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"the mainstream media isn't talking about this!"
is your perception of the mainstream media solely based on what your parents recount from fox or sky news? has enough time passed between the event and now for professional journalists to verify sources? are you reading beyond the headline and the lead? do you understand why journalists phrase things in the way that they do?
don't get me wrong, there are certainly cases where that statement is true, however, I routinely see it applied to events that I later read about in an honest-to-god physical newspaper
#side note: buy a newspaper!#having something that isn't manipulated specifically for you by an algorithm is a good experience#sure its curated#but the editor isn't mining your data
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got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?
webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.
it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere
#i thought it was made by the creator of 'O Human Star' for some reason but apparently not?#goddammit goddammit goddammit#'i don't have to write down the title of this piece of media i encountered in my formative years bc i'll always remember it'#*cut to ten years later frantic googling*#fun fact 'a.i.' is now a completely useless search term#google in general is useless#and stuff i read 3+ years ago regularly vanishes from the internet#bookmarks are not enough! if you like indie media--download that shit! buy digital/physical copies while you can#save it to the cloud back it up and organize that shit!!!#keep a list of the stuff you read (organized by date/media type and possibly with keywords if you want it to be useful longterm)#(or a spreadsheet even if you're like me and rabidly consume short stories/comics like a pack of amnesiac piranhas on a feeding frenzy)#(that stuff PILES UP over the years ok. if you wanna make sure you'll be able to find it again a decade later--curation is key)#because art WILL touch your soul and then vanish into the void leaving naught but a 404 Error in its wake#i am an old man shaking my fist at the kids on my lawn but the kids on my lawn are me and my longterm digital planning skills circa 2012
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#iirc the datv embargo lifts in a few hours time#its exciting for sure!! ◕‿◕#(theres some good info out there about what u can expect etc)#everyones level of comfort/preference for spoilers or what they consider/dont consider spoilers or do/dont want to see beforehand#is different and thats valid#for me rn my pref is not seeing much more of the game than i have so far so i will probably not be watching/reading most of those bits of#coverage which are described as 'spoilery' due to this#im just at a stage personally where in the main the last thing I'd like to see now is just a good look at the CC and the CC options#and then just any of the more 'generic' stuff like any new official screenshots that get tweeted or if theres one more trailer or something#(know what i mean? maybe generic is the wrong word but like vague or general or something). and thats about it#so if i'm quieter on here or not postin about sth new that you've seen or focusing more on less-new stuff like V&V eps i didnt get a chance#to listen to yet or i dont know the answer to something etc thats why ^^#i've turned off asks and submit as well jic#sry for any inconvenience caused by that and for not following/posting everything in the coming weeks hh!!#its like a push and pull between wanting to be hyped with everyone/overanalyze every new crumb/wanting my blog to be useful and#not wanting to know much more about the game besides CC than i do atm hh#ultimately we will only get to go into this game and play this game for for the first time once so yea :D#(and in case it helps to know for your own curation purposes my datv spoilers tag is 'dragon age the veilguard spoilers'!!)#mj and the world
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Not me genuinely in a dilemma of whether or not I should block someone just for one absolutely ASS take even though it literally won't make a difference from their POV
#I have blocked so many people just by seeing ONE absolutely frigid take of theirs- i am fucking petty alr-the catharsis is insane#me before: oh i dont like this :( <-UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT#me now: oh i dont like this actually- blocked#curate my own internet space and yada yada yaknow#even though i probably will never come across them again on my dash even if I didn't block them#i just like pressing buttons I think atp#anyways. If it sucks- hit da bricks!!!#its not even like a personal issue- Im sure they're lovely people but also BLOCKED /j /lh#im just being a dick- dw <3#on the other hand- ou folks can block me any time if you don't like my stuff#i mean it was entirely your choice in the first place so im not like- allowing you to do it or giving you permission or smth!#just letting you know that sometimes- Im the shit that sucks and you gotta hit the bricks from#block me if I have an ass take- i dont care- you do you bestiepop#my post#sput chatters
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Happy 4/32.
