#thelobsterqueen

[star-anise]

Hold up, they let you bring food into the uni library? That's amazing.

Not, I think, into the Special Collections library that holds legitimately old books that you can’t take off-premises. But I feel like they figure the general circulation books will be lent out and taken home and have Chinese food spilled over them anyway, so why not bow to the inevitable.

[sweetsandtreatsforthetraveler]

Hi! I've already asked this in the replies of the post, so apologies for the repetition, but tagging you in the question didn't work, so I'm not sure if you saw it. Is the Caduceus zine no longer available? When I clicked the link, it said I wasn't authorised to access it.

Oh that’s embarrassing. Somehow it was made private. Sorry about the confusion, here’s the new link.

[bibliophilicwitch]

@thelobsterqueen replied to your photoset: WELCOME TO READ TO ROLL! We hope you will join us...

How is this challenge going? Do you think you’ll go ahead with the plan to make this a recurring thing? Because I somehow haven’t managed to read even a single book yet all month, so I don’t think I’ll be able to take part this time… :/ But I love this idea so much, so I’d be thrilled to have a go some months from now!

I’ll tell you a secret - I’ve only read maybe 50 pages of my current read (a highly anticipated May new release and sequel to a favorite series that I’ve been working on for like over a month?) and only just read a graphic novel Saturday evening. So I’m not faring much better lol. That’s okay! Sometimes it just isn’t a reading time! (I’ve spent a lot of time catching up on Critical Role and working on actual D&D stuff because I kinda have a one track mind.)

Yes there will absolutely be a next time. I run programming for a library irl and I am a big proponent of consistency because people learn about it at different times and then are able to plan for it because they know to expect it. @relevy and I haven’t discussed when we want the next session to be (I’m thinking late winter after the holidays or spring - I also haven’t run a second round of the Bookwyrm Readathon and I still wanna do that at some point lol), but there will be at least a couple more before deciding the future of this readathon.

That said, there are still a few weeks in this month! There’s even a while weekend! End of summer can be busy and there may be other exciting and/or relaxing things to do, but don’t give up before the end. (You’re character almost positively wouldn’t!)

[dagenssvenska]

Okay, based on your most recent post, could I say "medan du var heterosexuell studerade jag svenska" or did I fuck up the grammar?

Yäs bäbe, det är helt rätt!

[sixth-light]

This whole sarcophagus water thing was fucking wild because I saw "they found this sarcophagus" posts and then I saw "they opened it" posts but with no explanation as to what was inside, so I innocently googled it and I don't know what I was expecting, but, "there's a liquid in there and people want to drink it" sure wasn't it.

2018, what can I say. 

[ragnarokdad]

The case that came across my dash was that one character was another character’s slave- not in a kink way either, but in a slavery way. So yeah, pretty damn awful. 

[thebibliosphere]

Hang on, are vampires who were born a couple of centuries ago really tiny? Cause I remember being taught that humans are getting a bit taller with every generation and now I'm imagining adorable tiny vampires trying desperately to be taken seriously.

Omg, literal ankle biters!

[actuallyadhd]

I think I fit the ADHD criteria but I looked at my school reports and in primary school they described me as "attentive" and "focussed" (less over time though and with more and more comments about me talking too much, having "tantrums" and making careless mistakes). I don't remember but I do remember that in grammar school I got way too positive comments bc the teachers were impressed by my grades and didn't mind my behaviour. How accurate are school records when it comes to ADHD in gifted kids?

When you say “less over time” do you mean in the same year (like you started focused and then by the end of the school year you were talking too much) or over the years you were in school? If the former, that’s basically how I functioned too.

School records are pretty iffy if you have Inattentive ADHD or are gifted. If most of your problems really relate to executive dysfunction (like being organized, doing your homework ahead of time so you aren’t scrambling at the last minute, etc.) then your teachers probably won’t really even notice, especially if you get good grades.

-J