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A librarian who's here to post silly comics
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Thursday:
A drawing of a happy woman thinking about a guillotine. The text says: aaah guillotine..
January 29, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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It's Wednesday:
A two panel comic I drew at work. The first panel shows a woman working on a laptop. The text says: it's Wednesday. A quiet day. The second panel shows the woman looking up, in thought. The text says: once again, i am thinking about the guillotine.
January 28, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Screenshot from the film The Secret Agent. The man doing the interview asks the protagonist: "Do you carry a weapon?" The protagonist being interviewed replies: "No, but I know how to use a hammer."
January 25, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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The Secret Agent (2025)
A screenshot from the film The Secret Agent. The main character, a man with a dark hair and a mustache, is sitting on a couch and being recorded for an interview. He says: "I am not a violent person." The man continues. He says: "But this man..." The man's expression is serious. He says: "I would kill him even with a hammer." "I would crush his skull with a hammer."
January 25, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Alain Resnais's Night and Fog premiered 70 years ago: "We pretend it was all confined to one country, one point in time. We turn a blind eye to what surrounds us, and a deaf ear to the never-ending cries."
January 22, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Just watched Kokuho by
Lee Sang-il - simply one of the best films of the past twenty years. Unbelievably gorgeous, and beautifully written. Satoko Okudera's script shines like no other. Please go watch it if you can!
A screenshot from the film Kohuko. The protagonist is here seen applying theater makeup.
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Most pictures online fail to capture the level of detail Merian would put into each illustration, they're truly breathtaking:
Illustration of a butterfly from Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe Further zoom on the butterfly's blue wings
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Today I'm cataloging a book by Maria Sibylla Merian, an entomologist and genius scientific illustrator:
Page from Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe. , showing flowers and a butterfly A zoom on the butterfly and the white and red flowers Further zoom on the butterfly
December 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Watched Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine tonight.
Screenshot from Sonatine. Two yakuzas talk in a bus. One has stabbed the other the day before. The one on the right, happily eating an ice cream, offers the stabbed one something to drink. The other, a bald man, replies "No. My stomach still hurts from where you stabbed me." Screenshot from Sonatine. Two yakuzas are sitting near a car. The one on the left says "I don't do drugs. I only do amphetamines." Screenshot from the film Sonatine. Two yakuzas pretend to be sumo wrestlers on a beach. Screenshot from the movie Sonatine. Two yakuzas are sitting cross legged on tatamis. One is holding a doll and pressing its head on the other yakuza's cheek, saying "Kiss".
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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That one student was very skilled - they did have serious art classes (to be able to draw anatomy properly) but his quick portraits are way better than others
December 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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AI will never capture the soul of a bichon dog like this doodle
December 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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It's very likely a French student couldn't see an arctic fox in 1829, and decided to copy Buffon's drawing here. I like the student's version better.
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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A student in 1829 tries very hard to draw an arctic fox :
December 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Cataloging student notebooks from the 1820s today. A student 200 years ago started drawing animals on the blank pages he had left:
A doodle of a cat from a 1820s notebook A drawing of a frog from a 1820s french notebook
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Interestingly, author Jean Dubois writes that Walt Disney used to raise white mice, which kinda goes against the legend that he hated them? What's the truth Walt
WALT DISNEY enfin, n'oublie pas à qui il doit d'avoir fait ses premiers pas dans le dessin animé. Dans sa jeunesse en effet, il élevait des souris blanches dans une cage. Il apprit à les connaître et à les apprécier. Il par- ticipa à leur vie, s'amusa de leurs attitudes, de leurs singularités, de leur étourderie· Il saisit quelques traits, les rassemble et crée « Mickey mouse » qui devint son emblème. Elle a, dans une forme caricaturée, de gran- des oreilles, la queue longue et nue, le museau fin et allongé, les yeur ronds, vifs et éveillés. Sa façon de parler a pour base même le cri ordinaire des souris
December 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I love reading acknowledgements in thesis - while working I found this veterinarian thesis from 1947 thanking Walt Disney for his help
À monsieur Walt Disney, que nous remercions des précieux renseignements qu'il a bien voulu nous fournir. En témoignage de notre grande admiration pour son Art.
