#and none of us are going to be okay

[feelbokkie]

2 KIDS ROOM 2K25 !!!!!!

seung my love my poor baby :(( man i wanna hug him so bad :((

who made him cry i jst wanna talk (￣ヘ￣メ)🔪

seungmin crying is going to make me crash tf out i just woke up, like actually—

[epickiya722]

Certain shippers be like "Bakugou and Midoriya will never kiss, you need to accept it, they'll never be canon" is so funny to me because I have seen BakuDeku shippers, heck people who don't ship them too much but like both characters, be happy and satisfied over...

Midoriya calling Bakugou "Kacchan" and Bakugou not telling him to call him that ever

Later, Bakugou even calls himself that... and wasn't that broadcasted?!

The anime adds a kabedon scene in season 2

Midoriya going crazy over Bakugou being kidnapped

Deku vs. Kacchan 2

Bakugou crying and it's always around Midoriya

Someone pointed out how similar they are to Bakugou's own parents

Them slowly but surely mending their relationship

Them being childhood friends in the first place

Bakugou keeps thinking about that darn river and regrets not taking Midoriya's hand that day

Midoriya getting triggered because Monoma talked crap about Bakugou

Midoriya being triggered by Bakugou in general, "control your heart"

The second movie's existence, the kids even look like what you get if you mash Bakugou and Midoriya

Bakugou Rising, like that episode he literally spends thinking about Midoriya, talking about him and then jumps in the way to save him

Volume Covers 29 and 37

Just Horikoshi's art whenever he draws them together... THEY GOT CHERRY BLOSSOMS LIKE TWICE

Bakugou being drawn as Godzilla and Midoriya as Mothra... keep in mind, these are characters owned by Toho... Toho Animation produces MHA's anime... also the relationship between Godzilla and Mothra... 👀

Their hero costumes having similar color palettes

Bakugou getting up, despite being injured, to check on Midoriya in the hospital... TWICE

"... rest of our lives"

Bakugou coming back to life and locking eyes with Midoriya whose expression changes seeing Bakugoh breathing again

Them not needing to verbally communicate to even know what to do to beat the bad guy

Bakugou checking on Midoriya while the class checks on Uraraka

Bakugou giving most financial input for Midoriya's suit

Bakugou shooting up in the ranks after Midoriya became a Pro Hero again

I'm sure I'm missing some things, but in general just anything these two do I have seen BakuDeku shippers be geeked over and still talk about no matter how many years have passed.

Trust me, BakuDeku shippers don't need some "canon kiss" to be happy. Something I didn't see your ship do.

Crazy despite BakuDeku shippers being told not to ship BakuDeku because "it isn't canon" for years, I don't see them doing the same to anyone else.

[windienine]

everyone has to be a little less mean to themselves about not reading enough books. letting go of reading as a pride thing is the first step to relearning how to actually enjoy reading for pleasure again. it's totally fine to start with a novella or with a comic or with a field guide or with literature meant for someone younger instead of being mad at yourself for not grokking ulysses in a week. just vary your diet and you'll be good.

i'm a literature scholar, i'm the one who has to be strict with myself about page counts and citations. you all? do what you want, just read and have fun.

[shakingparadigm]

what is the theory that ivan manipulated the event where till and mizi met the wagyein?

It's not a theory, actually! It's confirmed that Ivan orchestrated the whole event. The true reason as to why however is still unknown. The information provides more context to this scene, though:

During the earlier times of ALNST the most rational explanation for this scene was that Till ran after a flower crown (presumably Mizi's) and Ivan followed him in out of curiosity. Now we know that Ivan was conveniently just standing there because he was waiting.

Side note, I find it heartbreaking (and maybe a little funny, sorry) that Till most likely didn't notice Ivan in this scene. That's just like him, isn't it. Always too busy running after Mizi while Ivan trails behind, an ever-present shadow.

I'm not sure how Ivan manipulated the circumstances for both of them to end up there, but it is confirmed that everything was intentional. What strikes me most is how they describe this particular scene:

I can't copy down what they said word-for-word (Patreon info), but they described Ivan watching "creepily" as Till and Mizi are faced with danger. We know that Ivan was familiar with the Cerberus wagyein beforehand, enough to touch its teeth and even to rest himself inside its maw. To Ivan, the wagyein is not dangerous, but to Till and Mizi, it could be. Ivan prepared the wagyein, led them there, and watched "creepily" from afar as Till fell on his knees, seemingly injured.

