Flower On The Precipice

me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t 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 “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and 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 it’s 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. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s 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 doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, 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, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s 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.

the cambrian period is TOMORROW!!!

The world is a strange place. Stay silent too long and it folds around you, dimming you like a candle swallowed by fog, letting your traces sink beneath layers of dust that no one remembers. You try to speak, because something inside you insists on being heard, yet the world shies away from voices that echo too brightly, too honestly, too close to whatever a soul truly is.

So you shape masks out of quiet nights and borrowed smiles, each one fitting just enough to pass, each one soft enough not to disturb anything. You learn to mute your joy, your strangeness, your colors.

You learn to mute yourself.

Pieces of you fall away like petals in slow motion, just so you can keep moving.

#factoid actualy just statistical error ichigo georg (x)

#also if you're strong enough in feudal Japan you have to go to super hell when you die the second time (x)

#i forgot the manga/anime existed and i thought this was about the cleaning product. was very confused. (x)

#the only 2 genders in bleach. pretty progressive all things considered (x)

#secret third option is to reincarnate into nazi germany #in which case the samurai and the spanish inquisition are out to get you (x)

#and of course the last nationality— HELL (x)

#tite kubo said #even in death the Japanese won’t escape imperialism #sick and twisted (x)

#and then in feudal japan you can be poor and starve to death again #yay! (x)

#you either die and experience a military dictatorship with enforced slum poverty or you die and get eaten by spaniards (x)

#meanwhile british people are 5th dimensional harry potters who get eaten by dragons (x)

#assigned nationality at death (x)

#literally like rukia saying the soul society is peaceful but you die and youre literally forced to live in extreme poverty 😭 #or join the military power. your choice mate (x)

#also you can die twice if you're lucky enough (x)