#the media is lying to us

[stargiirl27]

I have all the evidence that the beatles were having a torrid fourway love affair, but every time I try to explain it I look like this:

[uncivil-service]

To all the Republicans in office kowtowing to Trump's Cult, remember that "I was just following orders" was insufficient reason to save the last group of Nazi scum, and it won't save you either.

Authoritarian and fascist regimes always fall, because the people will only comply for so long, and there are way more of us than there are of you. You will not be in power forever, and protecting the people who aim to subdue and control the population will not protect you in the end.

So, continue to cower. Continue to cave. Continue to show the world the cowards you are. We will remember what you've done, and history will not be kind to you.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

The fact they keep referencing Eddie’s lying on the show and in interviews has me giggling and kicking my legs and twirling my hair.

It’s almost like we’re meant to read into the fact Eddie’s not always being truthful - with himself and others. Almost like, I don’t know, him going to confessional and telling a priest that he lied to everyone in his life and then later him telling that same priest that he’s straight might possibly be showing us Eddie not being truthful with himself or others!!

[skunkes]

Still needs some finishing touches but here is the progress pics and "final" of a traditional badge comm for @krookodile! ^_^

[leapdayowo]

Ftfo: Chapter 5

A version with and without line art and extra details :3

so far I’m on chapter 10 with my reread of ftfo :3

[odetojupiter]

the fact they could clearly see kevin was kicking neil throughout that whole interview absolutely sent me he made no attempt to hide that whatsoever

[biggesthomuradefender]

i get so irritated when ppl watch rebellion and walk away w the belief that homura is genuinely evil/bad now. 💀

like, this girl literally pulled “oh yeah so i embody all that is evil and impure now” out of her ASS, clearly lying abt almost everything she’s saying, clearly full of shit and she doesn’t mean ANY of it, and ppl fr thought she was being genuine???

like, be so fr. since when has homura ever wanted to be “evil”? doesn’t that seem a bit random and nonsensical to you for her to suddenly say and want that, when she literally NEVER has?

[fcb-mv33]

“I speak up on issues” and “we are a big family”- also Z*k

Also let’s just note that Lando literally is as much to blame as Max was if not even a little more due to his moves before. Lando could have moved but choose to collide. If Lando knew how to race wheel to wheel with the fastest car he would have done what Max did the year before he wouldn’t have crash :)))

“It just felt wholly inappropriate” yeah so was the abuse you sent towards Max:))

Shit team principal with the dicky driver :))

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Like I said, feel free to dm me and I'll send a pic of my ticket. Idk how much you need me to prove here, but I have a ton of texts dated like four weeks ago talking with friends about seeing it.///

Why would I dm you for proof when I never said I don't believe what you said? Also the way you said "he's not an extra" is exactly yr fandom language and I noticed you've watched Young Royals before and are his fan. And you're from Britain watching a British movie but want him to be "popular with Americans"? Lol definitely his fan.

I'm sorry, am I in an alternate dimension where you have short term memory loss? You literally said I was an industry plant. You said what I said didn't make sense.

"He's not an extra" as in a film/tv extra?? You know, the widely used term dating back to like, the 1900s?? That's like, common English language I fear.

Yeah, I watched the show, but I'm not heavily involved in the fandom. I think I've occasionally reblogged gifs and thats it? I haven't finished season three. You'll notice if you take even a cursory look at my blog that I am mainly an Avatar blog, my guy. The Walking Dead, It, Stranger Things, then Avatar. Accuse me of being biased about any of my actual hyperfixations. Never have I been known in the Young Royals fandom world. No offense Young Royals fans, but I am not as passionate about this show as others??

Finally, I said Americans because I am AMERICAN, I LIVE IN AMERICA. But you're right, I should've said English speaking???

Next time I enjoy an actor in a movie and I want to let people know though, I'll run that shit by you first, make sure you believe I can like them.

[nat-20s]

Technically I'm on five social media sites but it's so silly bc it's like

Tumblr- actually use as a social media site either despite or because it not really being structured like a true social media website

Snapchat- this is what i call the "photographs of pets and occasional concert footage" app. it's for seeing my friends pets. i can't believe people actually use this one.

Discord- discord is literally a texting app. and occasionally watching tv shows with my friends at 360p

Goodreads- this is a personal tracking app. i also use storygraph. as a personal tracking app. i technically have two (2) friends on there but lol.

