#black patrons

[historyhermann]

A curmudgeon librarian and superheroes in the library [PART 2]

Broken into two parts because Tumblr only allows 10 images per post.

It's because they are breaking a rule hilariously called "no loud fighting." When Diana asks about this, the librarian has her only substantive line in the episode: "It's Metropolis, it's the best we can hope for." Diana and Katana apologize for their behavior, but their fighting doesn't stop. Diana even catches Katana's hand in a book, and they continue girly fighting.

Of course, this sound catches the attention of the librarian, again. As the audience, we see the expanse of the library as a whole...

Until their fighting causes the stacks of the library to collapse, falling like dominoes, with expressions of shock on their faces afterward. The librarian, cast as a curmudgeon, kicks out Diana and Katana for property destruction, a reason more justified than Turtle Princess asking Finn and Jake to leave the library in one of the Adventure Time episodes. The librarian might be portrayed badly in this episode, almost equivalent to "the original librarian stereotype...of the fussy (white) male curmudgeon" except it's a White woman, [2] but what she does is completely justified!

The fact that Katana and Diana apologize for their action afterward doesn't make up for what they did. It's good they have to deal with the consequences of their actions and being banned from the library, presumably. Their fight then continues outside the library and onto the streets of the city.

Toward the end of the episode, we see the librarian, at night, pushing a cart of books. It makes me think of books being moved around on hover carts in Cleopatra of Space, although there are probably other examples.

While this episode doesn't counter stereotypes of librarians, [3] it is fun since many other episodes do not focus that much on libraries. As such, I thoroughly enjoyed this episode.

© 2020 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Notes

[2] The same article talks about librarian stereotypes more, saying, "there are numerous librarian stereotypes, with the most recognizable being the middle-aged, bun-wearing, comfortably shod, shushing librarian. Others include the sexy librarian, the superhero librarian, and the hipster or tattooed librarian. These stereotypes are all characterized predominantly as feminine, white women. Newer librarian stereotypes, particularly those proffered by librarians themselves, tend to be depicted as younger white women. The original librarian stereotype, which was superseded by the introduction of his prudish sister, was that of the fussy (white) male curmudgeon."

[3] As one example, most of the librarians listed on Early Bird Books [dead link] either are wearing glasses and are curmudgeons (Evelyn O'Connell in The Mummy, Margaret Gesner in Monsters University, Barbara Gordon in Batman), are snotty elitists (Belle in Beauty and the Beast), seeming cops (The Library Cop in Seinfeld), drinkers (Tammy 2 in Parks and Rec), are ghosts (Ghost Librarian in Ghostbusters), or buff (Conan the Librarian in UHF) apart from Taystee in Orange is the New Black. Parks and Rec features one character, Marlene Knope (played by Pamela Reed) who hates libraries because of interpersonal issues, declaring "the library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous."

Editor's Note: This post was originally published on my History Hermann blog but has been re-edited and fixed before being posted on this blog. Enjoy!

Reprinted from Pop Culture Library Review and Wayback Machine

#dc super hero girls #black patrons #white patrons #library patrons #white women #women librarians #repost #pop culture #reviews #cleopatra in space

[plastic-pipes]

black widow beach episode WHEN

#Yelena Belova #Natasha Romanoff #black widow #artwork #marvel tag #this request brought to you by my lovely patrons

[meonlyred]

Lads we can't make merry and jingle our way outta this one!

#Baldur's Gate #BG3 #Ch: Psalm #Listen I know most of my characters are the gothest bitches that ever wore nothing but black #But sometimes I need heart horns and heart tail and pink hair with little flowers #I am kind of tempted to muiltclass her was a Fey Patron Warlock #But Bard is so damn good in this game

[mintcrows]

wanted to make a frog so i made a frog.

its name is frog

(fey lock | spirit bard)

