fandomhigh | Libraries and Books: Highlights and Dangers, Tuesday

If Jon looked a bit strained and tired...well, you should all be used to that by now; it was Jon.

"Good morning," he said as they got settled. "I, um. Well, it looks like we can skip introductions today, at least as far as who we all are. I should still tell you a bit about the class. Books can be wonderful, and libraries can be very useful, but...but sometimes they're dangerous. Here in Fandom, the really dangerous ones are kept safe by Mr. Constantine, the librarian, in Special Collections. Out in the wild, they may be more difficult to spot, and that can be a problem.

"Anyway, I thought I would share some of the ways to spot dangerous books, and what you can do with them if you do. And since that's not much for an entire semester, we'll also be going over things like how books in libraries are organized, how they're bound, and how to care for the regular sort. So."

He nodded. "You can start with your name if you like, although I think we already know each other, but I would like to know what you hope to gain from this class, if you have any particular expectations or requests, and what sort of experience you've had already with regular books and libraries and with the less safe ones."

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Liberty Hazlett

Kurt Wagner

Belle

Josephine Jones

Tahani al-Jamil

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What do you want to get out of class, and what is your prior experience like?

"Hey, I'm Kurt Wagner and I'm taking the class because I love reading and learning. Also, I know books and such are a part of learning magic and how to control special powers and abilities- and that is something that will be a big part of my training and work as a (hopeful) member of the X-Men at some point. I am excited to see what all there is to learn from you, Mr. Sims."

Jon winced a bit at the "learning magic" bit. "Well, um. With luck, we'll have no magic here. In my experience, nothing good comes of magic books. But I do hope I can help you learn some things."

"Ah I see. Magic isn't something good then where you are from?" Kurt asked, genuinely curious since magic and powers and abilities all seemed to kinda go hand in hand for many Mutants as far as he knew.

"No, it's...definitely not," Jon said. "I'm aware it's different for some people here, but even so, I should think it's something to be very careful around."

Kurt nodded thoughtfully. "That makes sense. Thank you, I will definitely be sure to be extra careful with anything that is possibly magic related."

"Hi," Libby gave a soft, almost apologetic smile as she took her turn with the sort-of intros. "I'm Libby, and I guess I just really like books. I really didn't have many, growing up, mostly just the Bible and a few others, so I'm really eager to see what's out there. There's just so much! And, before coming here, I never imagined a book could cause much harm beyond a paper cut or two, really. And I'd also really like to know what does happen if you eat a book that's turned into a fruit after it's supposed to have turned back."

She'll always regret chickening out with that when she had that book-orange....

"If you..." Jon frowned. "I wasn't aware that was a thing that could happen." Even on Fandom, that was a new one for him.

That frown made Libby's smile go a little apologetic, but not by much.

"I went to the library once and all the books had turned into citrus," she explained, although she realized it might not have really helped that much. "I checked out an orange, but I couldn't bring myself to actually eat it. Probably a good thing, considering it was back to a book the next day."

Sadly not the one you'd expect, even!

"I must have missed that day," Jon said, bemused. "Unfortunately, I only see one way of testing that, and we'd have to hope the island does that again first."

He'd be up for trying it!

"I suppose the worst that would happen would be that you'd have eaten fibre instead of citrus."

"All that ink, though," said Libby. "Couldn't possibly be good for you."

"Probably not, but modern inks are non-toxic," Jon said. "Some older books might have lead in the ink, and there are some that were bound in the nineteenth century that have arsenic in the cover pigment, but...well, I suppose if you stick to modern oranges, you should be fine."

...did the orange still have its catalogue number on the rind?

"I'm Belle, I work in the library here at the school on Thursdays, and I suppose I'm simply interested in learning about other libraries and interesting books."

The library here was fascinating by itself, but others might be even moreso.

"I don't know if we'll find any other libraries quite as interesting as the one here," Jon said, "although that's...really a good thing, honestly. Too many like Fandom's could be a problem. Still, I hope I'll be able to show you some interesting things."

"I work at the library," Jo offered, rather excited that she could have experience in something for once, "it can be rather weird, especially when the books keep moving - it's hard to keep track of the genres," she paused, "I would like to learn as much as I can about libraries and how to care for books properly,"

"That we can certainly manage," Jon said, smiling. "Although honestly, I'm not sure all of book care applies to ones that seem sort of...semi-sentient? I suppose we'll find out."

He's here! Doing much better today. Or at least repressing it well.

Booooooooks. :D

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