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The best part of getting older is aging out of the demographic that gets killed in horror movies. I am now the age of the kooky local at the gas station who warns the band of college kids not to go to Camp Murderblood
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"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.
"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"
"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."
"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."
"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.
"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."
"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."
"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.
"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.
"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."
"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."
"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."
Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story I've had bookmarked forever for class.
I hope you like it :]
the word 'swim' is doing a lot of heavy work here
Not half as much as the audio is
Salmons have utter disrespect for anything that stands in the way of their suicide mission to have Sex.
I think they might possibly be lost.
The water IS coming from SOMEWHERE. Whether that somewhere is a stable enough Body-of-wather that is makes sense to fuck and die there, is a different Matter, but the Power that built the upstream instincts into these animals, must have assumed that it must come from a sustainable Stream more often than Not.
Weird bookish question of the week (picking this back up, but inconsistently):
Say you're in possession of your most hated book and you aren't allowed to sell, donate, give away to friends/family, or throw it out. If you had to repurpose it, how would you do it?
(Reblog and comment, please, instead of leaving answers in tags)
Shrine on my bookshelf specifically saying how much I hate the book. Big bold lettering, arrows pointing at different bits, detailed description about why it sucks, constantly lit with pleasant lighting to draw attention to it
Can I destroy it? If yes, hamster bedding.
mulch
I would grind it up to make new paper, then use it to write strongly-worded letters to my representatives.
possibly spinning, the local yarn store unusual fibers room has paper yarn imported from Japan, it'd be at least worth trying to make it work
maybe that thing about folding a thousand origami cranes to make a wish
somebody who isn't me could do papier-mache
the copies I lost in the cross-country move were paperback, but anyone with hardcover copies could reuse the covers to make those treasure boxes one hides on one's bookshelf
Your mention of papier-mache made me think: PiƱata of the book/series/possibly author. If I were sure it wouldn't hurt what was inside, I might try to find miniature books to fill it with instead of candy; maybe zines would work?
That, or some other variation on book art.
so nothing of "her stuff", including electronics and jewellery, ever actually belonged to her, it was only given to her to play with for as Long as she kept herself available to be Married Off to a husband chosen by her Dad.
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I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and itās so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said āiām a librarian, you canāt do this.ā
him: you split up all the song of ice and fire books
me: yeah i know, theyāre all primary colors, itās perfect
him: [self-destructs]
Youāre a monster
As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?
it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when iām looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a veryā¦tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.
my partner was likeĀ āhow will i find [this book] for instanceā and i repliedĀ āeasy, itās purpleā and he looked at me like i was a witch.
OP your brain is neat and I love you for it you funky little color-coded cupcake. But youāre still a monster.
This actually is interesting in terms of information-seeking behavior, which is a thing librarians think about a lot and often actually study (some library jobs require you to publish, and academic librarians, for instance, will often use the students at the college they work at to study how they search for information in order to figure out how to best provide them services).
When you go for an MLS (Masterās of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for āprofessional-levelā library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I wonāt go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is āabout"āa concept we tongue-in-cheek call āaboutness"āand how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in itās own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.
OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OPās partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because itās their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.
In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesnāt work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesnāt know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, theyāre lost. Thatās why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what itās āaboutā, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.
Basically, OPās system works for their own personal library, because itās best suited to how the primary userāOP themselvesālooks for books. OPās librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.
And also, OP is a monster.
I find both sorting by color and sorting by whether itās Hardcover or Paperback, very intuitive and wrong.
In my house, within each shelf of roughly-thematically-related books, I arrange them by size (height), because that is most efficient for the purpose of having a little more space to lay a few more books that also sort of belong in this category, across the Tops of the smaller books
a sort of survivor's bias of literature causes a lot of people to believe that novels "used to" be of higher quality, greater originality, greater 'effort', greater literary-ness, greater inspiration, &c., than they are to-day
and it's like, well, that is because you're pitting a book published 150 years ago that people still talk about and read to-day, against your average aeroport written-to-spec romance that probably will not be being discussed 150 years from now. if you read the mass-market Grub Street hetslop of the Victorian era I promise you would not like it.
this is how having elderly hoarder bibliophile Family members can give people a more realistic grasp of what literature is and isn't, and how "the past was a very different time" does and doesn't work, and how (qualitatively) "classics" are "Special".
If you've ever helped someone downsize, or cleaned Out a deceased person's collection that has been in the same bookshelf for decades, you've seen some English Romance novels and Soviet SciFi novels that may have been fun at the time but are now cringier that anything YA from 2010 could ever be.
honestly I hate ācan you pet the dog?!?ā not for any of the common reasons but because it was initially interesting as a proposition of ācan you interact with the world in a way that is not within the primary mechanical loopā and that very quickly fell away to being āwell now any indie developer making a game has to have a pet the dog button or theyāre going to get lettersā
One of my dream projects has an NPC with a dog, and if you try to pet it, the owner tells you not to do that. If you try again, it bites you and you take damage. I want to do this entirely because I genuinely believe that this would make me feel way more grounded in the world than any āclick button to see cute animationā would ever do, and also it would be really funny to have a game where people lose their runs because they tried to pet a dog they were told not to pet
I think we should all refer to Goodhart's law by Name more often.
It's useful Not Just in talking about teaching children to do well in standardized Tests, but also in talking about how racist/sexist/queerphobic/ableist someone can be while deliberately avoiding a certain catalogue of slurs, or how toxic/abusive a relationship that DOESN'T Break the half-your-age-plus-seven rule, can be.
honestly I hate ācan you pet the dog?!?ā not for any of the common reasons but because it was initially interesting as a proposition of ācan you interact with the world in a way that is not within the primary mechanical loopā and that very quickly fell away to being āwell now any indie developer making a game has to have a pet the dog button or theyāre going to get lettersā
One of my dream projects has an NPC with a dog, and if you try to pet it, the owner tells you not to do that. If you try again, it bites you and you take damage. I want to do this entirely because I genuinely believe that this would make me feel way more grounded in the world than any āclick button to see cute animationā would ever do, and also it would be really funny to have a game where people lose their runs because they tried to pet a dog they were told not to pet
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also, a lot of the āwhat if you gave birth to The Creature?ā pregnancy horror bullshit feels ableist to me. the horror being that the baby was not what you were expecting and not that you did not want a child at all. corny.
not eraserhead, I love that the eraserhead baby being the eraserhead baby represents a frustrated and unwilling parent being unable to see their child as human, the horror is parenthood, the baby is just a baby seen as a monster for just existing
that's Not going to Work as a commercial Horror movie because empathizing with someone who commited infanticide is seen as a worse Taboo than any other.
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i genuinely feel like im being edged
oooh okay a human claiming an entire group of animals is useless. how novel.. and you think killing them all would do barely anything? that's so interesting! and you believe you're stating truth right? you're not a biologist either? damn... this... this may be a stroke of genius... you're so right... wow...
TWENTY MINUTES BABEY CAN WE HEAR IT FOR TWENTY MINUTES!!
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