#;interest check

[wonderfultheatre]

Interest checkpoint!

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This is an interest checkpoint for Winner Valentino! Please leave 🦋 in the replies if interested.

For multis - reply with the emote and the muse you are interested in using.

If you already have a thread with me you don't have to do this, but it is appreciated nonetheless!

[soapcloth]

18+ MDNI Ghost/Ghoap x reader [CW grief] dividers -> @/cafekitsune

Ghost either getting it in his mind due to grief or actually telling the truth that Johnny keeps sending him posthumous messages urging him to fuck the pretty little spouse he left behind. Take care of them.

the entire funeral hes just boring holes into you from the back of the crowd stuffed into that little church your mother in law had picked out as Soap chews and claws at the corners of his brain. You always kinda knew Ghost and Soap had something unspoken and noncommital going on before you came into the picture so you’re absolutely sure Ghost HATES you- now more than ever due to the fact that you’re the one sporting Johnny’s last name.

Imagine your shock when he’s got you cornered and starts cooing into your neck in that familiar Scottish brogue.

[posalis]

"You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself." Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

[willgrahamscock]

Something I want people to take away from the assassination attempt of Donald Trump is that it was also a mass shooting. There’s a total of 4 victims, which qualifies as a mass shooting, and since July 1st there has been 39 mass shootings in America. We are only 15 days into July and people still argue about gun violence while the number of shootings keeps going up.

[danijaci]

NOOO DON'T TURN ME INTO A MARKETABLE PLUSHI--

[swampybogg]

[reasonsforhope]

Given the misinformation that's been going around and will be going around, thought this might be helpful to some people

For a lot of reasons, I'm very good at this/at searching, to the point where I have worked as a professional fact-checker for two different publishers. So, here goes:

My Article Fact-Checking Protocol

Thorough Version

Read the full article. Keep an eye out for emotionally loaded words, and all-or-nothing language

Keep an eye out or anything that sounds too good to be true, and in contrast, anything that sounds so awful it must be true

Run the website/source through the amazing Media Bias/Fact Check. They'll tell you about a publication's bias and history of accuracy

Go to the website's home page and read through the headlines. Look at what topics they cover/prioritize, sensationalist headlines, and whether they're framing anything in a way that feels odd/off to you

Do a search related to the topic. This can be keywords, a question, or even just copy-paste the article title (Recommended: use DuckDuckGo so the results don't change based on what Google thinks they can sell you)

If multiple highly credible sources that say the same thing pop up, and there's no major societal biases that might affect the coverage of the topic in those sources (e.g. anything related to the Israel-Palestine conflict/Palestinian genocide, no matter which side), then I'm done!

If there are major societal biases, or I can't get a consensus of sufficiently credible sources, then I do some combination of:

(1) search the topic again + the words "controversy" and/or "fake"

(2) search the opposite of the topic, or do some sort of other filtered search

(3) look up a sufficiently credible news outlet with the opposite point of view of my source, and see what they have to say

(4) if it's a big enough topic, start by looking up 2 of the top national papers and 1 major paper for your region (I usually do the ones in the US, because that's where I am In the US: the LA Times, the Washington Post, and the NY Times)

Adjust "news" to "relevant type of source, e.g. tech, environmental" as relevant for all of the above options

If no red flags come up, and it's a topic I understand enough to smell huge bullshit,

Then I'm usually done!

If there are red flags, or I actually need a certain amount of detail/understanding, then it gets more complicated, but that would be a whole other thing to break down and such

or

tl;dr

Quick Version

Read the full article. Keep an eye out for emotionally loaded words, and all-or-nothing language

Keep an eye out or anything that sounds too good to be true, and in contrast, anything that sounds so awful it must be true.

If I don't know the website:

Run the website/source through the amazing Media Bias/Fact Check. They'll tell you about a publication's bias and history of accuracy

If I trust the source, but something else pinged my radar:

Do a quick web search to verify anything that sounds suspicious or too good/bad to be true (Recommended: use DuckDuckGo)

[ping-ski]

assistant/companion DCA for my dr who au <3 the colors here are placeholder cause it's 1am and i need to sleep i also have a "Doctor" AKA Y/N design if you're curious! i think my fave thing to do is making slight differences between my different DCA aus (nervously eyeing the 10+ others)

[transformers4palestine]

Introducing: TRANSFORMERS FOR PALESTINE

Have you wanted to help Palestinians but didn't know how or didn't have a way to ? Do you like transformers ? This is a way you can directly help !!!

