you think so much. You could think about a door for a hundred years and it would stay closed.
Just remembered that Beverly Crusher was orphaned as a child, married with a kid before she finished her education and a widow by the time she was 30
Like I’ve been thinking about how when we meet Julian in ds9 it’s as this young doctor who’s fresh out of the academy and he’s framed as someone inexperienced and who’s still learning about the world and growing and even immature in many ways and this framing isn’t wrong it’s true that’s kind of where he should be at this stage in his life he’s just left school he’s basically entering the real world for the first time. And then I think about how when Beverly was at this stage of her life and was just leaving the academy she was doing it married with a two year old who she was most likely the primary caregiver for cause her husband was off flying around the galaxy and on a character level I just think that’s sad but on another level it just makes me think about the different expectations for maturity that’s placed on men and women. And I know ds9 largely had a different creative team to early-tng but my point still stands. I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore this is all nonsense and im tired but I’m just thinking about things
ROUND 3 — Match 11 of 69
Scott Summers/Cyclops (Marvel)
Problematic because: "on a personal level has been kind of a deadbeat dad/abandoned his wife/has had affairs at various points in his history. Has also been a morally dubious revolutionary/kind of terrorist. at one point killed his mentor. debatably justified or not justified or on occasion not even fully in control of some of these actions depending on who you ask" Propaganda: "scott summers my goat. I always feel bad that the 2 main live action versions of him designated him as the kind of "boring square" when he's really not that at all in the comics (at least when well written lmao) - he's often very serious and intense but definitely not boring, and I honestly think the fact that he's gotten more morally grey and kind of personally messy over the years makes him a more interesting character and is also kind of fully understandable. What if you were an autistic teenager with abandonment issues and a traumatic brain injury that made you continuously and uncontrollably shoot energy out of your eyes and you could hurt and kill people if you literally just looked at them without a protective filter on your face at all times and then your mentor/father figure (who can read your mind) put the weight of the world on your shoulders and made you lead a team of other kind of messed up teenagers, including your girlfriend (who can also read your mind). Would be hard not to become a kind of messy adult."
vs. Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Problematic because: "worked for the space fascist lizard KGB" Propaganda: "there is truly so much going on with him. he was exiled from his home for mysterious reasons, he's gay, he kills people, they put a chip in his brain, at least 2 regimes want him dead, he is determined to escape exile and he wants to die but the twink doctor he's involved with won't let that happen. i don't want to spoil more than i already have"
(Disclaimer: All text above was sent in by submitters and not written by OP.)
tl;dr--do YOU have this book, or know someone who does? It's called Tiny Penguin's Flying Lesson.
I have posted this on different parts of the internet several times now, and I can't believe it's never occurred to me to post here until now...
This book has been my white whale. I have been looking for it for years.
My spouse had a copy and the included small plush penguin as a small child. When we first started dating, they told me about how, as a toddler, he accidentally dropped the plush off a boat and into the ocean and was devastated. I thought it would be a cute sentimental gift to purchase a used copy for them, because in the book, “the penguin always comes back.” However, it turns out that this book is not only out of print; it’s incredibly rare. I can’t seem to find it on sale anywhere online, I've checked countless real-life vintage and antique stores, and it’s only available in like three libraries in the world--one of which is the Bodleian Library and another is the British Library, which are both required to have every book published in the United Kingdom--according to Worldcat. I couldn’t even get it on interlibrary loan because of how rare it supposedly is.
I do not know how my spouse, who grew up in semi-rual Pennsylvania, had a copy of this book as a child. But he did. And I have been on the hunt for ages.
Can anyone in the tumblr hivemind help me find it? Do you have a copy you would be willing to sell me? Do you know where I might acquire one?
Just a little more info on this:
It was part of the Tiny Hugs series published by Readers Digest in the 90s. (I think this particular book came out in 1997). The authors were Muff Singer and Risa Sherwood Gordon.
Another mystery on this:
Why is it in two of the UK legal deposit libraries, but not in the U.S. Library of Congress--the U.S.'s legal deposit library--when the book was, afaik, publihsed in the U.S.?
The only library in North America that has a copy appears to be the one at Skidmore College, a small liberal arts college in Upstate New York. Why there???
tumblr user runrundoyourstuff, when pondering a picture book for babies c. 1997.
My submission for @lizard-lovin
Prompt: Elim Garak x Kelas Parmak- Rain
Technically, I did this on the last day of September, but it’s ink, so it gets reblogged today, regardless. XD
hermes in hadestown is the exact opposite of an unreliable narrator. a tortured narrator. a little *too* reliable. incredibly aware of exactly what is happening at any given moment, vaguely spoiling it for you in the beginning, despairing every second of it. but ultimately motivated to continue to tell the story over and over and over with a smiling face for the sake of the audience, and for the sake of the characters themselves, singing it again to keep them alive. knowing how it will end, but singing it again so that the cycle may restart and eurydice may come back to life. enduring the misery of it all, over and over, holding the knowledge of what will come to pass but continuing anyway to see orpheus happy just one more time before it all goes down in flames again.
tl;dr--do YOU have this book, or know someone who does? It's called Tiny Penguin's Flying Lesson.
I have posted this on different parts of the internet several times now, and I can't believe it's never occurred to me to post here until now...
This book has been my white whale. I have been looking for it for years.
