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Imagine all of these things being a possibility every single time you log in to your 'escape'!

To my Black readers: You are VALID! You are not sensitive, not 'overreacting', and you had every right to be hurt by the way you've been treated. These are not isolated events! And if people won't stop being racist, they should continue to feel uncomfortable for being so!

To my nonBlack readers: You are not an ally for NOT doing these things, but for STANDING AND SPEAKING UP when they do.

(So APPARENTLY Tumblr won't let you zoom in on Desktop, but I put the lists in the Image Description! Sorry 😬 i did not know Tumblr doesn't allow zoom in on desktop. It's easier to zoom in on mobile.)

beer

wine

tequila

vodka

rum

whiskey

other

i don't drink

It reminds me so much of the Haunting of Hill House and the idea of a house or neighborhood being “born bad” and entombing by design. In this setting, empty suburban hellscapes where the village that’s supposed to be raising the children is using them as insulation and an illusion of warmth and community

The visual cues and literal forest for the trees moments are so good too; Archer, a home developer, staring at a housing development map trying to figure out what could’ve swallowed his kid whole. And of course the children bursting through windows, ripping down fences and literally tearing up the facade, and gladys (1/2)

That’s really cool that you’re studying urban planning. Hope some of these are helpful and good luck with your studies!

The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture by Bernice M. Murphy: great read on the suburbs in horror and the suburbs as horror—iirc the author talks about suburbia as this sort of puritan monstrosity and feeding on the collective is part of its life cycle

When America Became Suburban by Robert Beauregard: an analysis on the motivations behind the US’ shift to suburbanization and how space and social imagination was remade in suburbia

Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific by Lauren Hirshberg: amazing read on the US military’s use of suburban infrastructure as a vehicle for imperialism and violence. It gets into post colonial spatial politics, land dispossession, segregation, surveillance and more-haven’t finished it but highly recommend!

my ballad of the witches' road andor edit stalled in production for this i fear