Dumpling in a Hanky

Following the Good and the Bad , this is the WTF category. The contents are...interesting. Some are fun and cool. Some are twee-as-Hell, and play on the dowdy/boring/cat-loving old woman librarian theme. Some have gone for the shushing harridan stereotype. Some are unusual and interesting. And some, quite frankly, are terrifying. I leave it up to you to decide which is which. And whether some of them would find a better home on Regretsy . Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop

So, we've seen the Good - often quite pretty or kinda-cool ladies (nobody had tagged solo male images as "librarian", they only seem to turn up within groups or as part of a couple), doing things to do with books, reading, relaxing...that's fine, I can go with that. Now, we move on to the Bad (or Sexy Girls). There are two main librarian representation stereotype categories - there's the nice girl, and then there's these: the librarians who are obviously repressed, and are secretly just itching to rip their clothes off/show you their cleavage/stand over a handy airvent to flash their pants/ wear short, high-split skirts and stilettos, stockings and garter belts to work. You know, the standard stuff that us librarians think about doing while trapped behind those big, nasty issue desks... Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop

Etsy is quite a treasure trove of. handcrafted items, in all sorts of materials. Some are great, some are good, and some are....erm....different. You can find all sorts of things when you search on there. I wondered what this random selection of creative types considered to be a librarian, or to look like one. As a form of mild amusement, I will present here the results of a recent search I did on Etsy using the word "librarian", which brought up results including this word in their description or tag.. Therefore, the choice of whether this is what a librarian looks like is the makers, not mine. Believe me, I would really prefer that some of this stuff wasn't tagged as being a librarian - I got a reputation to uphold here! They can be perhaps regarded as being in three categories: The Good (or Cute), The Bad (or Sexy), and The....WTF. Today, I shall begin with...The Good. The Good Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop Shop ...