#librarian-amy

[bamboozled-distress]

to me touching grass is talking to people and apparently all my fictional crushes being nerds is not actually normal????

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

I love movie logic. A stack of books in front of you, open up the first one randomly in the middle and find the answers. If it was always that easy.

[artjipson]

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Every year, like clockwork, the music world implodes into its annual rite of passage: the “Best of” lists. It doesn’t matter whether we need them or not. We could all be listening to something that absolutely shreds, some obscure record that deserves reverence. Still, here we are, obsessing over arbitrary rankings, as if these lists will unlock some divine, objective truth. It is as if, somehow,…

[in-the-stacks]

Presenting Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera. Reviewed by The Next Read Detective for In the Stacks.

https://www.inthestacks.tv/2024/10/the-next-read-detective-listen-for-the-lie

[thegirlwhorunsforthetrain]

The C*ck Down the Block by Amy Award

“One thing I will never get used to is finding a vibrator in my mailbox,” Continue reading Untitled

[coraniaid]

I don't think I believe that people in Sunnydale High School think of the Scooby Gang as "Buffy Summers and her weird friends".

I mean, yes, they know Buffy is (more than) a bit weird and has a history of violence, and they know that she's often at the center of lots of strange things that happen in the school. But if you forget what you know about vampires and the Slayer and look at the dynamics and personal histories of that group from the outside, there's exactly one person who connects them all together. And it's not the (ex?) arsonist and (ex?) gang member who recently transferred to Sunnydale from LA.

Everyone in Sunnydale High seems to know Willow Rosenberg, and everyone knows she's a huge nerd who (A) love libraries and (B) has something of a history of either tutoring (e.g. Rodney Muson) or otherwise hanging out with (e.g. Shelia Martini) some of the school's more violent and dangerous elements.

There's Xander Harris, Willow's best friend since kindergarten (and who, unlike Willow, doesn't really seem to have many other friends at all after Jesse mysteriously vanishes)

There's the (weirdly religious?) ex-aronist from LA who Willow seems to be tutoring in the library a lot (see B above) or who she's possibly recruited as muscle. Sheila and Rodney both mysteriously went missing one day too, so people aren't that surprised when Buffy does herself at the end of junior year.

There's the English librarian (see A above) that anyone who has seen Willow's locker knows Willow has a crush on

There's the computer science teacher that anyone who has been in class with knows Willow also has a crush on, who sometimes has Willow come in to class to help her run sessions for remedial students on the weekends and whose job Willow (somehow) takes over when she dies

There's Cordelia Chase, who Willow has a whole historical Thing with, probably going back to when they were little kids themselves. People say Willow hates her but they're always hanging out together (there's a persistent rumor that they once spent a whole night together in a closet, if you know what I mean) and Willow helped run her campaign for Homecoming Queen. Cordelia was secretly dating Willow's friend for a bit and some people say Willow was really, really upset when she found out; read into that what you will.

There's the mysterious older guy in a band who doesn't talk much and that Willow is apparently actually dating. (This isn't the same older guy in a band Cordelia was dating, but oddly enough it is the same band.) A few kids swear they've seen him naked and locked up in the library at night.

There are (again, from the outside) people like Willow's childhood friend Amy and Amy's friend Michael, who people might remember were once being investigated by the police for ritual murder before Amy mysteriously vanished

To the outside eye, the Scooby Gang are Willow Rosenberg and her weird friends.

(A lot of kids swear that one time they saw her hold the whole Bronze hostage and rip a girl's throat out with her teeth, but of course Principal Snyder hushed it all up and she was back at school the next day. He really doesn't want to have to hire a new computer science teacher this year.)

[natsumebookss]

Something else I wanna add as an English major--people have also been saying that Ria's Doppel being named after Jekyll and Hyde is weird because she's not a two-faced character, but seen through this lens, the comparison is perfect.

