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He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. [Auguries of Innocence — William Blake]

I’m gonna be just like you—no matter what you say I can’t do, I’ll follow you until the day I can smile at you and say “Big Brother, I’m just like you…”

I’m like that one neurodivergent brother, hello:D

#intro post #introductory post #king speaks #asks open #send asks #pls?

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prophecyofgray

IT'S SIOBHAN THOMPSON WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

Rewatching Supergirl and realizing that despite Kara being like—best invincible, she gets hurt the most while doing hero stuff out of her, Barry, and Oliver

#king speaks #supergirl 2015 #supergirl #supergirl cw #arrowverse #oliver queen #barry allen #AND WOMAN OF THE CENTURY #kara danvers #kara zor el #<3

It occurs to me that there are probably Earths where Krypton didn’t explode, and therefore Earths where Kara Danvers and Clark Kent don’t exist

Like, legally, they’re not a thing

So, hypothetically, if one of them from Earth 38 (pre-Elseworlds) were to snap and go on a crime spree or smthin for whatever reason on one of these Earths, they wouldn’t have to conceal their identity

Fingerprints? Nothing

Saying their full legal name and/or social security number? Nothing

Anyways that’s it for today’s crackfic idea goodbye

#king speaks #crackfic idea #kara zor el #kara danvers #clark kent #kal el #supergirl #superman #arrowverse #supergirl 2015

royalbookerly

Nya has a faint lightning scar in the vague shape of Jay's hand on her hip from the first time they made out because he got nervous and zapped her just hard enough to scar and then when he's old enough he surprises her with a tattoo of a watery handprint on his hip in the same spot

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Have you ever had a panic attack?

Ye

No (lucky…)

Remaining time: 1 hour 1 minute

#king speaks #poll #random poll #panic attack #cw panic attack #kinda?#idk if that applies here but i’m putting it just in case

Kara Danvers having panic attacks will forever mean the world to me

#king speaks #kara zor el #kara danvers #supergirl 2015 #arrowverse kara #and melissa’s ACTING #GOD it’s INCREDIBLE

Choose one of the last five ships in my ao3 bookmarks

SuperCorp (Kara Danvers x Lena Luthor)

CaitVi (Caitlyn Kiramman x Vi)

Geode/Lostshipping (Cole Brookstone x Geo)

Jesterdoll (Pomni x Ragatha)

Clexa (Clarke Griffin x Lexa Kom Trikru)

Voting ended on12m

#poll #king speaks #ships #ship poll #geodeshipping #ninjago geode #lostshipping #cole x geo #clexa #clarke x lexa #supercorp #kara x lena #caitvi #vi x caitlyn #jesterdoll #pomni x ragatha #buttonblossom #ragapom #ao3 bookmarks

violetstarc4

Nya and Kai should have some super-elemental effects from having two elemental parents. Whether it’s some sort of immunity to the other element, physical traits of the other element (like Nya having fiery eyes and Kai’s being sea-blue), or just the manifestations of their own elements being stronger, I don’t really care. But the elemental masters just seem to be build different, so there should be some effect from having no ‘normal’ parent.

(I love this along with headcanoning that they’re exceptionally gorgeous. All the ninjas elemental parents are clearly intended to be really attractive. It’s boring if that’s just a fluke.)

As promised!!

#king draws #pls note that these were drawn at school w/out references and my memory sucks <3 #tadc jax #trans girl jax #transfem jax #tadc art #tadc doodles #jax doodles #except here her name is velvet #jax is actually one of my least favorite characters lmao #she is really fun to draw tho

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I’ll post my transfem Jax doodles later buuuut for now I’ll just tell you that I’ve named her Velvet (after the Velveteen Rabbit :3)

#king speaks #tadc #tadc jax #trans jax #transfem jax #girl jax #trans girl jax

violetstarc4

So many tall Nya- short Jay head canoning people but I’ve never seen anyone draw the cave reflection scene where she puts her head on his shoulder with her towering over him.

mossworth

Guys, queers. Specifically my fellow queers.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

This isn't a vague post, there's no one person I'm hinting at or calling out. I'm not even talking directly to anyone who's directly in my line of sight. I just want everyone to hear this. Big library, small library, whatever. Doesn't matter. Please, we cannot be losing our shelf visibility like this.

alanfromrochester

I work in a different library and can confirm, it's a decision based on popularity not censorship

we're big enough to have lots of shelf space but still have the problem on a different scale. We do have a back storage room rather than completely getting rid of some things, but having to ask for that might be a barrier for sensitive subject matter and prevent people from casually stumbling across something of interest

paintedpigeon1

Yep. Different library worker here, we weeded adult non-fiction recently bc it's most rarely used and we needed to clear a bookshelf of space, and there were a decent number of queer books on the list. Thankfully not all of them, but some (we had a lot lol). Our criteria is also no borrows in 3yrs. I can't borrow the whole list by myself. I do try to get these books in, and the local authority are happy to buy them, but we need space for new books every so often and we can't keep everything forever! If you want them, you have to use them!

