#Your own Credibility

[saladscream]

Merlin’s penis is unimportant.

Arthur wants to be very clear about that.

Unimportant and as good as invisible. Inexistant.

Well, that is probably not a very fair or flattering way to put it, but Arthur only has Merlin’s best interest at heart. He doesn’t want Merlin’s penis to be thrown around the conversation with such callousness. Some things in life should remain sacred and a man’s member is absolutely no one’s business but his own.

Alas, it appears some scoundrels out there simply have no respect for the tacit etiquette that governs honest men’s lives. But then, this is Gwaine – what did Arthur expect?

And so Arthur doesn’t listen to the bawdy armoury chatter. He doesn’t want to listen.

What if Merlin’s dick is the prettiest dick Gwaine has ever seen?

Forsooth, has the man no shame?! Oh but Arthur knows what the prattler is doing, and he is fairly certain that the man has actually never seen Merlin’s manhood. Gwaine is merely baiting his fellow knights, luring them in with some savoury piece of gossip. And the tragedy is that the others are lapping it up.

It doesn’t take much to convince the evil little rumourmonger to deliver the lurid, improbable tale of how he came to be acquainted with a part of their friend that decency commands should stay firmly out of sight (and out of reach) from the likes of Gwaine.

Which is when the eager audience learns that not only is said dick pretty, but it is also, in fact, large.

‘Hung like a mule’ is the despicable turn of phrase that the wretch uses. And as though the statement required any enlargement, he adds that the cock at hand is rosy and firm and has a majestic upward curve that tilts slightly to the right when keen.

Arthur is of course outraged. To the point where his mouth feels dry and his heart dizzy.

And to his dismay, the other knights won’t shut up now. They clamour for more details and suitable points of reference. Elyan enquires about length, Percival about girth, while Lancelot remains suspiciously quiet and still – and a tad flushed.

In speechless desperation, Arthur seeks Leon’s bewildered eyes for support.

Gentle reader, there are no words to describe the abyss of betrayal that engulfs him when his longtime friend and right-hand man panics and squawks a ‘well, Arthur’s got a big prick too!’

A dubious and rather offensive hush comes over the men, and the only good thing to come out of Leon’s brainfart is that Merlin’s endowment seems to have been momentarily forgotten.

Utterly defeated and terminally mortified, Arthur gets up on stiff legs and glides out of the armoury, his dignity in tatters.

Just you wait until he gets his hands on Merlin. The prat will rue the day he showed Gwaine his privates.

Just you wait.

Merlin’s arse is his.

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1 - Merlin's eyes

2 - Merlin's lips

3 - Merlin's hands

4 - Merlin's throat

5 - Merlin's hair

6 - Merlin's ears

7 - Merlin's legs

8 - Merlin's forearms

9 - Merlin's chest

10 - Merlin's penis

11 - Merlin's arse

[liones-s]

something I’m still learning is that things mended can be stronger. I spent so long being afraid of conflict because I thought it meant the end of things, and it wasn’t until I met people that understood both conflict and forgiveness that I learned how much you need mending in order to build. If you don’t know that mending is possible, you’ll spend all your time being afraid of every small slip-up until it feels like there’s no room to breathe. Meeting people that allow you to make mistakes and break things, and being someone who allows that in return, let’s you build a space where no one has to be afraid of being.

[rotomartsblog]

The reason EAH is a children’s franchise is because only a child who Doesn’t Understand Things could possibly consider Royal being the right stance

[trexalicious]

A legend in her own mind...🤣

[deservedgrace]

something that i've been struggling to articulate but has been bothering me for a while is how some christians engage and interact with science and what i'm realizing is they have a like... almost love-bombing/discarding relationship with it. and i recognize science isn't a person and that's not literally happening but the christians that i grew up around have this relationship with science where it's real/valid/correct if it supports their side and fake/invalid/wrong if it doesn't. it's this like... engaging with science to get something from it when it can prove their point and condemning it when it doesn't. and this also ties into the belief that you, a layperson with no background in science, are more knowledgeable than actual scientists simply because you have god on your side, and therefore you can use science in whatever way you see fit, which means engaging with it in a way that is ultimately anti-science (but that also doesn't matter because god said it was okay). and it's exhausting engaging with these people for me because it's not that they believe all science bad, it's that they believe most science bad but some science good and they have the authority to determine what is bad and what is good, despite, again, not having a background in science (because what is a "background in science" to an all-knowing god that you have a personal relationship with?). the thing that is so frustrating to me is how these people recognize science is valued and use it to strengthen the validity of their points and to gain credibility while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge the validity of science as a field at all or put in any effort to understand/respect it.

