Are there any works in the post-apocalyptic genre with post-apocalyptic librarians? People who worked in the public library and after the Bad Thing decide to stay and keep the library clean, safe and available for anyone who needs it. People can’t remove books from the premises anymore, because they’re too precious, but you can stay as long as you want and read them or copy them out–the librarians encourage making copies, so that the information can circulate beyond the physical boundaries of the library.
After a while it becomes an unspoken reality of the post apocalyptic society that you Just Don’t fuck with the library. You don’t fight there, you don’t steal from it, you don’t allow harm to come to librarians when they have to leave the building for supplies.
People donate food and books and paper with no expectation of reciprocity, because the librarians don’t ask for anything when you need a place to hide or information or, fuck, to read a schlocky crime novel because you need to escape reality in some purple prose.
Also consider: a library has a duplicate book, and wants to hire mercenaries to transport it to a library that doesn’t have a copy of that book. The most well known mercs in the world show up to volunteer for the job because they haven’t read that one yet.
bella rollin up the the cullens house knowing full well her blood smells damn near irresistible but risking it all for a chance at finally getting dicked down by the weird boy from bio
some people think i learned braille for Cool Points but i actually learned it bc my medicine holder has the days printed in braille and i forget to take my medication a lot. i didnt feel like turning on a light one night just to see my medication so i learned braille out of spite. now everytime i go anywhere i have to read the braille signs and i have seen “woman” misspelled as “noman” SEVERAL times.
Tired Of Waking Up To Take Medication? Learn Braille
deer diary: today i got a death threat for learning a language
…wow.
Who is that idiot?
1. Braille doesn’t machine transcribe well. Which is likely the cause of all those “noman”s. Ergo, braille transcription is a thing. Most braille transcribers can see because they are reading in English (or French, or Japanese, or whatever) and typing in braille.
2. Braille wasn’t actually invented for the blind. It was invented as a military code that could be read in total darkness. Camping? ;)
3. If you can read braille, you can read letters from blind people written in braille without any problem. Some teachers have learned it so their blind students can hand in homework in braille.
4. Sighted parents of blind kids dang well should be learning braille, just as hearing parents of deaf kids should be learning sign.
