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deepdreamnights · 5 months

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The People of UltraMerica VS Johannes Factotum (take 2)

From Issue #26 of TyrannoMax. (original version here)

Process under the fold.

Converting the old photobash/style transfer version into comic art was done with my usual comic process. Elements were generated in chunks via Dall-E 3 and Midjourney, composited, reduced down to lines, re-inked, and then colored and captioned from scratch, before aging is a applied.

The pie packages themselves were inked over the photomanips (and I updated the ones in the hostess blurb from the last panel to match the style of package from panel 4, something I'd skipped originally and always bugged me).

Multiple prompts and elements per panel.

#hostess fruit pies #comic ads #parody #johannes factotum #professor of practically everything #unreality #dall-e 3 #bing image creator #generative art #ai artwork #misplaced prompt #ai edit #ai assisted art #ai assisted comics

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the-cimmerians · 2 years

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Pop-up Opera: Johannes Dunz sings Rossini's 'Largo al factotum' at an airport

#NOBODY TOLD ME THIS WAS A THING #OMG THIS IS A THING #A THING I LOVE A LOT #opera nerdy joy #Johannes Dunz #Gioachino Rossini #Largo Al Factotum #human joy

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johnny-hoxton · 2 months

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With free minds all are to worship their Gods. - Constantine the Great

All Hail Sol Invictus! Mother and Father of Creation, To whom we owe our lives, We offer our seminal libation - Johannes Von Factotum, 'Gods Do Not Die.'

#sol invictus #esoteric #gods #Johannes Von Factotum

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homomenhommes · 1 month

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Perfect balance means nothing moves, nothing changes, every plus is matched by a minus, every up is matched by a down. The centre is all ... The only thing I know like that is death.

- Johannes Von Factotum

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theimpossiblescheme · 1 year

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... oh, just let them be little.

I’ve had these cooking for a while, and now I’m finally ready to share them--my playlists for Tumblebrutus and Etcetera, my present for the fandom and especially @the-cat-at-the-theatre-door. Thank you for everything this year, Jemi, and I hope you all enjoy these!

#I was late for any of the gift exchanges but here you are anyway--happy holidays! <3 #I had a burst of inspiration after you answered that question about Tumble's future as a singer. :D #cats the musical #tumblebrutus #etcetera #if music be the food of love play on

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gavrannoir · 4 months

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I just learned that “Johannes Factotum” was once a way to say jack-of-all-trades and I am absolutely blown away by the perfection.

[source: Greenes Groats-Worth of Wit]

#jack of all trades

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leanstooneside · 5 months

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The course of love never did run smooth

- APPEARANCE OF TECHNICAL SKILL

- RACE OF STATESMEN

- PART OF HIS

- METHOD OF BRINGING

- SCIOLIST'S TEMERITY OF INDULGENCE

- ARISTOCRACY OF FASHION

- CONTEMPT OF COURT

- JOHANNES FACTOTUM.' HIS RAPID ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH

- COUPLE OF LONG SITTINGS

- SERVICE OF EXPRESSION

- HISTORY OF HIM

- TITLE OF REAL PROPERTY

- COURT OF RECORD

- IDEA OF HIS

- GOOD LAW. OF HENRY

- TIME OF HIS

- PERIOD OF WILLIAM

- LABOR OF HIS

- SOCIETY OF LAWYERS

- VIEW OF PRACTICING

- VERNACULAR DIALECTS OF EUROPE

- BULLFROG OF FACT

- LAW OF ESCAPES

- PROCESSION OF PRODIGIOUS FOOTPRINTS

- TECHNICALITIES OF OTHER CRAFTS

- HOLDING OF HORSES

- JUSTICE OF SAYING

- MATTER OF SUFFICIENT CONSEQUENCE

- END OF HIS

- UNKNOWN PERIOD OF EARLY LIFE

- SHAKESPEARE'S KNOWLEDGE OF MEDICINE

- CELEBRITY OF ANY

- NOTICE OF IT

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therobotmonster · 5 years

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My collection of Johannes Factotum comics with painted covers. The idea behind this series was an homage to the strange and wonderful painted covers Marvel sometimes used in the 1980s, particularly the Bill Sienkiewicz New Mutants covers.

Johannes is, in concept, a sort of Doctor Who-By-Way-of-Grant-Morrison surrealist superhero. Named for the Victorian equivalent of “Jack of All Trades” (his name is basically “Johnny does it all”), he’s the “Professor of Practically Everything”, possessed of above-average cosmic knowledge of everything with blind spots that always seemed to coincide with the dramatic needs of the story (the most blatant blind-spot being his inability to drive a car). .

