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This is a compiled list of some of my favorite pieces of short horror fiction, ranging from classics to modern-day horror, and includes links to where the full story can be read for free. Please be aware that any of these stories may contain subject matter you find disturbing, offensive, or otherwise distressing. Exercise caution when reading. Image art is from Scarecrow: Year One.

PSYCHOLOGICAL: tense, dread-inducing horror that preys upon the human psyche and aims to frighten on a mental or emotional level. 

“The Frolic” by Thomas Ligotti, 1989

“Button, Button” by Richard Matheson, 1970

“89.1 FM” by Jimmy Juliano, 2015

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892

“Death at 421 Stockholm Street“ by C.K. Walker, 2016

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973

“An Empty Prison” by Matt Dymerski, 2018

“A Suspicious Gift” by Algernon Blackwood, 1906

CURSED: stories concerning characters afflicted with a curse, either by procuring a plagued object or as punishment for their own nefarious actions.

“How Spoilers Bleed” by Clive Barker, 1991

“A Warning to the Curious” by M.R. James, 1925

“each thing i show you is a piece of my death” by Stephen J. Barringer and Gemma Files, 2010

“The Road Virus Heads North” by Stephen King, 1999

“Ring Once for Death” by Robert Arthur, 1954

“The Mary Hillenbrand Cassette“ by Jimmy Juliano, 2016

“The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, 1902

MONSTERS: tales of ghouls, creeps, and everything in between.

“The Curse of Yig” by H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, 1929 

“The Oddkids” by S.M. Piper, 2015

“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” by Richard Matheson

“The Graveyard Rats” by Henry Kuttner, 1936

“Tall Man” by C.K. Walker, 2016 

“The Quest for Blank Claveringi“ by Patricia Highsmith, 1967

“The Showers” by Dylan Sindelar, 2012

CLASSICS: terrifying fiction written by innovators of literary horror. 

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, 1843

“The Interlopers” by Saki, 1919 

“The Statement of Randolph Carter“ by H.P. Lovecraft, 1920

“The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Pierce, 1893

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving, 1820 

“August Heat” by W.F. Harvey, 1910

“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, 1843

SUPERNATURAL: stories varying from spooky to sober, featuring lurking specters, wandering souls, and those haunted by ghosts and grief. 

“Nora’s Visitor” by Russell R. James, 2011

“The Pale Man” by Julius Long, 1934

“A Collapse of Horses” by Brian Evenson, 2013

“The Jigsaw Puzzle” by J.B. Stamper, 1977 

“The Mayor Will Make A Brief Statement and then Take Questions” by David Nickle, 2013

“The Night Wire” by H.F. Arnold, 1926 

“Postcards from Natalie” by Carrie Laben, 2016

UNSETTLING: fiction that explores particularly disturbing topics, such as mutilation, violence, and body horror. Not recommended for readers who may be offended or upset by graphic content.  

“Survivor Type” by Stephen King, 1982

“I’m On My Deathbed So I’m Coming Clean…” by M.J. Pack, 2018

“In the Hills, the Cities” by Clive Barker, 1984

“The New Fish” by T.W. Grim, 2013

“The Screwfly Solution” by Racoona Sheldon, 1977

“In the Darkness of the Fields” by Ho_Jun, 2015 

“The October Game” by Ray Bradbury, 1948

“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison, 1967 

HAPPY READING, HORROR FANS!

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Sorry to bother you but I’m trying to learn more about butchness so I can fight my friends when they think that being butch just means “a lesbian wearing pants” do you have any advice on where to start learning about butchness?

Never a bother, friend anon!  I’m probably not the most well-versed when it comes to this sort of thing, but I’ll link you to some helpful posts as well as suggested reading and watching. 

