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Praying you have a soft August. You've endured enough.

If you’re reading this… congratulations, you survived Ray Bradbury’s Doomsday!

“‘Today is August 4, 2026,’ said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling…”

-Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains”

Today is August 4th, 2026–the day that Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” is based on. I have included the short story below for anyone desiring to read it. Please feel free to let me know what you think in the comments! Happy doomsday;)

Art credits: “House Fire” by beccastadtlander (Etsy)

prokopetz

Degrees of secondhand fandom:

I don’t watch/read/listen to it, but I follow the summaries on the wiki

I rarely pursue information about it, but I have enough incidental contact with the core fandom that I’ve picked it up via osmosis

I strive to avoid it, but I’ve been indoctrinated against my will by the fucking memes

I can cite the canon chapter and verse, but I have no recollection of how or why I acquired this knowledge, and that concerns me

bornt-urnge

prokopetz

Amusingly, the first big boom in mainstream popularity for the YouTube video essay format happened circa 2018, so this post actually very slightly pre-dates the Video Essay Era.

swarm-of-bees-in-a-trenchcoat

Any possible "lesbian shortage" that could be caused by trans men transitioning is replenished by trans women. And this is good because the depressed women become men, depressed men become women, and the whole lesbian community is happier as a whole. Not to mention the lovely nonbinary people, whose presence is a gift to all of us. Go give a trans person $100 and thank them

redstonedust

favorite thing about each deltarune release is that i don't personally have a weird route save file and i kinda forget it exists until i get online so playing each chapter and unblocking the spoiler tags to see everyone posting fanart of the kris and noelle torment and torture power hour feels like this

#deltarune

seizethegay420

Frank Castle be careful I'm so serious being Peter Parkers parental figure is a dangerous job

#sm bnd

doublism

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

wizardarchetypes

when I was a kid I had an old tv in my room that would always turn to unwatchable static in the middle of shows but one night my sister and I were watching Naruto & every time Kakashi was on-screen the static cleared so we were like “hahaha the tv looooves Kakashi.”

I had a Kakashi bookmark so we held it up against the screen as a joke but the static actually cleared up. Mystified, we tried different bookmarks and objects with the same plastic material but nothing else worked, only the Kakashi bookmark.

We ended up taping it to the corner of the screen and it stayed there for 11 years until we moved out. When I was older people would be like “can you move the bookmark off the screen” bc it did sort of block a bit of the view but I would demonstrate the static issue and everyone was always just like “huh. what the hell?? well…alright.”

No explanation, but thanks Kakashi.

scarletjedi

I had a similar tv! It was a tv with a built in dvd and vcr because it was in college and I’m apparently old now. But! The dvd player never wanted to play- unless it was Chicago (2002). First, we would put that dvd in, let it start, and then swap it for the movie we really wanted to watch. It got to the point where we would put in the dvd we wanted and sing “he had it coming!!!” At the screen at volume. Fucking worked *every time*

Bizarre.

inkcurlsandknives

I miss when technology had real personality, instead of fake ones designed to generate lies and nonsense and spy on you.

aropride

12 years old: i was so cringe when i was nine, i'm super mature now though

15 years old: i was so cringe when i was twelve, i'm super mature now though. i'm a totally different person. i'm basically an adult

18 years old: i was so. (trying to be nicer to myself) fifteen. when i was fifteen. i wasn't an adult even a little back then. i'm an adult now though of course

21 years old: i was so newborn fawn taking its first steps when i was 18. i wasn't an adult at 18 i'm barely even an adult now tbh

23 years old: i was so. hey wait the others have all gone up in increments of three why'd it change

23 years old: because i'm still 23 so i can't speak to that experience yet

23 years old: do you think anything will magically change in the next few months to the point where you can't possibly imagine how you'll feel at 24

23 years old: i mean you never know. anything can happen. they're letting people born in 2002 turn 24, for instance

the mold spores in my house speaking to me telepathically: yeah that's perfect now hit post

ellisonwongparty

what makes me laugh about the shane/ilya/svetlana love triangle is that from shane's end shane is like. :( gosh svetlana is so gorgeous and she's russian and she knows ilya's family and they have so much history and she makes ilya laugh..... how can i ever compare.

and then from svetlana's end it's like. if i end up as ilya rozanov's wag i will have actually hit rock bottom. anytime i close my eyes and imagine the worst version of myself, i see myself endgame hetero married to ilya rozanov. imagine being a rozanova. haha. holy shit. could never be me. if ten years down the line i am in a monogamous marriage with ilya rozanov it means i have completely given up on my life. everytime i try to picture us raising kids together i always see us in the house irina died in. no thanks. nooo thanks. I am good. i am good. he gives good dick though. but shane can have him.

#heated rivalry

klapollo

almost seven years deep into the 2020s this feels less like a retrospective evaluation and more like a prophetic vision

whencartoonsruletheworld

"we cut the nobody scene from the odyssey" "we cut the religious trauma and parental abuse from carrie" i'm starting to think that studios barely funding original films is starting to have an effect where directors make up a story and then slap an IP on it in order to sell. or maybe some bitches just can't read anymore idk it's one or the other

#tbh idk if mike flanagan (directing carrie) has ever read the source material for anything #and i say this as someone who likes his shows

cookiethebirddoll

the authors blatant desire to be a girl that she thinks everyone has

smalllfieldmouse

i dont care if Monday's lit. Tuesday Wednesday touch my clit. Thursday i don't give a shit. it's Friday I'm in love

underchxmtrails

everyone talking abt tsd/lameparties having the top two byler fics but it’s way way more insane when you think about the same author getting into the top ten kudos’d fics on ao3 EVER. TWICE. under two SEPARATE unlinked accounts. (ytmh being #2 and ttmd being #9)

like this is a once in a generation impact i don’t think this has even happened with the harry potter fandom as far as i know

#ttmd;ttms

f1nnyf1sh

beautiful things are going on in bylertwt

f1nnyf1sh

WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE

lameparties being thesweetestdream is #MY conformitygate

f1nnyf1sh

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I FUCKING KNEW IT

#ttmd;ttms

stainedglassboots-blog

Let’s say you wanted to glue fabric to wood, but what do you use? What about glass to paper? This to That lets you choose two things you want to glue and lists what types of glue is best. (Because people have a need to glue things to other things!)

dramaticthreads

This is an incredibly awesome site. Go check it out!

aicosu

Whhhhaaaaaattt!???

techfails

EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS

This is one of the first websites I was told about in props. It also has information about the toxicity, adhere time, price, and other stuff about the glues.