Rian: 33, year 3 medical student (TUSOM). Truly excessive number of degrees. Sometimes I write stuff also (ao3 Vespasiana). Queer, she/he, [no further information available]. icon by bisexualrowena, header by lordwhat
So You Want To Know What’s Up With That Gay Angel - Masterpost
Well, congrats! You’ve found your way to the SPN “speed” watch masterpost, which is written by someone who hadn’t seen a single episode of this show until 2018. This is important, because it means I’ve watched this whole show in very recent memory, and also don’t have any baggage left over from the 2012-13 SPN heyday, because somehow I managed to remain blissfully unaware of the peak cringe fandom days while they were happening.
i’m a taylor swift centrist. she makes perfectly tolerable pop music that i can’t imagine really getting into. dunno what it is about her that makes so many people go insane
i listen to one of these relatively bland and inoffensive but nonetheless well-crafted pop songs and everyone around me demands that i proclaim it a masterpiece or artistically bankrupt or whatever. i just want to grill for god’s sake
reminder that the IDF and the american police train together and share tactics. cop city is already working with ppl from the IDF in building the urban warfare training facility.
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
The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma'am
the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”
wHat did I just put my eyes on
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone
Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers
“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates
“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
the lottery by shirley jackson
i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned
and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf
Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.
Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme
I read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day” in seventh grade (it wasn’t assigned, I was just going through my textbook for new stuff to read) and as a bullied kid with SAD, it Fucked Me Up.
An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson
Eh, this was more like community college, but The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
and this story that I can’t remember the name of and can’t find, though it might be by O. Henry? it’s about a bunch of demons who want to stop Santa Claus from going through with Christmas, and he must travel through the mountains they inhabit to escape their vices? (good christ I can’t remember the name for the life of me)
Ok but the laughing man and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger
The City (195) Ray Bradbury. An intense commentary on colonialism and space exploration. I read it for a sci fi survey class.
Another short story I read in that sci fi class was Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. A commentary on humanity and how human we believe ourselves to be. Also, an interesting commentary on mental health.
In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom, written in 1947 by Ango Sakaguchi. It made my skin crawl the first time I read it.
I didn’t read it in a text book, but “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” haunted me for life.
Adding to the list of Bradbury: “There Will Come Soft Rains”
The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke. (I never re-read it and suspect if I did, I’d find it had issues, but I still think about the ending.)
“W.S.” by L.P. Hartley
“Lost Hearts” by M.R. James
“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” by Edgar Allan Poe
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
My Father’s Hands
by Calvin R. Worthington
In the Vault, by
H. P. Lovecraft.
The Feather Pillow, by Horacio Quiroga
What a Thought! by Shirley Jackson
There Will Come Soft Rains - Ray Bradbury
It’s been mentioned multiple times but have to say it again: I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream (also there is a video game go play it).
My additions:
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Beirce
Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant
The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W Chambers
The Repairer of
Reputations by Robert
W Chambers
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
This is in the West Bank, which Hamas does not control and where it has barely had a presence since the PA, Israel, and the US collaborated to drive them out after they won the 2006 election.
They smashed Shireen Abu Akleh’s memorial in Jenin (West Bank) too.
This is not a war; what Israel is doing to Palestine is genocide. Do not sit idly by and do not stay quiet. Now more than ever is the most important time to not look away.
Tatreez embroidery! This is an endangered craft but there are a few organizations working to preserve it. I really like https://tirazain.com/archive which is preserving motifs and turning them into easy-to-use cross stitch charts in an organized online library.
Israel has started putting out loads of “evidence” that the Hamas headquarters are below the Al-Shifa hospital.
Their “evidence” is a CGI video that they made themselves showing the whole hospital and then zooming in and going below ground to show a sprawling, multi-level “headquarters” with little CGI-people with guns roaming around on metal platforms and such. Here’s the link to Netan-fuck-you’s twitter, and the video. 50/50 odds on it vanishing within 24 hours, so if anyone wants to embed the video into a reblog of this post in order to preserve it in all its bullshit glory, please do.
Their second piece of evidence is a phone call recording where the two people are “overheard” saying THEE most obvious script I’ve ever heard in my life, which basically amounts to “Well you know how the headquarters of Hamas are under the Al-Shifa hospital?” “The headquarters of Hamas are under the Al-Shifa hospital?” “Yeah, the headquarters of Hamas are under the Al-Shifa hospital.” It’s literally that badly done. I can’t now find the video of it, but if someone has it, pls link it. The version I saw was shared by SkyNews (🤮)
Make no mistake. This is israel getting ahead of the global narrative. This is Israel justifying their bombing of a hospital before they do it.
