#the library. SO excited.

[iamthepulta]

I feel like being on Twitter or Tiktok or Insta would put me in an early grave. I just want to post about OCs and metallurgy and fandom. Even if I were The Geology Person over there, which would be fun, I'd probably have to Be More Cognizant of cultural stuff... I already feel bad enough for not reblogging a lot of important things that cross my dash... Idk... Tumblr is my place to escape from a lot of that. I like being aware, but I don't want to scroll back on my blog and be reminded.

(random metallurgy rant under the cut)

I want to remember shit like- omg, teflon is the coolest fucking thing. It's the most hydrophobic man-made material we have, which is why it coats our pans. But BUT because it's a H-F compound and so hydrophobic it can fuck up your system by BEING that hydrophobic. Remember that our blood is basically salt water? Yeah, so hydrophobic things in water don't WANT to be in water, so they'll cling to anything else. Which is why you can get fat buildup in your arteries: fatty acids are hydrophobic compounds. If one gets stuck, you gradually build up an accumulation.

Anyway, I think we should build gaseous copper flotation cells with hydrofluoric acid and teflon which will give us the best copper recovery in the history of the world and cause innumerable deaths and destruction.

#HF gaseous flotation cells makes me mad-scientist laugh every time. Like I actually think you COULD do it. #The insanity stupidity and hubris of it though. Anyway. I feel bad for ignoring bad things sometimes. #I also found a book called Modern Poisons which looks like a spiritual sequel to The Poisoner's Handbook. I just grabbed it at #the library. SO excited.

[pinetreeshack]

what the flip man!!!!!!!!

#he was so excited to see that fucking library and he didnt even go inside #simon petrikov #fionna and cake spoilers #fionna and cake #doodles #fanart #art diary

[swingstep]

so i saw that angela does not have a shimeji yet. ... fixed it :)

ta-da!! now you can have a tiny little library director running around your screen, free of charge!! ^w^ she is very polite and will only steal your windows Sometimes. its ok, she is allowed.

link will be provided in the replies of this post; godspeed, have fun, and cherish your local angela today! 🎉✨

#yall better wish her a happy birthday right now Or Else!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #project moon #lobotomy corporation #library of ruina #angela lor #rraaahhh ihave been working on this on and off since like september; please cherish her!!! #was gonna drop her later 2day buuuuuut im excited ^w^ yay yippy <33 #(also ive not uploaded a shime this way before so uhhh lmk if theres Problems(tm) ! waow)

[queerliblib]

your very own Queer Liberation Library was interviewed by Elizabeth Wolfe for CNN

#THAT’S US ON CNN BABY!!! #we are so fucking excited #queer liberation library #qll #media #the president of GLAAD knows we exist 😭

[moerusai]

Something incredible just happened, Magical ManSuang-style.

So I was at a local library chilling and watching Man Suang reviews from Thai channels (instead of doing work, of course). And out of nowhere, this dude wearing all black and a man bun tapped my shoulder:

"I'm so sorry to disturb you but what you're watching, the visuals are so amazing. Can I ask what is that?"

And I, being the diligent advocate that I am, kept my chill and calmly explained this is a Thai movie. Yes, it's STUNNING as you can see and it has beautiful Thai cultures, political commentaries, class struggles and queerness (albeit a little understated).

"It's called ManSuang and it's on Netflix. You should totally check it out."

And that, my friends, is how I got a stranger to watch Man Suang, no epic fanvid involved lol.

I think I vaguely recognized him as one of the film students that usually came here. That would explain how ManSuang's visuals alone captured his attention and curiosity.

If we met again, I would definitely ask him how he liked the movie.

A very brief but wonderful encounter. Here's to visiting your local library and watch ManSuang to get random people hooked 🦚.

#dude was so excited it caught me off guard #I made sure to show him the spelling of the title so he could look it up later lol #mansuang #man suang #libraries #personal #stories #thai cinema

[literallyourdreamgirl]

autumn slipped away..

