A spaceship landed, and an alien emerged.
"We come in peace," they said, "Take us to your librarian."
"Er... Don't you mean our leader?"
"Why? We already have leaders."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
@MicroSFF how do they not have librarians??
@WizardOfDocs @MicroSFF You always want to touch base with the local librarian
@WizardOfDocs @MicroSFF I assumed that they do, they just want to meet *ours*.
@lclapp @WizardOfDocs @MicroSFF Yeah! If you're on a peaceful, exploratory journey, who better to check in with than the keeper of knowledge!
@WizardOfDocs @lclapp @MicroSFF also got confused by this. It implies they have leaders, but not librarians, and are looking for some
@falcon @WizardOfDocs @MicroSFF I mean, that might be it, too. All versions are canon. :)
But on the other hand, if I asked you to introduce me to your spouse, would you necessarily assume that I was unmarried?
On the third hand, they're aliens; maybe something got lost in translation. :)
@WizardOfDocs That's how alien they are, these aliens.
@WizardOfDocs @MicroSFF probably achieved Fully Automated Clusterfuck Kapitalism
@WizardOfDocs @MicroSFF I assumed (yes, dangerous, I know) that they have librarians but as visitors to an unfamiliar planet would need librarians knowledgeable about local planetary languages and literature.
But I might be over-thinking this.
@WizardOfDocs @MicroSFF How better to find out answers to the important questions about the new place?
@MicroSFF That would be me then…
@MicroSFF Oh my god I never realized that the concept of figurehead might be an entirely human concept
@MicroSFF They need a 150th anniversary edition of Middlemarch, the Thursday night knitting circle team that meets in room 5, and a working fax machine.
@MicroSFF whether or not the species in question has librarians requesting to be taken to a library or other repository of knowledge is an extremely sensible decision knowledge is power
@MicroSFF Like Lesley Knope said, librarians are the biker gangs of civil servants.
Of course the aliens want to know them.
Take us to your accountant!
@purserj yaaas I saw that post in my feed reader recently but had forgotten who wrote it. Good thing I didn’t try to mansplain it back to u ;-)
@Unixbigot heh all good. It's a small thing to do but it feels right
@MicroSFF
Turns out they need to print something and their printer at home isn't working.
Hopefully they remember their email's password. :P
@MicroSFF Well, librarians ARE the best.
@MicroSFF was it a librarian who suggested the plot? because i think a dentist or a good mechanic would be more… believable :-)