MLISchief Managed

Teen librarian by day, eldritch horror by night.

[librarianproblems]

WHEN THE POTUS PROPOSES TO CUT FEDERAL LIBRARY FUNDING

Get informed and contact your representatives people.

[resistancereading]

Armchair Activism for February - build up your local library in three easy steps

There is something you can do right now to build up and nourish your community long-term. You can do it from any computer - or in person if you’re feeling adventurous. There is no cost to you.

It’s easy to do and I’ll walk you through it right now.

Go to your library’s website.

Look for a link called “request an acquisition”, “suggest a book for our collection” or “suggest a purchase”. (see below for examples)

Review the process, then start picking out books to add to your local library.

You’ll want to check the library catalog first and see if they have a book before requesting. If you don’t have a title in mind, here are some great suggestions:

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (ISBN 978-1101911761)

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (ISBN 978-0062282712)

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis (ISBN 978-1608465644)

If they’re able to buy it and when they inform you it’s come in, check it out! The library tracks what does and doesn’t circulate, and you’ll add shelf life to the purchase.

In case you’re worried, I personally asked a bunch of librarians and:

They love it when you make suggestions

You won’t get penalized for asking for things or for too many things.

Do it today. Do it before February is over. Consider doing it every month. I’ll remind you. It’s a way to support your library - a radical resource - and your community.

For many of us this is a no-risk action. They will likely ask for contact and residence information from you. If you do not have all of the legal documentation required to officially reside where you currently live, please consider whether giving your personal information is safe before pursuing this idea.

[sigistrix-elric]

Some library systems will also let you use ASINs and even throw in links to Amazon or Ex Libris, or other online sellers.  This is so that the people who make the purchases can see more than just your review, etc..  Personally, I think that is something that every library, regardless, should add to their purchase request pages.

[mlischiefmanaged-blog]

Yes! By all means, help your local libraries build their antifa collections. Book donations tend to get sold through the Friends of the Library, so definitely make suggestions, which also help us see community needs and collection gaps. 

[straight-from-mercury]

Techno Witchy Tips

APPS. LITERALLY JUST APPS.

There’s so many apps that can be used for your craft. I’m gonna list the one’s I’ve been using as of recently and enjoy! P.S. All apps below are FREE

Tarot/Runes/Etc

Labyrinthos Academy

Helps you to study and research the meaning of tarot cards! Uses the Golden Thread Tarot! 

Golden Thread Tarot

From the same producer as above I believe?? There’s a daily reading, and has a system set up where you may log your readings and has a system that allows you to record whether or not you feel positive or negative about the current reading.

Runic Formulas

According to what you need, this app provides a series of runes to help your specific need. You may even make your own and share them!

Galaxy Runes

Has very few spreads however is very informative! Will teach you how to use runes, and what they mean individually

Space/Astronomy/Etc

Sky Map

Uses your location and makes a specific sky map for your area, showing you what you can see and where it would be.

Phases of the Moon 

Tells you the phase of the moon, percentage of illumination, how far away the moon is, how old the phase is, rise & set time, and the sign it is in. You may even look back at previous phases and future phases.

Gardening/Herbs/Etc

Gro

Uses your location to see if a particular plant will do well in your area, tells you the humidity, temperature, Rainfall, Wind, and Soil. It uses your preference of edibles or flowers, your gardening level and uses that to give you a recommended plan. They even have a Plant Library that covers, lawn, plants, weeds, and pests. There’s so much to this app and I highly recommend it! 

Moon & Garden

Uses the moon phases for biodynamics in plants! Depending on the moon phase, this app will assign you a calendar telling you when to harvest, trim, or even when to garden. It looks interesting and I’m gonna give it a shot this summer! 

Pocket Herbalist

Simply a quick guide to herbs and defines their appearance, and their usage! A small but informative app!

Miscellaneous 

Atmosphere

Highly recommended! An app that has many choices for calming music. A few categories include binaural, beach, forest, urban, underwater, home, park, countryside, oriental, and custom! You may overlap these sounds (with a limit) and they are all very clear and calming!