[heavencasteel420]

I’m also going to partially defend Jennifer as a name for gender-swapped Jonathan, on the basis that, while it was already popular in 1967, it wouldn’t be the juggernaut that it would become just a few years later. Joyce didn’t have the internet and probably didn’t have a baby name book or even a wide social circle, so she probably wouldn’t realize that it was even that popular (#10 that year for girls). I read an article a while back that looked at the Jennifer explosion, and it said that initially parents thought of it as smart and romantic and a little unusual. My main reservation about Jennifer is that that would be at least a few Jennifers at Hawkins High, and I genuinely believe that it would dull her notoriety if every time someone talked about her they had to be like, “No, I’m talking about weird Jennifer. Jennifer Byers. Not glasses Jennifer. Yeah, glasses Jennifer is kind of weird, too, but…”

[bancaishi]

since there are still new people liking and reblogging my tally hall art/posts, old and new(ish), i figured i should make my stance clear. joe hawley has proven time and time again that he cannot be trusted to foster safe and appropriate interactions with his fans, especially those who are underage. and this is to say nothing of the extremely harmful and bigoted views he has repeatedly expressed surrounding race and gender.

any past art i have made of him or any appreciation i have for tally hall and their work does not include any support for him and his actions. in fact, it's more reason to condemn his behavior, for using the importance this band has to his underage audience to take advantage of them. i would advise any fans, minors or not, to take caution and avoid him, and to not put him up on a pedestal for the sake of others as well.

[screambirdscreaming]

Reading the rationalist article the other day, there was a passing mention of a guy called Nick Bostrom, which reminded me of something funny.

This guy's a harvard professor, and deep into the rationalist panic spiral about evil AI. (I don't know how he got to be a professor, maybe he used to do something more interesting. Maybe harvard is even more full of shit than expected. Who knows.) Anyway, some years back he wrote a book, which somehow got published. And I ended up at a book talk for it.

I wasn't actually there on purpose, though? It was a double-header event, and the other speaker was Randall Munroe of xkcd, also on a book tour. And in the interest of getting a good seat, and/or seeing what all this was about, I'd showed up early enough to catch the first talk also.

It was really, really bad. He had like, graphs that were supposed to be statistical models of outcomes of something, but one of the axes was just "badness". There was at some point a lightning bolt icon to represent ai smiting us all. He jumped right into this psuedo-statistical crap without even trying to justify the base claim that machine intelligence was capable of producing a sentient being that hated humanity - he assumed everyone was working from that position by default.

But as quickly became clear, not only me but the entire audience was actually there for Randall Munroe. Who has, lets say, a different style of analytical approach to reality.

It remains, to this day, the most roasted I have ever seen a presenter be at their own presentation.

[gibbearish]

btw similar to the whole "if you try adderall at a party and it calms you down, get an adhd test" thing, if at some point in your life you try microdosing shrooms with a friend and end up feeling like a functional person for the first time in your life, get tested for depression. like yeah hallucinogens come with elation so youre probably gonna have some "this is the best ive ever felt in my life" vibes regardless, but like. if that in and of itself feels like finally breathing in for the first time in years, thats for sure a sign that something is up with your ability to process serotonin most of the time. feeling better than ever before should be a nice bonus, not a crushing weight off your chest

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

i think what's really getting me about kozma claiming to have blown up the moon and also claiming to "be" the breach and basically equating "breach collaborators" and "my allies" in the same speech is that. the breach operative we've known since season one, the person who "is" the breach as far the story's concerned, is saskia. and midst is saskia's HOME! she built the black candle with her own two hands (metaphorically, at the very least), she LOVES it there and she loves those people :( and if we take kozma's story at face value, she just threw the "centerpoint" (according to imelda) of her own operation entirely under the bus and endangered the lives not only of innocent people but also of a bunch of her own operatives without their knowledge just to destabilize the trust and frankly that makes me kind of hope she IS telling the truth simply because that's the kind of betrayal i find absolutely delicious,

[teabutmakeitazure]

"we trust you as a group member you have a gaming laptop"

WHAT DO YOU MEAN

[i-merani]

Idk how to formulate this at length but Israel's support will cost America Europe, maybe not whole Europe but definitely big part of it (it will be under Russia's influence again) because Russia is using America's actions now to discredit America in the future (and who will say that Russia is wrong?) and there are already cracks in EU-US relations

[trexalicious]

A montage of mask slips...

[afterartist]

This user is: a Unicorn Academy hater

[redvelvetwishtree]

Israel can rot in hell

[leclerking]

sure lance being besties with estie is cute, but that doesn’t mean that lance doesn’t have other not so good friends including his zionist girlfriend, his friend oren alexander who’s also a zionist and an alleged r*pist along with his brother (lance was seen hugging oren and his wife at the miami gp this year) and a bunch of other zionists he’s friends with. it’s not surprising considering the very wealthy background he comes from.

What the hell