#cite your sources please

[heckyeahgnome]

Crypto-academia

“How did you know that? You didn’t cite a source or any specific research”

“I… don’t know; it came to me in a dream.”

Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real

[ambxtxo]

Sorry to post politics on main, but some of you pro-palestine people are missing the point when it comes to the US election.

At this point, there is really no alternative to voting for Kamala. RFK is not getting elected. Trump would be infinitely worse for the Israel-Palestine conflict (as well as other conflicts! and our well-being in general).

Stop virtue signaling and actually do something (vote) so that America can have a better leader than Trump. That’s all. We’re not voting for our next Messiah, we’re not voting between two perfect angels, it’s a US presidential election.

And those of you saying that Kamala is “committing genocide” really need to get things into perspective. The Vice President does not have the power to furnish weapons to Israel. Israel’s prime minister is acting in direct defiance of the Biden/Harris administration’s wishes and Harris has been the most vocal in asking for a ceasefire.

The Palestine conflict is not an excuse to not vote. Not voting makes it likely that Trump will win, history will go on whether you play a part or not. I want my reproductive rights back. Please.

[yuuchama]

Asking Lilia Vanrouge to tutor you in history sounds like a great idea, doesn't it? He seems to know a lot about historical events due to living through them and there's even a picture resembling him in your textbook. History is his best subject. What could go wrong?

You leave the tutoring session more confused than before. Lilia's knack for history is no joke, though his knowledge is all over the place.

Hardly any of what he says gets covered in class. It's probably not going to be on the test. He brings up the names of random people, common folk with no impact on the grand scheme of things. He drones on about these people for longer than necessary. He rambles about insignificant bits of their daily lives like an old man reminiscing about old friends and you don't know how to stop him.

"Patricia really hated when they implemented the new calendar system, khee hee hee! Said it made her miss a date with this lad she fancied, but it all worked out in the end. He came to find her after a while and they went steady. Never met him. Heard he was a paper boy. The kind that makes paper, mind you. Word has it that he made fine paper but I never much cared about the quality of paper."

Lilia starts floating off his chair as he becomes immersed in his own tale. He crosses his arms in thought. You stare at his exposed forehead as he turns upside-down, your pen hand at the ready in case he says anything actually useful.

"Ezekiel, though? He was a lad who was mad about paper. Oho. This was, oh, roughly 350 years ago. He penned a letter to the Shaftlands government to petition for lower taxes. About a decade after that blight incident that wiped out their food reserves. More than half their crops were being taxed and it was a brutally cold winter, he could barely afford firewood, but he still used the best parchment he could find. Said it made a stronger point to those in power. Oh, and his daughter was so angry about it!"

Lilia laughs. Three hours pass in this manner. He wafts through the air absentmindedly and bumps against your shoulder, sending him floating back in the other direction. When he drifts too far, he magically pops into another spot and makes you jump. He has a smile on his face, this is genuine fun for him.

You manage to fill in half a page with notes that seem kind of useful. You don't know how you'd source them in an essay, though, aside from "Lilia told me." You ask if he knows anything about the legendary Queendom of Roses Revolt and he launches into another unrelated story that happened around the same time about some really good chicken he once ate.

When you've had enough and the study session is over, Lilia thanks you. He gives you a piece of hard candy, its wrapper somewhat disheveled like it was in his pocket for a week. "It's important for kids like you to study hard," he says with a thumbs up. He pats you on the back before leaving. You consider asking Riddle for help the next time you have questions.

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

question for academic discussion: when did mulder realize he was in love with scully? and when did scully realize she was in love with mulder?

[souheki-lovechild]

ethereal beautiful meaningful soukoku and cringe fail loser soukoku are two concepts that can and should (and do) coexist

[puppppppppy]

(Shouting from a megaphone) please take whatever I say in good faith and imagine an “as far as I know” cited for everything I talk about

[randomewjjunk]

Alright, back to real facts now! The original Earthworm Jim's release date has always been up in the air, simply looking it up will give you several answers of varying quality. Some say it was released in April 1994 (which is false, the cheat screen disproves this, as the final build of the game was made in August 1994), and some say it was released in June 1994 (same answer as before). The game was likely released around August 1994 - October 1994.

[xofemeraldstars]

anon got that confused I think. tim and oliver said they planned the bi arc in s4 but that was with eddie - and fox shut it down. bringing tommy back was a last minute decision in s7

okay but im gonna need a source for this too cause i've known of the bi buck a few season back getting shut down but i'm not sure where the s4 really came from nor who it was supposed to be with.

sorry anons, but pls. sources? no more of this broken game of telephone and selective interview quotes i've been seeing floating around for weeks

[bizzybee429]

genuinely no hate towards the maker of the butch bracket bc I'm pretty sure ze are butch hirself but god those polls are so depressing. genuinely none of you know what a butch is, at all. like half the characters nominated aren't butch and either a) are made by sapphic creators specifically as not butch, but gnc and fem and androgyne, or b) made by non-sapphic creators and are just, like, vaguely masc, and NOT in the way where fandom as a whole points at them and goes "you're butch now," which is an acceptable fandom past-time by butches.

and some of the ACTUAL butch characters, like catra, are set to be ousted in the first round by characters that aren't even butch in the first place. y'all hate actually butch/masc lesbians and it shows.

