a distant ship's smoke on the horizon

rochelle, 27, human disaster x

[only-cat-memes]

[pinayelf]

this is an unpopular opinion around these parts lol but i'm so sad summer is ending

[pinayelf]

i love sun i love warmth i love blue skies i love long days i love beach

[averagefairy]

I still love this website so much because it feels like the last connection we have to an internet that doesn’t exist anymore like I can come on here and scroll through posts that are literally just funny or beautiful or interesting with no intention to sell me something or influence me we are all just here for a laugh. Nothing is just for laughs anymore EXCEPT tumblr dot com

[catch57]

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

(via @prisonhannibal )

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i don’t get horror movies, why doesn’t the protagonist just act in a way which will prevent a story from being told or piece of entertaining media made

[monster1994]

Put me in your shopping cart and take me with you while you buy your groceries.. you dont have to buy me anything i'll just watch. But i wouldnt refuse a snack or a treat...

[blessicablimpson]

[jareckiworld]

Heather Rios — Floral Embroidered Cake (sculpture, handmade with cotton embroidery, acrylic paint, and polymer clay, 2025)

[mortalityplays]

REMEMBER:

if you don't understand the post at a glance it's because op wrote it wrong and needs your help

if the post doesn't contain all the contextualising information you need to understand it, op is gaslighting you

if you haven't experienced the phenomenon the post describes, op is making it up for clout

if you haven't encountered the type of person the post describes, they're a strawman that doesn't exist

if the post doesn't address a topic you'd prefer to talk about, it's a distraction, missing the point, and talking over you

if the post makes a good point, it is your duty to contribute to human enlightenment by nitpicking it to be more correct

and most importantly:

every online conversation is a competition and you must win

[stars-bean]

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) dir. Peter Jackson

[todaysbird]

no offense to newly hatched white-throated nightjars but

how do you expect me to trust that you are not simply a moldy fruit hastily discarded to the forest floor…

[glumshoe]

I’m not wholly adverse to a LotR remake, but what I really want is an animated adaptation. A good one - not the 70′s and 80′s cartoons. Imagine an animated Middle Earth in the style of Cartoon Saloon!

[godzillasflyingpizza]

you mean the people who made The Secret of Kells (2009)

and Song of the Sea (2015) ?

dude, that’d be tight as hell

[glumshoe]

Yeah! Honestly, it’s not far off from Tolkien’s own illustrative style, which really influenced how I imagined Middle Earth before the Peter Jackson movies were made:

“Stylized and richly atmospheric” would work so so well. 

[captainclickycat]

It's a little surprising that the "Monday's child is fair of face" nursery rhyme never caught on as an arbitrary personality-assigner in the same way astrology did. It makes the same amount of sense.

[captainclickycat]

Imagine people going around saying "yeah I could never date a Wednesday child, they're wired to be miserable and emotionally draining and as a Friday child I know I'd end up doing so much emotional labour for them"

[byrdsfly]

For those who don't know (I didn't either):

Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace. Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go. Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living. But the child that is born on Sabbath day, Is bonny and blithe, good and gay.

So now, I ask...

Which are you?

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Voting ended onAug 24, 2025

[yugiohz]

so funny when 20yo women belittle women in their late 20s, girl that is gonna be you in a time span that’s gonna feel like 3 seconds

[yugiohz]

“pushing 30 and [having a hobby]” well yes

[spider-shoes-archive]

staying close w people long distance really is about the mundane stuff. i get texts like "made quesadillas" "spilled mop water all over the floor :(" "lady on the bus has not one not two but three tiny dogs in her purse" andits like wow. i love you more than words can express

[spider-shoes-archive]

happy 100k to the realest post ive ever made

[jonsaremembers]

From The Helsinki Affair, by Anna Pitoniak:

"One day, as he was texting her about the shortstop the Yankees had just traded, he thought: Why am I boring her with this? She doesn’t care about the Yankees. And then he thought: I’m telling her this because I love her."

[evilwickedme]

Almost a million protestors in Israel against the war today

A minimum of 300 thousand in Tel Aviv alone, probably closer to 500 thousand

300 thousand Israelis is a little over 3 percent of the Israeli population; if there was an American protest of that magnitude today that would be almost 11 million protestors

Almost a million protestors is 10% of the population, which would be 34.2 million Americans protestors

This is unprecedented

If y'all would just listen to what the actual Israelis want, you'd understand that WE WANT THIS WAR TO END

[evilwickedme]

I forgot to mention, for context, only 5 million people joined the No Kings protest.

[evilwickedme]

Image credit: Yair Palti, found through Ynet

Image description: the Tel Aviv protest, visibly attended by hundreds of thousands. The amount of people continues beyond what the image captures.

[tributary]

for reference, the broader tel aviv metropolitan area represents more than two-fifths of the israeli population.

[evilwickedme]

I know that there are people who will hate Israelis no matter what, but if you claim that this has nothing to do with sympathy for Gaza PBS says otherwise:

[libraford]

They Left MAGA - Leaving MAGA

They Left MAGA Steve Vilchez Chicago Read His Story Erica Roach New York Read Her Story Justin Yu California Read His Story Deanna Raper Nor

This is an interesting thing. Looks like testimonies of people who left the MAGA movement- how they got into it and why.

Leaving a cult is really hard, so I really respect the people who are speaking from this place.

[libraford]

Yes, actually.

Look, I know people want to react to the 'leopards eating faces party' with a big fat 'told you so,' but these are ex-cultists who are reaching out to people who may need an exit with a soft landing.

People who are deeply in a cult are afraid to leave it and MAGA is no exception! There's a fear that once you leave, you won't be accepted by anyone, so they stay even if they no longer believe in their rhetoric.

A very intelligent person can fall for a cult if they feel that it can offer them something they're missing. The outside world is perilous and you can be safe here. Your friends will reject you now that you've joined us, but we will accept you. Decisions are hard, we can make them for you. The secular world has broken you, we can give you new life through christ.

If you read some of the testimonies (and so many of them are young people) you'll see how much of it is 'I didn't see it, it took someone I love to show it to me, I can't unsee it now.' We've all done things we regret. Some regrets are bigger than others. I would rather forgive them and allow them to do good work than berate them for a decision they made when compromised by anxiety.

If you want to punish them, that's up to you.

But yeah. I think we should cheer for them.

[kedreeva]

This is going around Facebook right now

And it's 100% the sentiment that needs to be cultivated. If you want MAGA to go away or be diminished, then you have to give people grace when they leave. Not only that, but you literally have to make it as easy as possible, or all you're doing is cutting off your nose to spite your face.