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Reader In The John Rylands Library, Manchester UK (by Hotpix [LRPS])
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Reading can be very stressful because I want to finish the book quickly because I NEED to know what happens but I also don’t want to finish it quickly because I don’t want it to end
Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.
thankyoucougar asked:
imaginebucky answered:
There are thousands of books about stars, books about phenomena in the skies that Bucky couldn’t have even thought of when he started expressing an interest. For the first time since he was freed from HYDRA, he feels like he could find a place in this time.
Everyone is patient when he asks questions, a relief from the quick moving world that can’t slow down enough to explain what’s going on. He can renew a book until he’s finished reading it; as a slow reader he’s grateful.
“We don’t have that book,” the quiet IT girl, Susan says, turning her computer to Bucky so he can see. “But we could get it from the Central branch. Inter-library loan.”
“You can do that?” Bucky asks.
“Give us a couple of days and you can have it,” she smiles at his astounded look. “We also got a couple new arrivals you might be interested in. Did you see?”
Bucky nods, holds up his pile of books. She starts to process them.
“So are you studying astrophysics?” Susan asks, taking Bucky’s card.
“Beyond reading about it, not really,” Bucky says.
“Well, you might as well be our resident expert,” she says. “I’ll see you later, Mr. Barnes! You’ll get an e-mail about the book when it comes in.”
“I’ll see you soon,” Bucky says, and smiles using even his eyes.
Bucky could spend his entire life in the library if he could.
A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of up-to-the-minute politickal fashions and atlases and plays in pentameter! A Library should be full of exclamations! Shouts of delight and horror as the wonders of the world are discovered or the lies of the heavens are uncovered or the wild adventures of devil-knows-who sent romping out of the pages. A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can’t-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong. It should positively vibrate with laughing at comedies and sobbing at tragedies, it should echo with gasps as decent ladies glimpse indecent things and indecent ladies stumble upon secret and scandalous decencies! A Library should not shush; it should roar!
This collection of things overheard in the library comes from the amazing Happy Librarian. Enjoy!
"Where is your amazon.com section?"
"If, like, I have fines, do I have to pay them or can you just make them disappear like a magical elf?"
"Do you put GPS trackers in books? I lost mine!"
"If...
Anonymous asked:
bisexualdemondean answered:
I’ve realized that I can answer this with him [in strange place] + [with animal] and you’ll all believe me
He’s in a library with porcupine cause he said it wants to learn to read
He’s in a chuck-e-cheese with a shark cause it never had a good childhood
He’s at a middle school production of Les Mis with a parrot cause they’re both a fan of the arts
Don’t ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that’s what they’re there for. Use your library). Don’t apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend’s copy. What’s important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read …
Anonymous asked:
imaginebucky answered:
A follow up to this post.
Houda loves when the PhD students are moving out and leaving behind all the books that they accumulated during their academic career in New York. Being four foot nothing and built like a twig, however, she also hates it.
“Do you need help?” someone quietly asks. She looks over the heavy box of back issues and, without really registering who’s asking, nods with a relieved ‘yes please!’
Bucky Barnes has a metal arm and apparently nothing else to do. He picks up two of the bigger boxes like it’s nothing and keeps Houda’s pace.
“Thanks so much for helping,” Houda says. “I said I could handle it, but really what I wanted to do was look at all the books before everyone else.”
“Same,” Bucky says with a smile, and they both laugh.
I was desperately trying to help a woman download a library book to her Kindle while also managing the busy Information Desk.
Me: “Okay, what is your library PIN?”
Woman: “I think it’s ‘memaw.’”
Me: “It should be four numbers. Any ideas?”
Woman: “I think it’s memaw at att dot...
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casthegrumpy
sometimes i rewatch season five and i just.
i honestly can’t tell anymore if i’m seeing things that aren’t there. but when i first watched spn, this was the season when i fell in love with dean and cas. because i felt like i was watching dean fall in love as it happened.
to me, this season is the season of dean seeing cas as a real person. with feelings. with the ability to feel hurt and scared and hopeless. this is the season of dean spending time with him. with dean offering his aid to cas when cas asks him. dean catching a glimpse of what could be. of what lengths cas might go to to stay by his side.
this is the season of dean staring at cas like he’s trying to figure something out. and not understanding. and then kind of getting it. and then really getting it, and freaking out.
you start watching “the song remains the same.” cas takes the boys time travelling and they find him bloody and beaten on the pavement, and dean just stares at his face. doesn’t take his eyes off cas’s face, even when cas’s eyes are closed and his mouth is open and blood is trickling down the side of his mouth. this is the episode where dean gets defensive about being dr. angel medicine woman, of being uncomfortable with the thought of taking care of cas. the one where cas shows up at the motel at the end of the episode half-out of it, worn out, collapsed on the bed with his arms outstretched, and sam and dean stare down at him as they drink. dean says, he got dad to say yes. sam says, but that was different. anna was going to hurt mom.
then the next episode is “my blood valentine,” aka the episode about cupids and romantic love where dean spends approximately 89% of the time staring into cas’s eyes and letting cas eat his food and watching cas eat burgers with a smile. the one where dean jumps up after half a minute of waiting for cas’s safe return and goes barreling in after him.
then the episode after that is “dead men don’t wear plaid.” where karen looks dean in the eyes and tells him, he’s my husband. i’m supposed to bring him peace, not pain. she looks at dean and sees something. cas isn’t even mentioned in this episode but karen looks at dean and chooses to say, i’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that you’ve never been in love.
because dean hasn’t been in love like this before. he doesn’t know what being in love is, he doesn’t have the slightest idea what that might feel like. but the thing is. the thing is that he is going to. he is going to understand every word that karen spoke.
and that question is left hanging over his head. from that moment on, you have to look at dean and think, i’m guessing you’ve never been in love. and then you see the way he looks at cas and then you’re thinking, i’m guessing you’ve never been in love. until now.
because the episode after that is “dark side of the moon.” the episode where cas’s final hopes and dreams about obtaining god’s help come crashing down, and dean is standing in a motel room staring at cas’s set shoulders, hearing cas curse his father. and dean looks at cas and looses the last of his hope right along with him.
if i ever supposed that there was a moment when dean had a moment of clarity about whether or not he’s ever been in love, i would think it was that moment.
and the episode after that is “99 problems.” where dean goes to a hurting cas and tries to make him feel better. the one where cas has fallen into despair. and despite the fact that nothing has seemingy changed about their position, there is no new sudden breakthrough in their stance against heaven and hell, this is the episode where dean drives away to offer himself up to michael. michael, an angel: and what the angels offer is heaven on earth, an end to it all: they offer peace.
my job is to bring him peace. not pain.
and every moment after dean makes that decision is different between them. the long drought of easy affection between them from that moment on, the horrible mess of “point of no return.” all of seasons six and seven.
i’m going to go out on a limb and say that you’ve never been in love.
