Fable Harper

A strange, enby writer trying to get through life.

[senso1954]

this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.

[deseretgear]

Tiktok marvel fans really will be out here like "movie fan SHOCKED because i'd rather watch superhero movie #54 in blue and not a sensual 1987 french horror film about a man discovering his wife may not exist set in what is gradually revealed to be a space station" as if you're supposed to agree that superhero movie #54 is the clear winner in this comparison

[kirbymongerr]

Love the idea of a story about a complex issue that's told from the perspective of something that cannot comprehend or care about the issue. The way the story would be sliced up and moments that a human would consider pointless would be focused on because the pigeon happened to be there would be hype as fuck

[beardedmrbean]

[silken-scarves]

Ok FINE I made the movie poster of it

Mališa, otherwise known as Little One, is a pet pigeon owned by a conservative butler of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. She is loved, and she is pampered— until her owner is murdered in cold blood, and she is left to fend for herself in Sarajevo.

In the wilds of the city, she feeds from the poor, working nationalist radicals, and the vieux riches alike.

To Mališa, there are no ethical concerns. No politics. No burgeoning nationalism.

There are only hands that feed her, and hands that do not.

[headspace-hotel]

This is compelling. Consider me fucking compelled.

[anarchautistic]

Final shot is the bird hearing, but not seeing, the sound of a .32 ACP pistol, and flying away in shock

[lilmaneater]

"From the studio that brought you Goncharov...."

[sailorbryant]

My God guys we can't do this again

[eversoslightlybitter]

Yes, we absolutely can

Who would stop to feed a pigeon in war time and what does that say about the state of society?

Who tries to lure the pigeon with a promise of food only to turn and try to make her into food? How does that first break of trust change her reactions to humans?

How long until she doesn't trust any of them?

How long until she's stealing food instead of waiting for it?

How long until she's not a tame pigeon anymore?

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

The pigeon who has always had a clean and freshly lined dove box trying to build her own nest to lay an egg

🤌 the METAPHORS 🤌

[pukicho]

pukicho I’m scared I might be bi, please send help. Also there’s 10,000 bees in your mailbox.

Phew good thing I put 200 Asian hornets in my mailbox just in case

[pukicho]

You fool, you fucking imbecile, you stupid whore

[hussyknee]

[transpondster]

In France [July 7, 2024], a crowd reacts to election results showing a defeat for the hard-right political party that was expected to win big until the French people voted in greater numbers for leftists and centrists instead. This follows the complete rout suffered by the right-wing Conservative party in Great Britain just three days prior, on July 4th.

🇫🇷

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[pukicho]

puki, how do I turn my grief about my best friend passing in a car accident into something less painful? I want to make art, but I cry every time I think about him being gone now ):

It will never not hurt but it won't always feel as potent. When the grief dies down, it's replaced with fondness; you'll be left with melancholy. Don't rush yourself to be productive, right now crying is productive.

[fableharper]

In a capitalist world that solely values production, rest is revolutionary

[amilkyway]

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

[spaghettinatural]

As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh

[roach-works]

in case europeans were worried: we love them very much! even tho they’re clumsy and slow and sometimes bump into you, no one swats fireflies here, or takes them for granted. even grownups sometimes reach out in the summer and gently catch a firefly for a minute before letting it go.

[actualaster]

By “reach out” that’s meant quite literally–you just kinda. Stick your hand in their flight path and they land on you and will sit on your hand for a bit. Sometimes if you’re just walking or standing outside while they’re active you have to shoo them off you because they’ll just. Sit on you.

They’re harmless and very pretty and it’s always a treat to see because they’re out for a relatively short time each year.

[headspace-hotel]

The larvae live for 1-2 years in damp leaves or wet ground eating slugs and snails. If you want to see them they need leaf litter and pesticide free habitat…

[fableharper]

Another day, another tumblay!!! :D

I have climcal depression.

[itslookingback]

LARRY

[catchymemes]

[anorganisch-deactivated20171123]

“A brick does not kill a man just because it is a brick, but brings about such a result only by virtue of the velocity it has acquired; that is to say, the man is killed by space and time.”

- G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Nature, §261.

[baeddel]

guns dont kill people space and time kill people

[signifyingother]

Hegel killed someone and said this to cover it up

[cauliflowergnocchidyke]

i really hate coming out but still want my extended family to know, so my mother took it upon herself to invent the game “guess which one of my kids is gay.”

the rules are simple.

sit down with uncle so-and-so

he says something about gay people in passing

my mom says “there’s a gay person at this table right now. guess which of my kids it is!

he looks frantically between the three of us trying to figure out if she’s joking or not and trying desperately not to offend anyone but also she won’t continue with the conversation unless he makes a guess so he has to make a guess

we all enjoy his discomfort immensely

[lokiago]

This isnt coming out of the closet. This is coughing loudly from within the closet to scare the people outside of it, which is immensely more entertaining.

