Em Baker

Archives student & aspiring author, home grown in East TN. I write, bake, & mostly succeed at crafts. I read & write anything that takes me out of the ordinary.

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

I will consider a career change at the SLIGHTEST provocation. And every time, I will fully believe in my commitment to start learning automechanics or bartending or coding tomorrow until tomorrow actually gets here. The library is great, but the world is exhausting 😑

[Ella (she/they). Free everyone. 🍉 @S_Tinyhome]

MOOD RING, my new poetry and prose collection, is OUT NOW. It contains some of the most beautiful writing I have ever seen. Find it here: https://t.co/l5mZv32rKC
#WritingCommunity #creativewriting

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

@highway2snails I tell myself that I'm making my space nice because I deserve to live in a clean, comfortable space. I also try to make it more enjoyable by listening to a podcast or an upbeat playlist. It doesn't always fix the guilt but it usually helps me.

[William @williamwoolfitt]

My editing students are making literary magazines for a class project and they are hoping for submissions--poetry, flash fiction, small essays, and more. Duck Duck Mongoose @DukDukMongoose, Mental Rhythm @MentalRhythmMag, and Patchwork Folklore Journal @JournalFolklore will (1/4)

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Be kind to your librarians. Not only are they frequently overworked and underpaid, now they've also become front-line workers in the fight against tyranny.

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

@kfsilvey GIRL, I'm with you 😤 Cyberchase deserves more respect.
And they're clowns if they don't think Between the Lions was God-tier. The Cliff Hanger bit??? Inspired.

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

@kfsilvey I'm sorry to hear about the grossness but glad it's getting better! ❤

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

Hey folks! For those of you in the Tri-Cities area who don't follow my Insta, allow me to plug my new book club at the library where I work.
It's a sci-fi and fantasy focused group and our first book in December is The Ring and the Crown by Melissa de la Cruz 😁

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

Girl help I've overcommitted and now I have to figure out how to recruit for a book club I volunteered to lead 😰

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

sorry I didn’t respond, I suddenly got interested in a new subject and it became my whole identity

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

@kfsilvey Thank you! 🥰
Fun facts: I showed up for work over 90 minutes early today while thinking I was late 😅
My coworker is also named Emily 😂

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

Life update: I'm kind of a librarian!

My official title is "assistant branch manager" of 1 of my local libraries & this is gonna be my third week on the job. It's going super well so far!

Still hoping for grad school for museum studies in fall 2022 but this is great experience!

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

@AbbieCribbs Thank you! I'm excited to learn more as I go. Getting this job feels like a sign I'm on the right track!

[Jacob Collier @jacobcollier]

Some adjectives I like:

omni-crayonic
unfindable
quish
fiestalamentable
hoistable
loco
ex-prism
shunked
insteadfast
porous
comforted
snugglish
ilk-ridden
underseeing
kately
wink-prone
unduly
space-letting
surplus
hype-dyed
clenchless
skyful
side-vibe

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

@kfsilvey I hope you misuse this power with wild abandon

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

@AbbieCribbs Suzy Bishop from Moonrise Kingdom or Agatha from Grand Budapest Hotel could be cool!

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

Alright, for science: 18 y.o. me vs now
...tbh there is not much visible difference other than glasses and haircut, but I like who I've become, I think ❤😌

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

@MNPatterson00 🥺 oh no 💔💔💔

[Em Baker @EmBaker6]

Hey if you are not in a good headspace to reflect on yourself and/or the terrible state of the everything everywhere, wait to watch Bo Burnham: Inside.

It is art, but I would NOT classify it as a comedy and I will need 3 to 5 business days to recover. 😧

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Jesus broke religious and cultural protocol to be Love.

Take the courageous steps he took with the woman at the well.

When history, tradition, upbringing and prejudice whisper, "Don't love them," love anyway.

Love doesn’t stand for injustice.