#i would be genuinely interested

[freshwater--mermaid]

maybe calling him New Moon was an unintentional prediction all along. He's darkened, he's shadowed over, blacked out entirely from what he used to be. Honestly the name pairs very well with Dark Sun. They are both eclipsed by darkness.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Poppy playtime got a guy worse than William Afton

[somewhereincairparavel]

"jason is a knockoff watered down percy" NO hear me out, jason actually parallels annabeth immensely, sharing SO many similarities with her personality, not percy, in this essay I will-

edit: my full analysis is out now! here

[umblrspectrum]

3 years of this godforsaken show

[willbyersmikewheeler]

holy fuck when I was rewatching the van scene I realised that Jonathan appears when Will tells a LIE…

And you know when Jonathan also appears randomly?…

When Mike tells El that he loves her.

TLDR: Mike and Will were both lying in their big speech’s.

[ministarfruit]

day 15: haunting ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[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)

[stars-obsession-pit]

Not Quite his Twin

Danny Fenton is not Danyal al Ghul. They’d wanted him to be, but he wasn’t.

He still remembers when he first woke up, his whole body feeling raw and ill-fitted. Even his mind felt wrong, his memories not quite his own.

Which, he supposes, they weren’t.

Because Danyal is still dead. Executed on the orders of the Demon’s Head for failing to live up to his twin.

But the spurned heir would make a perfect figurehead to build legitimacy for a coup, so a splinter sect of the League stole away some of his remains before they could be disposed of. They may not have had permission to access the Lazarus Pits, but they could still turn to some more unorthodox methods of attempting resurrection. A combination of cloning, a few stolen and processed samples of Lazarus Water, and pieces of necromantic rituals.

And it almost worked.

Almost.

The body they constructed did indeed come to life, and clearly possessed at least some of Danyal’s memories, but it wasn’t him. The memories were locked behind a barrier, present in abstract but not felt. This thing they created could never pass for the deceased heir, and thus could never be the figurehead they wanted. So they decided to dispose of him.

But the clone’s memories had shown him this sort of betrayal before, and he did still have some of the original’s skills. He struck first, killing several of their agents and managing to escape the lab.

He had no idea what to do next, but at least he was free. Free to form his own life, to become someone unique rather than just not-quite-Danyal.

[th3-c0ll3ct3r]

Mr. Beast trying to BRIBE Michael Kovach for the ending of The Amazing Digital Circus was not on my 2025 bingo card

[omputue]

I'll say shit like "I need to see Reigen in tears more often I can't stand this guy" but the second he is in tears or going through it I'm crying along too like wtf

[chloesimaginationthings]

Poppy playtime should have more Harley Sawyer ngl

[batboopp]

Detective Comics (1940) issue 741 // Batgirl (2000) issue 3

[inkperch]

It annoys me when fic writers have Celine be like. Distant and generally non-affectionate to Rumi (and the other two, really)

Like... I know we don't get much of their dynamic, but what we do get is Celine gently braiding her hair while they sing together.

It's only the Patterns Celine couldn't love.

It wouldn't hurt nearly as much otherwise.

[turtleblogatlast]

AU where Leo is trapped in the Prison Dimension for months instead of minutes and the only way he gets by with his sanity intact is through recording himself talking to his wrist comm.

When they finally manage to get Leo back and make him rest up to heal, Donnie can’t help but listen to the recordings left behind.

He’s not sure what exactly he’s expecting, only that his subconscious is screaming at him that it has to be heartbreaking, that it has to be torturous.

Instead, what Donnie is subject to is a full thousand hours’ worth of Jupiter Jim and Lou Jitsu crossover fanfiction. More than one part in the series. Spanning well over a million words.

(The worst part is that it’s actually good.)

[askoverkill]

ABORT ABORT ABORT PANIC!!!!!!! You are NOT about to tell a child that their supposed doppelganger parent is DEAD!!

transcript below:

(MAYBE YOU'LL GET LUCKY AND DIE WITHIN THE NEXT 5 MINUTES AND YOU WON'T HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING.)

(Wait, no, that's right. You're ACTUALLY dying.) (And if you don't help Mirabelle retrieve that ammo, so will everyone.) (Even this child in front of you.)

...I know you don't believe me, but I'm Siffrin. What's your name?

Oh! You don't know! My Siffrin calls me Lupus!

Lupus, that's a nice name.

Look, we need to go save the world, and it's urgent. How would you like to join us?

Sure! And then when we find Siffrin, he'll help save the world too!

...Yeah.

[aquanutart]