Great Big Garden Party in the Sky

31 - They/Them - Agender - Jewish - Float me down the river so I can look upon the stars. On my back I watch them dance with open vacant eyes. Float me down the river with a light heart for my prize. I wore it on my sleeves even though it stained them red. Float me down the river 'till I reach my destined bed. The rapids, my procession, your lanterns leading through the night. Float me down the river till the kelp holds me tight. Water cold and moss soft, fish tangle in my hair. By night you dreamed of mermaids but you never dreamed it was me.

[chimpdinnerlive]

our server's weekly movie voting rules

[chimpdinnerlive]

War has changed.

[thrivinghigh]

found this on pinterest

[bleaksqueak]

I wanted to round up these more polished and/or recent pieces and see them together.

[bleaksqueak]

Edited to include the new maia painting and the website background. All this set tells me is that someday I either want to actually make an art book or make a tarot card set lol

[xenasaur]

mormonism is so crazy capitalist coded

[xenasaur]

their philosophy on the afterlife is literally that men are all temporarily embarrassed billionaires gods and if they just keep their heads down and don't ask questions and grind away their whole lives in service to their current boss god earning him money glory they will eventually be rewarded with their very own company planet and passive income glory and employees a family they can abuse forever and ever amen

[xenasaur]

they call it eternal progression i call it infinite growth

[xenasaur]

errrrr not quite. they uh. got somethin goin on

[my-dailydreams]

[trollkatt]

Big Jack

Pet Foolery, #93

[archibaldtuttle]

Forever baffled by the fact that Tim Burton is still thought of as a defender of oddness. He treats monsters as things to be gawked at, to be drawn and imagined, then put away in a safe little box. He doesn't love monsters, he loves freak shows.

[flagellant]

"Tim Burton is a defender of oddness!" Tim Burton can't stand the idea of not treating fat people as carnival freak shows who are usually some flavor of cruel, disgusting, and/or just flat-out evil. He thinks he loves monsters so long as the monsters are coded as conventionally attractive skinny white people.

[dee-the-red-witch]

"But just look at his aesthe-" NO. Look at the ending of every fucking one of his movies. The odd protagonist has a return to normalcy. Every time. Every fucking time. Burton's a surbub boy and deserves his entire aesthetic being stolen by every mallgoth and new indie filmmaker that can steal a camera and write better.

[lakemojave]

He's also like really racist

[faireladypenumbra]

There is something that has always bothered me about Nightmare Before Christmas (aside from the fact that is a children's movie where the plot is 'midlife crisis of adult man') and it is its maintenance of status quo. There is a read of the film where Jack's curiosity and interest in Christmas (his oddness) is punished and put back in its proper place.

Growing up with Burton was fun, but I'm glad we have culturally outgrown his storytelling and direction.

[plantnerderyallday]

FYI this morning:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fda-says-taylor-farms-cyclospora-finding-was-false-positive-2026-07-20/

[plantnerderyallday]

Well now this:

Taylor Farms still tied to cyclospora outbreak despite ‘false positive,’ FDA says

The agency is advising consumers not to consume the recalled products, which included those served in Taco Bell locations and sold at certai

This is disgusting and ridiculous. And it's starts with how this company (and others) treats farm workers. If we want a healthy and safe food supply, then farm workers need bathroom and rest breaks, sick days, nearby and sanitary bathrooms, and access to medical care.

This means we need universal health care and worker protections across all jobs, not just the "good" jobs. We need to stop exploiting people, citizens or not.

A vote for universal health care and funding for the CDC, USDA, and FDA is a vote against a month of diarrhea.

[elisecairo]

[captain-price-returns]

[orionthebirdguy]

this came to me in a dream

[nevver]

Where’s your head at? Greg Dunn

[bogwatr]

Saw the most beautiful thing at Pride the other day

[shumamashu]

heart of gold

[minthe-drawings]

mr. detective & mx. trouble

[wheelie-sick]

"oh, I live in a desert and-"

"wow that must be so terrible" "deserts are so ugly" "I would never want to live in a wasteland like that" "it's just empty nothingness"

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]

[wheelie-sick]

this post and all its wonderful additions (look in the notes) is circulating again. these photos and many of the ones added in the notes come from the US Southwest.

right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)

here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)

The attack on the Chaco buffer zone is currently in a public comment period open until July 29. PLEASE leave a public comment to save these irreplaceable places.

[wheelie-sick]

some people have cut this addition off of their reblogs and quite frankly that's disturbing.

you can't appreciate the desert and also erase the fact that these places are under attack.

and I'd even say it's downright racist. this isn't "just" the desert, these are sacred locations to multiple Native nations and they are under attack because they are sacred to many Native people. the least you can do is reblog to raise awareness to the attacks on these lands. there is no going back from mining and drilling. there is no way to repair these ancient archeological sites when the vibrations in the ground topple them and when they are bulldozed.

submitting a public comment is the absolute bare minimum you can do and if you can't be assed to write 1 sentence saying you don't support removing the Chaco buffer zone then at least leave the reblog encouraging other people to do so attached.

[rumwik]

Strange haunted photo where Winifred looks like she's a painting

[needs-more-hugs]

I have placed her in a more fitting setting

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

For the first time in my tenure on tumblr, it's "THAT'S A PHOTOGRAPH?" and not "THAT'S AN OIL PAINTING?"