#TRUISH TRUE

[creativecuquilu]

"I am really waiting for a splash of water." The Experimental Gadget that defines my hot thoughts today in class. Artwork (c) @CreativeCuquiLu Inspector Gadget (c) DIC Entertainment Corp.

[meltdownwillbeawesomethisweekend]

"Fact, celebrities and others that willingly chose to be on the RC, as part of their job, open themselves up to criticism and that is true of men, women, and those who are gender fluid. Part of the job description" this may be true-ish, but I think there's a line between criticism and being genuinely MEAN. Abby's known to shame make comments that are completely out of bounds. Surprised her issue is with Darren and not Mia this time. She just wants to bitch, no one cares THIS much about an outfit

I guess I agree about it being truish (even though I don’t like doing it, cause I know I would hate someone to do that to me).

And that’s true, not liking something is one thing. I saw lots of people on twitter not liking it, and that’s Okay. You don’t need to like it. But what she does is not not liking, she’s shaming him over that outfit. It’s freaking clothes, as you said, no one cares that much about that outfit.

I guess the problem is with Darren, cause he’s sending her an image that she doesn’t recognize, he sends her that 90s lover image, the rockstar. She deeply hates that Darren cause he scares her, he’s too far from Blarren, the only one she likes, she can’t get around that look so as everytime she can’t understand something or gets her head around something, she lashes out and loses it, and meltdowns. She’s scared cause the image he sends her is the Darren she hates from the bottom of her heart. And she’s scared shitless he’s the real one, not Blarren.

[cut-to-thespace-blog]

Small Town Life

Honestly, i’ve seen a bunch of posts about small town aesthetics and what not, and as someone who grew up in a small (ish) town those aesthetics are kind of accurate. But like, I live in a small town in California, so it’s different kind of small town than a lil’ southern town. Sort of, still racists but hey that’s America. 

So technically, it’s considered desert where i live yet we’re an hour away from the coast but it is California so that means no fucking water and on the one week of rain we get a year (if we’re lucky) there’s always part of road that floods and fucks everyone over because there is literally two ways to get out of town so when we catch on fire we are fuckeddddd.

but anyway, the things that are true about (my) small town are:

Having a Main Road: we have a main road that goes through town (as ya probs guessed) that dead ass used to be called ‘Cold Grave Road’ because until about ten years ago there was only two traffic lights on the whole dammed thing. fucking two. 

Big Fields: yeup, we have a shit ton of big open fields that used to be for diary farms but they moved out bc there ain’t no water. Now it’s just for hay and solar fields. 

A Town Center: kind of? Like we do have a town center with a gas station and one of our three restaurants. The town council is also there so yey. 

Farms everywhere: again, truish. There’s avocado groves, chicken farms, and horse ranches. Oooh, there’s one right on the other side of the road from me that during the summer uses blanks to train their horses to not spook from gun shots. (Don’t worry, no animals are harmed or shot jesus it’s not the wild wild west). 

Religious: uh yes. yes yes yes yes, like there’s more churches than I can fucking count. I mean there’s one right by the high school. Within spittin’ distance from the baseball fields.

uh what else, I mean we don’t have an actual hospital. The nearest one is probably an hour away. There’s more veterinarians than human doctors. But we do have a dentist now! So suck that. We have one school district that every fucking kid goes through so we all know each other for years, y e a r s. 

[geofflewriter]

The Articled Particle: True Or Truish?

The Articled Particle: True Or Truish?

Ish. The names are changed while the timing isn’t. I did impersonate a client briefly and I did work for one who spent ages trying to escape the Eye’s clutches and suing them, or threatening to. No milkmaids were harmed however. I did surprise and embarrass the senior partner on his leaving his club when I bumped into him as I reversed out a sex shop in Soho. But I had been serving the owner…

[windnburg]

seasons tag

thank you @mayor--whiskers for tagging me :-)

Answer the 12 questions (There’s 12 months in a year.. so why not? ) and tag 5 other simblrs!

1. What is your favorite season?

spring bc its the perfect balance of winter and summer w/o bugs most of the time??

