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A librarian who's here to post silly comics
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Xiaoyi @cleefouti.bsky.social · Nov 10
A bad time.
Four frames of a comic in a cartoonish style about a woman trying to cope with a bad time. First frame: the woman is in bed, staring at nothing. She's surrounded by darkness and a white spiral. Frame two: the woman is walking with an empty expression in the street. Frame three: she enters a grocery store by slamming the door. Frame four: a close up of her face as she loudly asks for cheese.
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Just watched Kokuho by
Lee Sang-il - simply one of the best films of the past twenty years. Unbelievably gorgeous, and beautifully written. Satoko Okudera's script shines like no other. Please go watch it if you can!
A screenshot from the film Kohuko. The protagonist is here seen applying theater makeup.
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Today I'm cataloging a book by Maria Sibylla Merian, an entomologist and genius scientific illustrator:
Page from Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe. , showing flowers and a butterfly A zoom on the butterfly and the white and red flowers Further zoom on the butterfly
December 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Watched Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine tonight.
Screenshot from Sonatine. Two yakuzas talk in a bus. One has stabbed the other the day before. The one on the right, happily eating an ice cream, offers the stabbed one something to drink. The other, a bald man, replies "No. My stomach still hurts from where you stabbed me." Screenshot from Sonatine. Two yakuzas are sitting near a car. The one on the left says "I don't do drugs. I only do amphetamines." Screenshot from the film Sonatine. Two yakuzas pretend to be sumo wrestlers on a beach. Screenshot from the movie Sonatine. Two yakuzas are sitting cross legged on tatamis. One is holding a doll and pressing its head on the other yakuza's cheek, saying "Kiss".
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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A student in 1829 tries very hard to draw an arctic fox :
December 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Cataloging student notebooks from the 1820s today. A student 200 years ago started drawing animals on the blank pages he had left:
A doodle of a cat from a 1820s notebook A drawing of a frog from a 1820s french notebook
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Cataloging student notebooks from the 1820s today. A student 200 years ago started drawing animals on the blank pages he had left:
A doodle of a cat from a 1820s notebook A drawing of a frog from a 1820s french notebook
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Domestic dispute in public
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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I love reading acknowledgements in thesis - while working I found this veterinarian thesis from 1947 thanking Walt Disney for his help
À monsieur Walt Disney, que nous remercions des précieux renseignements qu'il a bien voulu nous fournir. En témoignage de notre grande admiration pour son Art.
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Took a nap and dreamt I was in a world where everyone was riding mushrooms. This was my mushroom, Champival :
Drawing of a woman with short hair riding a mushroom like creature, ressembling an oyster mushroom with two legs ressembling plant roots.
November 11, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Cataloging some 16th century bird letters today
Letter D illustrated with berry fruits and a bird, from Les Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays étrangèrs by Belon, 1553 Letter C illustrated with a bird, from Les Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays étrangèrs by Belon, 1553
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Remembering some heroines from my youth
A four frame comics about types of women protagonists I saw in my childhood/teenage years. The first frame shows a girl with long wavy hair, frowning. The text reads: "YOU GOT FIRE IN YOU, GIRL" Girl. Rightfully mad, no time for love (3 shitty boyfriends), actual fire power? Red hair." The second frame shows a girl shrugging and blushing, with overall and a stripped shirt. The text reads: "I'M SUCH A MESS" Girl: hopeless crush, shit job, clumsy, tries?. The third frame shows a heroine in a period costume and a bun, holding a book. The text reads "I DON'T CARE FOR SILLY" Girl: marries a douchebag anyway, she *reads*, "I never gossip". The fourth frame shows Iwakura Lain from the anime Serial Experiments Lain. The text reads: "COMPUTERS"
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Remembering some heroines from my youth
A four frame comics about types of women protagonists I saw in my childhood/teenage years. The first frame shows a girl with long wavy hair, frowning. The text reads: "YOU GOT FIRE IN YOU, GIRL" Girl. Rightfully mad, no time for love (3 shitty boyfriends), actual fire power? Red hair." The second frame shows a girl shrugging and blushing, with overall and a stripped shirt. The text reads: "I'M SUCH A MESS" Girl: hopeless crush, shit job, clumsy, tries?. The third frame shows a heroine in a period costume and a bun, holding a book. The text reads "I DON'T CARE FOR SILLY" Girl: marries a douchebag anyway, she *reads*, "I never gossip". The fourth frame shows Iwakura Lain from the anime Serial Experiments Lain. The text reads: "COMPUTERS"
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Cataloging cherries today:
Cherry illustrations from Traité des Arbres Fruitiers by Duhamel Du Monceau, 1807 edition, illustrated in vibrant colors. Cherry illustrations from Traité des Arbres Fruitiers by Duhamel Du Monceau, 1807 edition, illustrated in vibrant colors. Cherry illustrations from Traité des Arbres Fruitiers by Duhamel Du Monceau, 1807 edition, illustrated in vibrant colors. Cherry illustrations from Traité des Arbres Fruitiers by Duhamel Du Monceau, 1807 edition, illustrated in vibrant colors.
