#100 x: The 2022 Edition

[fisherken]

I can see for miles and miles ....... by Julie Via Flickr: A photo I took back in the summer of the parched grassland surrounding the trig point at the top of Slieve Coillte. The hill rises to a height of 268.5m above sea level with spectacular views of the Wicklow & Commeragh mountains, as well the Saltee Islands off the Wexford coast. Some music you might enjoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iqg2UanEc Photo 93/100 my 100 x photos this year will be of foliage: so woodland scenes, individual trees, wild/garden plants and fallen leaves 🍁🌿🍀🌳

[alannacouture]

A Celebration of Eliza’s Suits & Red Hair Pt 1

Oh, hey, so my anxiety has taken a fun turn into actual panic attacks (which I haven’t had to deal with in years), so I’m back to making Eliza/Beliza edits. (I was feeling weirdly nostalgic for her delightful suits, which led to…whatever these edits are.) Anyway, please enjoy Part 1 of my Eliza Suit Celebration!

[pendragaryen]

Merry christmas to all of you, my dear mutuals, friends and followers 🕯🕯🕯🕯

May you all have the chance to get some well deserved rest and to spend some beautiful days with your loved ones.

Since my sister tolerated the first round of chemotherapy well, we got to see each other today and our family can be together on christmas eve, something that wasn't assured at the beginning of this week. Though she felt nauseated the night after she got her first dose, she had some medicaments to treat that as well and so she came around. I see that as a good sign. Please... let it be a good sign... 🙏🏻🕯 All I'm wishing for christmas (and the upcoming new year) is that she will defeat that evil cancer and that her and my whole family and friends can get or stay healthy. Health is everything.

Thank you again for all your comforting words of empathy in your replies on posts, as personal message on here or in tags. I see and read them all and they mean so much to me. I'm so grateful to be a part of such a lovely (now very small, but even more precious) fandom.

@togetherkru @natassakar @geekyogicheese @bellamyblake @carrieeve @immortalpramheda @ninappon @roguetwelve @infp-with-all-the-feelings @lee-em-dee @kizo2703 @poppykru @bellamysgriffin @kateemcintyre @princessrhcenyra @underbellamy @jeanie205 @igotbellarkeforthat @burninghoneyatdusk @heartbellamy @otp-armada @its-tea-time-darling @delicatebluebirdruins @kris-lulu @the-suns-also-rise @broashwhat @isweartobreathe @clarkgriffon @julibernardo @bookwormforalways @travllingbunny @searamour @brightblakes @little-oxford-st @doriantheviking @lunakom-floukru

[jokeanddaggerdept]

[kinetic-elaboration]

December 27: Murven, Mistletoe + Hot Chocolate

2022 Ficmas #4

Murphy/Raven, Modern AU, ~1,000 words

For the prompt 'mistletoe and hot chocolate'

*

Christmas ends, but Raven leaves the mistletoe up. As well as the wreath on the front door and the strings of lights. Murphy tells her that she's a bit jollier than she wants people to believe, and she supposes this is true, if only because the bar is so low.

The wreath, the lights, and the mistletoe are all from Clarke, who Raven allowed to decorate her apartment only after she got over the insult of having her space described as 'austere' and 'plain,' and even then only because she did not want to do it herself. Leaving it devoid of festive charm was not an option—not after she pulled the short straw at Friendsgiving in November. That left her in charge of Friendsmas. And Friendsmas needs more red and green and sparkles and twinkling and little bags that smell like balsam and pine, and fewer photographs of space and old-fashioned NASA posters hung up against cream-colored walls. Her framed picture of Friendsmas 2019 does not count as a Christmas decoration. (She asked.)

In addition to decorating, which she left to Clarke, she was responsible for the menu, the music, and the entertainment. Nothing has ever beaten Jasper's Holiday Megamix as far as music goes, and Bellamy's the one with the secret stash of Christmas movie, so she did not attempt to mess with success there. And for the food—

For the food, she invited over Murphy. Murphy who she's been dancing around all year. Murphy who's the best chef she knows, and won't leave her kitchen an absolute mess, and who made cranberry sauce from scratch, lazily, standing there in her tiny kitchen like he owned it.

