Robbed Of My Mask In Some Engine of Hell

everyone SHOULD make a zine too, you will feel so good about it 🫶🏼 it's about putting the power of production into the hands of the people! also you don't have to sell it or anything, you can just make one for yourself or trade/give some to friends!

i really love julia grofrer's guide to analogue self publishing aka making zines on 8.5x11 paper

and jaydragon/jdragsky's thread on staple's self serve print centres (if you're area does not have a local print shop, they probably have a staples or fedex print centre)

if you can't draw, here is twitter thread for public domain art and also a mini summary of when thing enter creative commons (generally 70 years after artist death in the US and CAD)

i also have a DIY zine page on my art blog that i am dedicated to updating as i find more resources! (not accessible through tumblr mobile app, mobile friendly, just open the link in a browser)

THEMSELVES SO THAT THEY CAN HOLE UP,

NURSE THEMSELVES BACK TO HEALTH,

AND REPEAT THE CYCLE.

THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell

The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words

In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”

Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51.

Wong died Friday because of an infection at a hospital in San Francisco, said Sandy Ho, a close friend who has been in touch with Wong’s family.

Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement” who wanted to see a world where people with disabilities, especially ones of marginalized demographics who were people of color, LGBTQ and immigrants, could live freely and have full autonomy over their lives and decisions.

The daughter of Hong Kong immigrants, Wong was diagnosed as a small child with a progressive neuromuscular disability. She used a powered wheelchair and an assistive breathing device.

On social media Ho shared a statement Wong wrote before her death in which she said never imagined her trajectory would turn out as it did, to writing, activism and more.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

Making friendly noises while someone else talks/smiling and nodding, which does not involve talking at all

Connecting to someone over a shared topic of interest, like weather or sports or itchy sweaters, which you obviously cannot do if you, e.g. do not like sports, or do not own an itchy sweater

"A greeting to affirm that you're buddies in the universe", which involves talking, but does not require you to have had specific life experiences like point two up there

This is the problem with all the "small talk is actually great" posts I see around tumblr frequently - it very quickly becomes very apparent that the majority of people either do not know what small talk is, or have vastly different ideas about what it is, and therefore do not really understand what people mean when they say they don't like it

my definitions all align, actually.

smiling and nodding do not preclude speaking. they are part of the performance of speaking. the throughline being: presenting yourself in a friendly manner.

i did not say you had to be interested in the topic. i said it can be something you know you have in common as humans on the planet - eg, the weather, which happens to everyone.

if you believe you have no common human experience with another person, that’s something you need to iron out yourself. have you never been tired, or hungry, or gotten new shoes? sharing the basic experience of being alive is what makes you buddies, not the specific topic. the point isn’t about whether the topic interests you - it’s about connecting positively with another person and finding interest in THAT. that is your compelling reason.

the problem with my post is not mine. i think you are looking for ways to complicate the sentiment because you would rather believe it’s too unpleasant to engage with others who are different from you to bother with it. and i understand completely why you don’t like it, i also said i didn’t like it either until i changed my perspective.

The housing crisis isn’t just a result of greedy landlords and investors. It’s an inevitable result of social policies that encourage people to treat their houses as in investment. Because once a homeowner internalizes the idea that their financial future depends on housing prices going up, they start favoring policies (such as NIMBYism) that make housing prices go up.