#bad librarian!!

[meretrifles]

further public library of ruina rambles (i've got plenty of time to think about this shit and new material every workday):

it starts when a fairly high-ranking city official stumbles across her when she's just barely started, someone powerful enough to make it very clear the city could wreck angela's shit at this stage if they chose to. but you know, they say instead, it's interesting that this is a library. actually by law we're supposed to have a public library, but we haven't managed to keep one open in quite some time. if you took on the role, we might be persuaded to ignore these... irregularities. what do you say? angela knows full well this is a trap, but doesn't have much choice if she wants to live. also, a would roll over in his grave, not that she thinks about that or anything.

the abnormalities are still there. in fact they're still booked and put on the shelf where anybody can find them. who knows, maybe they were looking for a pug monster.

angela tosses any measured plan she had to wake up the librarians directly out the window within a week, they're all out by the time roland shows up. she takes a management role and does not look back. do not ever call her 'manager', though.

all the librarians technically have their own roles, though they can also get pulled into whatever is needed at any time; in irl libraryland, this is known as the "other duties as assigned" curse.

angela is still trying to reclaim the light, but due to the public libraries act, she can't book anybody unless they actively attack staff, guests, or library property while in the library itself. this throws more of a wrench into her plans than she expected but still happens with depressing frequency.

as a result of the vast amounts of emotional stress and instability added by all this, librarian meltdowns are back. which generally trigger angela because a) everything and b) excuse me, you dare pull your fucking bullshit for the eleven billionth time WHEN MY SUFFERING IS RIGHT HERE REEEEE. so it turns into a giant 3-way fight between librarian, angela, and team could we maybe not die today tyvm. they all know approximately half of each other's buttons (and think they know 3/4), it's a giant clusterfuck but everyone lives and maybe at least some of them learn something.

roland figures out like the equivalent of halfway through something that was really just as true in canon: he can't top this. none of his plans were truly worse than this garbage fire. and now he's trapped in it too. his mental breakdown is slow and inexorable.

the irl public libraries in general... are desperate to fill all the gaps and cracks in the infrastructure they see. we do all want that one perfect book. the answer to the question. what that book with the blue cover was. to be a place where kids can run screaming freely and people can study in quiet. to give mittens to the cold and find housing for the lost. we want that one perfect answer. it doesn't exist. it can't, it isn't possible. the book you loved in childhood won't read the same as an adult. the children who can't keep quiet will hurt the children who can't stand noise. you can't have both the drug dealers and the people trying to get clean, the marginalized and the bigots, all equally welcome. there is no one perfect book. so what i wonder is... what happens if you stop looking. if you stop trying to be everything, and be what you are without regrets. i suspect that what you are (that "just a library") is actually quite enough, and if you stop focusing on doing more than you can, you'll find that around and within you are the answers you actually need. this is both literal, a metaphor, a political statement, and a statement of the theme/endgame of the AU.

[jesse-is-inarguably-purple]

imagine ur garthy o’brien, just trying to fuck this hot ranger you met at your brothel that you own, except her teenage kids/wards/bosses keep knocking on the door to your bedroom and interrupting you guys and THEN you learn that she’s actually in a committed relationship but didn’t tell you, so THAT sucks but THEN one of the teens comes and finds you in the middle of the night yelling about how his friend is gone and they can’t find him and he might be in danger, so you help him teleport to his friend, and then when they all get back, looking extremely upset and dejected, you apologize to the ranger’s daughter for making her feel uncomfortable by fucking her mother and in the process SHE reveals to you that her mom’s boyfriend is actually this really cool werewolf guy that you KNOW and have fucked on multiple occasions

[figmentforms]

Part 237 of  “A Tale of Two Rulers” (Oct 1(ish), 2022)- *updates monthly

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[virgo-dream]

Happy International Asexuality Day to all my fellow aces! ✨💜🤍🩶🖤✨

It’s been about a year since I’ve realised I was ace. It was daunting at first, as figuring out your sexuality always is, but I was lucky to have found incredible friends in the Sandman fandom that helped me through those scary, doubtful moments, and celebrate me for who I am. I have truly felt part of the community for the first time, and this is an experience I wouldn’t trade for the world.

For my fellow aces that are just starting to figure it out, or coming to terms with your Asexuality: you are loved, you are seen and you matter. It was incredibly important for me to understand this. And to my aro friends, you are as much part of this community as anyone else!

I hope this is the first of many Asexuality Days that I get to celebrate! ✨

[madame-mongoose]

Okay who made grandpa mad

[rovermcfly]

I've come to realize The Librarians is just SuperWhoLock: The Show, which is remarkable considering it was made years after superwholock peaked. the show would've ate on tumblr in 2011

[secondbeatsongs]

may have said something identifying to the cool librarian and she made a face that makes me think she might know who I am on tumblr. terrifying thought. wish me luck

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

The Librarians S01E06 And the Apple of Discord.

[meretrifles]

my personal-level annoyance with the project moon implosion (this is underneath the feminism/incel higher-level offenses) is that i have been getting a lot of catharsis out of a public-library of ruina AU. it is one of the easiest ways to get across the current reality of urban public libraries that i've devised. picture library of ruina with a customer service focus and you're like 80% there. for the remaining 20%, consider that the public library is (even in small-c cities) one of the last public spaces that exists, part of the dwindling social safety net, and has a mandate to do its utmost to help people find information. forget that candy-ass invite-only closed-stacks bullshit. public LOR Angela doesn't get that pacing and privacy and contextualization. p-LOR Angela has three kids asking for an anatomy textbook at the front desk (they're arguing with their dealer whether this is a mutated gallbladder or a spleen, v important for pricing), a desperate family trying to fill out nest application forms to the right (ironic how the captcha seems to only be completable by AI, how is anyone supposed to get through??), enkephalin addicts in the washroom (and now netzach is explaining to them that it's 80% hand sanitizer and their dealer ripped them off), and someone's starting a mariachi contest in the reading room. furthermore, until roland comes around, and honestly even after that, she doesn't even know why. welcome to the library.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Most of MAGA is functionally illiterate so book banning is naturally popular with them.

[firawren]

[ace7librarian]

You've heard of Bad Cinderella, now get ready for....

✨ amazing Cinderella ✨

[madame-mongoose]

This guy sucks so bad

[neolxzr]

i like you. get mizisua'd

[eve-baird]

if the 2025 librarians series mentions aknowledges references or even infers the existence of eve baird i will actually be such a mess yall don't know.

thats not even considering the possibility of her actually guest starring.

[icyfox17]

NEW BLORBO ALERT

Your honour I've seen two (2) episodes and im in love with him