A. L(ibrary) Smith

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A library that thinks it is a girl • (she/they) • maker of things • ADHD • Peculiar Book Club Discord Maven • chaotic sword queer

A page from Diary of a wimpy kid. The first panel shows a picture of The Giving Tree with Shel Silverstein's face on the back. The text reads "But Shel Silverstein looks more like a burglar or a pirate then a guy who should be writing books for kids. Dad must have known that picture kind of freaked me out, because one night after I got out of bed, dad said "If you get out of bed again tonight, you'll probably run into Shel Silverstein in the hallway". The picture shows a boy tucked in bed. His dad stand over him, holding The Giving Tree with Shel Silverstein's face pointed at the boy.
A hand stitched fabric cord
A hand with long fingernails. The end of the ring finger is wrapped in a torn strip of yellow linen.
A graph with two similar declining lines. The graph compares burglaries in Oregon with viewership count for Days of Our Lives (source: Spurious Correlations)
Album cover for Raffi's Bananaphone. The cover features Raffi as the sticker on a banana. He is holding a banana to his ear like a phone.
A page from Breakfast of Champions which reads “here is my picture of an asshole:” the picture is a bunch of lines converging at a central point, like an asterisk
A diagram showing the positions of 5 Lagrange points in space. It points out the DSCOVR satellite at the L1 point, between the sun and Earth.
A photograph of the moon, in front of the earth
A striped sweater with a large section coming unraveled near the sleeve
A small gray cat with patchy fur pulling a Tolkien book from a bookshelf
A dark, cleaver-shaped knife balanced on a block calendar which reads "31 October". Behind is a collection of leatherbound classic novels.
A light brown scrap of linen fabric held up by a paint stir stick. The pot of liquid below looks nearly black.
A white cooking pot full of a very dark liquid, the color of used motor oil. The stir stick has developed a much darker brown line as the dye soaks in more.
A red bucket lined with a white plastic grocery bag. It is full of water and the black walnuts. After soaking, the water and the green nuts have both turned mostly black. The dye has already begun to dye my stirring stick brown.
A black walnut tree, full of round green nuts
A person in green rain boots standing in a muddy puddle in the grass
5 strands of assorted beads. The strands have metal circles on both ends so they can attach to turtle brooches. The first is nonbinary pride colors, the next two are black and white beads for my clan, the fourth is miscellaneous beads and a roman coin, and the last strand is blue and white for the SCA Kingdom of Atlantia.
A forest green linen hood with hand-felled seams. The hood is constructed of two rectangles and two squares, based on a 11th century Scandinavian artifact. The stitches are visibly done in black thread.
A purple painted wooden staircase, viewed from the bottom
A purple coif (a fitted linen cap) with visible black stitching and decorative black and white ribbon for the ties
Me wearing a plain blue linen Viking apron with a yellow underdress
The hem of a linen tunic collar, sewn up to a corner
The graphic novel “Off Menu”, artfully set atop a leaf-printed cloth and surrounded by dried herbs in glass jars
A very tiny turtle which barely spans three fingers on my hand. The turtle is black with hints of orange around the edges of the shell and orange stripes on the neck.
A microscope sitting atop a stack of gay books. The books are Bad Gays, Before we were Trans, Queer as Folklore, and The Bones Beneath My Skin.
The cover of a manga with a strange indentation in the corner
A woman at eurovision wearing a billowing white dress with a large vaguely circular structure coming out from the back
The mangled remains of a washing machine, impaled by several swords: A kukri, a cutless, a yatagan, a bastard sword, and a second kukri. All swords made by Badger Blades.
A fluffy gray cat laying on a chair, a ray of sunshine cast across her legs.
A fluffy gray cat laying in an open motherboard box
The nutrition facts/ingredients label on a container of Tang powdered drink mix
My wife and I dancing the first dance during our wedding. We are both wearing long gowns, though only hers is white. The details are obscured, as the photo is backlit from a huge triangular window. We are surrounded by tables of seated wedding guests.
The "do you think a depressed person could make this?" meme but it says "Do you think a robot could make this? No." The guy is holding a beanie baby lamb with extra body parts frankensteined onto it
A red plastic tool called "Klever Kutter". It is a flat handled tool with two hooks on either side of the tip, safely containing a razor blade cutter.
A table featuring an assortment of severed beanie baby limbs. A beanie lamb is in the process of having a duck foot sewn to its front leg.
In two panels, a skeleton stands with hands on hips. The text reads: -Is this gay? -No. -Then I've lost interest.
A book cover- Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
The iconic Leonardo DeCaprio pointing meme
A custom-designed knife made from junkyard scraps by The Ugly Machine. The small, dark knife has a spooky-yet-elegant axelike blade with a silvery edge. The blade is balanced against a block calendar which reads "31 October" in the front of a shelf of gilded leatherbound books.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell, In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
A yellow octopus plushie wearing a pom-pom beanie hat that says Peculiar Book Club on it.
A white skull dice tower, halfway finished in a 3D printer
A wall-mounted rack containing 15 swords of various types and a rusted out rifle a.k.a. BoomSword. Next to the sword rack hangs a small pirate flag beneath a bust of Alexander the Great with googly eyes on it.
A pink-haired person wearing a shirt that says "Smash the Patriarchy". They are walking away from a mangled box of metal that used to be a washing machine, a sword at their side.
A floofy gray kitty sitting in front of a bookshelf
A guy sitting at a desk reading while submerged at the bottom of a pool
a 3D printer in the process of being disassembled- computer chip hanging by wires, loose tubing, and a tray of screws
A pumpkin painted with an image of Coraline holding two black buttons with scary hands reaching towards her face