#is that true? no way to verify

[idontlikeem]

I don't know what to think of the quote from Geno that was published today and is trending on twitter. Is it actually a real quote? Because if it is and was translated within context, oooh boy I'm gonna be pissed!

sigh ok i was hoping this wouldn't happen.

this is the only time i'll be addressing this.

that quote was from 2019. whatever the twitter account that posted a snippet of it is, it was clearly attempting to imply it was said today. it was not. i have proof!

is it the best quote ever? no. however, let's remember the context here: he's talking to a russian news outlet. what's he gonna say?

additionally, when you add in all the rest of his commentary, it's significantly less inflammatory.

[canisalbus]

Okay I just realised this but Vasco's two moles under his eyes reminded me of this old saying that two moles directly under the eyes mean you get bad luck in relationships. Intentional or not, this detail is a nice little easter egg to his relationship with Machete and any he had beforehand!

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[wundrousarts]

Hi guys...... don't want to alarm you too much but I would like to give a heads up outside of the discord...... there seems to be like a 50/50 chance that Silverborn is delayed a whole nother year 😭😭😭

I'm doing my best to investigate and I am hoping that it's just a massive error where the wrong year was inputted on a publisher site that then triggered Barnes and Nobles preorder postponement emails to be sent out..... but I would say to perhaps prepare for the worst 😭

I will update if there's confirmation one way or the other 🥲

[ninjagirlstar5]

Star, stop changing Tamami's design challenge (impossible).

No, for real, I think this is the fifth redesign I've done of her character. I don't know why but the past designs I've made for her just weren't satisfying to me for some reason. Some of the designs I decided were just bad or didn't suit her while the others were similar but I just didn't like how it looked (tank top, large sweater, scarf, the rainbow bracelet and a long skirt). But I...think I've finally landed on a design that I liked the most out of all the ones I've made so far. (Please let it be the last. Please, my brain and heart. I would like to settle on a design and move on!)

ANYWAYS, I used Teruya's DRA sprite as a base for Tamami since, well, she is his mom and she's about as short as DRA!Teruya (or maybe shorter, I don't know, the wiki gave me two heights for his DRA self. I decided she's about 4'8'' to 5''). So it made sense to use this sprite for her, even when I made slight adjustments to her eyes and nose by making the eyes a little wider and bigger and the nose a bit more pronounced as DRA!Teruya's nose is very small. Out of three of the five designs I've made, I kept this short hairstyle of hers with a large ahoge as I loved this style the most and didn't want to change it. I based her bangs off of SDRA2!Teruya's length and style and the back of her hair like DRA!Teruya's, but I changed the way the strands looked so that it'd look more like her own hairstyle but you can still see the resemblance between the two of them. The ahoge, though, is very much real, unlike Kojiro's and Teruya's (they canonically style their hair like that on purpose), and she cannot fix it no matter how hard she tries. So she just gave up and let it be. Tamami got stuck with the protagonist trait, even though she died before the events of Danganronpa, lol. I've never been a fan of fictional kids looking like carbon copies of their parents. Like, you have the meta-power to design these kids anyway you like and you just make them look exactly like one of their parents? Unless their look-alike appearance is plot relevant, it's just weird for them to look so much like one parent that they can easily be mistaken as siblings and has zero resemblance to the other. And that's saying a lot coming from me who looks a lot more like my Irish dad from skin tone alone, but even then people can tell that I'm at least Asian because of my facial structure and even asked as such, tying my appearance to my Filipino mom. I don't know, I just like seeing a mix of traits for the kids to have inherited from their parents, you know? So, since Kojiro already has a design with green hair and green eyes, I decided to have Tamami have a different hair color, gray and green, but she also has green eyes, just a different shade. Teruya inherited his mother's eyes while getting his father's hair. Since I headcanon Teruya to have freckles, Tamami has freckles as well and as I mentioned before in this post, I adjusted her skin tone to be more obviously tanned instead of dusty from my older drawings of her. And then there's the outfit, which is a dark gray tank top, a long denim(?) skirt, dark reddish-brown boots, a blue handkerchief scarf to match with Kojiro, and a big fluffy yellow sweater with a checkerboard pattern that is tucked into her skirt, and long puffy sleeves that hangs off of her shoulders. The rainbow stripes on her skirt and the rainbow bracelet ties her design to Teruya's as he wears a rainbow as well, and I thought it'd be a neat idea for them to have a similar love for rainbows even though they've never met (cause she died via childbirth). The thought of Teruya still inheriting some of his mom's mannerisms and traits even though they never officially met scratches my brain in a good, angsty way. I wonder what Kojiro thinks whenever he recognizes parts of Tamami in Teruya...And that's it for Tamami's design! Hopefully it'll stay this way.

Tiny characters that can beat the shit out of an enemy that's much taller than them will always be peak character design, you can't change my mind on that.

