hex upon ye

If any of y’all didn’t know, there’s a free online library, aka

It’s like a normal library. Libraries can upload ebooks there and let people check them out through openlibrary if you have an openlibrary account, or it can point you to nearby libraries that have physical copies of the book for you to go and check out. If you check out books via openlibrary it counts towards the count of books checked out from the library that uploaded the ebook, and they can use it in their reporting and funding and stuff.

SPEAKING OF LABYRINTH AND PINOCCHIO!!

ooo free psychoanalysis! XD i am absolutely a stede simp, and fave secondary character is either lucius or oluwande, my competent beloveds <3

#is one of the noticed details the fact that in the slow pan across the kneeling crew during the chain sequence #it's all those most in danger from english law #pete roach frenchie olu and lucius so. all the black crew members and the confirmed sodomites (and then obvs stede and ed) #is this on purpose? probably not #but yeah on myyyy maybe second or third watch probably i found that shot abruptly TERRIFYING #like not to embody the worst kind of hermeneutics of suspicion and only finding victims in historical queer rep #(Felski; Bruhm; YES i went and dug through my old thesis notes to remember who those authors were lol) #but there's something so implicitly menacing about that line up that just FLOORED me on rewatch #not swede. not john. not buttons. barely pete. then very clearly: roach. frenchie. olu. lucius. #SHIVERS i tell you!!! shivers down my spine! #just. knowing what the empire would do to black men. what the navy would do to sodomites. centre stage. absolutely horrifying. #ANYWAY OKAY thank you for the excuse for THAT rant that's been building in my chest for about six months XD #and STEDE SIMPS UNITE UVU

The BBC is doing an audio play of The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper's amazing novel. They're dropping daily episodes as the events of the novel progress day by day through late December.