The Wonderful World of Aj Winters

resting crows

these two posts are in a very loving relationship

I think it’s really important to talk about how different people have different power fantasies.

For example:

I would argue a lot of fandom conflicts re: villains come from people being unable to see that their fantasies, which put them in control of a narrative (and all three of these are designed to give the author or reader control of the narrative in different ways) are someone else’s horror stories.

….this explains SO MUCH.

This breakdown works equally well for the Problematic Love Interest.

The Librarians is so different from Leverage. See, The Librarians is about a team of 5 secret heroes consisting of a non-American thief with a hidden past, a quirky bisexual autistic-coded girl with trauma, a tough country guy played by Christian Kane, a sarcastic guy who provides technical support, and a leader who watches over the team like a parent. Also Noah Wyle is there. Unlike Leverage, which is about a team of 5 secret heroes consisting of a non-American thief with a hidden past, a quirky bisexual autistic-coded girl with trauma, a tough country guy played by Christian Kane, a sarcastic guy who provides technical support, and a leader who watches over the team like a parent. Also Noah Wyle is there.

it's the start of the week, there's still time!

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*bleeding to death because the paramedics can’t break the windows to get me out of my stupid fucking truck* heha well at least i dont have to worry about the friggin Zombie Apocalypse… awesomesauce 😎

laurie 😔

'i should draw' 'i should paint' 'i should write fic' 'i should read' 'i should embroider' 'i shou-

*stares at a wall for 8 hours*

...I had a guy come in today asking about how to get his kids library cards. I told him. He asked me how hard it would be for them to get them, and I said that all it took was their presence and his government ID.

He told me about how nice the system was here, where it was so easy to get a card; he said that there was a beautiful public library in Beijing that was top of the line and everything, but that the only way to access it was if you were a high ranking government official or a top professor or something. Instead, our library "serves the reader." His kids will be able to take chapter books home at no cost. He'll even be able to get books in Chinese here so that his native language skills don't atrophy.

I didn't even really know what to say, so I told him how to ask us to buy books for him that we don't already have so that he can still read them at no extra cost. I don't know how to shore up what it must feel like to know that there are books out there you can't read; I've always grown up with a good library nearby. It reminded me of working in my old library, though, where families who spoke Spanish were startled to find out we took any government ID with a formal address in town— even foreign IDs— so that their kids could get access to all of our titles in all the languages we offered.

Ah. Anyway, I hope you check out a library book with this thought in mind. I checked out the first volume of YJ98 today with that thought in mind. I didn't have to pay anything. I put it on hold, and there it was.

Wait, wait, wait. You're library BUYS books someone wants? Like you just tell them a title...and then they fucking BUY it!?!?

Where has this system been my whole life?

Well, it's been at the library, presumably.

That’s always been a thing, babes, even at the rundown library in my childhood hometown. Had no funding but by god they tracked down the book I wanted and bought it for me.

@ all my tumblr mutuals

"Meet Thunderbolt."

since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this

after lots of frantic googling of “were samurais gay” “were cowboys gay” “how did gay samurais work” “did gay cowboys love each other” ad nauseam i have decided that it’s actually funnier if both the cowboy AND the samurai are gay but not for each other and also they both have their very culturally specific understandings of gay social politics so both of them still are equally like “dude why are you like this” to each other

samurai, trying to comfort the cowboy who just got dumped over pony express: when my lover left me for another man, i killed both him and his new lover, and proved to all in shudo that it is what happens when you leave me for another, and i felt much lighter. would doing that also help you?

cowboy, absolutely reeking of the flask, who stopped howling purely out of confusion to try and figure out if the samurai was being serious: dude what the fuck is wrong with you

the depictions of homosexual identity at the time are painstakingly accurate and very clearly heavily researched, and this is purposefully in direct contrast to how absolutely absurd and crazy the entire rest of the premise of the comic is