Each issue is titled after a song (Issue 13 is entitled “Everything You Want”, Issue 36 is “No One Lives Forever”). As I designed the covers, the mythos grew through issue solicitation synopses, eventually leading to the concept of “Ultramerica”, a dimension of “heightened reality” that was a surreal parody of the United States. It may or may not have been the Professor’s home reality.

The synopsis and high-res versions are available on my deviantart page. Please share/favorite/like/etc depending on your platform of choice.

#johannes factotum #professor of practically everything #comic covers #things that don't exist #my art #my ocs #digital painting #deepstyle #generative art

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theoutcastrogue · 3 years

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Moreover, in 1592 there came a scathing attack on Shakespeare by dramatist Robert Greene, who, in a deathbed diary (A Groats-worth of Wit), warned three of his fellow university-educated playwrights:

“There is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and, beeing an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his owne conceit the only Shakescene in a countrey.”

One can only imagine what grief this assault – this deathbed assault – must have caused Shakespeare. Greene was nothing if not thorough: first, using a line from Shakespeare's own Henry VI (1.4.138), he describes Shakespeare as a pompous, scheming, vicious ingrate, riding the coattails of better writers (no doubt Shakespeare performed in a play Greene had himself written); then he adds that Shakespeare was a conceited ("only Shakescene") and insignificant jack of all trades (a "Johannes factotum").

– Amanda Mabillard, Shakespeare Online, on Sonnet 29 (“When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes / I all alone beweep my outcast state”)

#I keep telling you #'jack of all trades' is a compliment #Shakespeare #theatre #poetry #Amanda Mabillard #analysis #jack of all trades

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dopingconsomme · 3 years

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[2021年09月01日の記事一覧 http://dailyfeed.jp/feed/23378/2021-09-01] https://dopingcomplex.blogspot.com/2021/09/20210901-httpdailyfeedjpfeed233782021.html

(全 40 件)

1. 相川七瀬 - China Rose

2. J.S.バッハ - Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Transcr. Hess for Piano)

3. Angélica Negrón - Ruta Panorámica for Cello, Bandoneón and Electronics

4. ピョートル・チャイコフスキー - Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, TH 5: Lensky's Aria (Arr. Auer for Violin and Piano)

5. フランツ・リスト - Schwanengesang, No. 3: Aufenthalt (After Schubert), S. 560/3

6. Jøsefine - Mulier, Venit Hora

7. Pēteris Plakidis - Mūžība

8. John Bennet - Weep, O Mine Eyes

9. イサーク・アルベニス - Home

10. グスタフ・マーラー - Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand", Part II: Poco adagio

11. フランツ・シューベルト - Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: III. Menuetto. Allegro molto

12. Nil Ciuró - Sustine

13. Michael Frankenberger - Zeitgeist

14. アントニン・ドヴォルザーク - Dvorák / Transc. Lenaerts: Rusalka, Op. 114, Act 1: Song to the Moon

15. ジョスカン・デ・プレ - La Bernardina (lute)

16. フレデリック・ショパン - Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2

17. ゲオルク・フィリップ・テレマン - Concerto for 2 Violas in G Major, TWV 52:G3: II. Gay

18. Goldbæk - Palla

19. クロード・ドビュッシー - String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 10: II. Assez vif et bien Rythmé

20. ニコ・マーリー - Muhly: Throughline

21. vision string quartet - Fjordeby

22. ジョージ・ガーシュウィン - Summertime - Arr. for Cello & Piano

23. フランツ・ヨーゼフ・ハイドン - Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: II. Adagio

24. フレデリック・ショパン - Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 17 in A-Flat Major

25. Abbott - Become

26. ヴォルフガング・アマデウス・モーツァルト - II. Un poco adagio

27. ジョアキーノ・ロッシーニ - Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Act I: "Largo al factotum" (Figaro)

28. Andre Danican Philidor - Philidor: Les Amazones: "Venez, troupe guerrière" - "Puisque tout est tranquille" - "Combattons, courrons à la gloire" (Thalestris, Hippolyte)

29. ガブリエル・フォーレ - 2 Songs, Op. 83: No. 1, Prison

30. hrdy - Raindrops

31. J.S.バッハ - Concerto in D Minor (after Marcello): II. Adagio

32. ドミトリー・ショスタコーヴィチ - Fugue No. 7 in A Major

33. ヴォルフガング・アマデウス・モーツァルト - Die Zauberflöte, K. 620: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (Arr. Spindler for Oboe and Piano)

34. Johann Gottlieb Goldberg - Trio Sonata in C Major, DürG 13: IV. Gigue Presto

35. イルマ - Joy

36. レオシュ・ヤナーチェク - On an overgrown path, Book I: No. 7, Good Night!

