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as an ace majoring in information science, with a plan to eventually get an MLIS and become a librarian, i support this plan

So, I was thinking about voting in the US election at the library Tuesday. I have also found out that they rent video games and I've been hankering lately to play Resident Evil like i did when I was younger. I just hope they have a copy for PS4.

The library is less than a mile from my house, I'm desperately trying to save money, and I also have large swaths of alone time now that I'm single. I need to start hanging out there, I think. I have fond memories of the library in the town I grew up in in Ohio.

Maybe if more of us asexuals and aromantics embrace our identities, we can start a library revolution and save them. It's one of the last spaces you can visit where you don't have to spend money. Now that I'm single, I have time for this.

If I ever win the lottery, I'm donating a shit ton of money to the library.

i mean the soul permeability explanation makes sense and it’s funny, however i would like to present some other alternatives:

John definitely read, and maybe wrote fanfic prior to the whole god thing, and I wouldn’t put it past him to incorporate fanfic tropes as part of the mythos/scripture around himself

gideons porn mags probably used similar tropes as like setup material for the sexy scenes, and there is a nonzero chance harrow has read some of them

my personal favorite - the noniad is essentially like a several hundred thousand word fanfic imo, and we know from htn that harrow has read enough to quote long sections from memory, so maybe she got her fanfic trope knowledge from ortus

So I like kind of mentioned this in a previous post but like. It’s weird?? Right?? That when Harrow re-constructs the bubble over and over again at the start of HtN Act V she does 1) role-reversal AU 2) Arranged marriage AU 3) Coffee shop AU. Because those are FANFIC TROPES. (The arranged marriage AU being especially unhinged to me because she doesn’t even know John is Gideon’s dad at that point!! Her brain had to come up with “what if Gideon were royalty omg??” ON ITS OWN.) And like the fanfic-ness always was insane bc of course yeah that makes sense from a Doylist perspective, ie, Taz Muir’s an author notable for her inclusion of internet humor and culture, and she has personal experience with fanfic. But it didn’t make sense on a Watsonian level because sure, Harrow’s clearly a Romantic, but this isn’t a genre language that I think Harrow naturally speaks. Harrow doesn’t read smutty romance novels!!! She’s a repressed little nunlet obsessed with bones, her only options of sexual interest in her adolescence being 1) GIDEON 2) a corpse she views as holy and sacred— no really safe options for exploratory crushes or sexual experimentation here. So how is she thinking in fic/romance tropes? Either A) Harrow is significantly less repressed than everything I’ve ever read about her would lead me to understand, B) fic tropes are so transcendental that the agonized, wounded, thrice-haunted mind of Harrowhark Nonagesimus could, in its death throes, find itself in this specific genre of text she has no personal reference for, or C) according to the Sex Pal Theory of Permeability, Harrow has gained an understanding of romance tropes via soul osmosis, from Gideon/Alecto/Wake/Palamedes during the bubble visit???, and that explains why she dreams in fanfiction. I’m going with option C. Thank you Unwanted Guest for solving this little mystery for me 🙏🙏🙏

Transfems read this thread

they should invent a way to read in bed that's comfortable

reblog to teleport your mutuals to a massive party when jkr dies

the way tumblr tags trend is so funny, sometimes it seems like if ONE post gets popular the entire tag trends.

I’m gonna do an experiment. let’s use the tag

uhhhhhh

#mole interest

@staff should give all of us a bot hunter badge in recognition of our service

I’m always a slut for libraries with beautiful architecture

petition to give northern ireland back to the irish as part of the terms of our alliance

Felt like covering the map of Europe with dots-

Ignore the key, I made it because I was bored-

It's silly hours fellas, gotta have silly hours after murdering bots, right? ;}

does anybody else know what to do with the weirdly ambiguous posts on the ace tag rn? like obv im reporting the supplement/porn bots and leaving the actual people posting about acespec things alone, but i also keep finding like random food pictures tagged with asexual and i have no idea what’s going on there