Queen Mad's Random Ramblings

Devoted to whatever makes me shriek and squeal with giddy delight. And anything else I find interesting. It shall be as random as I am.

[montanabohemian]

anyway, if anyone could help me out with my moving expenses, i'd greatly appreciate it.

[jeezilikesports]

YESSS

[bisexualbaker]

Happy Moon Landing Eve! Remember to leave out milk and cookies for Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and don’t let Michael Collins convince you to prank NASA!

[bisexualbaker]

If Tumblr is still here next July 19th, I fully expect this post to obliterate my activity feed.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Two lunar maps, including a diagram of a lunar eclipse (top) from Balthazard-François de Merles's Papers from the 4th quarter of 17th century.

Full text here.

[publicdomainreview]

A few illustrations from William Elliot Griffis’ Korean Fairy Tales (1922). Read the whole book, and see more of its images, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/korean-fairy-tales

[jimhenson-themuppetmaster]

A drawing showing how Jim Henson Performed Kermit in The Muppet Movie’s swamp scene.

[tparadox]

This is the best picture I could find of how they customized the Studebaker so Fozzie could appear to drive the car. They crammed the real driver in the trunk. I think he was driving from a video monitor.

[cognitiveinequality]

[publicdomainreview]

Philipp Otto Runge’s Farbenkugel (1810). The top two images show the surface of the sphere, while the bottom two show horizontal and vertical cross sections.

From our selection of colour charts, wheels and tables through the centuries: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/colour-wheels-charts-and-tables-through-history

[liberalsarecool]

"That’s what makes Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York so unsettling to the old order. New York City is not just another municipality; it’s a sovereign-scale entity. Its population surpasses 38 states. Its metropolitan GDP trails only Texas and California.

It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.

It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.

What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.

If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."

- Jackie Summers

[reinapepiada]

shipping a consensual, safe & sane pairing all the while i'm shaking my head in disapproval so the audience knows i still love wildly toxic abusive fictional dynamics

[death-by-sc0tland]

it's still killing me that the doctor and the master are canonically each other's emergency contacts. who gets your will when you think you're about to die oh right it's the guy that's been trying to kill you. for centuries

[simena]

Anastasia Yarygina

[mstgsmy66]

[wendichen]

Olympic National Park Travel Poster, digital artwork based on an acrylic plein air painting I made near the top of High Ridge Trail last summer.

This was one of the most memorable hikes I've ever done, and it was SO worth hauling my entire painting setup all the way to the very top of the trail. I can't wait to go back!

[vinceaddams]

It had never occurred to me that bus upholstery fabric is something that an ordinary person can just buy, but I was watching a video that included a trip to a huge fabric store and they just had a whole section of it??!

Including the exact same one my city buses have!!

The fabric store in the video isn't even in the same country as me, but I sat on that very same pattern on the way to work yesterday!

[youhaveaguineapigwhere]

[youhaveaguineapigwhere]

Everytime this gets a note when its nowhere near christmas I question my sanity just a little bit more

[youhaveaguineapigwhere]

No, it is July, stop that, stop giving this notes, you guys have lost reblogging privileges

[procrastinationstationxx]

outfit repeater, movie rewatcher, same post mutiple times reblogger

[hbmmaster]

we need to periodically remind everyone that a headline not including a person's name isn't an attempt to erase their identity from the narrative, it's just not good practice to put someone's name in a headline unless the reader can be expected to already know who they are

[hbmmaster]

"if you can say the name in the article why can't you say the name in the headline?" what do you think a headline is for