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@ 2011-03-16 12:57 am UTC

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Katie and Emmy made me watch the final two episodes of White Collar because Katie hates me and Emmy likes watching Katie torment me.

I just-- NO. NO. You do not eat food in an archive! You do not have sex against the closed stacks in an archive! You do not go into an archive with "Well, I have a vague physical description of this dude, and know he landed in 1946 at Ellis Island, but I don't have a name or anything else!" (Okay, yes, people do that. But NO. NO.)

I-- Thing--- No! Closed stacks! No other researchers! food in the archives omg.

Now I am dead. DEAD.

dead.

:(

archives woe.

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	no subject metonymy 2011-03-16 04:01 am UTC (link)
	I REMEMBER WATCHING AND GOING "LOL ARCHIVES DO NOT WORK LIKE THAT." And then I got distracted by makeouts, because I am shallow. And not an archivist or proper researcher anymore. XD (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	no subject trouble 2011-03-16 04:08 am UTC (link)
	I keep trying to sort out the plot of White Collar which is probably why I am doing White Collar wrong. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject metonymy 2011-03-16 04:47 am UTC (link)
	"Plot"? What is this "plot" you speak of? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject trouble 2011-03-17 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	It's this terrible thing they do that makes me weep bitter tears whenever it happens. "No, wait, what? Fractal?" (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject ginny_t 2011-03-16 12:10 pm UTC (link)
	I hear it works a lot better if you focus on the hot of White Collar. /shallow That said, I probably would've yelled, too. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject trouble 2011-03-17 02:44 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I kinda fail at White Collar because I find neither of the male leads particularly appealing. sigh Why can't we have a bunch of episodes where Elizabeth, Dianna, Sarah, and June go on awesome adventures wearing stunning outfits? WOE IS ME. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject lilacsigil 2011-03-16 04:33 am UTC (link)
	It's a Polanski film anyway, but never watch The Ninth Gate. The things you mention above PLUS smoking on the rare books! Also, a terrible movie in general. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject trouble 2011-03-17 02:41 pm UTC (link)
	.... smoking? D: D: D: D: D: (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject hypatia 2011-03-16 05:49 am UTC (link)
	i am a bad person because i actually cackled in glee out loud thinking of how much this annoyed you :) (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject trouble 2011-03-17 02:41 pm UTC (link)
	You and Katieand Emmy can start a Mean Persons Who Mock Anna's Pain At Bad Archives Etiquette Club. MEANIES. :D (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject hypatia 2011-03-17 03:04 pm UTC (link)
	i will totally join that club, mwahaha :D (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject challyzatb 2011-03-16 07:52 am UTC (link)
	You're hilarious. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject trouble 2011-03-17 02:40 pm UTC (link)
	You say this because you didn't watch the terrible damaging-of-records thing of the sex against the case of records scene. WOE. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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oursin
2011-03-16 10:09 am UTC (link)

There's not enough aaaaaaargh in the world, but this sort of thing is just so common. I once did a ranty post about the number of mysteries/thrillers I'd read which were killed stone dead in the water if you had any knowledge whatsoever of how archives/rare book collections actually work, with bonus points for institutions at which I've actually worked which the writer has clearly never visited (or not actually used as a, well, researcher, as opposed to admiring the architecture).

There is also worrying trend of TV programmes doing things about family/historical research to do things, or try to do things, presenting archives which thick an archivist's blood with cold. If the person looking at a tithe map in the middle of a windy field was really using a facsimile, I think we should have been told. Because I suspect every member of the Society of Archivists who watched that programme immediately buzzed off a communication to the head of the repository in question going 'O No You Didn't, Did You? What were you thinking?'

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	no subject trouble 2011-03-17 02:39 pm UTC (link)
	I knew you would understand my pain. I just... aaaaa. And then more aaa! And food. FOOD. ARG. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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silver_spotted
2011-03-16 12:37 pm UTC (link)

this! I'll admit, I love White Collar a lot, but the thing is, the characters who are in the archive, *they should know better*. I refuse to believe that either of them has not spent a large amount of time in archives (possibly for illegal purposes, but whatever) But the way Neal just shoves everything back in the folder?!?!? Augh

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	no subject trouble 2011-03-17 02:39 pm UTC (link)
	I KNOW RIGHT? ARG!!!! And Castle did Archives Failure this season, too. Just... ARG. BAD SHOWS. BAD. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject facetofcathy 2011-03-16 01:55 pm UTC (link)
	I actually thought of you watching that scene! (and, er, laughed--sorry) The scene is quintessential White Collar--gorgeous set, gorgeous people, silly dialogue, incomprehensible plot and no bearing on reality whatsoever. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject trouble 2011-03-17 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	That is a great summary of White Collar. I wish I could just shut off my brain and enjoy the show, but I keep arguing with the plot. Katie made a whole post laughing at me so you all should form a mean persons club or something with Emmy. MY LIFE IS SO HARD. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject holyschist 2011-03-17 06:20 am UTC (link)
	♥ I have to say, the best part of Angels & Demons was the audible gasp the entire theatre made when Tom Hanks ripped the page out of the super-valuable ancient manuscript. I feel your pain. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject trouble 2011-03-17 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, that happened when we saw it too! (We went because it was a bad week and I knew it was filmed in Rome and I will pay stupid money to see Rome on the big screen.) I ranted about that to poor Don, who keeps laughing at me because he is mean. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject holyschist 2011-03-17 05:24 pm UTC (link)
	I was just heartened that everyone else was as horrified as I was. (To be honest, the movie annoyed me far, far less than the book, mainly because they cut the ridiculous author wishfulfillment romance with the superhot 20-something nuclear physicist fashion model.) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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