(incidentally, the whole list was 35 pages long, which... please borrow the books you want people)

qbdatabase

I didn't have time to comment the first time I reblogged, but I can add now:

I'm also a librarian and queer books are almost always cut first when we have to weed for space or prioritize new releases over old items because no one reads them

I will say, when I worked at a large downtown location, we had a "browsing card" that we would check out items we found taken off the shelf and left on a table, as an example of a book that had clearly been read, just not checked out by anyone

it's possible queer books do actually get a bit of unfair treatment in this regard because people may be nervous or outright scared to check them out onto an account with their name on it. so they get browsed at a much higher rate, but if a library doesn't have a specific system in place (or need for it) to count browsed items, then it looks like they aren't being used and they get weeded

for other librarians, a browsing card is a great idea if you have enough staff for the extra work / enough items left out to justify it

for patrons, check out queer books even if you don't read them! you're not lying or committing any type of fraud. you're keeping books on the shelf long enough for pride season when people are interested in checking them out again and for people scared to use their own accounts or who don't have library cards

for anyone nervous about using their library card, libraries do not keep search histories of what you check out!! this means even if the government does come back with a warrant, *wet farting noise* too bad! it doesn't exist!

so please check out queer books!

vtothefun

I have to wonder how often they aren't checked out because those in an exploratory period may not feel safe enough for them to go home with them, too. Kids, for example, or folks who have ended up in a het marriage that... Doesn't feel like it's quite right (or may be physically abusive).

mossworth

This is most definitely one of the causes of this. That's why it's so important for folks who *can* to *do*.

It feels like such a small thing, but all movements are made up of small things! We have this mindset that in order to get everything done, everyone must be doing their (or *the*) absolute best at all times. But not everyone can do the same things, to the same degree, with the same amount of productivity or success. Not everyone can; sometimes, they're the ones that need help. Sometimes people just need help.

This post is very much so intended for the people who can. I've seen a lot of replies from folks who say they don't have to (or don't think about) checking out or requesting queer books from the library specifically because they *can* buy them, can pirate them, or already have them in their house or on their computers or phones. But in instances like that, keeping these books in circulation is less for you and more for the people who can't. The folks who come to the library, who don't have access to internet--or even electricity--at home and would never--have never--been able to interact with this "ubiquitous queer community" we have here online who has made so many of these. materials so avaliable to the rest of us.

And... if I can be a little frank. Sometimes the hyperaccessibility of these materials online (through pirating, cheap e-book copies, etc) gives people a false sense of security. It implies that these things are an infinate resource, good for "When I get around to it".

And often, you won't. There's so much to read and so much to do. So much to download and so much to sit down and stare at for hours. That kind of mental scope puts books in people's hands (or phones), but never in their heads.

But the moment your favorite document archival site gets knocked offline for breaching copyright or your go-to mega corporate audiobook distributor decides it doesn't want "those" materials anymore, what's left? What did you download? What information did you internalize? Did you ever get around to it? If you did, great, but what good does that do for the person who didn't? Are you going to be the one to redistribute that information? Are you going to communicate it in the place of the author whose words are no longer publically accesible or, mostly avaliable, but only behind hefty paywalls and financial gatekeeping? How would someone else get a hold of it? How could they, if they wanted?

vtothefun

This is excellent info.

What are some good books to check out for those who can?

mossworth

Gosh... there's so many options. I wouldn't know where to start without knowing who I'm talking to and what they're looking for. What I can recommend is for folks to check out creators like @makingqueerhistory who have spent just a ridiculously beautiful amount of time collecting queer history and book lists! You'll find something in seconds reading their page.

Personal pitch: I liked the books Tar Hollow Trans and Gay Poems for Red States. Both great.

makingqueerhistory

I'm glad I was tagged in this because it means I can cosign (and also add a little nugget of info).

I live in a province that is currently trying to ban queer books from libraries, and as a library patron, this is terrifying. 95% of the books I read are from the library and a lot of them are way out of my budget to buy personally.

Making Queer History would not exist without the school library I skipped class in to write articles. It would not exist without my friends with library cards for their universities sharing them and getting me access to rare texts. I would not be able to read as much as I do without Libby and Hoopla. If I have ever given you a book recommendation, know that I likely got it from the library first.

I cannot overstate the importance of protecting libraries and checking out queer books. And I want to say thank you to everyone above for being as passionate as I am about queer books in libraries.

Love y'all <3

sleepyking

LGBTQ book recs!!

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee, and its sequel, The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

Magical Boy by The Kao

The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Wings of Fire has some lesbian dragons but they’re pretty late in the series (plus whatever the fuck Winter and Qibli have going on…)

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

#fucking love my local library #i’ve volunteered there a few times over the summer and it’s been amazing #i’m also friends with all the staff lol #they’re so NICE

marinty

I made Garnet with letters :> the typography I used is Rounds Black. It took me a week to finish it. It was a busy week bcs I had to do other projects. :V

EDIT: I added my signature.

possumsarenice

Shout everyone else taking the vow of silence today

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AND AS THE SOLAR WIND BLOWS THROUGH MY HAIR KNOWING I HAVE SO MUCH MORE LEFT TO SHARE

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