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he/him 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦈

[xxxsarihartxxx]

[thejewellerybox]

Gannet Diving necklace by Rie Taniguchi

[nohoperadio]

Vinyl records are circular because it's an efficient use of space: the grooves that encode the music are laid out in a spiral on the disc, so that the needle only has to move as far as the disc's radius to read the entire thing. Before this clever idea was thought of, the grooves were instead laid out in a straight line, and every LP was a narrow rectangle more than a thousand feet long. To flip an album to side b at least two people were needed, one at each end, coordinating via shouted instructions.

[blujayonthewing]

[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.

[marithlizard]

(via bsky)

In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own.

[urgetocreate]

Jeremy Miranda (American), Day Light Savings, 2022, Acrylic on board

[crochethub]

Medieval inspired tapestry with gold trimming embellishment by SpicyLatinaaaa

[undeadhousewife]

[househunting]

$495,000/2 br/1.5 ba/1,594 sq ft

Waitsfield, VT

Built in 1990

"A rare opportunity to be part of a unique collective of homes that address the challenges of housing in the 21st Century. Designed and built by Yestermorrow founder John Connell, and recipient of a 2026 Preservation Award, this home is creative and whimsical, but also highly efficient and exciting. Sit on the cantilevered deck overlooking the Mad River and you'll feel like you're floating in mid-air."

[I post the most interesting houses on substack and it is free and I post them first before they show up here]

[normystical]

wedding dresses are white specifically so that if the bride goes axe-crazy you can rest assured you will see the blood stains all over her and it'll be sick as fuck

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Three, Bracket 2

Irene Adler (Sherlock Holmes) vs. Amy Pond (Doctor Who)

Irene Adler

Amy Pond

Remaining time: 6 days 14 hours

Propaganda below the cut:

Irene Adler:

sigh. adaptations always characterize her as being in love with sherlock or needing him to save her for some reason :/

she literally did nothing wrong. and!!! and she outsmarted sherlock holmes and got away with it!!! making him acknowledge that women can be smart (at least in the original books, if i remember correctly). and then she went off and lived her best life. go girl

Amy Pond:

She's said to be a shallow male fantasy character because she likes being sexy and has an unhealthy relationship to sex. Her personality is completely ignored because of her femininity. Her mental health problems are also said to be part of the 'male fantasy' and not valid choices made by the writers

She's mentally ill, she can be rude and abrasive, she's kind, clever, brave, she doesn't believe in herself but she makes a religion out of her friend, she's complex and difficult <3

Amy is often called "abusive" by the fan base in regards to her relationship with Rory, she's also called a cheater because of her initial fleeing with the Doctor the night before her wedding and her forcing herself upon him. (which isn't cool for the record) But I think so many people forget that canonically Amy didn't grow up with parents and was considered to have mental difficulties which has canon backing in her first episode when she says that she kept going to different psychiatrists. There's also the mild implication that her aunt who she lives with during her introduction is neglectful. That's not even touching on the fact that she grew up to an incredibly dangerous rift which was erasing people from existence including her parents. And don't even get me started on the horror story that she goes through when pregnant!!! Amy is kidnapped and held prisoner while pregnant, something she does not know, because she's also been living through a flesh version of herself and the entire reason why she was kidnapped is so that her baby can be raised to be an assassin whose only goal is to kill the Doctor. She then loses that baby and finds out that the woman she's met multiple times (River) is her daughter, proving that she will never get her daughter back and have the chance to raise her. AND THEN finds out that her childhood best friend 'Mels' is her daughter. Which ends up slowly causing a rift in her marriage because she thinks that Rory won't want to be with her now because that entire thing caused her to be unable to have any children. Amy also watches a version of herself die at different points in time (one of those versions being her if Rory never got to her in time) and also sees Rory die old and alone plus jumps off a building with him to create a paradox. And then has to still watch him get ripped away from her by the Angels before deciding that she won't live without him. Her life is one tragedy after another and so much of the fandom either reduces her down to "she's abusive!! look at how she treats Rory!!" or "YEAHHH Amy's a such a badass!!" without acknowledging the incredibly traumatic events that she goes through during the series. (since this isn't even touching half the stuff to do with the rift.)

[radiofreederry]

Lol

[cavegirlpoems]

I cannot stop laughing at the idea that socialism ignores humanity’s highest spiritual ideal: owning yachts.

[reticent-vampire]

ASSAD ZAMAN as ARMAND The Vampire Lestat 3.07

[fay989]

Any TVL cast member being interviewed: yeah so when I first read the script I wanted to murder Rolin with my bare hands :) haha yeah he butchered my character so badly that I threw my laptop across the room :) aha and then I yelled at him for two hours which only resulted in minor tweaks to the script :) yeah I was so shocked and confused :) and he comes up with scenes that don’t make any sense in-universe. :) and I worry for the future of this tv show :) but it’s alright as long as you think about how [5 min in depth analysis of details that the cast member has come up themselves to justify the season despite these justifications not being evident in the actual show at all] aha :)

[thunderstruck9]

Gerhard Richter (German, 1932), Wolkenstudie (grün-blau) [Cloud Study (Green-blue)], 1971. Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm.

[velvetnightgallery]

Daryal pass (1890) by Arkhip Kuindzhi

[sergal]

hello this is your google account. did you know that you are trying to log in. to. your google account. would you like five emails about how you logged in to your google account.