#the patron is the pitch black creechur #drawing #oc: frog #oc: rana #bg3 #tav

[transmascutena]

these lines hit different when you read utena as transmasc

#i mean the first one is really awful regardless. #pretty sure i read somewhere that the words akio uses means something along the lines of 'you really should remain a child' #as opposed to 'you really should remain the gender that you are.' which speaks to his whole thing about keeping these kids from growing up #and there's So Much in anthy's line even without hypothetical misgendering #anyway the au where utena has already transitioned by the time he gets to ohtori is really good #and i of course have lots of headcanons about post-ohtori utena and gender #but i've been thinking about one where he's actively questioning while he's there and is not out to anyone. #and i guess not a lot would really change but akio's attempt at making utena more feminine would have a whole other layer of awful to it #and unfortunately i think in this scenario the first person he would come out to would be akio. which is so sad #like maybe it could be anthy but idk. i think it would be something he'd be apprehensive to be open about with her #(in the show utena does tend to be more vulnerable with akio than with anthy. at least the vulnerability with him comes first. #he's her go-to person for advice in the black rose arc and utena doesn't really begin opening up to anthy like that until the third arc) #maybe i should write something for this au. i can see it so clearly. #utena talking about his confusing gender feelings in one of those black rose scenes in the planetarium #and akio doing that thing where he sounds supportive and helpful but absolutely isn't. #that fake sympathy that's actually really patronizing and condescending and dismissive but subtly enough that utena doesn't realize it #and THEN the contrast when utena finally talks to anthy about it and she empathises by talking about her own confusing gender feelings #(transfem anthy realness !!!!!) #oh wow i did not mean to write so much in the tags #revolutionary girl utena #utena tenjou #my posts

[mayasaura]

Recently started watching White Collar! More interesting than its reputation gives it credit for, but if the network were being at all honest with us, Mozzie would be trans and either a furry, a drag queen, or both

#come on #I've met weird little hackers who don't trust the system #it's okay mozzie i know who you are when you're not on 2008 television #pretty sure the lead actor is gay too #yeah apparently he came out five years later by thanking his husband at an award ceremony #anyway you can tell this is from the same era of television as Leverage #and that Moffat was taking notes for the BBC Sherlock aesthetic #edit: mozzie would only do drag in a 1920s speakeasy themed gay club #where the patrons are required to wear all black and check their cell phones at the door #yes I am thinking of a specific place I know exists #or did when the show was airing (thatnks covid)

[littleevil0ne1]

☀️♠️Black Sun Warlock♠️☀️

Commission for Calamity Jane

For more information on commissions Check out the link below!

#black sun #spade #patron #warlock #dnd #dnd character #dnd warlock #sorcerer #black #shadow #shadow magic #crow #raven #artists on tumblr #digital art #art #littleevil0ne #digital painting #painting #commissions #commission #ttrpg #ttrpg art

[fallenrain40]

sometimes i wonder if people dont like Tigerheart x Dovewing simply cause Ivypool hates him.

#this is probably an unpopular opinion lol #ik it can't be about the age gap cause yall ship Mothpool and that has a much bigger age gap than these two #sooo.... #not saying i dont ship mothpool but that there is a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to this #it just feels really stupid to be all like “oh dovewing gets treated so badly !!” yet then yall go and patronize her decision #to move to shadowclan with tigerheart #idk. #i think it's also an issue of people seeing morally grey characters as black or white good or bad #warrior cats #wc #dovewing #dovewing wc #tigerheart wc #tigerheart #tigerheartstar #tigerstar II #tigerstar 2 #tigerdove

[bookishfeylin]

I didn't know black people any had writing systems in Africa before colonialism so that's really cool

Yes, there were several. Notably, Ge'ez from Ethiopia like my other reblog:

Bassa Vah, developed by the Bassa people in what is now the West African country of Liberia (and which narrowly avoided extinction at the end of the nineteenth/early twentieth century):

The Nsibidi writing system in Nigeria:

And the Meroitic script in Kush:

And these are just the ones I personally know of. I also feel it necessary to add that a lot of writing was also done in Arabic or with separate writing systems derived from Arabic due to centuries-long contact with the Islamic world and the spread of Islam in Africa.

#ask #anon #the ask was a littleeeeeee patronizing but I’ll allow it #Black history

[historyhermann]

A curmudgeon librarian and superheroes in the library [PART 1]

For this post, I'd like to highlight an episode of DC Super Hero Girls, the 2019 reboot of a series in the earlier 2010s, titled "#SoulSisters Part 2" (s1ep25), that extensively focuses on libraries. This goes far beyond another scene in the same show (noted in an upcoming post on August 20). This is clearly a different library, as this is a city library,  and the one in the episode was the high school library. [1] We begin by seeing the grand library, almost looking like a temple, looming over the landscape, possibly modeled after the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York City.

