Are there any works in the post-apocalyptic genre with post-apocalyptic librarians? People who worked in the public library and after the Bad Thing decide to stay and keep the library clean, safe and available for anyone who needs it. People canât remove books from the premises anymore, because theyâre too precious, but you can stay as long as you want and read them or copy them outâthe librarians encourage making copies, so that the information can circulate beyond the physical boundaries of the library.Â
After a while it becomes an unspoken reality of the post apocalyptic society that you Just Donât fuck with the library. You donât fight there, you donât steal from it, you donât allow harm to come to librarians when they have to leave the building for supplies.Â
People donate food and books and paper with no expectation of reciprocity, because the librarians donât ask for anything when you need a place to hide or information or, fuck, to read a schlocky crime novel because you need to escape reality in some purple prose.Â
i need this like water and also air
@a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy
OH HELL TO THE YES
Also consider: a library has a duplicate book, and wants to hire mercenaries to transport it to a library that doesnât have a copy of that book. The most well known mercs in the world show up to volunteer for the job because they havenât read that one yet.
