#thelibrarina

[kjack89]

@thelibrarina​ @hwaetever​ ah yay, I’m so glad y’all picked up on it!! :D

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thelibrarina replied to your photo “I forgot I made this for a friend around mid-February because she was...”

Sam omg Sam thank you! "The Mezzotint" is the name of one of my favorite short horror stories but I could never remember what it was called so I lost it!!!

Aw, I’m glad I could help, even if it was inadvertent! Now I’ll have to look it up and read it for myself. 

kholden83 replied to your photo “No sniggering, you pervs. Today’s Purple Cow project is to find...”

fun fact: this art technique is sometimes called frottage, just like the sex act is

I’m so torn between “Thanks I hate it” and “That’s horrible I love it”. :D

tzikeh replied to your post “goldenmeme replied to your photo “scifigrl47: whitmerule: ...”

"I do have to start shopping at Costco more since Peapod stopped delivering to the midwest." TERRIBLE TIMING, PEAPOD

I mean, even if they did get a boost from the stay-home order, I don’t think it solves the larger problem of Instacart and Shipt murdering them, unfortunately :/ 

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thelibrarina

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“More DadveRt. I don’t know what R went to him to ask for his help...”

I can see dadvert getting absolutely FIRED UP over some breach of ethics law or employment law that happens to R. He's about to put on his leather stock (in his soul, at least) and GET TO WORK.

Totally need more DadveRt content. I can only make so much alone! XD

Things that would totally happen

R getting caught doing graffiti as a teen, being all “yeah my dad will just let me off” and he gets a rediculous amount of community service cleaning grafitti. No one is above the letter of the law!

Javert instilling in his son that he can come to him no matter what the issue is, and R getting drunk at a house party as a teen and someone offering him a lift home but they’re totally drunk and R ringing the local police number and going “Hi, I;d like to report underage drinking  and a noise complaint please, oh and send Officer Javert, he’s on the night shift?” So he gets a safe lift home (and a bollocking from his dad but yaknow...)

R having some form of prejudiced high school teacher and joking about it “oh my Maths teacher just hates me and won’t help me out, it’s cool I mean I draw in all the books anyway no wonder he hates me” and Javert marching into the school demanding justice and fair maths class for all, and his son wouldnt spend so much time doodling in class if he understood what was going on better! (oh and maybe you should give him detention for drawing in class, bad teaching doesn’t excuse drawing in class?) R standing several feet behind like O_O

R doing the classic european teen thing of going inter-railing one summer and coming back with dreadlocks instead of his nice cropped hair. Javert is not pleased,

Javert makes a lot of use of daycare as a single father, all the staff and mothers think baby R and Javert are adorable and try to help out which Javert takes as an offence against his capabilities and becomes amazing at cooking and keeping house so the other parents don’t think he’s incompetent as a single dad.

Secretly dead chuffed his son is persuing a career in the arts, because it means he has had the freedom to choose and not just do any old job to make ends meet. Hangs all his drawings on the wall of his office.

More than once Javert has had to pull his son out the drunk tank, but can’t be too pissed at him because R usually got in a fight cos someone was being a dick at a club, not taking no for an answer etc so R stepped in, Javert still pissed because assault is still assault and he doesn’t want to see R go the wrong path, (There have been many many lectures.)

Young Law student, Enjolras, becomes the bane of Javert’s existance. He does not like the way R looks at him.

Javert is happy R joined a group who stand up for the little guy, He is not happy said group seems to enjoy exercising their displeasure by civil disobedience and protesting.

Javert and R have sunday lunch together every week. R has to be dead or dying to get out of it. While they often disagree they keep the standing arrangement. Some of the Amis who have more estranged families don’t get it.

I mean yes there’s the inevitable story where Javert finds out R and Enjolras are dating and oh dear lord it’s serious but he also recognises that Enjolras is incredibly hard working and he respects that, and in the end it’s Enjolras who causes the problems because he can’t get over R’s father being in law enforcement and R being ok with that. (Totally misjudging how close R and Javert actually are despite appearing polar opposites. There was a big apology and Enj having to learn to live with a future inlaw in law enforcement.)

TLDR there’s way more to dadveRt than “OMG my son is not allowed to date that revolutionary grrr!”

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thelibrarina replied to your photo “sometimes a family is you, your meticulously highlighted pattern, and...”

that sounds TERRIFYING. i only had to place 4 markers and i messed up at least 1

(you have given me an excuse to talk about this and for that i thank you most dearly)

the markers themselves don’t signify anything pattern-wise (they don’t, in fact, exist in the pattern at all) and are easy to keep track of because they have been placed there by me solely for the purpose of helping me keep track of the pattern

which is to say, all i’ve done is place a stitch marker every 10 stitches so that this:

turns into this:

the colours of the various lines correspond to the colours of the stitch markers:

“uhhh which of these one million pattern repeats am i currently on?” i now don’t have to think because i can see that i am currently knitting from the green to the blue marker.

which is something that can then combined with this:

to form this:

or as it looks in its final form the way i actually have it set up while knitting:

which is really barely terrifying at all

can i reliably keep track of which of the 350 stitches i’m on? no. can i keep track of where i am in the ten stitches that cover the purple to the red stitch marker? also no tbh. but going back and counting to like six is far less time consuming and far less likely to go wrong than going back and counting to like 263.

[myrmidryad]

omg YOU HAVE AN OLD KINGDOM AU TOO?!?! Mine never had a plot but I loved putting characters in that world. i would LOVE to read that fic if you write it for the big bang!!

YOOOOOOO omg it’s one of my favourite fantasy worlds, all the death stuff is SO cool, I reread the series every couple of years without fail. I started the au literally years ago, I just need a good kick up the ass to finish it, so hopefully a deadline will do the job!

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thelibrarina replied to your post “Student paper just claimed Odysseus is never punished by the gods...”

Oh noooo that song will be in my head for a week!

bobcatmoran replied to your post “Student paper just claimed Odysseus is never punished by the gods...”

A+ Tom Lehrer reference

Every time I teach Oedipus it is SUCH A CHALLENGE to not spontaneously break into song in front of students. THE STRUGGLE IS REAL and weirdly catchy.

(This is the song, for anyone out there not up on their Tom Lehrer and/or anyone who now has it stuck in their head; SORRY NOT SORRY. cw for mentions of incest, obviously)

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thelibrarina replied to your post “I AM SO PLEASED”

Please tell me it was full of Grantaire making reference to Enjolras being heartless? Even though it's untrue and hurtful to them both?

h

holy shit. headcanon FULLY ACCEPTED 

they have all just developed horrible coping mechanisms. since enjolras frequently forgets his own circumstances because of the severity of his injuries every time Grantaire makes the joke Enj is like “????” and then combeferre has to explain everything all over again.

this also makes way for the other, nicer “joke” Grantaire constantly makes--saying enjolras has a “heart of gold” because he totally does (even though it’s actually just polished bronze) 

[olderthannetfic]

You don't uh...happen to remember the title of that trashy Professionals pirate AU with the names changed, do you? :)

Hahaha. Why am I not surprised this is the ask I get.

It’s called ‘Fortunes of War’. It was professionally published under the name ‘Mel Keegan’. It’s apparently now available as a kindle ebook with a truly loathsome cover.

It’s pretty good from what I (dimly) remember, but there’s a lot more anal sex written like (romance novel first time) PiV, rape backstory, and uneven pacing than in recent m/m novels I’ve read. The ebook is way overpriced for the current m/m market.