2. Do you prefer warmer or colder weather?

colder tbh

3. What do you do on a rainy day?

take good NAPS and watch netflix/play sims

4. How is a typical winter where you live? Cold or not?

its gonna be 90 degrees f tmrw and then rain all weekend!!!! luv it

5. Have you ever experienced snow?

ya

6. True or false? “I LOVE RAIN!”

truish kinda

7. What is your go to food in the summer?

ice cream because ice cream

8. What is your favorite ice cream flavour?

cookie dough or white chocolate macadamia 

9. Coffee, tea or cocoa? EVERYTHING?

coffee

10. Describe your favorite seasonal clothing item!

SWEATERS AND SWEATSHIRTS i wear them all year round

11. What is your favorite Holiday?

probably christmas bc cute famiy time

12. If you we’re a season, which one would you be?

probably fall bc all i wear is sweaters

i tag @winterbjorn @jupidella @bbysim @whistsims and @mangobyte if you’ve already done this just ignore it :-)

[little-niggah-sugar]

ugh is Bo Rhap coming out earlier in the UK?? you mean i’m gonna have to basically not be on Tumblr for over 1 week because it will be spoilers ahoy?! 

i mean, yeah, it’s presumably all true or truish things so i know the basic story, but what they show & don’t show, how they show it, etc. is important, so i can’t risk seeing people’s reactions til i see it.

[rezhood]

@halcyonicponderer

I’m aware this question wasn’t actually at me but the “Barbara was originally Bruce’s love interest” is a truish but false statement. At the time of Barbara’s debut she was a woman old enough to have a doctrine, and although Bruce and Barbara did have a semi-flirtatious relationship it never went anywhere. Her creators didn’t want people to think of her as a Kate or Bette Kane replacement, so they made a point of making Babs a more independent character. Barbara’s first love interest was always Jason Bard. So yeah I guess you could make the argument that Bruce and Babs were technically love interests, but they never dated or kissed and both consistently had other relationships so I’d personally say that isn’t true. I mean one time her and Clark went on a blind date does that make them love interests? It’s more than she ever did with Bruce. Babs had been fairly popular but she had always been a background character and so when the Bronze Age comics started presenting her a bit younger and pairing her with Dick it went over pretty well because she was not nearly as established as a main stake in comics. Now she has several decades of headlining her own comics, has hard characterization and relationships, so to me the two transitions aren’t comparable. If you like it that’s cool but I’m not alone in disliking DC’s treatment of Barbara’s character. If you want to read her silver age comics her debut is in Detective Comics 359 and she’s a fairly consistent background character (as far as background characters in comics go) right until Killing Joke.

Wow what a nice scene between Jason and Barbara I’m so glad they’re talking about their trauma and nothing else happened at all

[nyslovesfilm]

Save the Date: TV Premieres and Film Releases

The schedule of television premieres and film releases continues.  Below is a list of upcoming television shows and films that participated in New York State’s production and post-production tax credit programs with upcoming release/premiere dates.

Our Cartoon President – Season 2 – May 12 -- CBS Television Studios/Showtime This fresh, cutting-edge comedy presents the truish adventures of Trump's confidants and bon vivants - family, top associates, heads of government, golf pros and anyone else straying into his orbit - intrepidly exploring their histories and their psyches, revealing insights into what makes them so definitively Trumpian. Starring: Jeff Bergman, William Sadler, James Adoman (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)

LA’s Finest – Season 1 – May 13 – Sony/NBC In the spinoff series of the Bad Boys films, L.A.'s Finest follows Sydney Burnett, who last was seen in Miami taking down a drug cartel. She now has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna, a working mom with an equally complex past, Burnett is pushed to examine whether her unapologetic lifestyle might be masking a greater personal secret. These two women don’t agree on much, but they find common ground when it comes to taking on the most dangerous criminals in Los Angeles. Starring: Gabrielle Union, Zach Gilford, Jessica Alba (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)

