Ramblings Of A Broke College graduate @mr-snufflegums - Tumblr Blog

There is literally a women's clothing store called Soup, in South Korea.

in my world they’re in the same universe and people are experiencing a generational run of vlogs from men abandoned in space

flimflix

brought some fruit for the potluck

penelopepseudonym

A dark, foreboding feeling overtakes you. You know this face, even in its absence.

raccoonmilf

If the only thing that has kept you going was outliving Mitch McConnell, imma need yall to pick a new person to outlive and fast. Your mission is not over.

runcibility

The savvy hater knows to diversify your motherfucker portfolio.

keplercryptids

I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”

keplercryptids

him: you split up all the song of ice and fire books

me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

him: [self-destructs]

operativesurprise

You’re a monster

thetumblrofrassilon

As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?

keplercryptids

it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.

my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.

holdmecloseandfast

OP your brain is neat and I love you for it you funky little color-coded cupcake. But you’re still a monster.

krsonmar

This actually is interesting in terms of information-seeking behavior, which is a thing librarians think about a lot and often actually study (some library jobs require you to publish, and academic librarians, for instance, will often use the students at the college they work at to study how they search for information in order to figure out how to best provide them services).

When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.

OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.

In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.

Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.

And also, OP is a monster.

therootbeersprite

@official-library-posts

official-library-posts

official library post

starrynet

what’s your favorite ship?

titanic

hms terror

uss enterprise

ever given (the container ship that blocked the suez canal in 2021)

captain ahab’s whaling vessel

ship of theseus

battleship monopoly token

mclennon

Voting ended onJul 14

margindoodles2407

@whyoneartheven

puddox

saw someone including "Mandate of Heaven" as one of those christian terms tumblr likes to use to sound profound. which i get where you're coming from but t☝️hat one is chinese

yuriinullification

holdon

what the fuck is going on in this site's backend

mrsandman42069

ntrider

noncon friendship

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Coworkers

ryukisgod

Your friend’s boyfriend

emwheezie

"time heals all wounds" WRONG. time is chasing me with a knife

why-bless-your-heart

I.... what?

why-bless-your-heart

I was too flabber & gasted to check the ingredient list in the store so I went to the website and:

what?

mr-snufflegums

So things like this are sold for people who really like crystal clear ice in their cocktails, mocktails, or other beverages. Makes them look and feel classy.

#seriously #like it's so hard to get good crystal clear ice #if you're not really into mixology or whatever it's not worth the freezer space to do it #because you need a goddamn cooler and patience and a willingness to attack a large block of ice with a knife #but you can totally do it #it's just so annoying I'd rather store more chicken or something.

roadhogsbigbelly

Sorry to be a "let people enjoy things" guy but is this not a bizarrely corny way to talk about art?

roadhogsbigbelly

like yeah i have encountered people online who think their ocs who exist in a contextless bubble deserve the same reverence as fully realized characters, and that mentality is annoying, but i don't actually think the end goal of all art is to became a webcomic, i think it's a perfectly fine if people want to flex their creative muscle by creating funky character designs with wacky backstories just for the joy of creation itself, like you don't have to be personally invested in it, but it's a bizarre way to moralize art especially coming from a group of people who otherwise seem to be against that?

digitaldiscipline

"creative fulfillment without the actual sex" as if a whole lot of fandom isn't purely masturbatory, and drama was appropriately called "wank"

these people would collapse into poppyseed singularities if they so much as heard the word "goncharov"

There's gays in them mountains

autistickaitovocaloid

Telling my kids these were the wiggles.

toskarin

in my sickly haze I somehow installed 2 tumblrs

toskarin

the tumblr brothers

toskarin

so interesting news but after using both for a bit, while they initially seemed the same, it has become clear that the right tumblr app takes place in a timeline where 9/11 did not happen