Dr. Henry Jekyll, in the simplest of terms, is a well-respected gentleman that exemplifies his era's beauty standards. But unlike what the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde personality" has come to mean in our current language, Jekyll and Hyde are always depicted to be two sides of the same coin. Hyde is the manifestation of Jekyll's own urges, the person he wishes he could be outside of his gilded cage, just as the Doppel and its master are one and the same (just corrupted versions of each other). More importantly for this discussion, though, Hyde is always described as deformed and hideous, a monster in human form to the society he lives in. To them, he looks like exactly the kind of person who would literally trample people on the street, and that's what Jekyll is counting on. Hyde is not just a get-out-of-jail-free card for a rich man, but the monster behind his desires.

What does this have to do with Ria? I feel that she is, in some ways, a reverse Jekyll, someone who considers herself to be ugly and monstrous and uses magic to become beautiful and heroic. What Ria finds ugly about herself is left very much ambiguous--I've heard theories of EDs like this one as well as trans headcanons, though I feel like it would also be interesting if Ria feels this way due to some sort of severe medical event. What if she was one of those people who escaped a fire with major burns on like 70% of her body (though I mostly just like this theory because it lends itself to Hotaru Tomoe parallels and how she too feels her restored body is monstrous in the manga)? It doesn't really matter in the context of Ria's wish story, but whatever the case, the Jekyll and Hyde motif seems to suggest that Ria had immense self-hatred and found something about herself monstrous or nonconforming to beauty standards.

(This is also why Jekyll and Hyde works better as a motif than a more seemingly obvious one, like Frankenstein's monster. In the original story, the Creature is seen as monstrous by society specifically because he hits the Uncanny Valley and, though he seems beautiful on first glance, something doesn't seem quite right with him. This would be something I could see Ria facing after becoming a magical girl, with Kyubey's wish giving her almost inhuman beauty, but not before. I also get the sneaking suspicion that the next new Frankenstein adaptation will play this up, considering it's directed by Del Toro and stars Andrew Garfield, a team that could very easily do this concept very well.)

With that out of the way, what's also important to note is that the transformation from Jekyll to Hyde (itself a sort of twisted proto-magical girl transformation, I would argue) comes with limits. Just as Ria's beauty is tied to the magic in her Soul Gem, Hyde's ugliness is triggered by a potion that appears to blend magic and science. At first, the ingredients are easy for Jekyll to find so he can turn back into himself whenever he needs it, but they progressively become rarer and rarer. Just like Grief Seeds! In fact, the original Jekyll and Hyde book is told in a letter format right when Jekyll is about to turn for the last time, letting people know that he's turning into something awful and this time, it'll be permanent. Obviously, this doesn't mean as much in our timeline and its Doppel barrier, but in all others...yikes. Seeing how Ria's Doppel, and in turn the witch she will become, is her personal Hyde that she's running from, but yet she's also made is just so terrifying and tragic to me.

I’m really surprised that so many people dislike Ria’s doppel? I thought Aimi’s was really boring but I actually love Ria’s. It really gives off this uncomfortable vibe of… idk, dysmorphia of some sort. Yachiyo’s spears at the end REALLY make me wish we had a doppel unlock story. I want Ria to doppel in front of Yachiyo and Yachiyo to be like… “why are my spears here? Did I traumatize you?”

Like… Ria made a wish to look different and was inspired by her favorite model. It’s hard not to draw Eating Disorder parallels there, and when her doppel is changing form and made up of mostly empty space… to the point that Ria isn’t even in it… It feels kind of sad and depressing. idk.

I do wish that we could see the prototype doppel cause I remember seeing the ribbon forming and thinking “huh, wonder what that is about,” but I like the doppel a lot as it is.

