It came! (Did I get this just because of the monster ant? maybe!) #monsterdon

This is the size of a USB port in the 1950s.

#monsterdon

Happy #Caturday #Monsterdon edition. 💙

Hi I'm Joe,

Looking to connect on these topics:
#gardening (I have a large biodiversity-focused garden and toot many photos from it.)

#SciFi #scifi #ScienceFiction
(not fantasy)
#AllStarTrek
#reading

#travel (I travel and post photos and video typically #nature and #wildlife related)

#HashtagGames
#Monsterdon
#ClassicMovies #Cinemastodon
#positivity
#humanism

#introductions #introduction #mastodon

over the years (years omg) of hosting #monsterdon, I've heard from a lot of people that it's their little safe space. It's two hours a week where they can take a breath, laugh and connect with other people and not think about everything heavy and overwhelming in the world

Rest is not ignorance. You can't face real monsters if you're burnt out and hopeless. Sometimes, a little time with fake monsters is exactly what gives people the strength to keep going

So Forbidden Planet is the first major film to have an all-electronic score. It was made by Bebe and Louis Barron who were not referred to as musicians so as not to offend the musicians' union and instead their score was described as "Electronic Tonalities". The sounds were created via circuits made by Louis. This was before commercial synthesizers existed. Early electronic music was mostly made with things like scientific test equipment, tone generators, home made circuits, or manipulated tape. #Monsterdon

Watching #Hogfather ahead of time because I realized #Monsterdon would be at 3am for us and we'll probably sleep through it ❄️ Happy Hogswatch!

Hey #Monsterdon! I made you a design

If you go to my shop https://thediremushrump.threadless.com/ you'll see 3 options: color, black, or white. I hope you like them! ✨

I. found. a. photo. of. the. Dalek. costume. I. Made.

Trick. or. Treat.

#Monsterdon

I know everyone is worried about enshitification of the Internet, but I watched a concert from NC in CA tonight and talked about it with a friend from TX in Brazil. Lots of you Fedinerds watched a movie together (again) tonight. Let’s not forget the wins.

#fediverse #monsterdon

If your idea of liberation doesn’t include rest, joy, dumb jokes, shitty movies, and community care, then it’s just another boot with a new logo

People deserve to feel joy, not just survive. #Monsterdon is part of that.

No apologies

seriously, i love y’all anarchist, capitalist-hating rabble rousers, but it’s not just being able to a have a semblance of normalcy and continuity (after leaving the dead bird) that makes the #fediverse and #Mastodon great.

#Monsterdon and all the glorious hot ass mess it creates is why this place is so special. what @Taweret@octodon.social @cheribaker @JoeWynne and the whole horde of mastodonians have created here is a breath of goofy fresh air during these dark times.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

#Monsterdon is a weekly fediverse community event (Sundays @ 9 PM ET) where a bunch of folks watch a monster/SF movie of some description in sync with each other and post about it. Partial list of past movies: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon#Movie_List

All are welcome! Look to the #MonsterdonAlert tag if you want to see annoucements about upcoming movies.

If you do not want to see these posts, mute the tag and/or me!

just occurred to me, the Daleks are #techbros

#Monsterdon #DrWhoAndTheDaleks

Owl OS is updating. Please do not turn off your owl.
#monsterdon

... Well that's a subtitle
#monsterdon

Mystery goo discovered on ship docked in Cleveland, samples taken to Duluth. Because I have seen a #monsterdon before I'm a little worried for the microbiology professor. I hope he knows a square-jawed cop and a girl reporter, and has a good relationship with his university's resident crackpot, otherwise he's done for.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07/mysterious-life-form-found-on-ship-that-docked-in-cleveland.html

When someone says they don't like speculative fiction because it's "not realistic" I'm always reminded of this meme 😂

@worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Monsterdon #MonstersInc
#SpeculativeFiction #FantasyBooks
#FantasyMemes #SciFiMemes #Fantasy #SciFi #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny #Satire
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot

Give em' the ole' razzle-dazzle! #godzilla #monsterdon

#monsterdon

and, yeah I'm still talking about it, Because it’s not just a bad take, it’s disrespectful to the people in our community who show up every day, online and off, to fight for justice, mutual aid, trans rights, disability rights, climate justice, abolition, all of it

They protest. They organize. They write. They donate. They survive. And then on Sunday night? They scream about Godzilla and giggle at aliens

because sometimes you need two hours to remember that you're part of something gentler than the systems you're fighting againt

That’s not apathy. that’s resilience

#Monsterdon

@starkraving666 @saucerlost

OMG you can still download the Godzilla roar .wav file from 1998 thanks to @internetarchive

https://web.archive.org/web/19980501170512fw_/http://godzilla.com/godzilla_www/dwlds_roar.html

#monsterdon #godzilla1998

Don’t you hate it when event spaces get double-booked? I thought I had reserved the couch for #Monsterdon last night, but it turned out the cats had booked it for BlueCon.

