skellytonace

The thing about anti-libby posts, because ebooks have to be paid for yearly while physical books only have to be paid for once, is that yes, physical books are cheaper for the library to acquire- but the library has a budget they chose to allocate, whether it's on software, subscriptions to digital encyclopedias, or ebook rentals. If they chose to rent ebooks, it was because they want you to read them, and using any of their services looks good for them. Check out physical books by all means, but don't feel guilty about checking out ebooks.

why is there an upgrade button on gmail. why does twitter want me to scan my palm to get into my account. why is google a chatbot. why does the transit app make a transit app wrapped for me. why does youtube keep shoving its infinitely scrollable shortform content down my throat. why do my doctor and psychiatrist and therapist want to use an ai notetaker during our appointments. why do free trials want my credit card number. why are most scholarship websites just data brokers. how do i make capitalone stop sending me mail. why is my school making its own special chat gpt powered chatbot. why is every third video on instagram an undisclosed ad. why is nothing online real anymore. why is everything so FUCKING STUPID

i do think we should normalise being like. platonically enamoured with someone. perhaps i love and admire you dearly and there's nothing romantic about it

they're a problematic character TO YOU. they're problematic to me as well but I'm being weird and horny about it so it's different

“you need to start thinking about building a family” no what I need is to have the money to buy house and decorate it just like I’ve always dreamed of

genuinely insane to me that bikinis are the Default swimwear marketed & sold to women. that's nylon underwear. & if you don't want to wear one people treat you like you're childish & insecure & suggest ways to "get over it"

"i feel uncomfortable with the idea of wearing what amounts to fast-drying underwear in front of other people, many of them complete strangers" "have you tried gradually acclimating to showing more & more skin? have you tried being more confident? are you ashamed of your body? don't you want to show off your beach bod?" girl what the fuck are you talking about!!!

wearing a bikini is all about confidence & self-love 🥰 but remember to wax all that icky yucky body hair first!!! 🤢 nobody wants to see that 🙅‍♀️

"trump dying won't fix fascism" neither would a big steamy bowl of pad thai but I still want it

Not enough credit to Eoin Colfer for not only crafting such a specific type of Weird Kid in Artemis Fowl but also writing the books in such a way as to appeal *to* that Type Of Kid so severely. He put a secret code in the margins you can decipher yourself. I was up at like five in the morning doing that shit as a kid, because I'm Artemis

This type of shit is why I have so much respect for like, actually good children's authors. There really is another layer of skill involved in writing For Children effectively that's separate from just being good at creative writing in general. Artemis Fowl is for people who thought they couldn't relate to their peers as a kid because they're smarter than them. Undiagnosed kids love hieroglyphs

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please.... "folks" is already non-gendered....