The closest I can get to making sense of Ivan's "scheme" is that he wanted to see how other children would react in a dangerous situation. Ivan's always been an observer, after all, and he's learned to survive by copying the more "normal" behaviors of his peers. This situation occured when Ivan was still young and had not yet developed his more charming mask, so perhaps he staged this encounter to study a situational response, to learn and mimic the emotion of fear. And what better subjects for the experiment than two of the most expressive and reactive humans of their batch? It helps that he was already fixated on Till beforehand, too. I think Ivan became irreversibly obssessed after this incident, especially since it's framed as a turning point in Ivan's life, comparing Till to the stars.

This is just my attempt at an interpretation, though. It could very well be for another reason. He most likely chose Till and Mizi specifically for personal reasons, not just for reaction. I'm still not sure on the purpose behind the whole thing.

The team wanted to capture Ivan's "dark emotions" through the shot of his stalking, which could relate to his more sinister intentions. His gaze can be read in a few different ways, though. Curiosity, interest, fear, etc. Maybe that's why they decided to redraw the shot in ROUND 6.

I think this better sells the feeling they were trying to convey.

[luxurysystems]

Suitcase Briefcase of memories//Time after time.

[dem0batz]

I’m so tired of seeing constant criticisms of dark romance and dark romance love interests. Just enjoy what you enjoy and let others enjoy what they enjoy. Like some of y’all are so cruel and mean for no reason to people who are just minding their own business.

[dangaer]

good afternoon! i think i discussed this veryyy briefly when i first made this blog but something i wanted to remind people that i am more than open to exploring verses in potential bad ends of the games. i would advise for these to be plotted but if you wish to just go into it, feel free to let me know!

[fratercrucis]

you know it's over for john winchester when baby sammy pulls this move

[xolboragainandagain]

I made a crossover AU between Ninjago and Transformers: Prime as a joke, and now I have a whole plot of Zane being sent to TFP's universe instead of the Neverrealm and meeting Starscream and both of them developing an unhealthy platonic (Though it'd be a really funny romantic ship) relationship together that parallels a lot of their own past relationships in different ways which I'm going to try to make into a longfic. Have this art for them I will never finish

[tj-crochets]

Starting a new post because the other ones were getting long, but the first few HST blocks are sewn and trimmed down to size!

I have a long way to go lol

[infiniteglitterfall]

OMG, COULD EVERYONE PLEASE STOP IMMEDIATELY BELIEVING AND REPEATING DISINFORMATION?!

Sorry, I just. Was just on Twitter, and I snapped.

I literally haven't seen one true statement about Israel on social media in MONTHS.

It's gotten to the point that I'm seriously considering starting a sideblog fact-checking all of it.

PLEASE STOP BEING GARFIELD I AM BEGGING ALL OF YOU

BE NERMAL FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

I've written at least one really long post about fact-checking things before. I have another saved as a draft somewhere.

But all you really have to do at this point is GO LOOK AT AN ACTUAL NEWS SOURCE.

What do I mean by an Actual News Source?

An actual news source will tell you where it's getting its information.

Basically: Wikipedia rules apply at all times. Citation. Fucking. Needed.

Except with news articles, I don't mean a detailed footnote.

I mean, if they say, "Rosco Flubberish reported seeing a pig fly across Whatever Place. 'It was a flying pig,' he said," they're fine.

If they say, "Sources close to the President reported that the Department of Farmland Creatures launched a pig into the air this afternoon," they're fine.

If they say, "There have also been reports that pigs flew," they are purely making shit up.

Just check CNN or something. CNN checks their shit, and they're very quick on the draw.

NBC has been very reliable too, in my experience. So have ABC, Newsweek, the Jerusalem Post, the Guardian, the New York Times, the AP, PBS, the Washington Post, and Reuters.

You can break through most paywalls by putting archive.is or 12ft.io before the https:// of the URL. Or just go to either of those sites and paste the URL in the box.

Nobody is perfect. I've seen some articles from all of the above that were accurate, but left things out that I personally thought were important.

Journalists are humans, humans fuck up.

(Also, NONE OF THIS APPLIES TO OPINION PIECES ON ANY TOPIC. Opinion pieces are exactly that: opinions. They don't seem to be fact-checked anywhere, as far as I can tell. They range from super-accurate and informative to complete nonsense.)

