#librarylife

[librarycomic]

[dark-romantics]

academic validation from maths and english professors >>>>>

[intothestacks]

Shared by my library supervisor

I feel called out. lol

comic by @myjetpack

[habibtea]

snoopy at the library

[half-a-life]

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Idiom Installation

Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

[goodbooksonly]

Snuggles and reading Iron Flame on my lunch break. Wish I could do this all day. 🥺

[beatrizjournal]

Life lately: studying for exams on my Christmas “break”.

Has not been that bad because I enjoy the subject. 🗒️ 🎓🖋️

[spendingalmytimestudying]

Another relaxing afternoon at the library

Just finished Pride and Prejudice!

[sadnesshasanappeal]

I just want to run away into a deep forest and find a cottage with people who could adopt me and love me forever. I want to stay within the community, knit scarfs, talk with animals, braid my hair with beautiful flowers, make garlands, wear pastel gowns, do daily chores, read books, secretly find passages to magical pathways, meet the love of my life and go on evening strolls hand in hand cherishing the little things in life.

[aoi-kanna]

Secret Garden

Thank you very much Mura, for commissioning me this piece, 

I love everything about it...!! (❤️´艸｀❤️) ╭❤️～

Error by @/loverofpiggies

Nightmare by @/jokublog 

[librarycomic]

[dark-romantics]

~ Augusto Cury

[intothestacks]

As a children's librarian, people who harass fans of Harry Potter indiscriminately really worry me.

Here's why.

1. The majority of Harry Potter fans are children.

I've had people call me disgusting and scum and an embarrassment to my disabled community. I've been suicide baited and have received death threats. All of this can be heavy enough stuff for an adult to deal with.

And then I think of how most of my 700+ elementary-aged students are huge Harry Potter fans. Because, you know, Harry Potter is a children's series. And they also have access to the internet and social media like TikTok and YouTube.

Now imagine the stuff that's been said to me being said to a kid. Because Harry Potter's main audience are KIDS.

2. This black-and-white mentality isn't healthy.

Very few things in life are cut-and-dry good vs bad. And if you employ this kind of thinking in one area of your life, odds are you'll apply it to other areas too(more on that in a moment).

And people who go out of their way to harass people who like Harry Potter don't seem to particularly care about any context beyond "If you like Harry Potter in any way whatsoever you're scum".

It hasn't mattered when I've pointed out that I absolutely and unequivocally think Rowling's TERF views are awful and scummy and wrong. It hasn't mattered that I try my best to consume the content only in ways that won't monetarily support her, (which kids typically can't do, btw). It hasn't mattered that it's literally in my job description to keep up with children's media to procure content for my patrons as well as to be able to hold conversations with them.

3. Saying "You're not allowed to read this without being harassed" is no different from saying a book should be banned.

This is ironic, seeing as the people doing the harassing are also often up in arms about queerphobic and racist book bans (as they should be) while demanding book bans of their own.

Because in their all-or-nothing way of thinking, book bans are only bad when the "bad" people do it.

No. Book bans are always bad, no exceptions.

Book bans aren't bad because they're banning the "good" books, they're bad because banning access to different ideas is always bad. Because every book has a lesson to teach us (perhaps not the lesson intended by the author, but a lesson nonetheless).

[tiinytulip]

Me this autumn:

[half-a-life]

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Books

Idiom Installation

Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

[i-live-in-my-bookshelf]

Me missing classes so I can go to the library for studying for said classes is the most university-esque thing I did today