#Truth and lies

[icy-watch]

[Woman vocalizing]

[promptsforyourwhumpfic]

Whump Prompt #1327

Submitted by Anon - thanks!

I’ve been thinking about a whumpee who in the eyes of everyone around them (or even society) is the bad guy. Like, their whumper paints them to be this villian in order to isolate them from society and keep them under their grasp. To add insult to injury, at the beginning the potential caretaker believes all the rumors and whumper’s narrative to the point that they contribute to whumpee’s isolation. They’re just so against whumpee, they’ll disagree with them, overthink whumpee’s intentions, etc. But they’re not that harsh with Whumpee compared to others so in whumpee’s eyes they’re the kindest person to ever exits, that maybe they’re worthy of an ounce of kindness.

And when Caretaker finally finds out the truth (either through them just slowly realizing the true relationship of whumpee and whumper or like an event that triggers whumpee) they have no idea how to care for whumpee knowing that they contributed to whumpee’s suffering and that they barely scratched the surface. So they just try their best instead of resulting to inaction.

But like here’s the catch, so far in whumpee’s eyes caretaker has been the kindest to them, so now whumpee worries about caretaker’s sudden change in actions. (Because they’re not use to comfort)

(Bonus points if their whumper was possesive and often result to physical action and soft words laced with malice. And that’s how caretaker normally comforts people, so they try the same with whumpee only for whumpee to slip into the thinking that they were wrong about caretaker and that they don’t deserve such decency.)

[eldestdaughterdeans]

a lot of significance is placed (rightfully) on what the shapeshifter says as/about dean in 1x06 skin—the implied jealousy and resentment, but especially "sooner or later, everybody's going to leave me." oof.

but also relevant i think is some of what the shapeshifter says as dean/about himself to becky. particularly "maybe this thing was born human but was different. hideous and hated. until he learned to become someone else."

and what is dean winchester if not a consummate performer. a people pleaser. a shapeshifter of sorts. papering over the tender parts of himself that he considers hideous and fundamentally unlovable. the parallels go both ways.

[themenendezbrothers]

Menendez Homes - New Jersey, Calabasas, and Beverly HIlls.

source: Truth and Lies: The Menéndez Brothers — American Sons, American Murderers

[maespri]

congratulations kokichi ouma for winning The most misunderstood character award, even by people who like him

[ibiskos]

Ψεύτικος κόσμος

Ζούμε σε έναν κόσμο γεμάτο ψέματα.

Οι ζωές μας βασίζονται σε ψέματα.

Τι γίνεται όμως όταν μαθαίνουμε την αλήθεια;

Ο ψεύτικος κόσμος μας καταρρέει.

Σαν ένα κάστρο από γυαλί.

Και μαζί καταρρέουμε κι εμείς...

Δεν μπορούν οι άνθρωποι να λένε απλά την αλήθεια;

Κουράστηκα.

[notclevr]

Muskrat meddling in UK politics too

[laurachouettepoetry]

Shattered mirrors

on the living room floor,

a place where mirrors —

in any form —

should not be.

Lying and laying —

up and down the room

they reflect each whole thing,

its completeness,

as if the very sight

could harm us —

so perfect, so unreal

from their perspective.

I drown on the floorboards,

you waste my tears

by drying them.

All the lies,

the lies you told,

up and down the room

like mirrors, broken ones.

Truth reflects nothing

unless it’s broken.

Outside this room,

you roam the hallways,

searching for feelings within.

Dating a lie,

dangerous and monstrous

like your mind and soul.

Survival is a matter of time

and a dance on balanced sheets.

The shattered pieces still lie there —

waiting for completeness to end,

chaos ensuring perfection.

The lies fall still

in the afternoon light

that rests on the floorboards.

Breathing easily now,

vanishing glimpses —

truth fades slowly,

holding no place

between you and me

and all the lies you told.

- Laura Chouette

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t. -Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (via exhaled-spirals)

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There is a pattern to the universe and everything in it, and there are knowledge systems and traditions that follow this pattern to maintain balance, to keep the temptations of narcissism in check. But recent traditions have emerged that break down creation systems like a virus, infecting complex patterns with artificial simplicity, exercising a civilizing control over what some see as chaos. The Sumerians started it. The Romans perfected it. The Anglosphere inherited it. The world is now mired in it. The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity.

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

[scotland-wolves]

[social-truth]

Well it's going to be a long 4 years.

This isn't directly about Trump but I'm definitely going to be talking about his people too and that begins today with Elon musk doing a blatant Nazi salute. A blantant Nazi salute that the Trump supporting morons are already trying to claim was something else. So far I've heard/seen: he was just cheering, it's out of context, he was demonstrating "my heart goes out to you" etc.

In my 35 years of life I have never seen anyone say my heart goes out to you like that. I've lived in 9 countries and on 3 continents. No one in my family has ever seen someone demonstrate it like that and between us we've lived on 6 continents and been to over 150 countries including South Africa and have never seen it. It wasn't a demonstration of my heart goes out to you, it wasn't lost in translation, It wasn't anything except what it was. Elon Musk reminding us exactly who he is. Remember this is the same man who had to take a trip to see concentration camps to clean up his image because he was retweeting and promoting Antisemitic tweets. This is how this presidency is starting. Blatant Antisemitism that they are already trying to explain away or downplay. I

[icy-watch]

And of course he would go to Cole.

[rottenelusive]

Cause when he lied it meant he loved me

And when he lied it meant he cared

And when he lied it meant he loved me

Cause when he lied it meant that he was there

I am never going back I don't care what he said

I wish he could see the hate in my head

[kinialohaguy]

Veracity Of Pique

Aloha kākou. The fear of offending others and being offended. Uncomfortable Truths and Comforting Lies. Academia is a beast with no natural predators. As Douglas Murray explains, how those that are offended by free speech are more dangerous than we can begin to understand. Being accused of being a racist, for example is a sure way to shut down any debate. “Your comment is racist, and it offends…

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