#aspiringwarriorlibrarian

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Yes.

Yes it is.

Did you know that laws are what's causing all those stupid cookie and privacy pop ups in the first place?

Do you trust the same people who created those laws to fix the problem?

Also, websites need cookies for basic functionality, like "remembering who's logged in".

You can get extensions that try to auto-close and refuse the cookie nonsense, and to turn off all/most tracking. Heck, there's even browser-level settings.

You can set up your own VPN. If you're using someone else's, you are, by definition, giving up control.

[bedlamsbard]

True or false: you had a minor in college.

True! actually I guess if we're going to be pedantic it would be false because I didn't have A minor I had MULTIPLE minors -- I was a double major and a double minor. The minors were history and English.

[revvethasmythh]

Book ask! 7 21 34 44

7. What kind of common romance tropes do you enjoy and what kind do you dislike?

Huge fan of forced proximity stories, that's my ideal trope/framework for a romance. Super uninterested in arranged marriages and fake dating tropes, though, they do absolutely nothing for me.

21. The book(s) on your school reading list you actually enjoyed.

In a surprise to absolutely no one: Antigone and the Odyssey. Irrelevant that I then went on to get a degree in ancient history, clearly

34. Favorite book narration voice actor(s).

Thérèse Plummer! She's done a number of Kelley Armstong's books and I really love listening to her narrations. Always exciting to see her name attached to a book I want to listen to.

44. The book(s) whose stories have become part of your very makeup.

Without competition: the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead. Sometimes you read something at the tender age of 11 and it fundamentally changes your brain chemistry, as was the case here. It had a huge impact on my personality, my taste in fiction, romantic dynamics, hell even aspects of morality and philosophies on responsibility and duty (both very prominent themes). Deeply flawed characters, one of the most successfully written evolutions of a character from a teen to a young adult that I've ever read, and frankly a great deconstruction of a "badass" archetype that explores the grim realities of having a profession that requires you to enact violence.

Ask me about books

[tumblezwei]

4 7 salty asks

4. Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?

I do not care for Monochrome. You can't go very far in the FNDM with this ship without running into someone being Weird about it.

7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?

Well. Arcane kind of. Season 1 is obviously still peak. And I still hold the opinion that acts 1-2 of season 2 are very good, and manage that despite the pacing issues. But I do not like act 3 much at all and the longer I've had to think on it the worse that opinion's gotten. I still love Jinx and if they ever announce a spin off series with her in it I will be tuning in, god help me, but overall my enthusiasm for the show has completely dwindled.

[clairobscured]

How’d you get into 911?

sorry I meant to answer this when I woke up but I forgot!

I got into 911 because I saw Jennifer Love Hewitt in a commercial for the show before season 2 aired! she's always been one of my favorite actresses so when I saw her in the promo I decided to look it up. and when I found out she was going to be playing a new character I figured it was a good time to start watching!

[ribstongrowback]

9 and 18

9: Do you watch porn?

Read it, watch it, listen to it, and with god as my witness one day i'll make it

18: What tattoos do you want

Oh a bunch of em. transgender symbol. moons. flash art that i think is pretty. dragons. roses sleeve. the works.

[ooops-i-arted]

🍓

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

I literally do not remember a time when I wasn't creating stories and since I loved books and movies, it just seemed natural to take my favorite characters and act out new stories with them using my toys. Simba and Nala went on adventures. My herd of little plastic dinosaurs trekked to the Great Valley. My Mulan barbie fought off a second Hun invasion. I was creating Everybody Lives AU Fix-It fanfic for Black Beauty before I knew what any of those things meant.

Once I could hold a pencil I was drawing out my scenarios, since Mom was an artist and regularly drew anything I wanted for me it was just natural to me that I would start recording these things. Once I could write I added words too. Then I just never stopped.

[greenteaandtattoos]

1 and 3 of course

I'm pretty sure this is for the Pokemon Ask Game, so

1: favorite type

I've always been in love with fire-types and dark-types. I've almost always chosen the fire starter for my first playthroughs. I also love ghost, grass, electric, fighting, and water-types.

3: favorite dual type

I really love Houndoom's fire/dark typing, of course. But I also love, love, love fire/ghost, too. Hisuian Typhlosion is my JAM.

[the-haiku-bot]

Streaming: But we need

that money to pay our

writers and actors!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

hate when streaming services are like.... you can now pay cinema prices to watch new releases at home! not to show my age but if i am watching it on my tv set then it's free??? you think you're an equal to big picturehouse? with no big screen? no big pop corn? you want to charge cinema price to show me a movey in my own house? Honour demands i kill you btw

[bedlamsbard]

Romans.

the Roman Empire is my Roman Empire

[revvethasmythh]

🔥 food

i do NOT understand why everyone gets their knickers in a twist about pineapple on pizza. it is an ingredient. that you DON'T have to have. it is IRRELEVANT to your life unless you MAKE IT RELEVANT by being a weirdo about it. I don't understand why people care so much it is so stupid. the only time in my life I was ever taken aback by a topping on pizza was when my roommate in Scotland asked if we could get our pizza with sweet corn on it and I was only appalled because I have never heard of anyone putting corn on pizza before. I said yes, of course, because sure it's abnormal but it's literally just corn it doesn't matter IT DOESN'T MATTER

[tumblezwei]

Happy birthday!

thank you :)

[the-haiku-bot]

“Why would he save the

squirrel” Just say you don’t get

Superman and leave.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

This guy seems to get it. Sometimes test screeners are just wrong.

“Why would he save the squirrel” Just say you don’t get Superman and leave.

[clairobscured]

6 13 15

6. What’s your favorite candle scent?

I don't really have a favorite scent, but I do enjoy pumpkin spice scented ones!

13. Bath or shower to relax?

shower 🚿

15. Comfort food?

buttered pasta with cheese

✨soft asks✨

[ribstongrowback]

🍓

you know what you like and why you like it, and always have something interesting to say about the things you enjoy that make you a joy to listen to.

[nando161mando]

watch Ursula K Le Guin's speech

Via @aspiringwarriorlibrarian

https://youtu.be/s2v7RDyo7os