Every time she tried to help, they ended up bumping against each other, suddenly too close between the fridge and the countertop, once even his arm around her, so that she didn't fall or, worse, drop and break the dozen eggs that she was carrying. Not that she's clumsy. Good thing there wasn't mistletoe above them, then, or she would have smashed the eggs on purpose and wrapped her arms around him and never let him go.

Instead, they cooked a proper feast—mostly Murphy's talent, there—and then she let him shower while she changed her clothes, and when the others arrived with the booze and desserts, she'd almost entirely shaken off whatever had come over her, when he'd put his hand over hers and taught her how to whisk.

The mistletoe she did not know about at that time. Her own fault, she grumbled later, for not supervising Clarke Griffin properly as she transformed Raven's home.

Your own fault, Octavia corrected, for not decorating yourself.

Which is, she admits, a fair point.

She discovered the first sprig when Jasper and Monty ended up making out in the doorway to the kitchen, which may or may not have been for laughs, and blocking everyone's way as they tried to refill their drinks.

The second, when Bellamy and Miller found themselves caught beneath it in the middle of the living room.

The third, when she walked over to the window to draw the curtains against the deep, blustery, winter night, and Murphy, who was helping her, heard an odd noise above them and looked up.

The others were all gathered around the TV, engrossed in Miracle on 34th Street, so if they wanted to pretend they didn't see it, that stupid sprig of mistletoe caught in the curtain rod, they could have. Instead, they both stared up at it, and stared, and stared.

"It doesn't have to be—" Raven began, but Murphy was already reaching out to pass his fingertips along her cheek. The gesture undid her. He was watching her with an openness to his expression that she'd never seen before, a vulnerability that made her heart ache. She reached up and took his face in her hands, pulled him down to her and kissed him.

A bluster of wind rattled the windows, seeped right through the glass and made her shiver. Murphy pulled away and put his arm around her instead. She sunk down into the space against his side.

"You know you wouldn't be cold if you were wearing a festive holiday sweater," he told her, and she laughed, still breathless from kissing him, and answered:

"You're one to talk."

He stayed the night and they kept each other warm all through it.

For the rest of the year, she keeps the mistletoe up, and she and Murphy kiss whenever they find themselves beneath it, and often when they don't. She needs no excuses. But there's a certain silliness, a certain festive joy, in poking his arm and pointing up, and seeing him grin, interrupting everything to be close to him yet again. An unusually strong winter storm hits the city, and they use it as an excuse to stay in. They don't talk about what it means. The last odd, uncertain, vaguely defined days of the year, the liminal space in the holiday season, envelope them, and everything seems safe and warm, conclusion and beginning and amorphous possibility all at once.

He takes the blankets from her bed and piles them on the couch, and she makes the good hot chocolate, the one from the tins that Monty left behind on Christmas Day, and adds extra marshmallows on top. Murphy's queuing up a movie, the last of Clarke's sparkling white lights glittering in a line beneath the TV screen—he's wearing a Santa hat, which he excuses as his way of keeping warm.

Raven stands for a long moment in the doorway and watches him. She's holding their mugs of hot chocolate by the handles, the sweet, warm steam drifting up and tickling her nose, heating her skin. Murphy looks so at home in her home. A rush of affection, like the bursting of a dam, wells up in her, and she wishes that he was standing here beneath the mistletoe with her, so she could kiss him yet again. Except that then she wouldn't have this moment of detached observance, these seconds where she stands outside of herself and her life and looks in, and appreciates with pleasant objectivity just how lucky she is.

[peterquill1021]

On August 14th, 2022, @RealHughJackman

stopped his car to call me. He’d been having a crappy week… he’d had the flu, two flat tires and some random idiot egged his house. But what happened next, happened fast. He told me he wanted to bring The Wolverine back. Months later, he not only brought Wolvie back into the light, he’d at long last, wear the iconic yellow suit.