37. フレデリック・ショパン - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21: I. Maestoso

38. Yann Tiersen - Kerdrall

39. Hiroko Murakami - I'm a Stranger Here

40. Ólafur Arnalds - Happiness Does Not Wait - 2021 Version

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astrte · 3 years

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Jack of all trades

What's the meaning of the phrase 'Jack of all trades'?

A man who can turn his hand to many things.

What's the origin of the phrase 'Jack of all trades'?

With any phrase that includes a name, it's natural to consider whether its the name of a real person. In this case, as was the case with many other literary Jacks - Jack the Lad, Jack Robinson, Jack Sprat, Jack Horner, Jack Frost, etc, Jack of all trades was a generic term rather than a living and breathing individual. In fact, the very long list of terms that include 'Jack' exceeds that of any other name in English and this reflects the fact that, as a derivative of the common name 'John', 'Jack' has been used just to mean 'the common man'. This usage dates back to the 14th century and an example is found in John Gower's Middle English poem Confessio Amantis, 1390:

Therwhile he hath his fulle packe, They seie, 'A good felawe is Jacke'.

We now use 'Jack of all trades, master of none' in a derogatory way. Originally, this wasn't the case and the label 'Jack of all trades' carried no negative connotation, the 'master of none' part being added later. Nevertheless, medieval Jacks were pretty much at the bottom of the social tree. The OED defines the generic meaning of the name Jack thusly:

Jack - A man of the common people; a lad, fellow, chap; especially a low-bred or ill-mannered fellow, a 'knave'

If 16th century commentators wanted to imply that a person was stretching their talents too thinly they resorted to the disparaging Latin term Johannes factotum ('Johnny do-it-all'). In 1592, the English writer and member of the literary establishment Robert Greene wrote a pamphlet titled Groats-worth of Witte. In that he ventured the opinion that a new writer on the scene was:

An upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you. Beeing an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.

Sadly for Greene's ongoing reputation the 'Upstart crow' was William Shakespeare.

Various trades were populated by Jacks - lumberjacks, steeplejacks for example, and sailors were Jack-tars.

For no especial reason, I've included a picture of three of my uncles who were steeplejacks. For the record, none of them was a Jack outside of work; they were Gilbert, Frank and Verdon.

The name Jack was also added to many utilitarian objects which in some way took the place of a lad or man, for example:

Smoke-jack (a roasting spit) Jack-plane (a basic carpenter's plane) Jack-screw (a lifting winch) Jack-frame (a carpenter's sawing horse) Boot-jack (for pulling off boots) Jack-engine (a miner's winch) Jack-file (a coarse file)

There can't have been any trades in the Middle Ages that didn't make use of a jack of some sort. 'Jack of all trades' entered the language in 1612 when Geffray Minshull wrote of his experiences in prison in Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners:

Some broken Cittizen, who hath plaid Jack of all trades.

The 'master of none' addition began to be added in the late 18th century. The headmaster of Charterhouse School, Martin Clifford, in a collection of notes on the poems of Dryden, circa 1677 wrote:

Your Writings are like a Jack of all Trades Shop, they have Variety, but nothing of value.

In 1770, the Gentleman's Magazine offered the opinion that "Jack at all trades, is seldom good at any."

The earliest example that I can find in print of the actual phrase 'Jack of all trades, master of none' is in Charles Lucas's Pharmacomastix, 1785:

The very Druggist, who in all other nations in Europe is but Pharmacopola, a mere drug-merchant, is with us, not only a physician and chirurgeon, but also a Galenic and Chemic apothecary; a seller of druggs, medicines, vertices, oils, paints or colours poysons, &c. a Jack of all trades, and in truth, master of none.

Maybe taking on 'all trades' wasn't wise but Jacks were often master craftsmen in their chosen trade. History books tell us that Cardinal Wolsey built Hampton Court Palace and that Charles Barry built the Houses of Parliament - don't believe it, it was Jack.

See also: 'Jack' phrases and the List of Proverbs.

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deepdreamnights · 5 months

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Ape Vs Cosmic Pie

Context under the fold.

There comes a time in the AI-assisted comics production process when you have to figure out what the robot can do.

When re-making my Hostess Fruit Pie Ad parody style transfer collage-comic into a AI-illustrated collage-comic, recreating Judge MenTaul tearing into the cosmic fruit pie was a process.