Life Like – May 14 – Lionsgate/Sprockefeller Pictures An idealistic attractive young couple acquires a stunning, lifelike robot for guilt free help, but as the three grow closer, their perception of humanity will be altered forever. Starring: Drew Van Acker, Addison Timlin, Steven Strait (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum – May 17 – Summit Entertainment Super-Assassin John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassin's guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head - he is the target of hit men and women everywhere. Starring: Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

The Sun is Also a Star – May 17 – MGM/WarnerBros Natasha and her family have less than 24 hours before they are scheduled to be deported from New York to Jamaica. Further complications soon arise when Natasha meets and falls in love with Daniel, the son of Korean immigrants. Starring: Yara Shahidi (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

The Tomorrow Man – May 17 – Bleecker Street Films Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other's stuff. Starring: John Lithgow, Blythe Danner (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) 

Elementary – Season 7 – May 23 – CBS A modern take on the cases of Sherlock Holmes, with the detective now living in New York City. Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Aiden Quinn (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

She’s Gotta Have It – Season 2 – May 24 -- Netflix Nola Darling struggles to stay true to herself and her dreams while juggling three lovers in this Spike Lee series based on his breakout film. Starring: DeWanda Wise, Margot Bingham, Anthony Ramos (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

When They See Us – May 31 – Netflix Based on a true story that gripped the country, the limited series will chronicle the notorious case of five teenagers of color who were convicted of a rape they did not commit. Starring: Michael Kenneth Williams, Vera Farmiga, John Leguizamo (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

Fear of the Walking Dead – Season 5 – June 2 – AMC A Walking Dead spin-off, set in Los Angeles, following two families who must band together to survive the undead apocalypse. In Season 5, the group’s mission is clear: locate survivors and help make what’s left of the world a slightly better place. Their mission of helping others will be put to the ultimate test when our group finds themselves in uncharted territory, one which will force them to face not just their pasts but also their fears. Starring: Coleman Domingo, Lennie James, Jenna Elfman (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)

Late Night – June 7 – Amazon Studios A late-night talk show host suspects that she may soon be losing her long-running show and hires a female writer to help revitalize the program. Starring: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

Tales of the City – Season 1 – June 7 – Netflix A middle-aged Mary Ann returns to San Francisco and reunites with the eccentric friends she left behind. Starring: Laura Linney, Ellen Page, Olympia Dukakis (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

Pose – Season 2 – June 9 – Fox 21 Television Studios/FX Set in the 1980s, Pose is a dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene. Starring: MJ Rodriguez, Billy Porter, Dominique Jackson (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

Younger – Season 6 – June 12 – Paramount After being mistaken for younger than she really is, a single mother decides to take the chance to reboot her career and her love life as a 26-year old. Starring: Sutton Foster, Debi Mazar, Hillary Duff (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

The Dead Don’t Die – June 14 – Focus Features The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead. Starring: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

City on a Hill – June 16 - Showtime An assistant district attorney forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran; together, they take on criminals in a case that grows to involve and ultimately subvert Boston's entire criminal justice system. Starring: Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Jill Hennessy (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

Instinct – Season 2 -- June 16 – CBS A former CIA operative, who has since built a "normal" life as a gifted professor and writer, is pulled back into his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer on the loose. Starring: Alan Cumming, Bohana Novakovic, Daniel Ings (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

Child’s Play – June 21 – MGM/Orion A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Brian Tyree Henry (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)

The Loudest Voice – June 30 – Blumhouse Television/Showtime A look at the rise and fall of former Chairman and CEO of Fox News, Roger Ailes. Starring: Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Seth MacFarlane (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)

[theliterateape]

Your True Personal Story is About 60% Horseshit

By Don Hall

Many in the storytelling scene tout the fact that the stories are true, personal narratives. Some talk an awful lot about telling their Truth as if that is somehow more authentic or truish than truth. The fact is, they're all (mostly) lying. Or maybe not lying but at least unaware that their truth is likely to be fiction.

I expected some deficiencies of memory — partly because the events I was writing about had occurred fifty or more years earlier, and most of those who might have shared their memories, or checked my facts, were now dead; and partly because, in writing about the first fifteen years of my life, I could not call on the letters and notebooks that I started to keep, assiduously, from the age of eighteen or so. 