@slevydirect and I didn’t talk about it much, but we were feeling a TON of pressure; worrying about how we walk these characters into the MCU, worrying about all of our secret characters STAYING secret — along with so many moving parts. But when Hugh stepped onto set in THAT SUIT… everyone knew something special was happening. I remember thinking everything was gonna be okay. For months of filming and what felt like 100 years of editing and post production, I had a front row seat to WOLVERINE. Watching and learning from my friend and favourite actor. Two things can be true: 1) Sometimes I eat too much sugar, and secretly egg his house so I can feel something. And 2) I can be both a fan and friend, simultaneously. I met him in Sydney around 2007. Back then he was already a movie star and I walked onto set a supporting actor. Showing up midway through production isn’t too different to starting a new school. I was a nervous mess. Film sets can have a scary imbalance of power and I remember seeing how he treated every member of the crew with genuine respect and appreciation. He made a case that the term “filmmaker” isn’t just for people with their name on the poster. I don’t know anyone more thoughtful, kind and classy than this man. He’ll do anything for someone he loves. He’ll do anything for someone he just met. In Deadpool & Wolverine Hugh didn’t just make dreams come true for fans of Wolverine. He made MY dreams come true too. He is THE X-Man.

[cityof2morrow]

3-in-1 Supermarket 001

Published: 1-13-2024 | Updated: 1-15-2024 (Counter 1/4 FIX) SUMMARY The 3-in-1 Supermarket collection (Simmons, 2023) includes items from Asamo Sims (2005), Sims Connection (2006), and Simplan-X (2006), edited and expanded. Mix and match items to create your own, unique supermarket design.

DETAILS Requires all EPs/SPs §100-700 | Buy Mode All files with “MESH” in their filenames are REQUIRED for all textures/recolors to show properly. To use the SmartGarden Kiosk, you must have the Planting Overhaul mod (Lamare and Tvickiesims, 2023) installed. Finally, you need one of the following: Shift Everything (Lamare, 2022) OR Object Freedom 1.02 (Fway, 2023). Some recolors may be bundled in the same file, so be careful deleting swatches in-game. Some objects may need to be shifted upward once for ideal placement.

WARNING: The SmartMarket Kiosk, SmartGarden Kiosk, and TV objects have pulsing, flashing, and glowing light effects. If you are sensitive to visual noise, download the LIGHT SENSITIVE version of this set. Only use ONE version in-game at a time. ITEMS Hanging Grocery Bags (Deco) (896 poly) Area Dividers 001-002 (Deco) (59 poly) Barrier Gate (334 poly) Barrier Fence (910 poly) - *not in the collection file. Basket (292 poly) Cash Register (533 poly) Cabinets (Deco) (408-548 poly) Cleaning Deco (1295 poly) Counter 001 (240 poly) Counter 002 (32 poly) Counter 003 (264 poly) Counter 004 Bagstation1  (240 poly) Counter 005 Bagstation2 (184 poly) Counter 006 (286 poly) Boxed Foods Display (396 poly) Shopping Cart (Shelf) (776 poly) Counter Shelf (417 poly) Displays 001-004 (Deco) (206-470 poly) Display 005 (Functional Grocery Bin) (1910 poly) – purchase groceries by clicking on any part of the object; place a shelf inside for additional storage/sale space. Display 006 (Functional Fridge) (738 poly) – store/sell spoilable food items. Display 007 (488 poly) Fridge Shelf (Functional) (834 poly) – store/sell spoilable food items. Shelves & Half Shelves (Left, Right, Center for each) (10-62 poly) SmartMarket and SmartGarden Kiosks (~1472-1650 poly) – purchase groceries, seeds, and fertilizer respectively. Supermarket Sign (2-Story) (352 poly) TV Display (1276 poly) DOWNLOAD (choose one) REGULAR VERSION from SFS | from MEGA LIGHT SENSITIVE VERSION from SFS | from MEGA *A known game bug may disable some shelf slots. If you cannot access more than 2 slots on the hosiery/lingerie racks (the ones with 4 or 6 bars), download ONE these fixes: MORE_Custom-objects-placeable-on-shelves (Numenor, 2006) MORE_Custom-objects-placeable-on-shelves+LOCKEDTILES (Numenor, 2006) Object Freedom 1.02 (Fway, 2023) CREDITS Thanks: AL Wood Actions/Reducing GUIDs/OBJs (@hugelunatic, 2022). Sources: Any Color You Like (@curiousb, 2010), Basket Cage (H.A., n.d.), BBNiche1Master (BuggyBooz, 2012), Beyno (Korn via BBFonts), Cubic Dynamics (EA/Maxis), DOECHII Screen Kiosk (retr0black, 2022 via Creative Commons Attribution), EA/Maxis, Great Groceries Display (Balkopat, 2020), Grocery Store Part 1 (Jacky93sims, 2023; Severinka, 2022; Bodegababy, 2021), Kitchen Basic (Hafiseazale, 2016; BuggyBooz 2008), Kitchen Basic Extras (Hafiseazale, 2016; BuggyBooz, 2010), Offuturistic Infographic (Freepik), One More Slot Package (OMSPs) (SilentLucidity, 2009), Planting Overhaul (@lamare-sims and @tvickiesims, 2023), Shop Essentials (Simplan-X, 2006), Shopping Set (Asamo Sims, 2005), Supermarket (JC/Sims Connection, 2006), Images (Iskisoon, 2023; Macrovector, 2023; 2022; 2019; Photographeaasia, 2023; Freepik, 2023; Upklya, 2022; Rawpixel).

