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"But surely you've at least wanted to try using AI-"
Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?
I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.
I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"
The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.
HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.
So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.
"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.
Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.
Reading about the destruction at Hiroshima is enough to make despise the entire apparatus of war and the people now glorying in it. Fuck the merchants of death who grow rich off of human misery on an unimaginable scale; fuck the petty warlords like Putin, Trump, Hegseth, Netanyahu who need to murder innocent people to prove their pitiful manhoods; fuck the people who enlist to go off to murder people for career advancement; fuck the people who make it out to be some daring adventure, some way to show their heroism; fucking the writers and filmmakers and game designers who revel in it, and glorify it, and make it safe and normal and fun.

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RIP to the legend
This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!
I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:
He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.
Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.
Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.
When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.
Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.
Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.
As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.
His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."
Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.
Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.
Reverse wizard.
They've learnt deep occult secrets of the universe that make them less able to do things than most people
"Now I've shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat." (From his Wikipedia article).
Neil Munro "Bunny" Roger
June 9, 1911-April 27, 1997.
Bunny Roger killed a bunch of Nazis and then invented Capri pants.
He was expelled from Oxford for his indiscrete gayness (discrete gayness being perfectly fine at Oxford and part of the curriculum until...today probably, at least like 1992?). Then, having been sent down to London, he started his own fashion business, and his first client was Vivien Leigh.
Bunny served in WWII, killing fascists in North Africa and Italy, and often wearing a mauve scarf in the field. Roger claimed that he had gone into a battle brandishing a rolled-up copy of VOGUE and commanding: "When in doubt, powder heavily!"
Roger was known in high society for his themed soirées; Diamond, Amethyst, and Flame Balls were held to celebrate his 60th, 70th, and 80th birthdays. He wore a curious plum colored catsuit with a feathered headdress at his 70th birthday ball in 1981. At his 80th, he made his entrance in a catsuit of scarlet sequins with a cape of orange organza, greeting his guests from behind a wall of fire. His parties were covered by the newspapers, including a New Year's Eve Fetish Ball where the proper upper class mixed with young guests in rubber S/M gear.
From an obituary: "Beneath his mauve mannerisms, Bunny was stalwart, frank, dependable and undeceived; to onlookers a passing peacock, to intimates, a life enhancer and exemplary friend."
From another obituary:
He served valiantly in every way.
happy 125th birthday to bunny roger
Found this color photo:
And this in-memoriam piece.
how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different
there are parts of your future self in you waiting emerge but you have to become unrecognizable slime first
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how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different
there are parts of your future self in you waiting emerge but you have to become unrecognizable slime first
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Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated
Thoughts, in approximate order:
You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.
Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.
"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.
...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed. This is apparently, not obvious enough.
Do Not Attempt To Domesticate Coyotes
Genuine question:
Could coyotes be domesticated, sometime down the line? I know there are animals like bears that could never be, but coyotes seem close enough to dogs for it to work in many many many many generations.
Or is there something about coyotes that would make that impossible.
The Hare Indian Dog is a now-extinct canine that is strongly suspected to have been a domesticated coyote or coyote-dog hybrid that was bred by the Sahtu people of far northern Canada. The breed went into decline with the displacement and genocide of the Sahtu and other indigenous people of the area, and they could not keep as many of their dogs in the reservations, so the breed eventually comingled back into Newfoundland and Canadian Inuit Dogs. We don't have any preserved specimens to do any genetic testing on, so far as I know.
Could Coyotes be domesticated again? Yes and No.
Yes: They're REALLY closely related and already frequently interbreed with domestic dogs and are in a similar ecological position to the proto-dogs: comfortable living in and around human settlements, especially garbage dumps. Biologically, it's a VERY short hop (possibly as few as 2 or 3 mutations) to domestication for them.
