#don't believe everything you read

[sunnyschristiancottage]

The number of people blindly believing all these Palestine GoFundMe accounts is honestly sad. Like, have these people never heard of a scam before? Do they not know to be careful with their money? Clearly not. There is no way every single one of those accounts are real. If I'm gonna donate for a cause, I'm gonna at least make sure that it's not just some scam. These people really can't think for themselves

[jediaxis101]

There's many articles of fake news on X

For example, this 1 person posted: a video of a man with a medium size travel bag and claimed an 12yearsold human was inside with this really sick details of what happened

But

This guy on X could have made the whole thing up as his own little fantasy and because he listed it as News for his "Story" is legal otherwise it would have been illegal to make a story like this...

Again

1 person posts about fake news that my mother's church believes as truth

For example: We all know Trump was shot by 1 sniper

But

"The fake news saying there was 2 snipers that shot at Trump"

The REAL News is that the Sniperer attacking Trump and the crowd, empty is magazine before he was shot dead by the USA Secret Forces Sniperer.

[thenasmithsstuff]

Whatever you do, don't take the blue pill

I'm afraid. 

I'm afraid of fame. of the people who run the industry. 

yeah, fame and money and designer shit sounds nice but what about your soul. 

What do you think happens to your soul? The stuff you're gonna have to do in order to be famous is something that should be against your morals. 

The truth is the industry is crooked. You think your boss is mean and unfair, wait till you meet their boss. 

It doesn't matter if they have money or a big house or designer shit, they are not happy, and they never will be. 

when you see actors and you tell me "oh they look happy don't you see them smiling?" they're actors, they've been trained to do that, it's their job. 

I cannot explain the rabbit hole of videos I scrolled through, so many, and people still have their eyes closed. 

They always tell the truth, in movies, tv shows, music. 

You can't trust no celebrity, no matter how nice and genuine they are, even if they are speaking truth. They're a puppet told to say that, some though, some fight through the Mk Ultra and tell the real stuff.

when that happens, and it does, they get silenced.

They lose everything, the money, fame, house, voice, family. 

There is a level of success and Jay-Z and Beyonce are at the top. you get to their level, you got nothing to be afraid of. At that point the demons have taken control of your body and your soul is crushed. 

and no you can't literally sell your soul, it's energy. Your soul is still a part of you, you just have to sacrifice something or somebody. 

It's not just celebrities that do it. 

For example, let's say your friend. They want to love somebody and they want somebody to love them. They will sacrifice something or somebody for that to happen. It could be an animal (most likely a snake, goat, lamb, chicken) or maybe reptiles. Or you. Their mother, father, brother sister, the list goes on. 

You don't have to kill animals or people, there are many other ways to devote yourself to the devil. 

I would personally advise you not to do everything I had just exposed you to. 

On TikTok there’s an account @acensionrise1 , the account is very underrated and there's stuff on there I didn’t even know existed! Those videos can explain this better than I can. 

The videos are about: Occult Sciencetists, SRA, Exposing The Golden Dawn, Exposing The Monarchy, Transhumanism Agenda, Occult Law & Property, Exposing O.T.O, Hollywood Clone Factory, Television Brainwashing, etc. 

All I ask is you open your eyes and see the truth that’s in plain sight. 

and do not, no matter what, take the blue pill. 

[cocoelle]

KANE LAWLER LEAD SINGER FOR SAPPHIRE SKIES SEEN LEAVING HOTEL WITH UNKNOWN MALE COMPANION ON TWO DIFFERENT NIGHTS.

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[delafiseaseses]

Y'know, it is always important t' not believe everythin' y'read as true. Because people make mistakes, wires get crossed an' sometimes things just ay true.

Oddly specific example

T' give a very oddly specific example, in Grand Theft Auto (the first 'un - GTA 1 y'may say) there's a character known by the name Dumb Kurt (GTA 1's name for 'im not mine) who very briefly appears. In the mission generally called 'Heist Almighty Porka Turbo'. After helpin' a lad wi' a bank job yer boss says this

'An overrated hitman called Dumb Kurt just hit town. Hit him with a rigged car.'

Now, y'don't actually needa kill Kurt wi' a rigged car. You can just shoot his car an' blow it up an' it'll work. As long as Kurt dies yer boss says

'Murdered Dumb Kurt? I'm prouda ya. Now, if only we could get rid of The Man...'

