Weird and Proud

every horror writer in history wanted what the 19th floor subplot in the Wayside School books had

Also the gentlemen with the black attaché case who offer you the choice between being safe or being free and the dead rats who live in the basement.

I have no idea what Wayside School is

It’s a trilogy of absurdist children’s novels published by Louis Sachar (the author of Holes) about a school that was supposed to be one storey with thirty rooms but is actually thirty storeys with a room on each floor because the builders were holding the plans sideways (and apparently this is how architecture works). Each book consists of a series of thirty loosely interrelated short stories about the students on the thirtieth floor, and there are a bunch of weird anomalous things that become running gags throughout the novels and, actually, now that I think about it, I can definitely see how Night Vale would have been inspired by this

psa: a new installment called ‘wayside school beneath the cloud of doom’ was published in 2020, still written by louis sachar, and was released 25 years after the previous entry. it was explicitly inspired by modern stressors, including climate change and the 2016 election.

Narrator: it was not a euphemism.

Imo the cut of his jacket and the shoes he chose are pretty cool, but what I really love is that he’s wearing a green carnation. That’s the Victorian queer code, the symbol of gay solidarity from the nascence of western queer identity. I don’t know much about fashion, but that’s not boring me.

GREEN CARNATION

DEFAULT BRAD

“i expected better from you” well that was your fault lmao I got nothing to do with that

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