on a balcony in summer air

hi!! (20s, she/her) amateur sourdough baker, professional swiftie tracking #userw0nderland <3

[shouldntbeaskingmyselfwhy]

i love intentionally ordered playlists i love albums with strong openers and closers and those told in two clear acts and albums with songs that flow into each other so you have to listen to them together i love interludes i love having an Experience with a whole body of work

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[freelyunder]

last night was a 2160p.4K.BluRay.x265.10bit.AAC5.1-[YTS.MX]

[corneliaavenue]

manifesting early for taylor swift tickets. tickets i can afford. tickets in a great spot. opening night even. getting to go with my best friends.

[ialreadyboughtthedream]

[mortalityplays]

learn to associate cleaning with pride instead of shame and your quality of life will improve in ways you can't even imagine btw

[mortalityplays]

like I'm sympathetic, it's hard work, it takes some degree of mental organisation and physical capacity that is not equally accessible to every human being on earth. I know. but regardless of how much you can do and how often, you will get better results across the board if you can frame it as positive effort towards a better situation instead of perpetually self flagellating for having the sin of being a solid thing in physical space that steadily accumulates dirt no matter what just like everything else on earth

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

[important-cat-pics]

[thatwasthenightthingschanged]

you keep your distance, but not your word / you keep your peace and all my secrets/ and you just skip the bridge you burnt

[likeadevils]

speak now is like. i was a flight risk with a fear of falling. you’re the kind of reckless that should send me running. it turns out freedom ain’t nothing but missing you. don’t say yes, run away now. i’ll look back in regret how i ignored when they said run as fast as you can. someday i’ll be living in a big old city. i’d tell you i miss you but i don’t know how. it’s so much colder than i thought it would be so i tuck myself in and turn my nightlight off. these are the words i held back as i was leaving too soon. wasn't it easier when you believed in everything? it's getting dark and it's all too quiet and i can't trust anything now. and something reminds you, you wish you had stayed. but if, god forbid, fate should step in and force us into a goodbye, if you have children someday, when they point to the pictures, please tell them my name.

[brytning]

When I need to remind myself to put something on the grocery list and I don't have my phone on me, I use the Scrabble tile magnets on the fridge. But sometimes I don't have enough of the right letters and have to get creative.

[brytning]

The list is getting longer and we are running out of letters.

[breakbleheavens]

But I can see us lost in the memory August slipped away into a moment in time

[airwar]

we used to turn the tv on and just watch whatever was on there

[correctopinionhaver]

[mintypineapple]

Yes, it was frequently The Simpsons.

[cametotheshowinsd]

August slipped away into a moment in time; August, Taylor Swift

[gaveyouigaveyoui]

i’d *kicks door down* CRY MY EYES VIOLET *throws chair* ELIZABETH TAYLOR *breaks table* TELL ME FOR REAL *dinosaur scream* DO YOU THINK IT’S FOREVER?

[oaky-dokey]

love the library. there's no risk. you can take out a book and go "wow this sucks" and just give it back. and when you do that you're still making the library's Number Go Up so you'll be able to roll the dice on even more books. all for the low low price of free/you already paid for it with your tax money so you might as well use it

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]