katthebibliophile

katt•25•she/her•books and my favorite nonsense•book recs welcomed💕

[anxietyproblem]

[anxietyproblem]

[memeuplift]

[only-cat-memes]

♡ Your daily dose of cat memes ᓚᘏᗢ ♡

[mohabbaat]

december???? what next??? 2024?????

[heidi8]

And an evergreen reminder from a few years ago.

[kittydesade]

[blueteehood]

[teaboot]

I can't wait to see how well this ages

[heminpatel]

When Mary Shelly wrote "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other" god I really felt that

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

"While the quote is not found in the novel itself, there is one quote which is close to Branagh's adaptation. This quote is found in chapter seventeen of Shelley's novel: "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear; and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred." –Lorna Stowers

[yooboobies-deactivated20240123]

MY HOBI MY SUNSHINE🥺😭😭

[odinsblog]

“Robert Pattinson showed up with iPhone voice recordings and had already nailed the voice for ‘THE BOY AND THE HERON’ before recording started. It was his first ever voice role and he finished in 2 days.” (source)

[curioscurio]

Oh he's going the Mark Hamill route then

[parkchanwoohoo]

a little kid came up to the desk (it came up to his like, collarbone) and very seriously asked me about baby name books, because he wanted to help name his new sibling. i guided him to the shelf (there were only two book of names) and pointed out the differences between them, and after some serious contemplation he went, “I think I should take both, just in case.” So I gave him both and he thanked me and went on his way.

And I went back to my desk and screamed into my arm for like 45 years because HE WAS SO FUCKING ADORABLE AAAAA

[parkchanwoohoo]

i love when little kids come to the reference desk alone because they want to be perceived as an adult and so they come up to you and very seriously inquire “Where are your books about dolphins? ò__ó”

and of course you have to very seriously show them your collection of dolphin books while they nod carefully at your explanations and it’s SO CUTE!!! THEY’RE SO CUTE AAAH

[andletforsakendidodie]

a kid came up to me to enquire about books on queen victoria, so I promptly guided him to the children’s history section, and we had a lovely chat flicking through horrible histories books, when I asked him what does he like about history. he grinned, and with a smooth, brilliant smile he said “My favourite thing about old times is torture.”

[wakingfromthewater]

One time I had a dad come in with his ~10 year old kid and go “Hi, we’re looking for, um…” at which point he trailed off and looked expectantly at the kid the way parents usually do when they can’t remember which Percy Jackson book comes next, but instead the kid looked up at me and very brightly and firmly announced, “The Federalist Papers!”

[platypusisnotonfire]

I had a kid come in all the time by herself after school, and she was hands down my favorite patron of all time. 5 years after I met her, she graduated 8th grade, so she was….8 or 9 when she first came in? Young enough that I was like “where is parent? I guess I am your mom now. you are safe in the library, child.”

The very first book she asked for was a book on Morse code. I was instantaneously enthralled with this child. Over the years, she took out books on first nations religions, the war of 1812, Ulysses by james joyce, books about tracking animals and identifying pawprints, basket weaving, loom weaving, the battle of Agincourt, honestly way too many things to remember. 

100% of the topics she was into were not typically “age-appropriate” (although I am a staunch believer in there being no age-appropriate subjects, just age-appropriate ways of explaining them) and about half of them required interlibrary loan requests because the topic was so esoteric the only books on it existed in some university library on the other side of the country. 

Some evenings she would come in after school and it would be a big snow day so there was hardly anyone there, and we’d just talk until the library closed, looking things up on google when she had a sudden inspiration to know something. Topics ranged from the physics behind a woodpecker’s tongue wrapping around its brain (she taught me about that one) to “Horrible bear bear” and the “bear circle” and the “anti-bear circle” (latin and greek roots of bear names and the Arctic.) She was just like, the coolest person. 

I really hope to meet up with her again someday because I really think these kinds of things have a circular effect- I’m thinking back to when I first moved to that town at 13 and went into that same library, marching up to the front desk and asking for books on astrophysics (probably looking even younger, I’m 26 now and people peg me for 14-16 consistently), and how the librarian- who later became my boss- must have felt about tiny me when she was putting in interlibrary loan requests for specific textbooks from MIT to go along with the OpenCourseWare courses I was taking online (which I gained much greater respect for when I became the interlibrary loan technician- holy Hannah that’s a lot of steps.) 

Anyway that was literally my favorite part about working at the library.

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[were--ralph]

this is the end folks

i know people will say its not perfect and etc etc but the point isn't how convincing it is now, its how fast it evolved to this point. imperfections will be ironed out and the internet the internet is a warzone

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[prolifeproliberty]

Also the question isn’t “is it perfect”

The question is “could you spot one of these videos if you didn’t know it was AI and were just mindlessly scrolling through Tumblr/Twitter/Instagram”

Or “if you suspected it was AI, could you prove it? Would you take the time to prove it?”

Or even if you would know it was fake, how many much more gullible people wouldn’t even think to check?

It doesn’t have to be perfect. If a fake image or video is good enough to fool 75% of casual internet users who don’t have the time or inclination to look closely, it won’t matter if the remaining 25% scream from the rooftops that it’s fake.

How many fake screenshots do you see circulating on Tumblr on a daily basis? How many people still fall for Babylon Bee headlines as if they were real (and they ANNOUNCE that they are satire)?

Be very, VERY careful when sharing images and video that seem to show something shocking or that confirm your own assumptions.

If you can’t verify it, don’t share it.

[frogressive-rock]

[rosiethorns88]

Dropping the very highly and frequently requested scene for my latest Sketch-a-Wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for November! Featuring Lila and Kell from A Darker Shade of Magic by @veschwab ! This was probably the funniest scene in the book and I've been wanting to illustrate it for the longest time. It was actually the runner-up scene for the @Illumicrate ADSOM mug, way back when!

[yooboobies-deactivated20240123]

I would say ‘god bless you’ but it looks like he already did. {cr. moreloveforhobi}

[darlingod]

Cardan at QoN trial: The love of my life!! My wife!!! She’s back!!!!

Jude: well well well if it isn’t Elfhame’s fakest son of a bitch

[hunnysvga]

A TO THE G TO THE ❗️❗️❗️

[wolfstardaughter-jj]

[wolfstardaughter-jj]

[nvmaaradhya]

romanticise your life, take pretty pictures, feel like the main character, light up a candle, read books, go for a walk, dance to your favourite music, buy yourself presents, do whatever you want, be happy - this is your life, don’t let anyone take it from you