#CatsOfMastodon #FosterKittens #RussianBlue

#monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Turns out bullets worked great.

#monsterdon

thank you so much to everyone who donated items for our giveaway!

and thank you SO much to everyone who donated to these causes!

this was amazing!

#monsterdon
#monsterdonSavesChristmas

#MonsterdonAlert how would everyone feel about an 80s horror theme for this October's #Monsterdon ?

Tubi has fright night, the howling, pumpkin head and night of the demons

Me: I finished that Plant Monster illustration you wanted

Editor: Monstera Plant

Me: Monster A Plant

Editor: Monstera Plant

Me: Let me get back to you

#monsterdon #plants #godzilla

Moxxi had her first #Monsterdon experience and all she has to say is that the retro screeching made it hard to nap.

#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Corgi #CorgisOfMastodon #Mastodogs #Mastodog #DogsOfFediverse #FediDogs #PetsOfMastodon #Sunday #Photography

My mom is impressed with the amount of money a bunch of people who virtually get together to watch "monster" movies have raised for queer causes and food banks and is wishing us a fun evening.

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonSavesChristmas

It's here! #Monsterdon

Very shiny and retro :blobcatheart:

i have analyzed this movie from a film theoretical lens #monsterdon #MonsterdonAnalysis #MonsterdonFilmSchool

yeah... if you follow me y'all may want to mute #DogsOfMastodon #CatsOfMastodon and on Sundays #Monsterdon... but why would you want to 🥺

those 3 tags are part of my #fuckCancer therapy.

no, am not joking.

i need all the hits of happy feels i can get while getting treatment for this disease. i get those with cute pics of cats and dogs and the Sunday shenanigans while watching cheesy monster movies.

#MonsterdonAlert #Monsterdon

last October we did 70's Dracula

this October we're doing 80's horror

(don't worry. the regular weekly polls will return in November)

Sunday, Oct 5, 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

This week we're starting with

Fright Night (1985)

"Sixteen-year-old Charley Brewster tries to convince everyone that his next-door neighbor is a vampire responsible for a series of unexplained murders."

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it with us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRH0RIEjnc

WHOEVER PULLS THE SWORD FROM THE SWAMP SHALL BE RIGHTFUL KING OF LOUISIANA

#monsterdon #SwampThing

#monsterdon

#monsterdon

Oh, Lenore is Ellen from Devil Girl from Mars #monsterdon

You can’t carry the weight of the world 24/7 without collapsing. You have to be able to set it down, even if just for a couple hours, and remember you’re a person, not just a witness, not just a fighter. A person who gets to laugh, get jumped scared by a puppet, shout bingo at a car explosion, and feel like they belong

#Monsterdon lets people do that. And that’s not weakness or ignorance, it’s resistance. Because joy and connection in a world built to isolate and exhaust us? That’s power

OMG THIS WAS SOOOOOOOO GOOD! WE DID IT #Monsterdon we actually saw an awesome cheesy movie with a monster that was NOT depressing as fuck.

wow! what a gem and with the Leslie Nielsens.

thanks to @Taweret and the whole gang. til the next one.

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Slugs (1988) in twelve seconds

#Monsterdon #Slugs1988

I found a free play Godzilla pinball machine and its legitimately the best pinball table ive ever played. Multiballs everywhere. There's a tail whip lane and a maser to fire #monsterdon

#monsterdon #TheAngryRedPlanet

#monsterdon

Oh I almost forgot, Happy pride Godzilla fans!
#Monsterdon #Godzilla

I will not be able to participate tonight in #Monsterdon, so instead I post this 30 second video of me singing badly to a herd of young cows here in the Idaho panhandle.

Who's the sweetest cows in the whole wide world, and why the heck are they you?

