I Will Go On From Time To Time

New zine that's free for anyone to print and distribute! Read the whole thing at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the rest of this post.

UPDATE 4/11/2023:

I swapped out the colloidal silver nasal spray info for xylitol nasal spray info. I originally included colloidal silver spray because of the linked study and recommendation from RTHM, but I don't want to be pointing people toward something with notable health risks. Xylitol spray (Xlear) is also cheaper and more widely available!

This is such a concise and informative resource! PLEASE boost this and keep each other safe! The pandemic is NOT OVER.

“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

"We took in a kitten that was starving, injured, and shot with a pellet gun."

"Oh my god, people are awful!"

"They're not. A person rescued her, other people who are trained in helping animals treated her injuries to make her healthy again, and so so so many people contributed to pay her medical costs, I don't even know how many. That she was hurt by...what, one person? Three? Certainly not many. Is honestly maybe the least important and least meaningful part of her story."

"...Oh."

I am holding a triumph of human kindness in my lap right now and her name is Fancy.

I’ll never forget I once had to break the news to two women that their dog had cancer, and as they cried and hugged and asked me questions I said something about how I was grateful this pup had such a loving family to support her- only for these ladies to inform me one of them wasn’t actually an owner at all, she was just the other woman’s Uber driver…

So this driver tells me she’s literally never met the other lady in her life, but when this passenger started crying in the car with her dog because she was worried, this angel in the form of an Uber driver went off the clock, came inside the building, and waited over an hour in a busy emergency room with a complete stranger just so she would have someone there by her side in a scary situation. This woman even took notes about everything I said so the owner wouldn’t have to try and remember it all later.

I see plenty of stuff at my job that makes me tempted to lose my faith in humanity but all I do is remember that Uber driver and it comes roaring back to me just like that. Humans are so unbelievably good, man.

#weirdly it ended up being a uterine tumor (not super common) and the dog was cured with an OVH#a rare feel good story from the ER 🥹#Uber driver came for the dog’s follow up appointment as well!!!

"the world is a cold and uncaring place" then warm it up. care, dammit

Illustration of that scene in The Mirador – happy(?) birthday, @veliseraptor!

I'm not immune to gay sexy swordfighting

In other news I finally picked up the Swordspoint audiobook and fell completely in love with the characters and setting. There's something quite beautiful about seeing a very unhealthy relationship where both characters suck a lot as people and make each other actively worse to the backdrop of convoluted political intrigue.

I love when trauma makes characters messy. I love when characters don't know how to show love. I love when they lash out. I love when they're vile and break down. I love characters who aren't perfect victims. I love when stories don't excuse behaviour but allow you to understand it

Are you an Egyptian Superhero? I am. — Mohamed Diab, dir. Moon Knight:

decided to get started on the fanfiction oh/OH. print design. This one is getting released November 6. Selected chrysanthemums because of their meaning and cus they're pretty

there are

SO MANY FUCKING PETALS

i am going to BED

lineart!! Gonna get started on the final print design while the lineart dries, but here's your update :)

alrighty here we go! like always, I scan without the final gold additions to make scans better, but here it is:

i'm off to make dinner

alright here's the final result and the final listing!

remember, the sale starts tomorrow so if you hold off til tomorrow, there'll be a 25% sale on things

rb to give the previous person a fucking break because life aint life-ing the way its supposed to life and it fucking sucks.

running for president as a member of the American Fujoshi Party with a foolproof plan to address male loneliness

I embroidered a jean jacket for my soon-to-be sister-in-law’s birthday, and then finally finished it just in time for Candlenights, 6 months later 🎉

oh my god. og my god. the symbolism of it all

Omg your mind @oldshrewsburyian

i love being a niccolòfluencer

sharing this one with the tumblr crowd because i only just rediscovered it and don't even know how to feel, mainly because it's only now like six years later that i'm finally listening to the audiobooks and am genuinely afraid to find out if he actually did it.

Just watched a librarian yell at a guy for sleeping in a chair

Apparently its against the rules to sleep in a library

Like sorry you have comfy cozy chairs out??? Also homeboy wasn’t snoring or anything like it wasn’t even disruptive sleeping what the fuck

They came over AGAIN

Like I dunno something about two old white lady librarians getting fussy with a young black guy for ‘sleeping’ in a chair (he’s not sleeping he’s quietly watching videos, their problem isn’t even the audio its him ‘sleeping’) sets me off internally

I was talking to my mom about it like ‘He wasn’t even snoring or anything I don’t get what the big deal is’

“Well if they let normal people sleep in there then they’d have to let homeless people pretend to be interested in the books and sleep in there too and that would cause issues.”

“…how would it cause issues?”

“Well because they’re a library, not a shelter. It’d cause issues.”

“????????????”

the thing that's the craziest about this is "pretend to be interested in books" does ur mom think that all homeless people are illiterate?????

Most library workers seem to take for granted that "library service users" and "homeless people in libraries" are non-overlapping populations.

Like not just that thinking all homeless people are illiterate, but they're not really included in the umbrella category of "people."

Every single person on this thread is right. Here are some ways we can fix it.

Sometimes this discriminatory bullshit is an individual staff member's problem. Often, it is also bullshit that gets imposed on libraries by their boards. Library boards are governing bodies which are frequently (though not always) staffed by people who haven't sat inside a public library for more than fifteen minutes in years.

My library system's policy explicitly forbids sleeping. This is bullshit. This is also board mandated.

My manager also believes "no sleeping" is bullshit. We don't enforce this policy in my specific branch. We do not wake up sleepers unless they are posing an actual hazard (blocking an aisle, leaving a child unattended). (Sometimes I'll watch for a minute to make sure someone is breathing, then carry on.)

A less principled manager, or a more micromanaging director, could force library staff to enforce this policy. We're lucky that we are even allowed, in this small way, to serve with dignity the people in our area who need us most. I don't need to worry about someone sleeping in a chair. I need to worry about someone letting their children take apart our shelves "because it looks better".

Some takeaways:

-If you are a staff member in a library, especially if you are a leader in a library, if you see someone sleeping and they're not posing a hazard, no you didn't. Train your staff likewise.

-If you are a library patron - any member of the public your library serves - find out what your library's written policies are with regard to sleeping, large bags, and other issues that are often "housed people only" policies in disguise. Usually these are available on the library website. If you disagree with any of these policies, use your privilege and go to a library board meeting to voice your concerns. These meetings are open to the public and sometimes nobody goes to them. Your board members are going to be old people because retirees are usually the only people with enough free time to serve on a board. Be polite, but firm.