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Books and bones. Icon is Our Radiance is Unyielding, by Emerald Barkley

[70sscifiart]

Happy new year! Here's the end of the 1953 EC Comics adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," first published in Weird Fantasy #17.

Via @cirnineball

[70sscifiart]

Today is August 5, 2026!

[user7038634357]

fragment of The Apocalypse Tapestry (1377 - 1382)

[lgbtqreads]

Hi, do you know any mlm books set in Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome? Happy ending or bad ending is indifferent because I just want to read something set in those time periods. <3 Thanks in advance. ^^

I do! I'm assuming you're already aware of Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, but check out Vesuvius by Cass Biehn (YA), The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley, Young Conquerors: A Novel of Hephaestion and Alexandros by Christopher Cosmos, and Fire From Heaven and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault.

[arianwells]

My heart is a fish Hiding in the water-grass In the green, in the green.

[the-sweaty-toothed-mad-woman]

today’s the only day you can reblog this

“There Will Come Soft Rains”, Ray Bradbury

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[irreparableinnocence]

Basically I think everyone's actions should get kinder and nicer and everyone's art should get harsher and crueller.

[feather-bone]

[ID: two illustrations, identical except for colors, flipped to mirror one another. They depict a sea serpent with spiky scales in a serpentine pose in the ocean at night. The first is a blue gradient, and the second is a rainbow gradient. End.]

Sea serpent! Theme for creature club this month is “marine monsters” so of course I had to include one of these guys… I’m thinking the blue one will be the standard, and rainbow serpent will be a fancy special little rare find in sticker packs :3c

[nobrashfestivity]

Odilon Redon

[nytsirk]

Thinking about the 9th house and their spooky scary skeletons

[despazito]

Europe (yur·uhp) is an exotic peninsula in the extreme westernmost reaches of Asia with many fascinating cultures and landscapes and home to many of the world's last remaining feudal kingdoms, offering a glimpse back into a more simplistic way of living.

[harktorambler]

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand

(Source)

[andrusmagnus]

Button

France

[cuartosol]

ianthe & corona

[leggerezza-dell-essere]

________ Yoko Akino.

[speciesofleastconcern]

[morrak]

My first biology professor had an ‘inadequacy drawer’ full of things to remind him he wasn’t, in fact, the dumbest and laziest person to ever exist. It was mostly Darwin, notably these two bits:

‘But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.’

‘I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids and today I hate them worse than everything.’

[funkyness]

“I am at work on the second vol. of the Cirripedia, of which creatures I am wonderfully tired: I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”

-Charles Darwin on a letter to his cousin

[lobotomy-lady]

complicated by avril lavigne as if jesus was singing it