(Surprisingly unreliable sources in my experience: Democracy Now, Jacobin, Workers World Party. The latter two act like news sites but are basically running nothing but opinion pieces; Democracy Now can do important deep dives, but I've also seen news coverage from it that was wildly misinformed in that same way.

On the flip side, Slate and the Atlantic are largely opinion -- the Atlantic more than Slate, maybe -- but they often have really well-researched analysis of political situations. Ditto Teen Vogue, and sometimes Vox.)

You don't have to read CNN or the NYT or whateverfor fun. You don't have to make it one of your news sources.

Just. Do a quick check on Google News before you assume anything is true, and then run it through a bullshit filter as described above.

You are being actively lied to, all the time. So am I. We all are.

And people will believe and repeat literally anything that sounds about right.

That's just human nature.

That is WHY none of us are immune to propaganda.

if you want my personal shortlist of Bad Sources, as in Sources That Consistently Publish Absolute Falsehoods:

Any and all state-owned or state-controlled media. For example:

Al Jazeera is owned by the Qatari government, and so are a bunch of other news sites.

Mehr News, the Tehran Times, Al-Quds TV, and Al-Alam are owned by the dictatorship of Iran.

Oops. Looks like every form of broadcast Iranian news media is owned by the dictatorship of Iran, which has a monopoly.

Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, Palestinian News and Info Agency, and Al-Hayat Al-Jadida are owned by the government of Palestine (the Palestinian Authority)

Al-Aqsa TV and Felesteen are owned by Hamas.

TASS / Russia News Agency, Russia Today, and a fuckton of others are owned by the Russian government.

State Media Monitor seems to do a pretty great job of tracking and listing these things. Check out your own country there!

I specifically listed those ones because some of them (especially Al Jazeera, Mehr News, and TASS) are sites I've seen come up frequently on Tumblr, or in my attempts to fact-check what people are saying here and on Twitter. The rest are just more examples from the same governments.

Al Jazeera deserves special notice because it's become a very popular leftist news source. Believe me, I used to read it all the time too.

It can be reliable and accurate sometimes. But:

It consistently tweets things that are unsourced, never appear anywhere else, and that would be big news you'd expect it to follow up on if they were true. It seems to be following a strategy of "tweet every rumor you hear in case it's true, so you can get the scoop."

It also does this with its liveblogs of the war. And ALL its coverage of the war at this point is liveblogs. So things that are verifiably true will run right next to things that are complete hearsay, but are too long to just tweet.

This is especially dangerous because as far as I can tell, Al Jazeera doesn't delete anything that turns out to be false.

I've also seen regular news articles in Al Jazeera, on multiple topics, that veer from Absolutely True Statements to Wildly Exaggerated Numbers and Speculation. Stuff you wouldn't expect a source on, like statistics or descriptions. And there's no way to tell the difference unless you already know a topic really well, or are fact-checking them while you read.

One especially terrible example, from Gazan activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib:

Al Jazeera has never posted or published a correction.

Alkhatib has also blamed it for destabilizing the region, although he's exaggerating about it being Hamas's official propaganda outlet:

TL;DR: If you see a Tumblr post making any kind of factual news statement without a link, at this point you need to assume it is absolutely not true. And either scroll on past, or go check Google News.

If there IS a link, you need to click through to see what it's from and what it actually says.

(Honestly, you need to do that with Wikipedia too. I've repeatedly clicked through on citations that absolutely did not say what the article implied they did.)

And pro tip: on mobile, you can just smack a button to sort Google's news results by most recent, and it helps A LOT. There's gotta be a way to do the same on desktop, but if there is, it's not immediately visible, which sucks.

[themintman]

Yk this was a silly doodle but then my tablet momentarily DIED died and I thought I lost this so I finished it out of spite.

DOGtor Trayaurus and.. uh.. UH.. Dan (I PANICKED I CANT THJNK OF ANY PUNS-)

[misslisamiray]

I am disappointed none of these are anywhere near me (I knew RI wouldn't make the list, but I was hoping Boston, MA might).

Anyway, if I have friends going to any of these, have fun & please take lots of pictures!

[liuisi]

lowkey o-(-( right now

[bruqh]

normally clerics use divine magic to work miracles amongst the living but i think kristen is going to use her mortality to work miracles amongst divinity

[3416]

just need to give a shoutout to all the people who interact w me or the things i make on here for the love and good vibes. twitter's been pissing me off the past couple days and i just think it reaffirms i'll never really leave tumblr bc the fandom culture here is just so much.. more lol