So, Kurt 'as a very, very simple story. Two sentences an' a bloke in a Beast GTS. 'ow much misinformation can there be, 'ey? Well, I've checked out three wikis on GTA (all Fandom, I'm sorry t' say). An' there's some words that aren't true there.

First result on the Google search 'gta 1 dumb kurt' 'as the first quote an' the first paragraph of it is accurate in that it jus' says he's a minor character from GTA 1.

Then things go down'ill as the next paragraph labelled 'Background' says 'No background is given to Dumb Kurt. He is described as an "overrated hitman" and nicknamed "The Man".'

Kurt is never called The Man, The Man brought up in the second line is like the phrase 'stick it to The Man'. The Man is a concept our nameless boss in Bubby's gang is dreamin' of gettin' rid of.

So, that's a shame. Then there's a headin' labelled 'Events of Grand Theft Auto' where it says 'In 1997, the GTA Protagonist is hired by the Vercotti Crime Family contact to kill Dumb Kurt for being a major threat to the family. The protagonist locates the hitman and uses a car bomb to kill him.

Alternatively, the player can simply blow up his blue Beast GTS in northeast Kings with gun shots to complete the mission.'

That's also got some issues. It's got some truth in it an' Kurt's car is indeed a blue Beast GTS an' I appreciate the fact it references the fact that the car jus' needs t' be destroyed, but 'a major threat'? The Contact calls Kurt 'overrated' specifically. Which makes it rather unlikely that that was the motive. There's no real reason given for why Kurt got taken out, as I showed via those game quotes. This wiki also 'as a lista all the named characters killed by the Protagonist on which it says 'Dumb Kurt - Killed for being a threat to the Vercotti Crime Family.' an' I still disagree wi' that extrapolation.

So, that was a wiki, luckily there's two more wikis I've found on this first page. Next 'un first calls Kurt jus' Kurt before sayin' 'better known as Dumb Kurt' in its openin' line an' while its not directly said that his name is just Kurt an' 'Dumb' is a nickname, I think we can all agree its prob'ly a nickname due t', well, the fact that 'Dumb' would be a rather unusual given name an' its an adjective (though its unknown if Kurt calls himself that or its a mean-spirited nickname by our unidentified handler, so I've decided I shall only call 'im Kurt for the most part). So that's fine.

In the brief 'Character history' 'owever it says this 'Dumb Kurt is, in 1997, a Liberty City resident who is killed by the protagonist.'

Now, it might be a bit of a nitpick, but considerin' that our mission-giver explicitly says that Kurt 'just hit town' I don't really agree wi' him bein' a resident of LC. It's not clear if Kurt was there t' stay, there on a job, jus' passin' through, attendin' a wedding or whatever else. There's two sentences.

An' the final Wiki I found on the front page of Google 'as an entry on Kurt as parta a 'Characters in GTA 1' page wi' his entry 'aving his name, the fact he has no known Associations an' the brief description 'Dumb Kurt is a hitman who is killed by the protagonist.' which is accurate an' I 'ave no debate with.

Conclusion

So, yeah, that was a very frivolous example, I'm sure yer'll agree. I don't think this random hitman who gets hit from GTA 1 is very important an' I jus' wrote all that, but it highlights somethin' important.

Not all information out there in the world is accurate. Primary sources am better than somebodies words. I day provide any sources that what I jus' said is true, so I might be misleadin' ya meself. Maybe there's a line if y'some'ow fail the mission where there's a line line "Great job, kid, now Dumb Kurt is going to be a problem for us. I'm gonna hit you with a truck." or somethin' like that. I've not actually checked an' I'm admittin' that.

[canisalbus]

translated by GT

Today I learned that the Pope has the right to appoint secret cardinals, and even the cardinals themselves may not realize that they now have a new position. Popes have the right to make the name public at any time, but if the Pope dies before the Cardinal's name is made public, the individual ceases to be a Cardinal.

Yes, Catholicism is weird.

But more importantly, there is only one person in the world who can prove that I am not a cardinal.

.

[azaracyy]

a lesson on good karma digimon survive week 2024 day 4: supporting characters

[rmbunnie]

Red Hood Characterization

This is really long so I'm putting a cut here, I've been thinking about Jason Todd's character motivations and the question of whether or not his actions are based in a Moral Code (I don't think so, not to say he's without any morality) and I talk about that in more depth here.