[robotclownindulgence]

Just had a post blazed to me that called all palestinean fundraisers scammers. I mean that's really rich coming from someone giving money to the "buy badges that do absolutely nothing" website

[mummer]

finally bucked up and talked to my dad for like 45 minutes about israel palestine and it was like talking to a fucking brick wall and i had to capitulate a LOT but i do feel like i may have made tiny tiny little inroads i dont know.

[puckpocketed]

professor hockey not even mentioning t con-lly in his draft videos is based as HELL ough i knew i could count on my favourite micro celebrity <3

[brookbee]

@bowiesdreamreality hi I saw these tags and I love an opportunity to tell a fun bowie story lol. I’ll be completely honest tho that the source is hard to verify, since it references an issue of a magazine from the 90s and there’s no actual scan of the magazine nor can I find it archived online anywhere

But anyways the story goes that Bowie was scheduled to play the songs Little Wonder and Telling Lies for SNL. Reportedly during the week of rehearsing for the show he was butting heads with Lorne Michaels over the sketch that week. He knew that Lorne Michaels hated/was terrified of the song Scary Monsters (or the whole album really) and so before Bowie was set to perform Telling Lies he told his band to play that Scary Monsters instead. After which he was immediately escorted from the premises/momentarily banned from the show

There’s been a few articles about it on different sites, but they usually seem to cite this post as their source

[grotto-esque]

I think... people should cultivate a skeptical, questioning mentality towards news reporting, and perhaps especially if that reporting confirms your worldview.

[nomaishuttle]

now heres the thing is my rule is i have to live on my own for a year before im allowed to get a pet but also consider what if i had a little friend .

[cryptideye]

all the people saying that tumblr is so nice and wholesome compared to evil reddit (to the point where we need to rehab poor traumatized redditors like abused puppies) clearly only joined the site within the past year or so, OR have somehow been using a completely different website than i have because that kind and sweet and welcoming image is NOT the same fucking thing ive been logging onto for the past 8 years

[dirty-xenobladeconfessions]

People were already able to datamine camp site names for the Wave 4 DLC from the Wave 3 update, and it looks you're going to Colony 9, Valak Mountain, and Prison Island there, among others

>prison island

ceremony of destruction and recreation,,, 2 !!

[druidgroves]

found a georgia voice claim 🙌🙌🙌

(the redheaded woman that appears at 0:23)

[dykefruit]

re: the post asking if aboriginal people are human: to answer your question yes the op is intentionally being racist. xe has previously doxxed a first nations person for criticizing xir and is also a zionist who said people should report palestinians to the fbi. the racism of that question is part of a pattern of behavior

Lmao yikes thx for the background, context definitely changes that sort of thing

[isekyaaa]

If you don't know me well and you've heard my opinions abt people talking shit, I probably seem like the person that enjoys talking shit about others. To which the truth of the matter is that I don't. Tbh, I feel I do something worse. When I talk about a person to someone else, I break them down from the bottom up by analyzing what makes them so irritating, but also what makes them so great, and I share that analysis with the person I'm talking to. It quickly escalates to bringing up a person's personal issues, traumas, insecurities, etc, and analyzing them under a lens.

[vaspider]

I am begging everybody, fucking begging them, to slow the fuck down and fucking look things up. Right now, there are a lot of people who are making money off of creating headlines that are meant to make you mad, and it's going to get worse as we get closer to the election.

If someone tells you that there's a secret conspiracy to [do a thing you don't like] and that it's unique to Biden, you better fucking look that thing up, because chances are you're going to find that it's been happening under every administration for the last 50 years. Is that good? No! Should you want to change it? Probably! Is it a unique crime to Biden? Nope!

"Biden said [bad thing] [X] years ago." Well, this bad thing he said happens to be true, but it looks like it was 45 years ago, and he changed his stance 40 years ago. "Biden said [other bad thing] [Y] years ago." What's the source on that? So there's one person who says he said it? And nobody else who was there has corroborated that account? Who posted the story?

These are all random examples of things I've seen over the last couple of weeks, with the details slightly changed from the Tumblr posts and news articles I've seen, because the point isn't the details of the particular story, so I don't want to get bogged down in particulars that don't matter to the point I'm making.

The point of this post isn't the specific things I'm referencing but the fact that in each of these cases, the reality was not what was initially presented. Either the reality was wildly different, or this story can't be corroborated and was told by someone with a clear and very well-known agenda of their own, which means that at the very least, the story should be treated with extreme suspicion.

And on that note, please don't believe that because you're a leftist that you can't be radicalized in the same way that right-wingers are. You aren't immune to propaganda either. I'm not saying you have to like, or should like, any particular politician or political entity. I am saying, however, that you should view a lot of the news with a gimlet eye, and that goes double for anything that makes you real fucking mad.

You need - need - to stop and read the whole article and ask yourself if you can verify the claims and who benefits from this making you mad.

Please. For the sake of the people around you who have to patiently explain to you that you've gotten fucking bamboozled again by propaganda if for no other reason. We're all very tired of you thinking that leftists can't be propagandized.