'...passionately curious.'

let us burn our blood away in life's high bonfire

[metamorphosize-me]

FYI I now run a gradblr called crimefighterphd. I still maintain this one (ish), but now that I’m in grad school, I spend most of my time over there. It’s not like this one - more science, more inspiration, more aesthetics - but please feel free to follow me over there if you like that kind of thing.

[metamorphosize-me]

Oh and if you liked my psychology posts, I'm happy to write/answer things about that over on crimefighterphd too.

[metamorphosize-me]

I’m delighted so many people still read my Hannibal meta. I wrote that back in the summer of 2013 when I was supposed to be writing my MSc dissertation. Now I’ve completed my second MSc and am working on a PhD in Criminal Justice. Go figure.

[metamorphosize-me]

FYI I now run a gradblr called crimefighterphd. I still maintain this one (ish), but now that I’m in grad school, I spend most of my time over there. It’s not like this one - more science, more inspiration, more aesthetics - but please feel free to follow me over there if you like that kind of thing.

[metamorphosize-me]

Klee

klee: in a library full of books, which five will you never get sick of rereading?

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Runners up included Titus Groan and A Brief History of Time.  Funny thing about this list was that, though I probably read more nonfiction than fiction, the books worth revisiting are almost inevitably fiction, save something like Cosmos which serves as a type of scientific, atheistic spirituality for me.

famous artists ask (ask me!)

[backofthebookshelf]

Some Things Your Local Librarians Would Like You To Know

It is not a stupid question. Even if it is a stupid question, we have been thoroughly trained to answer your question without judgement or second-guessing. Besides, we’re mostly just glad you’re not asking us about the noise the printer is making again.

There are probably (at least) two desks in the library. One is where you check out books and is mostly staffed by people wearing nametags that say “Circulation Clerk.” These people can answer your questions about damaged or missing books, fines, and how many forms of identification we’ll need if you want to get a library card but your mailing address is in Taiwan. The other one is closer to the books and computers and is mostly staffed by people wearing nametags that say “Librarian.” These people can answer your questions about spider extermination, how to rent property to the United States Postal Service, and the number of tropical island nations in which you could theoretically establish the first United States Embassy. We would love to answer these questions for you. It would be a nice change from the printer.

We probably own a 3D printer by now. 3D printers, are cool, right? Please, please come use our 3D printer, it’s so lonely.

We spent a lot of money to hire this woodworker to come and teach a class at the library which you can attend for free. You will probably be the only person between the ages of ten and fifty in attendance, but your presence will fill the librarian with an unnameable joy. They will float back to their manager in a daze. “A young person came to my program,” they will say. You will have made their entire job worthwhile.

Every time you ask us for a book, movie, or music recommendation, a baby librarian gets their first cardigan.

Somewhere in the library, there is a form. If you fill out this form with your name and library card number and the details of the thing you are looking for, we will find you the thing. Sometimes the answer is “the thing is in Great Britain and they will not send it to us,” but more often the thing will just appear on hold for you, and one day you will pick up a copy of that out-of-print book you never thought you would read and maybe you will say, “Wow, the library is amazing,” and the librarian’s heart will glow. 

Please bring back book #2. The rest of its series misses it very much.

Five dollars is not a large library fine. Believe me, before I started working in libraries, I too wondered how someone could sleep at night, knowing they owed money to the library. When we laugh as you sheepishly apologize for your $2.50 in overdue fees, we are not mocking you, we are thinking of the ten people we sent to debt collection already today.

We really don’t care why you’re checking out Fifty Shades of Grey. Maybe you have a specifically-themed ironic bachelorette party to plan. Maybe you’re working on a thesis paper about mainstream media’s depiction of female sexuality. Maybe you just got curious. We will give you the benefit of the doubt. 

Whatever you’re smoking in the family restroom, please stop.

Somewhere on the library’s website, buried under “Links” or “Research” or “On-line Resources,” is a page that a librarian spent a month’s worth of work on. It contains many links to websites you thought everyone knew about, and one to a page that you could never have imagined existed that perfectly solves a problem you never expected to be resolved. 

Imagine the kind of person who would think to themselves, “Library school sounds like a thing I should do.” For the most part, you are imagining the kind of person who is now a librarian. We want very much to help you, but we’re not entirely sure how to do that unless you ask. You are not bothering us. Please, come and say hi.

[zerojustice-toronto]

Support your local library/librarian - they are amazing.

[peachisty]

famous artists ask

picasso: would you rather sleep on the moon with a stardust dress or on a tiny flower with a sunflower dress? van gogh: where is your go-to positive place when you’re feeling down/sad and what do you usually do? warhol: what is something that you possess that you’ll never give away/sell despite how much the cost? da vinci: describe your dream wedding. monet: where will you take your significant other in a date? kahlo: what is a pro-tip/lesson that you learned from your past? michelangelo: do you show your teeth when you smile? do you squint your eyes? matisse: how do you express your love to your friends/family/significant other? kandinsky: would you rather be a silky angel or a lacy princess… or a princess angel? degas: in a garden full of all sorts of flowers, which one will you pick? klee: in a library full of books, which five will you never get sick of rereading? klimt: how many languages do you speak? what is/are it/they? seurat: if you can wear only one color with different shades for the rest of your life, which one is it, and why? vermeer: which of your qualities make you a dream girl? harring: what is your all-time favorite band, movie, and painting? munch: what is your medium in art? is that medium your first love? renoir: is you heart occupied right now? describe him/her/them. gauguin: what is one thing that reminds you of childhood? manet: describe your ultimate summer get-away! botticelli: what is that one moment in your life that makes you feel proud? cézanne: what is your favorite christmas cookie?

[thebrassglass]

Cedar Grove Cemetery, a 19th century burial ground in the coastal Connecticut city of New London, in the fog, December 2015.

[pawnees]

make me choose  → @potter asked; jonathan byers or steve harrington

[snowdarkred]

i am literally shrieking with laughter over this

[kissokomos]

#THEY SENT HIM SEVERAL CASES OF THEIR PRODUCT AND SENT A POLITELY WORDED LETTER TELLING HIM TO SHOVE IT UP HIS ASS#I’M CRYING (via snowdarkred)

[teenagershine]

[emiett]

You’re more lost than you realize. 

This poster was nearly 2 years in the making haha. But I think it turned out pretty well! I really enjoy drawing trees.

[thronescastdaily]

I don’t go to work thinking, ‘Right, I’m going to be more heart-throbby today.’

[metamorphosize-me]

me: *is faced with a distressing situation*

brain: *shuts down*

me: no maybe we should actually deal with this

brain: ✔️read 7:26pm

[my-middle-name-is-awkward]

I’M SCREAMING

[proinsiascassidy]

Can you just come up here? Yeah.

[isensmith]

Elliot, Qwerty, Flipper, and Morphine [by Hallpen]

[danaisokoye-archive]

“And you’re always more than we can capture…”- LMM

Happy trails to Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, and Leslie Odom Jr. as they perform in Hamilton: An American Musical One Last Time on July 9th, 2016.