I saw someone say on here that Titans: Beast World: Gotham City was some of the best Jason Todd internal writing they'd seen in a while, and I've been a Red Hood fan for 8 years or so now? pretty much since I read comics for the first time, so I went and checked out and I thought it was good! The way the person I saw talking about it as if it was rare and unusual made me wonder though, because as well-written as i thought his stances on crime were, there wasn't really anything in it that went against the way I conceptualize Jason?

This kinda plays into a larger question I've been thinking about for a while with Jason though, which is that, do people think that the killing is part of a fundamental worldview that motivates him a la batman, and that worldview is the reason he does the things he does?? Because 8 years ago i was a middle schooler engaging with fiction on the level that a middle schooler does, so I simply did not put much thought into it beyond "poor guy :(" but ever since I actually started trying to understand consistent characterization, I don't really see Jason as someone who's motivated by a moral code in his actions the way batman or superman is!

tbh my personal read is that he's a very socially-motivated guy, his actions from resurrection to his Joker-Batman ultimatum in utrh always seemed to me like every choice made leading up to his identity reveal was either a. to give him the leverage and skill necessary to pull off his identity reveal successfully, or b. to twist the knife that little bit more when he does let Bruce find out who he is. Like iirc there's a Judd Winick tweet like "yeah tldr he chose Red Hood as his identity because it's the lowest blow he could think of." And I think that's awesome, I think character motivations rooted so deeply in character's relationships and emotions are really fun to read! I also think it's where the stagnation/flatness of his character comes from in certain comics, because if his main motivation is one event in one relationship that passes, and he is not particularly attached to anything in his life or the world by the time that comes to pass, it's a little harder to come up with a direction to go with the character after that, because there isn't much of a direction that aligns with something the character would reasonably want? But I do think solving this by saying "all of the morally-off emotionally driven cruelty he did on his way to spite Batman was actually reflective of his own version of Batman's stance that's exactly the same except he thinks it's GOOD to kill people" isn't ideal. To be fully honest, it seems to me like he never particularly cared one way or the other about killing people to "clean Gotham of crime," he just did everything he could to get the power necessary to pull off his personal plans, and took out any particularly heinous people he encountered along the way (like in Lost Days.) Not to say I think the fact he killed people keeps him up at night anymore than everything else in his life events, I just never really thought he was out there wholeheartedly kneecapping some dude selling weed or random guy robbing a tv store for justice.

Looping wayyy back to my question, Is this (^) contradictory to the way he's written/the overall average perception of the character? Because like I enjoyed his writing in Beast World i have zero significant issue with anything there, I just didn't believe it would be a hot take, like yeah, that is Jason. It's been a while since I've read utrh and lost days, but I don't think my takeaway directly contradicts either of those too bad iirc. Idk all this to say I think Jason killing and being alright with killing is an obvious and objective fact, but i guess i've always seen it as more of a practical tactic than a moral belief, and I think taking the actions made during the lowest points of a character's life where he is obsessively focused on this ONEEEE thing and trying to apply it as a Motivating Stance to everything he's done after that, doesn't really follow logically for me.

[silusvesuius]

this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

[swiftfootedachilles]

im just gonna be honest gang obviously its gonna be easy for you to say youre in love with a character and theyre an angel when anytime they do something you don't like you brush it off as out of character

[erabu-san]

Wait you ship Albedou with Tighnari!? Not to sound rude btw

Hmmm I don't really ship them ?? Like, yeah I clearly don't mind the ship and lol i drew them for fun because it is my main and the one fictional character I'm simping for more than 4yrs now but

I can't see it as a romantic relationship (i am convinced abt tighnari aromantic rep and bisexual sorry) 😔

And my mind was like "what if albedo flirtly provoking tighnari during science session and--- oh." the second I regained my consciousness, my hand already slipped and drew a comic.

[maumoraart]

Hey! Coming back to Tumblr after a looooong time.

I’m Mau, comic artist and illustrator from Costa Rica. I love drawing my OCs, as well as fanart. I like Soulsborne games, Metroid, Metal Gear, and a bunch of other stuff.

I’ll be posting lots of work in the next few days!