For example, the word "pie" overrides the context of "hostess fruit" in prompts, so if you type in "hostess fruit pie sitting on a white table" you'll get something far, far more upscale:

And not remotely accurate. Dall-E 3's are even more surrea for having the packaging with semi-accurate branding, and the implication that the hostess is part of the filling (probably due to DE3's bias-correcton method of "Add a person descriptor randomly to the end of prompts):

If you want a Hostess Fruit Pie, you have to prompt for an empanada. (I went through a lot of pastry terms figuring that out.)

Prompt: a mysterious gorilla wearing jeans tears an empanada in half with both hands, pulling it open to show its filling. The empanada's filling is fruit shaped like little planets in a sauce of cosmic energy, comic book panel by jack kirby and wally wood, 1968, waist-up composition, front view

Going for the full shot in one prompt is almost always a fail, though the malformed concepts from the attempt make it worth it. for the final shot, the hands, pie, filling, ape, and head all came from different gens, with a lot of modification to each.

The test pattern is modded from a wikimedia commons element.

#ai mishaps #ape #pie #unreality #dall-e 3 #bing image generator #generative art #ai artwork #johannes factotum #hostess fruit pies #tyrannomax

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johnny-hoxton · 2 months

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So bled we on the invisible fields, disembowled in the unseen forests. spectral beings now, laying the foundation of later.

When you enter your palaces of power recall these words: "We built you. We made you. You are our legacy. We cannot be hidden."

Johannes Von Factotum, The Terrible Fallacy of Betterment

#homoerotic #celtic #tattoos #history

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antikorg · 4 years

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Fachos hors de Nantes

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Dimanche 13 septembre, en pleine rentrée sociale, les fachos dînent aux chandelles. Johann Bardella, le factotum de Marine le Pen vient à Nantes. A 12h30 un déjeuner militant est prévu au restaurant Edith et Marcel à St Herblain.

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mumblingsage · 6 years

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Callout post:

OP is an upstart Crow

beautified with our feathers

has a Tiger’s heart wrapped in a Player’s hide

supposes they are as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the rest of you

is an absolute Johannes Factotum

is in their own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country

#Bardolotry #the alliteration on the 'bombast' line gets me every time #is a bombastic bisexual human disaster more like

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distinctivelibrarians · 7 years

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The List

(cross posted to ao3 here!)

There's a list pinned to the Back Door. Everyone adds to it, everyone takes away from it. It started as a joke, a way to process the ridiculousness that is the Library and their lives. No one thinks about taking it down.

It started off as a joke.

No one thought about it when Cassandra muttered about previously thinking dragons were a really cool idea.

Except Jenkins, who pointed out that 'really? Giant, monstrous creatures with a propensity for carnage and destruction were a 'cool idea’ Ms. Cillian?’ By that point, they’d all learned to tell the differences between Jenkins’ various tones of reprimand - it hadn’t taken long honestly - and Cassandra knew he was more surprised than genuinely annoyed, so she’d just grinned and shrugged.

No one would own up to tacking the list by the Back Door. Hell, it takes a while for everyone to even notice the list by the door at first. And it’s not even a list a first. Just a scrap of notebook paper with the words ‘Cool Ideas’ scribbled across the top, a bullet point and ‘dragons’ just under it, scratched out with red pen.

No one owns up to scribbling ‘minotaurs’ as the second bullet point (it was Jacob. Jenkins give him a Look ‘cause he’s the only one that figures it out, and he just shrugs. What can he say, he liked the myth).. No one needs to own up to crossing it out, because they can all recognize Eve’s neat, efficient handwriting, even in bright red and looping a little in annoyance. There’s not much emotive power in a simple ‘No!!!’ but she manages.

The first disagreement of course comes shortly after that.

Cassandra had written in Santa Claus, even before they actually met Santa Claus; it showed up December 1st, and no one really thought about it until they got back Christmas day.

Eve scratched it out rather vehemently. And then demanded to know who gave Cassandra the glitter pens to rewrite it and surround it with smiley faces. Since Ezekiel crossed out that one, and then threw up his hands with Eve when it reappeared again in neon permanent marker, it was obvious that Jacob was the one responsible for helping Cassandra find the colorful writing tools that Eve tried to hide. He was entirely unrepentant, and even Eve had to crack a smile when he handed Cassandra a bright purple marker without breaking eye contact with Eve across the room.

That ‘Santa Claus’ stayed.

Fairy tales was next on the list, put there just so all of them - including Jenkins this time, with perhaps a little too much violent glee - could scratch it out.

