Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 1h

My best Shakespeare paper was written tipsy, the night it was due, in the local cafe that was open all hours on exam week. (Shoutout to Enoch for the Bailey's in my hot chocolate!)

Granted, I accidentally submitted it with the filename CoriolanusIsAMamasBoy.doc, but I stand behind that analysis.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 14h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

1 4

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 19h

Inspired by @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social and the Vampurr, here's my favorite piece from today's library craft.

A simple art piece done in cut-paper collage. A white cat sits portrait-style against a purple background. She has a red collar and black cape, with green eyes and a red nose. Little white fangs poke out of her curved mouth.

1 18 120

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 19h

Right? Just read!! I want to whack judgy people over the head with an OED.

1

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 1d

Not as embarrassing as judging people for what they enjoy reading, Padraig.

Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 2d

My probably-get-me-banned-from-Bluesky take is that a 45 year old woman saying her favourite author is Terry Pratchett is embarrassing for everyone concerned

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

1 6

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 2d

I was mildly grumpy that the taco bell guy called me sweetheart.

But call me sweetheart AND forget half the ingredients in my cheesy gordita crunch?? I am swearing an oath of vengeance.

4

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 2d

And if your institution won't let you do one, call it a "Freedom To Read" display.

I mean. They wouldn't want to say they hate FREEDOM, right?

(This is petty and simplistic but it has actually worked.)

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

1 1 6

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 6d

Damn, that bird sounds really loud, I hope it's not stuck in the AC hose, let me--oh shiiiiii!!!

[Artist's recreation, real bird too fast for photos]

A window looking out onto a tree and a neighborhood street. The top pane has slipped down a couple of inches. Artist's rendition of a sparrow that was FUCKING MOONING HER, halfway inside the window, when she pulled the curtain away to look.

6

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 6d

Omg that's a STEAL! Those things were more expensive than that even when they were in production, lol.

1 1

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 7d

Handed off a bunch of duplicate @bpal.bsky.social samples to a fellow librarian doing a multisensory event, and now the whole staff is yelling "SMELL ME!!" and dramatically reading the descriptions on the website.

Good times!

2

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 8d

Happy birthday! It's weird, right??

1

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 10d

OH MY GOD WE'RE IN THE PLAYOFFS!!!

4

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 10d

When you're working through the clinch games...

A computer screen showing two side-by-side windows of MLB Gameday, one for Reds-Brewers and one for Mets-Marlins.

3

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 12d

Yes! Always having a Plan B make it less likely that I will get panicky and need to use it, because I know I have options.

1

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 12d

I'd be offended that losing to the Reds is the floor, but...well, fair.

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 15d

"Camilla, we did it right, didn't we?"

A cross-stitch image of a broken skull on back fabric, done in off-whites and light browns. There is no jaw and the teeth are mostly absent, as though the skull's owner exploded and his soulmate reassembled the pieces for him.

17

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 17d

Fever won, Reds won....Bengals who? 😬

1

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 18d

Shortly after this pic, friends' toddler, whom I had never met, demanded that I sing wheels on the bus.

Of course I said yes, so the next 2 innings were "Sarr sing nother song???"

And I'm not a MONSTER, right? Sorry to everyone sitting near me (not really tho).

2

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 18d

Reds home runs are extra fun when you're sitting right next to the smokestacks.

Smoke and fireworks shooting up from a smokestack in the Reds stadium, obscuring the bank of lights behind it.

1 3

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 22d

New achievement unlocked: splitting a shift on opposite sides of the city with a 3 hour break in the middle.

The gas is expensive but it's actually a fun kind of whiplash.

2

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 23d

Just got hugged so hard it hurt by a 6'5" teen I've known since he was 9. And he only let go because he wanted to show me pics of all his crochet projects.

I love my job.

8

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 26d

"Bonus if you do it while she's giving a speech," Jesus Christ, Astrid.

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 26d

Booted up my current (evil) Skyrim run only to discover that my next Dark Brotherhood quest was Vittoria Vici and...yeah, that's a little much right now.

1 1

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 28d

If people don't stop getting hired away while I'm in charge of the library, I am going to start taking it personally.

3

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · Sep 7

My nephew's current obsession is "The Bear Ate Your Sandwich" by Julia Sarcone-Roach, so yesterday at lunch we invented the extremely Cincinnati version, "The Bear Ate Your Five-Way."

He is working on the illustrations now. Caldecott, here we come!

A first-grader with a sunglasses emoji covering his face. He sits at a desk, drawing a bear on a sheet of paper with printed text at the bottom. You can't see it, but he's got his tongue stuck out in concentration.

4

Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · Sep 4

Walgreens! They had lots of open appointments so I got the one right before my off day so I can sleep all day tomorrow lol.

1 1