We're holding a raffle event to fundraise for Ruba and Iyad's families ! (You can see our introduction for them here along with vetting details)

Interest Check is OPEN from October 23-30 !!

This project means a lot to us so it would be greatly appreciated if you could fill out the form linked above so we can gauge the level of interest for this :] Artist applications will be up next week and the form for purchasing raffle tickets will be up the week after !

How it will work (subject to change) :

☆ A raffle ticket can be purchased by donating just $5 USD or more to their campaign and you can donate and enter as many times as you want !

☆ A winner (or even several if we have enough artists !) will get selected randomly every week for one month and they will get a personal commission from one of our artists !

★ We have 1 artist working with us currently but the more the merrier ! If you can't donate, you can absolutely contribute as an artist :]

Our askbox and dms are open if you have any questions at all

FREEDOM IS THE RIGHT OF ALL SENTIENT BEINGS !

[billcipherzine]

WE'LL MEET AGAIN: A Bill Cipher Zine will open it's interest check on September 12th!! We would love to hear how our new triangle overlord could make you happy with a collaborative zine!!! Please Save Us!!!!

[cozycatzine]

Stardew Valley, anyone? Because who doesn’t love cute cats and Junimos!

[everwalldigan]

Dick: Hey B, how many frogs do you think you’d have to find in the batcave before you start getting suspicious that someone is putting them there?

Bruce: zero.

Dick: that doesn’t even make sense, what-

Bruce: I will know of their scheme before it even happens and catch them in the act before they even plant the first one.

Dick: *scoffs* ok then hypothetically it’s someone using magic to—

Bruce: no metas allowed in Gotham

Dick: well ok they don’t have to be in Gotham to make things appear h-

Bruce: No. Metas. In. Gotham.

Dick:*throws his hands up in rage* ugh fine! My fault for wanting to make fucking conversation. Jesus Christ you’re insufferable *stomps away, muttering angrily to himself*

Bruce: *watches him go with a small shit-eating grin, whispering* the actual answer is three

[yutaan]

Papercraft Tohru - and Yuki, and Kyo! And some little fruit details, because, after all... Fruits Basket! 🍎

I got pretty emotional making this one! Fruits Basket had a huge, profound effect on me in my teens, and I often curled up with it for comfort and a sense of companionship during hard times. Now as an adult, it's been a while since I've read the whole series through, but I pick up random volumes fairly often and skim through them to get that familiar rush of warmth. It's still such a lovely series!

[prideknights]

**Interest check** (flash poll)

[dizzybizz]

my brain latched onto ratio in the span a day or two and i am. struggling with that. have a hsr magma dump about it.

these are in reverse chronological order so that it looks like i get more normal as the post goes on (it doesnt)

[krstsole]

Just wanna say that I think Ekko and Mel slander makes sense when you understand that 85% of the Arcane fandom views both of them as characters less worthy of fandom attention.

In their eyes, they are afterthoughts to more interesting relationships, so when someone in the 15% dares to give them anything outside of dutiful lamentations ("Mel and Ekko deserved better!"), they can't help but feel those analysis would be better suited for a character they *actually* like and so they lash out.

Fans of both characters have to constantly argue that these characters have loved and have been loved. They want Mel "independent" because she doesn't "need love" and they want Ekko focused on The Tree and the unnamed Firelights because they want it to be easier to carve both of them out of the interpersonal narratives that attaches fandoms to characters in the first place.

They want Mel and Ekko to "save the day" because they don't want their roles in the story to interfere with other characters that they like. Better for them to beat the Bad Guys™ than to be given more material that would validate their personal connections with other characters in ways that the fandom would prefer to ignore.

And the fact that Ekko and Mel are completely different characters who have never once interacted with each other and yet somehow both of them are being treated the same way with how the fandom constantly diminishes their relationships with the rest of the main cast leads me to believe that it does have something to do with the One Trait they do share.