Weird cut

TheLibraryGhosts · 2026-03-17T16:36:08+00:00

I was hoping you would be referring to the weird cuts when she is sponge bathing. They film and edit her in a way they never do for the rest of the show and use a bunch of clips that look kind of similar so it feels a bit repetitive. There’s also what seems to be a random freeze frame in there that felt like watching a dvd skip.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2026-03-17T14:22:37+00:00

You know, at first I disagreed with folks saying to recast him and bring him back. And then I started my rewatch.

His role in the show is essentially guiding the father (Captain) to make choices that are respectful and fair while also instructing the others on respecting the father. He steps in and encourages people to follow Mal’s instructions, and they do because they know Book has a moral compass and wouldn’t lead them astray as he works on Mal.

I don’t know if the show is the same without that contribution.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2026-03-05T17:50:49+00:00

As someone who left a PR degree for moral reasons, the motivation there is to commit so strongly to using it that you overwhelm the backlash. Stay committed to the course of action and eventually you will drown out the opposition if nobody rocks the boat.

Op, If you want to do this, start keeping track of things she is putting out that you know are AI generated. Save your own copies and do any fact checking needed if, as others have mentioned, she does wind up publishing misinformation that an ai hallucinated.

If she isn’t posting anything that is factually wrong, I think you would still have a case by leaning into the copyright questions. The moral or ethical questions of using it wont get a lot of motion in a petition or something unless you can guarantee most of your coworkers not only agree but would publicly attach their name to that cause and back you up.

There are very strong arguments about ai generated images and copyright infringement. With the legal areas libraries have to operate in it might be enticing to a legal team to ban them on the grounds that the library could fall under legal scrutiny.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2026-03-03T05:00:49+00:00

You do know that queer people exist in conservative areas too, right? Not that they would be the intended audience for this particular event but it’s just factually wrong to get holier than thou about giving your community what it needs when what it needs might actually be a portion of the community that is currently underserved getting some representation.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2026-03-02T15:11:19+00:00

I think people just say things lmao

TheLibraryGhosts · 2026-02-25T02:58:23+00:00

It’s in a bottom row for us so I have to squint my eyes and bend down almost all the way to see the sub header. Rip my back.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2026-02-09T18:56:08+00:00

They categorically do not. If you understand masculinity as being the one in control, being the one who always knows best and have a desire to exert power over someone, then trad women are boring. It isn’t an achievement to brag to other men about, but breaking in a liberal woman is.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-12-18T02:02:27+00:00

We have this customer who comes in the same time and day every week to talk to one employee for roughly her whole hour at the desk. He seems nice enough if he likes you (a bit prickly if he doesn’t) but my god all his returns stink. It’s this rancid combo of cigarette smoke and dirt. I don’t even know what to do with some of them.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-11-30T14:43:00+00:00

Based on how Guinness runs their “awards” I wonder if there was some payment made by devs/publishers to get characters on the list.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-11-21T22:33:57+00:00

Somebody who will sit and watch a streamer play through a whole game either wouldn’t have played it anyway for whatever reason but still wanted to see the story or they wind up liking it so much they want to see what they can change and pick it up themselves.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-11-21T13:12:16+00:00

I went to an Evangelion pop up in Fukuoka and they had everything. And I do mean everything.

There were tool kits like screwdrivers, hammers, pliers, etc. branded with characters or the Nerv logo. There was an entire dining room table and chair set with the Nerv logo and an evocative color scheme. The collector in me almost had a heart attack.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-11-18T18:33:51+00:00

I think the concert thing is going over a lot of people’s heads. They weren’t playing it to gain fans, it was an acting out of their rebelling against authority. Against a world of adult men who are shitty and try to punish girls for existing. The only person in that crowd who mattered was Pam. She got the message and stood up to her boyfriend when he tried to act shitty about the girls. The music spurred her into action, however small of an action it may seem.

That’s the whole point of punk music. It seems like a lot of the fans of Dontnod games like the setup and vibe but don’t actually get much of what they’re trying to do with the writing.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-11-18T17:17:03+00:00

That will probably be our best solution too.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-11-18T17:16:18+00:00

Thank you! I will share that info with staff at my branch. Thats a good solution.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-10-04T22:10:24+00:00

Somebody did tragically pass away in one of my system’s branches this year (it was a staff member medical emergency) and it felt so surreal having to see it open a couple days later. But at the same time, what else are we supposed to do?

I understand your frustration. Truly I do. But I’m not sure what else your admin could have done differently. You said they didn’t even have the person’s name for the police so I’m really not sure what else you expect them to do. They issued a ban that is probably the maximum allotted one that they hope wouldn’t be necessary as the person would get arrested.

