Khazâd ai-mênu!

just fangirl shit, really. and sometimes hamsters.

[eddie-redcliffe]

together forever 💖

[freyalorelei]

This actually makes me a bit nervous, because Merstede was the product of Ed's cannonball-brained near-death experience, so if Ed and Stede are BOTH merpeople in the gravy basket, doesn't that mean that, according to Jenkins, the show ends with them effectively...dead?

At least they're happy together in the afterlife, but man. That's a bit of a downer.

[celluloidbroomcloset]

No.

[freyalorelei]

Excellent, I'm glad to see that.

I was in no way attempting to be negative, and I apologize for any distress I may have unintentionally caused.

It seems like every time I attempt to interact with this fandom I end up upsetting someone, and I'm not sure why. I should probably restrict myself to reposting and refrain from further interaction. Again, I apologize.

[eddie-redcliffe]

together forever 💖

[freyalorelei]

This actually makes me a bit nervous, because Merstede was the product of Ed's cannonball-brained near-death experience, so if Ed and Stede are BOTH merpeople in the gravy basket, doesn't that mean that, according to Jenkins, the show ends with them effectively...dead?

At least they're happy together in the afterlife, but man. That's a bit of a downer.

[hoofpeet]

Torture to be a fan of any exotic animal when it's like. 90% of the footage of them is gonna be from dodo videos of people illegally keeping them as housepets . Really wish I could enjoy this video of a lynx but I also kinda wish everyone involved would die

[fluffydogbutts]

the always relevant

[freyalorelei]

Half of hamster videos are infuriating abuse. "Crazy hamster does backflips!" "Snake makes friends with hamster it was supposed to eat!" "Funny hamster screams and attacks me!" Stop torturing animals for views!

[bitegore]

i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

[mirrorbird]

this is GENUINELY one of the best character development sheets I've ever seen. Cuts right to the core of what you and your readers will glom onto, doesn't waste time on details that don't directly affect the narrative. Stupendous. Effervescent. Finally, some good fucking food

[blackbeardskneebrace]

david said “Stede and Blackbeard as mermaids swimming off together forever” and I said “say less I’m drawing that immediately, medieval style”

[beatricenius]

I made a lot of my ofmd art available as prints, cards and a bunch of other stuff on Redbubble, they're all in my OFMD collection here if you'd like to grab something! Or just enjoy this wall of gentlebeard as a compilation post :)

[45percenterthen]

im having an igg (guy from new zealand having an egg)

[45percenterthen]

[45percenterthen]

unspeakable violence be upon ye

[meluli]

[quintessentialverbalized]

You guys I just realized that what I’ve always wanted out of werewolf fiction is a story where lycanthropy isn’t a purely human condition

Like this dude wakes up from his wolfbender and his room is full of all these fucking chickens from local farms that he initiated into his pack. They all start clucking and crowing at the moon and when it’s full they all transform into these tiny little weird bipedal wolves with wings.

[quintessentialverbalized]

I don’t remember making this post but it’s going around again and I’m losing my shit

[foldingfittedsheets]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Imagine becoming a werewolf because you got attacked by a fucked up chicken

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

A wildlife rehab centre discovers that one of its patients is a lycanthrope when the full moon hits and their wolf transforms into a slightly different wolf.

[freyalorelei]

This is literally just Werewolf: The Apocalypse.

One of the options for Garou character creation is being born into Lupus form, the fully wolf version, via a biological wolf kinfolk mating. Even in human (Homid) form, Lupus werewolves think like wolves, and actions like speech and wearing clothes are challenging for them to learn, let alone more advanced concepts like driving or using computers. In Homid form, they usually come across as unsophisticated backwoods hicks, and are often unfriendly and typically straight-up hostile to humans, who they see as at best misguided and at worst spiritually corrupted destroyers of the natural world.

[agaywithcoffee]

"Would you have classified yourselves in hindsight as nerdy children?"

[ofmd-ann]

[mjulmjul]

Give me that little kiss, give me your hand / I know you have a little life in you yet

[tarragonthedragon]

i think every medieval timesey ren fair type attraction should have a booth of pedantry where if you wanna know if something happening is Authentic or you wanna ask questions about real medieval times or whatever you can stop by and there's just a historian sitting on a throne of books eager to show you all their research

[freyalorelei]

That already exists. It's called the SCA.

[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.

[freyalorelei]

"The Enormous Radio" by John Cheever, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, and that misunderstood classic "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

lot of bead curtains in the ancient world if Xena is to be trusted

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

oh fuck I forgot about Xena delivering a baby centaur and inventing CPR in the span of three minutes this is the greatest show ever made

[freyalorelei]

She also visited like six different afterlives and discovered electricity. I love this show. <3

[psych-is-the-name]

the sound cheese makes when thawing is

annoying

pleasant

fades into the background/dont pay attention to it/neutral

Voting ended onMar 14, 2025

[haflacky]

Happy ending