BEANS??

Anybody else desperately miss summer reading programs from like. 20 years ago.

for everyone telling me to check my library of COURSE I have, those are what I’m talking about! But the adult ones my library runs 1) are through an app 2) don’t have any prizes, or the prizes are raffle tickets 3) aren’t themed around Space or Castles or Dinosaurs or Pirates, the only themes I will accept

and 4) don’t start until 3 weeks from now

I have checked all the libraries remotely close to me they are all run through apps. if you have paper printout fun reading programs at YOUR library for god’s sake send me a picture so I can dream of the beautiful analog summer reading I could be having

I feel like this a problem tumblr users will be happy to solve.

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

Scheduling this for when weather starts warming up. Be careful swimming this summer

i fuckign queued this and forgot abt it and got scared cuz i thought i was hacked or smth. anyways happy june eleventh

and for the lady, perhaps a fking break?

never played stardew valley so before looking at the tags I was willing to accept this was a real life political scandal

They don't even engage with our long ass fics when they are completed. Whenever I post my final chapter on one of my novel length fics, I never see an uptick in comments with new usernames. We don't even get additional engagement when we do cross that finish line. So, motivation to complete fics is basically at an all time low across the board.

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.

i know the curtains better than the author. thank you for coming to my ted talk

Fandom has such unresolved mommy/daddy issues about authors. If you apply a little reading comprehension skills to my original post you’ll see I didn’t say anything at all about the author. You guys always make “interpretation” about your beef with the author. You’re all obsessed with the author. This post is just about deciphering what is there in canon. Figuring out what is being communicated by the canon itself with all the words and images and basic formal elements that are there in canon. That’s all it’s about. It really doesn’t matter if the author intentionally put all those things there in a pattern that might support the idea that this one character’s queer. That’s not what this is about. What matters is if you can compellingly argue there’s a pattern of evidence there. Or not. Everyone is conspiring together to make me go insane still adding shit about authorial intent on my post.

Mischaracterization getting so brutal I'm about to ask people for sources and citations on their wrong opinions

What is your source for the idea that he would fucking say that

quick what’s ur opinion on tea. everyone who sees this is obligated to answer in some way