#lies!

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Christian Kane twirling props: a series. Part 9/?

The Librarians Season 1

[undeadenn]

Odysseus: There’s no length I wouldn’t go if it was you I had to save.

Literally two sagas later:

Odysseus: I have see her

Eurylochus: But we’ll die

Ody: I know

[respectthepetty]

Petty's Greatest Hits 2023

I was tagged by @colourme-feral, @lurkingshan, and @dribs-and-drabbles to collect my most popular posts for each month of 2023. I created 1,512 posts in 2023 because I'm the sole resident of CrazyTown in BL Land, so I will not be picking favorites. Below are the hot tops (no bottoms):

January - ToddBlack Supremacy!

February - Soul-leaving-body BL moments

March - King is King

April - Episode Six of The Eighth Sense WAS NOT A DREAM! (and I'm still salty it tried to make us think it was)

April Fools' Bonus - My Love (Color) Mix-Up

May - Our Dining Table warmed my ice-cold heart

June - BL actors in drag (babygirl First, you so fine)

July - Barbie's pink brick road vs. Wizard of Oz's yellow brick road

August - My Beautiful (Colored) Man

September - Laws of Attraction + Marriage Equality = LOUDER FOR THE BITCHES IN THE BACK!

October - Boeing is a god

November - Day & Mork are waiting for a choice

December - Phojai x Night Nation Rise!

Holiday Bonus: If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else, Achi?

And there are no favorites because when I say ToddBlack Supremacy, I mean ToddBlack Supremacy.

I want Not Me 2: Black Out, GMMTV! RIGHT NOW!

[sweetpeapoppy]

Not Lewis saying that him and Toto have never hooked up 💀

[zehrbear]

watching normal people and these bitches are not normal

[longtallglasses]

i just had a memory pop into my head from years ago scrolling the byler tag

back when i was in hs i went to this film camp and we would do activities about story and character a lot - one being elevator pitching a story and then on a big sheet others would give their notes about whatever and

i forgot what the plot was but on one of them a girl wrote about someone’s story “why is he gay and then becomes not gay? LIES!”

and if that doesn’t sum up mike wheeler and what i’ll feel if the st writers don’t commit to their queer coding then idkkkk

[hellkitepriest]

feeling Normal About Alan this evening

[northsalpha-archive]

tldr   on   my   last   post:         i   absolutely   will   not   ever   accept   that   ansel   is   just   your   everyday   wolf   like   the   originals   wanted   me   to   believe      &      i   make   my   own   rules.

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[thehmn]

I’m a strong proponent of lying to get the help you need. I always try the truthful route first but if that gets me nowhere? Lying it is.

I think it’s important to respect other people’s time, wellbeing and money so I don’t do it in situations where I know I’m in the wrong, like if I want to get into a place just for fun and someone could get in trouble for letting me in wrongfully I’d rather not.

But sometimes people just don’t understand why something is important in your situation so you have to turn it into something they understand. When I lived in England I constantly lied about being pregnant so gas station employees would let me use their bathroom because for some reason they didn’t have public bathrooms.

Or when my doctor’s secretary couldn’t get it into her head that my stomach pains were very serious and concerning and insisted I couldn’t get an appointment this month so that evening I “found” a lump that I was pretty sure was nothing but it meant I had a reason to call her the next day and get a new appointment immediately and when the doctor told me the lump was harmless I could tell her what my real problem was and she immediately scheduled ALL the tests and examinations because she understood how concerning it was. I just had to get past the fucking secretary with a lie.

Fuck I even support that elderly man who lied about having four children who were stuck in a house during a flood but when the rescue team got there in a dinghy they realized it was four dogs. The guy knew he had to lie because he was too sick to help them himself (able bodied people in the area were able to save their own pets) and they wouldn’t have helped him if they knew it was “just dogs”. In the video the rescue team can be seen choking up and padding him on the back while he cries with his scared dogs in his arms. The team is clearly not mad because they can see how important the dogs are to him but I have no doubt he was right in thinking they wouldn’t have helped if he had told them the truth.

So do what ya gotta do and lie lie lie.

[ithappensoffstage]

I am genuinely so worried for all the young horny dykes going into adulthood thinking there's something "problematic" / "wrong" with them for being horny because fucking tiktok lesbians think any horny dyke content is "male gaze fetishistic"

[musecalliope]

[ribombeee]

[evercelle]

"tragedies: the love was there"

[antikate]

The “oh I could definitely write this fanfic in under 5000 words and it really wouldn’t take me that long” voice in your head is actually the devil speaking