TIL: Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 on a coin-operated typewriter he found in the basement of UCLA's Powell Library:

“So, exhilarated, I got a bag of dimes and settled into the room, and in nine days I spent $9.80 and wrote my story; in other words, it was a dime novel,” Bradbury said.

Source: http://magazine.ucla.edu/exclusives/from-dimes-to-fareinheit-451/ (via Neatorama: https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/09/Ray-Bradbury-Wrote-Fahrenheit-451-on-a-Coin-Operated-Typewriter/)

#ScienceFiction #RayBradbury #SFF #scifi #humor #humour #typewriter #typewriters

My kid and I have a running head-canon that cats are actually higher-dimensional slug monstrosities that our human brains can't fully comprehend.

The "cats" we know and love are actually an anglerfish-like protrusion that pokes through into our lower-dimensional spacetime.

The saliva they coat themselves in contains a mild hallucinogen which produces a calming effect that helps mask their true natures, so they can lure humans closer to feed off the kinetic energy of headpats.

#HeadCanon #Stories #Cats #Eldritch #Horror