[nymphoheretic]

Nymph: Just a short little drabble about sucking Kyoujuro off in an alley on the way home.

Warnings: oral sex (male receiving), semi-public sex, cum swallowing implied sex

Word count : .5k~ish

Pairing: Kyoujuro Rengoku x Fem!reader

Tagging the rengoku girlies(gn): @bakugosbratx @renhoeku @glz-100 @herohibiscus @potofstewie @comatosebunny09 @cherryblossomsenpai @linpunny @unknownspecies @yeahitzally @taisho-era-secrets @auraee @diorsbrando @kyojuro-my-wuv @wanderingfaee and the network @tokyometronetwork

Join the Rengoku girlies: https://forms.gle/YGTATcvxh2oAUc3o9

Kyoujuro curled his hand into a fist as he placed it on the wall in front of him. He shifted slightly, so that his hashira cloak draped over his shoulder more as he struggled to hold his voice in. He cracked one eye open to look down at you, his beautiful woman, on your knees before his, your cute mouth wrapped around his cock as you bopped your head back and forth, your hands working over what you should not fit.

“Fuck…” he cursed out, her hand coming up to cover his mouth to muffle the sounds of his moans when his acute hearing picked up one someone passing by the tiny alleyway. He was thankful for the darkness of the shadows that cover them.

Kyoujuro placed his hand on your head, making you look up at him. “You little minx.” He let out another groan when you hummed and ran your tongue over the underside of his cock. “Pushing me into this alley and sucking me down so earnestly that I have to use my cloak to hide you away.”

You let out a small giggle as you let him slide out of your mouth, a string of saliva still connecting you to him. You used your hand to stroke him fast; the combined slick of spit and pre-cum aiding you and making Kyoujuro groan out a bit louder and placed one hand back over his lips as the other curled more tightly in a fist. 

“Shhh, you’re enjoying it.” You sucked him back down your throat, swirling your tongue over the tip at the upward drag. You wanted him to cum and soon.

Kyoujuro felt his balls tighten up the more you, his wife, sucked him hard and fast, your hands working over him while your warm wet mouth did wonders to his shaft.

Making sure his cloak was still draped over his shoulder, hiding you away from view, the blond grabbed the sides of your head as he thrust his hips, facefucking you as his orgasms began to make his legs tremble. “Fuck…Baby girl…”

You made a show of opening your mouth and showing Kyoujuro his cum on your tongue before slowly swallowing it. “Mmmm…” I hummed. “Umai…” you gasped when you were sudden pulled to your feet and pressed tightly against the wall.

