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scrumbling her

i-say-ok

ok. :]

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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

fuchsiamae

alright folks, I just went through all 400 notes on this thing, made a list of all the stories people suggested, read the ones I wasn’t already familiar with, and here they are:

the box-social
the veldt
the birds
the lottery
the landlady
the interlopers
the tell-tale heart
the black cat
the masque of the red death
hop-frog
a&p
sucker
miriam
harrison bergeron
uncle marcos
it’s a good life
all summer in a day
lamb to the slaughter
survivor type
death by landscape
popular mechanics
good country people
thank you ma’am
not our first mistake
cat and the coffee-drinkers
the youngest doll
the ones who walk away from omelas
the curious case of benjamin button
the man with the yellow face
the seventh man
the postman always rings twice
the last question
rain rain, go away
there will come soft rains
a sound of thunder
spider boy
where are you going, where have you been?
the celebrated jumping frog of calavaras county
hills like white elephants
I have no mouth and I must scream

I can’t possibly mark them with individual trigger warnings, so just in general, don’t touch any of them unless you’re in the mood for fucked up shit

july-19th-club

the rocking-horse winner

uncoolbutcanadian

I’m finishing up my first literature class on short stories and I know two of those!! Yay

aflamethatneverdies

Can I add:

Little Things

and

What we Talk about When we talk about Love by Raymond Carver

The Quiet by Carys Davies

Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant

I didn’t realise that I’ve read quite a few of the ones mentioned. I like reading such stories, y’all.

lynati

I’m so glad people already added The Veldt to your list; that story fucked me up and I think everyone should read it.

mendedpixie7 mendedpixie7

Tomorrow’s Child by Ray Bradbury completely fucked me up, but it’s not too triggering, just really, really REALLY weird. I love it.

christinedaaechagny

Three Skeleton Key

latterday

the cold equations by tom godwin
the earthquake in chile by heinrich von kleist
going to meet the man by james baldwin
josephine the singer, or the mouse folk by franz kafka
the passenger by ray bradbury (just…read every bradbury story tbh)
samuel by grace paley
to build a fire by jack london

bookjunkie468b

moriarty

this pigeon was having trouble pecking at a stale cookie on the street so i went over and crushed it with my foot so it could eat better and i think that was the nicest thing i did this year

moriarty

FUCK YOU GUYS WHO THOUGHT THAT I CRUSHED THE PIGEON AT FIRST IM A NICE PERSON

toomanycat

Anonymous asked:

can I please also have a tiny bird

iguanamouth answered:

choose wisely

the first bird will unlokc any door. the second bird tells you what you want to hear. the third bird tells you what you NEED to hear. the fourth bird says nothing but its eyes say all

suited-monkey

samyelbanette

Making friends with people from other countries is so crazy. I sent my group chat a Big Bird gif.

And this one girl says, “why isn’t he blue?”

I’m like, the fuck you mean??

So today I learned that in the Dutch version of Sesame Street, they do, in fact, have a blue Big Bird.

I was baffled by this so I went on Muppets Wiki and guess what.

In Mexico, Big Bird is green and his name is Abelardo.

Turkish Big Bird (aka Minik Kus) is apparently fucking orange.

This looks like a fuckin alternate universe or smth. I can’t.

ace-of-clovers

hugeasslesbian

margary

My tour of sadness through Megacon.

so-i-did-this-thing

Omg

notnights

I CANT BELIEVE IM LOOKING AT A COSPLAY OF THAT ONE BIRD GIF

garbage-senpai

omg

elodieunderglass

IT’S NOT JUST A BIRD GIF IT’S A VERY IMPORTANT BIRD OF PARADISE CALLED THE SUPERB BIRD OF PARADISE, IT IS FAMOUS BECAUSE OF BBC’S PLANET EARTH HOSTED BY DAVID ATTENBOROUGH OKAY

JESUS

IT STARTS THE DANCE AT 2:05

THE COSPLAYER DOES A SPLENDID JOB OF PERFORMING THE MATING DANCE AS SCRIPTED AND I THINK THAT’S VERY IMPORTANT

HERE IS WIKIPEDIA’S FRANKLY SPECTACULAR JUSTIFICATION FOR THE DANCE

The species has an unusually low population of females, and competition amongst males for mates is intensely fierce. This has led the species to have one of the most bizarre and elaborate courtship displays in the avian world. After carefully and meticulously preparing a “dance floor” (even scrubbing the dirt or branch smooth with leaves), the male first attracts a female with a loud call. After the curious female approaches, his folded black feather cape and blue-green breast shield springs upward and spreads widely and symmetrically around its head, instantly transforming the frontal view of the bird into a spectacular ellipse-shaped creature that rhythmically snaps its tail feathers against each other, similar to how snapping fingers work, whilst hopping in frantic circles around the female. The average female rejects 15-20 potential suitors before consenting to mate.

THIS COSPLAYER HAS TRULY CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF THE BIRD AND ITS DANCE AT EVERY LEVEL