ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise

camille. 20s. (she/her). a narrative waste of patches and light

[gotylocks]

Happy 10th birthday to the best tweet of all time.

[stitchposts]

unfortunately i have free will so im about to make art that is going to appeal to basically 4 people. let us hope those 4 people follow me.

[loontattoo]

see unfortunately I have this condition where if I am not explicitly told that I am a part of the ingroup then I will assume I must be part of the outgroup

[fraterrisus]

Can't believe this didn't happen on Tumblr. We're slipping, people. Thread under the cut. Source attached to post.

[nitashinori]

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

[magictavern]

cursed by visions: pondering alternate endings for dispatch that feel more narratively satisfying

[daarcy]

do you ever sit there in your bed with your head in your hands and it's like you can just imagine 9 swords behind you

[princesskuragina]

The amount of hamlet your teenager can recite is in direct correlation to their deteriorating mental health. To be or not to be is a warning sign but if they're doing rogue and peasant slave too it's time seek help

[argentavis]

hey do you mind grabbing joseph's coat for him? yeah its the red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and gray and purple and white and pink and orange and blue one

[burins]

thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago

[burins]

this is going around again and the tags are full of people talking about printing it out to put in their breakroom or cubicle or sending it to their coworkers, which fills me with great joy. vast diversity of professions represented also. zoos. labs. summer camps. restaurants. garden centers. libraries. schools. many reports from the brave warriors of assorted retail. a truth universally acknowledged: if there is a sign a customer will not read it <3 and they don't read emails either <3

[finelythreadedsky]

once again doing philological textual analysis on the graduate student handbook which, much like homer, is evidently a collective oral tradition without a single author that was compiled in written form through fraught and highly unclear processes

[susiephone]

if you want to read more but have trouble finishing things, i really recommend short story collections (ESPECIALLY anthologies by multiple authors) and literary magazines. if one story sucks you can just skip to the next one, and anthologies and magazines will have work by multiple authors so you get a wide variety of styles, and if you find a story you really really like, you can look to see if that author's published anything else.

i'm not as well-versed in literary magazines as i should be (trying to fix that), but here are short story collections i suggest:

lesser known monsters of the 21st century by kim fu (speculative fiction, horror). personal favorite story: "pre-simulation consultation xf007867"

the paper menagerie and other stories by ken liu (speculative fiction). personal favorite story: "the litigation master and the monkey king"

slasher girls and monster boys by various (horror). personal favorite story: "the birds of azalea street"

what we fed to the manticore by talia lakshmi kolluri (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "the hunted, the haunted, the hungry, the tame"

africa risen by various (afrofuturism, speculative fiction). personal favorite story: "a dream of electric mothers"

a small apocalypse by laura chow reeve (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "real bodies"

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "dear sister"

a phoenix first must burn by various (speculative fiction). personal favorite story: "wherein abigail fields recalls her first death and, subsequently, her best life"

woman hollering creek and other stories by sandra cisneros (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "woman hollering creek"

bliss montage by ling ma (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "yeti lovemaking"

how to love a jamaican by alexia arthurs (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "the ghost of jia yi"

radicalized by cory doctorow (speculative fiction). personal favorite story: "radicalized"

life ceremony by sayaka murata (literary fiction, horror). personal favorite story: "life ceremony"

shit cassandra saw by gwen e. kirby (literary fiction). personal favorite story: "here preached his last"

through the woods by e.m. carroll (horror). personal favorite story: "his face all red"

[magictavern]

the brushbuddy ponders the horizon

[cinemarthek]

天使のたまご (Angel’s Egg | Amano Yoshitaka/Oshii Mamoru  | 1985)

少女革命ウテナ (Revolutionary Girl Utena | Ikuhara Kunihiko  | 1997)

灰羽連盟 (Haibane Renmei | Tokoro Tomokazu | 2002)

[fernicenty]

one of my favourite bird for sure!! i would love to animate it someday…

[wilderbas]

6 moons later and I’ve finished the selkie wip I started up in orkney

[magictavern]

the brushbuddy ponders the horizon