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the mouth of infinity

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mackenzie | he/him | 27 | a queer autistic library assistant

the best way i can think to describe the experience of reading moby dick is you’re in line at the dmv and this guy behind you very loudly says “well who HASN’T had a gay experience” and then proceeds to tell you every detail about his life in between anecdotes about how great sperm is and how ropes work and sometimes he’ll say the most poetic shit you’ve ever heard in your life and them jump RIGHT back into explaining how a whale is a fish because 1) it swims in water and you’re still only like halfway through the dmv line

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a wandering knight, drawn to the quiet of the forest. her touch may be a blessing or a curse.

Looking for a career path? Why not librarianship! We have...

  • Workplaces that are 70% women and 30% gay men and everyone is at least 15 years older than you
  • Front row seats to the collapse of capitalism (unsexy edition)
  • Old people who are mad at you because they have to do everything through computers now and can't they just give you their social security number so YOU can do it?? (No, they can't)
  • Parents who immediately enter a catatonic state as soon as they walk through the door while their toddler immediately develops l'appel du vide and toddles right for the fucking stairs. Congrats! You're a babysitter now!!!
  • Books all the books you will bring home so many books because you don't want to weed them and you will develop a book savior complex your car is full of books now

We also have:

  • men that print out foot photos from the public computers and get mad when they cost 25c to print in color even though the price has been the same since 2010 and he does this every fucking week
  • young adults who smear their own feces on the bathroom walls when you politely ask them to turn their phone volume down
  • geese, raccoons, and field mice that think the library is their den and rush in through the automatic doors when it rains so that you, lucky you, have to chase them out with a broken mop
  • people by the dozens who think you, the librarian, are a qualified cpa that will do their taxes for them if they toss their receipts, w2s, and phones at you
  • a patron who snores very loudly and the patron who insists you do something about that immediately or they'll call The Board and tell them this is an unwelcoming environment

I could go on and on about the people and creatures I've worked with in the public library. It was rarely boring. And this list probably sounds like I hated it, but I didn't. I hated the administration. Most of our patrons were kind and understanding. It was just there were a few who really needed someone to yell at and we were nearest.

If administration had been better, I could have stayed at the public library for years and years. But I'm glad I moved to an academic library. Working in research/inter-library loan suits me much better. And in general, the people I work with are more professional, have better boundaries, and the pay is astronomically better (I do significantly less work for double what I was paid at the public library).

Bilbo barely passed Old Took's record lifespan after having a supernaturally-life-extending ring for 60 years. which begs a question. what the hell did Old Took do

I have a theory that somewhere back up the line gandalf fucked a took. This sounds like complete crack but hear me out. The tooks are rumored to have “fairy blood” which in LOTR terms means either elves or maia. There is an ancestor who’s unusually tall and many of them are noted to live unusually long lives unless they meet with illness or injury, same as the numenorians did. They don’t hve extra pointy ears and elves don’t have a special interest in the line. But who DOES have a special interest in looking after tooks (and bilbo who is a took on his mother’s side/his adopted son frodo)? Gandalf. That dude is ALWAYS fussing over some silly little guy. He regularly brought the old took birthday presents.

Back in the day some bold hobbitess decided to climb that old man and ever since then gandalf has been looking after his line of tiny crazy bastards and no one will convince me otherwise.

Gandalf's attitude towards Pippin just took on a whole new layer.

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I promise I didn't disappear, I just don't have any impulse control and started several at once again haha

Shopping list on the mirror:

Mrkve (carrots)

Petržele (parsley)

Celer (celery)

Cibule (onion)

Smetana (sour cream)

Ocet (vinegar)

Cukr (sugar)

Olej (oil)

If anyone was wondering :)

And the binary poster on the wall means hexpartners

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