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its at stupid 2pm too. ruin your whole day type of appointment time.

i was like hang pn a second. i know this one.

also i have to go to the stupid mri today and i don't wannnnnnaaaaa

im lookign into books for elementary schoolers. unexpectedly ran into my good friend le petit prince. from french class

i need to get one of those magnifying/light things they make for old people who read so i don't have to always stop and put the book 2 inches from my face.

Also can i air a grievance. if you have a book thats like "heres some stories you can read in your target language as a learner" but the font is smaller than like. the font in a junie b. jones or bunnicula book. I don't wike that.

img text: 你行你上 “你行你上”是一个从篮球迷的争论中而来的流行语，”

is that u can u up...

Book cover: The Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari, illustrated by Matthew Forsythe, translated from Italian by Jack Zipes. Cover illustration is a colorful, textural depiction of a child in white cloak walking past a giant’s foot; snakes, fish, a rabbit, and dragons lurk nearby. Eerie but friendly at the same time.

Chapter header from The Grammar of Fantasy: 38. The Child Who Reads Comics Illustration of a child hidden behind a large comic book with simplified shapes, eyes, and a mouth for panels.

Excerpt from The Grammar of Fantasy: books, new inventions are often added to the basic sounds, and these, too, must be deciphered. The entire course of the story must be reconstructed in the imagination, combining the signals provided by the captions, dialogue, and onomatopoeia with those given by the drawings and color, so that the many loose threads of the plot can be mentally tied together into a single, continuous thread. And it is the reader who makes sense of everything: the personality of the characters, who are not described, but shown in action; the relationships between them, which result from the plot and its developments; even the action itself, which is revealed to the reader only through jumps and fragments. For a child of six or seven years, comic books seem to me sufficiently demanding work, rich with logical and imaginative operations, regardless of the value and content of the comic book, which is not at issue here. When reading a comic, the imagination of the child does not passively assist; rather, it is urged to take a position, to analyze and synthesize, to classify and decide. There is no room here for absentminded daydreams, not while the mind is engaged in such complex attention and the imagination is called upon to fulfill its most noble functions. To venture to say that up to a certain point, the child's principal interest in comic books is not determined by their content, but is tied directly to the form and substance of the comics themselves, as a means of expression. The child wants to master the technique of the comic strip. That's it. She reads comic books in 238

Continued excerpt from The Grammar of Fantasy. order to learn how to read comic books, to understand their rules and conventions. She enjoys the efforts of her own imagination, more than the adventures of the characters. She plays with her own mind, not with the story. It may well be high-handed to separate things so clearly in this way. But the effort of distinguishing between them is worth it if the distinction helps us not to underestimate the child, and the underlying seriousness and moral engagement that she brings to everything she does. Everything else about comics has already been said, for better or for worse, and I won't bother you by repeating it.

did not expect this chapter! I especially love:

“When reading a comic, the imagination of the child does not passively assist; rather, it is urged to take a position, to analyze and synthesize, to classify and decide.”

(and also the eternal nature of “comics ? for kids ????” discourse lmao)

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

here we see the "Tight Two" minimal two-picture set for capturing the essence of an opossum that has stumbled into one's life: "weird little freak spotted loitering in a small enclosed space" and "weird little freak entirely backed into a corner and going :V after the merest scrutiny"

btw they put me onnnnn the freaking. qulipta atogepant shit daily preventative. vouch. i like still get migraines but they suck way less. i literally have the light on right now

buddy the policy is that if theres a number typo qnd i have a migraine it doesnt get corrected i dont make the rules. u know what i meant.

buddy 4eading scum villain

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To know joy - 24x30” acrylic on canvas. Inspired by Ahmad Joudeh’s beautiful dancing. Available.

As Mary Oliver said, you gotta let the hard animal of your dick love what it loves

If you see this, post a monster!

👽If you see this, post a monster👽

#arttrain #artshare #monster

helloooo

Please email your local library and politely complain about Libby's AI "Inspire Me" feature.

Your local library worker will love this. Seriously. We had so many tools for collecting feedback.

A key, found taped to a page in Laura’s diary. Twin Peaks S01E01 - Northwest Passage.

Twin Peaks: A key, found taped to a page in Laura’s diary.

I had a typo in here dont look at me

like, "how's that?" "it's not so bad" and then she hits him and flips him over yk. Nobody sees my vision and im unfairly prosecuted in my time

pei sijing and zhuo yichen would be saying to each other things like "its alright?" "its not the worst thing ive ever felt" and so on

she flips them over and pulls their cocks back together and wraps her hand around them both and cocks an eyebrow and

well xiao zhuo whites out and has no idea what she says but whatever it was got them more firmly on the same page

like consider! xiao zhuo doesn't quite grasp How It Works for pei sijing but thats her business like hes not worried about it. anyway he's like on top of her and they've just been going at it for a while and hes just gotta have an autistic check in that she's still having fun yk. and

honestly tell me they're not in their element quietly yearning for hole? exactly. exactly.

and like i said (well. implied. read between the lines. you're a grown up) i think that both zhuo yichen and pei sijing get a LOT out of frantic rubbing sessions after a spar. like no one's going unfulfilled here in a way they don't like. frankly, look at pei sijing, look at zhuo yichen, can you +

than happy to just get fingers up thar. send tweet.