#and LIBRARY ACCESS FOR ALL

[xiaokuer-schmetterling]

be gay do crimes

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and while we're on the topic of education, here's tools i used in college to help my audhd self succeed when the instructors failed me

cloudconvert.com--https://cloudconvert.com

openstax.org--https://openstax.org

professor leonard--math professor with many online courses FREEEEEEE in entirety. and he's really good at it

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refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[giantkillerjack]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

[camillahect]

love is checking out materials from the university library that have nothing to do with your field of work so your partner can exhaustively research meiji-era homosexuality for their fanfiction

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

[ladystardustinblackjeans]

I feel like in 10 to 20 years there is going to be a "genre" of cult classics that consists of abandoned first seasons of netflix shows with great world building, amazing relatively unknown young actors and hints of or actual queer representation. And I'm gonna be in the comments of the youtube essay about it, remembering them all with the same feeling i have about firefly.

[et-cant-phone-home-no-signal]

i absolutely haven't started copying down my copy of Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse into a drive, and i certainly am not making it accessible to other people via an open link. why would i do that.... anyway here's the Leila Vennewitz translation that i'm scanning in chapter by chapter because @perplexingly made me aware it's harder to find in person and online in some places, and i also know @impmansloot hasn't read this translation yet. give me time to scan it all in, my equipment is older and hanging on by a thread. it's in jpeg format to save space and time, pdf was too large and difficult to access but you can convert it yourself if you want 👍

enjoy the first chapter my loves 🫶

[fictionadventurer]

There's nothing like the audiobook experience of driving down the road going into hysterics over a 150-year-old novel.

[shaadowmilkcookie]

hi sorry yall really havent been able to escape these guys huh??? ;u; i saw a cute yume october prompt list and i knew i wanted to try some of them! the day 1 prompt is ‘first meeting’!

primotalii broke into the blueberry yogurt academy’s library in the middle of the night just to……. read…? okay man.

[little-lanterns]

more women should do this

[conventiongoinglibrarian]

SORRY FOR USING THE NEWS MEME I DIDN'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO GET YA'LLS ATTENTION!

Okay so this post is for Artists that are trying to save some money while vending at conventions.

A few cons that I've gone to have been charging extra for wifi access. (Extra costs?! In THIS economy??) This has lead to some artists/vendors paying the extra cost to use said wifi, or to use their phones as a hotspot (your phone bill!! nooo!!!) or having to switch to cash only (you might lose on sales! also having to do MORE math? plus the trips to the bank to get change?? 😭).

May I present to you: Library Hotspots!

This, of course, hinges on your local library having said service. Luckily, a good chunk of them do! Check your local library if they have hotspots to borrow. If they don't- ask them wtf why not? (DON'T ACTUALLY DO THAT. Write them a nice email saying you're a patron that is interested in this service. That will show their administration that they should invest in hotspots).

Okay so you've checked your library's website and it DOES have hotspots you can borrow- what now? Check the policy for borrowing their hotspots! They often let you know how long you can borrow the hotspot for AND you might be able to request one through an online form. (Listen I get phone anxiety so this is a bonus for me). Now all you have to do is wait to get a notification to pick up your hotspot, pick it up, test it out with your vending equipment (important step!), take it with you to your next convention/vendor event, use it, and finally bring it back to the library once you're done!

okay okay okay so those were a lot of steps. BUT! would you rather be saddled with unexpected costs of having to pay for convention wifi? I sure wouldn't with how expensive everything is already 😭

You might be thinking: "Weirdo-Librarian, why are you telling me this? What do you get out of this?" Well-

[witchblade]

it's saur funny that the most recommended fanfics are consistently the worst written and worst concept fics you've ever seen in your life

[ofsunshineandfoxes]

The sunshine court is now out as an audiobook!!!!!

[thevexinator]

You know a game is absolutely peak fiction when you can't even find it on the appstore + it's not available on your device + every download attempt gets firmly denied because the game dev can only make new games and Never update the older ones causing them to go out of commission and straight be inaccessible through any possible source. [lunime. i'm talking about lunime.]

[bookwyrminspiration]

OH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. MATCHING BROTHER KILLINGS <3. also FUCK yes i knew it i knew it was gonna go full hamlet. chefs kiss. the Parallels and Themes are simply too good in this bit i cant. a fight between ghosts !!!

YES!!!!! the ways in which Damen and Laurent mirror each other KILLS ME!!! in a good, i'm on my hands and knees shaking and trembling, way.

they've come full circle. prince-killer. king-killer. brother-killer. laurent's brother was killed and he was left with his traitor uncle, who's now dead. damen's father was killed and he was left with his traitor brother, who's now dead. they're both orphan kings, now. they're both haunted in such a way they're uniquely situated to understand each other

[drumlincountry]

I was tweaking some worldbuilding i'm working on and realised i'd reinvented fucking. medieval monasteries

[clonerightsagenda]

#recently read March 25

Projections by S E Porter. The ghost of a young woman murdered by a jealous sorcerer narrates his continued destructive obsession and her quest for revenge. *An effectively constructed look at toxic masculinity, could've been shorter imo.

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao. After waking the legendary lost emperor, Zetian is forced to play along as his empress until they can overthrow the gods. *Was not expecting all the labor theory tbh but sure. A real 'leftist man who won't do the dishes' situation.

Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi. Novel pretending to be translated autofiction by a Japanese visitor to colonial Taiwan, documenting her fraught relationship with her local interpreter. *Fun with metafiction, explores the limitations of translation and affection between colonizer and colonized.

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. A hacker and a courier team up to stop the release of a virus meant to hack people's brains. *Definitely helpful to read to orient me to other works in the genre but boy was it written by a white man in the early 90s.

Look Again by Elizabeth Trembley. Graphic memoir illustrating how the author's recollection of finding a corpse in the woods changed with each retelling, and how trauma impacts our memory.

Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A professor and political dissident is sent to a labor camp searching for the lifeforms that created signs of civilization on an alien world. *Tchaikovsky really loves speculative xenobiology huh. Also appreciated the full throated radicalism.

Magus of the Library by Mitsu Izumi. A young outcast trains to become one of the elite librarians who maintain the world's fragile peace. *My coworkers keep recommending library mangas. I didn't follow everything but the most recent volume featured the librarians debating their role in providing or restricting access to texts that foment bigotry and violence, which is a discussion our profession continues to have.