#cows #cattle #singing #animals

🐄 🎶 💞 🐄 🎶 💞 🐄 🎶 💞 🐄 🎶 💞 🐄 🎶 💞

I feel the #monsterdon crowd needs to know about this.

#Frogs #WrongFrogs #VeryWrongFrogs

#monsterdon

The film brave enough to ask, what if Han was a lady in a bikini? What if Luke was a smug wizard who died? What if C3P0 was a cowboy? What if R2D2 didn't exist? What if Chewie didn't exist? What if there were 10-12 Landos Calrissian in the background all the time? What if Darth Vader was Italian Snidely Whiplash? What if Princess Leia was David Hasselhoff? STARCRASH

#Monsterdon

they grow so fast

#Monsterdon

Liveblog, the new Mastodon interface designed for live events e.g. watch parties, faced the acid test of #Monsterdon (+ #MonsterMiru) last night... & survived!

Drawbacks last night (it's under development, & changes/new features are being added daily):

I'm going to keep using Liveblog for watch parties. Give it a try yourself, watch partiers!

Liveblog creator: @stefan
More info: https://stefanhayden.com/blog/2026/03/28/Liveblog---a-new-mastodon-client-to-quickly-post-durring-live-events/

#WatchParty #Mastodon

In the year 2274, people drove cars that were still better looking than the Cybertruck.
#monsterdon

Every so often some nice person will ask to follow me on a Sunday morning or afternoon, right before #Monsterdon starts at 6pm (my time), and I think, "Oh dear, my dude, you have no idea what you just signed up for...."

I should check at 8pm and see if they unfollowed me... 😂

we're gonna go from arty to straight up shlock next week with Pumpkinhead

#Monsterdon

Happy Return of the Living Dead day to those who celebrate :D

#Monsterdon

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing crowns is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
#monsterdon

I encourage everyone who signed up to #theforkiverse to migrate to a different instance as soon as possible, since everything I have read from the people running that place suggests to me that they believe calling it an "experiment" absolves them from all responsibility, and that they will dismiss well-meant advice from people with years of hard-earned moderation experience as hostility from "wet blankets". Dudes, hombres: you didn't make a server for your best buds. You're in charge of the social media experience of thousands of people now. And you're not even acting like you care.

Anywhoo, for new arrivals, check out the hashtags #caturday, #mastodogs, #bloomscrolling, #SilentSunday... and join us for Sunday night B-movies on #Monsterdon.

Handy guide to alien emotions.
#monsterdon

#monsterdon #dink

Have applied for an account at beige.party so I can have a place just to post #Monsterdon stuff on Sunday night. That way, people can subscribe if they want, but I don't spam the rest of you. :)

Edit: Might be more trouble than it's worth, rather may just continue to spam you all. <flashes most charming grin>

If you want your own Monsterdon shirt, it's here:

thediremushrump.threadless.com/designs/monsterdon-doodles-color/

(Awesome shirt design from @Louisa!)

#monsterdon

This is Sprockles, napping peacefully as the #Monsterdon bog monster prepared to attack. Don’t worry, my little Sprockles kept me safe through the whole length of the movie last night. #Sprocket #ThreeLeggedCat #CatsOfMastodon #Cats

This movie is like walk through adolescence

1. Being unexplainably super horny

2. A fascination with space

3. Girls figuring out they may not enjoy kissing boys

4. Shady father figures

5. Cryptids

#Monsterdon #TheForbiddenPlanet

Still sad that we never got to see Fisto. #monsterdon #mastersoftheuniverse

Una cosa que sí diría a los recién llegados a Mastodon es que sigan HT que les van a alegrar la vida:
#DogsOfMastodon (perretes)
#CatsOfMastodon (gatetes)
#BloomScrolling (flores)
#Mosstodon (musgo)
#Birds (pajaricos)
#SilentSunday (fotos tranquilas y bonitas los domingos)
#Mushtodon (setas y hongos)
#LichenSubscribe (liquen)
#FensterFreitag (ventanas)
#Monsterdon watchparties de pelis de terror de serie Z
#Asstodon PARA VER BURROS
#thicktrunktuesday para ver troncos de árboles, marranas
#tokyocameraclub fotografía
#streetart arte urbano

¿cuáles más se os ocurren?

Sweet linux system

#linux #slaxlinux #slax #debian #ubuntu #archlinux #centos #linuxmint #opensuse #catsofmastodon #catstodon #montag #monsterdon

If the movie has…
1. Two named female characters
2. They talk to each other
3. They swap blood
The movie passes the Bechdel Lugosi Test

#monsterdon

Meanwhile, back on the mainland.

