#"lottery"

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

DAVE: i think the world would be a happier place if we were all permanently stoned 

ROSE: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.

DAVE: hold on i have to read something real quick

DAVE: dude

[toyastales]

Cosmic Blessings

Okay, universe, I'm ready for my close-up. Hit me with your best cosmic glow-up! Send some good vibes my way, maybe a free lottery ticket, or a super-sized burrito... you know, the good stuff.

https://whatyoulookingatnow.blogspot.com/2025/01/cosmic-blessings.html

[wahroh]

Learn more too.

[crystalclaire]

fragment from David Lehman’s Forward to the 2024 edition of the Best American Poetry series

[dionysus-and-the-bacchantes]

"It's really frightening when a girl of sixteen has to think things like that." In my day, he thought of saying mockingly, girls thought of nothing but cocktails and necking. "I'm seventeen." She looked up and smiled at him again. "There's a terrible difference," she said.

- Shirley Jackson, "The Intoxicated"

[howifeltabouthim]

It became a ritual: I bought a single scratch ticket whenever I was paid for a gig. 'Set for life' seemed the most appealing to me, as a concept. To be set for life would mean never having to strive again.

Rachel Khong, from Real Americans

[euesworld]

"Love is like money and I'm a greedy son of a bitch, you can never have enough.."

Love sometimes is like gambling, everyone you meet isn't a winner but you feel like a winner when you hit the jackpot - eUë

[ahb-writes]

"The worst thing that can happen to someone who gets famous is that they believe that they deserve it."

Adam Savage Q&A (12 January 2024)

[breezybeej]

Shirley Jackson will establish symbols in her story and then have her character say "somehow these are symbols"

[pardonmydelays]

IN THE HEIGHTS countdown: 17 DAYS!

song for today:

it's silly when we get into these crazy hypotheticals you really want some bread? then go ahead create a set of goals and cross 'em off the list as you pursue ‘em and with those ninety-six i know precisely what i'm doin'

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Cronus: Then I realized that I could make these percentages vwork for me. You see if I wvrite one letter to one supermodel asking her to marry me, the chances of my getting a yes are a million to one, right?

Kankri: C9nservatively.

Cronus: Therefore, if I vwrite thousands of letters to hundreds of different models, my percentages increase. The more letters I wvrite the better my chances.

Eridan: the man’s a genius.

Kankri: The man’s g9t m9re stamps than sanity.

[fiction-quotes]

He wanted badly to say something adult and scathing, and yet he was afraid of showing her that he had listened to her, that when he was young people had not talked like that.

  —  The Intoxicated from The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)

[chronicpainiconicbrain]

Gold Rush Lottery - 8/1/2008

25 - My mother's birthday

52 - Cards in a deck

7 - The seven dwarves

32 - Teeth

17 - My daughter's age. Hi Julie!

10 - My boss's absolute favorite number

[erraticfairymagic]

it is cold. i wanna swim.

i am pretty certain there is nothing that being in a body of water can't fix.

[cupsofsilver]

“‘Castle’ delves deep into how we feel as women of a certain disposition, less inclined towards societal norms, constantly relegating against a world that would prefer us meek and complimentary. It also, like much of Jackson’s work — including ‘The Lottery’ — tells of a world that hates and wants to kill women for no other reason than being what is seen as ‘weak,’ or ‘lesser than.’���

Romain, Lindsey. “It's Time For A Shirley Jackson Renaissance.” Shondaland, Shondaland, 2 Nov. 2021, https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/books/a21967823/shirley-jackson-renaissance/.

[tenth-sentence]

She understood that she would buy a lottery ticket a week for the rest of her life and never win more than two dollars all at once.

"Cujo" - Stephen King