#don't listen to it

[petitmonde]

They didn't even try to hide it

And now it sounds like AI garble to boot. Wonderful. How could the EBU think this was even remotely okay? It's still got the same meaning even if they used a thesaurus to distract us from the original.

Taken from Reddit. Makes it a lot easier to see what they're doing.

[Image ID: a comparison between the two songs Hurricane and October Rain. In red are the changed lyrics and in blank are the lyrics that stayed the same.

Hurricane

Verse 1

Writer of my symphony (red)

Play (red) with me (black)

Look into my eyes and see (black)

People (black) walk (red) away but never say goodbye (black)

Verse 2 (all black)

Someone stole the moon tonight

Took my light

Everything is black and white

Who's the fool that told you boys don't cry?

Verse 3 (all black)

Living in a fantasy, ecstasy

Everything is meant to be

We shall pass but love will never die

Chorus

Hours and hours (black), empowers (red)

Life is no game (black) but it's ours (red)

While (red) the time goes wild (black)

Every day I'm losing my mind (black)

Holding on in this mysterious ride (black)

Dancing in the storm (black)

I (red) got nothing to hide (black)

Take it all (red) and leave the world behind (black)

Baby promise me you'll hold me again (red)

I'm still broken from this hurricane (red)

This hurricane (red)

Outro – freely translated from Hebrew (all red)

No need for big words

Only prayers

Even if it's hard to see

You always leave me with

One small light

October rain

Verse 1

Those that write history (red)

Stand (red) with me (black)

Look into my eyes and see (black)

People (black) go (red) away but never say goodbye (black)

Verse 2 (all black)

Someone stole the moon tonight

Took my light

Everything is black and white

Who's the fool that told you boys don't cry?

Verse 3 (all black)

Living in a fantasy, ecstasy

Everything is meant to be

We shall pass but love will never die

Chorus

Hours and hours (black), and flowers (red)

Life is no game (black) for the cowards

Why (red) does time go wild? (Black)

Every day I'm losing my mind (black)

Holding on in this mysterious ride (black)

Dancing in the storm (black)

We (red) got nothing to hide

Take me home (red) and leave the world behind (black)

And I promise you that never again (red)

I'm still wet from this October rain (red)

October rain (red)

Outro – freely translated from Hebrew (all red)

No more air to breath

No room

There is no me anymore

We are all good kids one by one

/. End ID.]

[getwallowed]

today has been a these days kinda day <3

(and by that i mean it's finally sunny and warm and i actually got to wear a crop top w/o getting cold!)

[scapegods]

what if this scene was worse

[shadesofmauve]

I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

[problemnyatic]

when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they'll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,

[frenchublog]

[always-coffee]

We're all messy and imperfect. And maybe that's partly why we write: to connect, to share, to make someone else feel not so alone.

For me, good (effective) writing does that. It holds up a mirror so that someone else can see themselves and know that someone else has stood where they stand, felt when they felt.

It's all, in my estimation, an offering of heartbeats and hope.

How does it feel to know thousands of people hold love, gratitude and deep respect for you? This is a genuine question—I haven’t tried to write anything on a professional level purely because I am terrified that someone might rely on my books for comfort or stability and afterwards turn to me. I’m not qualified for that.

I'm not qualified either. I'm a human being which means I'm as messed up as anyone else on the planet ("probably more so" adds the voice in the back of my head). But I'm still going to tell stories. It's what I do.

[wanderingibon]

anya deserved so much better

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Remember the 6 year old girl who was surrounded by Israeli tanks and the red crescent couldn't reach her? Her name is Hind Hamadeh. Here you can hear the phone call her 15 year old sister, Layan Hamadeh, made with the medics. She was killed exactly a moment later including all people in the car, except for 6 year old Hind who was stuck in the car with the dead bodies of her family, Israeli tanks and IDF surrounding her, shooting, preventing anybody to reach her.

That was last night (29.1.24). Today, still nothing. The fate of Hind remains unknown.

palestine red crescent ambulance team went to rescue her yesterday evening, but they have not returned as of now. We lost contact with them about 18 hours ago, and we still remain unaware of their fate and whether they succeeded in evacuating her or not.

Please, share Hind's story as much as you can on any platform. We need to know what happened to her. Put yourself in her place, how terrified she must be. Don't scroll past this.

This is Hind.

[priintaniere]

i can be your chimra....or yuor dungeon lord

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[regicidal-defenestration]

A bus is basically the classic thing to wait in the rain for

[basshole-astard]

PSA: i keep seeing posts about staying cool in extreme heat that include advice like "gatorade is bad actually!" and "don't drink fruit juice it'll just dehydrate you!" and neither of these are true!

regarding fruit juice: there's apparently a misconception that Any Sugar At All will dehydrate you, and that's simply not true. yes, sugar will make you pee more when consumed in large amounts, but 1) the natural sugar in fruits won't do this to you 2) great news! a lot of fruit juices exist without any added sugar in them! 3) honestly even having a glass of the fruit juice with added sugar won't completely dehydrate you as long as you're also drinking water throughout the day. if its hot you deserve a cold treat of a drink!!! can't go wrong with fruit juice!!!

regarding gatorade: maybe this isn't an every day drink, but guess what: if it's 110F/40C or hotter outside, and you don't have AC, or you're moving around a lot outside of the AC, and you're sweating buckets: that's when you drink a gatorade.

gatorade exists to replenish all the electrolytes (salt) and glucose (sugar) that you sweat out. YES it is meant for athletes to drink during intensive work outs and not necessarily for people who aren't doing that kind of exercise. BUT GUESS WHAT! when you're sweating buckets because you had to walk to the bus in extreme heat, that's intensive exercise. please feel free to drink a gatorade after that! that's its intended use case!!!!

no: neither of these drinks should be a total replacement for water. but drinking a lot of water and then treating yourself to a fruit juice with lunch is a good idea!!! drinking a gatorade becuase you just had to walk for 20 minutes in the heat is a good idea!!!

Please Stop Spreading Misinformation About Drinks!!! It's fine if you drink things that aren't water!!!! Yes you should probably always be drinking water but drinking something else As Well isn't going to hurt you!!!! okay!!!! its fine!!!!!!

honestly so long as you are consistently getting Any (non-alcoholic) fluids in you, you're doing great!!!!!! okay!!!! i love you stay safe <3

[meziniart]

Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves

[overlymetaromantic]

Dungeon Meshi, or as I like to call it, Marcille's-increasingly-difficult-to-ignore-revelations-that-her-endless-devotion-to-Falin-may-in-fact-be-more-rooted-in-lesbianism-than-she-originally-thought

[homkamiro]

The day before the 7th comic came out I was thinking about one day making a sniperscout fankid for shits and giggles. Imagine my surprise when valve did my work themselves