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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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look this is getting nowhere how about we just agree to disa- *remembers I should exploit any possible situation to my advantage* if you don't take me to the Monterey bay aquarium I'm going to start screaming

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“I don’t want to be a burden” you’re more like a relief, a gift, a blessing actually

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Duke being a batfamily member wouldn’t be such a controversial problem if people didn’t treat the batfam as a traditional family.

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Chicago Tribune, Illinois, September 7, 1913

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I haven’t seen the HTTYD remake yet but it’s hilarious to me how John Powell wasn’t allowed to use the same track names so he just decided to be a troll.

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before you murder everyone in the room because you had a bad day. haveyou done your sudoku yet

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they’re so unserious and i love it so much

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person in fandom: eeeyikes!!! i hope im writing this character in this short little fanfic right >_< eeekkk what if my takes on my meta are all wrong and everyone will Kill me!!

guy in professional comic industry: okay lets mischaracterize every single character that appears in this comic for 50 or so issues

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Superman says fuck ICE. Be like Superman

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A translation of British sayings, what non-British people think they mean, and their actual meaning.

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how that school project is gonna turn out at this rate

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Ok we all know the idea of people thinking Batman is Bruce Wayne’s ‘guard dog’ or whatever but it’s nearly impossible for Bruce Wayne and Batman to be seen in the same place

But you know who CAN easily be in the same room as Bruce Wayne? Robin. It works out pretty decently for Dick because the Boy Wonder is seen as a capable hero who’s rescued billionaire Bruce Wayne’s ass countless times.

For Bruce though….everyone’s like ‘Dude are you paying a 12 year old to be your body guard???’

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hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

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I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"