No: The actual practicality of domesticating coyotes is negligible. Humans domesticated dogs in the first place because partially because we needed help with hunting, but probably mostly because we had fuck-all else to do for fun back then. In the modern age of readily available livestock and needing to monetize EVERYTHING or suffer for it, there isn't really much need or interest in domesticating coyotes. It'd take a large canine farming facility, similar to the fox farms of the early 1900's, multiple generations of careful genetic testing and manipulation, and would be goddamn impossible to zone or get insurance for.
The re-domestication of Cheetahs has a slightly better shot because there is a genuine need for LOTS of them as an ecological keystone species and there's decent odds of finding some rich idiots to back that project so they can have The Coolest Pet Cat.
If for some reason there became a widespread need for hunting dogs again, like say, the total collapse of society ala Cinematic Zombie Apocalypse, people would probably stick to domestic dogs, but there would be a lot of cross-breeding with coyotes FAST, especially in the USA Southwest. It's something I'd love to see a post-apocalyptic fiction author explore. That and what happens when various zoo animals eventually break out/are broken out of their enclosures and start populating new habitats. Elephants would be worth their weight in gold in a society with no more functioning bulldozers.
Quand je vivais sur la cÎte d'Armor, a cÎté de chez moi il y avait un zoo, trÚs chill, pas beaucoup de passage et des animaux globalement dans un ennui flegmatique déchirant. Pas maltraités, juste, bored as fuck.
Je me suis demandé ce que je ferais, si j'étais dans les parages lorsqu'un événement de type effondrement arriverait. Et ce matin, alors que les pénuries et coupures de courant se faisaient plus fréquentes, et que nous finissions d'emballer les conserves, plus de jus.
On a d'abord cru à une panne habituelle, et on y avait passé la nuit parce que Saadi avait été prise d'une lubie, que son discours nous avait inquiété.e.s, et qu'elle nous trouvait de quoi remplir les bocaux depuis des semaines, en échangeant nos fruits et nos oeufs contre des courges dodues et biscornues, des tomates à n'en plus finir, des fleurs et des fruits des bois, des haricots, des noix, des tubercules et alliacées pour lesquelles tout le monde avait des noms et usages différents. C'était une semaine frénétique de batchcooking collectif, et les recettes et les chants s'étaient partagés bon train à toutes les tables, et par toutes les mains. La derniÚre nuit, Saadi était particuliÚrement affairée, à danser 10 minutes et reprendre un économe ou une bouteille d'huile en main pour montrer une technique à un.e maladroit.e enthousiaste, ou en apprendre une tous sens tournés vers l'objet de sa curiosité.
Ses chants mélangés aux notres, nos harmonies et l'entrain qui nous gagnaient, en célébration pleines et entiÚres de cette vie choisie et de ce qu'elle nous avait permis de trouver à l'Auberge d'Ezaadelph.
Nous avons donc terminé notre nuit, quelques conteuses encore narrant les étoiles et la liberté, quand le courant s'est coupé. Nulle ne s'en inquiétant, nous sommes toustes parties nous coucher entre celles dormant déjà , nous réchauffant les lits partagés de nos rythmes asynchrones.
Quand elles se sont levées, l'elec n'etait pas revenue, et elles ont fait sans, le jour aidant. Quand les derniÚres à se relever se sont intriguées, les épaules se sont haussées, et la vie s'est poursuivie jusqu'au soir. On a noté que c'était plus long que d'habitude, mais il fallait se reposer aprÚs avoir distribué les conserves et empaquetées, stockées, empilées, celles déjà stériles, et stérilisées celles du lever du jour. Des berceuses pour dortoirs pleins ont endormis nos corps fourbus, et le lendemain matin, on s'alarma un peu.
Aucun.e des voisin.e.s n'avait plus de courant, certain.e.s construisaient d'urgence des réserves de frais et toutes sortes d'objets plus ou moins fonctionnels pour générer du courant, au moins un peu, pour recharger un téléphone ou quelque chose. Des discussions un peu paniquées revenaient des marchés, et peu à peu, l'information de la coupure fut saisie de son ampleur.
De toute évidence, quelque chose s'était passé, quant à savoir quoi, sans batteries fiables, et vu le prix du gaz à la pompe battant des records chaque demi-semaine, on était bien en peine de le deviner.
