I'm collecting a list of Short Stories That Fucked Us Up As Children. reblog and tell me what I'm missing.

here's the list so far:

I'll add a poll in case it helps haha

I intend to celebrate the date mentioned in the short story that MOST messed me up as a kid,. Assuming we survive. It's only two yearsish. We should make it.

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury ends on August 5th 2026. Set your calendars.

But Bradbury wrote a fair number of stories that messed me up.

Probably a fair few others, too. Bradbury definitely had a little thread of the macabre running through his stuff. Put everything together in The Martian Chronicles and it is not a happy picture it is painting. Even Night Meeting, one of my all time favorite short stories, and actually pretty sweet and beautiful, can be existentially dreadful if you think too hard about it.

Some more stories that F'd me up as a young'un (or which you could have read as a kid that could have MESSED YOU UP but I did actually read after being young):

And that's probably more than enough from me, since the possibility it's any of these is fairly low.

The Veldt was FUCKED UP. (I love Bradbury.)

My high school creative writing teacher made us read A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, and we were all pretty horrified by that one.

On the subject of There Will Come Soft Rains, there's a beautiful soviet animated adaptation from 1984:

Link By Hikari Toriumi, a story artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios

"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.

I love folklore so much because depending on the location and era it comes from it's either the most terrifying concept or the dumbest thing you've ever heard

ever since i was a little girl i've always wanted a hysterectomy

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

Reblog if it's the same year as it was yesterday, 2024

if I have kids i’m making them play through the water temple as a punishment

The Darkness by Bill Mayer

Zeldaaaaaaaaaaaa

working on everyones flat colors

don’t worry everyone the doctor who wiki has everything under control

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Little doodle of the PRINCE of the cryptids, MOTHMAN!

Couldnt take out my paints today but pretty happy I was still able to doodle!!:D

Hex! Museum of Witchcraft-Ribe, Denmark

What a show

once in a blue moon