Score a Direct Hit

35 year old mama | Fandoms : The Office, Parks n Rec, SNL, 30 Rock, Star Wars, LOTR, Harry Potter, Legend of Zelda, Jack White, Twin PEAKS, Loki/Marvel, LABYRINTH|

[tender-somethings]

[scoreadirecthit]

I hope you’re all doing well.

I’m still alive. I moved cross country. I stream on twitch. My son is 4. My best friend died last year. I lost weight and gained weight. I fell in love twice and got my heart broken a few times. I haven’t let a man enter my body in 5 years and it has given me peace. I still play a lot of video games. I want to read books but I don’t really do it anymore. I forgot what it means to be a song writer. I drown in motherhood, but it also keeps me afloat.

I’m still alive.

[unteriors]

Edgewood Drive, Adams, Wisconsin.

[ishikorokoroishi]

“ Butterfly   ”

Photo by Ishikoro. Japan.

Love & Peace!

[emirkocturk]

Bazen öylece rüzgarın ahengine dalar insan. silkeleyip dururken yemyeşil çimenleri..

A momentary breeze..

[kosmogrl]

[sandmoonyelse]

Forest poetry…

[unteriors]

Race Street, Maryland, New York.

[madgear]

x

[copblood]

teenage bedrooms in film

[thenightling]

I love Jack-o-lanterns and I think a lot of people misunderstand why I love them. I don't think of Jack-o-lanterns as sinister or scary. To me Jack-o-lanterns are warm and comforting. Kind of like why some people collect teddy bears. (One of my friends collects teddy bears.)

It's something comforting and protective from childhood that lets you feel safe and soothed.

The original purpose of the Jack-o-lantern, according to the Irish legend, is to protect against wandering or evil spirits. They were a protection ward.

The earliest jack-o-lanterns were carved out of turnips but when pumpkins became a popular discovery from The New World (as they were delicious and easier to carve) Jack-o-lanterns evolved into the popular American-style pumpkin ones we see today. Jack-o-lanterns were originally not just for Halloween.

They could be carved any time (so long as you had pumpkins around) to ward off malevolent spirits. So to me an image of a house with many Jack-o-lanterns is warm and protected. They are a light in darkness.

It's also supposed to be very lucky if you can keep a jack-o-lantern burning all night long.

It's bad luck to blow out a Jack-o-lantern before midnight on Halloween and it is good luck for the whole year if it can keep burning until dawn.

Pop culture depictions of Jack-o-lanterns being used to successfully protect against supernatural threats include:

Trick 'r Treat (2007 movie)

The House with a clock in its walls (novel and movie)

Mervyn in The Sandman: The Kindly Ones (Graphic novel an The Sandman audio drama act 4.)

[lomo-rae]

San Francisco, circa 2013.

[sing-from-the-hair-deactivated2]

[12u3ie]

I just went on a rant about plungers, how’s your day going?

[12u3ie]

“go off bestie”? Okay, I will.

This is a plunger.

Classic red cup with a wooden stick. We all know it, love it, and have seen a cartoon character using it to unclog a toilet. Right?

WRONG.

The image above is actually a drain plunger, used on sinks, showers, and baths. Not on toilets.

These are a toilet plungers.

Take note of the variations. Each of them have a flange of sorts at the bottom, either connected via a cup or more accordion-like tube. These are designed to actually get down into the toilet bowl where it flushes down, giving it more space and leverage to unclog blockages. See the example below:

Notice how the flange allows it to go deeper into the toilet to provide more power to the plunge. Sink/drain plungers are far less efficient and effective at the task.

Sink plungers can also have an accordion shape to help with power in plunging, but crucially do not have or need the flange that toilet plungers do.

To recap: cup plungers are for sinks, showers, bathtubs, and other drains. Flange and accordion plungers are for toilets. Notably, accordion plungers are slightly harder to use, but are more powerful when used correctly than their flange counterparts.

So the next time you see a cartoon, video game, or stock art depicting a cup plunger being used on a toilet, you can feel the same levels of anger and emotion that I do!

[12u3ie]

why does this have nearly 100 notes

[callmebliss]

Because with this level of passion, containment is futile 

[absurdly-useful]

The real question is why does this not have a million notes? This is information that will very likely, at some point, be incredibly useful to anyone who has indoor plumbing. Which is, you know, probably, 99.99% of this website's user base. (I'm sure there's someone out there using Tumblr who lives in a house built in 1850 which never got upgraded and they still have an outhouse rather than toilet.)

[beweep]

Barn in the Fog

[sovietpostcards]

Photo by Alexander Sentsov (1980)

[fuckyeahlabyrinth]

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