Every Angel is Terrifying, Alas! I Sing to You

Page title from Rainer Maria Rilke . Assorted fandoms: ASOIAF, GOT, Les Miserables, Marvel, Star Trek: The Original Series

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[lilqueerblob]

Okay... Hear me out.

New reaction image.

[baejax-the-great]

I think the biggest effect Sense8 had on my life is me saying "I see you, villain" whenever I am dealing with anything that mildly inconveniences me

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[buggyhuman]

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

[woodsfae]

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

[twinkprison]

the tiktokification of tumblr needs to be stopped

[twinkprison]

we don’t censor words here stop acting like a fool, when you censor words and tags people who have that word filtered due to triggers will still see it

[gorgynei]

hadestown is my favorite musical because its a musical about a bunch of people telling a story. it is a love letter to theater. in the first few songs, this is pretty clear. the setting is the bar we see and the actors must be introduced as the characters they play. everyone is enjoying the story and relaxing and drinking. but as the story goes on, we get swept into the narrative and the stage literally expands to draw us further in, deeper into the world of hadestown. and yet, we never truly leave the bar. our interpretation of the space changes, but the stage never does. we never leave the bar, in the same way we never leave the theatre, but are transported all the same.

[anti-heroism]

CHARLIE VICKERS AS SAURON

[wolvierinez]

August 2nd is Roma Genocide Remembrance Day, where we commemorate the Sinti and Roma who were murdered during the Samudaripen.

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | The Roma genocide

The Porrajmos, or Porajmos (translated 'the Devouring') is the term used to describe the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) po

If you want to help the Domari people in Palestine, this post has a link and a guide

How to Donate to the Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem

As many of you may know, the Domari community in Palestine is suffering alongside native Palestinians in the genocidal campaign headed by Is

[indigo-roses-blog]

Adding resources!

Florian a Romani Youtuber:

Virtual walkthrough a Romani Holocaust memorial exhibit:

Virtual Tour through the Block 13 Exhibition - European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti und Roma

The permanent exhibition on the genocide of Sinti and Roma at the Auschwitz-Museum; 5 min video

Romani Holocaust - Wikipedia

On 2 August, we commemorate the 500,000 Sinti and Roma murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe in the former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

What Is the Roma Genocide?

[chasetheauthor]

how long is such an underrated song. you and your pity don't fit in my bed. how does the SUN even FIT in the sky?!?!? it just Burns like a hole in the Pit of the sky. wow. way to fuck me up thanks a lot amber gray patrick page anais mitchell

[maryoliveoil]

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (2026), dir. Georgia Oakley

[some-pers0n]

Having a sickass art idea that haunts your every waking moment but lacking the talent to fully idealize it in your exact vision

[treasurecryland]

I think ppl are discounting the budgeting issues too much. Obviously this doesn’t excuse the racism, but it can definitely explain some of the loose threads, and the lack of scenes establishing motivation etc. It seems like scenes kept getting cut for budget reasons. And filming on a bus set you’ve already made is going to be much cheaper than say a scene where Armand destroys a carriage.

[arcadianambivalence]

Running list of scenes sacrificed (or curtailed) due to budget restrictions and their impacts:

The wolf killing scene -> shortened to the tense moments leading up to the first attack so more attention is given to the emotional effects of anticipating the wolves, then living with the scars, shifted from winter to spring due to the shooting schedule

Lestat and Gabriella abandon Armand and he tries to stop them -> omitted entirely, consequently removing the book scene where he admits his fear of reverting to his old ways, which he does in Lestat’s absence in the 19th century and Louis’s absence for 2-3 years (which would have been nice foreshadowing for the next change)

THE concert that wakes Akasha in the modern day -> pushed to next season due to budget cuts announced halfway through production, necessitating the creation of a brand new climax for Lestat’s character arc this season and leaving Akasha’s relevance shrouded in mystery. It’s unclear if that means the choices for Louis, Armand, Daniel, Fareed, and Claudia/Regina were also changed late in production, but it would go a long way in explaining why the plots of the last two episodes were—forbid me—Frankensteined from Merrick and TVA without the relevant context or character work to justify these character beats

[mammalianmammals]

[kaviesbox]

men will literally encourage female hypersexuality until it stops benefiting them personally. then suddenly it becomes pathology, degradation, daddy issues, lack of self-respect, trauma, etc. they’ll consume sexualized women constantly, glorify them, fantasize about them, profit off them, even build entire cultures around them. but the second a woman embodies that sexuality too openly, too honestly, or outside of male control, she’s “damaged” now. like suddenly the thing they were rewarding becomes proof there’s something wrong with her like what?

[spamloaf]

In male culture, there is a link, not a dichotomy, between utter contempt and sexual desire.

[samtyrells]

Happy 30th birthday to my great glory and my great tragedy

[king-the-pathetic]

Soggy ouppy

[king-the-pathetic]

Spinosaurus

[king-the-pathetic]

Self drying dog

[king-the-pathetic]

[arcadianambivalence]

The Rings of Power fans, the Melody Workshop channel on YouTube has an awesome series of videos breaking down Bear McCreary's gorgeous score and its meaning in the show.

I recommend checking it out if you need some TROP love while we wait for season 3!