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parano--vigilant

‪You know how Logan keeps meticulous track of time? quarantine has broken him‬

#sanders sides #que

writersisland

“You’re going to get worse, aren’t you.”

“Yes.”

“…gods help me.”

“They won’t.”

Overgrown House

How about Logan in 34 and/or Deceit in 31???

Deceit’ll be in another one.

#sanders sides #que

instantromannoodles

#sanders sides #que

keplercryptids

I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”

keplercryptids

him: you split up all the song of ice and fire books

me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

him: [self-destructs]

operativesurprise

You’re a monster

thetumblrofrassilon

As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?

keplercryptids

it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.

my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.

holdmecloseandfast

OP your brain is neat and I love you for it you funky little color-coded cupcake. But you’re still a monster.

krsonmar

This actually is interesting in terms of information-seeking behavior, which is a thing librarians think about a lot and often actually study (some library jobs require you to publish, and academic librarians, for instance, will often use the students at the college they work at to study how they search for information in order to figure out how to best provide them services).

When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.

OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.

In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.

Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.

And also, OP is a monster.

cakesexuality

I don’t really have a system for organizing my books bc I don’t own that many books, but I do sew (thus I have a bunch of fabric that must be sorted) and I still use CDs and it’s interesting to see how other people organize their collections vs how I do mine!!

I think a lot of sewists put their fabrics in rainbow order?? But the majority of my fabrics are prints, so I sort individual fabrics by the themes of their prints and sort those themes alphabetically, so like it starts with animals (e.g. cats, unicorns), after that is foods (e.g. sprinkles, tacos), then holidays (e.g. Easter, Halloween), and so on. Solids get their own section before any prints and are largely sorted by what they’re made of or what their texture is like, e.g. faux furs are kept separate from cotton weaves.

I sort my CDs alphabetically by artist and then chronologically by release date, but my mom sorts hers alphabetically by artist and then alphabetically by album title!! So, for example, my Fall Out Boy section goes Take This To Your Grave, From Under The Cork Tree, Infinity on High, Folie à deux, Save Rock and Roll, Save Rock and Roll: Pax Am Edition, American Beauty/American Psycho, and Mania, but if my mom was the one sorting my CDs, the first one would be American Beauty/American Psycho and the last would be Take This To Your Grave

holy-leapin-splits-batman

hagiomoto

Is it Latine or Latinx more popular these days?

huzni

Latinx is popular among united staters of Latin American backgrounds in more or less the same extent than the former, but Latine is by a very large margin the most common usage here, as it's more phonologically straightforward in both Portuguese and Spanish.

huzni

@hagiomoto thanks to you for sticking around, ٱللَّٰهُمَّ بَارِكْ.

@el-shab-hussein yes, that's very much correct as well. I refrained from mentioning it because of not wanting to come off as insensitive about such a specifically sectorised issue. It's unfair to issue judgements on behalf of an intersectionally profiled community if one's not part of them, moreso given that the adoption and evolution of grammar genders in Spanish is a very messy discussion in most senses.

I'd rather just show support from a linguistically constructivist stance, as this is the language where:

El calor and la calor coexist.

Either nevera and nevero or banana and banano remain actively used to mean the same thing: "refrigerator" (refrigerador is somewhat more commonly used overall, but some dialects —like the one I grew up speaking— retain nevera/nevero out of dialectal developments from very specific genealogical substrates that either fossilised centuries ago during colonisation or were dropped due to archaicisation elsewhere) and... "banana" (though, depending on the dialect, a plátano —"plantain"— might also be a sweet-tasting banana), respectively.

El is male grammar gender "the" except for some nouns beginning with 'a', as in el agua, el área, or el águila; all three carrying male grammar-gendered orthography according to traditional understanding, but having grown into a syntactically female grammar-gendering function by native speakers' own usage (because their plurals are all female grammar-gendered: las aguas, las áreas, and las águilas). Kind of like people having been born with penises being labelled as men, despite being women in all socially defining respects.

All of this has been standard in Spanish for ages, but adopting inclusive grammar genders for human beings is somehow frownable upon because an institution set up by French monarchs three centuries ago stating so carries more weight than all previous centuries of evolving usage by native speakers day after day. And then there's the fact that each nationality (roughly speaking) have their own characterising struggles (class struggle-wise) with their usage of the language, which makes any homogenising intent pointlessly unfair.

For instance:

@fagitzel, cheers! I'll drink do that. But it'll be grape juice, just like the Prophet Muhāmmad ﷺ and the Ahl al-Beīt (ع) would have.

lizardsfromspace

The exception is cheesy local commercials. Those should be the only ads. I will listen to someone who runs a store in my city doing an awkward rap. We once had a furniture store with these awful CGI ads and the slogan "where the deals are so low, it's almost criminal!" and then they got shut down, by the cops, because it turned out. It turned out the deals were so low because. You're not going to believe this but the prices were so low it was in fact

angelbabymikaa

saw an article about an AI startup trying to make drones that would obliterate mosquitos and it literally made me cry like that 4 million dollars they spent could have gone into malaria and yellow fever research or spreading money to areas where they need nets and healthcare due to mosquitos like the answer isn’t killing an entire species from the planet it would destroy ecosystems and leave massive holes in the food chain for birds and other animals not even considering that mosquitoes are pollinators themselves like i truly feel like one company should not have the ability to literally just decide if a species should no longer exist and then execute an entire population like that like i feel like we should have a fucking say 😭

teaboot

Blankie suck Paws mach fuck Father was a monster truck Claws so long Eyes so fierce Biscuits for a hundred years

sukinapan

filet design 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

you can find the pattern here (＾▽＾)

#textile work #recipes

omgthatdress

#history #video #historical fashion

terramythos

apparently amazon's AI catastrophically fucked up and equated bytes with gigabytes so started billing aws customers literally billions of dollars for their data usage

terramythos