Dreamboard

Simply a dream journal, and dream tracker. Does require a quick sign up but looks very informative!

Lucky Crystal

A live wallpaper you may customize to your intent. It appears to swing whichever way you tilt your device and you may change crystal size, shape, and color as well as background color.

Any Candle App Ever

The particular app I have (it’s name is in Korean I can’t repeat it) allows you to change flame size, and candle color. Simple but useful!

There’s a few app for witchy purposes! Feel free to add on with anything else!

[orriculum]

correspondence resource

ok my little witchies

imma teach you the most helpful tool for herbs and stones and shit

you got to pinecone.pub

you type in a word from the list of intents, like protection, love, whatever

boom, list of many herbs and stones and shit you can use in the spell

you can even build spells, name them and save them

go forth and bookmark that shit 

[witchbrarian]

Spiffy

[listing-to-port]

Five things to look out for in libraries at night

1. On nights when the moon shines through the windows, the books in the horticultural section may rise up on their ribbonlike stems and open up to the moonlight. The energy gained from moonlight powers the growth of new pages, often detailing highly unusual plants. Therefore it is worth your while as a librarian to site the horticultural books near a window with a good view of the sky. The opening of the books is often accompanied by a great swarm of b’s out from the other books in the library to sip at the illustrated nectar. By the morning they will be back in place, just a little fatter and shinier. 2. Gymnastics books like to slip from the shelves in the dark and practice bending and stretching. Often they can be observed (if one has set up a book hide in the library, that is) performing slow flips across the floor and back again. This is why books on gymnastics often have cracked spines. 3. Much of the nature section will be particularly quiet, for fear of waking up the animal books. Animal books hibernate for most of their lives, but can be induced to wake by a dark but noisy environment - for example if the library is situated next to a nightclub or main road. The other books dislike this and will sometimes sing book lullabies in the hope of stopping it happening. The consequence of a mass book waking is usually a vast and savage bookfight between works on predators and works on prey. Sometimes a book on both may even attempt to devour its own interior pages in a frenzy of curiosity. Needless to say this also wakes up the b’s, which will grumpily swarm around and may sting any stray librarians who have the misfortune to still be present. 4. Books for babies often wake up in the night and will sometimes fling themselves off the shelves or spit up pages onto the floor. Those without fluff or mirrored pages can be found poking those with these things. Books for slightly older children, usually shelved in an adjacent section, can sometimes be found jumping back and forth in an effort to rock the baby section back to sleep. 5. Needless to say, many of these happenings involve a fair bit of mess. Look out for those unusually conscientious books who clean up the mess, mend pages and poke the plant books back into their dust covers in the morning. It is difficult to say which books will take on the role of book shepherd - it varies by library - but often large print fiction, young adult novels and works of philosophy can be found helping out.

[arachnospooky]

Library tip:

133.4+ in the Dewey decimal system is where the witchcraft books are at, if your library has ‘em. 

[da-at-ass]

I remember hanging around this section with high school friends in the late nineties. And making fun of Uncle Bucky’s Big Blue Book in hushed tones. Good times.

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The list of Dewey classifications at Project Gutenberg lists the following for 133: “133   Delusions, witchcraft, magic.” [x] … I have to admit, I did let out an audible sigh when I saw that :\

Searching the [Subject Index] for all 133 associations gives the following list:

Apparitions

Astrology

Delusions  (sigh)

Demonology

Fanaticism (sigh)

Fortune-telling

Ghosts

Legerdemain (the skillful use of one’s hands when performing conjuring tricks, but with a connotation of deception/trickery)

Magic

Mysteries

Necromancers

Oracles

Second sight

Sorcery

Specters

Spiritualism

Supernaturalism

Superstition

Ventriloquism (I’m a little surprised they have Ventriloquism and Legerdemain categorized under 133, but no mention of Prestidigitation at all)

Witchcraft

[witchbrarian]

More in that’s just Dewey news

[kowabungadoodles]

A comic about looking after yourself, your loved ones and your mental health during the tough times ahead. I started this last November, when people were hurting so hard it was difficult to function - I’m sorry it took me so long to finish it.   Everyday activism you can do when you feel powerless. And when you feel stronger, Punch back.

