TheShadowBastard

I AM VENGEANCE--I AM THE NIGHT--I LIKE PIZZA AND HUGS. thirtysomething cishet male

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Gerald Brom

[tatzelwurming]

listen i consider myself an empathic person but after a certain point i get sick of other people’s problems. my friend is always talking about how the jewel-eyed skull on their mantlepiece is tormenting them w its sinister beauty and im over it. like dude i don’t want to talk about this anymore. get rid of the fucking skull

[e-102]

you’ are biased against my skull

[tatzelwurming]

i’m not having this argument again man

[ioshk]

Calling my mother is like playing Russian roulette. I never know if she's gonna be normal or destroy me emotionally again. It took a lot of time to train her into a better parent. But it's never 100% guarantee that she won't go back to her old ways. 🫠

[shitilyposting]

"I don't wanna bother you"

Have you considered that this is how your presence feels?

[camelidae]

Listen, you’ll be fine. Just don’t forget your library card and DON’T dog-ear the pages.

[ethanmaldridge]

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

[macrolit]

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[creatingblackcharacters]

My next Black History Month request:

Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!

[ansy1984]

Back to the clack: In the digital age, these typewriter superfans hold the keys

Michelle Geffken’s color-filled home, in a leafy neighborhood by the Boston area’s oldest arboretum, is a veritable museum for typewriters. The machines, of all shapes and sizes, are scattered throughout the house. There’s a transportable Corona 3 folding typewriter, and a typewriter once owned by famed Red Sox player and coach Bobby Doerr. In the dining room, Ms. Geffken displays what she…

Back to the clack: In the digital age, these typewriter superfans hold the keys

[penandinkprincess]

truly few things instantly put me in a bad mood more than humidity

WHY is the fucking AIR out here TOUCHING ME

get OFF

[cross-x-rose]

"Alice Through The Looking Glass" statue at Guildford Castle ground in England by sculptor Jeanne Argent.

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[warandpeas]

Signed Prints

Looking for a unique gift or just want to gift yourself? A signed comic print from War and Peas print is ideal for lovers of our funny oeu

[crimsolyn]

I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

victorgpqart - Victor Garcia

[herpsandbirds]

[dark-angels666]