i'm awake, entertain me

everything here is incidental. she/her, 40s, part-time wizard, full-time *executive* cat herder. I like to read.

[distractmymind]

[goodieprocter]

This one goes out to my cat (and also @justcakethanks of course)

[awesomebutunpractical]

You can have any animal for a pet. Any complications such as “keeping the animal healthy and happy” and “the time and effort it would take to keep happy and healthy pet” and “keeping yourself uneaten” and “the pet I want is kind of extinct” have all been solved perfectly. You don’t have to think of that.

What is your pet?

[thegaymertrainer]

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

You just teleported to the last movie you watched! how is it going?

good

bad

great

awful

FUCK YOU I'M IN THE BACKROOMS NOW

dead

results

Voting ended onJul 10

[adobe-outdesign]

Spin this wheel of gross foods from Neopets. I will pay you $500 to eat your result.

Are you taking the offer?

Hell yeah

I will begrudgingly suffer through it for the money

I would eat it but only for $1000

I am not eating it under any circumstances

[See results button]

Voting ended onJul 11

[tentoriumcerebelli]

yay! tagged by @mycupofstars to post 6 recent non-selfie pics!

tagging @sunwarmed-ash @itsabear @tijuanabiblestudies @guarddogbitch @saxifraga-x-urbium and @friendpillow if y'all waaaant

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

6 recent non selfie pics here we come

i tag anyone who has pics they're itching to show people especially if it's your art

[teratocybernetics]

tagging anyone bored to have at it

[distractmymind]

Y'all get my vacation camera roll! Picture one is of Asta the cat checking on me in the bath after I got home. Pictures two through five are from the American museum of natural history. Picture six is the incredible bathtub in our hotel room.

[thasmin-vibes]

I fucking can't breathe

[parkchanwoohoo]

The world could be so beautiful

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[distractmymind]

Actually, the hardest part about being asked how I feel, is that my default response is to review the feeling of my physical body - to talk about pain or energy or stimulation. I HAVE to wade through all the physical sensations I'm feeling before I can even begin to parse an emotion and, in most instances, there's just never enough time allotted to reach that stage.

And it's not just that the person asking doesn't give me time, it's that I'm just as likely to not willingly give myself time either. I'll list the most present ache and leave it at that.

[inbabylontheywept]

i got my cat one of those giant hamster wheel things so she could entertain herself then i showed her how it worked by putting her on it and spinning it slowly then faster then as fast as possible. and the good news is that she looooves her wheel. she just loooves being a hamster cat. but the bad news is that she doesn’t know how to use it solo so she will sit by it and scream until i spin the wheel for her. and if i dont go fast enough shell scream some more. so im hunched over this big wooden wheel turning it like igor and my cat is running so fast that shes panting like a dog and if I slow down even a little she’ll go MEEEOOOWWWWW and i frankly think I need to join a union or something. that bingus has no respect for me.

[inbabylontheywept]

not exaggerating the scream thing either. my roommate sent me pictures of my wretched bingus yesterday and, as you can see, she puts her whole face into it. her body contracts like an accordion. she yells so hard that her ass gets two inches closer to her face.

[b0nkcreat]

my phone isn’t charging even though i plugged her innnnn dramatic ass bitch. YOUR PUSSY IS FILLED! WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT

[b0nkcreat]

Can you stop bouncing and moaning on it 😐 please for the love of god

[b0nkcreat]

i see now that i shouldn’t have made this post on tumblr. specifically.

[cytherean-sunset]

[lurkiestvoid]

[willcraftapple11]

[frasohei]

[felixfeliccis]

Preach I guess

[felixfeliccis]

OH I HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD

[fatsexybitch]

[nick-nonya]

[apolladay]

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The King in Yellow

The Lottery

The Masque of the Red Death

The Monkey’s Paw

The Most Dangerous Game

The Nameless City

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

There Will Come Soft Rains

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Veldt

“you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Voting ended onApr 30

[it-grrl]

Okay I have things I should be seeing to but I couldn't help myself. In case you, like me, have not read all of these stories and would like to be amongst the lucky 10,000 today:

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell

The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words

**Originally published in the New Yorker in 1948; interestingly, the New Yorker still has this story archived on their website BEHIND A PAYWALL. CAN YOU IMAGINE.

[enabuns]

Taking a break from comms and good omens art to bring you this exclusive first look at The Pitt Season 3 opener🤠

[blossom2blossom]

i think the reason robby is so suicidal rn is because the world has tortured him just short of the amount of suffering that's required for a person to go FUCK IT. I SURRENDER à la trinity surrendering partway through the shift. like it hits a point where you simply have to laugh and you just accept that life will be terrible and beautiful. abbot has long since passed that point and that's why he's semi-stable like he only dabbles in suicide-baiting he's not going to the olympics like robby is. and part of that is because he got his leg blown to smithereens while at war. all of this is to say: who says a motorcycle accident explosion WOULDN'T be good for robby.... in fact it might be exactly what he needs in order to become normal