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Reblog to kill it faster

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wizard college is going to kill me I swear to god. I just saw someone without a component satchel reach into their pocket and pull out a handful of LOOSE tapioca to use as a substitute for blood in their fell ritual. and it worked. I've never been so fucking mad.

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If said library happens to be CPL, my thanks as a clevnet patron, especially for your DS9 dvds

It is not CPL alas -- but definitely thank your librarian next time you go in, or if they have a feedback box/ask queue! It means the world to us to hear that, especially those of us who work in colldev/reader services and order/rec those materials! <3

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Kacheek

A lot of the patients who come to the hospital are so worn, that their people opt to recover them (like Pojo a few weeks ago). But sometimes the humans love the well worn look and just want to reinforce their stuffed friend. So then, we line them in new fabric to reinforce them from the inside, and stitch their wounds shut to the lining. This was the case for Kacheek.

Kacheek is tiny! 4x4x1.5 inches. Here are his diagnosis photos:

For lining, stuffing has to come out, which means it needs to be replaced because it won't go back in the same, so usually lining patients have a spa too, since they're already unstuffed.

Kacheek was so small, his bubble bath photo ended up too blurry to share, but he did get a bath! Then he was lined, and got restuffed. Of course, he got a heart of original stuffing too. :-)

You can see his lining peaking through there.

And here he is all better! Fully lined and wounds repaired

You can see the lining shows where he had larger holes, but it is a texture match to his original fabric, and a color match to the original color, so will age to blend very well.

He put his shirt back on before he went home:

His person wrote:

Looks fantastic! I'm happy to see him all better and still smiling like I remember.

Kacheek's family was local, so he got picked up and went home in their arms.

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Spring Light. Made by Stephanie Wilds.

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Watching parents pass down their cultural practices fills my heart up. 🥹

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You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi

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Love starting my day getting pissed bc of some ignorant asshole in the Tumblr comments of an innocent and very cute Tumblr post, slamming teachers and librarians like "i just get very wary when someone tries to loop in librarians and receptionists with literal nurses. Like holy shit please know what a nurse is for a sec."

I'd like to share my response here, because I think it's important that Tumblr educates themselves on the realities of modern day librarianship:

You can uplift nurses without diminishing the work of teachers and librarians. As an urban librarian -- we are frontline in the opioid crisis and deal with overdoses in the bathroom regularly, we need to administer naloxone, we are unpaid social workers. There was a fucking hatchet fight in my library recently, and people are trespassed every week for all kinds of insane shit. Don't even get me started on how we're dealing with being painted as child groomers for protecting the freedom to read. NYT published a fantastic article recently called "Librarians Face a Crisis of Violence and Abuse" -- please read that before you go knocking librarians as somehow lesser than nurses.

From my beloved BookRiot, with some great links to required reading:

The New York Times recently looked at the increased trauma, abuse, and burnout amongst library employees, and while I’m glad to see this problem talked about at a national level, it’s not like any of this is new. Fobazi Ettarh wrote an illuminating article in 2018 about “vocational awe” in librarianship that should be mandatory reading for every library employee.

I’ve written for Book Riot about the early trauma of the pandemic for library staff, the psychological burnout of front-line service, and the threats of gun violence in libraries.

Kelly Jensen has been covering the exponential increase in censorship for the last four years and she also did a deep dive into the pervasive sexual harassment from library patrons. Burnout and abuse have been in the profession for a long time, and it doesn’t look like things are improving.

I am an urban librarian and work at a very large, very famous library, but none of this is unique to urban libraries. Rural and suburban libraries have it just as bad, and deal with their own unique challenges -- and it's going to get so, SO much worse under another Trump administration. That's a topic for another post, but basically, please be kind to your librarians.

And finally: you need a master's degree in order a librarian. We are educated professionals and just as important to public health and safety as any nurse. Please don't diminish us as book jockeys.

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look how they pose for me

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I wish I was a stress cleaner. Never once has my response to stress been “time to employ some good habits”

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While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Clickhole, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

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Lesbian erasure

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More of my emails should start “hello pervert.”