Video: “Butch Women Talk About What It Means to Be Butch”

Excerpt from “Butches, Lies, and Feminism,” The Persistent Desire, Joan Nestle (ed.), 1992

Excerpt from “Why I Love Butch Women”, Dagger: On Butch Women, Lily Burana (ed.), 1994

Masterpost of books with butch leads if you feel like reading a whole book on the subject (looks like a good mix of fiction and nonfiction)

Sweet post about butch and femme love

Article on the photo series “BUTCH” by artist Meg Allen

Article on Hannah Gadsby’s new Netflix special “Nanette” (I haven’t watched it yet but it’s about her experiences as a gender non-conforming woman)

Music video (ish) for the song “Ring Of Keys” from the Broadway musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home 

Trailer for a documentary called “Gender Troubles: The Butches” (can’t seem to find the full video online but I’m sure if you do more than a cursory search you can track it down)

Please note that this is by no means a complete starter kit–I’m sure there are a shit ton of things and people I’m overlooking. I’d encourage you to do a bit of research on the history of femme-butch bar culture in America, and read up on how Femme and Butch are inherently lesbian identities and inherently linked. Look up butch celebrities, read about their experiences, and consume the media they make: KD Lang, Leslie Feinberg, Hanifah Walida, Alison Bechdel, Ivan Coyote, Tig Notaro, and on and on and on. Another thing to consider is the experience of black butch women, who commonly call themselves studs and have different experiences from white butches/white women in general. 

And since you asked me particularly, I’ll just give my two cents. Butchness is not just an aesthetic or a fashion. Although fashion and how you present yourself certainly plays a big role in it, there’s no “one way” for a butch to look or act. For me, butchness is a way to subvert the femininity that’s been expected of me since birth. I don’t exist on this earth to look pretty for men; I exist on this earth in part to love and be loved by women. I am a woman, but I’m a woman who has short hair, doesn’t shave, wears cologne, and wouldn’t be caught dead in a dress. I’m also a woman who would jump to hold a door for another woman, defend another woman, uplift another woman, financially and emotionally support another woman, etc. Butchness has fuckall to do with men and masculinity; butches are not “trying to be men” or people who “dress like men.” (Again–this is my own personal experience. Other butches can/will have other answers.) 

Fellow butch mutuals, feel free to chime in on this post or correct me if needs be! And good luck in your journey of learning, anon :-)

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Language Resources Masterpost

Today I am sharing with you guys all my collection of language textbook pdfs :D They are mostly for Russian and Mandarin, but I have a few Korean resources too. Please note that I have not personally used all of these books, so I cannot vouch for their quality. If any of the links are broken, please let me know! All links are to dropbox files.

Mandarin

A Kaleidoscope of China (advanced)

A New China (intermediate)

All Things Considered (advanced)

Anything Goes (advanced)

Basic Chinese (workbook)

Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (grammar)

Chinese: An Essential Grammar (grammar)

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar (grammar)

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar (workbook)

Reading to Write: An Advanced Textbook of Chinese (advanced)

Schaum’s Outlines: Chinese Grammar (grammar)

The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course (advanced)

The Routledge Course in Chinese Media Literacy (advanced)

Russian

Ultimate Russian (advanced)

Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage

A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (grammar)

A Russian Grammar Workbook (workbook)

Colloquial Russian 2 (intermediate)

Russian Verbal Prefixes (grammar)

Glossika Guide to Russian Pronunciation and Grammar

Intermediate Russian: A Grammar and Workbook (intermediate)

An Advanced Russian Tabloid Reader (advanced)

A Living Russian Grammar (grammar)

Basic Russian: A Grammar and Workbook (beginner）

Russian in Exercises (beginner)

Russian Verbs of Motion

Using Russian Vocabulary (vocab)

The Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs (vocab)

Live From Russia Stage 1 Volume 1 (beginner)

Live From Russia Stage 1 Volume 2 (beginner)

Korean

Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook (beginner)

Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook (intermediate)

Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar (grammar)

Korean Grammar in Use (beginner)

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Mikhail Kuznetsov as Fyodor Basmanov  |  Ivan the Terrible Part 2 | 1945

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tag yourself ancient languages 

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Decolonized Booklist - Queer Edition

Lil Nas X is letting y'all know that queerness is not a “white people thing.” 💁🏾‍♀️🌈

Queerness is ancestral || queer folks existed in pre-colonial spaces, struggled and resisted under colonialism, and are kicking down barriers in the 21st century.

