The Adventures of Captain Kit.

I believe authors should be cryptic and unhelpful in the interpretation of their own work or even act like they’re dead and never comment on it ever

i feel like we've completely killed the ability to just gently tell someone when they're wrong or that their opinions don't pass the vibe check. we have to accommodate every single type of person and all their dogshit opinions OR we have to drive them off the internet, no in between

fatphobia, ableism, and acephobia/arophobia are all intertwined because at their core they rest on a bedrock of “being Healthy is a moral imperative; fixing your Unhealthiness is a moral requirement; and I get to decide what counts as the health standard that you need to strive for, and if you choose not to do, if you dare to be happy with yourself in a way I deem unhealthy, that is a moral failing I am morally allowed to punish you for”

I'm gonna be honest, reading this made me realize I have a bit of that attitude in regards to fatness. It could be projection since I am worried about my weight for my own fitness specifically... [though strangely enough I kinda like how I look while fat, which is a touch paradoxical] My logic is that being healthy is important for the sake of your future self and future happiness, so it should be something that everyone considers important. I do try my best not to be pushy about it, and if I do see it as a moral failing it's a minor one, but yeah maybe that is a little fucked up, especially since there are people with chronic conditions who have no choice but to be deemed "Unhealthy"...

"cozy bookstore" "cozy cafe with a bookshelf" "omg imagine if there was a place you could just sit and read at" we have this its called the library. you guys want to go to the library. the two college libraries near me have cafes inside and they are open to the public. people need to go to the library

I hate car culture just as much as the next person but as someone who lives in the middle of fucking nowhere and is still closer to a town than a lot of rural people, you've gotta accept that cars and other forms of personal transportation are always gonna exist in some form. We can't eliminate it entirely (and we shouldn't try, personal transportation is also something that a lot of disabled people heavily depend on, especially severely immunocompromised people and people who have large equipment they need to bring with them) but we can focus on making it more sustainable AND providing more public transportation options for people who can and will make another choice when given the opportunity.

I apologize to everyone whose grammar I ever corrected before I learned not to be a tool.

your forgiven.

You’re… really sweet to do that. Thanks.

love ignoring things ‘have you seen this terrible show’ no im the ignorer ‘can you believe what that celebrity tweeted yesterday’ i am the ignorer

Also picking up new books you’ve never heard of before because the premise sounds neat or the cover is pretty or it’s on a themed library display or you’re just trying to read your library’s entire catalogue of 90s cyberpunk is just fun. Sometimes it’s not your thing but you get to mull over new ideas or the diversity of people and opinions and thoughts in the world. Sometimes you discover your new favorite book of all time

Everyone should say what new favorite book they found this way in the tags!!

I literally just saw this call for people to share short blog posts about how they discover books!

"retiring for the evening" is a very useful concept lol we should be free to say "i'm not gonna be chatting anymore tonight" without then having to pretend to be asleep. if we ever talk and you say goodnight don't stress it if i see you online later hahahahah

Nobody has ever been capable of writing a scathingly harsh and well formulated satire about the perils of modern capitalism, that doesn't just get immediately one-upped by some random food service worker talking about their actual week.

Many jokes about packers flopping out and bouncing away and such but I still wasn't prepared for how genuinely disconcerting it is for a second when your brain has accepted this as Part Of Your Body & your thang fell off. My pebis

Every time I pull my pants down to go to the bathroom and watch My Penis go with them I have to like. Recalibrate

such a profound sense of delight when I realize that a piece of media is matching my freak to the very letter. there are creators out there who are my exact kind of sicko and we are reaching out to each other as if across the cosmos.

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

I agree! In English second group of books are called Hi-Lo: High interest, low reading level, specifically advocating for adults with low literacy / poor English skills who still want to read books for adults. Gemma Open Door for Literacy is specifically a nonprofit program/publisher that publishes books for this demographic. If you are a librarian or have sway at your library, consider ordering a collection of these!