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Nina Simone - Why? (The King of Love is Dead) [Full Live Version] - “Recorded on April 7, 1968, live three days after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. and performed at the Westbury Music Fair. Nina Simone dedicated her performance to King’s memory. The song was written by her bass player, Gene Taylor. An edited version of this performance appears on Simone’s album, Nuff Said (1968).”

Please take the time to listen in full.

I remember listening to this as a kid and just bawling forever. 

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astheplanetsbend: One-Shots Without Sound of Bells (R) Sæglópur (M) Draco and Tequila and Silence (R) The Altar (M) Hook and Eye (M) It is the Moonlight, It is the Rain (R) Multi-Chapter The Complete Works of Maya - Make sure you copy down the Table of Contents then read the following, in no particular order : Underwater Light, If You’ve a Ready Mind, The Way We Get By/Drop Dead Gorgeous (same story, two parts). After you peel yourself off the floor, you should also check out the other fics on this list. Bond (M) Reparo (NC-17)

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One-Shots


Multi-Chapter

  • The Complete Works of Maya - Make sure you copy down the Table of Contents then read the following, in no particular order : Underwater Light, If You’ve a Ready Mind, The Way We Get By/Drop Dead Gorgeous (same story, two parts). After you peel yourself off the floor, you should also check out the other fics on this list.
  • Bond (M)
  • Reparo (NC-17)

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GhostWatch holds a very special place in television history: it’s the first programme to be cited as causing PTSD in children. Involving Michael Parkinson (pre-knighthood), Sarah Greene (host of BBC children’s shows), and Craig Charles (from Red Dwarf) as hosts on-site at the haunting and back in the studio ads to the show’s atmosphere and the uncertainty of the truth of the situation (despite the copious warnings if you called the BBC phone line and the opening credits identifying it as a filmic production).

Based on the Enfield poltergeist, GhostWatch aired on Hallowe’en 1992 at 21:30 on the BBC. To this day, it hasn’t aired in the UK in the nineteen years that have passed but has aired in several other countries. It took ten years for GhostWatch to be released on DVD because of the backlash associated with the show, including the aforementioned PTSD in children and a suicide.

Forget Paranormal Activity. Forget The Blair Witch Project. Forget Most Haunted. GhostWatch is the OG in this territory. Find it on Google, find it on Youtube. It’s a masterful study in human psychology and fear, existing before the reality television zeitgeist that fills our screens today.

Watch out for Pipes. He’s there even when you don’t expect it. [BBC Cult Website]

This is GhostWatch, Nom.

idk if i can handle this while home alone

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this is why i am a feminist

I actually cried when I watched this.  

wonderfully done

Everything important. 

so well done

Please watch this video. It’s really well done, and very important…it will be 10 minutes of your life well spent, I promise. 

WATCH THIS.

I’m also planning on organizing a screening of the documentary on campus. I’ll just have to send an e-mail to the PHREE advisor and see if she’s cool with it.

I cried watching this, because I was so overwhelmed, thinking about how the small leaps and bounds I make to fight media just don’t even make a dent in how wrong things are. I feel so powerless, so helpless. I feel like giving up.

But I won’t, because I KNOW I’ve helped to change other people’s perceptions, even if it’s just a small way on tumblr. And if I make even one person really rethink and reanalyze what they take from the media, perhaps that one person will go on to help one other person. Perhaps it does make a difference, after all.

This is why I’m seriously mulling over doing a major in communications with a minor in women and gender studies.

Ugh and this video addresses why women like me, who are smart, accomplished and all around good people feel like nothing because we’re not body ideal.

Well this made me teary-eyed. And the part where the girl said she worried about her weight in 5th grade made me think how I did too. I specifically remember a group of us sitting on the fucking monkey bars talking about how our thighs were too big.

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I could speak for hours on the various flaws of the Harry Potter film franchise and why it just doesn’t cut it for me, from the criminal omission of Dumbledore’s back story to the distressing misuse of Gary Oldman’s talent, or even how the mentions of the eponymous diary/enigma of The Half Blood Prince, which constitutes the subject of this video dissertation, can be counted on one hand.

I won’t though. Here then is a detailed summary of my issues with these films and why I think they’re essentially high-budget screensavers using the sixth instalment of the series as my main argument.