[mlischiefmanaged-blog]

/lacuna

I’ve been quiet because I’ve been down

but I’m not out.

I’m still here, and I’m still fighting.

[corinneduyvis]

Twelve YA Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels with Lesbian, Bi, or Queer Girl Protagonists

The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst Sound by Alexandra Duncan Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis The Impostor Queen by Sarah Fine Adaptation by Malinda Lo The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith As I Descended by Robin Talley Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward

For even more books–to my delight, this is nowhere near an exhaustive list!–check out the fantastic @lgbtqreads: the website has a list of LGBTQ+ YA organized by gender of protagonist and genre.

(Images feature the covers of the twelve books listed, and a rainbow banner with the text “Queer Girl Leads in Sci-Fi & Fantasy YA.”) 

[candlelion-deactivated20140107]

i used to piss off my english teacher by making stupid csi puns every time a character died in hamlet

like we got to the part where ophelia died and i borrowed a kid’s sunglasses and i was like “looks like ophelia…was drowning her sorrows”

i almost got kicked out every day but it was worth it

[sunflowrqueen]

#looks like laertes….got the point #looks like it’s curtains…..for polonius #looks like king hamlet….got an earful

[whyarentweinspaceyet]

@guardiant42 this is you

[boroondaralibraryservice-deacti]

Even the Many Faced God cannot help without a name!

[mslibrarianreads-blog]

I don’t remember the details of 7th grade  all I remember is lying and being afraid  but I won’t forget Katherine and Michael going all the way  Karen pretending to puke so her dad would stay  Steph on the scale in the bathroom alone that day  Margaret arguing with god while she masturbated  all of them stacked on my shelf like a love letter  all of them saying Amanda you know better  you are not to blame  the world’s a vicious place  so go on and think how you want  you will not be alone in your thoughts  well you will but you wont in a way  cause a girl thought it too in a book that the  library bought.

Judy Blume by Amanda Palmer (via mslibrarianreads)

[mlischiefmanaged-blog]

Me at Customers During The Day: hello! How are you! Thank you! Have a great day, ma'am! That's a lovely dress btw. ^-^

Me at Customers 2 minutes Before Closing: I wrote this song for you guys called "GET OUT OF MY FUCKING STORE" and it goes like this *blows a shrieking discordant note on a harmonica for 6 minutes*

[guardian]

“I didn’t start publishing Pennsylvania’s Orange Street News so that people would think I’m cute. I want to get the truth to people, even if it makes grownups mad,” says 9-year-old Hilde Kate Lysiak, publisher of and reporter for the Orange Street News.

After reporting on a suspected homicide in Selinsgrove, Pa., Hilde was harassed by “disgusted” adults commenting on her site, saying her time would be better spent at tea parties and playing with dolls. 

Hilde has something to say, and she takes no prisoners, firing back at her aging critics, with a video and in her column for the Guardian. 

[badgersprite]

how pathetic do you have to be to pick on a literal nine year old

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[fierceawakening]

Damn.

[intrepidheroine]

@goldmare, @saveyourswoons, @osheamobile check out this hardcore reporter!

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[bookriot]

How to Be a Teenager in a Contemporary Novel Written for Adults

How do you do, fellow kids? Prove you're down with the youngs by using these common tropes.

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[leafcrunch]

my neighbourhood has never had an ice cream truck. in the summer, we have the knife sharpening truck. it slowly circles the block and rings its ominous bell. i have never seen someone interact with it. it may be that only those marked by death can see it

[sun-and-time]

alex??? this is truly frightening ??

[leafcrunch]

i never really thought about it much until today but you’re right this is honestly a messed up thing for me to be accustomed to