[bogleech]

As someone around for 9-11 and the "NEVER FORGET NUMBER #1 GREATEST TRAGEDY EVER IN HISTURY" response to it I am in thrilled and invigorated by the fact that younger people just make amogus memes and TikTok nonsense about it. A huge chunk of America cared more about it than any entire genocide and thought you would cry learning about it. They hoped it'd make every generation patriotically angry forever and ever and want to join the military. Instead you Photoshop the towers into squidwards house and shit. Never stop lol

[gay-jesus-probably]

I’m physically unable to take 9/11 seriously, entirely because my grade 9 english teacher was bizarrely obsessed with it. We basically had an entire unit on 9/11. We watched that documentary from those students that were doing a documentary of firefighters and wound up getting the only footage of the first plane hitting. We did a novel study of a book about some kid being in one of the towers for take your kid to work day and him and his dad squeezing past the wreckage of the plane to escape in time. We watched that Nic Cage movie of him being a firefighter during 9/11 that gets stuck in an elevator shaft when the place collapses. I am dead fucking serious, we had to make up fictional people that died in the attack, write an obituary for our 9/11sona’s, and then write and deliver a eulogy as their grief-stricken parent. At one point in the unit the teacher clarified that she hadn’t personally lost anyone to the attack, nor was she anywhere near New York when it happened. She never bothered to ask if any of us had actually lost someone in the attack, which kind of seems like a thing you should do before making us invent fictional victims to give eulogies for. The unit began with her demanding to know where we all were on the day of the attack and what we remembered, and she started crying when we told her that 1. we were two years old at the time and couldn’t remember shit fuck, the closest thing was one of the older kids kind of thought they remembered being very confused at adults freaking out over the TV but that could have been literally anything, and so this meant that 2. we were the last class she would ever teach that could possibly remember 9/11. Probably didn’t help that someone pointed out that we were the class born in 1999, so in two years she’d have students that hadn’t even been born during 9/11. That may have contributed to the teacher crying over the whole thing.

We’re Canadian.

[cherishedproperty]

That last sentence KILLED me. Jesus fuck.

[someguyiguess-deactivated202511]

i love you USPS I love you NASA i love you taxpayer funded services that actually contribute positively to society i love you libraries i love you public transport

[someguyiguess-deactivated202511]

[someguyiguess-deactivated202511]

[headspace-hotel]

Do we just have no standards whatsoever about what things are worthwhile to talk about

[quasi-normalcy]

Remember when Nat Geo was a prestigious publication?

[squeezdakat04]

Yeah

National Geographic reportedly lays off its last staff writers

Nineteen staffers affected, according to Washington Post, with celebrated magazine to end newsstand sales

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. I see.

[feralratbitesu]

elon musk is literally like a parody. like he cant genuinely fucking be like this like bro is on some satirical depiction of a spoiled rich kid type shit. like hes a cartoon evil rich guy. throwing tantrums bc someone criticized him or said they didnt like him. spending billions of dollars to buy an app and then changing the app every time someone uses a feature of the app to insult him or hurt his feefees. dude straight up does the cartoon steam blowing out of ears train whistle shit irl every time someone says anything mean to him or is transgender but whats terrifying is he has enough money to do anything he wants and millions of chuds who would gladly no homo suck his cock every night before he goes to bed. like. how has someone come to be like this. why has this been allowed to happen why was he created

[play-now-my-lord]

i think most rich guys are actually more like elon than they aren't, they all have simpering fanclubs online but enough haters to keep them up at night. i've seen a good half-dozen "richest man in X country" instagram accounts litigating their personal beef with some obscure shitposter who won't stop trolling them. they run the world but everyone doesn't love them so they're not happy

[play-now-my-lord]

this is the richest guy in africa and his mortal enemy, a bored brazilian man

[headspace-hotel]

I love and respect you Osvaldo12

[gender-trash]

i am! obsessed! with this book from the late ming dynasty about scams to watch out for (esp. if you are a traveling merchant). this guy is like, there ARE immortals who can survive without food but you WILL NOT encounter them because they live alone in the mountains and don't talk to anyone. if a monk comes to your house and claims to not need to eat, it's probably because he's secretly eating human fetuses, or something. eunuchs are invariably corrupt and the court system is useless. however, do NOT try to bribe anyone for a better SAT result for your idiot failson; this never works. nuns WILL try to seduce your wife into cheating on you. if your idiot failson does really badly on the SAT, make sure to have his father's remains buried somewhere with A+ fengshui; this is Guaranteed to work (unless your wife is cheating on you).

[gender-trash]

oh yeah and ofc there's the classic pretending-a-cow-is-the-reincarnation-of-your-deceased-mother scam. watch out for that one

[gender-trash]

answers to frequently asked questions:

the book is "The Book of Swindles" (i'm reading the columbia university press abridged edition)

its actually not the SAT its the civil service exams but like. same difference

yes it IS unhinged and you SHOULD read it