“Kyou…What are you?” You let out a loud moan when Kyoujuro pulled your panties to the side and shoved his cock in deep and began fucking you. He placed his hand over your mouth, his lips grazing your ear as he spoke.

“Shhh, you’re enjoying it.”

©️2022-23 nymphoheretic - I do not give permission to copy, edit, alter, or distribute my work. Do not adverse on tiktok. Do not repost on any other platform.

[ineffablelvrs]

bylers are we or are we not aware of the fact that byler made it to the 6th place out of 100 most popular ships on ao3 in 2022 i personally found out abt this through tiktok just now

EDIT: so as it turns out this isn't actually top 100 most popular ships, but top 100 pairings that gained the most fan works in 2022 !!! actual top 100 pairings list can be found here (x) where byler takes up 39th place !!! (big thank you to @/bethhiraeth for pointing it out !!)

[junkyardpop]

MEILI AND TWIG!! the runes on the book say ‘LOKI’ :D

my Meili AU !!!

(click for higher quality + some info under the cut :D)

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this is probably my first personal post to do with Hilda but i’ve been into the series since waaayyyy before it was a show!! i’ve always related to Hilda’s story in a lot of ways, and back in 2022 i doodled some fanart of Hilda where he was transmasc, and went by Meili (the name of the norse god of travel) + he/him pronouns :) so here is the first non-sketchy Meili i’ve drawn, and i wanted to post him here :D (i need to post my fanart on this blog more :P)

the Meili art and doodled story i’ve made so far include him gaining an interest in norse mythology, and then uncovering some ancient magic to do with the norse gods, specifically Loki (i am 100% projecting my own interest in norse mythology x] ) so i might post the design i made for loki here sometime :D - the story isn’t very finished, but it’s mainly just a fun little Hilda AU where i project onto my favourite little cursed faething, and make him deal with ragnarok types of things

David is also trans in this one, her name is Gwen/Gwenyn in this au :D more on that another time i suppose !!

i’ve also done a LOT of screenshot edits of the Meili au that i’ll post here soon if anyone is interested in this au :) anyways i dont interact with the Hilda fandom a lot but i hope you guys are chill lmao

[alannacouture]

A Celebration of Eliza’s Suits and Red Hair Pt 2

As I mentioned in Part 1 of this weird, 2 part series, my anxiety has gotten so out of control, I’m having panic attacks (which hasn’t happened in years). So I’ve returned to making Beliza edits. (I was feeling weirdly nostalgic for her delightful suits, which led to…whatever these edits are.) Anyway, please enjoy Part 2 of my Eliza Suit Celebration!

[belladonnabefore]

Im coming back to Tumblr, and as much as it's not important to anyone, the reason is actually socially and politically interesting and i wanna explain it.

So, some context before anything, im Brazilian, grew up a Tumblr kid in from 2016 to about 2018, left for a good while, then i got a Twitter ( i refuse to call it X ) cause of Animation School during 2022, and now im migrating back to Tumblr, and it's cause Brazil is actually banning Twitter, giving a 8,912 dollar fine to anyone who uses a VPN to acess it and to top it off blocked Starlink's financial resourses in Brazil, the reason being justified and absolutely nuts that it happened too, at least in my conception.

So, from 2018 to 2022 the Brazilian president was Jair Bolsonaro, basically the dummer and more openly facist Brazilian version of Trump ( and that's a whole can of worms that im not gonna get into cause this post is already bound to be massive ), and on the end of 2022 presidental elections were held and Bolsonaro lost to Lula, a left leaning guy that will 100% sacrifice his morals for money and power ( but ended up being, sadly, the least worst option on that election, kinda like Biden ). So Bolsonaro started discrediting the electoral results on the internet with the help of other far-right politians and surprisingly ( or not ) Elon Musk. Following these series of inflamatory accusations from Bolsonaro and the far-right there were a few riots and then his following ( and most recent facist movement of Brazil ) stormed the Capitol in January 8th 2023 with enabling from the Brazilian police and military forces ( which sadly kinda work as it's own conservative cell seperate from the government due to Brazil's badly resolved Military Dictatorship issues ), politicians were evactuated before they entered, but when they did they tore down and stole priceless diplomatic gifts and works of art all over, but since it was mostly elderly people they were detained and jailed pretty quickly, even with the police's unwillingness allowing tons of them to escape.

