Libraries are important
My Silent Gen grandparents like to write me long emails and letters about everything going on in their lives. Today my grandma sent me an email and told me about how she negotiated for a lower internet/phone bill and got free cell service for a year, and she traded in her old cell phone (I think it was a flip phone, my grandparents didn't get a cell phone until 2013 and that was because when I was visiting, the car broke down and I had a phone that we used to call AAA) for a new one (a Samsung 14G? idk, I don't think she knows either)
ANYWAY. Grandma signed up for classes at the library so she can learn to use the phone because she's afraid of doing something that makes it not-work. She goes to the library to check out books and has taken classes there before.
SO: this is a reminder that public libraries are critically important. They're social centres, they teach important community-based classes to people (esp older people), they provide resources...I could keep going.
Libraries are so much more than just Book Castles. Support your local library. Protect it from those who seek to destroy it and the treasures stored within.
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40th Anniversary Discworld stamps, art by Paul Kidby
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I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry
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Meeting Excalibur:
Flynn:
Eve:
And the LiTs:
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)/The Librarians S01E01 And the Crown of King Arthur.
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I fully understand some people's aversion to not wanting to listen to The Slenderman musical just for the weird slenderman smut in it (it happens only twice) but also. It's really good is the thing, while it's not a favorite album of mine, a lot of the songs on it go so fucking hard. Like. They're so good
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rewatching the librarians and i think lamia should've gotten a redemption arc and joined the group as another guardian
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librarian: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this one is called "the book of clearsight" 😳 you'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯
cricket: yeah whatever. I don't feel shit.
five minutes later: dude i swear the predictions ended over 1000 years ago
her buddy blue pacing: queen wasp is lying to us
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the other day i leafed through a book about norwegian artists and skimmed the page for theodor kittelsen, the folklore artist i named myself after, most known for his paintings of trolls and nøkken and such. i was very amused to find that he was seen by some as controversial in his time - apparently his paintings were using german influences and contributing to the trend of impressionable norwegian youth using german words as slang. mind you, his paintings are now some of the most norwegian-y cultural artefacts out there. the other controversy was that illustrating fairytales and books was gonna ruin the poor youths' minds and their ability to imagine things inside their head without aid. oh no!!!!!!!!!
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it is a truth universally acknowledged that the more angrily certain a patron is that they returned a missing book, the more likely they are to show up two days later with the book in question clutched sheepishly in hand
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So, I've just finished listening to The Ashes of Prospero and one of the things that surprised me was how the members of the Space Wolves 13th Great Company seemed to show regret at their actions on Prospero after they realized that Horus gave them the order to destroy Prospero and the Thousand Sons legion.
I know that the Emperor had originally ordered Russ to simply bring Magnus back to Terra and that it was Horus who changed the order to destroy the Thousand Sons, but I had thought that the Space Wolves dispised the Thousand Sons enough to not care about whether they exterminated them all or not or who the order came from, but this does not seem to be the case. Bulveye, the 13th Great Company leader even says that Thousand Sons could've been an ally to the loyalists during the Horus Heresy if it were not for Horus' orders.
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I think there is an unspoken agreement in the Dreaming that every time Dream has had library sex, Lucienne gets to fuck Gault on his throne when he’s away
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I simply think very occasionally, very strategically, Jenkins will stand behind a LIT or guardian watching TV without headphones in his freaking annex and he will go. "That's not funny. that happened to me once." with such absolute pokerface. its impossible not to get a bit scared.
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Pack horse librarian, Mill Creek, Knott County, Kentucky, January 11, 1938.
Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration
Series: WPA Information Division Photographic Index
Image description: A woman is riding a light-colored horse outside a wooden cabin. She has a large saddlebag or satchel. Another woman stands on the porch of the cabin, holding what may be a folded newspaper or magazine.
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No I don’t know who that obscure academic is but I do know who all the world hoppers on Roshar are so who’s the real winner here
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