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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS 2002, dir. Peter Jackson

[image description: Gifset of Frodo and Sam at the end of The Two Towers. Frodo sits leaning against a stone wall, despairing and crying, saying, "What are we holding onto, Sam?" The next gif shows Sam's arm reaching out to grab Frodo under the arm and lift him to his feet. With tears running down his face, Sam says, "That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for." End ID]

#lotr

magicfriend1000000000000000

wehavecometoanend--maybe

@helpfulbug

malwareproductions

hey. you have to love your trans brothers of color okay. and your trans sisters of color. and your nonbinary siblings of color. you have to okay. its simply non-optional

sstrawbearri

basically the best thing a story can have is a woman who is doomed. massive points if she destroys the people around her in response.

bgm05

Would it be considered “gay” to go for a walk in the evening?

segamascott

yes like obviously

mochiiknight

Stop asking me for vending machines on my beaches!!!!! This is not design by committee!!!!!!!!

#tomodachi life

moghedien

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

moghedien

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

#screaming

outrunningthedark

Ilya trying to calm Shane’s nerves by taking his hand and kissing it three times HEATED RIVALRY 1x06 “The Cottage”

#heated rivalry

yesornopolls

Have you ever traveled outside of your home country? Even if it was only briefly

Have you ever traveled outside of your home country?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 6 days 13 hours

#yes (never been outside of europe tho and within europe mostly just neighbouring countries)#the only non-neighbouring countries I've been to are italy and croatia (too young to remember croatia tho)#other than that I've been to denmark france switzerland and austria #very sad little list for a german #HOW DID I FORGET THE UK I was also in the uk #want to go to all neighbouring countries at least #since comtact has been reestablished with our family in canada and they try to come visit every year I've been wanting to visit them as wel #I want to visit so many places but I am focusing on doable places first #so czechia poland netherlands belgium and luxembourg first #I WANT TO VISIT IRAN SO BADLY ARGRGGRGRGRGRGR ok fine again #and china #those are my two biggest wishes to visit one day #no idea If I'll ever get the chance #but god do I want to

arikakari

its pride month, tumblr. you know what that means

xerogravityorange

...ban more innocent trans women?

Refuge.

here's where to find it on windows 10

the-tiny-dragons-tea-room

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

the-tiny-dragons-tea-room

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

#rain deemed important

maidslime

It's very telling how many terfs think "porn addiction" is a real thing when researchers found it to be a Christian invention that has to deal with shame and not actually a real addiction.

*Gasp!* You're telling me terfs are just conservative Christians?!

maidslime

Anytime anyone insists porn addiction is real I just call them Mormon. They get really pissy but it's true.

weterpete

Um no I'm pretty sure those are both switches

spookyscarysnails

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

headspace-hotel

Has anyone studied whether plants are affected by light pollution?

creacher-art

Yes, actually, and they 100% can be! This 2026 study, for example, focuses on Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) affecting White Dogwood and Common Beech trees. The authors found that ALAN significantly affects the trees’ light dependent phase of photosynthesis. The trees responded differently physicall, but both were negative. They also demonstrated that the effects are “dose” specific, or dependent on how much light exposure has occurred.

This study from 2025 also indicates that, in urban areas, light pollution is becoming a greater disruptor for growing seasonality than temperature is; which is HUGE considering how prevalent the urban heat island effect is. They found that these effects greatly lengthened the growing season and delaying the projected end dates. This is bad because it also disrupts the life cycles of everything reliant on the plant’s life cycles, such as parasites, feeding insects/animals etc. It can also even lower the amount of available water due to the plants requiring more water in prolonged growth seasons. These systems are dynamic and not in a vacuum.

In conclusion, light pollution and artificial light is a major environmental stressor that gets overlooked. Thank you for making this post to ask a very important question :)