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downlo: ghoulnextdoor: Be certain to peruse OTB’s deliciously terrifying reading choices over at After Dark In the Playing Fields, and feel free to leave your own recommendations in the comments or in a post of your own!  intheplayingfields: OTB’s Picks for Twelve Tomes for A Terrifying Halloween. (In no particular order.) 1. “The Music of Erich Zann” by H.P. Lovecraft.  The shrieking and whining of desparate viols…defending against…what exactly? 2. The Tenant by Roland Topor.  The most disturbing novel I have ever read, a nauseating crescendo of paranoia and sinister characters. 3. “O Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad” by M.R. James.  Mysterious medieval whistles with Latin inscriptions and the infamous “face of crumpled linen”. 4. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.  Evocative, eerie and I first read it in one sitting. 5. “The White People” by Arthur Machen.  “And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad. And suppose the stones in the road began to swell and grow before your eyes, and if the pebble that you noticed at night had shot out stony blossoms in the morning?” 6. “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood.  Two campers encounter a place where the veil between the worlds has grown thin..an alien world, a world tenanted by willows only and the souls of willows. 7.  “A Haunted Island” by Algernon Blackwood.  Chilling terror and remniscent of the Adirondacks island camp I stay at in the summers.  (Blackwood makes this list twice, because he is truly the master of the unsettling tale.) 8. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.  A found manuscript, swine creatures and the swift passing of the universe…is the narrator sane or not? 9. “The Spider” by Hanns Heinz Ewers.  Mysterious suicides take place in the same apartment, seemingly without cause. 10. “The Human Chair” by Edogawa Rampo.  A bizarre tale of the Japanese gothic. 11.  “The Room in the Tower” by E.F. Benson.  Sinister dreams and unfriendly nocturnal visitors. 12. “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce.  What may happen in a field of wild oats. A bonus pick by Mlle. Ghoul: 13.  The House Next Door by Anne River Siddons.  A singular tale, and from what I can tell the author’s lone foray into the genre. A unique take on the haunted house story - is the evil housed within in the structure of the dwelling, or is it the wickedness of the inhabitants that drive the horrors that occur within?  The chills are so subtly sinister and so elegantly written that it is difficult to pinpoint exactly why the book is so frightening; I imagine the shudders provoked by these pages will be very different for each reader. Feel free to leave your own recommendations in the comments on in a post of your own! (Image: Ghost Of Perdition by Chris Dessaigne) Forget reading these when the trees are bare and the nights are misty. If you’re lily-livered like me, hot weather is the best time for scary stories and movies. I prefer creepy to gory. I’m personally a fan of: Asian horror Short stories by Shirley Jackson, Poe, and Stephen King House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Picnic at Hanging Rock Twin Peaks (television series) Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway Though I know I’ll like them, I still haven’t worked up the nerve to watch Session 9, Ju-On, The Orphanage or read The Vanishing. I have a vivid imagination, so unnerving, psychological-based horror stays with me forever. When I was reading House of Leaves, I’d wedge the book under a bunch of other books before I went to sleep…y’know, so the book wouldn’t come alive in the middle of the night and GET ME.

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Be certain to peruse OTB’s deliciously terrifying reading choices over at After Dark In the Playing Fields, and feel free to leave your own recommendations in the comments or in a post of your own! 

intheplayingfields:

OTB’s Picks for Twelve Tomes for A Terrifying Halloween.

(In no particular order.)

  • 1. “The Music of Erich Zann” by H.P. Lovecraft.  The shrieking and whining of desparate viols…defending against…what exactly?
  • 2. The Tenant by Roland Topor.  The most disturbing novel I have ever read, a nauseating crescendo of paranoia and sinister characters.

  • 3. “O Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad” by M.R. James.  Mysterious medieval whistles with Latin inscriptions and the infamous “face of crumpled linen”.

  • 4. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.  Evocative, eerie and I first read it in one sitting.

  • 5. “The White People” by Arthur Machen.  “And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad. And suppose the stones in the road began to swell and grow before your eyes, and if the pebble that you noticed at night had shot out stony blossoms in the morning?”

  • 6. “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood.  Two campers encounter a place where the veil between the worlds has grown thin..an alien world, a world tenanted by willows only and the souls of willows.

  • 7.  “A Haunted Island” by Algernon Blackwood.  Chilling terror and remniscent of the Adirondacks island camp I stay at in the summers.  (Blackwood makes this list twice, because he is truly the master of the unsettling tale.)

  • 8. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.  A found manuscript, swine creatures and the swift passing of the universe…is the narrator sane or not?

  • 9. “The Spider” by Hanns Heinz Ewers.  Mysterious suicides take place in the same apartment, seemingly without cause.

  • 10. “The Human Chair” by Edogawa Rampo.  A bizarre tale of the Japanese gothic.

  • 11.  “The Room in the Tower” by E.F. Benson.  Sinister dreams and unfriendly nocturnal visitors.

  • 12. “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce.  What may happen in a field of wild oats.

A bonus pick by Mlle. Ghoul:

  • 13.  The House Next Door by Anne River Siddons.  A singular tale, and from what I can tell the author’s lone foray into the genre. A unique take on the haunted house story - is the evil housed within in the structure of the dwelling, or is it the wickedness of the inhabitants that drive the horrors that occur within?  The chills are so subtly sinister and so elegantly written that it is difficult to pinpoint exactly why the book is so frightening; I imagine the shudders provoked by these pages will be very different for each reader.

Feel free to leave your own recommendations in the comments on in a post of your own!

(Image: Ghost Of Perdition by Chris Dessaigne)

Forget reading these when the trees are bare and the nights are misty. If you’re lily-livered like me, hot weather is the best time for scary stories and movies.

I prefer creepy to gory. I’m personally a fan of:

  • Asian horror
  • Short stories by Shirley Jackson, Poe, and Stephen King
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Twin Peaks (television series)
  • Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway

Though I know I’ll like them, I still haven’t worked up the nerve to watch Session 9, Ju-On, The Orphanage or read The Vanishing.

I have a vivid imagination, so unnerving, psychological-based horror stays with me forever. When I was reading House of Leaves, I’d wedge the book under a bunch of other books before I went to sleep…y’know, so the book wouldn’t come alive in the middle of the night and GET ME.

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EVERYONE WATCH THIS AND GO FOLLOW CRIPQUEER ASAP

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Video: Crip Sex, Crip Lust, and the Lust of Recognition by Mia Mingus

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ellery Russian talk about Crip Sex. This video is part of a blog post and has a transcript available here.

Any sort of open discussion about sex always makes me super happy.

this is super important and applicable to even those who don’t id as queer

love love love this.

i really admire these people’s ability to talk so bluntly and openly, its awesome! i really enjoyed this video.

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