Letterboxd- same as good reads. I use this as a personal tracking app. this is the only way i know how many movies i've watched this year. i forget it's supposed to be social

[lookforanewangle]

So here's the thing tho: say they're fucking with us. If they have a reference frame on how much Mentally Ill/ND/Heck Just Regular Ass Fangirls are invested in shows like this/this show in particular... It would come across as so mean spirited. But if none of them ever breached into the tumblr sphere. They might just think it's funny funny. Like they can't imagine that I spent an hour in shock shaking because of this, right? If they knew that's what they were doing to people they probably wouldn't "joke" like that? If that's what they're doing? Idk sorry rambling ignore me.

anon I mean this in the kindest way possible but there's no way they know anything about any of their audience's mental states or are taking that into account for their storytelling. they definitely don't know about any of us on tumblr. if they really are fucking with us, they are doing it for the bit and yes, to incite an emotional reaction and shock value in their audience. not to deliberately fuck with mentally ill fans

[clwhowrites]

Americans Don’t Value Honesty

Honesty is a virtue, or it is supposed to be, but if you look at American culture and American politics you would see that it is not valued in America. I am an American and it has been my subjective experience that Americans are some of the most dishonest people in the world. I know this subjective experience is likely wrong as it is based on one man’s observations. This has led me to believe that on a cultural level, Americans do not value truth or honesty. In fact Americans value lies and liars over facts and truth tellers any time.

I remember watching Jay Leno in the 90s, one of his monologue jokes was “It’s so cold you can see the lies coming from a politician’s mouths” (I can’t find a video of this joke). It was expected that politicians would lie and it is still that way today. Politicians don’t face consequences for their lies, people just accept that politicians lie. Whats worse is that the supporters of president Lump like that he lies, and it’s not just his supporters. The US has truth in advertising laws, yet unless one claims to cure cancer or HIV it seems these laws are not enforced. And no one cares, no one is calling their congressmen demanding real truth in advertising laws be passed or that the flimsy truth in advertising laws we have now be enforced, no one is protesting false ads, no politician has ever ran on a platform of stopping false ads. People hate whistleblowers even though they are heroes who are exposing corruption and practices that cause harm to people, even the people who hate them. People will lie just to fit in, they will lie about what they do, believe, think, or how they feel. People will lie because they think the world is supposed to be the way the lies make it out to be, even though they don’t believe it themselves. This is so bad it distorts what people believe the majority believes. People will side with abusers when victims come out causing those already traumatized victims even more trauma, they would rather the abuse stay hidden than expose and remove the evil. In most corporate cultures people are unwilling to admit when they are wrong despite the fact that where people can admit they are wrong they do their jobs better.

These are all because of one major issue, Americans, on a cultural level, do not value honesty, truth and facts. Americans value lies and liars. This is why people like Trump, Musk, and Vance have popularity, it is the source of the popularity for grifters like cryptobros, alpha male grifters like Andrew Tate, it is why people will accept bullshit conspiracy theories over demonsterable facts. Facts and truth don’t matter to so many Americans because it does not matter to the culture. Americans don’t value honesty, they value lies and liars.

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[trexalicious]

The Grim Reaper at King Charles' Coronation and Rachel on her new site...🤔

[titsthedamnseason]

girl at work called me over to tell me some “taylor swift news” which turned out to be that apparently taylor ended her friendship with blake lively because of everything happening with justin baldoni….i set that record straight so fast and converted her to blake’s side

[lewyn-martell]

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[snowstories]

I think I am officially at the point where I hate those 'how to spot AI' tips and tricks lists and the paralyzing anxiety around ever interacting with anything generative AI far more than I could ever actually hate generative AI. The 'signs' that something is AI get less and less clear-cut with each passing day and yet people keep sharing 'tips and tricks' that basically just encourage you to scrutinize everyone's art and call AI the moment you see something even slightly out of the norm. 'If an artist has wildly different art styles that's AI!' or maybe they just have different art styles. 'If the lines blur and details don't make sense it's AI!' or maybe it's a deliberate choice in the art. 'If the anatomy is off it's AI!' or maybe it's a stylistic choice or the artist just isn't very good at anatomy. 'If there's lots of art of popular topics in similar styles it's AI!' are you kidding me. Etc. Even worse when people start sharing tips on how to clock writing AI that basically boil down to 'if the English is nonsensical it's AI' like, or maybe the author just doesn't speak English very well? If that 'The Rumor Does Come Out: Does Bruno Mars Is Gay?' article came out today everyone would be swearing up and down that it's AI when it was just bad English (idk if the author genuinely didn't speak English well or if it was a joke but either way the point stands I think). 'If the article is nonsensical it's AI' or maybe it was just a rush job for little money come on now are we going to pretend shitty inaccurate articles started with AI? Saw a post that said 'if the writing seems overly stiff and formal it's AI' and they proceeded to list examples that I have said pretty much verbatim because I'm autistic and often have trouble figuring out how to start posts in a way that sounds natural. This shit sucks!

Like I'm not saying these signs can't be AI, I've definitely read nonsensical articles before and thought 'that's probably AI' or seen blogs recently created with a bunch of art in wildly different styles and thought 'that's probably AI' but the point is you can't know for sure. Fact is that most ways of telling whether something is AI or not at this point are entirely vibes based. And maybe I'm just a gullible naive bitch or whatever but I really do feel like ruthlessly scrutinizing each piece of art you see and insisting it's AI based on vibes and refusing to believe the artist when they say it isn't is in fact way more harmful than occasionally interacting with AI art. Also I just refuse to live like that rip to everyone else but I'm different.