"it's maddening."

the human embodiment of poor aspect ratio. also known as Fox.

[paranormal-taters]

I am going to [remembers that jokes about suicide are detrimental to myself and others] Scarborough Fair.

[citadelofthestars]

oh cool can u get me parsley sage rosemary and thyme while ur there please?

[paranormal-taters]

Absolutely I can

[paranormal-taters]

BREAKING NEWS

I WOULD LIKE TO BE HELD. PLEASE.

[f4therlesssss]

nvm i’ve said too much #unknowme

[mothermara]

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

[unhappytogekiss]

a new reality tv show called So you think you can write Doctor Who

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston

this is how you find the new doctor who showrunner

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

why are so many people reporting on this using the exact phrasing of "Doctor Who has been cancelled" literally the only thing that's actually cancelled was the Christmas special, it's out to tender. they specifically said that several times in the BBC press release. they basically said flat-out "we aren't canceling the show we're just putting it out for production companies to bid as RTD and Badwolf leave" and yet the amount of people, both fans and like, media news sites, I've seen talking about "the Doctor Who cancelation" is crazy

[thisusernameisunique]

The Bad Wolf production company, which only exists because of Doctor Who, doesnt even want their own show....

...

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

tbh I read the press release more as the BBC doesn't want Bad Wolf anymore. which, the way that RTD has been behaving (like, fully admitting to lying about having scripts for a Christmas special? bro) and the way him coming back seemingly tanked their ratings and viewing stats even worse than Chibnall's run iirc (I COULD BE WRONG SORRY I DIDN'T DUCKDUCKGO IT BEFORE WRITING THIS!!!), I can't say I'm terribly shocked by that.

but to be fair, maybe I have rose colored glasses (no pun intended)/am salty about RTD and reading more into it than I should! this is just my opinion lol.

[foralittlewile]

According to Andy Weir's Eridian biology document, Eridians are better multitaskers than humans will ever be, but the trade off is they're physically incapable of locking in. SO funny to me. Yes this species can build a diorama while simultaneously blitzing through mathematics equations and also partaking in intense gossiping, but they cannot do any of those things for longer than, like, half an hour without going crazy. Species of supercomputers cursed with the TikTok attention span.

Rocky mocks Grace when he says that Rocky is distracting him by starting complex conversations while he's Trying To Do Science. "Human brain have to stop activity just because talking question? Useless! One track mind!"

Then Grace is on hour six of his "trying to recreate skittles" hyperfocus and Rocky is like What The Fuck. Statement.

Yeah human brains can only do a single very consuming task at a time but it can do it for a very long time. The one track in our one track minds spans multiple countries. Persistence predators, babey.

[hedgiihog]

i like when mary and armando act silly too

[wirenettle]

I see your bloodymary and i raise you: The Hail Mary Diaries

[vihyura]

truly

[snowflakeb0ttles]

[sagethegremlin]

[dailyhistorymemes]

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

[paula-of-christ]

[im-the-princess-now]

I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

[dresshistorynerd]

It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

[trickstertime]

Then in 2020:

Irish people donate €2.5m to Native American tribe devastated by coronavirus

Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’

[jennybobenny73]

Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:

Eternal Heart Sculpture to Honor Choctaw/Ireland Relationship to be Unveiled at Choctaw Nation Capitol - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun

[hangsawoman]

NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY EVEN LARKS AND KATYDIDS ARE SUPPOSED BY SOME TO DREAM

[paranormal-taters]

rewatched the first episode of Noragami for the first time in many months and I'm only just now catching the fact that Yato, fakest idgafer on the planet, doesn't stick around to get the reward for finding Milord. because he's too busy doing this.

helping an unconscious Hiyori get home.

which is so funny because he buries the lead like half a minute later.

🫵FAKE IDGAFER I SAW YOU CARING

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[floof-ghostie]

"You only like this character because she's a woman!" okay and you hate her because she's a woman, knowing that she has all the traits you would enjoy in a male character.

[gundulablumi]

[cakeyouareoh]

tagged by @creating-by-starlight (thanks for the tag 💜)

Thank you for the tag!

1.) Favorite Flower - don’t really have one that I can think of, but overall like most flowers?

2.) Favorite Season - fall

3.) Favorite Soup - butternut squash

4.) Favorite Anime - I haven’t watched enough anime all the way through to truly answer this question, but I do really like fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood.

5.) Favorite Sport - baseball with football being a close second.

6.) Favorite Ships - the humble sloop is one for sure.

7.) Favorite Holiday - christmas

8.) Favorite Soft Drink - currently, kutztown sarsparilla and big hippo rootbeer (I love many root beers, but big hippo is near the top of the list atm)

9.) Favorite Sea Creature - sockeye salmon because I love what they look like (and taste like lol).

10.) Favorite Number - 11 and 7

tagging @paranormal-taters, @windmilltothestars, and @notyoursunnygirlfriend (if you would like 💜)

[paranormal-taters]

THANK YOU FOR THE TAG (look at me I'm actually responding to a tag ON THE SAME DAY THAT I GOT TAGGED. this never happens so sorry to all the recent tags I have not responded to, it's not you it's me)

1.) Favorite Flower - HONEYSUCKLE!!! forget-me-nots are a close second.

2.) Favorite Season - late fall into early winter. the holiday season, really.

3.) Favorite Soup - a good homemade potato soup probably but really any soup made by my mom.

4.) Favorite Anime - all-time favorite has to be Noragami but my newest favorite is Bocchi the Rock!

5.) Favorite Sport - hockey, but I'm not much of a sports person in general.

6.) Favorite Ships - can never go wrong with an N-1 Starfighter. the Serenity is a new favorite, too.

7.) Favorite Holiday - Christmas WOOOOOOO

8.) Favorite Soft Drink - I've officially broken my Dr. Pepper addiction so Sprecher's cream soda.

9.) Favorite Sea Creature - I can only pick one??? I don't know man, I love so many fish so much 😭

10.) Favorite Number - I'm not good with numbers, they beat me up in dark alleys.