#rambling in librarian

[ace7librarian]

That scene was gay as fuck

[ace7librarian]

Miss Holloway core

*stepping over my own corpse* sorry about that. it's nice to meet you. yeah don't worry about it, it'll despawn in a few minutes.

[foldingfittedsheets]

My paternal grandmother was a librarian. I only got to see that set of grandparents once a year as they lived out of state. I fondly remember summers spent at their house watching That Darn Cat and The King and I on loop, hunting for water skippers in the back creek, and reading the entirety of the Peanuts comics.

Because my grandma was a librarian she was delighted to foster my love of reading. We made trips to the library every week. One summer when I was seven or so I got really into this kids series about princesses all named after gemstones, each had a unique magic power.

At the end of each book was a puzzle or some extra bit of lore to decode. All of them were easily copied down in some way. Until I got to Sapphire’s book. At the end of the story Princess Sapphire was in peril! She needed a hero to come save her from a terrible fate. And there, on the last page, was a decoder device. It needed to be cut out and assembled.

I had to help save the Princess!!! In the iron grip of a fever of imagination I immediately found scissors and started carefully cutting the page. The page warned only to use scissors with an adult present and I scoffed to think I needed supervision just for scissors! I was a hero!Her plight called to me from the pages, imaginings of how I would daringly rescue the beautiful sweet Princess Sapphire ran through my little brain-

And about halfway up the page toward my goal I froze. This was a library book. I couldn’t cut a library book! What was I doing?! Even now in my memory it stands as a glaring example of the first time I mastered impulse control. Tragically, too late.

I was distraught. My grandma had a sacred duty to books and I, villain that I was, had defiled a precious tome! I wallowed for some time in abject misery, experiencing the greatest amount of guilt my tiny body had ever previously held. I’d probably go to jail. For a crime as monumental as wielding scissors against a book I wouldn’t even get dessert in jail.

Gradually, I processed my way through the grief of my vile deeds. I couldn’t have the decoder, I slowly accepted. That might be punishment enough. And I had only cut the page halfway. So it was only half a crime... It wasn’t illegal to lie when you’d aborted an evil act, right?

I didn’t know but I didn’t want to face my grandma’s potential wrath. I have no memory of my grandma ever yelling at me. I waited until the next day to approach her.

“Grandma? I finished my book and when I got to the end I saw someone had cut the page! They probably wanted the decoder because I also want that but it was very bad to cut a book, wasn’t it?”

My grandma regarded me benignly. She carefully took the book to observe it and nodded. “It’s good to see that they stopped before they cut it all the way out. Let’s go tape this together, and then I can photocopy the page and we can make you a decoder.”

I was ecstatic. Rewarded for my honesty! I created and cracked codes for the rest of summer with the flimsy paper creation we’d made. I genuinely doubt my grandma believed that I wasn’t the perpetrator, but I loved that she acknowledged that the person responsible stopped.

[eg515]

don't you just love it when a series has a good ending that takes care of all of its characters, shows how their futures will look like, ties up all loose ends, reminisces about old times, references important moments from before, and brings back elements of the very first episode, giving a nice frame to the whole series?

[lazylittledragon]

Kit as the demon baby was incredible ovs but I can't stop looking at Gale and Cyra! They're both so well dressed and warm and kind looking, it's giving "wealthy relatives", I love

they're so quirky aunt and uncle coded

[ace7librarian]

Is this "Jane's a car"

I've noticed that some people making car content on the internet have stopped saying "tranny" as short for transmission, and using "trans" instead. Not sure if that's because of self-censorship to avoid demonetization on youtube, or if its because they actually don't want to say a slur anymore, but all I do know is it can end with some pretty funny results:

[aingeal98]

If you asked a young Barbara Gordon what her life would look like in 10 years time... There's no way she could have predicted this part.

[blueskiesandstarrynights]

Dean devlin took one look at Christian Kane and said is anyone gonna put this man in a trio and didn't wait for an answer

[ace7librarian]

What if I say Jayvik are Curtwen but not doomed. What then.

That's my profile pic for the tiktok war btw

[ace7librarian]

It's her, the fairy queen of sweet dreams

Its me, your feral godmother

[welcometogrouchland]

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

[acesofspade]

is it a prerequisite for librarian candidates to be autistic as fuck, because all four of these bitches are the most autistic fictional characters ever (affectionate)

[ace7librarian]

Curt and Joey are trapped in an everlasting combat where none of them can win

ONE STEP AHEAD

I CANT LET YOU WIIIIIIIN

[isdisorigionalenoughforyou]

yknow sometimes i think about how mr seawatt gaming parkourcivilization only got to where he was by leveraging his knowledge of obscure rules and mechanics and keeping all his cards close to his heart. how he clearly only got to where he originally was in the 1st movie by making himself useful with amethyst blocks and brewing stand jumps. and how it all crumbled because evbo 360-ed all over his carefully laid plans but really, his undoing was his own hubris.

and he's shit at parkour

[angelwiththeblue-box]

single player indie game where you’re trapped in a science facility in lockdown, causing all the scientists to enter a rage like state.

its you and your three friends (npcs) trying to get to the heart of the facility to shut it down but every time the npcs die everything resets and the npcs remember nothing (they should remember they’re your friends) and you can only go a certain route but the map says differently

and the puzzles seem easy but you’ve cut the wires and nothing happened and there’s too many rage filled scientists to get past and you can’t move the pipe on your own it’s too hot

so you learn from the npcs each time something goes wrong and you have to start over and they don’t remember telling you the story but you do you hold onto the light in their eyes as they tell you

but you can’t get past the last puzzle

everything you try you keep dying and there’s a way out there has to be (right? right?)

there is

you did it

you get everyone out

you lose your memories

you’re back in the facility

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"We could splice the threads of history together, just for a bit. Take one thread, weave it against the next, which brings in the thread next to that and then the next one."

The Librarians S01E10 And the Loom of Fate.