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I debated putting this in the cosplay thread, but I thought I might get more responses this way: I work in a library and eventually want to be a librarian. In the meantime, I sometimes cosplay as one. But I'm sure I haven't read or watched everything with awesome librarian (or archivist or similar) characters in it. So my possible cosplay list includes Cassandra from The Librarians, Evelyn Carnahan from The Mummy, Belle French from Once Upon a Time, and Jocasta Nu from Star Wars. I'd feel weird cosplaying Oracle because wheelchairs aren't cosplay props (yeah I know she was "healed" but it felt like a cop out and spitting on wheelchair users, and I'm not even sure if it stuck.) And there's always the Librarian of Unseen University, but I'm not a fursuit fan. So any recs for works with librarian characters that'd be fun to cosplay as? (Short fat white girl here, if that's any help.)

well, i don't have any ideas myself, but i know a bunch of people on the internet you could ask

My favorite librarian is Maggie from NOS4A2. She'd be pretty easy to cosplay but not sure how recognizable it would be.

AYRT--I do know the book, I kind of skimmed it at work, but I'm not a big fan of horror and like you said, book characters aren't necessarily recognizable. Especially for something that's not a popular series or NYT bestseller or something. Thanks, though.

Genderbent Giles?

AYRT--I thought of him, or even just Giles, as crossplay. But I have only a passing familiarity with Buffy and it's kind of a big universe to dive into just for cosplay. Maybe if I looked more like Anthony Head. Thanks, though!

My first thought was Marion from The Music Man, but idk how much people cosplay as characters from 1960s musicals.

This could potentially be awesome if you got someone to cosplay as Harold Hill and follow you around throwing marshmallows at you.

AYRT--I ... never thought of her, and I should have, thanks! I'll add her to the list, although the most recognizable bits of her character are songs. Seems like she'd work better in tandem with a Harold Hill.

Jim Hines has a series called Magic Ex Libris, which features lots of librarians. It's a cute series, but cosplaying from books can be a lot less recognizable...

AYRT--ooh, an excuse to read Jim Hines! Isn't he the guy that did the joking pinup book covers? I keep meaning to read his stuff and never picked it up.

Yes, he did. I met him at a con last year, and he was a pretty cool guy.
I do have to warn, though, I wasn't ~blown away~. The books are cute, and have some nice ideas and characters, but I'm not sure if they're worth actually buying, or just getting from the library. I don't know if they have re-readability value, at least for this series.

Oh damn you beat me to it! My librarian friend LOVES those books.

For what it's worth, I love Hines' work, too. I named one of my dogs after Jig the Goblin, and while his Princess series is my favorite for the most part (I do not acknowledge the end of the fourth one), I still adore the Magic Ex Libris series. Haven't read the fourth one yet because I can't afford it, but it's something to look forward to.

Ridelle Mystere from Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney?

http://librarians-on-youtube.blogspot.com/2015/04/case-study-no-1879-ridelle-mystere-and.html

Can't really find a lot of pictures of her though, sorry.

http://defendersquest.wikia.com/wiki/Azra

Sheska from Fullmetal Alchemist? Madame Pince from Harry Potter?

OH OH DUDE DUDE YOU SHOULD TOTALLY READ THE LIBRIOMANCER BOOKS. They're by Jim Hines. My librarian friend LOOOOOVES them. I don't know if there're women librarians, but I only read the first book once and quite a few years ago. But it seems like a series you'd enjoy! (It's urban fantasy where libriomancers can pull magical items/beings from books. YEAH IT'S AWESOME.)

EDIT: crap ketita beat me to it. <.

Edited 2016-05-31 01:50 (UTC)

Madame Pince, Hogwarts librarian.

A very obscure 19702 series, Enemy at the Door (set during the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands) has a librarian who stands up to an SS officer and ends up in jail because of it.

1970s series, good grief.

Lirael, from Garth Nix's Abhorsen books, who worked in that library up in a glacier where they keep Dangerous Books and all librarians carry swords and safety whistles...

Um, straight black hair, bright red or yellow vest, sword, and a dog if you can manage it.

Though if she wants to REALLY play Lirael, she needs some panpipes as well.

You could cosplay as pre-injury Barbara Gordon.

Rex Libris is a comic book librarian. He works for Thoth, I think.

Not a librarian, but Tai from Questionable Content works in the Smif College library and has a distinctive elbow tattoo. You could do that.

read The-Toast, and post this question on the next open thread that gets opened (probably this friday)

or, if you're on twitter, start following Toasty twitter people and ask them this. i can provide some good starting accounts to blast this at

but, in general, "librarian cosplay" is the thing that is most up the alley of The Toast. and if you're someone interested in that, you should get involved in Toasty culture regardless, because you're literally the target demo.

Look up Read Or Die. Secret agent librarians!

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