When Signs Start A Fight

anyone up for some gay shit at the local graveyard? 

#finally #itsaboutdamntime 

This is a win

The US house, 5 or 6 governor’s, and a number of state congresses flipped this year. We had some losses in the senate, but that was a long shot anyway and 2020 looks a lot better for us and a lot worse for them.

Nevada trended even more blue. Texas nearly had an upset in the senate race, and Beto has helped develop the democratic party in Texas in ways that have not existed before.

I can’t downplay how important that is or how much of a victory tonight actually is for us.

State victories mean more people can be helped at the state and local level.

Holding onto the state level stuff into 2020? Means we can fix the fucking gerrymandering for the US house if we can pick up even more states. 

Having the US house means the Republican Agenda of Governmental Destruction comes to a grinding halt. It means we can subpoena records and people from the Trump administration. It means his tax records? Are ours.

It means if trump stops the FBI investigation the House can start it up again on their own.

It means we have a democrat third in line to the presidency.

It means oversight, it means committees and investigations and it means medicare is protected, social security, obamacare. 

It means if a democrat tries to gain access to a child detention camp and is refused they can then turn around and order subpoenas and investigations.

It means the only things that get passed the next two years are naming post offices and bare bones budgets.

What A Great Idea!

This billboard is made of 2,000 cheeseburgers that anyone can take for free.

This bag of chips has two perforations so you can open it more the further down you eat.

This pill bottle lid tells you when you last opened it.

This is a phone charging station where you can pedal to get power.

Trash bins in Copenhagen are angled so cyclists can toss their trash while biking.

This dressing room has labeled hooks to help you separate your clothes.

Choose a cup and let everyone know about your current status.

Doghouses near a supermarket in Copenhagen.

There’s a special place for your pet in this supermarket cart.

A cafe in Poland provides its guests with water for their pets. 

 These bananas are sorted by how ripe they are at the moment.

This pharmacy has a magnifying glass so people can read medicine labels more easily.

This pizza place has a display with all their pizza sizes and how large they are compared to each other.

I spent three weeks in a mental hospital and what I discovered there I feel like should be put into words.

we are not who you think we are.

the boy with turrets told the funniest jokes

the girl who raked her nails up and down her skin could create the most exquisite drawings

the girl who abused drugs had the wisest soul

the boy with schizophrenia had the biggest heart

the girl who tried to kill herself told the boy with insomnia stories to help lure him to sleep

the boy who wanted to kill himself had the deepest passion for cooking

the girl with slits and scars all over her body dried my tears and told me I was beautiful

the boy with anger issues gave the warmest hugs

the girl with bulimia told everyone every day that they looked beautiful in their bodies

the boy who was a compulsive liar told us that he wanted us all to get better, and that he was for once telling the truth

the girl who almost drank herself to death stood up for anyone that felt they were feeling bullied

the boy with social anxiety made sure nobody sat alone at meals

we are not who you think we are.

SLYTHERIN:

“If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.”

–Helen Reddy (I Am Woman)

LOTR’s concept artists designed the films as a “journey back in time”

So (according to the concept art book) as the Fellowship travels deeper into Middle Earth, the places they pass through become inspired by progressively older periods of history. The farther along you are in the story, the more ancient the design influences

We begin in The Shire: which feels so familiar because, with its tea-kettles and cozy fireplaces, it’s inspired by the relatively recent era of rural England in the 1800s

But when we leave Hobbiton, we also leave that familiar 1800s-England aesthetic behind and start going farther back in time. 

Bree is based on late 1600s English architecture

Rohan is even farther back, based on old  anglo-saxon era architecture (400s-700s? ce)

Gondor is way back, and no longer the familiar English or Anglo-Saxon: its design comes from classical Greek and Roman architecture

And far far FAR back is Mordor. It’s a land of tents and huts: prehistoric, primitive, primeval. Cavemen times

And the heart of Mordor is a barren lifeless hellscape of volcanic rock…like a relic from the ages when the world was still being formed,  and life didn’t yet exist

And then they finally reach Mount Doom, which one artist described as 

“where the ring was made, which represents, in a sense, the moment of creation itself”

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A wild Paul McCartney