I think the bicycle helmet discourse really just reinforces the idea that people believe that accidents only happen to the stupid and careless, and that people who get hurt somehow deserve it. And since nobody wants to believe themselves to be stupid, or thinks they could be careless or distracted, it’s not necessary to take precautions.
And then they take safety advice as an insult because telling someone to be safe is seen as an accusation of being stupid and irresponsible, and not just a value neutral acknowledgement of statistical inevitably. We see it with masks, and seatbelts, and now bicycle helmets because everyone wants to believe they’re too clever to get hurt, and too lucky to get hurt badly, until suddenly you’re not and you have to resign, in shame, to being one of the people you previously saw as annoying nags, assuming you’re even still alive.
Your average librarian, going by my graduating class in library school, is:
1. Probably autistic, has ADHD, or both.
2. Is a MASSIVE nerd, but in very specific areas that might not always be obvious (see: my classmate who turned out to actually be a respected demonologist in the academic occult community).
3. While maybe not queer, is likely VERY queer adjacent. But there WILL be a higher number of queers among librarians than other professions (of my graduating class, at least 4 of us aren’t the same genders we graduated as).
4. Is very likely to be tattooed.
5. Is probably 10x cooler than the media every portrayed us as being growing up. Modern librarianship is all about the library as a community space and books as interaction.
I have this headcannon that Katya's real name is Brad and Saph's himbo boyfriend is actually named Katya and they switched names for their online personas as an inside joke.
You don't need to confirm or deny, it's true to me 🙏
Tumblr, buddy, listen to me. This is an unprecedented opportunity. You can snap up all of the pie here, and become defacto internet goodguy easy. All you gotta do is… drop the nsfw ban. Unambiguously. Announce that dicks are back on the menu. You want people subscribed the blogs? You want people to actually use your Post+ function? Porn. Let us use it for porn. The youngins aren’t joining this site anyway, you’re not competing with tiktok. The vaguely horny 20-40 demographic though? You can have that. You can have all of that. Think about it.
Do you know how many pinup artists alone are itching to come back to tumblr, but dont because of the unclear, seemingly arbitrary application of your nsfw policy? These are insanely talented people who are practically begging to give you content. For free. But you gotta change the policy. We can’t keep dancing around this. Just think of publicity. The drama. A complete 180. You’d kill it tumblr. You could make it happen. Please.
Sports Anime, but it’s about speedrunning. The Big Anime Moment is when the protagonist manages to execute a technique previously-thought to be TAS exclusive.
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