Im Sorry, WHAT?! OH GOD OK.

#bribboy #eyesmybeloved

my first and favorite hermit!

#wow #every hobbit's dream

Readers Burrow into a Bookworm Haven in Kurkku Fields’ ‘Underground Library’

For anyone who needs to hear this (myself very much included). You are worth it.

This is your reminder that every breath you take under a system that wants you dead is an act of defiance. If you are a woman, trans, black, brown, indigenous, AAPI, two spirit, Jewish, Muslim, disabled, poor, gay, an immigrant, or any combination of those groups or other marginalized groups I'm forgetting to mention, every piece of joy and peace you find in a country that will not protect you is revolutionary.

Give yourself time and space for your anger, channel it into donating or volunteering or even just supporting vulnerable individuals in your communities. But also give yourself time and space for joy, to take a deep breath. Take care of yourself. Brush your teeth, take a shower, eat, take your meds, check in with yourself. Honor your culture in some way, pray to your ancestors or to your deities, make cultural art, or comfort food. Go get a tattoo, or a piercing, or dye your hair. Find ways to remind yourself of your power, wherever you may draw it from. Turn off the news, at least for an hour or two. Watch a few episodes of a stupid TV show. Watch something that will make you laugh. Read a few chapters in your favorite book. Take a walk. Literally smell some roses. Anything that will give you strength to keep going, anything that will give you any small spark of hope or joy.

Activism is important. Getting in the streets is important. Donating to abortion funds is important. But you will not have the energy to do those things effectively if you do not give yourself grace. If you do not honor your emotions and the time you need to feel them. Constant exposure to stress is not healthy for anyone. Don't burn yourselves out, try to find a balance that works for you.

You are spiting the system by simply keeping yourself alive. So make that your priority first. Get your strength up, get your head straight, if you can. We need you at top condition (whatever that means for you) for what's to come. We need everyone.

Oh god they know

Not trans visibility day, but still well worth reposting.

International Trans Day of Visibility

Today we are spotlighting a few of the books from our LGBTQ+ Collection that highlight trans lives and issues. Check out the photo captions to find out what books the images came from. 

International Transgender Day of Visibility was created in 2009 by therapist and transgender activist Rachel Crandall Crocker, partially as counterweight to Trans Day of Remembrance, a day of memoriam for all those lost to transgender violence. Crocker wanted “a day that we can just celebrate being ourselves.” More recently, Crocker spoke about the double-edge sword of visibility for trans folks, and called on allies of trans people to make themselves more visible. So for all the cis people reading this, think hard about how you are going to show up for the trans community today, and every day. 

-Olivia Hickner, Special Collections Graduate Intern

Adding this to the sphere

Thank you Kamala for being the bigger person and acknowledging the Orange won. It sucks, but you were not in a place to do anything else.

Now its up to us to confront our neighbors with the world they have brought about, and survive long enough to either change their minds or wait for them to die off

Thats so cool!

You Are Odysseus

So

I’m a teacher of Classical Civilisation that has taught the Odyssey for over a decade and studied pretty much every myth and story with Odysseus in it.. I think

and I’m writing an Interactive Fiction (choose your own path) version of the Odyssey, inspired by the Homeric phrase “he turned his great heart this way and that”, where you are Odysseus, allowing you to follow his decisions or make your own

and it already has 500 sections to it - written to emulate modern translations of the Odyssey, including the literary features of simile, formula, epithet, and the rest - and 21 different ways to die, and quite a lot of period and theme-appropriate alternatives

(and if I get time, the option to be Telemachus or Penelope, although that might have to wait because it’s already a monster)

and I’ve tested what I’ve made so far on my pupils, other Classics teachers, and some of the leading (and best-read) Greek Mythology podcasters and YouTubers, all of whom have universally loved it (yay!)

(EDIT: Oops and I presented on it at the Classical Association conference last year)

I’m trying to finish it this summer, but need a bit of encouragement to do so

EDIT: and I forgot to say that ideally I’m planning on it being a beautiful BOOK with an old-fashioned cover and lots of ribbons to mark your place ❤️ (ex-bookseller ofc)

so, please let me know if you’d like to know more!

(EDIT: or sign up here go get notified directly when it’s ready: https://ljenkinsonbrown.wordpress.com/you-are-odysseus-signup/ )

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bhotarotproject on Twitter

“Hello and welcome to the official kick off post for the Villainous Tarot Project! We're putting together a tarot deck inspired by #villaino

The Villainous Tarot project is officially off the ground! It is a fan based project that will create a deck of tarot cards, and donate all proceeds to the Trevor Project. If you are an artist please check this out. It is a great opportunity to show off what you can do while raising money for a great cause. If you are not, and still want to find out what all the hype is about, come on over and see what we are doing! Also, if people could pass this along, that would be excellent!

Hey, if anyone can chuck them some funds, please do. Even 3 dollars helps.

i really don’t love doing this but i’m a trans neurodivergent person and i’ve been unemployed for the last month (after 3 months i was told the job wasn’t a good fit for me after being told i didn’t need to worry) and i’m now in the negative.

if anyone can help even just with getting this out there while i keep looking for new work. and i post this knowing there are people who are in far more dire need that i am at this moment. still, even if you just reblog this it will mean a lot.

paypal: @milesanw

venmo: @justmileshere

Mavka: The Forest Song (2023) | dir. Oleh Malamuzh, Oleksandra Ruban