arily3000

[arily3000]

you haven’t lived til’ you’ve burned a condom

-Paul McCartney

[arily3000]

patrick from perks of being a wallflower and sirius black are the same to me

[arily3000]

im off tumblr for three days and now we're talking about some Hornkus Binglefuck

[therealhornkusbinglefuck]

Some hornkus binglefuck?

Try THE hornkus binglefuck

[arily3000]

update: I’ve joined the cult of hornkus

[arily3000]

im off tumblr for three days and now we're talking about some Hornkus Binglefuck

[month-0f-may]

Okay. Okay look. I didn’t HATE the finale of good omens. It wasn’t BAD. It felt a bit rushed, a bit random, but that’s to be expected since it was essentially a short movie. And I was sad about the ending, but at the end…

Crowley and Aziraphale got to be together. That’s what matters to me, at the end. If not for us, it was a happy ending for THEM.

[prokopetz]

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

[thisistrashking]

A (non complete) list of stories mentioned in the comments (as of 4/7/26):

"Strangely Enough" by C.B. Colby "All Summer in a Day" by Rad Bradbury "The Veldt" by Rad Bradbury "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce [Short stories] by Paul Jennings "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett “Extinction is Forever" by Louise Lawrence "The Cyberiad" by Stanisław Lem "a good man is hard to find” by Flannery O‘Connor "everything that rises must converge" by Flannery O'Connor "Carcinoma Angels" by Harlan Ellison "End of the Game" by Julio Cortázar "Nine Stories" J.D. Salinger "The Jaunt" by Stephen King "First Love, Last Rites" by Ian McEwan "leiningen and the ants" by Carl Stephenson "The Glamour (1984)" by Christopher Priest "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory" by Raphael Bob-Waksberg "The Dark Side of Nowhere" by Neal Shusterman "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More " Roald Dahl "All Mimsy Were the Borogoves" "the bus" ( & "The Lottery") by shirley jackson "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been " Oates "Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed" Bradbury "Terribly Strange Tales" by Sechrist, Elizabeth Hough "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Red Fox Fur Coat" by Teolinda Gersão "The Red Laugh" by Leonid Andreyev "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Note: Bolded author names have multiple stories that are mentioned. Some stories were omitted because the author was not provided, making it difficult to find the actual story.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Was talking to a coworker today who explained that her grandfather was like Snow White “but Californian. And an old man.” in that the creatures of the forest would follow him around and presumably duet with him.

“When he died the ravens sat in the trees outside for a week, watching. Taking turns. A horde of raccoons tried to break into the house every night, tearing at the siding. Eventually they gave up, but it was unsettling.”

“Aww. They were checking on him!” I said, like a normal person. Internally, I thought “Maybe you could do the thing you do with dead pets, where you show them to the living pets so the living pet understands they’re gone. But I guess if you did that to a bunch of scavenging species, they’d be like “Well, that’s very sad but he IS food now.” So what you’d need, for human sensibilities, is some sort of transparent corpse barrier. Like a see-through coffin oh that’s what the dwarves were doing! You’ve stopped paying attention to this conversation about the loss of a beloved family member you gotta phase back in.”

[sun-ni-day]

oh that's what the dwarves were doing

[kissrosier]

this fanfic shit easy

[arily3000]

I miss the old pintrest

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[arily3000]

just found out I have the same Myers Briggs personality type as Remus Lupin and now you all have to hear about it.

[arily3000]

haven't you heard? everything's fucked!

[arily3000]

Just realized Chole or Sam or Sophia or Marcus is Sirius and Remus talking after Prisoner of Azkaban in ATYD and I will never be the same

[bebs-art-gallery]

“BACK WHEN TIME DIDN’T MATTER” — AN OIL PAINTING BY RIONA

[ourstarman]

I absolutely need to know more about Peter’s betrayal. Specifically if there was a moment he hesitated.

Like was there a night where he and everyone were sat together and for a brief second everything felt normal again. They’re all having some drinks and James and Sirius are being a little too loud laughing over stories from Hogwarts and Remus is smiling fondly while he argues that they’re exaggerating some parts and Lily’s rolling her eyes but sat at her husbands side unwilling to move. And they’re much older then they were three years ago, but that’s okay because nothing truly changes, things only ever shift, and he loves them. He loves them too much for what he’s about to do to them

[lizzlesquirrlz]

[lizzlesquirrlz]

Marauders - 1977