Below is what that main branch at New York City's fifth avenue, the Schwartzmann Building, looks like, with some similarities. This building has a remarkable facade which has also been mimicked in Futurama with the New New York Public Library shown in a few episodes (especially in the episode "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid") some of which have been This is not to be confused with the hilariously named "pubic library." Of course, there are many differences here, but part of it, like the lions, may have been modeled on the NYPL branch.

This picture is from the NYPL website back in August 2015.

Anyway, on with the episode. We first see the wide expanse of the library.

Then, Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) looks for a book on spells. It is aptly named Ancient Weaponry: Myths & Magic.

As the fandom page on Katana notes, Diana reads this book, finding out information about the Soul Taker, a sword "forged in the 14th century by "the legendary swordsman Urasawa Sengo" and "rumored to steal the souls of its enemies," those which can "only be freed if the wielder says a certain Japanese incantation." That becomes key later in the episode. Anyway, there is a hilarious scene where Diana's phone rings and she can't turn it off, annoying everyone. I had a similar experience once when I didn't know how cell phones worked, so I can completely sympathize.

She finds Katana is sitting nearby, but…

It attracts the attention of the librarian, an older White lady who fits all the stereotypes, which are commonly associated with them. These stereotypes are not unique to this show, as librarians portrayed in Steven Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, and Futurama are shown similarly: as people with glasses and occasionally old (as is the case in She-Ra: Princess of Power). Even the character in Gargantia, one of the more positive portrayals of libraries, has the appearance of an elderly White man, while the two gay male librarians, George and Lance, in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, are the only non-white (and Black) librarians in animation I can think of offhand, although there may be others.

Moving back to the episode, we then get the strict rule on the wall, declaring "no cell phones!" which seems a bit absurd, as it is vague on what it means.

Katana jokes with Diana until she figures out that she is the villain who stole the souls of her friends, leading to a fight in the library itself.

Again, the librarian is annoyed, but for a different reason this time. Some librarians have taken this attitude and embraced it, with an ongoing blog called "The Curmudgeonly Librarian" published by a librarian in their late 60s or a "Library Curmudgeon" written by a Canadian librarian. Others have said that library pioneers like Frederick Beecher Perkins, a member of a prominent religious family in the U.S. in the 19th century, was a curmudgeon. Some joked that their work in a library had turned them into a curmudgeon. While librarians are often shown as unpleasant and bespectacled in popular culture, interrupting protagonists and shushing them, as Kevin McElvaney points out, being a "librarian is no career for the lazy curmudgeon" because it takes years of "advanced study even to be considered for a position."

© 2020 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Library Review and Wayback Machine

Notes

[1] It also goes far beyond "Frenemies" where Batgirl/Barbara Gordon says, as an excuse, "O have a library book I... need to write for the library. So people can read it. Because you gotta have books for the library. Otherwise, it's just a big empty building, I guess," which is a bit funny but not true! Other episodes feature a library card ("Ally Cat"), while, the short Taco Tuesday "features the library, where Karen is asked by the librarian to keep quiet when her stomach is growling" while in another short, Kara spends detention "reshelving books in the library while trying to finish in time to get to a concert" while the library is also mentioned in another episode ("Giganta").

#libraries as temples #dc super hero girls #libraries #librarians #white librarians #white women #library patrons #white patrons #black patrons #nypl #futurama #japanese patrons

[dailymtgflavortext]

"Finally, a performance worthy of my applause!"