They bombed the Al-Ahli hospital, and the world responded with an enormous wave of outrage and recriminations, so Israel immediately tried to claim that Hamas did it, and then they said that actually no, it was Palestinian Jihadists (who don’t even operate out of Gaza; they’re all based in the West Bank).
They know full well that if they bombed another hospital, they wouldn’t be able to claim it was Hamas/PJ.
So now they’re laying all this groundwork, disseminating blatantly falsified “evidence” of a sprawling secret terrorist bunker hidden beneath the main hospital in Gaza, where its estimated that 50,000 people are sheltering.
If Al-Shifa hospital is still standing by this time tomorrow, I will be shocked.
Israel is laying the groundwork now so that when they level the hospital and kill every single person inside it, the public will justify it for them. “Yeah but Hamas had a huge headquarters underneath,” the public will say. “It’s not Israel’s fault that Hamas hiding underneath hospitals,” they’ll say. “Israel’s just trying to root out Hamas! It’s awful that so many civilians died, but that’s what happens when terrorists use civilians as shields” they’ll say, as though killing a human shield in order to get to the bad guy is acceptable literally anywhere in the world, much less when the “shields” amount to well over 7,000 civilians.
Do not fall for the propaganda. Do not allow Israel to bomb another hospital without forcing them to fave the backlash for it (even if they didn’t do Al-Ahli, they’ve attacked hospitals and health centres repeatedly in the past). Do not let your country’s politicians justify the slaughter of a hospital full of civilians just to get at the (alleged!!) terrorist base below. Do not let your colleagues or friends or family justify the razing of a hospital full of innocent men, women, and children.
We can’t do much to stop them, but by fuck can we do everything in our power to make sure they don’t get away with it.
[Image IDs: the first is a tweet by Netanyahu, saying Hamas-ISIS is sick. They turn hospitals into headquarters for their terror. We just released intelligence proving it.“ This is followed by a video, which the at the time of the screenshot was showing a CGI version of the hospital. Image 2 is the same, but the video was screenshotted as it shows the CGI "lair” of hamas that’s allegedly below the hospital; a multi-storey industrial-looking space with armed soldiers walking along suspended platforms. Image three is a tweet by @HenMazzig that says “BREAKING: it’s now confirmed that Hamas’s operational headquarters is stationed below the Al Shifa hospital - Gaza’s main hospital.” This is followed by an image screenshotted from Netanyahu’s bullshit video, this time showing an aerial shot of the hospital amidst the debris of the almost completely destroyed neighbouring suburb.]
I accidentally hit the poll button and now it won’t let me get rid of it or publish this post until I’ve filled it in, so: is bombing a hospital utterly reprehensible, unforgivable, and unjustifiable?
Hey guys, there are eleven votes on the poll, but only two reblogs thus far. With tmblr actively suppressing any posts that have to do with the situation in Gaza, reblogs are imperative; it’s the only way to spread word, since the main tags are all being hobbled. Please reblog this. 50,000 civilians sheltering at the hospital, and Israel is almost certainly gonna bomb it - if they haven’t already - and they’re gonna claim it was justified.
Please help fight that narrative, and reblog this.
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have distributed threatening leaflets on cars and left bloodied dolls at schools, warning Palestinians to leave or be killed.
“By God, we will descend upon your heads with a great catastrophe soon. You have the last chance to escape to Jordan in an organised manner,” said one leaflet circulated on Friday in the West Bank city of Salfit.
“After that, we will destroy every enemy and forcefully expel you from our holy land … Load your bags immediately and leave wherever you came from. We are coming.”
The leaflet also warned of a new “major Nakba”, referencing the 1948 displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland. In the occupied Al-Ma'rajat area near Jericho, dolls covered in red paint, ostensibly to look like blood and scare young students, were left at the entrance of a school after settlers vandalised it.
also, a friendly reminder, the world we live in now consists of an active genocide.
of warcrimes being posted on twitter by the official account of israeli government.
of people looking at children, women and men being bombed, killed, starved and butchered and saying it is okay because of a single terrorist group, THAT ISRAEL CREATED.
of westerners saying to look away from the slaughter happening in gaza because your mental health is more important than thousands of lives.
of israeli politicians straight up using propaganda from nazi handbooks to dehumanise palestinians, calling them less than human, less than the rest of us, animals.
and what one palestinian man posted on his social media hit me more than anything: “if we actually were animals, people would care.”