I accepted that I must have forgotten or lost a great deal, but assumed that the memories I did have—especially those that were very vivid, concrete, and circumstantial — were essentially valid and reliable; and it was a shock to me when I found that some of them were not. 

A striking example of this, the first that came to my notice, arose in relation to the two bomb incidents that I described in Uncle Tungsten, both of which occurred in the winter of 1940–1941, when London was bombarded in the Blitz: 

One night, a thousand-pound bomb fell into the garden next to ours, but fortunately it failed to explode. All of us, the entire street, it seemed, crept away that night (my family to a cousin’s flat) — many of us in our pajamas — walking as softly as we could (might vibration set the thing off?). The streets were pitch dark, for the blackout was in force, and we all carried electric torches dimmed with red crêpe paper. We had no idea if our houses would still be standing in the morning. 

On another occasion, an incendiary bomb, a thermite bomb, fell behind our house and burned with a terrible, white-hot heat. My father had a stirrup pump, and my brothers carried pails of water to him, but water seemed useless against this infernal fire — indeed, made it burn even more furiously. There was a vicious hissing and sputtering when the water hit the white-hot metal, and meanwhile the bomb was melting its own casing and throwing blobs and jets of molten metal in all directions

A few months after the book was published, I spoke of these bombing incidents to my brother Michael. Michael is five years my senior, and had been with me at Braefield, the boarding school to which we had been evacuated at the beginning of the war (and in which I was to spend four miserable years, beset by bullying schoolmates and a sadistic headmaster). My brother immediately confirmed the first bombing incident, saying, “I remember it exactly as you described it.” But regarding the second bombing, he said, “You never saw it. You weren’t there.” 

I was staggered by Michael’s words. How could he dispute a memory I would not hesitate to swear on in a court of law, and had never doubted as real? “What do you mean?” I objected. “I can see the bomb in my mind’s eye now, Pa with his pump, and Marcus and David with their buckets of water. How could I see it so clearly if I wasn’t there?” 

“You never saw it,” Michael repeated. “We were both away at Braefield at the time. But David [our older brother] wrote us a letter about it. A very vivid, dramatic letter. You were enthralled by it.” 

Clearly, I had not only been enthralled, but must have constructed the scene in my mind, from David’s words, and then appropriated it, and taken it for a memory of my own. 

— Oliver Sacks

SOURCE

As much as I know that my memory is far more malleable than I think it is, all of the science behind memory indicates that, not only is memory imperfect, it is constantly reforming itself every time we recollect a specific event. It's like retracing a picture with a big crayola over and over until the picture no longer even resembles its original state. Neurologists long ago demonstrated how erroneous and unreliable eyewitness testimony is and yet we place most of the weight of jury verdicts on exactly that. Most religious texts were written as first hand anecdotes and most were written decades after these first hand accounts occurred, yet many people swear to the absolute truth of these stories. We simply refuse to believe what empirical evidence shows us — our memories are like Silly Putty and are constantly changing what we see as Objective to wholly Subjective. When I go to a live lit night and hear a story of a horrible break up, I know that it is likely at least 60 percent complete horseshit. Not necessarily intentional horseshit or even the standard "He Said/She Said" Rashomon horseshit but total fiction. More disconcerting is the fact that it is highly (as in statistically probable) likely that 60 percent of my own stories are horseshit as well. That in the prism of the liquid memory pool, primordial and without concrete shape, my very own experiences have somehow transmorphed from the Objective Facts to the ramblings of an old woman who swears she saw that specific young man shoot that other young man from her fourth story window in the rain.

Now add these inconvenient facts to the practice of the Call Out. If most of our personal recollections are fiction, how can we legitimately believe 60 percent of the accusations or defenses of pretty much everyone? Without hard evidence to back it up, are we willing to take it on faith alone? In cases like Cosby or Weinstein (when scores of accusers corroborate the narrative), I think we're safe to believe the tale but when it's a one-on-one situation?

