#interest check?

[lady-lilly-gray]

And what if I.... fucked around and wrote some Stolitz angst ???

[winxwannabe]

So! Interest check on doing a tumblr live this weekend or early next week with a SUPER SECRET SURPRISE GUEST (that totally isn’t Bloom nope) where we shoot the shit about fandom, answer questions, and things of the like. Almost like a revival of the winx podcast but better because there’s no audio editing involved.

[lookitsryuu]

Reciept doodles?

I have so much brainrot for so many things, (mostly half life and undertale) but the problem is all the art I've created for them has been at work... on grocery store receipts. would anyone be interested in seeing them?

[llondonfog]

Would ever be willing to put your drabbles and fics in ao3? So I can download them and take the pain to go?

😭 would you guys really like that?? I certainly can!! I actually was just keeping them on my blog so I wouldn't clutter the AO3 tag with my nonsense since they're just short drabbles, but I'd be more than willing to compile them all by AU or by type and post them

(but oh my gosh I'm?? Thank you for the kind words, I'm so glad to know you enjoy them that much!!!! 💕)

[danafeelingsick]

just so i know, is there any interest in the business man from the new pokemon? i saw him and thought: the belly kink people will go crazy over him, but as it turns out, i'm the belly kink people, just me.

[endingboyhansel]

If I was braver I’d make an entire essay about the 1975 film adaptation of Tommy just for fun

[starkatstories]

its possible i can make a wrong man community here, i'll let the idea sit for a while

[swampybogg]

[soapcloth]

18+ MDNI Ghost/Ghoap x reader [CW grief] dividers -> @/cafekitsune

Ghost either getting it in his mind due to grief or actually telling the truth that Johnny keeps sending him posthumous messages urging him to fuck the pretty little spouse he left behind. Take care of them.

the entire funeral hes just boring holes into you from the back of the crowd stuffed into that little church your mother in law had picked out as Soap chews and claws at the corners of his brain. You always kinda knew Ghost and Soap had something unspoken and noncommital going on before you came into the picture so you’re absolutely sure Ghost HATES you- now more than ever due to the fact that you’re the one sporting Johnny’s last name.

Imagine your shock when he’s got you cornered and starts cooing into your neck in that familiar Scottish brogue.

[loserfae]

ok but for real

[sherurose]

"You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself." Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

[willgrahamscock]

Something I want people to take away from the assassination attempt of Donald Trump is that it was also a mass shooting. There’s a total of 4 victims, which qualifies as a mass shooting, and since July 1st there has been 39 mass shootings in America. We are only 15 days into July and people still argue about gun violence while the number of shootings keeps going up.

[danijaci]

NOOO DON'T TURN ME INTO A MARKETABLE PLUSHI--

[lacystar]

Fictional Swingers bracket tournament. Only ideas so far: Lindana and her husband from pnf, morticia and Gomez, and that couple from bobs burgers

[reasonsforhope]

Given the misinformation that's been going around and will be going around, thought this might be helpful to some people

For a lot of reasons, I'm very good at this/at searching, to the point where I have worked as a professional fact-checker for two different publishers. So, here goes:

My Article Fact-Checking Protocol

Thorough Version

Read the full article. Keep an eye out for emotionally loaded words, and all-or-nothing language

Keep an eye out or anything that sounds too good to be true, and in contrast, anything that sounds so awful it must be true

Run the website/source through the amazing Media Bias/Fact Check. They'll tell you about a publication's bias and history of accuracy

Go to the website's home page and read through the headlines. Look at what topics they cover/prioritize, sensationalist headlines, and whether they're framing anything in a way that feels odd/off to you

Do a search related to the topic. This can be keywords, a question, or even just copy-paste the article title (Recommended: use DuckDuckGo so the results don't change based on what Google thinks they can sell you)

If multiple highly credible sources that say the same thing pop up, and there's no major societal biases that might affect the coverage of the topic in those sources (e.g. anything related to the Israel-Palestine conflict/Palestinian genocide, no matter which side), then I'm done!

If there are major societal biases, or I can't get a consensus of sufficiently credible sources, then I do some combination of:

(1) search the topic again + the words "controversy" and/or "fake"

(2) search the opposite of the topic, or do some sort of other filtered search

(3) look up a sufficiently credible news outlet with the opposite point of view of my source, and see what they have to say

(4) if it's a big enough topic, start by looking up 2 of the top national papers and 1 major paper for your region (I usually do the ones in the US, because that's where I am In the US: the LA Times, the Washington Post, and the NY Times)

Adjust "news" to "relevant type of source, e.g. tech, environmental" as relevant for all of the above options

If no red flags come up, and it's a topic I understand enough to smell huge bullshit,

Then I'm usually done!

If there are red flags, or I actually need a certain amount of detail/understanding, then it gets more complicated, but that would be a whole other thing to break down and such

or

tl;dr

Quick Version

Read the full article. Keep an eye out for emotionally loaded words, and all-or-nothing language

Keep an eye out or anything that sounds too good to be true, and in contrast, anything that sounds so awful it must be true.

If I don't know the website:

Run the website/source through the amazing Media Bias/Fact Check. They'll tell you about a publication's bias and history of accuracy

If I trust the source, but something else pinged my radar:

Do a quick web search to verify anything that sounds suspicious or too good/bad to be true (Recommended: use DuckDuckGo)