Carpe Noctem

jamie | XVIII | INFP-T | they/them | music student | perpetually bounding between cottagecore and dark academia

[finisomniumrerum]

i'm also about to change my handle because it turns out the one i made when i was 15 didn't particularly age well

[finisomniumrerum]

i'm surprised that in the 3 years i stopped being active on tumblr i've only lost 5 followers

[hihereami]

Maybelle rolled up to the Peaches, looked at all the lesbians around her and went "FINALLY some people who will appreciate my big personality and bigger boobs the way i deserve"

[himneska]

Yulianna Sardar photographed by Anastasia Lisitsyna for MY812 Fall/Winter 2019.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

© Nona Limmen

[fuchsiamae]

an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

(I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15

add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed

[repulsion-gel]

The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma'am

[allyitis]

the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”

[fuchsiamae]

wHat did I just put my eyes on

[schrodingers-rufus]

“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury

Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone

[w3rewolf-th3rewolf]

Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

[rebel-against-reality]

“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates

[actuallyapathy]

“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

[asexualzoro]

the lottery by shirley jackson

[eccentwrit]

i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf

[idlewildly]

Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.

[bravinto]

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

[siderealsandman]

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

[insanitysbloomings]

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

[felderwin]

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury 

[was-once-somewhere-else]

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme

[jeaniefranklins]

I read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day” in seventh grade (it wasn’t assigned, I was just going through my textbook for new stuff to read) and as a bullied kid with SAD, it Fucked Me Up.

[sanguinarysanguinity]

An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson

[real-faker]

Eh, this was more like community college, but The Star by Arthur C. Clarke

[scarlettaagni]

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

and this story that I can’t remember the name of and can’t find, though it might be by O. Henry? it’s about a bunch of demons who want to stop Santa Claus from going through with Christmas, and he must travel through the mountains they inhabit to escape their vices? (good christ I can’t remember the name for the life of me)

[ghostloner]

Ok but the laughing man and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger

[nitrosplicer]

The City (195) Ray Bradbury. An intense commentary on colonialism and space exploration. I read it for a sci fi survey class.

Another short story I read in that sci fi class was Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. A commentary on humanity and how human we believe ourselves to be. Also, an interesting commentary on mental health.

In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom, written in 1947 by Ango Sakaguchi. It made my skin crawl the first time I read it.

Also going to recommend For A Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny, a commentary on whether AI can become human in a future without humans: http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt

[cryingalonewithfrankenstein]

whoever posted “The Laughing Man” and “A Good Day For Bananafish” is Correct

[fluffmugger]

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger (I assume you meant Stockton’s The lady or the  tiger?)

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

The Tell-Tale Heart

 The Gift of the Magi

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County

 Thank You Ma'am

The box social 

The Veldt

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Harrison Bergeron

Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

Where are you going and where have you been

The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

The lottery by shirley jackson

The Landlady

The Leader

Ett halvt ark papper.

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

A Sound of Thunder 

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream 

All Summer in a Day 

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

An Ordinary Day with Peanuts

The Star 

Lamb to the Slaughter

The laughing man 

A perfect day for bananafish

The City (link goes to compendium of short stories)

Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin.

In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom 

For A Breath I Tarry 

[the-prince-of-tides]

All of Flannery O'Connor’s shorts.

[thecaffeinebookwarrior-deactiva]

I didn’t read it in a text book, but “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” haunted me for life.

[accidental-muse]

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” feels like some liminal space I once visited, whenever I remember reading it.

[eisoj5]

The Space Traders by Derrick Bell

[glorious-spoon]

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula LeGuin

The Man in the Black Suit by Stephen KIng (okay, that was college, but it was an assigned reading)

[pluckyredhead]

I read it on my own, not for school, but “The Swan” by Roald Dahl FUCKED me UP. (CW: cruelty to animals.)

[mysterioussinkhole]

The Elevator by William Skeator. Seventh grade me nearly had a stroke.

[witchbabywigg]

“We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson needs to be on here. In fact, Shirley Jackson just writes unsettling af short stories.

[thereluctantinquisitor]

“Singing My Sister Down” by Margo Lanagan. Very underrated. Very messed up.

[lowpolyanimals]

Crypt Rat from Old School RuneScape

[greatlordfluffernutter]

you’re telling me THIS guy’s voicing Mario?

[pansatyriam]

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, “Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld” (detail, oil on canvas, 1861).

[robert-hadley]

Living in the Countryside by Taschen. Photo - René Stoeltie

[finisomniumrerum]

my brother gave me his copy of sense and sensibility :)

[flowerytale]

Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953″

[teacuppigdog]

Me, reblogging from anyone I don't follow: I'm introducing diversity into the gene pool. This will make my mutuals' dashes stronger and healthier.

[thepolishstufflove]

“Louvre at Night” (1892) by Aleksander Gierymski (Polish,1850-1901), oil on canvas, 119.5 x 75 cm, National Museum, Poznan

[ololygas]

Long Live the Girl Detective, Megan Pillow

[notesandteacupstains]

impressions of a room in motion III, 2021

ig: notes.and.teacupstains

[jacindaelena]

by bobbimac

[threeamserif]

Hello!! It's me again!! Could you do a cottagecore magical vibes? Not like, soft one but like,,, in a witchy and academia type? Again, I love your moodboards and pics!! They spark something in me. Stay safe!!