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I'm reading the new student info and handbook and stuff for the MLIS I'm starting in the fall and I keep getting hit with excitement not just because new life stage and whatnot but it turns out I find the idea of Information Science just as exciting as the Library of it all? Like this is kind of a Masters in Writing Good Instructions? Masters of Sort and Retrieve and Communicate Information? Masters of Think About The Context of Who Will Engage With The Information and Make It Accessible and Legible And Useful?

As someone who can happily revise and debate the language used in a sign to communicate concepts like "We Are Closed" and "The Book Return Is Not A Trashcan" for a while this feels right to me. Finally my passion for using Exactly The Right Word For The Situation will be an academic boon.

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sinners: how real stories of irish and choctaw oppression inform the film

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Something something vampires have no reflection so he can't even try to see his brother's face anymore when he looks into the mirror

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It's funny having a very high tolerance for pain but a very low tolerance for other forms of discomfort. Like yea tattoos piercings cramps shots cuts bruises whatever thats nothing. But I better not get nauseous or hear a loud sound. Or I'll die

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Protect your bones, folks

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ok whatever i miss varric everyone explode

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Dog of Randall the jeweller, ca. 1875

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"it makes him proud" "you make it better" what if i cry forever and ever

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this is literally the first thing i thought of when i saw the original painting

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based on that 1 leyendecker painting (you know the one)

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Lace Harding was a young dwarven girl wandering the Ferelden Hinterlands with her family Mabari, Contessa, helping a neighbor wrangle sheep, when she found an Inquisition scout overwhelmed by bandits. She rescued them, led them back to camp, marked up a map, and trotted home. She returned the next day with a bow and said “Maps are all right, but nothing beats a guide.” She stuck around for a week until she was offered a job, and that’s how Lace became Scout Harding.

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i have to say i think its kind of baffling when omelas is taken as a very literal trolley problem about a tortured kid instead of, like, pointedly making fun of the common idea that a positive world, social change, pleasure itself, must come with some sort of painful caveat in order for that happiness to hold meaning or exist in the first place... so many interpretations treat the idea of people walking away from a (very obviously hypothetical) utopia with an even more hypothetical evil underbelly as them lazily giving up on reforming Omelas the Real City, rather than them philosophically abandoning the idea that the (again, entirely theoretical) Omelas represents (that pleasure cannot exist without pain).

what is even the relevance of this to the "I would save the kid instead of abandoning it because I actually believe in changing the world" interpretations.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy. (...) Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy? No? Then let me describe one more thing.

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The best man in Thedas (objections are not accepted)

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everyone stfu krem nap time