Hubknuckles is my favorite; children’s book, gorgeously illustrated, and that kind of spare quiet spooky that’s so perfect for Halloween and late October...

Playing dead doesn’t work. When you see advice about encountering mountain lions on trails it always ends with the thoroughly ominous “If attacked, DO NOT play dead! FIGHT BACK!”

Okay, as someone who lives alone and is extreeeemely prone to nightmares, but who _still_ can’t stop herself from reading this hellish thread every year, I’m gonna go ahead and start an accompany Therapy Thread full of cute fuzzy happy things that we can all come back and refer to when we’re done reading and it’s time…

Also, WHY IS THIS MEANT TO BE REASSURING?!

Mountain lions do this do; a mountain lion roar sounds like a woman screaming for her life.

The irony here is that my undergrad degree is in physics. Unfortunately E&M was my worst subject in my major, so I assume I must’ve just zoned out on the day we did the “fields from power lines that cause primal dread” lab exercise...

ghosts _made of carbon monoxide_...

I live alone.

I love the outdoors, love hiking, and especially love the cold and the snow. A couple years ago my husband and I wound up spending a late morning snowshoeing on a very garden-variety but pretty trail in the Rockies. Not at all remote - we were near a couple peoples’ land, could see town over the ridge, there were…

The house has seduced you with its charms. The Bricked-Up Room will reveal its true nature soon enough [insert ominous evil laugh]

A woman DIED. How can you be so cold-hearted?...

I’m gonna guess Weston and Newport?

The department at Berkeley just announced that he’s resigning.

Michael Lucas King, civil rights activist and Buzzfeed headline writer...

Re: the dine-and-dash ferry guy...

I would like some information on the percentage of Americans who voluntarily change their names to anything involving “Sol Invictus” and *don’t* drink goat’s blood.

I just moved to the Pacific Northwest about two months ago and I can’t adequately describe how NOT OKAY I am with the fact that these things exist.

Also on the list: “God never gives you more than you can handle.” [ragestroke]

I’m pretty certain that the “things happen for a reason” people are the same ones causing many of the current problems in this country, because they imagine Magical Sky Reasons are behind everything. Wait, those people over there are poor? Well, there must be a good REASON. Hang on, someone is terribly sick? Surely…