Ezekiel was banned from adding to the list shortly after that when he added a sub-list under ‘fairy tales’ that just said ‘Jack’. Not that it stopped him. He just added a new synonym each time his was crossed out. They got through ‘thieves,’ ‘jack-of-all trades,’ ‘puss in boots,’ ‘rogues,’ before everyone just left ‘Johannes factotum.’ Mostly because the reaction to that had been somewhere along the lines of ‘what the hell Ezekiel.’ But Jenkins had snorted out a surprised laugh, and Ezekiel was stupidly proud of that. Thank you wikipedia.

Cassandra added fairies. Jenkins and Eve looked her dead in the eye as they used white-out on it.

(It was added again, much later, with the addendum of ‘Ariel only,’ and allowed to stay.)

No one calls Ezekiel out when he adds ‘haunted houses,’ if only because he’s the one that hands Cassandra the red marker to cross it out and scribble ‘take that!’ next to it, after they spend most of a day gone somewhere they won’t say.

Frankenstein’s monster is the next to be added, a little while later, well after it looked like everyone had kind of forgotten the list - they’d been busy with ghosts, Dulaque, Prospero’s return...

It takes a little while for anyone to notice that Ezekiel’s added Frankenstein’s monster, but it startles a laugh out of the rather dour looking Jacob, so Cassandra comes over to see and rewards Ezekiel with a big grin. Eve sees it later, snorts and shakes her head, but Ezekiel catches the slight upturn to her lips, like she’s trying not to laugh. Jenkins just rolls his eyes in that way Ezekiel knows means he’s amused, and he’s annoyed about that. So, mission accomplished.

That’s the only one on the list that remains unmarked for awhile.

Cassandra’s the one that adds ‘shapeshifters.’ Jacob’s the one that gets the most enjoyment out of scratching it out so hard there’s actually a tear in the paper. Cassandra volunteered one of her glitter pens for it, only to snort when he almost broke the damn thing. Jacob grins sheepishly and presents her with a new set with more colors later that day.

Zombies is added soon after that. Video games next to that.

No one says a word when the list disappears for a day, only to show up the next, completely untouched except for the fact that there’s no evidence of either having ever been on there. Jacob looks vaguely guilty for a little while before he disappears with Ezekiel for a bit. They both come back and rewrite ‘video games.’ Under it, they write ‘in moderation’ and highlight it. They grin at each other and leave it at that.

Flynn makes his first contribution to the list. Everyone’s pretty sure he doesn’t quite get it when he comes back the next day to see ‘Shakespeare’ crossed out in red marker, glitter pens, and black sharpie with a couple expletives scribbled next to it.

Eve takes pity on him and pushes him to look at the other entries and their margin notes for explanation. It takes a couple moments before he laughs. And then he adds ‘time machines,’ just to see Eve grumble and huff and go after it with white out.

No one writes werewolves. Until Ezekiel does, and then they all stop holding their breath. Well, mostly all. Jacob and Flynn get a funny looks on their faces, torn between tension-breaking laughs with the rest of them and looking sick to their stomachs.

Eve practically kicks the three of them out of the Library for a talk after that.

When they come back, Jacob has a bouncy ball and is getting way too much enjoyment out of tossing it and watching Ezekiel go after it and Flynn is relaxed and flitting about again, hardly a care in the world, so Eve counts it all as a win.

Cassandra adds ‘clowns’ and ‘magicians.’ Everyone kind of just looked at her, and all she could do was shrug and mention that she’d liked the idea of them at birthday parties as a kid. She still laughs when she comes back to the list the next day and both entries have been scratched out with frowny faces next to them.

Jacob and Ezekiel add and scratch out ‘vampires.’ Cassandra and Flynn counter by writing it larger, in colorful, glittery glory over most of the remaining space on the page (though there’s not much at this point). Cassandra even adds a couple hearts and smiley faces. Jacob and Ezekiel grumble and groan, but they’re fooling no one when everyone but Cassandra catches them watching a chirpy, bright Cassandra with a smile.

There’s no more room on the original List by that point, but it stays pinned up by the Back Door.

No one owns up to pinning the blank piece of paper under it, though at this point, there’s a suspicion going around that no one’s really thought to voice. They just smile up at the ceiling, the same way Flynn typically yells that way, and go about their day.

#the librarians #ezekiel jones #jacob stone #cassandra cillian #eve baird #flynn carsen #jenkins #my writing #ff #long post #should I be posting this at 1 in the morning? nope #am I doing it anyway? yep

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