Kiss me, Hardy.
20-something librarian who enjoys comic books and costume dramas, baking and board games. Until my landlord has a change of heart, I don't actually have a cat. (A bloo bloo bloo, as I believe they say here on Tumblr.)
There is absolutely no coherent theme to this blog, but there is lots of Carol Danvers being a BAMF. Angsty teenage werewolves are ace, Angela Lansbury is a goddess, and Lady Mary Crawley has no time for this bullshit.
Je ne regrette rien.
Hello!
My name is Veronica Koven-Matasy, and I am a second-year Masters student at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As part of my degree requirements I am conducting a research study which will include a survey of members of the library and information science community (such as librarians, library students, library paraprofessionals, information management specialists, and people who have worked or studied in these fields but no longer do so) who have been or are involved in fandom (writing or reading fanfiction, creating any form of fanart, making primers and recs, writing meta or articles for fandom wikis, etc.). If you belong to this group I would be very grateful for your participation! It is my hope that by carrying out this study I will be able to explore the intersection of fandom and library and information science, as well as the long-term effects of fandom participation.
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If you are interested in taking this survey, please click on the following link. It should take no more than fifteen minutes of your time, and you are free to skip any question or leave the page at any time. Thank you very much!
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Today at work one of my students was surprised that I know who Darren Criss—”You don’t understand, I love him!”—is. I explained that, among other things, I have a friend who’s a big fan of Kurt and Blaine.
“It’s Klaine, Ms. C, Klaine.”
Oh teenagers. You are so precious.
Because also this. It’s an act of good will and public service, bringing gorgeous things into people’s lives and stuff.
Today’s moment of fandom joy is brought to you by another of my students, who asked about Les Mis, “You know when he’s all ‘Before you say another word, Javert, blah blah blah’?”
“Blah blah blah? I think you mean ‘Before you chain me up like a slave again.’”
“Oh my God! I love you!”
I enjoy both the act of sharing awesome fannish things and the kids’ mixture of surprise and delight when they discover that old people are geeky about this stuff too.
Today at work one of my students was surprised that I know who Darren Criss—”You don’t understand, I love him!”—is. I explained that, among other things, I have a friend who’s a big fan of Kurt and Blaine.
“It’s Klaine, Ms. C, Klaine.”
Oh teenagers. You are so precious.
sometimes I just want to make a big list
of every character
and pairing
that I HATE
and tag it
and see how long it takes for my inbox to be flooded with furious anons
because god fucking forbid someone disagree with your taste in fandom shit
and god fucking forbid they have the audacity to tag it so that they can find their posts later on their own blog
Okay. This. Not because I want to troll people, but seriously, why does no one on Tumblr understand how metadata works? I tag things on my blog based on what they’re about… and if I were to write an unfavorable post about say, grapefruit, cause grapefruit is the fruit of the devil, I would tag it “grapefruit” cause that’s what the post would be about.
If you don’t like it, I recommend making liberal use of the “j” key to scroll right by.
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That’s pretty much what library school is for :(“Thanks for the check, btw you can’t ever get a job.”
Pretty much! It took me almost two years after graduation to get a big-girl librarian job—up till then I was para-pro. And in the end my work experience mattered so much more than which classes I took to get my MLS.
Fifty Shades of Grey, p.16.
just a good descriptive sentence.
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I CANNOT BELIEVE MY MOTHER BOUGHT THIS BOOK.
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Hahahaha. So today at lunch some of my colleagues were asking about this book. They’d heard it was popular, but not very well-written. AND HOW.
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It’s like he has a window into my soul.
