#Interest check?

[winxwannabe]

So! Interest check on doing a tumblr live this weekend or early next week with a SUPER SECRET SURPRISE GUEST (that totally isn’t Bloom nope) where we shoot the shit about fandom, answer questions, and things of the like. Almost like a revival of the winx podcast but better because there’s no audio editing involved.

[lookitsryuu]

Reciept doodles?

I have so much brainrot for so many things, (mostly half life and undertale) but the problem is all the art I've created for them has been at work... on grocery store receipts. would anyone be interested in seeing them?

[llondonfog]

Would ever be willing to put your drabbles and fics in ao3? So I can download them and take the pain to go?

😭 would you guys really like that?? I certainly can!! I actually was just keeping them on my blog so I wouldn't clutter the AO3 tag with my nonsense since they're just short drabbles, but I'd be more than willing to compile them all by AU or by type and post them

(but oh my gosh I'm?? Thank you for the kind words, I'm so glad to know you enjoy them that much!!!! 💕)

[amourtoken]

would yall be upset if I wrote stepsibling content or nah

[danafeelingsick]

just so i know, is there any interest in the business man from the new pokemon? i saw him and thought: the belly kink people will go crazy over him, but as it turns out, i'm the belly kink people, just me.

[endingboyhansel]

If I was braver I’d make an entire essay about the 1975 film adaptation of Tommy just for fun

[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.

[posalis]

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

[swampybogg]

[lacystar]

Fictional Swingers bracket tournament. Only ideas so far: Lindana and her husband from pnf, morticia and Gomez, and that couple from bobs burgers

[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)

[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