And a huge investigation was open to see if the Coup was organized by political figures or not, led by supreme court judge Alexandre de Moraes. And well, from the involvement of the police force blocking highways so rural and poor communities couldn't vote, to a general testifying that Bolsonaro presented him papers detailing a organized planned Coup that didn't happen ( that were later found to be in a liutenant-colonel's house ), to Musk stepping in himself to discredit a deny Judge Moraes' requests to ban the accounts of people involved in the coup and in spreading missinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines back in the pandemic, it was obvious political figure's were neck in deep in shit, and Musk's box-shapped visage was no different.

So, cause of his involvement in this crazy mess, various personal attacks on Judge Moraes and the fact that brazilian facist cells are finding refuge on Twitter without any sort of reprimanding from the plataform, Judge Moraes threatened arresting Twitter's Brazilian representative. Elon Musk's response was to completely shut down Twitter's offices in Brazil, leaving them as a rougue agent with no representative on the eyes lf the law, and so Moraes responded by blocking Starlink's financial resources here and threatening to shut down Twitter for good in Brazil if Elon keeps disrespecting and delegitimazing Brazilian democracy and law, Musk responded to this by throwing more anti-democratic tamper tantrums and posting edited pics of Moraes as Darth Vader or someone of the sort ( i don't watch Star Wars ) like the little facist troll he is. And that's why Brazil ( Twitter's 6th biggest userbase ) is just gonna vanish from there today or soon enough, and why im here now again! And let me tell you something, not having character limitations and being able to say "FUCK YOU ELON MUSK" without getting kicked to the curb is absolutely FREEING.

So, prehaps expect a influx of Brazilians even though most will go to Bluesky, and don't expect me to cover politics anytime soon, maybe expect me to cover history though.

Thanks for reading. ♡

[feelrush]

˚ ₊ · ͟͟͞͞ ➳ ❥ SAAGAR SHAIKH GIF PACK

hi friends! in the source link you’ll find #100 gifs in the size of 268 x 150 of SAAGAR SHAIKH as aamir khan in ms. marvel (2022). please cast accordingly — he's pakistani and born in 1986. all the gifs were made from scratch by us. feel free to edit them for personal use, but do not redistribute/repost. REBLOG if you plan on using them or leave a like if this helped you! contains : flashing lights.

[theneighborhoodwatch]

What are your thoughts on the potential Julie and Frank 'relationship'?

(serious answer under the cut. also, again, disclaimer that this is all speculation and i'm not saying that any of this is 100% For Sure going to happen, i am just speaking within the context of this one particular theory.)

(edit: nvm i might actually be right. yeehaw [said unimaginably haggardly])

i've talked about that before on this blog, in this post specifically (with extra links for context so maybe check it out) and it's still something that i think about A Lot. in that post, i describe it as a source of Mutual horror, i.e. "you were created to both bring out the best in someone and to keep each other shackled to someone else’s incomprehensible idea of normalcy." and when i say incomprehensible, i really do mean incomprehensible; going by a few posts clown's made in the past, the idea of gender being tied to presentation and vice versa seems to be a foreign one to the playfellow puppets - and yet, this does not seem to prevent them from the consequences of being Perceived a certain way. it's also probably worth mentioning that if the 2022 pride art is to be believed, then neither frank or julie are cis, either (for whatever the playfellows puppets' definition/equivalent of "cis" is, anyway.)