Aimi’s on the other hand is forgettable and sucks. Sorry Aimi.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in November 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call - Jamison Shea 🧡 Snowed in With You - Reba Bale 💛 Fire Spells Between Friends - Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan 💚 Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac - K.A. Merikan 💙 Escape to the Sea - Alex Callan & Angelica Babineaux 💜 She's Always Hungry - Eliza Clark 💛 Phoenix Rising - Emily Hayes 💙 A Flower's Fatal Thorn - Jordan Dugdale 💜 A Sharper, More Lasting Pain - Alex Harvey-Rivas

❤️ The Librarian's Gargoyle - Evelyn Shine 🧡 Dead Girls Don't Dream - Nino Cipri 💛 Of Hoarfrost and Blood - Scarlet Tempest 💚 Judgement - Lucas Delrose 💙 Deadline for Love - Candi Tab 💜 Wake Up, Nat & Darcy - Kate Cochrane ❤️ All the Truth I Can Stand - Mason Stokes 🧡 Celia - Addison James 💛 A Diamond Bright and Broken - Holly Davis 💙 Hexed - Emily McIntire 💜 Hometown Christmas - Laura Conway 🌈 This Christmas - Georgia Beers

❤️ Suite Heart - Jade Winters 🧡 We All Fall - Arden Coutts 💛 Taiwan Travelogue - Yáng Shuāng-zǐ 💚 Pit Stop - L.M. Bennett 💙 The Damaged Hearts Bargain - Sienna Waters 💜 War of Night - Greyson Black & E. Scott Clevenger 🧡 I'll be Boned for Christmas - Katherine McIntyre 💜 All You Want for the Holidays - Quinton Li 🌈 Queer as Folklore - Sacha Coward

❤️ Time and Tide - J.M. Frey 🧡 Ghost of the Heart - Catherine Friend 💛 Flopping in a Winter Wonderland - Jason June 💚 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 💙 Currency in Flesh - Heather Nix 💜 I Really Do - Emily K. Hardy ❤️ Something Close to God - Erika del Carmen Ruiz 🧡 The Crack at the Heart of Everything - Fiona Fenn 💛 Undeniable You - Chelsea M. Cameron 💙 The Twice-Sold Soul - Katie Hallahan 💜 Always on My Mind - Kelsey Painter 🌈 Interstellar MegaChef - Lavanya Lakshminarayan

❤️ Don't Break Character - Jules Landry 🧡 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar 💛 Remnants of Filth: Yuwu - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💚 Sugar, Spice, and Christmas Nice - Anne Hagan 💙 The Wishing Tree - Barbara Winkes 💜 Love on Moonlight Lake - Adriana Sargent ❤️ Mistletoe Motel - Lise Gold 🧡 The Royal They - KJ Sinclair 💛 My So-Called Family - Gia Gordon 💙 Frosted by the Girl Next Door - Aurora Rey & Jaime Clevenger 💜 The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani 🌈 A Hard Fit - Jennifer Moffatt

❤️ The Sacred Heart Motel - Grace Kwan 🧡 Leap - Simina Popescu 💛 I Dare You - Regena Mercy 💚 Love Lessons - Mary Ellen Capek 💙 Afterglow - Emily Antoinette 💜 In the Back Row With You - Natasha West ❤️ Make Room for Love - Darcy Liao 🧡 Here Goes Nothing - Emma K. Ohland Just for the Holidays - Micah Carver

❤️ Cookies, Candles, and Cute Butts for Christmas - Cameron D. James & Cali Kitsu 🧡 Objects in Mirror - N.W. Downs 💛 Sleigh Bells Ring - Alyson Root 💚 Real Tree / Fake Boyfriend - Ree Thomas 💙 Out of the Storm - Logan Sage Adams 💜 Hungry Heart - Jem Milton ❤️ A Wild and Ruined Song - Ashley Shuttleworth 🧡 Beneath Her Power - Margaux Fox 💛 Thanks for Listening - Molly Horan 🌈 The Lotus Empire - Tasha Suri

❤️ Naughty November - Anthology 🧡 Hearts and Stars - Phoenix Kathryn 💛 Guarding Her Gangster Queen - Persephone Black 💚 The Shadow Spinner - Eric Kao 💙 Black, Queer, and Untold - Jon Key 💜 Hall of Shadows - Mariah Stillbrook ❤️ The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso 🧡 A Crimson Covenant - Aimee Donnellan 💛 Isaac - Curtis Garner 💙 Vineyard Dreams - Carol Wyatt 💜 Kiss of Death - Bryony Rosehurst 🌈 The Many Mistakes of Amy Love - RA Hunter

