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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.

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Here's both my eyes bc i couldn't choose which photo looked less bad

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John Smith, average 42 year old man

Has 2 ex wives and 3 children who he only sees on weekends

"You could be somebody’s everything. You could write a book that a 13 year old reads then looks back on with so much joy and fondness for the rest of their life because they’re so happy you wrote it. You could smile at someone on the worst day of their life, helping them get through it. You could form a friendly connection with a cashier at your grocery store, letting them actually look forward to something at work every week. You could make so many people laugh because you are you.

Just by existing we’re positively impacting those around us, for you what is just being polite to a stranger in public could mean the world to that stranger.

the world is filled with so many people and so many different stories that follow those people.

So many people wish for their story to be known and seen and wish to see the stories of others.

Living is so hard, I know it is, but someone somewhere wants desperately to know your story because you brought them joy, or because you just seemed like a lovely person.

and you deserve to be able to see that person again and tell that story.

you deserve to be remembered not as a statistic but as an individual person, a person who is loved and loved so many people.

even if you don’t believe someone out there loves you, and if you can’t think of someone then I’ll be that person.

I love you. And you deserve that love."

-❣️

John Smith, average 42 year old man

Has 2 ex wives and 3 children who he only sees on weekends

“no understand do puppet show” “do you still need the puppets” “yes yes showtime”

“thumbs up baby” 👎

”do you have to sit right there?” “is usually closer”

”not half bad!” “is full good!”

”bad no good grace die rocky die all earth die we die we die we die”

writing is hard! your job is HARD. not a lot of people can string together words as well as you! and it is not TALENT that got you here, it was your hard work. please dont compare yourself to other fields of art. painting, drawing and visual art is beautiful in its own right, it is wonderful and it is a feast for the eyes but writing is a feast for the heart. your writing, of which you pour the same passion and emotion as any artist towards their work bleeds your emotions onto pages. just because your writing doesn’t produce the same reaction as one would have towards a painting, doesn’t mean that it’s worth any less. art is art. writing is writing. while art pours emotions, dreams and thoughts into paint for the eyes to enjoy, writing pours out demons, emotions and thoughts into ink on paper that, when executed correctly goes right through the heart in a completely different way.

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• last song: puppy dog eyes - suki waterhouse

• currently watching: psych

• current obsession: the backrooms movie and loveland

• currently reading: bones and all

• currently working on: starting college and my poetry

• last google search: leviticus (2026)

• favourite flower: anything that I can dry and put in my journal

last song: sunlight - hozier

currently watching: twin peaks

current obsession: leviticus (2026) and ethel cain

currently reading: all in by jennifer lynn barnes

currently working on: my last internal assessments before externals start in october!

last google search: orpheus and eurydice

favourite flower: dried baby’s breath or lilies of the valley :))

last song: she’s my collar - gorillaz [feat kali uchis]

currently watching: novitiate

current obsession: tom ripley, the quarry

currently reading: death in venice by thomas mann

currently working on: a perler bead project and all my unfinished works

last google search: black tie dress code female

favorite flower: purple bluebells (contradictory, i know)

last song: consume by chase atlantic

currently watching: JJK (jujitsu kaisen)

current obsession: Jett from Valorant (I just bought her knife, SO COOL) and been playing a ton of Wilf Rift

currently reading: War of the Worlds

currently working on: a painting for my dad and a watercolor I’m doing of the Playtime Co factory as well as a short story.

last google search: isha tft chibi (isha in the China trailer is SO CUTE) random I know

favorite flower: poppies

@im-in-yourwalls @hawthornewhore @yourmomssidepiece @3martygraciesversion81 @edensolace

last song: “Found Heaven” by Conan Gray

currently watching: Project Hail Mary (2026) and Terrifier (2016)

current obsession: the Marauders fandom and boxing

currently reading: “The Sun and The Star” by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro

currently working on: making and charging sigils

last google search: let down by Radiohead lyrics

favorite flower: roses!

Last song: "Vodka Cranberry" Conan Gray

Currently watching: Outer Banks

Current obsession: mauraders ofc(ROSEKILLER) and traumatizing my OCs

Currently reading: nothing but just finished Crimson Rivers by Zepperzariel (ik i spelled that wrong lol) and Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (GO READ IF YALL HAVENT)

Currently working on: the book I'll write eventually and an aroace braclet

Last Google search: what does it mean to be masculine in a peacock way (i was trying to explain to my dad and I could only give him examples and not the literal definition so had to look it up lol)

Favorite flower: Tiger Lily I think... THERES SO MANY FLOWERS THO BRO

Last song: "I want it that way" by backstreet boys

Currently watching: Arcane but I'm watching it really really slowly

Currently reading: "Nothing like this" by @thedogbard I'm soooo loving it

Currently working on: ahem. the book I'm trying to write, the other book I'm trying to write, a short story I'm trying to write, another short story I'm trying to write, and two fics

Last google search: ice age 2 bc i rewatched it for the 5282639163th time

Fav flower: i honestly don't have one they're all so pretty ahhh