Miss SLIS

A child of Marx & Coca Cola Recent MLIS graduate, exploring the field of Information Organization. Once upon a time this was a collection of internet treasures, and how I felt they related to my studies. Now it's just a regular ol' Tumblr.

[hmartn-blog]

I decided to try a charcoal peel mask. I feel like Petrie in the Land Before Time when he falls into the tar pit.

[egelantier]

[hmartn-blog]

10 years on, and the patriarchy can still suck it.

My high school 10 year reunion is in s couple weeks. I'm not going, because honestly, why would I want to see any of those people? But the Facebook invite got me thinking about my graduation quotes: - women need men like fish need a bicycle - she-woman man-hater's club (a play on Little Rascals, but no one got it) 10 years on, I still feel identify with these. Probs my even more-so. The patriarchy can suck it.

[thisisasentence-deactivated2018]

the literary elements

[pr1nceshawn]

Book Cover Illusions.

[brutereason]

If kids can’t socialize, who should parents blame? Simple: They should blame themselves. This is the argument advanced in It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd. Boyd—full disclosure, a friend of mine—has spent a decade interviewing hundreds of teens about their online lives. What she has found, over and over, is that teenagers would love to socialize face-to-face with their friends. But adult society won’t let them. “Teens aren’t addicted to social media. They’re addicted to each other,” Boyd says. “They’re not allowed to hang out the way you and I did, so they’ve moved it online.” It’s true. As a teenager in the early ’80s I could roam pretty widely with my friends, as long as we were back by dark. But over the next three decades, the media began delivering a metronomic diet of horrifying but rare child-abduction stories, and parents shortened the leash on their kids. Politicians warned of incipient waves of youth wilding and superpredators (neither of which emerged). Municipalities crafted anti-loitering laws and curfews to keep young people from congregating alone. New neighborhoods had fewer public spaces. Crime rates plummeted, but moral panic soared. Meanwhile, increased competition to get into college meant well-off parents began heavily scheduling their kids’ after-school lives. The result, Boyd discovered, is that today’s teens have neither the time nor the freedom to hang out. So their avid migration to social media is a rational response to a crazy situation. They’d rather socialize F2F, so long as it’s unstructured and away from grown-ups. “I don’t care where,” one told Boyd wistfully, “just not home.

Don’t Blame Social Media if Your Teen Is Unsocial. It’s Your Fault | Wired Opinion | Wired.com (via albinwonderland)

[jackthebard]

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

[foxsan-deactivated20140515]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205]

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

[cryptovalid]

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

[gunthatshootsennui]

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

[deathcomes4u]

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

[velocigrey-deactivated20160825]

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

[geekinlibrariansclothing]

Got that?

[bettieleetwo]

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

[la-knight]

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

[athenadark]

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

[thepsychicclam]

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

[ladynorbert]

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

[fragments-of-sappho]

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

[skagdoll]

[hmartn-blog]

BRB - finding out who made this so I can get a poster made to put up in my kitchen.

[fiftyyearstoolate]

[hmartn-blog]

Ovaltine forever!

[apisashla]

ok so the go-to when making jokes about country songs is dogs and trucks, but I would actually like songs about dogs and trucks

judging by the radio where I work, country music is mostly:

-my girl’s leaving me because of my poor life choices -cringey sexual innuendo -I work on a farm and this attracts women -alcohol is the BEST coping mechanism -the South is great -(woman singer) the South kinda sucks actually -my ex is the Devil

[phdbitch-deactivated20150805]

I love how they use background music in animal documentaries to signify danger. It’s like damn, I thought this caterpillar was chillin but clearly something bout to happen that neither I nor the caterpillar know about.

[hmartn-blog]

I just started watching Scream on Netflix, which made me look into Wes Craven. He looks too much like Fred Penner, so I can't think of him as the Master of Horror without ruining my childhood.

[hdslibrary]

In our stacks it’s always five o’clock…

Have a good weekend, tumblr friends!

[hmartn-blog]

I always said that if I ever started a podcast I'd call it "The Rye-brarian" and talk food and drink with all kinds of folks (chefs, sommeliers, food historians, etc.), and I feel like I'd have to talk to talk with whomever is in charge of this collection.

[whatshouldwecallgradschool]

GOING INTO THE REAL WORLD AFTER GRAD SCHOOL

[thinkpiecebot]

Baby Boomers Is The Reason For Robot Uprisings’s Success

[goblinparty]

Last night I was talking to my boyfriend, and I couldn’t think of the word ‘library’, so I said ‘book ranch’. He thought it was hilarious and started making up alternative names for ‘librarian’.

“Cowbook! Like cowboy! No…Readcher? Like Rancher? No, fuck this is hard…”

and just now I heard him yell “BOOKAROO” from the other end of the apartment in the most triumphant tone of voice i’ve ever heard

[sweetcharity-archive-deactivate]

masculinity is a prison, time doesn’t exist, gender isn’t real, virginity is a construct, and Jesus wasn’t white.

[mxfrizzle-deactivated20190807]

me @ dinner parties