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it just feels right when a librarian is a lesbian. like yea, that's how it's supposed to be

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it did not work, but i can help

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the only super long Tumblr post I love

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It's back. Classic.

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ok!

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yeah okay, ill reblog that :)

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Assassin 💜

#lucanis #dragon age veilguard

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Why are British teenage girls so unhappy? Here’s the answer (Caitlin Moran, The Times, Sep 13 2024)

"The report, by the Children’s Society, found that British 15-year-old girls are the most unhappy in Europe.

British girls aged 10-15 are “significantly less happy” with their life, appearance, family and school than the average boy — and their happiness is still declining.

Boys’ life satisfaction, meanwhile, remains broadly stable. (…)

But I still didn’t have an “aha!” moment about why this so disproportionately affects girls until… I talked to some teenage girls.

It was at a party, and I went to vape with them on the patio. Because I take my nicotine like children do.

“Duh — it’s the boys,” one said when I brought it up, as all the others agreed.

“The boys?” I asked.

My last book, What About Men?, had been all about how much boys struggle these days: their loneliness; their suicide rates. I’d spent the past year feeling very sympathetic towards boys.

“Yeah, well, who do you think they’re taking out their unhappiness on? It’s us,” another girl said.

“One boy at school used to draw a picture every day of how ugly I was,” a third girl said. “Every day for two years.”

“They’ve all got ‘Rate The Girls’ polls on their WhatsApps,” the first said. “They mark you down for weight gain, haircuts, what you say.”

“But then, if you’re hot, it’s just as bad, in a different way, because they’ll be talking about how they want to f*** you.”

The girls discussed coping techniques. Bad news: none of them worked.

“The only way you can stop them is if you become ‘one of the boys’ and hang out with them. But then,” the second girl said with a sigh, “all the other girls call you a slut. Because you’ve gone over to the boys’ side.”

“Surely it’s not all the boys?” I said. “There must be some nice boys?”

“Oh, yeah,” one girl said. “But they keep their heads down. Because… well, look.”

She showed me the Instagram account of her friend. Under every picture she posted of herself — smiling in a new dress; with her dog — dozens of anonymous accounts had replied with the most rank abuse.

“Fat.” “Slut.” “You gonna try and kill yourself again, for attention?”

“They’re all boys from her school,” she said. “And look, this one boy tried to defend her.”

I saw a series of messages from a brave teenage boy, posting things like, “You’re all big men, leaving these replies under anonymous accounts.”

As I could see, this boy immediately became a target too. Mainly accusations that he was “white knighting” this girl: “You wanna f*** her, bro?”

“So,” I asked, “you don’t think it’s social media pressure to be beautiful, or the economy, that’s making girls so sad?”

“Well, yeah, them too,” the first girl said. “But, Monday-Friday, 9-3, I’m not on social media. I’m not… in the economy. I’m just with these boys. And no one talks about how horrible they are.”

I thought about another recent report, showing a 30 per cent ideological gap between Gen Z men, who are increasingly conservative, and Gen Z women, who are increasingly progressive.

I thought about Andrew Tate, who has nine million mostly young male followers — and faces human trafficking charges, which he denies.

And I thought: maybe these girls are on to something. Maybe more people need to vape with teenage girls and ask them for the school gossip."

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RED DEAD REDEMPTION II ᨖ

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My job now is to outlive that man.

I will outlive him. I will be here when he is gone. I will be here when he has been erased. I will be here, telling stories, loving my wife, protecting my friends and family, cherishing joy and kindness and diversity. I will be here. He will not. It is only a matter of time.

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Wall have ears. They also love gossip and having your attention 🫶✨

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Life update:

When I turned 27 I had a quarter-life crisis. I absolutely hated my job - it filled me with so much anxiety and panic, and the idea of working there for the rest of my career filled me with dread. I knew I had to make a change, even if that meant going back to school. When I had been younger the idea of going for anything more than a bachelor's degree would leave me feeling behind my friends - that I would be finishing up school while they were already getting promotions and moving forward. But I realized that I was going to be 30 soon, and I could either be 30 doing a job I hated... or I could be 30 with a master's degree and maybe a new career path. So I started looking up jobs that made more money, and while they would've made sense financially, none of them felt right.

And then I walked in on my mom watching The Mummy, and Evelyn drunkly and proudly proclaimed, "I... am a librarian!" And I knew what I wanted to do.

After going back to school for two years to get my master's degree, waiting on state certification for half a year after that, applying for jobs and interviewing all the while, today I finally got my dream job.

I'm finally a librarian!

GIF by librifeminaequecano

#all that is to say I am very proud of myself #and it's never too late to start over #thank you The Mummy (1999) for my bi awakening AND my new career #librarian #the mummy 1999 #evelyn o'connell

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Go figure, regressives undermining elections again, shocking.

But truly, everyone that sees this, check your registration, especially in conservative states.

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Texans, check here:

Texas Voter Registration | Texas.gov

Learn who can vote in Texas, how to check if you're registered, register to vote in Texas, and prepare for voting day.

texas.gov

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Anyone in the US can check their voter registration, or register to vote, at vote.org which is a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to providing voting guidance.

Check Your Voter Registration Status - Vote.org

It takes less than 30 seconds to check your registration status with our free 50-state tool. And if you're not registered, we'll help you ta

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Me: *scrolls past this post*

Me: Oh my god it's a FORK lift.

Me: *begrudgingly scrolls back up to reblog*

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You’ve heard of Apollo’s dodgeball now get ready for Artemis’s sick dunks

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EVERYONE CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION

RE-REGISTER IF NECESSARY! They can purge you, but they can't stop you from just slapping your legally valid registration right back in the system! Don't let them get away with stealing your vote!

At this point they know they only way to get the twice-impeached 34-count felon (that cheated on is wife with a porn star while she was pregnant and then lied about using presidential campaign funds to pay off said porn star's hush money) elected is if if they stop the opposition from voting entirely. So they're going to purge the people most likely to vote against him. Which is illegal but clearly they don't care about illegal shit, or else they wouldn't be running a convicted felon for president, now would they?