I’ve slowly been coming to terms with the fact that my most enduring legacy on the internet is going to be tweeting a screenshot of my local library’s Facebook page.
Celebrating librarians is a wonderful legacy!
I’m so happy this post made its way onto the Fediverse. <3
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Just know you put a smile on a lot of faces, including mine :)
Best content on Twitter most likely. You did good.
Small world.
This is one of my favorite images, it brightens my day every time I see it. I save it in my phone, I send it to my friends.
‘Anti Prom’ in a library sounds like an event I’d attend. I’d prefer it with snakes though.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from American films, it’s that the snakes are at prom.
Or on a plane. On the way to prom.
Snakes on a Prom
Snakes in pron
To pron.
Addendum: don’t snack on snakes. Snakes will not be provided as snacks on either date.
Snake snacks = No
PPS: on May 22 the snakes may have their own snacks. Do not snack on snake snacks.
PPPS: Do not feed the snakes your snacks.
PPPPS: Feeding the snake snacks your snacks may make for a tastier snack for the snake.
PPPPPS: Unruly children (and adults) may be considered as candidates for snake snacks
No snacks for poor snakes? :(
Snakes will be provided as dates, did I understand that right?
Dates will be provided as snacks.
Figs, raisins or sultanas may be included as well on the date.
Bringing outside dates is acceptable. Bringing dates outside is encouraged.
Dating librarians is also encouraged.
Carbon dating librarians, however, is unacceptable and considered insulting.
Does this include jelly snakes?
Please do not feed snakes jelly snakes. While not technically cannibalism, we do not wish to encourage the possibility.
If a jelly snake eats its own tail will it dissappear or cause a rip in jelly spacetime?
Wait, does anyone know the Dewy decimal number for the TVA Manual?
I’ll check if it’s in the TVA Manual. If anyone were to write about it, it would be Ouroboros.
Random little anecdote: A kid at my school got suspended for 2 weeks for calling the school librarian hot. This happened years ago and it was a big scandal lmao
Two weeks for that sounds excessive. Imagine if they said that the librarian was thicker than a bowl of oatmeal, that kid would be in prison to this day.
Suspension at all is a bit over the top for some dumb thing a kid said. Maybe have them write an essay about why it’s not something you’d say to people.
Is she tho?
This was like 15 years ago but yeah she was cute!
Straight to jail!
Does the jail have a library??
And if you fail to compliment her appearance at all?
Straight to jail
What if you say she looks very intelligent?
Believe it or not, jail right away!
Obviously, she was a librarian
Rosa: Wow, she is good at shushing.
Jake: I know. She’s like a librarian.
Rosa: You mean like a sexy librarian?
Jake: No, a regular one!In 2nd grade in the 80s, I got suspended for three days for flicking raisins
That is excessive, ridiculously so. But, like, did you want to get ants because that is how you get ants.
Kids at my school thought I had a crush on the librarian’s daughter who helped out there sometimes. I denied it, but actually I probably did.
One of my duties at work is IT Support for librarians in the State Penitentiaries. I have so much respect for librarians and their profession. They deserve more support from our governments. They are people making a difference.
I respect your job.
Ok but there will be snacks on May 22 or no?
Yes, but only for the snakes.
Sneks
Snek snaks
Uhm… Are we the snacks in that situation?
Why do you think they are fattening everyone up with snacks on April 12?
Small children especially welcome.
I doubts any of those snakes is Putin. They are snakes, not rats.
I knew he was s bad dude but… Putin eats small children?
Yes. Children who is 5-years old he will kiss and then eat, children who is 18-years old he will send conscription and then eat.
If that’s the same Pflugerville I’m thinking of, they’re basically a suburb of Austin, my wife worked in the Austin public library system for a very long time, and yes, i agree, we don’t deserve librarians. They are awesome. I love my wife.
Librarians are the best.
Librarians are unironically the best people in any town.
My local ones hosted a masquerade ball, completely free of charge, poetry readings all night, drawing lessons, ballroom dancing, all catered with sandwiches, punch, and chips. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, they brought out glasses of brandy and wine for everyone at the end.
Literally better than any club I’ve been to and it was just one of the things they do regularly.
I’ve never met a librarian who didn’t offer enthusiastic help when asked. I’m sure there are some cranky ones out there, but I can’t think of a public facing job where the workers are as cheerful and helpful as librarians. It takes a certain temperament to devote your life to encouraging others to read books.
Legend has it that Nancy Pearl, the model for Archie McPhee’s Librarian Action Figure, remembers the name of everyone she’s met and their favorite book. A friend of mine has met her twice and that reputation held true.
I love thissssss!
That’s one tuck, one no-tuck.
Librarians are the best ngl
I always wished to work in a library in some capacity, hopefully I get a chance to in the future, volunteering would be nice too. I kinda saw them as the ‘purveyors of knowledge’ where they have a ton of goods available and all you need to give is some time and attention.
Is this “we don’t deserve X” a new internet fad? If so, I hate it.
Somebody/something being “too good for us” or “too good for this world” thing has been around for almost a decade at least. I mean, it used to mainly be said about animals but this isn’t exactly a new concept
Try 8+ millennia. In Lake Baikal, Siberia, dogs were buried with respect equal to and sometimes better than a human burial purely due to emotional attachment, in a place where they served no utility for food gathering etc.
And if that doesn’t count, then it’s definitely been around since 50-ish CE when Christianity spread the idea of humans being innately terrible and undeserving of basically anything…
I’ve seen it said about dogs for years now, but only recently have I seen it said about a variety of different themes.
Not sure how old this is, but last time April 12. was on a Friday was in 2019.
It’s not new, but I do hate it.