(+ 432 pre!TK doodle)
#i saw it was 4/32 and i wanted to do smth for him#artswin#tsp 432#tsp timekeeper#tspud timekeeper#tsp#tspud#the stanley parable#the stanley parable ultra deluxe#stanley parable#i wasnt sure whether to post this on monday when i was back from my break or now esp bc ive been on a art rush#ive been making a lot of stuff that ill wait till monday to post. but i really wanted to share this rn just bc 4/32 is today#its been a rough few days but ive been hanging in there playing games with friends n my partner so im alright :P#cant wait to come back n show yall what ive made tho#anywho happy 4/32!#i wanna draw more TK and 432 in the future ngl (and curator too)#also. for my TK/interpretation of him he doesnt remember being 432
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if we are mutuals and think we would get along or you just want to send me posts or whatever you can always message me or send an ask whatever i love interacting with people who share interests with me. and please dont be intimidated or feel bad if you dont talk frequently i sometimes get messages from mutuals i havent talked with for a year and its awesome to see each other again this is what this place if for . if you sometimes reach out to me i love you thank you for being here
#the more i think about how the internet and interacting with people with similar interests had affected me the more thankful i am that im#- still alive. it sounds weird but without slowly forming a friend group over qv in 2020 i wouldnt be alive now for sure#there were bad times and people who made me uncomfortable but theyre not here anymore and i curate this space like its my house its mine
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heyyyy @ssreeder guess what <3
#I promised you something so here it is#it’s just a sketch#(because I can’t bring myself to actually draw anything)#but I think you deserve something after such a beautiful chapter#also#while doing this I realized that it’s been i year since my first fanart for you fic#(which happens to also be cuddling zukka lmao)#I’m not sure if this is 100% a curated because I just remembered a line in which zuko touches sokkas face and went with it#accurate*#atla#avatar the last airbender#zukka#zuko#sokka#atla fanart#fanart#ngl i hate this but its good enough for the huuuuuge artblock im going through#my art
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Sometimes I think Dan and Phil are totally platonic besties and then other times I’m convinced they fuck on the daily. I think they do it on purpose and it’s honestly iconic.
kind of the best thing is that they are that and everything in between. you can tell they just like being around each other. they've made content together for 15 years and the large majority of it was done in the strictly platonic sense for their audience. and they were still having so much fun with it. we're in the 'we know you know' era now so we get to see flashes of different dynamics they have, but they absolutely have more we Don't get to see bc they're not for us.
they like each other. stupidly fond of each other. spending time together doesn't feel exhausting. they're best friends and each others' harshest critics while being the biggest hypeman and also safe space.
dnp's relationship with us, their audience, always has been and always will be different than any other content creators. part of it is how they accumulated it, but another part is just the massive history we have with them. they Get us. they Know us. they're silly goofy sarcastic guys who love us and hate us sometimes. theyre grateful but careful too. they like to rile us up, just like they do each other. it's a love language, teasing, and we've shown positive responses to it over the years. i like to say that my relationship with dnp is antagonistic sometimes--cause i know they're pushing my buttons on purpose. and ykw? it's fun! it's fun for us and it's fun for them because they have the control. i know anything they let out is cause they chose to let it out because they Know how we are. so yes they absolutely adore messing with us. we're a funny bunch.
#im getting sappy again#the things you mention anon are not mutually exclusive for dnp. which is a lot of the fun of it#like for me personally. why be in a relationship with someone who isnt your best friend. i dont know how they couldnt be your favourite ever#like maybe im projecting but theirs is probably the healthiest depiction of love i have in my life#theres movies and tv but its not real. and yes dnp are produced. and aware. and curate. but theyre not selling a relationship.#sure we perceive it. but its not the goal. the product is the entertainment value of them together cause theyre funny.#whereas almost every relationship ive properly witnessed in my life seems like. a trap. genuinely.#its like well no love isnt actually real its a concept you just. are stuck. for the rest of existence. be happy about it.#and with dnp its like oh like love is actually real. like theres a reason people want to stay together forever.#like people Do get lost in each others eyes. they get a different look on their face that reads i love you#theres people out there who will love every aspect of you and never get enough of you or your time#i am. so far off on a tangent.#anyways love dnp love the cat and mouse game we play together#dnp#c.text#dan and phil#answered
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You are literally one of the only reasons I'm still partially in the WH fandom /pos
🫡 just doin' my duty sir
#no but fr dont feel pressure to like... Stay#when the interest fades the interest fades! there's no shame in that <3#rambles from the bog#honestly im not sure if i consider myself... In it really?#what constitutes being In A Fandom!#like... im a fan. i create. but i try not to be... Involved? if that makes sense?#i like to stay in my carefully curated corner and ignore the 'fandom' at large#its none of my business!#i just want to do my own thing and Enjoy this wonderful project!#what everyone else does is! again! none of my business <3#dont wanna get involved dont wanna be Perceived#sometimes i look at my follower count and feel the urge to fire rent lowering gunshots#and its like... honestly i feel relief that my aus arent like??? Big?#i like that theyre casual! closed-circle!#just fun little side things that arent serious or widespread#i will continue to stay in my corner and simply have a good time#i love not being aware of drama <3 being online is so peaceful <3 block button & filters my beloveds <3
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Scratches chin.