Ă l'Auberge, matĂ©riellement cela ne changeait pas grand chose, le choix avait Ă©tĂ© Ă©tudiĂ© pour qu'il ne soit pas subi, ç'avait Ă©tĂ© la quĂȘte de leur occupation, et les fruits avait plantĂ© leurs arbres et fleuri abondamment. NĂ©anmoins, les distractions encore amoindries, nous avons organisĂ© quelques ateliers d'Ă©criture Ă nos proches dont nous avions encore les adresses notĂ©es quelque part, ou eu le rĂ©flexe de copier sur papier avec les derniers pourcentages de batterie, et nous Ă©tions installĂ©.e.s sur la place du marchĂ© pour inviter chacun.e Ă trouver un lien Ă chĂ©rir d'une lettre zĂ©ro-pixel, avec ou sans calligraphie.
Les chalands avaient trouvé ça surprenant, et le jeu s'était répandu dans la ville. Des voisin.e.s s'adressaient la parole pour la premiÚre fois, et les propositions de ressources s'inscrivaient naturellement dans les partages.
En rentrant du marché de la ville cÎtiÚre aprÚs une heure de vélo sous une bruine persistante, l'éclaircie m'atteint alors que j'allais bifurquer chez moi, et je me laissais le bonheur de la grande descente radieuse qui menait à la baie des animaux.
J'arrivais à l'embranchement de riviÚres croisées et sinueuses qui faisait un petit abri entretenu aux animaux sauvages habituellement maussades.
Je les entendais agitĂ©s, plus que je n'y Ă©tait prĂȘt.e je crois. Je corrigeais ma trajectoire, pour aller Ă l'entrĂ©e plutĂŽt que par le chemin de balade autour qui menaient aux jardins de M. Bou' qui y avait enlevĂ© toutes clĂŽtures dĂšs son achat, comme il aimait Ă le rappeler quand on le croisait au dĂ©tour des chemins alambiquĂ©s et Ă©tagĂ©s.
Je n'avais jamais passé la grille des visiteurs, et j'avisais en premier lieu les employé.e.s manifestement en détresse qui occupaient le petit parking.
"j'ai presque plus d'essence, les Ćufs vont Ă©clore dans moins de 12h s'il ne sont pas dĂ©jĂ en train de piailler, et tu me dis que je peux plus entrer ? Qui t'as dit ça GĂ©rard ?
- Malik tu vois bien que je peux rien faire, j'ai reçu un appel ce matin pour ne plus laisser personne entrer, c'est trop de paperasse pour des... Des quoi déjà ?
- des reptiles, Gérard, AAAAAH ! Je vois pas ce qui cloche, je fais juste mon travail, et j'avais la responsabilité de ces oeufs, laisse moi entrer et les nourrir, je t'en supplie, je ressors direct.
- y a plus de travail Malik, y a plus d'elec, y a plus d'essence, y a plus de clients Ă part ce drĂŽle d'oiseau lĂ . Je peux vous renseigner ?"
L'individu nommé Malik s'arrachait les cheveux, le visage blafard, se tournant vers moi.
"les lampes... Les oeufs ou les juvéniles ils... Peuvent pas survivre sans la chaleur de... Oh merde, c'est vraiment fini alors ?" Il m'attrapa les mains, les yeux débordants, "ils sont morts, et c'est ma faute, je..."
J'accueillai cette personne en pleine rupture de déni et mon vélo tomba nonchalamment au sol. Je le raclais la gorge, "je, euh, j'habite à cÎté et je me demandais, ils vont devenir quoi les lions genre ?"
Un hoquet suivi d'un gémissement et des sanglots jaillirent de Malik, qui avait décidé que je serais son éponge ou son rocher. Comme j'avais l'habitude de ce rÎle spontané, je m'adressai tranquillement au gardien de l'accueil, qui nous regardait ahuri et blasé à la fois. Il haussa les épaules et son regard rejoignit les grilles du parc.
