremely hot the entire time.

Anyway, one of the housekeepers comes down and tells us to prepare a ton of towels because she just saw like, 8 children go into the pool.

I'm standing there, sweating bad enough that the waistband to my pants is damp, my feet are aching because I wore the wrong kind of shoes for the job and they have no anti-fatigue mats, trying to drink enough water to replace all that I'm sweating out, and it really brought me to serfdom, guys(gn.)

#i would have given anything to be able to swim at that moment #swimming is one of my favorite activities and i barely ever get to do it because my city is a hellscape with no public pool #and i have to pay for a library card because of my address #that has nothing to do with this specifically but im still bitter

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