#rory gilmore #autumn #fall #samhain #halloween #gilmore girls #digital diary #october #i’m so excited for fall #pumpkins #all hallows eve #fall aesthetic #autumn aesthetic #cozy autumn #autumnal #autumn blog #cozy #books & libraries #reading #video diary #stars hollow #spooky #rory gilmore aesthetic #rory gilmore moodboard #downtown girl aesthetic #witchblr #witchy #witchcraft #mabon #lughnasadh

[stellaluna33]

Oh man. Now I'm imagining Rory, in the midst of her Freshman Year depression, going into the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale for the very first time, and having to continually repress the thought "I have to tell Jess about this!"

Because, if he hadn't left? He would have come to visit her on the weekends (22.8 miles, right?) and she would have taken him there and she would have showed him everything, knowing that he'd be just as excited about it as she was. But then he did leave, so now she can't.

#Gilmore Girls #Literati #Rory Gilmore #You're welcome! #Like. Remember how excited she was showing the library to that Chilton girl? (Who- sadly for Rory- didn't Get It) #She would have taken Jess on a rapturous book-sniffing excursion and they'd both get so keyed-up they'd have to... #Find a dark corner for a while. 😂 #But alas. #😩😭

[blueskittlesart]

i am trying so so so hard to wait and watch nimona with my friends but i keep seeing gifs and. idk if i can willingly let myself cry that hard in front of other people

#nimona is like. like words can’t describe how formative that comic was to me. #i found it in my local fucking library when i was like. maybe 12 years old. and it is the thing that made me start writing seriously. #it made me realize that my art could tell stories. that i could say what i wanted to say using the thing i loved doing so much #it was one of the first queer stories i ever read and loved. #dear god i am going to cry so hard. from the opening of the movie i know i am going to be in tears #nate stevenson words cannot describe what your art has done for me. i am so so so excited to see this movie #anyways 😁 when i finally release my own comics i hope they are able to do for someone else what nimona did for me fr #personal

[stuckinapril]

About to put on cute soft pink blush and mascara and lip gloss and redo my curly hair routine and find the most elegant business casual top to go w my heeled boots and put on Kilian’s Love just so I could sit in a research conference about FTD dementia for an hour

#SO EXCITED #then I’ll probably study outdoors at the library. the weather is so nice today #I’ll be in the presence of MULTIPLE neurologists and listen to them discuss a patient this is such a dream #I want to marvel in their presence and also look pretty doing it #Need to be the prettiest most put together girl at the dementia research conference etc #p

[questwithambition]

Life update - 03/06/2023

Summer is here, and I have been soaking up the sun a lot - reading outside, chatting with friends in the park, and eating many many strawberries. The knee recovery is coming along nicely, I even was able to go swimming and do a 30 minute walk! Although I’m currently paying for overdoing it (laying on my bed feeling exhausted), but it’s all part of the process. I’m also in the middle of an internship for the uni which has been so interesting, and preparing for my trip to New York at the end of the month!

#I’m so excited for the nyc trip but also a lil scared #questwithambition #studyblr #studyspo #books #(how long can I be a studyblr I wonder) #bookblr #student #reading #libraries #bookworm #crochet #summer #food #currently reading #a day of fallen night #samantha shannon #the hundred thousand kingdoms #nk jemisin #both are great

[julykings]

good morningggg !!! happy friday !!! how r u !

#didn’t have to go to work todayyy so I’m working at home doing some exciting commissions but first playing around #and reading my library book ! Which I don’t love but it’s fun to smoke and read it bc it’s such a little story u kno #going to a cool outdoor art show tonight tooooo that will be cool #personal

[aro-who-reads]

I've never casually picked up a book that had the word "aromantic" on the back before??

(book is called The Spider and Her Demons)

#From a brief search doesn't sound like there's aroace characters? #But also sounds like maybe no romance. And also just excited to support aro authors #Plus as a personal bonus it's Australian! #So unusually for me I might actually buy it and not just get it from the library

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

could i offer you an L in these trying times?