"je sais pas honnĂȘtement. Peut ĂȘtre ils vont venir les chercher pour... Bah non y a plus d'essence... C'est vrai que bon, moi je suis pas...
- T'es pas du personnel véto Gérard ? Malik fit volte face, le nez encore relié à mon épaule par un fil visqueux. Et tu me refuse l'accÚs Gérard ? Alors que PERSONNE va venir les checker tous, Gérard ??
- Eh calme toi le morveux là , t'étais juste obsédé par tes lézards jusque là , tu vas descendre d'un ton !
- Ahem. Leurs regards se tournĂšrent Ă niveau vers moi, je tendais un mouchoir Ă Malik qui le pris piteusement. Moi je suis juste un hippie du coin, et j'ai l'habitude de me balader autour dans la forĂȘt et d'entendre les singes depuis mon jardin, et lĂ ..."
Nous tendĂźmes tous trois l'oreille mais on n'entendais plus rien. Ăa n'Ă©tait pas plus rassurant, et je vis mes deux interlocuteurs froncer des sourcils en mĂȘme temps que moi.
"Vous les avez entendus un peu plus tĂŽt ? Ăa avait l'air d'ĂȘtre le chaos lĂ dedans, non ?" J'avais peur d'avoir rĂȘvĂ© mais leurs hochements de tĂȘte me confirmĂšrent que mes sens ne m'avait pas trahis, discrĂštement je soupirais.
"ouais, et comme par hasard, monsieur le gardien ne veut pas me laisser entrer."
à ce moment là nous vßmes M. Bou' s'engager paisiblement sur le chemin, dans notre direction, nous hélant quand il fût arrivé à mes cÎtés.
"Alors, c'est ici la concertation citoyenne pour l'abolition des frontiÚres ?" Il rit. "Vos prédateurs vont pas tarder à s'entretuer, pi les singes vont surement trouver un moyen de sortir bientÎt, vous les voulez furieux ou à minima coopérant quand ils vous trouveront ?
- que voulez vous dire ?
- Je veux dire que des pinces coupantes il y en a dans tout les ateliers du coin, et j'en connais quelques unes qui seraient ravies d'accomoder leurs problÚmes de rongeurs avec des gros chats." Il me fit un clin d'oeil complice avant de repartir aussi paisiblement qu'il était venu, et sans qu'aucun de nous ne bronche avant qu'il ne soit hors de vue.
Quand il bifurqua dans son jardin, je le retournais vers les deux collÚgues qui le regardaient avec méfiance. Je levais les mains par réflexe.
"hey, moi j'ai juste de la peine pour les animaux en cage de maniÚre générale, et j'ai descendu la pente pour le kiff du soleil, je
- nan il a raison le vieux boug', y a surement des frappés qui vont vouloir goûter du singe ou du buffle s'ils se rappellent de notre existence, maintenant que le supermarché ne peux plus leur fournir leur quintal de steack par jour. Allez Gérard ! Ouvre nous la grille, et on y va ensemble, merde ! Steuplait !"
GĂ©rard semblait rĂ©flĂ©chir, la main en travers du visage, je ne distinguais plus qui de la main ou de la face de l'homme, froncĂ©e et soucieuse, reposait dans ou sur l'autre. Tout son corps semblait concentrĂ©, l'autre bras croisĂ© ajoutant des rayures verticales Ă son pul rouge et noir en laine, visiblement de confection pleine de tendresse. Il soupira, se gratta la barbe, la nuque, puis les Ă©paules et se contorsionna sans voix, quelques instants pour soulager l'urticaire inconscient que le pull bien aimĂ© vectorisait sur sa peau. Il ferma une longue fois les yeux, pris une grande inspiration et fit volte face, le trousseau de clĂ© en main, pour ouvrir la guĂ©ritte, s'engouffrer dedans et ouvrir la petite porte intĂ©rieure. Il s'arrĂȘta, se retournant vers nous Ă travers la vitre, et nous invita Ă la suivre.
