A Grumpy Fool
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dont get me wrong this is #mood but just try eating a piece of bread with salt. please, seriously. ok? at least a tiny bit. salt helps with nausea, bread calms the stomach acid. if you really can’t face eating anything, just lick some salt like a damn elk, then wait and see if you can manage the bread. make some broth if you’re into that kind of thing. no spices, yes salt. if you’re feeling too weak and shaky to do much, just have a cup of tea with sugar (energy) and lemon (again, good against nausea). nibble on the lemon first, it will feel good, but don’t overdo - citric acid on an empty stomach is a majorly bad idea. take care of yourself, you’re the only you we’ve got
“You’re the only you we’ve got”
ok!!! ♥️
Yeah okay ill reblog that!!
This is so damn sweet and also good to know. I regularly have this struggle
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Today I cried a little bit because I remembered that when Beethoven conducted his ninth symphony for the first time he got a standing ovation and one of the sopranos had to turn him around to see the audience.
I have never recovered from this illustration by Scott Cameron for Barbara Nichol’s “Beethoven Lives Upstairs.”
😭😭😭
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Henna-haired Vinga, dread rouser of battle-strife, unwearied leader of the host, who delights in the cry of war and battle
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omg I just remembered that to love another person is to see the face of god
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There are stranger things in reality than can be found in romances …
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Ok, I’ve seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I’ve been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-
Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.
Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.
Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.
The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There
I can hardly ever get to the library - Libby has changed my life! I’ve library cards to three different libraries now, because if you live in NYS you can get library cards to both the NYC and the Brooklyn Libraries. Please, please, please go get a card and try this out: https://libbyapp.com
@queerliblib is also on Libby! Go get you some queer literature!
I hesitate to be the person to defend Kindle Unlimited, because 1) I have many issues with Amazon, 2) I love the library system and want people to use it as much as possible, and 3) I think KU specifically has a lot of problems.
But, for better and for worse, Kindle Direct Publishing has become one of the best, if not actually the best, places for self-publishing, particularly for authors who don’t already have the capital and time to pursue a more robust self-publishing career. And KU is a big part of that.
The books that a lot of people are reading on KU (myself included) are books that you will never find on Libby, because they are self-published. While libraries do take self-published books, actually figuring out how to get your self-published book into a library system is not trivial, and many self-published authors don’t have the wherewithal to navigate that.
KU has so many problems, including everything noted above, plus the fact that the royalty system is opaque, complicated, and frankly not great. But it’s also one of the only ways for a lot of self-published authors to potentially build a readership, because people are more willing to take a risk on trying a book by an unknown author when it doesn’t cost them any extra. (And yes, that means that they are willing to take that risk on books at the library, too–but, again, see above paragraph.)
I wish we had better and easier alternatives for people who do self-publishing. Please tell me if you have any, and I will amplify them! But right now, KU really does seem to be the best option.
Anyway, go use the library! Support your local library! Take out physical books and ebooks and audiobooks and large print books!
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Hired a moving company and they sent four strong, strapping, beautiful lads to my house to disassemble my furniture and move all my things. I loved them. I got them pizza. They told me moving company gossip. I missed them one minute after they left. My moving lads. Come back to me. You’re so strong and so well trained in safe lifting
I miss my moving men they took such good care of me and they were so handsome and beautiful and strong and efficient and they wrapped all my furniture up in plastic and they loved that I got pizza for them and they knew how to safely drive the big big truck. Come back to me moving men
Moving men please come move me in your big strong arms in a way that complies with local safety regulations and the company’s values
One of the men had a dangling earring and a stud, so I told him I liked his earrings. So he told me about how when he first got his ears pierced, he lost a stud and had to borrow an earring from his girlfriend to keep the hole from closing up. Well the only one she had to lend him was a dangling pink fuzzy duck. And everyone made fun of him for wearing it until they realized he didn’t give a fuck what they thought. So now he always wears one stud and one dangling earring.
He told me this story while manhandling my entire couch. And I’m supposed to be normal about this? I’m bisexual
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