#death note #death note fanart #l lawliet #my art #small doodle for today #the last thing i did was the lineless misa (excluding nonsensical painting) #and i was like. wow! i like it lineless! (proceeds to not do lineless anymore) #i’ll do it again sometime else i’m just feeling some nice lines. they feel like home :) #anyways y’all want to hear about my day because i said so. if you don’t then that’s not my problem #anyway i got nothing done today (boo) #because instead i was sick and in pain and i could not go home until like 3pm but i had been on campus since 6am #so i just wandered about trying to find someplace to hide #because everything was so loud and too warm and it was wet outside so i couldn’t be there and there were too many people #and i need to sit on the floor. i need it. chairs ruin me actually #so i was just pitifully wandering #i tried to do some assignments bc deadlines are approaching but i couldn’t focus so i was a bit useless today #as soon as i got home i just dry swallowed a number of pills and now i’m better and i drew L (yay) #now i’m going to go to bed at like 8pm because i’m trying to be more well-adjusted #on other news. i plan on stacking a pile of library stools to inconvenience that man tomorrow. very exciting stuff #:)

[queerliblib]

Search results page for QLL really popping off lately~

#so exciting so many people want to write about us and share our story & spread the word so more people can find out about & use the library! #media #queer liberation library #qll

[rainysoshi]

the most unproblematic yuri ship ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶

#we love a bi queen i feel so validated rn #bloom into you #yagate kimi ni naru #miyako kodama #riko hakozaki #i recently started reading this manga and am pleasantly surprised #waiting for the last book to come in at the library #so excited #ahhhhhhhhhhhh #doodle

[sugarsnappeases]

snippet!!

thank you to my dearest most precious beloved angels @sixlane @themuseoftheviolets @quillkiller @effiepotterisamilf @orbitfalls for the tags <33 sorry about how late this is but i come bearing a long-ish bartylily snippet to maybe make up for that... everyone say hiiiii library fic!! it is sooo happening baby

There’s someone in the back room, a man lounging in one of the chairs around the little circular table. Specifically in the chair which she normally sits in when she eats her breaktime yoghurts, but she supposes she doesn’t really have a claim to it, being as she’s been gone for two months, and it’s not actually her chair. She doesn’t recognise this man though, and he doesn’t look at all like the kind of person you might expect or want to find in a library, let alone in the back room as if he were an employee.  He doesn’t look over as she comes in, just keeps flipping a stack of coasters up off the edge of the table and catching them mid-air, as if he were at a pub instead of in the back room of Lily’s library, flipping beer-mats instead of Ms. Pince’s nice ceramic coasters.  She takes her coat off and hangs it on the same hook as always, the second one from the left, wondering if she should do something about this stranger who she thinks might be trespassing, in a library of all places. He’s wearing a kind of grotty, oversized hoodie that’s definitely seen better days, judging from it’s off-grey colour and how mangled the cuffs are, and what might be the tightest pair of black jeans she’s ever seen, replete with rips and a chain, clinging to what might be the longest pair of legs she’s ever seen. He’s like if one of those ‘unconventional’ editorial models had been living in a skip for a few years, like if the guy that you saw out with a different girl every single time you went to the club had done a truly heinous home dye job and turned emo.  He is not the sort of man that Lily would ever want to have in her immediate vicinity. And he’s sitting in Lily’s chair, in Lily’s library, encroaching on the sanctity of it. Not to mention messing with Ms. Pince’s fancy coasters. “Excuse me,” she says, because, really, he had nearly dropped the stack with that last flip and she can’t just let some random man hang around in the employee-only area.  He glances over at her, still flipping the fucking coasters, looks her up and down, and then grins. He doesn’t say anything, just stares at her, grinning widely, teeth on display, eyes lit up like she’s just told him that he’s won the lottery. He has annoyingly perfect teeth.  Lily frowns, “What are you doing?”

no pressure tags for some more of my dearest most precious beloved angels @inevitablestars @static-radio-ao3 @fernhelm @itsjaywalkers @carniferous

#does the coaster-stack-flipping thing make sense?? not sure if that's a thing that actually happens outside of the people i know..... #it's really hard tho you guys should try it i can never stack more than like two... i imagine barty would be very good at it #anyway #LIBRARY FIC!!!!! VERY EXCITED AND PASSIONATE ABOUT HER!!! SHE HAS BEEN A PART OF ME FOR SO VERY LONG #and it's gonna be so very long until she actually sees the light of ao3 but still!! proceedings have begun!!! #bartylily #tag games #kara’s snippets