Malik et moi, désormais liés par la curiosité de l'instant étrange et d'un regard mi etonné mi enthousiaste, entrùmes par la porte de service dans l'enceinte du Parc, toujours résolument silencieux.
Et tout s'enchaina trÚs vite. Malik se précipite vers la maison des reptiles, Gérard et moi le suivons, il a sorti ou trouvé un calepin et s'empresse d'ouvrir les portes et de houspiller Gérard à suivre, jusqu'à ce qu'il puisse dresser des listes d'animaux en diverses conditions. Globalement les reptiles sont dans leur flegme indolent. une larme coule sur sa joue en découvrant les oeufs, quelques uns éclos et sans vie, sauf un, faibles et vaillant. Il se réfugiera dans la manche de Malik et nourri d'insectes variés avant que Gérard ne le voie (à moins qu'il n'ait simplement laissé faire).
La plupart des espÚces avaient accÚs à des petites réserves, et seuls les mammifÚres carnivores sont réellement agités et nous regardent attentivement alors que nous nous approchons.
Quelques cadavres déjà propres gisent dans certains enclos, et nous réalisons à mesure de notre balade inspective, que nous ne savons pas trop quoi faire, réellement. à ce moment là , M. Bou' réapparaßt, un peu plus alerte et d'un pas décidé, accompagné par quelques voisins.
" il faudrait que vous ouvriez la grande porte pour que nous puissions faire entrer les chevaux, dit il Ă GĂ©rard directement. Et vous, il faut que vous alliez chercher des moutons, des vaches ou des cochons dans les fermes alentours, on vous a pris un cheval aussi." Il m'adressa Ă un des camarades, et se retourna vers Malik. "Combien de grands prĂ©dateurs, depuis combien de temps n'ont il pas mangĂ©, et combien de bĂ©tail vous estimez pour les rassasier Ă l'heure actuelle ? Quitte Ă vouloir jouer la prĂ©servation des espĂšces, autant Ă©viter de les faire manger vos boeufs sacrĂ©s, vous ne pensez pas ?" Il se retourna vers la petite foule rassemblĂ©e et sa voix enfla vers nous, qui formions dĂ©jĂ un genre de cercle hĂ©sitant. "Qui peut accueillir quoi dans vos grands jardins ? Qui peut sacrifier quelques bĂȘtes pour Ă©viter de laisser les lions mourir stupidement dans ce coin qui les a extraits et abandonnĂ©s ?
Et Manolo dit : je peux donner 5 Ă 10 moutons et des poules.
Et Francesca dit : je peux donner trois vaches pour un buffle, et ma sĆur pareil.
Et Dounia dit : je peux accueillir des singes et des lémuriens dans ma plantation de bambous dans les marais je suppose, les insectes sont nombreux.
Et HervĂ© dit : j'ai construit des rocketstoves pour plusieurs serres tropicales, peut-ĂȘtre que ça peut servir quelque part ?
Ă ces mots les yeux de Malik brillĂšrent et il respira un peu plus librement.
"Alors au travail les jeunes, Manolo tu prends notre ami Ă la barbe douce et vous revenez avec les petites et moyennes offrandes pour commencer. Le temps de rĂ©partir les autres dans des habitats, dans lesquels ils auront au moins une chance de tenter d'y trouver grĂące, et les autres vous venez rĂ©flĂ©chir Ă comment faire tout ça sans machines. Ăa va, vous suivez ?"
Tolkien wasn't super clear about this and what hints he did put in, the movies left out, but the answer is: The Ring controls people.
In the book, Frodo does this to Gollum on the slopes of Mount Doom, and curses him to "yourself be thrown into the Fire" if he ever touches him again.
I feel Peter Jackson didn't understand that -- as he also didn't understand why Gollum, having sworn on the Ring not to harm Frodo, couldn't (personally) harm Frodo (and therefore had to lead him into Cirith Ungol for Shelob to kill him instead).
"Smeagol promised!" "Smeagol lied" was never how it worked.
