Christian Domme

October bouquets 🎃

like literally if i didn’t want to see some weird nonsense i wouldn’t be consuming scifi

“ohh this episode is about meeting a bunch of dinosaurs who developed space travel and left earth to go live on the other side of the galaxy isn’t that crazy?! isn’t that silly?!” sure yeah maybe a little but by focusing on that but you’re missing the narrative reason for it which is to provide a starting point to explore religious authoritarianism and the production of scientific knowledge

just a spoonful of [nonsense] helps the [critical thinking about uncomfortable social and structural problems that are such a fundamental part of the background radiation of our lives that we can't see them] go down

did u know: according to scientists, in October the mitochondria turns into the frightochondria and becomes the haunted house of the cell

This should not have made me laugh

As a scientist I can confirm

what beautiful thing are you? a handwritten love letter? a vase of freshly picked wildflowers? etc. etc. take my quiz xoxo

Need y’all to know that in the 1970’s a letter to the editor was published in Daily Telegraph where the author offhandedly used the phrase “Tolkien-like gloom” to describe an area with barren trees and JRRT himself wrote back an incensed rebuttal at the use of his name in a context that suggested anything negative about trees.

“I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying ‘gloom’, especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies”

He was like how dare you sir I am the biggest tree fan out there

the movie really undersells the fact that frodo spent half a year planning to make his departure from the shire as inconspicuous as possible and merry and pippin and sam saw him doing that, figured out he was leaving the shire and that it had something to do with bilbo’s ring, and then spent nearly as long preparing to go with him. icons

worth nothing to people who havent read the books: they didnt tell him they were planning to come with him until the very last minute when he’s finally about to spill the beans, and merry’s just kind of ”yo frodo you have the worst poker face in the shire and you constantly walk around saying shit like ”oughhh i do wonder if i shall ever look down this path again oughhwh woe” out loud for everyone to hear” and frodo just sits there like

AND and. frodo's like don't try to stop me from leaving!! i must go!! and the girlies are like SILLY BILLY we mean to go with you!! and he's like NO NO you don't get it i'm probably gonna DIE!! and they're like no no YOU don't get it we KNOW!! you think we'd let you march off to your doom alone??

okay but don't forget fredegar "fatty" bolger...the one hobbit who was like "I see you're going on some sort of quest...have fun with that, I'll stay here and housesit" and then the freaking NAZGÛL come visit while he's housesitting

Me, ready to remind everyone about Fatty Bolger: I knew there was a reason Adib and I are friends.

But seriously, my boy Fredegar volunteered to deal with nosy Brandybucks and MAYBE Lobelia, and ended up with a Nazgûl drop in and then got thrown in jail for resisting Saruman.

#TRUE FRIENDSHIP#from everyone including Fredegar#who managed to ESCAPE the Nazgul#by running out the back door#he stayed behind in Frodo's house as a DECOY and it WORKED#time the Nazgul didn't know Frodo had left the Shire was lifesaving#they made it to Rivendell by the skin of their teeth as it was#a couple extra hours *mattered* - from @cygnahime

he wore Frodo's clothes for this which probably made no difference given the data the Nazgul had to work with but it sure does show his commitment to the body doubling bit

Hello this is a PSA for spooky season: call your subs pumpkin

Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 - 2003)

growing my garden

skeletons

THIS IS WHAT I WANT ON NY HALOWEEN DASH OMG

I’ll never stop reblogging this

I told myself I’d wait until October to start putting halloween stuff on my blog. I’m a dirty liar.

[ID: a short, simply animated video set to the song skeletons! by DomFear.

The song lyrics say “Hot dog, french fries, come on baby, tell me your lies. Up, down, side to side, these skeletons are now alive!” followed by scat singing.

The video shows an image of a hot dog, french fries, and the written lyrics “come on baby tell me your lies” at the appropriate line. Skeletal hands point up, down, and side to side, followed by written lyrics for “these skeletons are now alive!” Three skeletons dance to the scat singing until the end of the video.

End ID.]

I am distressed that this is happening. I’m no McCarthy fan but the way an extreme element of one party can exert this outsized impact on government function is… concerning.

And I am self-aware enough to know that if the shoe was on the other foot and I thought the speaker was corrupt and a small segment of the house managed to get them removed from position, so that the well-being of the people could be upheld, I would see that same small outsized impact as heroic.

But that is not the reality we live in. And the fact that the speaker of the house can be punished for working bipartisanly and trying to reign in grandstanding is a loud signal of what “reasonable” politicians on either side of the aisle are facing when they try to get work done.

And I *get* the democrats not voting to keep him in place but I think it’s shortsighted and feeding into the rancid environment of current politics. They could have defanged the far-rights stranglehold over the current (now former) Speaker. They had a chance to make a different choice but they didn’t.

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ok this is a poignant visual metaphor tho

this image made me quit my job.

I remember the first time I saw it, i stared at it for several minutes until I finally just started crying. It made me resolve to leave, and I turned in my resignation about a month later.

This is your reminder that if life keeps throwing you lemons you are not morally obligated to make lemonade from them. You can duck, or catch them in a trash can, or get a baseball bat and slam those fuckers into the stratosphere.

To anyone who is having a bad day, I give you this hamster wearing a flower hat.

This post is now ten years old and still circulating. It has outlived countless generations of hamsters and the entire Trump administration, and people still pass it around because this one photographer a decade ago decided to put a little goodness into the world, and it makes me so happy

everyone on this website on october 3rd

Mean Girls (2004) dir. Mark Waters

thought this was gonna produce some cool art but its literally just violence

10/10