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Sarah the Librarian
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neil-gaiman
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sydnam asked:

There may be better ways to contact you but this way is possibly more fun. I was at the library staff dinner you attended last night and I just wanted to say again how wonderful the experience was. Thank you for being there. Thank you for reading to us (you're right and we don't get read to often enough). Thank you for chatting with us for so long. It was totally worth the 7 hours I spent in the car yesterday to make it happen! -Mandy (the one with the braids)

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neil-gaiman answered:

It was so much fun. Children's librarians, librarians, school librarians and their helpers are the best kinds of people, and they are on the ground spreading the magic of literacy every day.

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#if nobody's got our back i know neil's got our back#sarah the librarian
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olderthannetfic
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Anonymous asked:

I'll buy books but I often pirate PDF versions because physical books and reading online don't agree with my travelling lifestyle. I don't always have the luggage space or the connection.

olderthannetfic answered:

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thelibrarina

For the love of all that is good, please just use your library.

Almost every library, at least in the US, has nice, extensive, legal ebook collections, which you can access for free. We pay ridiculous prices to maintain access to our collections, so if you use them then we win, you win, and the authors win.

If your local library doesn't have access, your state probably has a consortium, and especially post-Covid, you usually don't even need to visit the library in person.

MAYBE someone out there has a good reason to pirate books, but this isn't it.

#this argument continues to be not-the-best#like do what you want but stop trying to get other people to bless your piracy#sarah the librarian
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hopetorun
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avani008

Unusual Fic-Specific Asks for Authors

Send me one of my fics + one of the following:

  • Perspective Flip: I’ll write a scene from [that fic] from another character’s point-of-view
  • BTS: I’ll write a DVD commentary about my personal favorite passage from [that fic]
  • A Thousand Words: I’ll create a photoset/gifset that, IMO, sums up the main themes/concepts I intended for [that fic]
  • Fusion Dance: Send me a possible fusion (coffeeshop, Hogwarts, zombie apocalpyse, etc.) and I’ll translate at least one scene of [that fic] into such a ‘verse
  • For Want of a Nail: Send me a minor detail to be changed (i.e., Character A chooses blue instead of red, Characters B and C swap places in one scene) and I’ll tell you how [that fic] would be different
  • Time After Time: Send me a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of [that fic], or sometime in the past before the story started, and I’ll tell you what happened then
  • The Million Dollar Question: Ask me any random question, big or small, about off-screen events in [that fic] and I’ll answer it!
#I haven't posted anything in forever#but i do have Thoughts for most of my fics
thelibrarina

Here, have a brief respite from Barricade Day angst: Now I have TWO dogs.

This is Scoundrel. He's been with me since 2016! He is A Good Boy.

A few weeks back, my gf sent me a pic from the local shelter that looked exactly like Scoundrel. Like, I turned around to double-check that he was sitting on the bed because they looked so similar.

I messaged them to put my name on an interest list, bc I mean...they're like twins...and didn't think I'd ever hear back.

Well, um. I did.

Here's the newbie.

But do they like each other? Will they get along??

Yep, we're good.

#barricade break#barricade day#scoundrelpup#dogs#to be named later
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featherlight-whispers asked:

hello! i don't know if you've already been asked this, but i just came across your library cryptid post and i need to know if you ever went back there

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Hey, sorry, I don't know how long ago this was sent, but I just saw it.

And I'm double-sorry, because that post was actually a stealthy Good Omens fanfic, based on Aziraphale's bookshop in the book.

We'll just have to be the bookshop cryptids that we want to see in the world.

#an ask and an answer#good omens
thelibrarina

My dad is helping me paint my new house, and he called up his buddy to stop by for some pictures he had for him...and his buddy just stayed to help us prep? Like all morning?

He's not obligated. There's nothing in it for him. I just. Some boomers are good actually.

#real stuff