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Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!
For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!
Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!
Literally, this helps us! Even if you loan it and return it the same day or day after. (Especially titles important for us to keep ie queer titles, books from minority authors and more).
My library doesn't have a max loans per card for physical books either. So what the heck grab a couple, walk around for a bit and try them out and return the ones that didn't hook you.
National Library Week is this month, April 6th - 12th! Go show your appreciation!!!
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RJ’s notes Part 69 by Linda Taglieri
The full terms of the Sea Folk bargain were:
The Sea Folk agreed to provide Windfinders to assist in using the Bowl of the Winds. They were to send the strongest they had available, which they did, but they also sent the highest ranking, which is not the same thing.)
In return, Nynaeve and Elayne promised the following, speaking as Egwene’s representatives, in effect as ambassadors of the Amyrlin Seat:
(1) Once the Bowl of the Winds has been used to attempt to correct the weather, it would pass into the hands of the Sea Folk. The Amyrlin Seat may require its use when she wishes, but no more than four times in the year.
(2) Any Aes Sedai who travels on a vessel of the Atha'an Miere will make every effort to impart all of her knowledge of channeling to the Windfinder of that vessel, but she will make no effort to convince or coerce any woman into going to the White Tower.
(3) The Aes Sedai will send twenty sisters who will impart all of their knowledge of channeling to any Windfinder who wishes to learn. These sisters will abide by and be subject to all laws of the Atha'an Miere and will be under the authority of the Windfinders. Each will remain with the Atha'an Miere at least one year, and before any leaves, she must be replaced by another. These sisters also are restrained from recruiting in any way.
(4) Atha'an Miere Windfinders are to be allowed to go to the White Tower to study, but not for becoming Aes Sedai; they will be allowed to chose what to study, will be given every assistance, and while in the Tower will be accorded all of the rights and privileges of Aes Sedai.
(5) Any woman of the Atha'an Miere who is Aes Sedai must be given the opportunity to renounce the Three Oaths and return to the Sea Folk.
The Kin will become an auxiliary of the White Tower, in effect, or perhaps something more. The organization will not be destroyed, and it will be allowed to keep its own rules and its own hierarchy. The Eldest will rank just below the Amyrlin Seat, certainly equal to the Keeper of the Chronicles or the Mistress of Novices. Officially, her authority will not extend to Aes Sedai, but whether or not it is immediately clear, it is only a matter of time before her place just beneath the Amyrlin means that her authority is, in fact, accepted by many Aes Sedai, if not all.
Source: 13depository.blogspot.com
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Cauthor with matching couple’s poetry tattoos that read: ‘to live and die and live again. To give up half the light of the world to save the world’ and ‘twice and twice shall he be marked. Twice to live and twice to die.’
Seriously why did Robert Jordan pop the fuck off so hard with his poetic prophecy shit. I’ve read so many more lackluster fantasies that wish they could chomp his flavor. What the fuck did he put in those like damn, oral tradition heroic poetry influence coming through extremely powerfully all the time in the karaethon cycle and the other pieces of prophecy and later historical recordings in the books.
Please can we get thom declaiming about the dragon this season? I am already loving the songs on the soundtrack of course, but lil bit of prophecy maybe? Or some oral story performance in general? For me?? Or more songs that don’t get added to the soundtrack for some reason like the aiel harvest song (AMAZING) and Sing For Manetheren (ALSO AMAZING). I need it for reasons.
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Yeah
Dying
Dead
Laughing out loud as I perish
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These are real street names in Lexington, SC
Paul Flowers succeeded in his sneaky way to input WOT in that local suburb. Amazing! I want to walk there!
Source: facebook.com
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i rarely post ooc on here but here's my long winded rambling about something that i keep seeing in regards to the show. like i've seen these different takes that somehow in the show mat's been given more layers and depth. but like i can't see where or how tbh all the show's given me so far is
- his "gritty" backstory. supposedly to "explain" why he's the way he is. even though in the show he's not at all the way he is supposed to be ---
- his disloyalty. abandoning his friends to possible death, abandoning egwene in the tower. they took one of his biggest driving points and just erased it entirely. this is not the mat that chased an assassin all the way to tear to save the wondergirls. this is not the mat that turned back towards a literal war when he had never fought in one before.
- his innate darkness that drew him to the dagger. no mat couldn't just want gold, he couldn't even be greedy. he needs to have a darkness that made moiraine so sure he'd choose the dark. and apparently ishamael saying he belonged to him since birth ? like uhm did i hear that right?
these are literally the only traits he's been given. -- how does one do a more complex mat than the one robert jordan wrote anyways? he's confusing af - no one understands what's going on with him not even himself. like i always see sando getting flack about how he wrote mat. like he did better than anything the shows done so far tbh.
