I really think we need to stop looking at /solidarity/ as an innate process where oppressed communities NATURALLY align with other oppressed communities and instead look at solidarity as an OVERTLY coalitionary tactic, one that is borne through learning and compassion
does anyone else understand the very specific emotion that is just….. Lord of the Rings ?? like.. do you ever just think about it or imagine reading the books or something, and you just feel it… idk what else to call it other than the LotR emotion…
i have 15 years’ worth of outstanding library fines in three separate cities and it’s my hope that eventually a bounty hunter librarian will come to collect and we’ll get in a bar fight and fall in love
I also can’t rent movies in two different towns so there’s that.
I’m newly terrified by the implication that librarians aren’t people and I’ve misjudged what exactly I’m up against
i’ve know some libraries (all of baltimore’s public libraries, for example) to have policies that erase present fines if you work or volunteer there for one day because you cannot physically log into their systems with fines as the stystem will block you from doing so. instead of making you pay, they just erase them. and once you are in their records and your work/volunteer status has been set, you’re there forever and will not face future fines 🙃