i would be lying if i said i haven't thought about Several ways this could all play out; how it could affect both of them as individuals, their other relationships, their pre-existing friendship. i won't go over all of those here bc this post would be way too fucking long otherwise, but i will say that i think that they would have been friends regardless of whether or not the show decided they were (and regardless of whether or not the show wanted friends or "friends."*) i don't think either of them start out Aware that they're "supposed" to be together. i think they are likely made aware of it later on - of how they are seen. in this way, it's a good example of what i meant when i previously described welcome home feeling like a setup for some cosmic horror-as-coming of age shit (or coming of age as cosmic horror??) for example, in this particular context, i saw A Lot of these two scenarios when it came to growing up queer and/or closeted, especially in an unsafe environment: 1. "i'm told that because i spend so much time with this person, and they are (X) and i am (Y), that i am in love with them. i don't think this is true, but i have no idea how to refute this, so i'm just gonna Go Along With It until i am emotionally, mentally, and/or physically no longer able to do so bc i'm scared of what'll happen to me and/or the people i care about if i don't - OH FUCK THAT HAPPENED A LOT SOONER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK"

2. "i'm told that because i spend so much time with this person, and they are (X) and i am (Y), that i am in love with them. i think that's the dumbest fucking thing i've ever heard and it does not apply to me at all" [is punished for this] "Ah." it's just that here, the scale would be magnified to the point of cosmic horror, in order to drive home the turmoil these situations bring, both internal and external. do i think frank and julie would be the only examples of this, or that it is mutually exclusive from any of WH's other potential themes? absolutely not. but if all we have to go off of are crumbs, then We Will Work With Crumbs. * side note, i was gonna talk about how it was interesting that despite knowing next to nothing about frank/eddie in canon except for the fact that It Happens, all of the frank/eddie art we have so far is a lot more unambiguously romantic than any supposed in-universe ship teasing between frank and julie, buuut then i realized that was probably bc we're still in the prologue and all the frank/eddie stuff we have is like, side sketches and concept art. of course it's gonna be more indulgent.

tl;dr: I Care Them and i hope you can tell

[mariacallous]

In recent weeks, as so-called cheapfake videoclips suggesting President Joe Biden is unfit for office have gone viral on social media, a Kremlin-affiliated disinformation network has been promoting a parody music video featuring Biden wearing a diaper and being pushed around in a wheelchair.

The video is called “Bye, Bye Biden” and has been viewed more than 5 million times on X since it was first promoted in the middle of May. It depicts Biden as senile, wearing a hearing aid, and taking a lot of medication. It also shows him giving money to a character who seems to represent illegal migrants while denying money to US citizens until they change their costume to mimic the Ukrainian flag. Another scene shows Biden opening the front door of a family home that features a Confederate flag on the wall and allowing migrants to come in and take over. Finally, the video contains references to stolen election conspiracies pushed by former president Donald Trump.

The video was created by Little Bug, a group that mimics the style of Little Big, a real Russian band that fled the country in 2022 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The video features several Moscow-based actors—who spoke with Russian media outlet Agency.Media—but also appears to use artificial intelligence technology to make the actors resemble Biden and Trump, as well as Ilya Prusikin, the lead singer of Little Big.

“Biden and Trump appear to be the same actor, with deepfake video-editing changing his facial features until he resembles Biden in one case and Trump in the other case,” says Alex Fink, an AI and machine-vision expert who analyzed the video for WIRED. “The editing is inconsistent, so you can see that in some cases he resembles Biden more and in others less. The facial features keep changing.”

An analysis by True Media, a nonprofit that was founded to tackle the spread of election-related deepfakes, found with 100 percent confidence that there was AI-generated audio used in the video. It also assessed with 78 percent confidence that some AI technology was used to manipulate the faces of the actors.

Fink says the obvious nature of the deepfake technology on display here suggests that the video was created in a rush, using a small number of iterations of a generative adversarial network in order to create the characters of Biden and Trump.

It is unclear who is behind the video, but “Bye, Bye Biden” has been promoted by the Kremlin-aligned network known as Doppelganger. The campaign posted tens of thousands of times on X and was uncovered by Antibot4Navalny, an anonymous collective of Russian researchers who have been tracking Doppelganger’s activity for the past six months.

The campaign first began on May 21, and there have been almost 4,000 posts on X promoting the video in 13 languages that were promoted by a network of almost 25,000 accounts. The Antibot4Navalny researchers concluded that the posts were written with the help of generative AI technology. The video has been shared 6.5 million times on X and has been viewed almost 5 million times.