My spouse had a copy and the included small plush penguin as a small child. When we first started dating, they told me about how, as a toddler, he accidentally dropped the plush off a boat and into the ocean and was devastated. I thought it would be a cute sentimental gift to purchase a used copy for them, because in the book, “the penguin always comes back.” However, it turns out that this book is not only out of print; it’s incredibly rare. I can’t seem to find it on sale anywhere online, I've checked countless real-life vintage and antique stores, and it’s only available in like three libraries in the world--one of which is the Bodleian Library and another is the British Library, which are both required to have every book published in the United Kingdom--according to Worldcat. I couldn’t even get it on interlibrary loan because of how rare it supposedly is.
I do not know how my spouse, who grew up in semi-rual Pennsylvania, had a copy of this book as a child. But he did. And I have been on the hunt for ages.
Can anyone in the tumblr hivemind help me find it? Do you have a copy you would be willing to sell me? Do you know where I might acquire one?
Just a little more info on this:
It was part of the Tiny Hugs series published by Readers Digest in the 90s. (I think this particular book came out in 1997). The authors were Muff Singer and Risa Sherwood Gordon.
Another mystery on this:
Why is it in two of the UK legal deposit libraries, but not in the U.S. Library of Congress--the U.S.'s legal deposit library--when the book was, afaik, publihsed in the U.S.?
The only library in North America that has a copy appears to be the one at Skidmore College, a small liberal arts college in Upstate New York. Why there???
tumblr user runrundoyourstuff, when pondering a picture book for babies c. 1997.
Honestly I think one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself is to separate your negative qualities from your identity.
Instead of saying “I’m lazy,” saying “I’ve made a habit of not doing work unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Instead of saying “I’m a bad friend,” saying “I haven’t communicated as much as I should with the people I care about.”
By being specific about your problems, and by framing it as an action that you are consciously either working on or ignoring rather than an unchangeable part of who you are, you allow yourself to accept your mistakes and work constructively on them instead of pretending they didn’t happen or wallowing in blaming yourself.
tl;dr--do YOU have this book, or know someone who does? It's called Tiny Penguin's Flying Lesson.
I have posted this on different parts of the internet several times now, and I can't believe it's never occurred to me to post here until now...
This book has been my white whale. I have been looking for it for years.
My spouse had a copy and the included small plush penguin as a small child. When we first started dating, they told me about how, as a toddler, he accidentally dropped the plush off a boat and into the ocean and was devastated. I thought it would be a cute sentimental gift to purchase a used copy for them, because in the book, “the penguin always comes back.” However, it turns out that this book is not only out of print; it’s incredibly rare. I can’t seem to find it on sale anywhere online, I've checked countless real-life vintage and antique stores, and it’s only available in like three libraries in the world--one of which is the Bodleian Library and another is the British Library, which are both required to have every book published in the United Kingdom--according to Worldcat. I couldn’t even get it on interlibrary loan because of how rare it supposedly is.
I do not know how my spouse, who grew up in semi-rual Pennsylvania, had a copy of this book as a child. But he did. And I have been on the hunt for ages.
Can anyone in the tumblr hivemind help me find it? Do you have a copy you would be willing to sell me? Do you know where I might acquire one?
Just a little more info on this:
It was part of the Tiny Hugs series published by Readers Digest in the 90s. (I think this particular book came out in 1997). The authors were Muff Singer and Risa Sherwood Gordon.
Another mystery on this:
Why is it in two of the UK legal deposit libraries, but not in the U.S. Library of Congress--the U.S.'s legal deposit library--when the book was, afaik, publihsed in the U.S.?
The only library in North America that has a copy appears to be the one at Skidmore College, a small liberal arts college in Upstate New York. Why there???
tumblr user runrundoyourstuff, when pondering a picture book for babies c. 1997.
tl;dr--do YOU have this book, or know someone who does? It's called Tiny Penguin's Flying Lesson.
I have posted this on different parts of the internet several times now, and I can't believe it's never occurred to me to post here until now...
This book has been my white whale. I have been looking for it for years.
My spouse had a copy and the included small plush penguin as a small child. When we first started dating, they told me about how, as a toddler, he accidentally dropped the plush off a boat and into the ocean and was devastated. I thought it would be a cute sentimental gift to purchase a used copy for them, because in the book, “the penguin always comes back.” However, it turns out that this book is not only out of print; it’s incredibly rare. I can’t seem to find it on sale anywhere online, I've checked countless real-life vintage and antique stores, and it’s only available in like three libraries in the world--one of which is the Bodleian Library and another is the British Library, which are both required to have every book published in the United Kingdom--according to Worldcat. I couldn’t even get it on interlibrary loan because of how rare it supposedly is.
I do not know how my spouse, who grew up in semi-rual Pennsylvania, had a copy of this book as a child. But he did. And I have been on the hunt for ages.
Can anyone in the tumblr hivemind help me find it? Do you have a copy you would be willing to sell me? Do you know where I might acquire one?
Just a little more info on this:
It was part of the Tiny Hugs series published by Readers Digest in the 90s. (I think this particular book came out in 1997). The authors were Muff Singer and Risa Sherwood Gordon.
Another mystery on this:
Why is it in two of the UK legal deposit libraries, but not in the U.S. Library of Congress--the U.S.'s legal deposit library--when the book was, afaik, publihsed in the U.S.?
The only library in North America that has a copy appears to be the one at Skidmore College, a small liberal arts college in Upstate New York. Why there???