#Monsterdon #TheFoodOfTheGods

#Monsterdon

Tonight! A very special #Monsterdon guest!

When this post is about one hour old (7 MDT) a whole island-full of people will be watching Monthra (1962) and posting Entirely Too Much about it! If that is Entirely Too Much for you, you can mute the hashtag. Or better yet, you can join us!

And hey who's this‽ Why, it's the crocheted mothman, by none other than @lapis , that I received for participating in #MonsterdonSavesChristmas ! In honor of the fact that her first Monsterdon movie is Mothra, her name is... Monthra! Let's all join the miniature twins in summoning her for our protection!

#monsterdon haha well, I'm safe from mummies. It's not like I have any crys—oh fuck

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#monsterdon #TalesFromTheCrypt1972

@argumento most humans can't live in crisis mode 24/7 and need the occasional break from reality for our mental health. You know, so we have the strength to fight the good fight.

The #Monsterdon crowd is one of the most anti-capitalist, anti-genocide, ACAB groups of people I've ever been involved with (and I say that as a liberal Quaker).

Let us have a couple of hours a week to be silly and point out that "capitalism was the real monster all along."

Please. Don't piss in my cornflakes. I can care about Greta while watching a shitty movie.

i like to think the flying saucers took out Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Barret, Gorsuch and Roberts in one fell swoop

#monsterdon

If I was a vampire, I would also spend my eternal existence amassing an excellent sweater collection.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon

and so the bear exploded

as they do

ty for joining, everyone!!!

#Monsterdon

me screaming 'we made you!' at Gemini when it tells me 3 pounds of canaries weighs less than 3 pounds of candy

#monsterdon

Attempt 5

#mermaid #fantasy #horror #IndieGame #drawing #sketch #inkdrawing #penandink #MastoArt #sketchbook #creaturedesign #monster #monsterdon

These mew - tents;

#monsterdon

this all feels very #Monsterdon because they do fuck off into the sea; but the monster is in the White House

#NASA #Orion #Integrity #ArtemisII

70s Roddenberry was just... he had two modes:

genuine utopian idealism about humanity's potential

and

"What if women had power... but like... SEXY power... and also they're wrong and need a man to fix it... but SEXY'

#monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, Jan 25, 2026, 8PM CT (2AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching:

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

"Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate."

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it
with us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlygJ9VfhVo

#monsterdon

#monsterdon

there is also a module called the Forbidden Planet. I have one :)

anyway i thought this might be interesting but didn't want to clog the feed with synth nerdery during the movie
#Monsterdon

My great-grandma’s crystal hanging in our window - did I mention she was a mysteriously-disgraced archeology professor? We don’t like to talk about that….

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker

#monsterdon

I can't remember who posted about this a few months back but it is HERE and I love it. :godzilla_cool:

#Monsterdon #Godzilla

Gonna tell my grandkids this is skibidi toilet #monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, August 17, 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

"A lowly flower-shop assistant nurtures a carnivorous plant with a taste for human flesh. This cult movie was famously shot in two days by low-budget horror director Roger Corman and includes an early role for Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient."

its steaming free on Tubi but its public domain so you can find it in tons of places

please watch and live post it with us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY2KCl79Do8

My first #Monsterdon was an illegal amount of fun. Thanks peeps x

Love when the writers don't know how to end a movie so they just blow everything up and run credits.

Goodnight #monsterdon, and thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Misusing "parsec"! A noble scifi tradition.

#Monsterdon

Zardos?

Is that ... you ???

#monsterdon

we might need to do a real Godzilla movie next week as a palate cleanser

#monsterdon

I wanna have a movie night during the holidays with all of my #mastodon friends, in the same spirit as #Monsterdon or #eurovision

A #ChristmasWatchParty

I've been feeling sad about missing my friends and family this year and really appreciating the connections here. Anyone wanna #movieNight #watchparty together during December 24 through 25 across all the time zones?

These were the choices offered in the above polls, so click on all of the choices that you want to watch together and offer more #movie suggestions in comments:

“Yesterday I was thirty years old,” yeah me too, dude, it’s ridiculous

#Monsterdon #TheHunger1983

@emma this is what i want the rest of his body to be

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

well, that was a movie I guess

ty for joining, everyone!

#monsterdon