"But it happened to me, too!" you rail. Are you sure? Is there any corroboration from others? Do you have any kind of hard evidence? Dr. Sacks published his account as fact in a book that was written, re-written, edited, re-edited, printed en masse and sent out into the world and it decidedly did not happen to him. His account, I'll add, was not completely stained with the emotional reaction of trauma, either.

I'm not trying to suggest that we should not "believe her." I am suggesting that belief without prosecution, investigation and skepticism is a blind and stupid approach. The Big Existential Question begged then is "What is Truth and How Can We Tell Who's Telling It?" If we're all merely sort of making it up as we go along, aren't we all just a bunch of Alzheimer patients passing the time with fictionalized hyperbole designed to make us look heroic or victimized? If we're all shifting and changing our truth, what does it say about someone when they tell a true story about how marginalized they are or how impeachable?

And if we're all just lying our ass's off, does Trump & Co. get a pass?

[theonmega]

Episode 14 | Our Cartoon President | Season 3

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Hiding Joe Biden | The true-ish adventures of Trump's confidants and bon vivants — family, top associates, heads of government, golf pros and anyone else straying into his orbit — intrepidly exploring their histories and their psyches, revealing insights into what makes them so definitively Trumpian. It's a workplace comedy where the office happens to be oval; it's a character study in search of character, as seen through the eyes of an imaginary documentary crew.

⛊ Watch Our Cartoon President Season 3 Episode 14 "Hiding Joe Biden" On Showtime ⛊

⛊ Episode Info

Show: Our Cartoon President Number: Season 3, Episode 14 Airdate: Oct 11, 2020 at 20:30 Runtime: 30 minutes

⛊ Our Cartoon President

From executive producer Stephen Colbert comes this hilarious look into the Trump presidency, animation style. Starring two-dimensional avatars of Donald Trump and his merry band of insiders and family members, this cutting-edge comedy presents the truish adventures of Trump, his confidants and bon vivants. It's a workplace comedy where the office is oval, a character study in search of character, and a timely political send-up of our always-colorful forty-fifth president and his family. Trust us, it's yuge, and you're going to laugh bigly.

⛊ Show Info

Network: United States Showtime (2018 - now) Schedule: Sundays at 20:30 (30 min) Status: Running Show Type: Animation Genres: Comedy Episodes ordered: 18 episodes Created by: Stephen Colbert Chris Licht Matt Lappin R.J. Fried Tim Luecke Official site: www.sho.com

[theonmega]

Hiding Joe Biden Ep. 314 | Our Cartoon President | SHOWTIME

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Hiding Joe Biden | The true-ish adventures of Trump's confidants and bon vivants — family, top associates, heads of government, golf pros and anyone else straying into his orbit — intrepidly exploring their histories and their psyches, revealing insights into what makes them so definitively Trumpian. It's a workplace comedy where the office happens to be oval; it's a character study in search of character, as seen through the eyes of an imaginary documentary crew.

⛊ Watch Our Cartoon President Season 3 Episode 14 "Hiding Joe Biden" On Showtime ⛊

⛊ Episode Info

Show: Our Cartoon President Number: Season 3, Episode 14 Airdate: Oct 11, 2020 at 20:30 Runtime: 30 minutes

⛊ Our Cartoon President

From executive producer Stephen Colbert comes this hilarious look into the Trump presidency, animation style. Starring two-dimensional avatars of Donald Trump and his merry band of insiders and family members, this cutting-edge comedy presents the truish adventures of Trump, his confidants and bon vivants. It's a workplace comedy where the office is oval, a character study in search of character, and a timely political send-up of our always-colorful forty-fifth president and his family. Trust us, it's yuge, and you're going to laugh bigly.

⛊ Show Info

Network: United States Showtime (2018 - now) Schedule: Sundays at 20:30 (30 min) Status: Running Show Type: Animation Genres: Comedy Episodes ordered: 18 episodes Created by: Stephen Colbert Chris Licht Matt Lappin R.J. Fried Tim Luecke Official site: www.sho.com