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wizard-loving-wizard

"in what world does he hork down three snickers and needs more that are so ready that they're unwrapped?"

#truly the most afraid i have ever seen this man #brennan lee mulligan #dimension 20 #city council of darkness

jonesylium

YOU DONT TALK TO BETH THAT WAY!!!

hey, watch City Council of Darkness on dropout :D :D

#city council of darkness #dimension 20 #darkness man #intrepid heroes #this is excellent

midnight-envy

utterly obsessed with the nepo baby vampires

themaidenofwords

If they showed up on my doorstep I would go too

#city council of darkness #ccod #dimension 20 #zaeth ccod #Madelaine ccod #so good

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.

#many of these stories are so important to me #the veldt #the lottery #red death #omelas #BUT FRIENDS may i put forth a new candidate #the cold equations #broke me as a teenager

tiiracotta

Manfred, everyone's skeleton son 💀

#dragon age veilguard

n1-adora-fan

Cinematic parallels

n1-adora-fan

Thank god this post didn’t flop im so proud of it im sort of a genius

#ccod #city council of darkness #dimension 20 #truly perfection

fairweathermyth

- Namath is your white whale. Right? A lost cause. So, why do you think that might appeal to you so much? - Hold up, you think the cat's a metaphor for something? - Yes. Yes, exactly. No, you got there way quicker than I had planned, but yes.

THE FALL AND RISE OF REGGIE DINKINS 1.04 ⌁ Save the Cat

#the fall and rise of reggie dinkins #OK BUT I LOVE THIS SHOW #tracy morgan #daniel radcliffe #every character has had full lol moments for me

spaceorphan18

Is it bad that I feel slightly bad that I keep coming to the library to use its quietness and its desk space and its pleasant atmosphere for writing but I never check out books?

ckerouac

Why would you feel bad? You’re using the library for one of its intended purposes. The desks, WiFi, space etc are LITERALLY there for you to do exactly what you’re doing AND each time you go in you add to the foot traffic numbers that prove hey people are coming in to use our stuff mr. government so keep funding us.

surroundedbybooks

Confirmed by another public librarian. One of the stats we track is "WiFi usages"

That is, we track number of sessions/devices using it over time.

The library is not about snooping on what you're doing with that WiFi. Libraries respect privacy.

rosefyrefyre

We literally have a door counter at my library. Congratulations, you just added to our statistics.

chaosfrisur

I think it's a bit sad that with more and more public spaces vanishing, people are feeling bad about not "buying" stuff to "earn" their time at a library.

A library is like a park, you're allowed to just. Exist in it.

I check out books every 4 weeks, when the learning period from my current books is up, but I go much more frequently with my kid to just sit there and read to them, and that's okay. In my school days, we'd go and do our research for presentations there, just reading, never checking out.

A library is a space to just exist.

foxofninetales

So a year or so ago, we added some new desklets at our library, in areas where we noticed that people gravitated to but didn't have the right furnishing to use them in the way they wanted to.

The first few weeks of having the new furniture were absolutely filled with excited librarians whispering to each other, "Look! Someone's using the desklet in the back corner!" and "casually" walking by to enjoy the sight like wildlife researchers who had successfully baited a particularly elusive rare bird. Nobody cared if those people checked anything out or not. There was a need! We saw the need! We filled the need! Hooray!

WE PUT THE THING THERE TO BE USED. USE THE THING.