MY CABBAGES!

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.

Community becoming weirder as the series progresses means that I'm rewatching the first season and thinking "wow that'snot that crazy compared to the rest" and it's Annie pepper spraying herself in the face by accident and Britta throwing a corpse through a window and Jeff playing pools entirely naked in front of the whole school and a guy from the rival school yeeting himself from his own wheelchair to prove a point, and and and

Like at this point no part of the school burned down yet, chang isnt living in the airvents yet, Troy didnt discover he was the chosen one of the Air Conditioning Repairmen's prophecy, the Dean hasnt put on a single outrageous costume, city college is only mentionned (and i think it's their debate team they're debating?) And the glee club wasnt slaughtered by its referent teacher. It's basically a normal college!

hey there welcome to superpower school, where we teach you to use your dangerous superpowers in a school-like environment. here's your syllabus. as you can see, this class will consistent entirely of occasional world building lectures of no use to anyone who has actually lived in this world for more than a day, and unsupervised practical assignments that place your life and the lives of everyone near you at risk. also we have a tournament arc in around 50 chapters that will inevitably be rife with cheating and will be infiltrated by people who actually for real want to kill you. grading will be on a curve.

I love stuff like this when people are in so deep they can’t even recognize how batshit crazy they sound

the tragedy of tumblr is you will inevitably meet people who you should be having a sleepover with. you should be rolling around on their floor and rummaging through their fridge and watching shitty movies with. you should be shopping with should be going out to a cafe with should be wandering through the aquarium with. people who you should be experiencing quotidian joys with... and you cannot! because they live one million miles away

There are many people who don’t share this sentiment, but I have an appreciation for when a fanfic is so separated from canon that it could’ve easily been its own original novel, and yet the author was only ever going to put that much energy into it if their favourite characters got to be there

I think there’s a difference between “the author stripped the media of everything it had to replace it with something easy” and “the author thought up a concept they really really like and are bestowing it upon the character like a medal”

i’m so fucking pissed off at this picture

wwhat the fuck….

I FUCKING LOVE THIS

oh my god thank you for the second perspective, it honestly makes me feel way less stressed about this image, you have no idea

So tempted to blaze this post

I've been there