#Refutation of time

[artoile]

I know I haven't updated Refutation of Time in well over a year but every time I listen to this song I can't stop thinking about how I've written hakuba in that story Q_Q I WILL FINISH THIS FIC ONE DAY. IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO.

[redrobin-detective]

There's some inherent tragic horror in the fact that Simon canonically doesn't remember much of what he did as Ice King, just 'dreamlike impressions'. I imagine he remembers people, certain significant moments but otherwise it's kind of a blur. Simon is over a thousand years old but he barely remembers any of it. Not to mention the non-magical human brain isn't built to contain so much memory so any attempts to recall could be dangerous for him.

Imagine how terrible it is to be told a story of yourself acting strange and manic and pathetic and terrible and there's no internal context for it. It may as well have happened to someone else in a dream but its the personality and actions most people know you by. Simon hears an outrageous story of Ice King and who knows if it's real or not? He barely knows who the man was.

[redstonedust]

i keep thinking about the "belgian scam ring" conspiracy because it think it betrays a misunderstanding of how internet scams work.

like, the majority of scammers don't really spend their time carefully maintaining a story? they're often low effort by design. i got a series of spam emails recently telling me they'd recorded me masturbating through my webcam and i need to give them bitcoin or they'd send the footage to all my contacts. my webcam is never plugged in and i have no email contacts, i know that's bullshit, but it doesn't matter because i imagine they're sending that same email to a thousand people, and statistically at least one of them will fall for it. it's the same with the classic nigerian prince style emails, or the 'my cat is sick' posts from near-empty blogs with stolen photos. there's just not much point crafting a story to cover your ass when a half assed one will catch a few easy marks.

so seeing some users peddle the idea that the majority of palestinian gofundmes are fake and everyone who verifies them is actually in on it is like... farfetched? or at least it would be a logistical nightmare. i'm not gonna say high effort, organised scams have never existed, and i'm not gonna begrudge people for being cautious with their funds. but at some point the reality you have to construct is so convoluted that i can only assume it's just an excuse to avoid saying that you don't want to donate to people. and that's your choice, but at least be honest about it, because trying to discredit fundraisers based on flimsy evidence is doing tangible damage in the real world.

[redroyalblues]

ok y’all so like i’ve just noticed that there almost seems to be a split second where henry/nick smiles? right after “come on 🤪 loosen up 🤪”

exhibit a:

exhibit b:

and dudes… this is gonna be my undoing i need to know, if this is him smiling, is this a henry being smitten smile or a nick not being able to keep a straight face smile i NEED to know it’s very important for obsession purposes

(screenshots come from gif by @chenfordsbee thank u)

[mamawasatesttube]

bruce characterization is so hard because he really has been written all over the place. generally i try to think of him as a man who really does mean well, but whose drive for justice and unprocessed traumas can blind him to his shortcomings and lead to him inadvertently hurting his children. i also think that comics are a medium that doesn't usually lend itself well to character growth, because they to maintain a certain status quo to keep telling stories from, and so the bruce in my mind would honestly develop and learn from his mistakes a lot better than canon bruce actually does, because for someone who espouses the values he does, it makes no sense for him to completely stagnate, right. he's a puzzle you can put together in a lot of different ways and it's fascinating but also can be such a pain because of all the different books writing him in so many different ways, but characterizing him solely as an asshole is just boring and reductive imo...

...but all of that said i still think if martha kent ever found out how he talked to kon in sb94 #85 or in those issues of batgirl '00, she should be allowed to beat his ass with a pitchfork. yknow?

[wardensantoineandevka]

I see there's posts floating around directly and blatantly arguing against mine (same wording) by completely misunderstanding what I said. I'm fucking BACK, babey. Should've bought some hay-scented fragrance while I was at Sephora today, because I am once again your strawman!

[thatscarletflycatcher]

LOL. This man is calling My Lady Ludlow "a beautiful idyll" "in the same vein" of Cranford and Wives and Daughters. LMAO.

[baeshijima]

the itoshi brothers through the years ...

[anamericangirl]

I love how when Christians get called out by using the Bible against em they just say you don't understand the Bible instead of actually refuting anything or explaining why the Bible doesn't actually mean what the Bible says. The critics seem to have way more understanding of your holy text than any of you do.

Lol you wish

[jadelemonadee]

it hurts……..it hurts so bad

[beatsforbrothels]

Digable Planets - What Cool Breezes Do

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Digable Planets released their debut album Reachin’ (A New Refutation Of Time And Space) February 9, 1993

[mikesbasementbeets]

"if they don’t tell me explicitly that mike was never attracted to el then that means he was"

[removes hands while kissing]

[unresponsive to kiss & "i love you," eyes wide open]

[the sunglasses stay on during kiss, also get off me you're crushing the flowers i carefully placed right in between us]

[no fear]

[one fear]

"idk if they don’t make it clear to me that he doesn’t love el romantically then that means he does"

"they haven't given any indication yet that he doesn't like girls..."

"yeah, mike has definitely shown attraction to girls"

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[lover-of-mine]

I am absolutely obsessed with how in every single interview Ryan managed to shut down whatever new nonsense is being peddled about him/Eddie by certain fans. 😂

He just says the exact right thing. It's amazing. It's getting harder to believe he's not out here on eddiebuddieblr and keeps up with what he needs to refute and how to keep us happy skpskspakapakapa

[climbdraws]

I can't believe we're really doing biden vs trump again

[madamelareinette]

There is no clear evidence that Franz Joseph cheated on his wife [in 1860]. However, as contemporaries repeatedly made allusions to it and this slight represented a major break in the couple's life together, an affair on the part of the emperor cannot be ruled out. What can be ruled out, however, is that he infected Elisabeth with a venereal disease. The prescription books, which record all the illnesses of the members of the imperial family, including venereal diseases ranging from gonorrhea to syphilis, do not contain any treatments for Franz Joseph. Elisabeth was also only given medication for digestive complaints, anemia and coughs. While Emperor Franz Joseph was prescribed cocaine for coughs for decades, Elisabeth's cough powder contained cannabis, which had a much weaker effect on coughs and was primarily used in the 19th century to treat loss of appetite and nervous disorders, but also, as in the case of Queen Victoria of England, for menstrual cramps.

– Katrin Unterreiner (2023). Sisi: Das geheime Leben der Kaiserin (DeepL translation)