having the need to step out again to local or school libraries just to borrow some dvds and cds is saving me from being a slave to capitalism.
Jul 2, 2025
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call me old fashioned, but i am deep in my library era. i’ve been borrowing e-books and audiobooks for years, but with the recent purchase of a secondhand DVD player, i’m now catching up on all the movies i missed or have long wanted to see by borrowing them from the library. taking it a step further, i’m building my post-Spotify music library by borrowing and burning, adding new tracks to my iPod.
bonus: talking with my librarian about some of the movies he likes that i’m checking out (we both loved “Days of Heaven”).
Jan 15, 2025
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Libraries have EVERYTHING and I find it utterly fascinating. Recently, I got an Apple USB Superdrive which allows me to upload my CDs and play DVDs on my Macbook and it has changed my life. Whenever I come across a movie I want to see, I just check it out of my local library and watch it on my laptop. It provides me with the nostalgia of watching movies on DVD as a kid, and you also get all the additional bonuses that come with the disc as well, like interviews and behind-the-scenes.
Jan 8, 2024
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-it's (mostly) free
-low stakes, u can change books if u don't like them and just borrow another one!
-gets me out of a reading slumps bc i have a deadline to read them instead of just being able to allow them to collect dust on my bookshelf forever
-supports one of the few remaining free third spaces
-finding paragraphs someone else underlined and imagining the person based on that
-that hot pisces librarian that looks like german michael pitt and wears dress pants in the middle of summer. that's just my local library sorry
May 16, 2024
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Time flies when you’re actually living, I suppose. I miss the person I used to be, though I’m not sure I’d return to her.
Leaving behind the chaos of my parents in Taiwan during my teenage years
with no one waiting for me in Paris
was an act of quiet bravery I couldn’t yet name. The pain back then was too vast to carry, and somehow, starting from zero at nineteen felt lighter than staying in the wreckage of it all.
Jul 2, 2025
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