Which is why Jackson had Frodo still apparently be drawn to the Ring after it was bitten off him and attack Gollum and push him over, because he thought Gollum just "randomly fell off the edge" in the book. It wasn't random, it was the effect of Frodo's curse using the Ring's power.
At all levels the Ring's power is to give its bearer power. For small mortal folks like Hobbits that means the gift of invisibility, which, like the Ring of Gyges in Plato's Republic, removes social consequences for one's actions. For people like Denethor or Aragorn it would have meant the power to command armies, which is what Sauron thought was happening when Aragorn marched on the Black Gate and why he sent every soldier he'd got to take it back. For Gandalf ("through me the Ring would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine") or Galadriel ("all shall love me and despair") it would have meant phenomenal power over nature.
via @asteroidtroglodyte
#in the same sense that Smaug was a metaphor for Industry#The One Ring was a metaphor for Nationalism#lemme tell you a short story#once there were many Kingdoms#each unique and special#Prussia#Bavaria#Cologne#then came Otto Von Bismarck#who felled the Black Forest and built terrible machines#and from Many#forged One#Germany#what is a Crown#but One Ring To Rule All#all must obey#the only answer is to smash the rings#smash the crowns#forgive my tortured metaphor
Our plan is radical â but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from th
A habitable, equal and prosperous 21st century is materially possible. The carbon budget allows it and history offers precedents at comparable scales: universal suffrage, the universalisation of healthcare and education, the halving of working hours and the sharp compression of inequality over the 20th century. Technical impossibility is not what is standing in the way, but rather the absence of a shared vision of social progress, at once concrete and radical. What it will take instead is political choice, and the hard work of coalition-building behind it.
I was despairing last night but Raye was right - my joy comes in the morning! This is the future I want to live in. And it is possible.
Our plan is radical â but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from th
A habitable, equal and prosperous 21st century is materially possible. The carbon budget allows it and history offers precedents at comparable scales: universal suffrage, the universalisation of healthcare and education, the halving of working hours and the sharp compression of inequality over the 20th century. Technical impossibility is not what is standing in the way, but rather the absence of a shared vision of social progress, at once concrete and radical. What it will take instead is political choice, and the hard work of coalition-building behind it.
I was despairing last night but Raye was right - my joy comes in the morning! This is the future I want to live in. And it is possible.
KICK THE CAN!
Letâs play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

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Me today, cooking lunch alone for 10-ish people, a small number of roommates :
- Wakes up tired and stressed (I'm not particularly comfortable in collective cooking and slow at it)
- takes a shower to prop myself up
- puts on meditation app to keep focused, in headphones so no one interrupts much of my obstinate shutdown mode
- starts cooking around 10:30
- gets cooking all veggies,
- stares into rainfall and rocks myself through an existencial crisis about how fucking insane the world is and how freakingly hard it is for my brain to witness multilevel collapse including my own trauma recovery sinuous process, while actively caring for collective organisations that so often fail committing to themselves, yet keep going through the sheer force of wit and spite and the willingness to learn even through intense fatigue and unavoidable yet so easily denied conflictuality, and privileged postures hardly moving towards a liberation for all orientation, protecting their comfort over the obvious exhaustion of the most oppressed.
- guilt myself into getting back on track and stop crying about the best-friend who could help make sense of it all and who just exiled themself to another continent
- serves at 1PM, visibly out of social energy, people thank me for the food, but no one checks on me and I'm childishly(autistically ?) walled in silence and can't get a grip
- gets away to silently get mad at myself while doing all the things that still need to be done
ffs I just need companionship, why can't I surround myself with people who get out of their way to visibly care, at least a little ? When do I get better at being an adult and responsible for my communication ?
Do you have an internal monologue
I am monolingual and have an internal monologue
I am monolingual and do not have an internal monologue
I am multilingual and have an internal monologue
I am multilingual and do not have an internal monologue
Infinite nuance (please tell me in the notes)
An internal monologue being defined here as "the voice in your head that your thoughts are thought in." And for the multilingual internal monologue havers - which language do the thoughts appear in?
Please reblog for reach, etc.