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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

vibes/aesthetic i adore: the spooky background artwork from the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? cartoon, foggy deep coniferous woods, flowy floral dresses, combat fashion boots, overflowing libraries, large mugs of hot tea, Animal Crossing & Legend of Zelda games, clear starry nights, lavender fields, chunky sweaters, overcast days, Agatha Christie adaptations & books, Jane Austen adaptations & books, my birthstone peridot, doilies & lace trimming, A Christmas Carol re-read in December, original Dracula re-read in October, walks in tree-filled parks, the smell of a campfire, the Pacific Northwest, ghost stories, happy endings, Hades & Persephone, Beauty & the Beast, historical & contemporary romance books, Studio Ghibli films & movie soundtracks, cats basking in the sun, the planet Jupiter, the yearning of the romantic leading characters in period dramas, marking off accomplished tasks on a checklist, dogs happy to see you, quoting classic Monty Python lines, watching all three extended Lord of the Rings films, Spock being his endearingly logical self on Star Trek TOS, Enya music, ballet flats, the Anne of Green Gables series & The Winternight Trilogy, the autumn season, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow games, the show Foyle’s War, witch hats, stacks of books all over your home, the smell of the Oregon coast beaches, mermaid & bronze octopus decor, a slice or two of strawberry shortcake, piles of cozy blankets, gilded hardcover books with ribbon bookmarks, thunderstorms, cottonwood trees along a gently flowing river, butterflies & bees in a wild garden, Converse sneakers, small chubby birds, snowy mountaintops, making your partner belly laugh, The Golden Girls, the Ocean Eyes album by Owl City, Masterpiece Theatre & Mystery!, being entirely silly & definitely not stopping, playing Lord Huron & Foals & CHVRCHES & AURORA & Lights & First Aid Kit & MARINA music on repeat, coffee table books featuring flowers & astrophotography, old photos of lost family you’ve never met but you just know would love & be proud of you, Robert Stack-era Unsolved Myteries, beautiful cursive writing in old letters from decades long past, reading the Sebastian St Cyr & William Monk & Her Royal Spyness & the Gaslight Mystery book series, getting the next book in a series you’ve been collecting for a while, collecting pretty & cute stickers & never sticking them on anything because it’s too much pressure & heartbreakingly final, collecting pretty notebooks & never writing in them because it never seems worthy enough, lilac trees, blood red roses, learning that one of your great-grandfathers’ favorite flower was the forget-me-not, learning that another one was named Cornelius, plague doctor-themed accessories & decor, buying yet another plushie or 5, Tiffany lamps, witchy music like Florence + the Machine & Hozier, small telescopes & binoculars to spy on the Galilean moons, Bigfoot decor, a cat’s activation chirp/meow when they wake up, synthwave music, Murder She Wrote, Garak & Martok on DS9, wearing nerdy hoodies, very specific pins & stickers, macarons & tea while watching Sherlock

Pinned Post spooky yet soft aesthetic Jane Austen Agatha Christie Lord of the Rings Anne of Green Gables starry nights Scooby Doo Where Are You cozy foggy woods camping Pacific Northwest autumn fall fashion combat boots and floral dresses delicate pretty things Studio Ghibli Hades & Persephone outer space cats dogs libraries books Nintendo Animal Crossing historical and contemporary romance period dramas so much yearning I crave it Lord Huron
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lesbianvenom

sometimes i see a post that has inaccurate information about libraries and sometimes i contemplate correcting them but then i don’t

lesbianvenom

actually this is a specific post i’ve seen circulating on my dash for a few months. i’m not blaming anyone for reblogging it but i think a lot of people don’t know enough about what a library is

getting a card is great, don’t get me wrong. but not using it isn’t good. yes, we can run reports that say how many cards were made in a year and we report it to our board (which the mayor is part of and the mayor has a big say in our budget -- see the cuts to nyc library funding by eric adams). but it’s bad if no one is using the cards. we do track circulation (items that are checked in/out, are lost or go missing, etc.), and if no one is taking out items that looks bad for our acquisitions budget. is there a manga series you like that’s 1000 issues long and still ongoing? if our budget gets cut we might not buy new books in the series. if you don’t use the ebook services we provide (libby, overdrive, etc.) those go away. if you don’t come to programs, program budgets get cut. if you. don’t keep track of what’s going on in your library, things you do not want to happen might happen anyway. go to the library. get to know the librarians, because if something comes up they will tell you about it. they might tell you that they’re holding a board meeting because a book was challenged by another patron. go to that board meeting to object to the challenge. and if you can’t physically go, get it in writing. e-mail the director -- you can find their email on the library website or somewhere on the internet. public librarians work for the public -- our info is out there. the director will read the email at the board meeting.

being an active member of the library is so much more than getting a card. not every library is great at outreach (my library is working on it, but we’re a small town, too), so sometimes you need to go to the website or call the library and ask. we’re more than happy to help. we want people in the library. it’s how we justify our existence, especially now when the far right really hates us and thinks we’re all pedophile indoctrinating children and will do anything to defund us. bigots are loud -- you have to be louder.

we all agree that book bans are bad and libraries closing are bad. but you have the power to stop it. and yeah, budgets are sometimes cut because there’s nothing else the library can do, but showing you actually want the library and the resource it provides to be around is important. i cannot overstate how much your voice matters. it matters over the staff, honestly, and i have a literal degree in library science. so i’m using my grad school knowledge to tell you to actually use and advocate for your public library

theprofessional-amateur

Use your card like you are on a shopping spree with unlimited funds!

See what other items/services your library offers with your card! Databases for research, music, movies (mine has whole ass streaming service I can checkout for a short time!), tools, toys, games, learning services, mobile hotspots, you never know what awesome services and materials your library has!

Ask you library staff, they will be so happy to tell you!

the-haiku-bot

Use your card like you

are on a shopping spree with

unlimited funds!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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