but this leads me to the whole 'the show did it better than the books' or that "the show fixed things" about every single little or major change that the show makes. like prefer one over the other, love one hate the other. cool nbd. but -- i've never seen the source material of an adaptation so -- idk hated by the fandom? it confuses me how much flack robert jordan gets for writing a certain thing or a certain character but the show gets praised for a basically hollowed out poorly done adaptation. like i can enjoy the show, there are good things ( hello josha ) and there are bad ( the over the top age drops of the aes sedai. alanna's lowkey creepy with much young warders - they do know they don't get the same life span right? - and moiraine didn't give up her life for the search for the dragon. how long did she live before his birth ?? etc etc ). but i don't know how one could "understand" the characters or world better than the person that wrote it. i don't get how anyone could be interested in a world or characters from a book series that they seemingly hate ? by an author they basically hate, too? that's just my take i guess. i for one love the books. so ---
i'll go crawl back into my corner now ---
I agree 100000%. I watched season one, expecting truncated motives, missing plotlines, and the usual 'sacrifices' that visual media requires. What I found was barely familiar to me as Wheel of Time except in the most superficial ways. It felt like something beyond a botched adaptation, it felt like an intentional attempt to change the story and the characters into something else. I, of course, went to the online communities to discuss but it was such an immediately different vibe on every online community, like an order had gone out to protect the show and sacrifice the books to do it. Sites were filled with posts by show apologists with takes displaying an unapologetic lack of understanding of or respect for the world building and the character development. Usually all of it hiding from any counter point behind the fragile and ridiculous notion that all of the ill-considered changes were OK because this 'was just another turning of the wheel.' It's one of the most surreal experiences I've had in any fandom.
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What do you mean that Forgotten Realms is a romantic fantasy setting masquerading as high fantasy?
(With reference to this post there.)
Exactly what it says on the tin – the Forgotten Realms is clearly principally inspired by romantic fantasy, not high fantasy.
In this context, when I say "romantic fantasy", I'm referring to a specific, relatively short-lived genre of fantasy literature that was wildly popular in the 1980s and 1990s, but abruptly fell almost entirely off the map after about 1998, due to a variety of economic and cultural factors which are way too complicated to go into in a Tumblr post. This is distinct from the more contemporary usage of "romance novels with fantasy settings", though there's definitely a lot of overlap.
If you're looking for a romantic fantasy reading list, Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series – especially the early stuff – is probably the easiest to get your hands on these days; it's practically the only example that still has any real name recognition in 2025, for all that Lackey was a latecomer to the genre. Other names worth checking out include Margaret Ball, Carole Nelson Douglas, Tanya Huff, Holly Lisle, Jennifer Roberson, and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, off the top of my head, though not all of them worked exclusively within the genre.
(Elizabeth Moon is an interesting edge case, in that her stuff is principally military science fiction, but very much adheres to the forms of romantic fantasy. Her Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy, one of her few pure fantasy works, is a fun snapshot of an era because it was written explicitly in response to what Moon perceived as the shortcomings of the fantasy worldbuilding on display in then-contemporary Dungeons & Dragons settings, and hit the shelves at just about exactly the same time as the earliest Forgotten Realms material.)
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hozier (2014) being hozier’s debut album is fucking nuts like… take me to church?? from eden?? work song?? like real people do?? it will come back?? foreigner’s god?? cherry wine?? SEDATED?? what the fuck??
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If I was a mage in the dungeon meshi universe, I'd figure out how to enchant living paintings and then commission some artists to paint me a bunch of pictures of magnificent feasts. Then I'd rent out a gallery space and charge entry to my Magical Food Hall, where you can eat as much of anything you want and not experience any of the consequences. Think of the possibilities. I'm not just talking about calories and weight loss here. I'd have a painting of a bakery where gluten-free people can gorge themselves on bread and cakes and then leap out of the painting before the vomiting sets in. I'd have an ice cream parlor for the lactose intolerant. One painting is just called "The Allergen Feast" and is a table laden with things like nuts, soy products, shellfish, etc. I'd have a painting of a county fair with the most insane types of fried food imaginable. I'm planning an expansion, but first I gotta consult some religious experts to see if eating imaginary painted food that isn't kosher/halal is technically against the rules or not.
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I desperately wish people would start actually reading the AO3's TOS before confidently making 'user guides' to the AO3 that are just blatantly, flatly wrong.
Yes the AO3 has banned content. They do not allow anything that's illegal under US law - though US law, importantly, does not ban fictional depictions of things - and they do not allow any commercial content. That includes your ko-fi link, or mentions that you do fic commissions. If you do post fic commissions to AO3 and want to mention the commissioner, the fic is a 'request' from the commissioner. This protects the AO3 and you from copyright law.
No the AO3 is not 'a creative fanfiction archive'. It is a fandom archive. Your meta, insights, and theories are absolutely welcome and encouraged there. AO3 also encourages you to post other types of fanworks, like fan videos, podfics, and art, but unfortunately isn't able to natively host those like it does text, so fic has kind of become what it's known for. That absolutely does not mean that other types of fanwork aren't allowed, or are discouraged by the site culture! Anybody who tells you otherwise is just plain wrong!
And another thing:
IT’S AN ARCHIVE - A STORAGE SPACE
THERE IS NO ALGORITHM
IT’S A LIBRARY, NOT A SOCIAL MEDIA SITE
So… (sigh) TAG YOUR FICS APPROPRIATELY AND PEOPLE WILL FIND YOUR STUFF.
That’s it.
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The physics of balancing toys 🙃
Me and my friends hanging out
@elodieunderglass thought you'd like these little guys
they're GREAT! thank you!