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Genius Adventurer Librarian Velociraptor

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Fandom, food, cool things, dogs. Also books (and book reviews).

library aus (based off my experiences working in a university library)

  • i found you asleep in the stacks. we’re closed. please go home.
  • i’m too short to reach the top shelf and too stubborn to get a stool. you watched me take a running leap for it before you offered to grab the book for me
  • you reserved the book i wanted to check out first and i hate you for it
  • no, i cannot help you find your textbook if you don’t know what it’s called. “it has a blue cover” doesn’t help
  • you have rented and returned the entire buffy the vampire series in the span of 8 days. are you okay.
  • you said that shakespeare was dumb while checking out fight club and i am ready to Fight You
  • you saw me dancing to my ipod while reshelving books. please don’t judge me. or tell my boss.
  • I’m always pulling books you reserved so I’ve started leaving little notes in them for you.
  • WHY DID YOU ANNOTATE A LIBRARY BOOK IN PEN.
  • someone left a comment card in the suggestions box that says “the reference librarian is super cute” and now all of the reference librarians are arguing over who it’s for
  • i walked in on you and your boyfriend making out in the upper level and now french lit is ruined for me forever
  • your study group ordered pizza to the library and you let me have some
  • you brought your drunk friend to the library and then left them passed out in the play section. why would you do this.
  • you keep watching baby animal videos on youtube without headphones on and i should yell all you but they’re really cute baby animals

adding some from my experience

  • I’m supposed to be shelving but you’re watching my favorite episode of a show I like for what is clearly the first time and I need to see how you react to the cliffhanger
  • I caught you putting books in order by series instead of by the call number and yes I know it’s stupid but please stop
  • it’s finals week and you are trying to guess facts about me and my coworkers because you will do anything to stall going to the testing center and you actually got things right about me
  • some girls startled me on purpose for a video scavenger hunt and my anxiety is kicking into overdrive so you chased them down, made them delete the video, and asked if I was ok
  • I helped you find an obscure book with like two details, and now you and my coworkers think i’m psychic but really it’s just because I returned it last night
  •  “Ok so it’s not on the shelf or the cart or the other shelf but there is ONE MORE PLACE I’ll be right back” “really it’s ok you don’t have to–” “no I’m going to find this book for you”
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Ubisoft: introduces a new mode for AC Origins which is basically an educative historical mode to learn about Ancient Egypt, great for those who don’t play video games much or just want to explore the game without having to fight

Some fanboys: Wtf is this???? Combat free AC??? No thanks, boring, preorder canCELLED!!!!

SG1 Drinking Game

Take a shot whenever: 

  • Jack makes a needless sarcastic joke
  • Sam’s love interest dies 
  • Teal'c raises his eyebrow 
  • Something goes wrong with the stargate.
  • General Hammond calls/is called by the president.
  • There is a medical emergency.
  • Vara tries to steal something (including Daniels heart)
  • Everytime the self destruct is activated (additional shot if the day is saved in the last second)
  • Cameron comes up with a metaphor

Drink when:

  • Daniel dies 
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“Daniel dies” would easily be enough for us all to empty a goddamn liquote store… in one season alone

I keep thinking about this video wherein the host argues that the MC in a movie probably committed rape. (The movie is Groundhog Day, the video is the most recent Excessive Pop Culture Disorder, about Andie MacDowell.)

Almost all of the comments were going

because a) accusing a fictional character [that is played by a well-liked actor] of rape is clearly THE END OF THE WORLD, b) accusing a fictional character of rape when a reading of the text (movie) supports it is still A Little Too Much, and c) they’ve never heard of Rape by Deception.

And I have to wonder if part of the reason why rape is so scorned as a crime (i.e. dudes don’t see it as a ‘crime’) is because people aren’t aware of how common it is, how many types there are, or WHAT THE FUCK CONSENT IS.

And also that women and women’s bodies aren’t respected but let’s not get into that today or we’ll be here until next November.

Mum: what toppings do you like on pizza?

Me: Oh…pepperoni, mushrooms, olives, sausage, beef, sometimes garlic…

Stepfather: That’s the toppings on the “cowboy” pizza from the take-and-bake place!

Me: That…was a list of options, not a recipe.

I’m beginning to think the true pizza controversy isn’t pineapple lovers vs pineapple haters, but “one or two topping” versus “casserole with a pizza crust”. 

Based on my family’s farther-flung relatives, my theory is that the farther west one travels in the continental US, the more toppings it’s acceptable to have on pizza. The New Yorker fam is strictly one topping at most, the Ohioans 2-4 toppings, the Coloradoans are moving into casserole range and the Californians have gone full casserole with a salad on top.

The Good Place Sterek AU

Stiles and Derek are sent to the good place and put together as soulmates, but they both think it’s a mistake that they were sent there. Derek is convinced he belongs in the bad place because of the death of his family and is ready to turn himself in, but Stiles talks him out of it. Stiles doesn’t deserve to be tortured for eternity because of a few lies and the fact he stole his dad’s whiskey once or twice. If Derek is found to be a mistake, then Michael might look more closely at Stiles and they might both get sent away.

So Derek agrees to pretend, which means they have to pretend to be perfect soulmates in company… all while annoying each other constantly.

Until the annoyances start to be endearing. Michael put them together because they were supposed to hate each other, but they ended up falling in love anyway.

oh no why would you do this to me

this would be roughly 1500% amazing, like, Stiles helping Derek accept that what happened wasn’t his fault and Derek helping Stiles make peace with the bad things he did and the fact that yeah, okay, he wasn’t actually a great person but he was protecting his friends and his family

and then you BRING THE FUCKING HAMMER DOWN

(my own problems with the good place aside for the moment)

also the next door neighbors are Scott and Allison who are like the picture perfect couple and everyone adores them. Isaac lives a few doors down and he’s one of those rare people who has no soulmate, and Michael (who plays Michael in this AU? Deaton, of course, absolutely it would be Deaton) is like “it’s because you’re so perfect on your own!” and Isaac is like “haha, yeah ….” and he’s so head over heels in love with Allison (and a little bit Scott) but of course he can never be with them…

(Side note: Can you imagine the discussions of Scott’s morality in this ‘verse? Scott, always doing the right thing. Would never hurt a fly. Only … his decisions ended in other people getting hurt. Like, he let Deucalion live, and then Deucalion killed people later. He couldn’t bring himself to kill someone, so he put it at someone else’s feet. He *looks* perfect, but he’s not. I ….. would get so much hate mail for this fic, I’m suddenly thinking, LOL)

HOW DARE YOU I’M AT WORK RIGHT NOW I DO NOT NEED MORE FICS TO WRITE

We will very likely become a paperless society before inventing a reliable printer.

I’m well aware that the USA is going paperless, but I lived in Japan a few years ago and they EMBRACE THE PAPER. (They use a lot of recycled paper, which is cool! but also bleeds if you use anything but a ballpoint!!)

Also, they still use (and rely on) fax machines. And find computers kinda mystical. And print out photographs.

Source: reddit.com