❤️ Accidentally in Love - Kimberly Cooper Griffin 🧡 Unwrapped - D. Jackson Leigh 💛 Hot Honey Love - Nan Campbell 💚 Havoc for the Holidays - Jay Leigh 💙 London - Patricia Evans 💜 Fatal Foul Play - David S. Pederson ❤️ The Gift of Us - Abigail Taylor 🧡 Upon the Midnight Queer - 'Nathan Burgoine 💛 The Christmas Pic - Rena Sapon-White & Ella Schaefer 💙 Seducing Scylla - Lex Logan 💜 Fated Winds and Promising Seas - Rose Black 🌈 A Surprise For The Holidays - Anna Sparrows

❤️ Immortal Hunger - KL Bone 🧡 Love and Loyalty - Emily Hayes 💛 A Kingdom of Lies - Ben Alderson 💚 Christmas Dreams - Carol Wyatt 💙 Wrecked for the Holidays - Kerry Kilpatrick ❤️ Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher 🧡 Phoenix Found - T.J. Nichols 💛 Room for Two - Rochelle Wolf 💙 The Long Winter of Miðgarðr - Edale Lan 💜 A Handyman for the Holidays - Valerie Gomez 🌈 Sundown in San Ojuela - M.M. Olivas

[thewickedbohemian]

Some explanations for some of these

for the Jews who don't know, it's a thing (at least among some Jews) that you can have a second bar/bat mitzvah at 83 because 70 was what used to be considered a full lifetime

tasteful commercialization of Hanukkah means both not as excessive as Christmas (though we still deserve more than a blue end cap) and actually well done not this shit with blue-lighted wreaths and gingerbread Hanukkah houses and Hanukkah sweaters with English messages written using Hebrew letters as English letters which spell gibberish in Hebrew

Headcanoning characters played by Jewish actors as Jewish unless another religion's stated for them means that e.g. Quinn Fabray from Glee is still canonically Christian despite Dianna Agron being Jewish and Amy Farrah Fowler from BBT clearly had somewhat-Christian parents despite Mayim Bialik's heritage but you could be free to headcanon (unless they're mentioned as another religion in canon) as Jewish characters like Jack Hodgins from Bones or Flynn Carsen from The Librarians or DCEU!Billy Batson

in I think it was 2018 NBC made a really bad sitcom called Living Biblically that was supposedly based on The Year Of Living Biblically but all it shared other than the titular Bible quest was the main character being some sort of entertainment-y writer with a pregnant wife, I can see changing the names but they changed the motivation for the quest, removed the toddler he already had in the book and most gallingly made him freaking Christian when many instances from the book reliant on the guy's Judaism could have made good sitcom episodes

[terrainofheartfelt]

oops i did it again

I made something really silly wanna see it

[z3rinn]

# #. MASTERLIST !!

# #. TWISTED WONDERLAND

gasp ! there's only one bed !?

- sharing a bed w/ the dorm leaders !! fluff, wc 1.7k !!

grocery store !!

- heartslaybul - octavinelle scenerios !! going grocery shopping w/ them is uh- wc 2k !!

grocery store pt. 2 !!

- scarabia - diasomania scenerios !! going grocery shopping w/ them is uh pt. 2- wc 2.7k !!

strawberry shortcake !!

- adeuce (separate) making a cake w/ them !! fluff, wc 950 !!

the cat ? or me ?

- you and idia get a cat... but hes jealous of it. fluff, wc 440 !!

i bid you, goodnight !!

- leona and malleus, saying gn to them !! fluff, wc 960 !!

midnight thoughts.

- deuce knows emotions can hurt, like love. angst, wc 470 !!

horror flick !!

- all scenarios !! what's it like watching a horror movie w/ them?

if you seek amy !!

- all scenerios !! would they react to the song if you seek amy ??

bathtub mermaid.

