[twilitfossil]

santiago. it/he, 22.

18+ to follow. tormented by @ilan . -> click?

[caydencrypted]

the wisdom ive learnt is that becoming part of a friend group 1) takes a long time and 2) involves a lot of feeling awkward and left out at first. there’s nothing terrible about this but if you grew up chronically lonely or have any kind of trauma relating to social isolation this likely feels Really Wrong and activates danger signals. but both fortunately and unfortunately it’s just how becoming close to new people works most of the time

[caydencrypted]

another thing that was not intuitive to me as someone who grew up an autistic loner: basically everyone on the planet is starved for connection all the time and almost everything people do is an attempt to reach out to another. most seemingly illogical interactions and behaviours can be explained by this. you have to take as many of these invitations as you can. even if you're wrong you still attempted to bring more warmth into the world

[silenthillmutual]

hi, we're the restless dream system. our partner (gemteeth) and we are both trans & disabled and trying to survive living in a shithole apartment on one part-time check.

as you can imagine, that's not going very well. if we don't figure out something soon and get out of here, we will be homeless by winter.

we're looking into every resource we can, but if you can safely do so and wouldn't mind helping out, my ca/vnmo are transdankovsky & my partner takes pay what you can art commissions over on @gemteeth . we would appreciate the help a lot, thank you

[gemteeth]

Please, we really need help. Mine are C$$app - $milkteeths and ppal - [email protected]. Literally anything helps.

[silenthillmutual]

i need a new bank - i'm overdrafted again bc the mobile app does not consistently reflect an accurate statement of how much money is actually in my account.

rn, the overdraft is only by ~$10, but i have no idea what that will turn into.

my paypal is codedautistic at gmail.

[buddwyer]

[vedurnan]

6th grade math problem:

Words were exchanged between friends – the house of human companionship was established in secret – eons passed – eons passed – eons passed – eons passed

A) The house was diminished!

B) The house was strengthened!

C) The house was swept away!

D) The house was swept away!

[fruitblush]

[executed-deactivated20161004]

[huariqueje]

Backyard #1 - John Salminen

American , b. 1945 -

Watercolour on paper , 24 x. 24 in.

[thunderstruck9]

John Salminen (American, 1945), Backyard #1, 2020. Watercolor on paper, 24 x 24 in.

[senatortedcruz]

[garlandedspirits]

Cover art for the paperback edition of Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" - by William Teason

[quillnqueer]

We Have Always Lived In The Castle - International Book Covers

[infestedguest]

There are a lot of more important criticisms to be made of Mike Flanagan’s work, but one I’ve yet to see anyone else mention is how his whole “directly quoting the source material as bookends/during salient moments” thing is also lowkey him shooting himself in the foot because he’s essentially encouraging the audience to compare the quality of his work to that of said source material, which is a really bad idea when you’re adapting classic and beloved literature.

Like one of the major reasons I tuned out after the first episode or two of his The Haunting of Hill House adaptation is because I couldn’t take the just kind of okay character and dialogue writing seriously when it was immediately following up a full quotation of what is quite literally the best opening paragraph in all of fiction. I don’t think you even need to be familiar with the book to instantly recognize that that specific part is written by a different, much better writer.

It’s not that the writing was even all that bad, it’s just that it wasn’t Shirley Jackson, which is, you know, an insanely high bar to reach.

Could he/his writers have written a more compelling opening narration? Almost definitely not, but it just seems lazy to not even try. At least that would’ve been made to be an opening to what the first episode actually entailed instead of just yanking the opening paragraph from the book with no regard to the context of how it was leading in to the rest of the chapter, thus completely wasting any narrative flow you could’ve potentially gotten from that kind of narration. I’m not saying it’s not possible to do that in a way that recontextualizes the quote in an interesting way, but that wasn’t the case here imo.

It also kind of gives off the vibe that you’re using the source material as set dressing which I kind of really hate.

It also feels like a lot more egregious of an offense when the majority of your audience are people who haven’t read the source material. If you google “The Haunting of Hill House” his show is the first result instead of the book it’s based on which I am. so normal about.

This is also a feature of his The Fall of the House of Usher adaptation iirc but it was slightly more palatable for me there because people quoting Poe in gauche and tacky ways is so commonplace that it’s practically a hokey horror staple (the main issue being I don’t think he was intending for it to be hokey).

[sawed-on-shotgun]

hello my name is Stray Hair snd my big dream is to play the itsy bitsy spider on broadway. doyou mind if i practice on the side of your head.

[kittydealer]

u/Fine-Dog-9874

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

523.8875

black holes

[werewolfetone]

History degree day 1: the past is so compelling to me. I just love learning about how our ancestors lived. and it’s so interesting how many of them had a fundamentally alien yet perhaps ultimately relatable in context mindset to our own. maybe one day I can begin to understand it?

History degree day 1000: forty martyrs of england and wales ranked by how good they would’ve been at posting on twitter

[gothredy]

[soundcarvings]

I think you’re all so smart and doing your best and I suspect it will work out in your favor too