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Cataloging some 16th century bird letters today
Letter D illustrated with berry fruits and a bird, from Les Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays étrangèrs by Belon, 1553 Letter C illustrated with a bird, from Les Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays étrangèrs by Belon, 1553
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Remembering some heroines from my youth
A four frame comics about types of women protagonists I saw in my childhood/teenage years. The first frame shows a girl with long wavy hair, frowning. The text reads: "YOU GOT FIRE IN YOU, GIRL" Girl. Rightfully mad, no time for love (3 shitty boyfriends), actual fire power? Red hair." The second frame shows a girl shrugging and blushing, with overall and a stripped shirt. The text reads: "I'M SUCH A MESS" Girl: hopeless crush, shit job, clumsy, tries?. The third frame shows a heroine in a period costume and a bun, holding a book. The text reads "I DON'T CARE FOR SILLY" Girl: marries a douchebag anyway, she *reads*, "I never gossip". The fourth frame shows Iwakura Lain from the anime Serial Experiments Lain. The text reads: "COMPUTERS"
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Fruits in Traité des arbres fruitiers (1807) are painted with bruises and sometimes even insects - it's of course useful information for readers but there's also a genuine artistic appreciation of flaws:
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Cataloging cherries today:
Cherry illustrations from Traité des Arbres Fruitiers by Duhamel Du Monceau, 1807 edition, illustrated in vibrant colors. Cherry illustrations from Traité des Arbres Fruitiers by Duhamel Du Monceau, 1807 edition, illustrated in vibrant colors. Cherry illustrations from Traité des Arbres Fruitiers by Duhamel Du Monceau, 1807 edition, illustrated in vibrant colors. Cherry illustrations from Traité des Arbres Fruitiers by Duhamel Du Monceau, 1807 edition, illustrated in vibrant colors.
December 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The Angel's Egg x Mikio Sakabe fashion collection goes so hard:
A dress shirt inspired by what the character wears in Mamoru Oshii's film Angel's Egg A dress shirt and pink reddish shoes with bubble shaped soles inspired by what the character wears in Mamoru Oshii's film Angel's Egg A pair of black shoes featuring the main character of Angel's Egg A long stripped red and black dress with huge ballooning sleeves worn by a woman with long white hair. The outfit is inspired by the film Angel's Egg.
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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(Author is quadriplegic)
A few weeks after AJM finally sent out an engineer to resize my chair, I got a call from the clinical lead. He said that he needed a barcode number from the chair I’d gone home with, which he’d forgotten to note down. Could I please get out of the chair, crouch down on the floor and read out the number off the bottom?
December 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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I open the library at 9.
A post it comic where I woke up today three hours late. The text reads: another monday. I feel fine! Probably because I woke up at 10. (Three hours late)
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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OK (2/2)
The second part of the comic I made about my father's death. The text reads: "A year has passed, and when I come home (to my new home) and feel happy, sometimes I like to think he can hear me, when I say, I'm OK."
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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OK (1/2)
A 2019 comic about my father's death. A character is shown entering a flat and closing the door. The text reads: "When I was little (and older) , as I came home from school (and work) A corridor is shown. "My dad would ask from his room, at the end of the corridor: Are you ok? And I would say: I'm ok dad, how are you?" The father answers, "If you're OK, then dad is ok!" The text reads: "(It was a bit frustrating). Then he would come out." The father says: "I cooked rice and salmon today, come and eat dinner!". The text reads: (It was always delicious). The text reads: "Now it's now." The corridor is now empty. The bowl of food is also empty of any rice or salmon. The text reads: "And I've learnt what silence is made of."
November 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM