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[amashelle]

"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

#libraries #and these services are not just convenience things #for some people #being able to download a book for free through their library without leving the house #is the only way they get to read #period #those of us who use the service for the convenience #keep it going for those who use it out of necessity

[amashelle]

The fun thing about the knights and knaves puzzle is that no matter what goofy variant you come up with, not only has it already been considered, some maniac has worked out the optimal solution. What if there's a third guard who lies or tells the truth at random? It's been done. What if the guards will only answer yes/no questions, and also for some reason they understand your language but refuse to speak it, and you don't know which of the two words they may respond with means "yes" and which means "no"? Literal thesis papers have been written on that one. Logicians are absolute freaks for these guys.

#that one post I read somewhere #in which this puzzle is evoked #‘due to budget cuts there is only one of me #and I lie 50% of the time’ #made me laugh

[amashelle]

Silver hairpin with hand Roman Britain, 2nd century AD

Silver hair-pin, with terminal shaped as a hand holding a small fruit, probably a pomegranate.

#look at that detail!

[amashelle]

🎶👗😬 mordred

music- Once Dinadan taught him how to make a carrot into a whistle using a knife, every day the castle wakes up to the most strangled cry of a tune and Kay would bound down the castle with a knife to try and hunt down whoever stole the turnips in the kitchen. It has now become a game to see how long Mordred can play before kay can find him

clothes- mordred tried sewing some home made emo avant garde fashion for the pentecost once complete with real fish scales as makeshift sequences and the whole castle had to evacuated because of the smell. Gawain publicly disowned him to save his reputation.

worst thing they’ve done- other than killing the king, dinadan, gawain, and all the other crimes, i dunno, i guess eating the whole kitchens pantry of food after the local clown told him he looks too skinny was a top 3 worst mistakes of mordred’s life

#mordred #arthuriana

[amashelle]

The Grail Four: Bors, Galahad, the Grail Heroine, and Percival

Survivors of Camlann: Bedivere, Cynwyl Sant, Griflet, Kay?, Lucan, Morvran, and Sanddef

#Arthurian polls

[amashelle]

Those Who Troll King Mark: Agravaine, Brandiles, Dagonet, Dinadan, Griflet, Mordred, Ozana le Cure Hardy, Uwaine les Aventurous

Vowtakers: Arthur, Baldwin, Gawain, and Kay

#arthurian polls

[amashelle]

 

Castle Staff: Baldwin, Bedivere, Dagonet, Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr, Kay, Lucan, and Taliesin

Conspirators: Agravaine, Astamore, Colgrevance, Curselaine, Florence, Galleron, Gingaline, Gromer Somer Jour, Lovel, Mador, Melion, Meliot, Mordred, and Petipas 

#Arthurian polls #how are rhe conspirators falling behind? #all I ever see are posts about how awesome Agravaine is #well now y’all gotta put your vote where your heart is!

[amashelle]

Cornwall Gang: Brangaine, Dinadan, Gouvernail, Isolde of Ireland, Palamedes, and Tristan

Morally Dubious Sorceress Squad: the Lady of Avalon, Morgan le Fay, the Queen of Norgales, and Sebile

#arthurian polls

[amashelle]

not to sound like a medieval peasant or a catholic but i resent anti-carb propaganda so much like bread will never be evil it is holy it is divine it is one of life’s most simple yet decadent pleasures. love is stored in the bread

#love is stored in the bread

[amashelle]

Alleged A-Listers: Arthur, Bedivere, Gawain, Guinevere, Isolde of Ireland, Kay, Lancelot, Morgan le Fay, Tristan

Castle Staff: Baldwin, Bedivere, Dagonet, Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr, Kay, Lucan, and Taliesin

Conspirators: Agravaine, Astamore, Colgrevance, Curselaine, Florence, Galleron, Gingaline, Gromer Somer Jour, Lovel, Mador, Melion, Meliot, Mordred, and Petipas 

Cornwall Gang: Brangaine, Dinadan, Gouvernail, Isolde of Ireland, Palamedes, and Tristan

Morally Dubious Sorceress Squad: the Lady of Avalon, Morgan le Fay, the Queen of Norgales, and Sebile

The Grail Four: Bors, Galahad, the Grail Heroine, and Percival

Survivors of Camlann: Bedivere, Cynwyl Sant, Griflet, Kay?, Lucan, Morvran, Sanddef

Those Who Troll King Mark: Agravaine, Brandiles, Dagonet, Dinadan, Griflet, Mordred, Ozana le Cure Hardy, Uwaine les Aventurous

Vowtakers: Arthur, Baldwin, Gawain, and Kay

#arthurian polls #love how Kay is in almost all the groups #now my brain is developing headcannons to include him on all the other lists

[amashelle]

*checking my to-do list*

#bah #get back to me when you have #culhwch’s list of labours #then we can talk about Tasks

[amashelle]

Hi Mr Gaiman!

What’s your opinion on people saying someone is only a real fan of something if they consumed all of the available media of that thing? (e.g. “you aren’t a real fan of sandman if you only watched the netflix series”)

I feel like more and more people do this to sort of gate keep otherwise amazing fandoms and personally i think it’s quite sad to see.

As I posted on a more or less dead site a couple of years ago:

#reblogging because people in the Arthurian fandom may need to hear this #we all start somewhere

[amashelle]

Those who troll King Mark: Agravaine, Brandiles, Dagonet, Dinadan, Griflet, Mordred, Ozana le Cure Hardy, Uwaine les Aventurous

*From Le Morte d’Arthur, book X, ch. XII. Most of it is Dinadan, Dagonet, and Mordred.

The queen’s knights: Dodinel, Griflet, Kay, Sagremore

*The knights protecting Guinevere in The Knight of the Cart; suggestion courtesy of @grail-lifesupport

#arthurian polls #arthuriana

[amashelle]

Uther and Friends: Ban, Bors the elder, Branor the Brown, Brunor the Black, Cleges, Ector, Guiron, Lac, Meliodas, Merlin, Seguran, Uther

Survivors of Camlann: Bedivere, Cynwyl Sant, Griflet, Kay?, Lucan, Morvran, Sanddef

#arthuriana #arthurian polls #nobody likes Uther #his presence in any list will naturally tank his team

[amashelle]

Try Familysearch.org. It’s run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, but it’s free and has access to a lot of the same resources as Ancestry.com. It might work for your purposes…

any other historians hate ancestry.com with a burning passion

[amashelle]

You have pieces of yesterday's apocalypse

in your hair. Let's film your heartbreak on vhs

and rewind it

until the surprise fades. We will

memorize the lines you stuttered so we never

repeat them again.

When time swirls like autumn, I'll catch you

and press your lips

between the pages of my heaviest book.

This is how I remember you.

#poetry #other people’s writing

[amashelle]

#I have Thoughts on this #but I want to wait for the poll to close before I post them #things I will probably forget to do