Welcome To The library

A roleplay blog for my oc Pepper Mynt the librarian! Bunni Mynt-Williams, father! 🌶️🍭Pepper works as a librarian for the Huntington library/art museum and botanical gardens in California. 🌶️🍭 Rules 🌶️🍭 About 🌶️🍭 Alternate Universe

[peppermyntlibrarian]

Like this post for me to check out your blog.

This will eventually be a proper promo post!

[sandpontiff]

On a trip

[lakevida]

kid in the library just said "a VILLAIN who lives in the MOON is after us" so keep an eye out for that today guys

[beccassweettooth]

[mudwerks]

support your local libraries

[thememedaddy]

[steampunktendencies]

The Two-Sided Statue of Mephistopheles and Margaretta

This 19th-century sculpture, displayed at the Salar Jung Museum in India, is carved from a single log of sycamore wood. Created by an anonymous French sculptor, it features Mephistopheles and Margaretta, the iconic characters from Goethe's "Faust," on opposite faces.

[peppermyntlibrarian]

Pepper is one of the cutest guys around

10/10 would treat to a wonderful book date

“Why thankyou dear, I appreciate it immensely. And a book date sounds lovely! There are quite a few I have been meaning to add to the library at home….”

[dinomoder]

Drew the newly described dinosaur Huashanosaurus qini

[oldjewelryfeed]

Swallow Heart Edwardian Brooch

[shortace]

I'm millennial enough to never want to talk to anybody on the phone, ever; but I'm boomer enough to think that every company should be legally obliged to have a phone number easily available with actual humans on the other end.

[saintemiliosandoz]

y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc

not once do i ever see a summary

[mycoolstoryworld]

What more info do you need?

A SUMMARY

WHAT DO U MENA SUMMARY WHAT ELSE MATTERS ITS GAY POC AND ENEMIES TO LOVERS HOW OFTEN DO U CONE ACROSS THAT

i want to know what its about mainly. is it a romance? is there plot besides the romance? is it realistic fiction? sci fi? fantasy? historical? future? alternate history? whats the tone? what are the themes? what are the main characters’ NAMES?

I- it’s gay the gay

i value queer characters too. but i also want to know WHAT THE BOOK I’M READING IS ABOUT.

[marzipanandminutiae]

“GAY AND/OR RACIALLY DIVERSE” IS NOT A GENRE. nor is it an indicator of quality

do you know how many times I’ve been recommended a book solely because “it’s queer fantasy!”

do you know how many times those books have been so poorly written that I couldn’t finish them

[captainlordauditor]

Mostly, I want to know the tone. A 19th century war story isn’t gonna do it for me when I’m in the mood for a lighthearted austenesque romance - and those are both historical. A star warsy space romp isn’t gonna do it if I want to read about interplanetary political negotiations - and those are both sci fi. A fun gratuitious don’t-think-about-it-too-hard action story is not the same as a dark and complicated mob drama. A suspenseful thriller will bore me if I’m looking for a fast paced spy novel.

not providing a summary literally just shows how you treat marginalized people and their representation as this token woke thing that you can show off like a shiny trophy. no, people aren’t going to read something just because it has representation! that’s not how it works!

[the-uncanny-dag]

Artist bio by Anna Daliza

[prokopetz]

The thing about Lovecraft's work is that he did write about some genuinely fucked up critters, but he doesn't seem to have had a clear picture of which ones those are. "Dog that inhabits right angles" and "sapient colour" are treated as exactly as mind-bending as, like, "guy who looks like a fish" and "big penguin".

[flowerbleedme]

The idea that all of existence is a fictional dream of a sleeping god creature from an entirely different reality that could wake up at any moment, ending all life that never truly existed at all, is a fascinatingly terrifying concept but the god is not nearly as popular as the Really Big Guy who is Squid

[bogleech]

To be fair the hounds of tindalos are a great example of what we like to think Lovecraftian means because they're never actually described like dogs or described at all, they're "hounds" in the sense that they track some kind of quarry for some kind of master. The only other thing known about them is that they can travel through right angle corners, so you have a guy who knows he's marked and he spackles every corner he can find until it's like he's living in a giant egg, and everyone thinks he's just "crazy" until the spackling gives out and he poofs out of reality.

There's great mind bending horror there that doesn't rely on knowing what the monster is or what it looks like, but the unexplainable mechanisms by which it operates and what that can do to the mind of someone living all alone with a fear no one else can accept.

But then, yeah, there are also the Lovecraft stories in which the threat is "what if big limpets could read."

[annabelle--cane]

developed a real fondness lately for characters who experience a horrific act of violence and come out the other side saying "ah. I don't think I get to be me anymore. they took out the part that was me, killed it, and put something else back in its place, and now I'm whoever the hell that is." love it when someone becomes a corpse and replaces themself <3

[boyhood]

[theodysseyofhomer]

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[strinak]

oh, you meant they literally did, ok

[theodysseyofhomer]

would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?

[polyphemusthecylcops]

...

[theodysseyofhomer]

this is the only funny addition to this post

[catchymemes]

[therobotmonster]

When life gives you bears… trick them into doing market research?

[loki-zen]

@mercuryjellyfish

[discoursedrome]

What I really like about this is that the containers all have prominent labels with a camera pointing directly at them, but it’s still called a double-blind trial because the researcher isn’t present and the bear can’t read