Arthur-Lesters-Thoracic-Vertebrae (T1-12)

21 | she/they | trainee bother | full-time annoyance | occasional artist

[yourlocalwhovian]

Hey guys, been meaning to make an introduction post to my blog for sometime, and here it finally is!

This blog is mostly just a dumping ground of my ever-rotating interests, so strap in for a wild, nonsensical ride.

You can call me Ethan, Indigo or by my username, but if you know me irl you know what to say! I go by she and they pronouns.

Credit for the profile pic goes to @threeblindmimes !

Main things that usually don’t go out of “rotation”:

Unhinged posts

Good Omens

Book fandoms such as Discworld and many many more

Podcasts such as: Magnus Archives and Protocol, Malevolent

Biology! Love that subject

Fanart (occasional dabbling in)

Me commenting on my life (scroll past these)

And pretty much anything funny or ironic that catches my eye

My AO3 is indigo_winchester

[bellabs-dream-lab]

Just remembered I had this screenshot on my phone somewhere and had to post it here because it really speaks to me

[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.

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[eartharchives]

Megalodon fossil lost for decades confirms the monster’s terrifying size

A long-lost fossil once thought destroyed has resurfaced, confirming just how enormous megalodon may have been — and offering fresh clues about the giant shark’s life.

https://www.sciencealert.com/megalodon-fossil-lost-for-decades-confirms-the-monsters-terrifying-size

[dduane]

Diagram adjusted for new data. And (mild amusement): STILL not bigger than Ed.

ETA: Also adding this image that dates back to 2023, and which I just rerendered in the new version of Daz to see how the lighting behaves. Large version at this YW.com URL.

ETA 2: a differerently-rendered version of this (I think because of the color scheme of the rest of the series of images) appeared in one of my blog’s Shark Week promos, here. Must update the graphic…

[the-vanilla-extraction]

okay let's make another cake 🎂🎂

butter

sugar

eggs

flour

milk

baking powder

vanilla extract

Remaining time: 4 days 7 hours

[dashcon-two]

please, dear audience, fill this out. for science

[superdaisypowerhour]

"if i had a time machine i would go back in time and kill hitler"

I would put sea mines around medieval britain. i would give hannibal barca ww2 era heavy artillery and tell him not to stop till he starts seeing gauls. i would give boudica a fucking abrams. i would appear before jesus like an angel and tell him "you gotta stop. not cause theyll kill you, youre fine with that, surprisingly, but because your fanclub is gonna spend about 1500 years making everything worse for everyone, everywhere." I would take a glock back in time and shoot romulus, shoot remus, and shoot that damn dog too just to be safe. i would be on the side of christopher columbus' ship in a scuba suit planting c4 on that bitch like rainbow six siege. i would be waging a one woman campaign of terror across andalusia to prevent the reconquista. i would be getting way out in front of that shit is what im saying,

[lyricwritesprose]

My kids once expressed a plan to me that involved a time machine, Andrew Jackson, and a hickory walking stick containing a bomb. What it lacked in practicality, it made up for in understanding the history lesson I had just given them (having at that point thrown the school's weak-ass mid-lockdown lesson plan across the room and engaged in a furious rant about the real stuff). The more you look at history, the more you start thinking you're gonna need a bigger time machine.

[unfortunatelymerlin]

bbc merlin has a lot of faults but i do think the way they blithely ignored the existence of christianity was very funny of them

[ath3alin]

so fucking humbling to be like “no I like that character a normal amount” and then you can literally feel your heart rate spike at a mention of them like a dog that just heard the word “treat”

[twinicegiantorbiters]

scientist girls in their labs, witch girls in their cottages. both are oh so hard at work coming up with new types of beams to shoot at each other

[twinicegiantorbiters]

they are sending their familiars and their lab assistants to fight each other in the forests and in the parking lots

[mmmmbees]

[phantomrose96]

Get your ducks in a row. Now get them in a circle. Get them in a Socratic seminar with that duck in the middle. Get them in a mosh pit. Get them moshing. Get them moshing.

[sternfleck]

Thoughts and prayers to my European mutuals suffering under their omega heat

[ralfmaximus]

do NOT google "omega heat"

[chocomiking]

prayers for the people googling "omega heat" for the first time

[wetorturedsomefolks]

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

[dearest-lady-disdain]

bold words for a man who has been killing people for eleven episodes straight

[yourlocalwhovian]

@flameyhawk

[pairofgoggles]

y’know what, frick it. I’m making a chain (this will go nowhere I don’t have enough moots for this.)

favorite music right now? Oh and tag your friends have fun with it

1.) Meddle - Pink Floyd

2.) The Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd

3.) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (can you see where this is going?)

4.) Animals - Pink Floyd

5.) This specific playlist by Me

uhh

@forghunter @ars-per-aspera @asistanttothewallflower @edensolace hi hi enjoy

[ars-per-aspera]

Fireflies by Owl City

In The Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Call Your Mom by Noah Kahan

Good Girls by Josie Edwards

Canticle of the Sun by Marty Haugen

@tinkustankus @nymsley @demographictransitionmodel

[demographictransitionmodel]

thanks @ars-per-aspera

"That Lonesome Road," James Taylor

"Sway," The Harvard Krokodiloes

"Dead Women," Mitski

"Curse Upon Iron," Veljo Tormis

"Non-Stop," Hamilton OBC

tagging @minus-stosorok @z4in-y @carnelldreaming @nicryukyo @ilowkeyhateithere @shedoescalcforfunsies @thetheaterkidwriter @endless-tsundoku @stargazinghorror _+open tags it's been a minute

[stargazinghorror]

thank tou for tagging me!!!

1. talk show host- radiohead

2 im on fire- bruce springsteen

3 crush- ethel cain

4 still lovin you- scorpions

5 principles of lust: sadeness/find love/sadeness- enigma

@endless-tsundoku @weepingmuppet @mr-patty-bateman @strange-nerd-boy and open tags!!

[mr-patty-bateman]

tysm for the tagg!!!

1. (i just) died in your arms tonight - cutting crew

2. jane! - the long faces

3. somewhere in my heart - aztec camera

4. head over heels - tears for fears

5. love is a contact sport - witney Houston

@believeinthe-enemy @pavilarg0 and open tags!!!!!

[ethan-elliott]

not tagged but joining cause it’s in my feed :D

this is my current rotation:

1. my playlist for my novel in progress (which is mostly twenty one pilots and the midnight mass soundtrack)

2. scissorhands (the last snow) — motionless in white

3. fair — the amazing devil

4. drum show — twenty one pilots

5. woe and pain — black veil brides

no pressure tags: @yourlocalwhovian @further-than-forever @eatanorange @shreysheep @im-literally-so-dun + open tags because I actually forget who I’m mutuals with atp ‘^-^

[yourlocalwhovian]

Ooooooooo yesssss Drum Show my beloved, love that song!!!

Going off my top Spotify:

1) Dog Prophecies- Josie Edwards

2) Changeling - Lydia the Bard, Ben Tomalin

3) We Will All Go Together When We Go - Harlan Guthrie

4) Monstah - Sam Riegel, Habib

5) The Legend of Grog Machina - Travis Willingham, Ashley Johnson, Habib

No pressure tags!

@somanyquestions-featuringanxiety @eyesonjupiter @weedle-testaburger @lezz-agna @armayes and anyone who wants to join!!!

[iusedtobecharming-deactivated20]

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

[rehearsing]

happy too tired July everyone

[moveslikekeithrichards]

this might be kind of a reach but is there a way for printers to connect to devices so that documents can be printed from them