happy almost birthday! happy passage of time and happy new year and such

seeing a circus tent out the library window sounds like something out of a book

what you were saying about target audiences and "certain audiences will only see certain forms of thing, regardless of messaging" makes me think about the way book marketing keeps fuuucking using 'representation' as a marketing tool which it was never meant to be, just flattens what a book/movie/show is all about and then leaves people with totally inaccurate expectations about what theyre about to see