[littletownlibrarian]

Ive been ‘no longer a librarian’ for longer than I ever worked in libraries, I suppose at some point I should change the name

[polkadotmotmot]

Emily Simmons - Curiosity at the Fountain, 2026 - Aquarelle, watercolour on canvas

[weirdsatellites]

IMINT #711 from MENTOR (COSMIC TOP SECRET) 1. Misty Library of Intuitions 2. 5th century BC Warlock Fueling Station

[calleido]

isle of skye, scotland

[suikatou]

水のきれいな郡上八幡らしいデザインです。

[nateconnolly]

These days, lots of public libraries have a "library of things" collection where you can check out kitchen appliances or yard tools or toys, and, as a children's library assistant, the most popular library of things item that I handle regularly is a plastic scepter thingy called like "unicorn princess magic wand". And whenever I check it out I make a big show of looking at the little kid and being like "do you solemnly swear to use your unicorn princess magic powers only for good and never for evil?"

And pretty much without fail, the little kid will get the world's most mischievous grin and go "I'm gonna use it for EVIL!!!"

[expressions-of-nature]

Parana, Brazil by Luc Stadnik

[monstermonger]

Friend in an alleyway | my wife sent me this photo the other day and said "you HAVE to draw this." and I agreed completely <:

[littletownlibrarian]

Watched flycatchers swoop here in somewhere, Ontario

[netscapeshawty]

baseball different from how i remember it

[qualitytimeswithqualitylads]

glad they added new maps to baseball

[steveyockey]

affirmations they will not kill me at work today. it is not in my job description to get killed. if they did kill me at work that would be weird and probably not worth it for them

[ceeejus]

ramiel

[pierog]

[thecollectibles]

Layered cliffs under clear sky by qing ying

[mostlyghostie]

A slightly redrawn and edited version of the Dream Library stack (version 3 if you’re counting).

Since I first drew this, my first wish has come true with the final Book of Dust novel having come out (not what I expected, but I liked it)! Which would you most want if you could pick one?

(Currently part of a half price print sale on my shop!)

Shop

[seat-safety-switch]

There's a wild phenomenon at play inside the minds of every human being on earth. Because we can't understand the complexity of the universe, we sort of brush it all away and keep going. Do you understand how a toilet works? Science has proven that almost nobody does, but we all still feel fine pooping in it. We have a belief that a toilet is a single discrete thing, like one of your friends or coworkers. When something goes wrong, that illusion is broken.

Keeping with the toilet example, it is instructive to go speak to your closest plumber. Chances are that they have been driven mad, or nearly mad, about some obscure corner-case of plumbing that they are forced to interact with constantly. Everyone breaks their toilets in the same way (flushing wipes down it, failing to maintain seals, or perhaps just the regular old "pooping too much.") Because the toilet used to be a discrete thing before being considered to be many complex parts that are now broken, everyone assumes they are the first ones to experience this problem.

Here is where the real issue arises. Only the plumber knows it is her 72nd "pooping too much" situation of the week, and it makes her no longer think of human society as one discrete thing. Why is everyone breaking their toilets all the time? They are in fact not. She is herself vulnerable to this same fallacious course of logic! Again, almost ninety-nine percent of people will not break their toilets this week from overshitting, but the plumber will never visit them. Why would she?

Traumatized, she roams the city, behind the wheel of her slightly battered 2006 Chevy Express long-wheelbase plumbers' van, wondering how many people are sitting on a stack of poop that threatens to destroy all of civilization. Eventually, she rams a police car, and starts screaming about flushable wipes until she is sedated. This happens all the time. What I'm trying to say is, don't break your toilet. Treat it like some kind of mystical gift from another dimension. As soon as you see the inside of that thing, you can pretty much draw a straight line from there to getting tazed.

[ltwilliammowett]

Ship cat Nosey, seen here during a research cruise to the Gulf of Mexico in 1951 aboard the Atlantis