-Rakdos, Patron of Chaos

#mtg #magic the gathering #rakdos #rakdos patron of chaos #flavor text #red #black

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) "Saint Rosalia interceding on behalf of the plague victims of Palermo" (1624) Oil on canvas Baroque Located in the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, United States Rosalia (1130–1166), also called La Santuzza, or "The Little Saint," and in Sicilian as "Rusulia", is the patron saint of Palermo in Italy, Camargo, Chihuahua, and three towns in Venezuela: El Hatillo, Zuata, and El Playon. She is especially important internationally as a saint invoked in times of plague. In 1624, a plague beset Palermo. During this hardship Rosalia reportedly appeared first to a sick woman, then to a hunter, to whom she indicated where her remains were to be found. She ordered him to bring her bones to Palermo and have them carried in procession through the city. The hunter climbed the mountain and found her bones in the cave as described. He did what she had asked in the apparition. After her remains were carried around the city three times, the plague ceased. Rosalia was then venerated as the patron saint of Palermo, and a sanctuary was built in the cave where her remains were discovered. Her post-1624 iconography is dominated by the work of the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, who was trapped in the city during the 1624–1625 quarantine.

#paintings #art #artwork #religious painting #saint rosalia #anthony van dyck #oil on canvas #fine art #baroque #menil collection #museum #art gallery #flemish artist #history #plague #patron saint #female portrait #portrait of a woman #black death #cherubs #cherub #angels #christianity #catholocism #1620s #early 1600s #early 17th century

[p3n-dragon]

Febhyurary Day 2: Faith

In His Fury.

#ffxiv screenshots #febhyurary #ffxiv #hyur #gposers #hyur highlander #this is very advanced joke of Aquila's patron in dnd being a black dragon so i'm using Nidhogg as a placeholder gomenasorry

[wrinklemcdinkle]

is this a weird crossover of fandoms. probably. but-

riptide pirates as trolls!!!? ouuughwa? gillion and the tidestriders whaaat, they started their tours after the 2nd movie.. trolls were kinda suspicious of them for a while with good reason but now they’re well renowned!

i just think they’re neat :D

#also i have no idea how to design a troll #if any of these goobers had a grey period it would be chip 100% #gill only knew techno music before surfacing #destiny’s blade is a guitar #he starts getting into rock music once he has destiny’s blade #chip literally raised with the black rose pirates #he has unknown origin but raised on sea shantys #he flows with most music types tho #hes heard it all #jay didnt sing much because of her dad #but her mom encouraged her to sing #when jay tended her mom’s bar she would sing tunes she heard from patrons #she got her keyboard piano after the desire island arc #instead of anti-magic ferin pin its anti-singing #singing is power idk #jrwi riptide #jrwi riptide pirates #jrwi chip #chip jrwi #gillion jrwi #jrwi gillion #jrwi jay ferin #jrwi jay #jay jrwi #jrwi riptide pirates x trolls #trolls crossover #is this insane behavior? #i watch the trolls movies and this is what happens.. #i need to be detained #jrwi pretzel

[punkeropercyjackson]

I know 'doll' is an old time-y american nickname meaning 'pretty girl' but to be so fr if a guy called me that i'd think he was insulting me

#like i'm homecountry raised afrolatina so i've never heard it used like that irl so i have no connection to it other than media and fandom #and least to say the men that use it in canon are uh.not great and the way it's written with male characters in fics/hcs always condesendin #so sorry but it has no appeal to me especially because i'm not fully a woman.there is one variant i like that i won't share #but 'doll' by itself gives me the ick it dosen't sound or feel like a compliment it feels patronizing and reggressive #femme #black femme #femmegender #bigender #genderfluid #transmasc #transmasculine #trans men #transmascfem #xenogender #softgirlgender #momgender #finalgirlgender #plantgender #kidcoric #autigender #genderpunk #herogender #t4t #transmasc4transmasc #bi4bi #mlm #mlnb #💌 #summerposting

[nikolai-alexi]

YOU SIGNED UP FOR THIS IS COMPLETE AND I GENUINELY DONT KNOW EHAT TO DO WITH MY LIFE SNTMORE THAT FIC IS MY LIFELINE

#james potter #regulus black #evan rosier #barty crouch jr #marauders era #jegulus #barty crouch junior #sirius black #dorcas meadowes #marlene mckinnon #pandalily #you signed up for this #solmussa #what am i supposed to do now #my life is meaningless without this fic #im in genuine tears that i won’t have the update notifications anymore #the amount of pure seratonin Sol have provided me over the last few months with this fic is absolutely insane #all hail solmussa #maybe i can tell my parents I’ve finally found religion #it’s just Sol who’s my patron Saint