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Brandon / 31 / Italy / he/him/his.

[shodaw]

Chest day calls for tanks in the gym, shirtless everywhere else

[kissycat]

Has anyone noticed that translating poetry is not easy

[kissycat]

It's kind of like if you were in unrequited love with the crossword puzzle

[shodaw]

Why do they call it the World Cup when it’s really just the European and South American cup

[leafxvii]

Red line guardian based off of a water stain I saw at Porter

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[shodaw]

Just fell in love with a Serbian guy

[shodaw]

Chest day calls for tanks in the gym, shirtless everywhere else

[cachorritx]

*mlem*

[shodaw]

Apl.d.ap was the only filippino I knew as a kid and so when I grew up and met Filipinos irl I was confused as to why they weren’t black like him

[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.

[shodaw]

I don’t think a parent’s love is conditional on the basis of their child’s sexuality. I just think you have shitty parents? Like I’m gay and my parents adore me so

Same sex marriage is legal in 38 countries in the world right now, although this alone does not guarantee societal acceptance. Homosexuality is criminalized in 66 countries around the world, ranging from arrest to years in jail. 5 countries punish homosexuality by death, with 2 of these countries actually enforcing this law. In my countries, same sex marriage was illegal until I was 10 (Massachusetts, 2004) and is currently still illegal in Italy. Furthermore Italy provides no legal protection for queer individuals and an employer is within their rights to fire a worker for being gay. As of just 3 weeks ago, Italy has made it illegal to teach gender and sexuality in schools (and I am a queer teacher).

I’m very happy that you have parents who love and adore you for being gay, but please recognize that the vast majority of queer people in the world have polar opposite experiences, which in the most extreme cases lead to death (homicide or suicide). In fact, just last week a young Italian man was killed by his dad for being gay.

[shodaw]

You guys can’t even say “have sex” anymore. Everything has to be “rawed”

[shodaw]

My time in Amsterdam is coming to a close

[shodaw]

No one gets ADD anymore. I guess everyone is hyperactive

[shodaw]

A parent’s love is always conditional on the basis of their child’s sexuality

[ilywtf]

my balls are freezing but i get to wear my favorite jacket :3

[dormouseking]

not to sound like a spartan but sex as a bonding ritual between two male friends is so underrated

[foxglves]

It’s so funny to me that soccer games can end with a score of 0-0 like imagine going to see a soccer game and both teams just run around the field for 90 minutes doing absolutely nothing and nobody scores any points and at the end of the 90 minutes they’re like well. Guess that’s that. Great soccer game guys.