The World is Quiet Here

Percy, Canadian. If you're wondering who I am I probably followed you for my Les Mis sideblog @grantairelibere

[quinnception]

[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.

[uhhhhmanda]

Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household.

[nemfrog]

“Life cycle of the mushroom.” How and why wonder book of mushrooms, ferns and mosses. 1965. 

[infran0va]

[vincentbriggs]

And some closeups!

(Pictures of the full leaf waistcoat on me here, sewing video here.)

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you're a magical girl now, the last thing you ate is your magical girl name is it good?

yes

no

it's perfect

it's awful

it's funny, i love it

results

Voting ended onFeb 25

[i-can-kazoo]

What's the most animals you can name until failure? (Linkie)

Your score:

1-50

51-120

121-200

201-300

301+

Voting ended onFeb 22

[seravph]

“what’s the worst fruit” i hope you fucking die im strangling you what the hell is wrong with you. ‘the worst fruit’… has god not made all of these fruits in the same light???? cunt

[rottenlittlefink]

Red Delicious Apples

[punk-rocking-nerd]

[parakeet]

5th from the bottom on applerankings.com

[voidsentprinces]

May I someday gain the same level of succinct cutting vitriol criticism as the applerankings.

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Ironic that Bilbo is so annoyed with the Sackville-Bagginses for stealing from him and trying to evict him from his house, when his whole adventure involves stealing from someone and evicting them from their house.  

[avengerwho-deactivated20190925]

To be fair, he was essentially helping someone else get rid of their own Sackville-Bagginses

[brawltogethernow]

This is an absolutely world-rocking take on narrative parallels in The Hobbit. Like why yes those were equally petty property disputes, and your point?

[pulmonary-poultry]

Thorin: “The dragon Smaug is terrible beast who has invaded our home and taken the heirlooms of our people as his loot.”

Bilbo: *remembering the last time Lobelia Sackville-Baggins was in his house* “I know the type.”

[emberandshadow]

The Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency pilot is flawless

@any1gottamap @wildfirethetribrid

[orcposts]

do not go gentle into that good night

[orcposts]

be a bit of a bitch about it

[transbian-uprising]

can't in good conscience leave this out

[incognitopolls]

This is directed toward people who use both their full name and a nickname derived from it, e.g. "my family calls me Jenny and everyone else calls me Jennifer." If you use multiple names derived from your name (e.g. Jennifer & Jenny & Jen), consider them all together.

Do not count situations like "everyone calls me Terry but no one knows it's short for my legal name, Pterodactyl" or "my name is Richard and I won't tolerate being called anything else."

If you regularly use both your full first name AND a nickname derived from it (e.g. Jennifer and Jenny), do you think of YOURSELF as the full name or the nickname?

I think of myself as my full name (Jennifer)

I think of myself as my derived nickname (Jenny)

I think of myself as both interchangeably

I think of myself as both, depending on the situation

I think of myself as a nickname unrelated to my name (e.g. Fish)

I think of myself as some other name I have (e.g. middle name, Hebrew name, etc)

I don't think of myself as a particular name, I'm just me

Other

I don't have a name+nickname like the situation described, show results

Voting ended onJan 8

We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, December 27, 1925 

[surrealistart]

They Have Slept in the Forest Too Long (1926) Max Ernst, oil on canvas

[crabussy]

bagels for breakfast bagels for lunch toasting them good so they have a nice crunch. bagels in the morning bagel in the afternoon bagel big and round got me howling at the moon

[aurorepeuffier]

New experiment : This time, I animated on radish slices. Obviously, no waste in the end, we ate the frames

[valend]

The greatest minds of this generation are putting all their creative energy into writing pornography for 50 hits on ao3