Among the prominent accounts sharing the video was Russian Market, which has 330,000 followers and is operated by the Swiss social media personality Vadim Loskutov, who is known for praising Russia and criticizing the West. The video was also shared by Tara Reade, who defected to Russia in 2023 in a bid for citizenship. Reade also accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993.

The video, researchers tell WIRED, was also manipulated in a bid to avoid detection online. “Doppelganger operators trimmed the video at arbitrary points, so they are technically different in milliseconds and therefore are likely considered as distinct unique videos by abuse-protection systems,” the Antibot4Navalny researchers tell WIRED.

“This one is unique in its ambiguity,” Fink said. “It's maybe a known Russian band, but maybe not, maybe a deepfake, but maybe not, maybe has reference to other politicians but maybe not. In other words, it is a distinctly Soviet style of propaganda video. The ambiguity allows for multiple competing versions, which means hundreds or articles and arguments online, which leads to more people seeing it eventually.”

As the Kremlin ramps up its efforts to undermine the US election in November, it is increasingly clear that Russia is willing to utilize emerging AI technologies. A new report published this week from threat intelligence company Recorded Future highlighted this trend by revealing that a campaign, which has been linked to the Kremlin, has been using generative AI tools to push pro-Trump content on a network of fake websites.

The report details how the campaign, dubbed CopyCop, used the AI tools to scrape content from real news websites, repurpose the content with a right-wing bias, and republish the content on a network of fake websites with names like Red State Report and Patriotic Review that purport to be staffed by over a 1,000 journalists—all of whom are fake and have also been invented by AI.

The topics pushed by the campaign include errors made by Biden during speeches, Biden’s age, poll results that show a lead for Trump, and claims that Trump’s recent criminal conviction and trial was “impactless” and “a total mess.”

It is still unclear how much impact these sites are having, and a review by WIRED of social media platforms found very few links to the network of fake websites CopyCop has created. But what the CopyCop campaign has proved is that AI can supercharge the dissemination of disinformation. And experts say this is likely just the first step in a broader strategy that will likely include networks like Doppelganger.

“Estimating the engagement with the websites themselves remains a difficult task,” Clément Briens, an analyst at Recorded Future, tells WIRED. “The AI-generated content is likely not garnering attention at all. However, it serves the purpose of helping establish these websites as credible assets for when they publish targeted content like deepfakes [which are] amplified by established Russian or pro-Russian influence actors with existing following and audiences.”

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i like talking, reading, cooking, writing, gym, naps, editing, 8 ball;

sports formula 1, tennis, soccer, american football, volleyball, hockey, golf, boxing;

movies top gun, maze runner, divergent, hunger games, project x, harry potter, percy jackson;

shows the 100, criminal minds, house of the dragon, game of thrones, lapd swat, one chicago, suits, greys anatomy, percy jackson and the olympians, the walking dead, baby, the rookie;

music j. cole, a$ap rocky, adele, frank ocean, zach bryan, taylor swift, gracie abrams, amy winehouse, kendrick lamar, pheobe bridgers, billie eilish, cigarettes after sex, queen, backstreet boys; add my airbuds and spotify! 🤍

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Made this posted based off my friends! ( @ribbonlocket i love you!), just a quick intro post that i’ll try to keep this brief (parents choose thought daughter)

Welcome to my blog! you can call me alexandra or any nickname you find for the name, though most my friends call me nat or alie some occasions liv/livy. i’ve been on tumblr since 2022 on another account but decided to start fresh, im a big sports and show watcher however i do seems to lack on movies but i am always willing to take suggestions from friends. i listen to everything music wise and watch many sports because of my dad! aways there on race sundays. fav driver in daniel ricciardo as i see myself in him alot, favourite and comfort actress lindsey morgan, the sweetest and i love her. i love talking though it might take me a while to get comfortable, always open to making new friends. feel free to add me on instagram or tik tok . and shoot me a text! add my wattpad (dcrksister) if you would like, once again have a great time and welcome again! 🤍