While I have already spoilered the Liminal Laboratories plotline, I couldn't completely justify H:SR Kaeya's haunting of Dr. Wuchlock even after he got revenge on him. By this point, the man has been reduced to an husk of himself, and will never harm anyone ''for the betterment of humankind'', as he used to say, ever again. It felt like by robbing him of alcohol and coming to poke at him once a month, for some as level-headed as Kaeya, was a bit too extreme and petty even for him, and I was pondering if to keep this facet of him in the portrayal. But then I thought about the concept of beings of the Enigmata a bit more, and I had the most fucking coming-to-Jesus moment ever. On my own fucking lore for my own fucking verse.
Zoom real fucking close to this post. Put it on 200%, we're going places and you're coming with me liking it or not.
Beings of the Enigmata predominantly act robotic-like and on logic-based courses of actions, and this is essentially what can give an ''off'' feeling that makes normal people question these impostors. Emotions are mimicked, rather than felt, until one starts being more in tune with their human-ification process, like Kaeya does with specific partners of his. A being is going to want to study what emotions are as much as possible in order to pass off as human, but most of the time they feel less of what an human would. Their act is to appear normal, and this has been enstabilished by now in this verse. With this, I imagine that an extreme situation would bring out a extreme emotion- and beings aren't equipped to sustain a large surge of this due to their predominantly logical nature and their unattunement to natural emotions.
And here's my fucking HOLY-FUCKING-SHIT moment, keep following me here: Kaeya acts on logic, as a being of the Enigmata. With this logic, he thought that if he offered himself to the facility's experiments, due to being an Emanator with much more power and features than Hannah, Wuchlock would have accepted and let her go in order to start experimenting on him. It would have given them better results in perhaps a much shorter time, and Hannah could have been let go and returned to wherever her home was with her son. This was Kaeya's course of thinking, and a naive one at that in the simple way beings tend to try and resolve conflict.
And, by refusing this course of actions, Wuchlock did not only did a stupid thing: in a moment of extremely high emotions, he caused an ''injury'' in the very core of how a being works. He refused the perfectly woven logic for a reason Kaeya could not comprehend, and confusion turned to anger as he kept trying to plead with the man who was refusing his solution citing how they were ''at an incredibly advanced point'' in their studies with the being they had captured to start anew.
During his rampage of justice through the facility to free Hannah and her son Joakim and bring down the entire thing, I write him as robotic as possible: during that time he doesn't think with complex feelings, simply hacks down everyone that attacks him or tries to harm his companions, lets those who surrended go, acts ''revenge'' upon Wuchlock, and with bringing Hannah and her son away from the planet, his task is complete. During this time, being gunned down equaled to killing the threat before the armed soldiers of the facility could get to his companions, someone surrendering and begging him to spare them meant that they no longer had any fight in them and could be safely let go due to their ''fear'' perceived as emotion, and leaving the facility meant that they could no longer be captured and harmed. Logical and simple thoughts/actions move Kaeya to the end of this plotline.
After the entire affair is over, it took Kaeya a long while to learn how to get back in tune with the emotions he has explored during his human-ification. It was an huge set back for him, and he doesn't like to talk about these times.
