#librarydaze

[mynapalmera]

When a song gets so wedged into your brain you change your url about it

[barid-bel-medar]

@librarydaze since I’m replying to your reply, no clue if your even interested but in case you were...

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“Question And this is a question and I’m geniunely curious on people’s...”

well I suspect it's because academia is a slog, text book publishers are almost impossible to deal with, Snape is a nobody as far as they're concerned, and whomever wrote the bylaws for the school probably wasn't interested in what the 23 (ish?) year old potions professor had to say on the matter. BUT luckily he wrote instructions on the board! So his students got the improved information anyway! Yay!

While that would be true at 23, once he’d been a professor for a few years I feel like the Board of Directors would be a bit more willing to listen especially since he had a friend on the Board in the form of Lucius Malfoy. Same with academic publishers, though I am familiar with the slog of it from my Uncle’s complaints (he was involved in writing a med school text book and keeping it up to date). Same with classmates at my MLS program who decided to try to publish their thesis and the book that I wrote is still going through the editing/formating/publication stages even though I finished the damn thing almost three years ago now. But the publishers would probably be willing to listen a bit more I’d say about five or six years in, when there’s an increase in more-than-competent Potion makers. OWLs and NEWTs must have improved under his tenure.

But still, simply the fact that they’ve been using the same text for twenty years or so is a bit weird. There seriously has been no progression in the field of potions over that time? No one’s said ‘hey, maybe we should update this?’ Even discounting Snape as the one doing it, there’s no other possible text book out there? Like yeah, they’re lucky in that they have Snape who’s probably one of the most brilliant Potion Masters alive and giving them better instructions on the board (which students are presumably writing down for later reference).

Another reason would be the same reason my Uncle decided to be involved in that medical textbook; royalties. Snape would have had a secondary income from a published course book, even if it’s only for one of the years (I mean as in First Year, Second Year, ect. not that the book is only used for a year). Like yeah, academia is a bitch to deal with publication wise, but he has time over the summer (there’s pretty much no indication he’s doing that much, at least not pre-Harry’s Fourth Year/Fifth Year summer). He already has the potions written out.

So at that point I would say the main issue would be formating, because Malfoy would likely be willing to put pressure on publishers and he seemed to be the main power on the Board so he would probably be willing to change things. After all, he’s on friendly enough terms with Snape to make him Draco’s godfather, and he would have been well aware of his skill in Potions as well as the Dark Arts...Actually, come to think of it, it’s completely possible Dumbledore was preventing it, with the exact logic you ended your point on; Snape was already writing it on the board so why deal with the frustration of the publishers.

But of course this is all hypothetical, I’m writing this at almost 1am when I really, really should be asleep since I don’t need a repeat of last Thursday’s mess, and I’m damn well aware some of the stuff I’ve written probably hasn’t been completely coherent for the past few days. Possibly coherent, but just as likely not.

[potionsmasters]

librarydaze replied to your post: twosidestodarkness: I love you all and everyone is...

sooooo was it just me that enjoyed “The Proud Man’s Contumely” ?

i’ve never heard of that fic. share the link fam

[potionsmasters]

librarydaze replied to your link “Snape: the Homes Fries Nazi - pir8fancier”

I don't know why I took so long to read this fic- it was so so good

I KNOW RIGHT

[voldrega]

Hey y'all Henry Winkler wrote a book! Henry is short for Heinrich right...looks like all the days weren't so happy... #librarydaze #UOfAaaay #notsohappydays #fonzie (at Main Library)

[voldrega]

When the person next to you just HAS to be extra... #librarydaze #uofi (at Main Library)

[potionsmasters]

librarydaze replied to your post “librarydaze: I very very much want try reading some severitus, but...”

I just have to take a moment to get into a "no, not that kind of embrace!" headspace

aaaahhh SAMEE. occasionally i’ve had snape kiss harry on the head or something and i have to remind myself that they’re not going to fuck lmao

[colubrina]

I'm honestly in awe of you every time you post a word count update or a new oneshot. I've been trying to get back into the habit of writing since having kids. I dutifully open my word doc to work on fic, or drag around my OF outline, but whenever I finally have real free time I completely crumble to the temptation to just be alone and do nothing for awhile.

Doing nothing is a beautiful thing, especially when you have little kids. You just don’t get a lot of time to not have to be at someone’s beck and call.  Cut yourself some slack.   They only get older and they’ll need you less and soon they’ll be making sugar cookies on their own and all you have to do is eat them.