[lafamilledelioncourt]

Go into education they said....

Young adults/older teens are different they said...

[thegooblet]

what is it with revolutionary girl utena video essayists and not citing their sources

[tytofurcata]

improper quote attribution my beloathed. why are you all making my job so hard

[kwistowee]

Hey! Wanted to ask a q about giffing. I saw your recent post about not reposting gifs, only reblogs. I totally get that, so how do gif reactions come into play? Like is it okay to search for a gif as a reply or comment? (or are thes two separate things im conflating?? Im such a tech grandma 😂). Anyway, i very much appreciate all the hard work you do! Your gifs are so lovely 💛

Thank you so much for wanting clarity and for appreciating gifmakers' efforts. I likewise love your writing and I'm grateful for all the hard work you put into crafting beautiful stories! ♥️ You're not the only one who has asked about this so I'm going to direct my answer to the masses:

Concerning my earlier post, reposting is when someone creates a post comprised of someone else's original creations without permission: that's never okay, whether you "give credit" or not. Reaction gifs are different. Adding a reaction gif to someone else's post is totally fine! It's part of the language of Tumblr, and the internet as a whole. Some of the greatest posts on this site are what they are because of the additional images and comments made as the post circulated. (Some of you are hiding absolute gold in your tags; please consider adding those thoughts as comments so that people can see them!)

When Tumblr added the gif search function back in 2015, many people understood what that was intended for and used that function to search for reaction gifs to add to existing posts. However, others used that function as a way to find gifs they liked, create an original post comprised solely of other people's work, and then claim that it was okay because at least they were "giving credit" ("yeah i took your stuff but at least i told everyone who i stole it from...").

Reposting is theft. Reposting removes the creator from their work and seriously damages the changes of others finding the creator. I've seen reposted work with thousands of notes, and brilliant comments and tags the original creator should have seen and enjoyed, but they didn't because someone stole that from them. I don't know a single semi-notable gifmaker on this site who hasn't experienced that and it is so disheartening. Reblogging, on the other hand, is wonderful and is what makes this site functional.

If someone asks you not to repost something they made, take it down without an argument. Telling someone they should expect other people to take their stuff if they post it online is like telling someone they should expect other people to steal their car if they park it outside of their garage. Of course it is a possibility, but we shouldn't expect or tolerate that kind of behavior. It is incredibly selfish to feel entitled to take anything you like. We should try to be respectful toward each other.

Learning the ins and outs of different social media platforms takes time, and I remember being in those shoes back in 2012 when I first stumbled onto Tumblr. I'm definitely willing to grant leeway if someone is unfamiliar with the etiquette of this goofy site. But I've also had plenty of far less pleasant interactions with reposters, almost always users who are fully aware of Tumblr etiquette (and basic common courtesy), but who chose to ignore it anyway. I have zero patience for that kind of disrespect toward myself or other creators. So, again, if I see anyone reposting my gifs, artwork, or creations OR someone else's gifs, artwork, or creations, I will block them immediately! You take my stuff and I block your access to the rest of it. So never repost. Reblog the original.

[annebrontesrequiem]

If you ever really want to know about Rasputin please read Douglas' Smith's excellent Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs please do not trust a random internet user

[kittycatcain]

next time someone who only watched teen titans 2003 says they hate terra im going to jump

[transificationbeem]

hey, op of the "10 jewish women in modern history" post you reblogged is a zionist who is anti palestine. i dont think you noticed bc u post pro palestine content but just letting u know

Hey anon can you or someone else like. Substantiate this? I know I'm a bit of a lurker but I as a rule refuse to believe things based on nothing but hearsay (and also tumblr's search is working like dogshit for me rn.) I'll take the reblog off my dash for the moment until I have and answer and do some of my own digging (and in the mean time/in case I forgor like the goldfish i am I suggest reading The Ghost and the Golem, which, despite IMO some fumbling of marketing regarding the tonal nature of the queer story at hand is a really cool story based on jewish folklore. And if someone comes at me about the authors views (if any are out there??) 1) i didnt know. 2) this is like 1/3rd a harry potter blog run by a trans guy who writes all the bullshit out of JKRs shitty books. Idk figure smth out. Read critically because every people is capable of shittiness regardless)

And also just like. Not specifically at OP but a general note of wisdom from Some Guy On The Internet: its uh. Generally never good to just Say Stuff like this without any proof. Like either its true and proof is available (hell at least tell me how you know that. Even if people lie on the internet thats better than a simple "hey this person sucks jsyk, trust me bro") or its just Vibes which is a TERRIBLE way to decide to inform people of things like this.

Especially with something pretty complex where a lot of people have unfortunately taken the opportunity to go full mask-off antisemitic in response to palestine's current plight. Also yes this blog is pro-palestine. I am however also firmly against antisemitism, just like. So the record is set lol.