And here we are with the truth of what happened: the anger that Kaeya felt in a moment of extreme emotional distress, due to not being able to understand human logic and having his rejected, was so powerful, so consuming, that it ''burned'' part of him away, as if he was undergoing the being-ification again. In a much simpler word, a failsafe mechanism sprung to life within him. Beings are not supposed to feel this kind of intense emotions, and something that's causing the strong emotional pain must be sacrificed in order to restore and stabilize their status as logical beings, per how they were created to be and continue functioning over the human Fictionologists.
Part of Kaeya, along with his trust in humankind and how they handled things, was burned that day in order to keep him functioning. Part of his emotive growth shut down in order to bring back the ''being'' that he was before ''Kaeya Alberich''.
This explains a lot of things, down to his actions becoming overly-logical and straightforwardly simple after his confrontation with the biologist, to Hannah being so apprehensive about him as soon as she sees him after being freed: the anger burning away at Kaeya should not have happened. It's an alarming thing for beings to experience extreme emotions under extremely stressful conditions.
As for him tormenting Wuchlock: I imagine that beings of the Enigmata stick close to the people who have evoked such strong emotions in them to fundamentally change them. Be it anger, hate, amusement and fun, intense melancholy etc., because it's a foreign thing for them to feel so much, they stick close to the ones summoming surges of emotions out of them, consciously or not. This choice of Kaeya is conscious, and it's as much of a form of revenge as it's the instinct to study what emotions the old scientist with granitic determination that has turned into a frail old man summons within him.
tl;dr: Beings of the Enigmata can feel extremely intense emotion(s) in stressful situations; in these cases, a ''failsafe'' mechanism activates within them, ''burning'' away part of them in order to restore the logic-based individual that they are and keep them going. This is what happened to Kaeya in the LL plotline.
#from another realm ━ (ooc)#riddle me this; is everything that you remember real and nothing but the pure truth? ━ (H:SR V.)#you no longer know me; shrouded in the fog of mystery ━ (H:SR V. Headcanons)#most people i know: curated lore and theories about their stuff#my lore: comes in my room at 4am. slaps me and calls me a loser. tells me to write this the fuck down. i do. it leaves.#i do NOT have control over my own lore. i wish i was joking but this verse is made entirely of sudden dots connecting#i like to think that this is myt.hus way of showing that THEY care about their beings: making sure they never stop functioning#despite the emotional pain they may feel when they humanize myth.us mechanism will always make them function again#i imagine that theyre a bit absentee as an aeon yet omnipresent everywhere... including their creations. this makes me sick#its kae.yas face being all twisted with emotions and then after a long second it smooths over with calm. extremely creepy for me#he may have an human-like body but his mind is far more robotic than anything else. :)
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btw i just finished reading all of the fence comics/graphic novels i could find online and i am In. this is not enough. where’s the rest of it where’s the fandom i need HELP
#fence comic#fence#fence redemption#i think i still need to read fence rise and the novels? but im not sure if im missing anything else#wish this fandom were big enough for a reddit i need to CONSUME in a FOCUSED way#also if anyone has any blog or fic recs PLEASE hit my line!!! even if its just blogs that r curators & not original posters!!#mine
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i dont get how everyone isn't obsessed with kabru tbh like how can you not care abt kabru . hes like, the best.