Here are some must reads by scholars, poets, and activists who are sharing the histories, lived experiences, and ancestral-liberation work of those who came before and those blooming and yet to come~

Find their works listed below on my Neighborhood Historian bookshop.

Top Picks

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Audre Lorde (1984)

Freedom To Love For ALL: Homosexuality is not Un-African - Yemisi Ilesanmi (2013)

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity -  C Riley Snorton (2017)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong (2019)

Black Girl, Call Home - Jasmine Mans (2021)

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice - Shon Faye (Pre-Order)

Queer History, Activism, and Liberation in the United States (by time period)

Female Husbands: A Trans History - Jen Manion (2020)

Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco - Clare Sears (2014)

We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin’s Early Gay History - R. Richard Wagner (2019)        

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 - Julio Capó (2017)

Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage - Lauren Jae Gutterman (2019) 

Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics - Timothy Stewart-Winter (2017)        

The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America - Erin Cervini (2021)

We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation - Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown (2019)

Queer Twin Cities - collected by Twin Cities Glbt Oral History Project (2010)

Queerness Across Borders and Generations

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Samra Habib (2019)

Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation - (2020)

Tolerance and Risk: How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims - Mitra Rastegar (Pre-Order)

Lived Experiences and Memories in Marginalized Spaces

Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming - Carly Thomsen (2021)

Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City - Gregory Samantha Rosenthal (Pre-order)

Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel - Bernardine Evaristo (2019)

On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual - Merle Miller (1971)

Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender - Mia McKenzie (2014)

Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers - Anne Balay (2016)

Rust Belt Burlesque: The Softer Side of a Heavy Metal Town - Erin O'Brien and Bob Perkoski (2019)

Study Resources

We Will Always Be Here: A Guide to Exploring and Understanding the History of LGBTQ+ Activism in Wisconsin - Jenny Kalvaitis and Kristen Whitson (2021)

New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent - edited by Margaret Busby (2019)

Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology - E. Patrick Johnson (2005)

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good essays i read in 01/2021

To Speak Is To Blunder (Yiyun Li)

Learning the Grammar of Animacy - (Robin Wall Kimmerer)

For Women, The Sin of Indulgence is the Worst Sin Imaginable - (Kristen Zory King)

Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong - (Michael Hobbes)

Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning From Indigenous People - (Jim Robbins)

Buying Myself Back - (Emily Ratajowski)

How Conservation became Colonialism - (Alexander Zaitchik)

Protecting Your Birth: A Guide For Black Mothers - (Erica Chidi & Erica P. Cahill)

Subscribe - (Nicole Zaridze)

Artist Searches for her Childhood Bully on Facebook, Doesn’t Expect to Find This - (Rokas Laurinavicius)

The Husband Stitch - (Carmen Maria Manchado)

The Lawless Energy of Teenage Girls - (Naomi Fry)

My Grandma the Poisoner - (John Reed)

The Empathy Exams - (Leslie Jamison)

The Real Tragedy of Beth March - (Carmen Maria Machado)

Interview with Anne Boyer - (Sophia Richards)

Earldoms for Girldom - (Helen Lewis)

Less Than Certain - (Rachel Mennies)

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#langblr #spanish

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Thebes, Luxor

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mythology based art

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Crap. Yet again, I forgot to seize the day. 

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my desk + my Latin books

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Why are books so expensive :(

#i was at barnes and noble and got 3 books but why are adult paperbacls souch #so much* #i couldnt get another book because i could only spend 11 at most and all fo the books were at least 16 #i did get a latin dictionary and books 2 and 3 in the sjadow and bone trilogy though so thats nice

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Latin grammar is a social construct. The Romans honestly just made that shit up as they went along.

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Its the 9th now :/

Hopefully the textbook comes today if not it'll be here on the 7th which will suck

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interact if ur a latin langblr/studyblr 🏛️

you don't have to exclusively be for latin, i'm just looking for blogs to follow and might be making a list too djfdjhsd