SHES ZORO

And we are correct.

@obituaryobliterater and I deliberated long and hard about this

The sky needs something, but idk what????

For the ones unaware, an on-duty female doctor was brutally raped and murdered on the night of August 9th in India. There have been waves of mass protests all over the country regarding this issue.

The doctor, a junior resident working a 36 hours shift was resting in the hospital's seminar hall when she was subjected to this gruesome torment. Her body was found in an incomprehensible state half-naked in the same seminar hall the next morning.

I urge you to stand by truth. This is something no woman should face, after multiple years of studying and training, we do not enter this field to be subjected to inhumane treatment.

I was born to live.

I was born to dream.

I was born to achieve.

Any other human deserves the same chance at life that you and I do.

Don't let your silence become an enabling factor for inhumanity.

This, and like a different post said, if you want to gear toward a more adult audience, just add in day to day things. Like shaggy smoking or cooking for the gang, Velma, Daphne, and Fred working on traps, playing fetch with Scooby, how the take care of themselves on the road, what they do for school or if they collect payment. Personally I’m ride or die Poly Gang (minus Scooby obviously) but regardless fleshing out the relationships between characters would be wonderful. I think they’ve given Velma a holyer than thou complex, made Daphne boy obsessed and Fred girl obsessed, and made shaggy and Scooby the same character of just eating. There are so many ways to make the characters interesting.

Velma in the original show, did actually believe there could be real ghosts, while also trying to prove it was a person. Daphne now has so much lore that new iterations of the series don’t pull on. Fred is like a true mom friend who cares sunscreen and protein bars in his fanny pack and listens to all suggestions making for a collaborative effort. Shaggy is, as said above, resourceful and funny, but not the butt of the joke, and Scooby has his own personality that I agree with op about.

Like damn, every iteration keeps going down hill and is sucks.

Anyone looking to make a proper Scooby-Doo adaptation please remember:

Fred is the charismatic face of the group and the strategizer. Later adaptations made him a massive himbo who chugs respect for women juice and those have become necessary parts of his character.

Shaggy is cowardly but also incredibly resourceful; let us not forget his skill at ventriloquism. Make Shaggy the skill monkey, who every episode mentions some weird skill he has that's previously unmentioned; that'd be an amazing running gag. Also, bring back the dry humor Casey Kasem injected into the og character.

Scooby is Shaggy's best friend, the other half to his two-man comedy routine. Independently of Shaggy, Scooby is also prone to be a bit mischievous and just kind of a little scamp. Play up both of those things.

Velma is the smart nerdy one, who also had a really dry sense of humor. I don't know why she was turned into the "I'm surrounded by idiots" character because, while as I stated, she always had a dry sense of humor, she was never mean to her friends and never talked down to them, or anyone else. Bring back the chipper Velma from like Witch's Ghost or Zombie Island. Let Velma be a little cutie pie. Also keep her as a lebian

Daphne was... originally really just "The Girly One" but later adaptations have fleshed her out, like making her essentially the muscle of the group, which is just amazing and should continue. She's also been cast as the oddly resourceful one. Shaggy is the skill monkey, Daphne is the one who has a tool for literally any job. Human Swiss Army Knife, which again, would be an amazing running gag.

Have Shaggy and Daphne bounce off-the-wall ideas for a plan together, Fred steps in to ground them, while still using their ideas, and incorporating Velma's theories about the case.

Make references to Flim Flam and Hot Dog Water

A Scooby-Doo adaptation should not be difficult, and must be done with love.

"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

This is one of my favorites! 175 pgs, I read it in 5 hours (I have dyslexia) and the world building was excellent for such a short book. There is now a sequel and I am hoping for more.

Adult gothic horror novella

Retelling of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Follows a retired soldier who visits their childhood friend in his remote ancestral home and finds the house and its inhabitants plagued by a strange disease

Atmospheric and creepy

Fungal horror

Nonbinary main character

Alecto having a Nona-esque personality vs. Alecto essentially being the personified wrath of the earth presented in ye old english are both great interpretations but a combination of both is just supreme.

*Alecto enters battle, sword swinging with unstoppable force*

"Thou art my enemy and I shall destr- HI DOGGY!"

*tosses a frightened cohort soldier away to pet said dog*

sticker design for pride this year! 💞🏳️‍⚧️

Gideon nav please save me save me Gideon nav

As of Jan 21st, 2025, a full copy of the constitution is no longer available on whitehouse.gov. I feel like this is a good time to remind everyone that the biggest threat to authoritarianism and facism is a well educated and informed population. Inform yourself and fight.

a copy of the document can still be found on the archives website. I think now is probably a good time to read it if you haven't and download it, incase it is erased from here as well.

https://constitutioncenter.org/media/files/constitution.pdf