#like i get the valid concern of ''a lot of ppl in the fanbase mischaracterize him and its annoying'' that ive seen kabru dislikers have#but like#consider: just ignore them#just ignore the bad takes and surround urself with good takes#curate ur fandom experience.#Like I don't think my takes and opinions on Kabru are always correct#Well I do think I'm always perfect and right 😍😍 -- but okay . genuinely. like#ppl are entitled to their own opinions. I know. I get it. But if your opinion is ''idc because the fandom is annoying abt him / i cant brin#- myself to care abt the ''other party'' (aka kabrus)#like.#OKAYYY SURE WHATEVER 😤😤 be wrong abt things . 😑 idc.#sorry for being ''condescending'' I'm just obsessed with Kabru 🤭🤭. hes a fan favorite for a reason 😅😅😅🤓☝️#sash talks#( guy who gets defensive voice. guy who loves debating voice. ) ‼️💥👊 fighting the kabru haters fr fr#jump in the rabbithole guys. its so comfy in here (making me worse)
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Someday I'll finish my goofy self-insert fic and I can finally free myself from this fandom
#i'd never heard of a pro/antishipper until i started hanging out in the volo fandom#maybe im just an internet old but yall have too much time on your hands#ship what you want and block what you dont like#its your tumblr and your curated experience#its not that deep yall#touch grass and get a day job#highkey thought antis were just people who hated the idea of shipping#which maybe it is actually? still not sure#is it all shipping that yall hate or just some ships#someone please enlighten me im almost thirty and dont have twitter
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It's insane how most of the time I don't get how ppl interact and I also Don't Fucking Care
#vent ig#i wish i could#but unfortunately i havent had the occasion of sharing one of my interest with you in the past three months and when i did it didnt go as i#wanted and now we're supposed to talk through smalltalks except i dont know how to do those so im awkward as hell and unconsciously cut the#short and now im being hated (?) even tho that wasnt my intent#but i guess no matter how trustful i am i just look like a liar#and i cant even bring myself to care bc how am i supposed to explain myself when youre convinced what i say is a lie#we werent even supposed to be this close so sorry if im stiff. i tried to get along but i just cant#the never ending circle between 'i want to have ppl to interact with being alone to experience this world is exhausting and dreadful' and#'im not even remotely interested by any of you'#its different on tumblr bc i can curate my own experience & nobody comes @ me when i dont interact with them for days or weeks (BC IVE GOT#NOTHING TO SAY) and its okay and its normal and we dont have to do the 'hi how are you wyd' script every single time (sure we can check up#on each other once in a while but it doesnt become a script. it feels genuine.)#anyway. im so normal. i can def care about ppl that have never been as insane as me about something we both love(d at some point)#am pretty sure i developed 'i perceived you saying/thinking One(1) bad thing about me and now i dont care at all about your existence' as#a child as a coping mechanism but goddammit i feel like an asshole everytime it happened#i hate feeling apathetic#and i hate lying too so i cant just say shit to reassure them when i dont mean them#cant tell them im sorry about how my behavior is perceived when im so damn tired and would rather they disappear of my life
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Trans sadeas is a hilarious concept for being a guy who did the Super Fucking Transgressive Thing of jumping gender ship in fucking Vorin society (strictly fucking gendered) and then living mostly stealth for 35 years and going Dalinar you’re not a real man because you like killing people slightly less than you used to. With zero self awareness
#luke.txt#LIKE I FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES FANON LOOKS AT HIS QUEERCODED DISNEY VILLAIN SWAG AND GOES oh Sadeas plays with gender somewhat doesn’t he#NOPE HE IS 100% VORIN MAN ITS INSANE HOW MASC HE IS IN UNIVERSE#but of course he’s all about perfectly curating himself and I’m sure if he didn’t have like 13 layers of internalized shit going on#he wouldn’t also be. like. stealing food off Ialai’s plate like she steals food off of his. reading brazenly. shit like that#but alas you can’t give dalinar shit for not being hot anymore I mean not being a Proper Man Anymore#without also never doing any of that shit#drunkposting#sadeas you fucking weirdo#although maybe he’s like Dalinar 🥚?#and the thought of Dalinar as a woman makes him feel Bad for gender reasons because he’s staked so much of his dalinarfucking on being#a man fucking a man. so to have that retroactively untrue is uncomfortable to him#to which I say Sadeas that is a real person get over yourself
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Yes, she is a conspiracy theorist now. We don't keep in touch.
#my own post wow#conspiracy theories#feel free to reblog#ik this list sounds like stuff a 12 year old would just bullshit to fool their friends#but she did frequently lie to see if id believe she was seriously into x conspiracy#and when i expressed disbelief in those she giggled and doubled down#this list though? these are the takes i challenged and she got MAD about#and she would repeat them#so she did seem to be fully sincere#anyway. i dont mean to mock people who struggle with unreality / psychosis / delusions / paranoia / etc#i hope i am not doing that. im pretty sure i am not doing that.#i do want to provide a funny curated list of a 12 year old not understanding anything about anything#its been long enough i dont feel like im vaguing abt her. im just. reminiscing.
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