Some Whatevers

Sideblog for mostly doodles and Fraggle Rock, probably other stuff too.

[sleepingbackstage-blog]

life is messy rn and i wanna clean things up and progress but instead i have to wait. i dont wanna be stagnant but theres nothing i can do to more forward as of now so... idk. 

one day at a time i guess. 

[sleepingbackstage-blog]

character concept:

smol angry lizard bard that plays a magic flute he stole from a wizard and pick-pockets ppl when he performs dances. 

[sleepingbackstage-blog]

In our new apartment, I will push for one simple rule:

No playing George Winston at night

[foodpornit]

Strawberry Buttermilk Crepes #FoodPorn via Rounders2253

[chiaroscuros-void-archive]

Hey guys! Just fyi Red Tide is worse than usual this year! Make sure to be careful, maybe keep some allergy meds handy or a mask, especially if you live close to the beach. If you have asthma remember your inhaler!

[mrlovenstein]

Secret Panel HERE!

[onlytwitterpics]

[studypetals]

i feel so attacked right now

[noble-moon]

something like self care

[xsunnyeclipse]

[sleepingbackstage-blog]

@frog-mann

[slimetony]

Imagine how much better the world would be if the harry potter books were never written

[gingerlovesio]

RIP Randy, the potterheads got him

[slimetony]

Im still here what are they gonna do compare me to voldemort until I die of boredom

[real-pcys-deactivated20190118]

hot take: moms need to learn how to listen to and comfort their daughters without making everything about their own traumas

[real-pcys-deactivated20190118]

a classic example

daughter: hey this thing you do bothers me very much and i wish you wouldn’t do it

mom: well my parents abused me and im not even as bad as they were and i had to sit through it so you gotta sit through whatever i do to you too

[daeranilen]

a common variant

mom: well i’m having a really hard time right now and you know that i’m doing my best and that i didn’t mean to hurt you ergo you are in fact the asshole for asking me to consider your feelings and change my behavior during this hard hard time i’m having

[lierdumoa]

This is a very important post about how to recognize problematic behavior in narcissistic mothers. It is also something we all need to watch out for in ourselves, especially if we were raised by a narcissistic parent.

Because if that’s what you’re used to, you can grow up wrongly believing that this is what sympathy is supposed to sound like.

I have, numerous times, talked about having a bad day, and had a well-meaning acquaintance tell me how much worse their day was, honestly believing that they were being sympathetic – that telling me how much worse their day was would somehow make me feel relieved, or grateful, that my day wasn’t as bad as theirs.

Of course, it did not make me feel better. It made me feel like my experiences were being trivialized, and like my feelings were being invalidated.

I know these people weren’t trying to be cruel. They truly just didn’t know better. They thought they were empathizing.

If you didn’t grow up learning what genuine sympathy looks/sounds/feels like, it’s hard to know how to show genuine sympathy for other people, even when you really do care about them.

[celebsofcolor]

Janelle Monae attends the 2018 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 24, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

[bamboo-carbon]

The Turtles 🐢 !!

[fuchsiamae]

an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

(I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15

add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed

[repulsion-gel]

The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma'am

[allyitis]

the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”

[fuchsiamae]

wHat did I just put my eyes on

[schrodingers-rufus]

“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury

Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone

[w3rewolf-th3rewolf]

Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

[rebel-against-reality]

“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates

[actuallyapathy]

“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

[asexualzoro]

the lottery by shirley jackson

[eccentwrit]

i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf

[idlewildly]

Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.

[bravinto]

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

[siderealsandman]

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

[insanitysbloomings]

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

[felderwin]

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury 

[was-once-somewhere-else]

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme

[titleleaf]

We read lots of good disturbing shit in hs or in the writing groups I joined in hs but somehow the top of the heap for shit that haunted me’s still indisputably Ethan Canin’s “The Palace Thief”. It’s not horror as such but it freaked me the fuck out. 

There was another O. Henry short story we read that was also really alarming but I had to google a major spoiler (which is also a warning) to recall the name – “The Furnished Room”.  

[lesbianshepard]

there will come soft rains by bradbury was very unsettling for middle school me

[demo-ness]

I had no idea so many were all written by Ray Bradbury, why did he do this to us

[i-see-your-light]

“Emergency” by Dennis Johnson – not entirely disturbing but really weird and there’s one Bad Part

“A Small, Good Thing” by Raymond Carver – again not all that bad but sad and kind of creepy 

[asterlark]

i had to read a collapse of horses by brian evenson for a writing class last year and it’s. very fucking weird

[wuqs]

“the birds” by du maurier

[periegesisvoid-deactivated]

Bradbury wrote a lot of weird shit. But, “The Book of Sand” and"The Library of Babel" by Luis Borges.

[dentes-mentis]

“It’s a Good Life” - Jerome Bixby “The Little Black Bag” - Cyril M. Cornbluth “The Cold Equations” - Tom Godwin “The Nine Billion Names of God” - Arthur C. Clarke “Mars is Heaven!” - Ray Bradbury “Born of Man and Woman” - Richard Matheson “That Only A Mother” - Judith Maril “The Country of the Kind” - Damon Knight “Mimsy Were The Borogroves” - Lewis Padgett “Lamb to the Slaughter” - Roald Dahl “We Can Get Them For You Wholesale” - Neil Gaiman “BLIT” and “Different Kinds of Darkness” - David Langford (set in the same universe) (there are a couple of other “basilisk” stories and they’re worth checking out) “The Secret Number” - Igor Teper

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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

[eldritadh-a]

Nearly anything by Borges tbh, he specializes in unsettling

[plantanarchy]

Technically read it on my own in high school but Guts by Chuck Palahniuk wigged me out for a while.

Also, from college, A Very Old Man With Enourmous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Magical realism as a genre and genres inspired by it have some nutty fucking short stories and there are a lot that I remember imagery from but not the titles or authors (Borges is one).

[therealnora]

POPULAR MECHANICS

[prince-atom]

I forget the title, but there was a story in one of my textbooks where the narrator  hangs a kitten after his dad can’t stand its mewing and says someone should kill it.  He gets in very deep trouble with his parents, and his dad says he didn’t mean it.  I felt weird for days.  We didn’t read it in class, but I was one of those bright kids who did extra reading.  For fun.

“Leiningen Versus the Ants,” Carl Stephenson.

[purronronner]

“The Voice in the Night”, William Hope Hodgson

“Survivor Type”, Stephen King

[haru-n-harkel]

Not sure if it counts, but “Taily-Bone”. Note: we didn’t actually *read* this.

We were forced to sit in a dark room as an audio book was read aloud for everyone. 1st grade. Every day for a week. I don’t even remember why. Just… Taily-Bone.

*shudder*

[bettsplendens]

When I was 8 I read part of War of the Worlds. I got to the part where the aliens drink all the fluids out of a live guy, got totally freaked out, and put the book back on our shelf. Specifically, I put it back on the shelf that I hadn’t realized was intended to be out of my reach. Behind all the other books, because it freaked me out enough that I evidently decided the logical thing to do was to hide it.

[maxpawb]

wembley fraggle. He

[kingdomofcardboard]

A collab with the truly lovely @iwoomynation. Based off of a sketch of hers and painted by moi

[theoddbun]

these are real queer kiwi hours

in celebrating of pride month i drew some kiwis!!

(they are free to use as long as i am given credit!!)