- octo trio !! the beach has been becoming a scarier place after finding a scale. wc 1.4k

first date !!

- heartslaybul - octavinelle scenerios !! where do they take you out on your first date ? wc 4.3k

doing their makeup !!

- nrc first years !! doing their makeup during a monthly ramshackle sleepover !! wc. 1.3k

kingdom calling !!

- a little scenario containing a kh mc in the twst world !! wc. 1.1k

# #. LINKED UNIVERSE

- cots and cuddles !!

- sharing a bed w/ hyrules heroes !! fluff, wc 1.5k !!

- I want you more.

- link finds out the librarian he's pining after has a lover. yandere, wc 2.7k !!

©z3rinn

[liminalmemories21]

Seven Ten Sentence Sunday

tagged by @strandnreyes, @im-overstimulated-and-im-sad, @ladytessa74, @carlos-in-glasses, @lemonlyman-dotcom, @three-drink-amy, and @bonheur-cafe. Thank you!

In which terrible library puns are an aphrodisiac (related to TK in glasses).

Carlos wants to laugh because TK has no idea.  "Sexy librarian is a trope for a reason. You wear them and I want to get lost in your stacks." TK gapes at him and the giggles, and clamps a hand over his mouth in horror.  "Baby that was terrible." He reaches down to hitch TK's leg higher on his thigh, and rolls his hips down in a lazy grind. "You wear them and I want to check you out," he suggests. TK groans again, but arches into Carlos's kiss, and slides a hand down Carlos's back to keep him in place, like he had any intention of going anywhere. He kisses TK, slow and messy, the way they haven't had time for lately.  "You have fine written all over you."

tagging @welcometololaland, @rmd-writes, @freneticfloetry, and @iboatedhere

[intothestacks]

Tips for Children's Librarians 8/?

Regardless of the demographics of your patrons, make a conscious effort to read books with diverse characters.

That doesn’t mean the books need to have a diverse cast every time, but rather that you don’t always pick books with characters (especially main characters) from the same race.

Let every race have their turn at being represented. Not necessarily every time, but enough that the kids see themselves as well as others on a regular basis. Seeing oneself being represented and seeing people different from yourself represented are both wildly important.

This also means that you should make an effort to read stories with characters with different disabilities when possible too. You might have to look around for lists of books with disabled characters, but if you manage to slip in even a single disabled character book it’s a start. One book is better than none. You can work on expanding over time.

Make a conscious effort to also read books that question stereotypes.

Here's a starter list of books to add to your storytelling repertoire:

Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall - Though it was probably intended to be an explanation about what being transgender is like, it also serves well for talking about invisible disabilities like dyslexia and autism, which means you can adapt the same story to talk about two different minorities. The gist of the story is that a crayon, called Red, can only draw blue things, no matter how hard they try and none of the other crayons can understand why Red can only draw blue, until another crayon recognizes that there's nothing wrong with Red but rather that they were mislabelled all along.

Families, Families, Families! by Suzanne Lang - A book about how families come in all shapes and sizes. It features a pretty extensive display of different family combinations, such as: gay and lesbian parents, parents that are divorced vs married, families with many kids vs single children, families with single parents (both male and female), families with stepsiblings, kids that live with their grandparents or aunts/uncles, and adopted kids to name a few. They even have the example of kids who have many pets vs kids with no pets!

Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack - A cute story about a prince trying to find a spouse to help him rule; it turns out he's gay and marries a knight instead of a princess.

Think Big! and Boo! by Robert Munsch - Both have Black main characters. While it's important to have stories that focus on the unique experiences and struggles of minorities, it's also important to feature books that have stories where the fact that a character is a minority is incidental and not what the focus of the story is about. These two picture books are great examples of this kind of book.

Lost and Found Cat: The True Story of Kunkush's Incredible Journey by Doug Kuntz and Amy Shrodes - The story of a lost cat's journey to be reunited with his Iraqi refugee family.

