I lift my lids and all is born again

Italian. Feminist. I reblog things that interest me and sometimes I write about them. Especially cats.

[pups-2-dust]

[kushblazer666]

[deodorantdenier]

people are saying this is a song and i can't imagine what it could possibly sound like. what the hell are you talking about

[the-timewatcher]

like this

[prokopetz]

You need to understand that twenty years ago this was considered the pinnacle of online culture.

[dailycatsblog]

[niniane17]

This is my only social media so i may as well post this.

[tea-with-mrs-mourning-dove]

[sparklebog]

Didn't realize they made emergency thermal blankets for babies

[sparklebog]

It's scary to think about babies in an emergency but I guess it's a crazy world out there

Emergency baby

[fuckblast]

[Francisco de Goya]

[adanddavid]

[megslibrary]

In honor of Carrie and Star Wars Day. May the force be with you!

[dracula1992soundtrack]

being online is so scary aren't you guys worried about the world wide spider

[redfagdiver]

It took 36 years for someone to make this joke and by god it was worth the wait

[apolladay]

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The King in Yellow

The Lottery

The Masque of the Red Death

The Monkey’s Paw

The Most Dangerous Game

The Nameless City

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

There Will Come Soft Rains

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Veldt

“you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Voting ended onApr 30

[it-grrl]

Okay I have things I should be seeing to but I couldn't help myself. In case you, like me, have not read all of these stories and would like to be amongst the lucky 10,000 today:

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell

The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words

**Originally published in the New Yorker in 1948; interestingly, the New Yorker still has this story archived on their website BEHIND A PAYWALL. CAN YOU IMAGINE.

[soljos2023]

if only they knew

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[opera-ghost]

the phantom of the opera.......... well let's just say....... he's inside my mind

[catchymemes]

[link-the-feral-anon]

When you remember the anti-vax movement

[burger-prince]

[tatsutahimet]

I first reblogged this in January, and here my ass is in March 2020 self-quarantined at home.

[reaperrmancer]

Ur right and u should say it

[ap-kinda-lit]

Reading this in 2021

[ssv-raven]

Reading in 2026

[velartis]

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

[puppygirllaika]

"what radicalized you" well in kindergarten they told me to share things and be nice to people.

[um-jammer-tranny]

not sure if i need to be held or put down

[sprinkledsalt]

"Truthfully, straight feminists and straight non-feminists (and even queer men and the queer feminists still trying to apologize for Dworkin’s existence) all desperately want there to be some magic fucking key that will unlock an arcane, secret reserve of empathy that men have, for all of recorded history, failed to access, squirreled away in their heart of hearts. We don’t want to confront the inevitable conclusion, to endure the psychic agony that comes with finally comprehending one’s destiny as designated resource for the ones with actual agency, most of whom simply find it more beneficial to dehumanize you than try to understand. Imperialism is about borders and Others, but patriarchy is intimate in a way nothing else is. It freely invades our very homes, our bedrooms, our most private fantasies and even the bloody positions we like to do it in. 'The personal is political' wasn’t a paradigm shift, but the acknowledgement of a generational curse, an utterance of forbidden knowledge that has driven feminists mad since before we could name it. You can’t escape patriarchy, dollface. And fucking hell we desperately, desperately need to."

--Talia Bhatt in Political Heterosexuality, or: The Tragedy of Feminism

[anguishmacgyver]

ah yes. the classic "I can't sleep because it will be tomorrow in an instant and tomorrow requires things of me and I Simply Do Not Vibe With That". so I'll go through said tomorrow on 2 hours of sleep. very smart and once again no lessons will be learned