The stars, too, they tell of spring returning

Trying my best

[samepicofdavecoulier]

[luobingmeis]

“i could fix him” well i could erase 100 years from his memory

[ghostlyss]

[ladiesoftheatre]

“Down on your knees before the Queen!”

Day 277: Sara Berry (35MM)

[ladiesoftheatre]

“I see you shiver with antici…

…pation!”

Day 294: Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Magenta, and Columbia (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)

[ladiesoftheatre]

“Miss Logainne Schwartzandgruvenierre has proposed a constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to ten!" 

Day 313: Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre (25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

[ladiesoftheatre]

“So I’m just fine, inside my shell-shaped mind, this way I get the best view; so when he sees me, I want him to…”

Day 334: Dawn (Waitress)

[ladiesoftheatre]

“We didn’t get to say goodbye, goodbye… No need to tell me why, my baby; maybe it’s because you’ll fly back home to me one day…”

Day 356: Brenda Strong (Catch Me If You Can)

[ladiesoftheatre]

“I used to love pretending I was someone else; someone quite mysterious and fascinating. Until one day I grew up and realized I was beautiful and fascinating!”

Day 363: Sally Bowles (Cabaret)

[ladiesoftheatre]

“…And I plan to run so much more than a sprint; What’s next? Well, I can’t even give you a hint, but boys, that’s a wrap, so, cut! Print! Moving on!”

Day 365: Marilyn Monroe (Bombshell)

[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

[jeaniefranklins]

I read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day” in seventh grade (it wasn’t assigned, I was just going through my textbook for new stuff to read) and as a bullied kid with SAD, it Fucked Me Up.

[sanguinarysanguinity]

An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson

[real-faker]

Eh, this was more like community college, but The Star by Arthur C. Clarke

[scarlettaagni]

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

and this story that I can’t remember the name of and can’t find, though it might be by O. Henry? it’s about a bunch of demons who want to stop Santa Claus from going through with Christmas, and he must travel through the mountains they inhabit to escape their vices? (good christ I can’t remember the name for the life of me)

[ghostloner]

Ok but the laughing man and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger

[nitrosplicer]

The City (195) Ray Bradbury. An intense commentary on colonialism and space exploration. I read it for a sci fi survey class.

Another short story I read in that sci fi class was Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. A commentary on humanity and how human we believe ourselves to be. Also, an interesting commentary on mental health.

In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom, written in 1947 by Ango Sakaguchi. It made my skin crawl the first time I read it.

Also going to recommend For A Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny, a commentary on whether AI can become human in a future without humans: http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt

[cryingalonewithfrankenstein]

whoever posted “The Laughing Man” and “A Good Day For Bananafish” is Correct

[fluffmugger]

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger (I assume you meant Stockton’s The lady or the  tiger?)

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

The Tell-Tale Heart

 The Gift of the Magi

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County

 Thank You Ma'am

The box social 

The Veldt

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Harrison Bergeron

Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

Where are you going and where have you been

The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

The lottery by shirley jackson

The Landlady

The Leader

Ett halvt ark papper.

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

A Sound of Thunder 

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream 

All Summer in a Day 

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

An Ordinary Day with Peanuts

The Star 

Lamb to the Slaughter

The laughing man 

A perfect day for bananafish

The City (link goes to compendium of short stories)

Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin.

In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom 

For A Breath I Tarry 

[the-prince-of-tides]

All of Flannery O'Connor’s shorts.

[thecaffeinebookwarrior-deactiva]

I didn’t read it in a text book, but “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” haunted me for life.

[accidental-muse]

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” feels like some liminal space I once visited, whenever I remember reading it.

[miracle-vine]

@shittyfilm

[shelbytaylorexists]

“Don’t buy any Girl Scout cookies!!! They support pLANNED PARENTHOOD!!” me: 

[avatrashh]

Girl Scouts support planned parenthood? Y’all just doubled my order

[that-taters-my-tots]

Don’t forget this too

[lovetheirloves]

Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta has expanded upon this to include nonbinary youth (and adults) seeing a Girl Scouting experience.

[theseancequeen]

Reblogging for important information.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Shout out to the time they returned a $100,000 donation because the donor– months after making the donation– wanted a guarantee that the money wouldn’t be used to support transgender girls.

[squeaky-warrior]

In this house we respect girl scouts

[artofrestraint]

Alfred Stevens After the ball, 1874

[mondnymphe]

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1860–1933), Ondine

[chicks1023]

Clueless (1995)

[damianmcgintleman]

“treat people the way you want to be treated” um i’m sorry but i can’t go around throwing $100,000 at everyone i meet

[bob-belcher]

“Hey, David. Erm - that was great, but I thought we told you we wanted you to read for the role of Chief Hopper.” [x]