Dreamers by Yuyi Morales - The memoir of a Mexican refugee who moved to the United States with her infant son in 1994 and about how even though she left nearly everything she owned behind, she, like all refugees and immigrants, didn’t come empty-handed as they carry their culture, skills, and strengths with them.

Room on Our Rock by Jol Temple and Kate Temple – Three seals are perched on a rock. When others need shelter, do they share it? When read from front to back, the group of seals firmly believe there is no room on their rock for the parent and child seal who are seeking a place to rest. Readers are then encouraged to read the story again, from back to front, revealing a welcoming message where the seals make room for others and share their rock.

My Name Is Yoon by Helen Recorvits – Yoon's name means "shining wisdom," and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her father tells her that she must learn to write it in English. In English, all the lines and circles stand alone, which is just how Yoon feels in the United States. Yoon isn't sure that she wants to be YOON. At her new school, she tries out different names.

The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi – Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids will like her. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she tells the class that she will choose a name by the following week. Her new classmates are fascinated by this no-name girl and decide to help out by filling a glass jar with names for her to pick from.

[theoogtree]

Check out this pygmy gote they had her name is flower

Scootering to the library if I get run over call my dad for me

[cricketgutz]

what's the rough population of heartbreak gulch? my impression is that it's a borderline ghost town with only a couple dozen people in it that aren't part of the main cast, but idk if that's accurate

It's in the process of being populated, both in and out of fiction! and you'd be correct! Long story short, Eddie owns the abandoned town of Heartbreak Gulch, and is trying to build it into his personal criminal depot. Lots of people in and out, and of the people that live there, we have The Heartbreakers (the full-on live-in outlaws) and the townies (folks that found themselves in Heartbreak for whatever reason, and took on jobs in the town.) A handful of folks pull multiple roles around town (at least, for now)

Currently we have:

Eddie Black-Eyes - Boss, "Sheriff"

Liz White- Outlaw, ranch hand

Felix Enderley-Smythe - Outlaw, manual labor

Zeki Al-najar - Nurse, librarian/book keeper, part-time bartender, future outlaw

Ami Riverstone- Mechanic, manual labor

Horatio- Doctor, occasional transportation

Manuel Quinn- Manuel inhabits 5 robot bodies, so he's doing a lot of jobs, any they need him for- supply depot, cook, labor, farming etc.

Max Skinner- Rancher, butcher

A yet unnamed and not yet designed bartender

One day when I make a damn comic out of this, where we enter the story is when Eddie is really trying to get the town on it's feet, it's dire down there in the gulch!

[coraniaid]

In Season 3's Gingerbread, the parents of Sunnydale are manipulated by an ancient demonic spirit to believe that magic is a dangerous and corrupting influence. They decide that school librarian Giles is in possession of "offensive" books which should be kept away from children; they call in the police to deal with magical supplies in students' lockers in the same way a school might react to finding drug paraphernalia on campus; they repeatedly tell their children that any 'friend' who practices magic is a bad influence you should stay well away from.

We obviously aren't meant to agree with them. This is obviously a (pretty unsubtle) metaphor for any number of the moral panics that were common in the USA during the 1980s and 1990s. Even ignoring the demonic connection, and the support it gets from clearly unsympathetic characters like Principal Snyder, the very name of the group: Mothers Opposed to the Occult, or MOO, is a sign this is not a viewpoint we're meant to be persuaded by. They are a joke. What they are arguing for is laughable.

Of course magic isn't inherently bad. Of course there's no type of illicit forbidden knowledge that all but a handful of trusted authority figures should be kept away from. Of course doing witchcraft in your bedroom isn't going to turn you into some sort of child-endangering addict. Of course Willow's friend Amy Madison isn't using her magic for anything more dangerous than getting out of some homework and casting a protection spell on Buffy for Buffy's upcoming birthday; she's certainly not sneaking out to visit some sort of magical crack den every evening!

So it's what you might call an 'interesting' choice that the writers of Season 6 will decide that "LOL, actually MOO was right about everything" is a good direction to take the show.