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we-the-dreamers:

I just wanted to let a few of you know that if you any of you who are writers of fiction or poetry (or even if you have a gnawing hunger to read more!) you should try Commaful to post your stuff. It’s this really pleasant community of writers who support and actually give back feedback on any work you post. I’ve been there for almost 7 months now and of all my poetry posts, I’ve never gotten one negative comment. I’ve never seen a negative comment on the site period. Each post is like this little slideshow of a book and they’re so easy to make and coming from a really bad place last year mentally with a lingering depression and years of not feeling good about my poetry, I’ve never felt more accepted or inspired until I joined. I hope any who reads or writes like I do checks it out. Commaful.com is so much better for you and your work than Tumblr is.

Also, follow me if you like it and I’ll follow back! I’m wethedreamers there. Come be sad with me and look at my poetry and I’ll look at yours. 🙂

please. tell us more about your ‘folk bangers’ playlist. that sounds relevant to all of my interests. (folks and banging)

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natalunasans:

ventureonwilderseas:

axonsandsynapses:

auber-jean:

lotstradamus:

if you want a playlist for banging folks this probably isn’t the one for you, but if you want to Go Off, Historically then WHAT’S UP 

🤘🏻

@axonsandsynapses

a) This is terrific

b) Have some more! (Most of these are traditional, a few of them are more contemporary)

c) I’ve put them all in an actual YouTube playlist, here, for your listening convenience

Oh, hey! My favorite genre! I hope you all like shanties and Irish:

English (but not shanties):
Hills of Connemara – Gaelic Storm
Shady Grove – Crooked Still (a good band for this sort of thing)
The Elfin Knight – Kate Rusby

Shanties/shanty-style sea songs:
Ring Down Below – Storm Weather Shanty Choir
South Australia – The Kilkennys
Barrett’s Privateers – The Real McKenzies (modern but you’d be hard-pressed to tell)
Blood Red Roses – Storm Weather Shanty Choir
10,000 Miles Away – The Seadogs

Irish:
Dúlamán – Anuna
Nil Na La – Solas
Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile – Seo Linn
’Si Do Mhaimeo I – Méav Ní Mhaolchatha and Mairead Nesbitt

Instrumental:
The Landlord’s Walk – Blair Douglas
Gravel Walk – The Rogues (WOW what a jam!)
O’Sullivan’s March – (Linked is The Chieftains’ version, here’s the Boston Pops version I grew up on)

Bonus Macedonian song: Sto Mi et Milo – Kitka (a great group if you’re interested in Eastern European music)

i can’t believe nothing from the Pogues was on here, it must be just assumed that people would know them.

for Klezmetal music, i want to recommend GEVOLT.

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musings-of-a-monster:

earthmoonlotus:

sapphicghostbusters:

periegesisvoid:

wuqs:

asterlark:

i-see-your-light:

demo-ness:

lesbianshepard:

harkerling:

txwatson:

lieutenantriza:

insanitysbloomings:

siderealsandman:

bravinto:

idlewildly:

eccentwrit:

asexualzoro:

cleverest-url:

rebel-against-reality:

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schrodingers-rufus:

fuchsiamae:

silverilly:

repulsion-gel:

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

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

We read lots of good disturbing shit in hs or in the writing groups I joined in hs but somehow the top of the heap for shit that haunted me’s still indisputably Ethan Canin’s “The Palace Thief”. It’s not horror as such but it freaked me the fuck out. 

There was another O. Henry short story we read that was also really alarming but I had to google a major spoiler (which is also a warning) to recall the name – “The Furnished Room”.  

there will come soft rains by bradbury was very unsettling for middle school me

I had no idea so many were all written by Ray Bradbury, why did he do this to us

“Emergency” by Dennis Johnson – not entirely disturbing but really weird and there’s one Bad Part

“A Small, Good Thing” by Raymond Carver – again not all that bad but sad and kind of creepy 

i had to read a collapse of horses by brian evenson for a writing class last year and it’s. very fucking weird

“the birds” by du maurier

Bradbury wrote a lot of weird shit. But, “The Book of Sand” and"The Library of Babel" by Luis Borges.

The ones who walk away from omelas

“The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov

“The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke
“Kingsmeat” by Orsen Scott Card *warning that this is VERY unpleasantly fucked up; and you might want to stay away
“Everything That Rises Must Converge” and “Greenleaf” by Flannery O’Connor
“Hopfrog” and “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe
“The Interlopers” by Saki

If we’re counting comics
“Littlepatch”, and “Pendulum” from ElfQuest
“Out of Skin”, “The Hole the Fox Did Make”, “The Prince & the Sea” (holy shit), and “Margot’s Room” (HOLY SHIT) by Em Carroll

If we’re counting audio fiction
“The Wriggling Death” by Harold Gross
*warning that this deals heavily with rape
“Little Boy Leg Bone” by Richard Warren
“The Unfinished Room” by Joshua Rex *pretty fucked up and ick feeling
“Room 733” by C.K. Walker
“Let No One Walk Beside Her” which can be found on the Knifepoint Horror podcast and I CANNOT find who wrote it

“Laura” by Saki.