December 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The Angel's Egg x Mikio Sakabe fashion collection goes so hard:
A dress shirt inspired by what the character wears in Mamoru Oshii's film Angel's Egg A dress shirt and pink reddish shoes with bubble shaped soles inspired by what the character wears in Mamoru Oshii's film Angel's Egg A pair of black shoes featuring the main character of Angel's Egg A long stripped red and black dress with huge ballooning sleeves worn by a woman with long white hair. The outfit is inspired by the film Angel's Egg.
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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(Author is quadriplegic)
A few weeks after AJM finally sent out an engineer to resize my chair, I got a call from the clinical lead. He said that he needed a barcode number from the chair I’d gone home with, which he’d forgotten to note down. Could I please get out of the chair, crouch down on the floor and read out the number off the bottom?
December 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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I open the library at 9.
A post it comic where I woke up today three hours late. The text reads: another monday. I feel fine! Probably because I woke up at 10. (Three hours late)
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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OK (1/2)
A 2019 comic about my father's death. A character is shown entering a flat and closing the door. The text reads: "When I was little (and older) , as I came home from school (and work) A corridor is shown. "My dad would ask from his room, at the end of the corridor: Are you ok? And I would say: I'm ok dad, how are you?" The father answers, "If you're OK, then dad is ok!" The text reads: "(It was a bit frustrating). Then he would come out." The father says: "I cooked rice and salmon today, come and eat dinner!". The text reads: (It was always delicious). The text reads: "Now it's now." The corridor is now empty. The bowl of food is also empty of any rice or salmon. The text reads: "And I've learnt what silence is made of."
November 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Pickpocket (1959), directed by Robert Bresson. One of the most elegant scenes ever made, and so simple too.
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Watched The Running Man today. When Lee Pace removes his mask at the end and Glen Powell whistles I genuinely thought the twist was that the scary hunter turned out to be a beautiful man. It took me five minutes to understand Powell was mocking his facial scars.
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Bootleg Labubus and One Chip or Dale, Balloon Fiesta, 2025.

#filmphotography #analogphotography #halfframe #canondemiee17 #harmanphoenixii
Wall of lafufus and one heavyset cartoon chipmunk
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Monday again
A four frame comic about how tired I am on mondays. I work at a library. The first frame shows me in front of a computer. The text reads: it's monday again. I'm still tired. The second frame shows me staring at a suspiciously green book. The text reads: I'm beginning to think one of our books is full or arsenic. The third frame shows me closer to the book. The text reads: a beautiful, beautiful green... the fourth frame shows me licking the book.
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Had to show old books to a group of teens today and managed to make them interested in what I was talking about by going off on a rant about pokemon cards speculation
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Monday again
A four frame comic about how tired I am on mondays. I work at a library. The first frame shows me in front of a computer. The text reads: it's monday again. I'm still tired. The second frame shows me staring at a suspiciously green book. The text reads: I'm beginning to think one of our books is full or arsenic. The third frame shows me closer to the book. The text reads: a beautiful, beautiful green... the fourth frame shows me licking the book.
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Rewatching Hyouka, which will soon be 14 years old. One of the most beautiful intro to a first episode ever made:
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM