I just know I’m in the minority on this one, but let’s prove it. If you had to pick one that you could turn on or off at will, permanently losing access to the other in your home,
attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you
I was gonna get a matzo dress for next year but now bc of your reply I’m thinking maybe I should get frogs instead! And that has more year round potential anyway.
Well to be fair I do also have a matzah scrunchie (as well as one with menorahs on it). Honestly @shiraglassman I’d go for both!
Happy Frog Wednesday (and happy Passover) from my brand new frog umbrella! :D
- it is rosh hashana. you eat apples and challa with honey. now it is hosha'ana raba. you still eat challa with honey. it is sukkot. you are still eating everything with honey. it’s almost cheshvan. everything is drenched in honey. your mother’s eyes glisten with tears. the honey does not stop
- shabbat shacharit begins. you open your siddur. shabbat shacharit is over. you are still on the first page. the clock shows that two and a half hours have passed
- children are singing an'im zemirot. you do not know these children. they do not belong to your shul. the song continues. everyone is singing. the children smile
- today is pesach. tomorrow is pesach. yesterday was pesach. you could have sworn it was pesach two weeks ago as well, but there is no point in bringing that up. the only thing that exists is matzah
- your father goes to shul for hakafot on simchat torah. when you go to shul the next morning, they are all still dancing
- it is your bat mitzvah. you do not recognize half of the guests. you cannot find your parents. chassidic music keeps playing. all clocks have stopped
- people have been telling you that hanukkah is next week for a month now. it is still not hanukkah
- there is a jar of gefilte fish in your grandmother’s cupboard. the expiration date reads 1974. you are the only person who ever seems to see it
Just saw a tweet like “REAL libraries check for quality!” as some kinda gotcha at AO3?? But I’m a librarian, so… heads up that “quality checks,” AKA “weeding” or “pulling,” means looking for damaged books or ones that haven’t circulated in a few years to clear up shelf space. We don’t Quality Check for if the library books have nontoxic romance or good grammar. :U I assure you every library in your area has absolute ABOMINATIONS of bad storytelling as well as your favorite pop lit.
“ReAl LiBrArIeS cHeCk fOR qUaLiTy” LISTEN. There was a collection of poems in circulation at one of my previous libraries that had never actually been published, and we only found out about it because the author called while I was on the reference desk one day asking how the hell a book that never went to print had ended up in our online catalogue. And you think we’re monitoring content?
This. No one at my library has time to read every book we have in the library. We’re too busy doing other things!
(When we put in our Romance section, did I send everyone a definition of Romance and point out that books without a happy ending don’t belong there? Yes. Did I check every book in the section to see if it actually fit? No.)
And look, even with the best of intentions, shit happens. In spring of 2022, our children’s librarian was doing a weeding project of the nonfiction. Things she found included: the most recent book about gymnastics being about Mary Lou Retton and the “new gymnastics”, a number of books which she removed due to very bad portrayals of Native Americans, and a book about the moon which ended with “someday man may even reach the moon!” because it was published in 1964.
So yeah. We do our best. But “quality control” is definitely more of a “this book is literally in bad enough shape that we can’t keep it” and honestly half the time we get notified of that because a patron took it out and realized it before we ourselves caught it.
I absolutely sort using these functions but it is endlessly recursive - the higher kudos’d fics get read more therefore get more kudos therefore remain at the top, meanwhile there are so many newer fics or writers without the social media clout languishing unread.
I need to do better at reading outside my comfort zone