[zosonils]

apparently at some point it became my mission in life to have a flight rising dragon for every character from idw sonic

[artheresy]

An argument over whether or not Dan Heng is Dan Feng seems to have begun getting sparked again in certain parts of the Fandom and it does nothing but hurt my head to no end

Both sides cherrypicking or treating it like a strange situation, making false equivalents. "Yknow governments don't consider people who've lost their memories to be separate people" that's a flawed argument to use in favorite of DH = DF because it's not just he lost his memories. He literally grew up, experienced his own childhood, had a whole identity cultivated based on those experiences and that life and continues to live his own life. To treat the situation like it's just him getting a bit of amnesia is wild to me

But also I hate when people continue to insist he's running from Dan Feng and his past and how he's miserable and shouldn't ever confront the past and deal with it as if his and Blade's whole stories aren't centered around rebirth and karma, paying for your past life's karma. He needed to confront the past to ensure a freer future! He literally has!! And he will continue to do so because he realizes this, DH isn't dumb and he's grown since we first saw him. He understands

But yeah uh I'm so tired

This whole thing feels very Ship of Theseus. What makes the ship what it is, the physical aspects of its planks, its sailing history, or both?

For him, the question is what makes someone who they are? Is it the body that makes them up and any inherent genetic factors (like traits)? Is it their experiences, how they've grown up, and the identity they've developed in that time? Or is it both factors mixed together?

Personally in the case of Dan Heng, I think it's both! Yeah he has a lot of traits from Dan Feng. There's a lot inherently there. But we can't disregard his own experiences and the identity that has formed based on his history and what he's seen.

Again I can't stress this enough... It is a false equivalent to compare him to people who lose their memories or get amnesia, he didn't just lose those memories. He started life from the beginning, a whole different kind of life. And even then, the amnesia topic comes with its own debates. Isn't there a whole other thought experiment regarding someone put to trial who ends up with amnesia and what their verdict should be?

I guess in the end, it's all up to people's own philosophical beliefs after what constitutes a person. My personal belief that DH and DF will always be connect but the separation between them is also meaningful is something based on my own ideas of what consisitutes a person and their individual identity, similar situation with how I see Rukkhadevata and Nahida as connected but still not the same person exactly. At the end of the day again, it's personal beliefs

But what I can't stand and can't stand by, is someone acting all high and mighty like they're perfectly right and everyone else is wrong, especially when they're cherrypicking or not holding all their evidence to the same standard. According to some ppl, apparently it's better in the CN fandom where instead of treating it like "I'm right you're wrong" people have divided themselves into "DF and DH one person" and "DF and DH two people" groups and most importantly of all, they treat both like theories and just keep to their space and tag which they believe when it's relevant. Why can't we just do that? Why can't we follow in their footsteps instead of bringing up this argument every so often with the same tired flaws from both sides?

[bagheerita]

So I read A Stitch in Time and one result of that which I was certainly not expecting was that I feel so much sympathy for Enabran Tain. Garak's life is a tragedy, but Tain's is a fucking black comedy.

I mean, he's a terrible person and an absolute shitbag, but can you imagine? You have this kid. You go to all the trouble of arranging for him to be raised in a family situation where he won't be rejected from society for being your bastard. You get him into the nicest indoctrination school where he can hobnob with plenty of uppercrust kids. You get him a job in your Order and all the proper training. And he's actually, like, really good at it. But he has this fatal flaw of being completely incapable of not making stupid, short-sighted, emotional decisions.

A scene I imagine has to have happened just prior to Garak and Tain's confrontation at the end of part II:

Like goddamn. When Tain asked "what's your plan for getting rid of her husband?" and Garak's just like "plan what plan." Dude. I'M disappointed, I can only imagine the guy who's job it is to know and plan for everything isn't at least as disappointed.

I know he didn't actually, but do you think there was ever a time when Tain wanted to be like, You know what. Just go back to Tolan and become a gardener. Join that illegal hippie cult. It's fine.

[thesmokinpossum]

I can't believe y'all almost made me pay to go watch po*r th*ngs in theater without telling me that the whole thing revolves around a hardcore born sexy yesterday trope with a side dish of pseudo necrophilia where a woman with the brain of a litteral foetus who don't have periods or body hair (but do have boobs!) find joy and freedom by having a lot of sex with a bunch of men, shoving a apple up her vagina for some reason and joining a brothel (but it's a cool socialist brothel and all the girls looove being there, don't worry guys), all of that written and directed by two men, I'm never gonna trust you guys after this one lmao