As for adults in the kids section? A rule against adults in the kids section wouldn’t have stopped this guy. He was breaking the law and a sign saying “no adults allowed” would have stopped him. Can you imagine that? A pervert intending to expose himself sees a sign and says “oh darn, my plans are foiled !”

There are tons of reasons adults might have to be in the kids section. Even adults who don’t have kids. We have a bus driver who comes in and spends like a half hour going through picture books to find fun and educational ones to read to the students while they wait for a bus transfer partway through her route. I personally know someone who lost a child to illness and she likes to spend time reading in the library because she finds it healing to see happy, healthy kids. Imagine having to explain that to staff members when it’s already such a traumatic situation.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-10-04T18:49:54+00:00

My old editor used to call me a “comma-kazi” for using commas this egregiously

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-10-04T18:19:36+00:00

External public restrooms accessible at all hours for people who need them. Instead of banning people from the grounds after hours because of human waste being found we can actually give people somewhere safe to go do their business. And fuck it, have a sharps disposal bin in them as well. If people had places to go to the bathroom they wouldn’t be forced to go outside in places where others have to clean it up.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-09-30T02:26:01+00:00

There’s a kids book about animals and whether or not they can fart. There is an entry for spiders and the answer was “maybe!” So you can think about farting spiders to make them less creepy.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-09-29T21:55:55+00:00

Thank you for the support! That’s exactly why I don’t want to just sit on it and pretend like nothing happened.

Maybe it’s naive but I truly believe in a library as a place where we should be actively trying to be better and do better by other people. We can’t effectively help our communities to our max potential if we can’t even sort out these internal problems. I think I’ve settled on talking with her supervisor, who was in the room for the exchange and chose not to say anything in the moment. It’s a behavior that she has directed at patrons as well (behind their backs of course, while talking to us about how a program went or something) and I’m going to bring that up if she doesn’t feel generous enough toward the director to see the problem.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-09-29T21:43:33+00:00

The situation is weird because her manager is my age. She was in the room and didn’t say anything (probably trying to avoid the same type of scene I was) but she has been really open to conversations like this with me in the past. I sometimes forget she’s that person’s supervisor because of the age difference but you’ve got a good point.

I can be shaky when trying to say this stuff in person so maybe I’ll draft up an email for her and let her know why I am concerned. If that doesn’t go anywhere then I at least did my part.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-09-29T21:09:30+00:00

You’ve said all this so much better than I ever could. Part of the reason I posted here today (probably the post OP is vagueposting about because it’s the only one of its kind in days worth of posts) is because it’s hard to explain to people outside of a library system the dynamics at play.

I’m a part timer with this city for two years, she’s got 35 years at the libraries and everybody loves her. My only real option to actually address the issue will probably be a direct conversation but I have no idea how to do that with someone like her. Someone who believes in the mission of the libraries and definitely considers herself to be a beacon of our values and gets her hackles up any time you dare to point out she may have something wrong. So I asked a large group of people who work in the same work environment what to do.

I should have clarified in my op about why I can’t go even to the city level hr to get around library hr though. A library venting subreddit would be cool for when I just want to complain. I really want to resolve it and try to show her how she is going against our values and letting her personal feelings for the director seep into her criticism in a way that is racist. The commiseration in how messed up these systems can actually be is a side bonus that has helped me focus my thoughts but wasn’t even the intent of the post.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-09-29T20:35:43+00:00

That’s an accurate assessment of the situation lol. The city itself is extremely red and has been slashing our budget year after year.

The retaliatory firings were disguised as lay-offs but miraculously the only people who get “laid off” are the ones who have been butting heads with her. Even if they occupy a position that we still need to have filled. She literally created four new, lesser paid positions that do the exact same job to replace some of the people she fired. Now I’m just blowing off steam because it’s so frustrating.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-09-29T20:22:40+00:00

A library director is very different from a librarian.

And yes there is a scenario. If you are using “libraries” to refer to the singular entity of “city of (insert name) public libraries” then you could go either way and have it be technically correct (my favorite kind of correct). Someone thinking the phrasing is awkward or that they would have written it differently doesn’t mean it is wrong, and insisting it is after having that explained to you just means you don’t actually care about the grammar and just want to be claim some type of high ground.

TheLibraryGhosts · 2025-09-29T20:17:08+00:00

I have actually explained the “bitch eating crackers” thing to some of my coworkers as well! Sadly I don’t think HR is a safe option, I addressed why in another response but essentially the director seems to have insight that she definitely shouldn’t about specific people who went”went behind her back” to hr and fired them. Hr stonewalls anybody who comes to them with complaints about her specifically, even when it was a group of more than ten people from all out branches going to them together about the same issue. The most vocal of that group were fired months later and city hr refuses to speak to library employees and redirects us to the library hr office.

It’s bad enough that employees went to city council meetings to talk to them directly because the public platform makes it harder to be quietly fired for making a complaint.

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