I’ve slowly been coming to terms with the fact that my most enduring legacy on the internet is going to be tweeting a screenshot of my local library’s Facebook page.
Celebrating librarians is a wonderful legacy!
I’m so happy this post made its way onto the Fediverse. <3
Just know you put a smile on a lot of faces, including mine :)
Best content on Twitter most likely. You did good.
Small world.
This is one of my favorite images, it brightens my day every time I see it. I save it in my phone, I send it to my friends.
Congrats on being internet famous!
Addendum: don't snack on snakes. Snakes will not be provided as snacks on either date.
Random little anecdote: A kid at my school got suspended for 2 weeks for calling the school librarian hot. This happened years ago and it was a big scandal lmao
Two weeks for that sounds excessive. Imagine if they said that the librarian was thicker than a bowl of oatmeal, that kid would be in prison to this day.
Suspension at all is a bit over the top for some dumb thing a kid said. Maybe have them write an essay about why it’s not something you’d say to people.
In 2nd grade in the 80s, I got suspended for three days for flicking raisins
That is excessive, ridiculously so. But, like, did you want to get ants because that is how you get ants.
Rosa: Wow, she is good at shushing.
Jake: I know. She's like a librarian.
Rosa: You mean like a sexy librarian?
Jake: No, a regular one!Van Halen weeps
Kids at my school thought I had a crush on the librarian's daughter who helped out there sometimes. I denied it, but actually I probably did.
One of my duties at work is IT Support for librarians in the State Penitentiaries. I have so much respect for librarians and their profession. They deserve more support from our governments. They are people making a difference.
I respect your job.
What's an anti prom? Do you get your virginity certified on that day or something?
My wife was part of a group that ran one for a bit at a science fiction convention in the 80s. The concept was for "those men and women in fandom who did not get to attend their prom as teens." In many cases, it was because they were unpopular nerds as teens, in military families, health issues, and so on. "Let's run a prom like we wanted to have." So instead of some boring "popular kid celebration" most proms were, it was just a bunch of nerdy fun men and women who dressed up in costumes, drank, and hung out.
That sounds legit amazing
There was a place near me that did an "emo homecoming dance" event and I'm still sad we had a scheduling conflict and couldn't go
If that's the same Pflugerville I'm thinking of, they're basically a suburb of Austin, my wife worked in the Austin public library system for a very long time, and yes, i agree, we don't deserve librarians. They are awesome. I love my wife.
Librarians are the best.
I love thissssss!
That's one tuck, one no-tuck.
Is this "we don't deserve X" a new internet fad? If so, I hate it.
Somebody/something being "too good for us" or "too good for this world" thing has been around for almost a decade at least. I mean, it used to mainly be said about animals but this isn't exactly a new concept
Try 8+ millennia. In Lake Baikal, Siberia, dogs were buried with respect equal to and sometimes better than a human burial purely due to emotional attachment, in a place where they served no utility for food gathering etc.
And if that doesn't count, then it's definitely been around since 50-ish CE when Christianity spread the idea of humans being innately terrible and undeserving of basically anything...
I've seen it said about dogs for years now, but only recently have I seen it said about a variety of different themes.
Not sure how old this is, but last time April 12. was on a Friday was in 2019.
It's not new, but I do hate it.
