marie

ooh grabby hands! it IS my birthday in two weeks…but i am also le poor 🫠

ed/stede energy off the charts in this one. but i genuinely keep going back and forth about who’s mr mustache and who’s the treat! anyway, i need this as a meetcute in a smutty coffeeshop au…

happy new year, beautiful pirate pals! i haven’t been around as much as i’m dealing with an extended flare of a chronic condition, but your art & fic are getting me through 💖 here’s to another year of being #crewforlife!

my library holds the martin quigley papers — he was deeply involved in the hays code, and i was just reading them. jesuits (& catholics more broadly) had a huge influence. it’s disturbing to see discussion of the exact same nonsense as today — corrupting youth, promoting aberrant lifestyles, etc.

Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $83 Billion Deal

interesting news for us! maybe a new opportunity to #saveOFMD!

she’s watched it! she just…doesn’t fall obsessively in love with fictional characters and their worlds? she doesn’t really rewatch/reread stuff? i mean what even is that?! 😂

still of sad stede and wee john with the text “what the hell is going on in towels?”

a sudden email saying head of a key department is “no longer employed” at the library has me running to my work wife all “what the hell is going on in towels?” and she looks at me like 🤨 and i am once again reminded that not everyone is crew, and that’s ok. i guess. maybe. #crewforlife #ofmd

thanks, friend!

me! a 41yo white woman with greying dark curly hair and a septum piercing, dressed as the girl from “the green ribbon” with a ceramic pumpkin.

six 1.5-inch buttons with images from books on them.

a decorative binding for “trilby” by du maurier. there is a spider web with a winged heart and spider in the center.

happy halloween from this millennial librarian, the swag i made for our spooky books event, and a fun non-edward-teach-approved binding from our collections. #ofmd #crewforlife

truly. i love that it’s supposed to be prometheus 😂

spotted this accidental stede from a 1970s children’s reader in the archive today. #stedebonnet #ofmd #crewforlife

a vintage/antique print of the traditional derpy tiger.

the same print from the first picture, except it’s colored in to look like the kpop demon hunters tiger and is back in its frame.

you guys my 9yo made some kpop demon hunters fan art today. we found the print at goodwill yesterday & went at it with colored pencils this afternoon. he even added the magpie! 😍💙🐯

omg you guys, could this be a good thing for a potential #ofmd 3? 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼#crewforlife

a text bubble that reads “well, yr bf strikes again, today popping up in rise of the tmnt as…wait for it…mezmer-ron/hypno-potamus a mutant hippo hypnotist-magician. i mean, if only they’d just made ofmd 3 we might have been spared this”

texts i get from my husband when he’s watching cartoons with the kiddos. i love that we’ve all convinced our friends and family that the world would just be all-around better with #ofmd s3 in it. “my boyfriend” is rhys, btw 😂 #crewforlife

you guys my bus was delayed and this fic made my commute fly by in spite of the extra 40 minutes. 🥰 reminded me of “tooth hurty” by the incomparable @nomadsland.bsky.social

NEVERMIND I FOUND IT. yesss, commute home just got a lot more fun 🤩

wait i’m going to need to be linked to that please and thank you 🫠

“he was so insane for this” and it’s just jeans and a black tee 🫠

i’m sorry, mid-20s-in-the-mid-00s me cannot handle the hair + blazer + 1-inch badge on the lapel. i’m going to need 2-5 business years to process, thank you for your patience.

for some reason it’s ed’s shadow on stede that’s really cracking me up here!

yum! there is an attractive priest who has been in our reading room every day for the past month and this is NOT helping 🫠

HARD SAME.

this. i fully believe they’re both vers/switches, but it’s gotta be a 70/30 situation in practice.

i NEED an audiobook so i can carry his voice around with me in my magical pocket computer.

xena & stede — i mean lucy lawless & rhys darby — standing next to each other, both looking dapper as fuck.

the absolute definition of bisexual panic. 😅

oh no, this makes me so sad, friend. i’m so sorry this space is making life harder for you. sending love your way. 💕

class went reasonably well! pretty sure i gave off crazy manuscript lady vibes, but hey it could be worse 💖

a leaf from a 15th c book of hours showing a miniature of the virgin and child.

you guys, i got 5 hours of sleep last night, so i’m spending money i do not have on caffeine, and i have to teach a dozen students about medieval bibliography tonight from 6 til 8:30. all i want to do is go home and ofmd (yes it’s a verb now). anyway, here’s wonderwall (a pretty manuscript page).

just some casual fascism on my commute in washington dc today. they’re there every morning. watching us.

this! here’s yours truly and my stede-coded spouse enjoying a lunch there (we’re in the dc area, so about a 40 min drive away)