Librarian Pirate

Books, babies (well, two teens), social justice (throwing alliteration completely out the door), general geekery (welcome back! Although it's a cheating sort of alliteration with the hard g following the soft g), and random wildness. Missing Colorado's mountains but loving Chicagoland. the.librarian.pirate at gmail dot com

[tuxedodan]

there is no tumblr algorithm except for the fact that if you put 5 hours of work into a post it will get 20 notes but if you put five minutes into a post with no tags that's completely nonsensical it'll get 10k.

[kitstacean]

An algorithm is just a rule that social media sites use to decide what shows up on a user's feed.

On Tumblr, it's a bit of a misnomer to say that there's no algorithm. There is one! Implemented by you! Every time you reblog something you cause it to show up on your followers' feed - you're the algorithm. It's you.

[sigmaleph]

the real algorithm is the friends we made along the way

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[ithelpstodream]

lmao fuck

[fiona-glenanne-westen]

[librarianpirate]

In one of my favorite storytime books (New Socks by Bob Shea) this little chick is SO EXCITED about their new socks and are bragging to everyone. At one point they pretend the PRESIDENT called to compliment their new socks. The book just doesn't hit like it used to.

[frances-baby-houseman]

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I am doing this to Anne of Green Gables and it is bringing me great joy.

[librarianpirate]

I am doing this to A Study in Scarlet

[segamascott]

[librarianpirate]

I just had a storytime where I felt very *on* the whole time, but also it was so hot in that room and it was a very active storytime so I was super sweaty and I threw my hair up right before storytime and I didn't even look in a mirror.

So of course right after someone came up to tell me that she'd been filming it for her social media and "don't worry, she'll tag the library" and is it ok if she posts it? And I'm not going to tell her no, but also ... Thank goodness I wore a black shirt so nobody can see my sweaty armpits, you know? Anyway, now I'm just refreshing the library's tagged instagram posts (I don't even know what social media she uses!) to see what sort of hot mess I am in her video. But she's still in the library with her kids so she might not even post it for a few days!

[chungledown-bimothy]

You're laughing. Legal Eagle is bullying an SNL cast member and you're laughing.

[librarianpirate]

Hooked from the author's note.

[b0nkcreat]

i'm your only friend (realizes that's statistically unlikely) i'm not your only friend (considers my positive qualities) but i'm a little glowing friend (suddenly gets cold feet) but really i'm not actually your friend (remembers to be confident in relationships) but i am

[plaguedocboi]

ITS GREAT LAKES AWARENESS DAY!!!!!

On this excellent day, be aware that this is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, covering over 95,000 square miles and reaching depths of over a thousand feet. They are beautiful freshwater seas.

Also when you die in these lakes, the very cold, oxygen-poor conditions at the bottom preserves you perfectly for all eternity. You will not rot and nothing will eat you. You will exist for as long as the Great Lakes do. Many shipwrecks still have the crew on board. Be Aware.

[bunjywunjy]

that last paragraph only applies to Lake Superior, the northernmost Great Lake! to be fair though, Superior is bigger than all of the other Great Lakes combined.

and that's not to say that the other Great Lakes aren't equally dangerous! each of these things earned the 'Great' descriptor for a reason, and the only reason they aren't all classified as inland seas is because they're not salty.

Lake Michigan in particular is really good at creating waterlogged corpses and hiding them in weird places, and every single Great Lake is full of shipwrecks and ghost stories.

and you know what? 10/10 I would let these things eat me anyways.

be aware!

[bunjywunjy]

fun optional addition, LAKE SUPERIOR VS THE EAST COAST

you could drown an entire small country in this thing

[lookninjas]

Great Lakes Awareness Day is May 5th this year!

[thesanityclause]

LET'S GO LAKE WHO NEVER GIVES UP HER DEAD LET'S GO!!!

[alex51324]

Great Lakes Awareness Day for 2026 is May 4. You only have a few days to get ready!

[leebrontide]

GREAT LAKES! GREAT LAKES! GREAT LAKES! GREAT LAKES!

[librarianpirate]

Brought my work spoon home on accident so I've been eating my work peanut butter with my work fork.

Now I have a work peanut butter rose.

[librarianpirate]

Between the end of March and the beginning of April I read 4 books with tuberculosis in them

The Secret of Honeycake

The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli

Anne of the Island

Light and Air

When Everything is Tuberculosis came out I was GOING THROUGH IT and didn't think I could handle a Tuberculosis book but these tuberculosis books keep finding me so I figured I should read it anyway. Highly recommended! Also Verity Vox has me on a witch kick. If you have any recommendations for good witchy bildungsromans about witches going out and learning their craft Kiki's Delivery Service style, please let me know!!!

[librarianpirate]

Pippa's birthday cheese board. She really only likes cheddar and cheddar like cheeses but she really loves them.

[librarianpirate]

Y'all! Every year Pippa asks for the same birthday cake - a marbled cake from the fanciest of the local grocery stores. I never bother to pre-order it because they always have it in store!

Last year, the cake didn't have yellow frosting or balloons. I didn't realize we always ended up with one with yellow frosting and balloons, but we always did and that became an important part of the birthday ritual. So this year I pre-ordered. Which means I could have her name put on! I really thought I was winning birthdays. We spent the morning at the cat Cafe. She's spending the afternoon with a friend, then home for charcuterie with 3 new cheeses she picked out.

But

Calamity.

I went outside to help Dawn garden and the cats threw the cake on the ground. It landed upside down. It still has yellow frosting! It's still a marbled cake! And I do think I can fix the majority of these problems? But still!

[booksinmythorax]

This blog is a safe space for transgender people.

The owner of this blog believes all libraries should be safe, accessible places for all transgender people.

[intothestacks]

Libraries are for everyone, and that 100% includes transgender people.

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

Chris Judge Art !

[forthegothicheroine]

"Subd Geog" means that subject headings may be divided geographically (as in Art History -- European) but I cannot stop reading it as Subdivisions Georg. Subdivisions Georg, who haunts the Library of Congress and adds millions of subdivisions to catalog entries per year, is an outlier and should not be counted.