#maybe i'll regret this or maybe not..

[astro-inthestars]

Hey guys I came back from Baseball Training at 6 pm (3 hours ago–) and holy shit. We started at 10 am and the thing is??? I think I should legally not be allowed to move for two days–

OW like OW the warm ups and training we did HURT which, to be fair, should be expected since I'm a guy who barely does physical activity and sports, and this is a very active sports. It comes with the territory

Guess what sucks though is the fact it COMPLETELY disables me from doing ANYTHING from how tired I am, so I'm sorry yall :(

[avelera]

PSA: You should question news articles that make you not want to vote

Hey Tumblr friends, but especially young Americans in this, the year of our Lord 2024.

Unfortunately, it is an election year.

Unfortunately, a US election year becomes everyone's problem, and yes everyone else, we are very very sorry that you have to deal with our nonsense.

But in all seriousness, the level of propaganda that's going to be flung around on all sides is going to reach peak levels this year for the English-speaking internet in particular. There's going to be a lot of influence operations, on all sides, and yes including on sides you agree with but they are still influence operations.

Source: I am speaking as a cybersecurity professional who also did a great deal of work in election security.

So, here's what I am going to ask you to do. What I am going to beg you to do: be careful of any article that makes you think there's no point in voting.

That's it. I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, or how to think, or that you should trust or distrust every article out there. I don't care about that. I care about whether or not it makes you think you shouldn't vote.

A lot of influence operations are about making you feel like there's no point. That both sides are just as bad as the other. The the election is falsified. That you can "protest" by not voting (false: you will simply not be counted and your voice will be ignored). All sorts of reasons not to vote.

No matter what you do, what you believe, or who you trust, you really really have to vote this year, and every year, and you need to not listen to articles that say there's no point because among those articles are in fact active foreign influence campaigns trying to promote one side or the other for their own reasons, I am deadly serious right now.

(More context, sources, and examples sources below the cut.)

In 2016, Russian influence operations were focused on tearing down Hillary in order to specifically depress voter turnout among young men of color in the belief that this would help Trump get elected.

From the article: "“Buried literally in the middle of the indictment is a paragraph that should jar every American committed to the long fight for voting rights,” Anders wrote in a statement. “The Russians allegedly masqueraded as African-American and American Muslim activists to urge minority voters to abstain from voting in the 2016 election or to vote for a third-party candidate.”

This is the flavor of influence campaign that has been proven, that does exist, and is the sort of thing that does numbers here on Tumblr.

Things like the situation in Gaza, for example, are incredibly fraught situations. Articles don't even need to lie about facts on the ground there to make people feel hopeless and angry. Again, I am not telling you who to trust or not trust when it comes to news sources. But if an article about this event, for examples, makes you think or even outright tells you, "There's no point to voting, both sides are awful, I just shouldn't bother." You need to pause and at least consider that this might be an influence operation. You need to think critically. You need to check sources. You need to think about the world you want to live in, to vote for, and who might not want that world to happen for any variety of reasons.

Protesting by failing to vote isn't a real thing.

Old politicians ignoring young voters because they famously do not bother to vote is absolutely 100% a real thing. It is why so many policies that are popular with young people are low priority for politicians: they are not afraid of losing the young vote because no one plans on having it in the first place when it's never there in big enough numbers to matter.

So please, please, read what you want. Believe what you want. Follow your heart and your brain and whatever other organ you want to think with. I'm not here to tell you who is right, wrong, trustworthy, good, or bad. I'm just here to tell you that despite all of that, whatever you read, you must vote in your elections, no matter where you are in the world and you must not listen to voices that tell you not to as a protest.

[ultipoter]

In April's pokemagma event, we joked about Volo Cola being a thing, so I naturally committed to the bit and redrew a vintage cola ad

[blackkatdraws2]

There are more things in the Parable than Stanley knows about. [Blank Scripts AU]

[cinematicnomad]

i think???? i've finally finished giffing the terror.

[carlarte]

i can do what i want! *animates a demon owl prince eating a rodent*

[paunchbunny]

fun fact about me one time I got Obsessed with the texture and taste of watermelon airhead strips so I bought a pack of 30 or 40 I don't remember anyways late at night when I couldnt sleep I imagined the color of the airhead and id get out of bed and eat one and go back to bed and now when I see anything even remotely similar to that shade of green my mouth waters violently so that's a fucking thing you can learn how to do apparently

[not-another-robin]

WHERE are the people who self ship with alfred. NOT the live action versions I mean MY BELOVED OLD MAN !! especially the caped crusader version.

[charaznablespeteevee]

Sorry for using my old age to make a point because I know that's annoying but the problem with reclaiming the R-slur compared to say the way a lot of gays reclaim the F-slur is that the R-slur was considered a Normal Everyday Word until like 20 years ago. It was in cartoons and video games. It was in Star Trek. All us 90s kids were (regrettably) saying it on the playground and it wasn't seen as any sort of bad word.

I think it would be very easy for that word to slip back into everyday usage because it was in fact in everyday usage until just recently. I don't blame younger people for not knowing it because these days, sure it's considered a slur, but like. it's got a different background.

I feel like reclaiming a word that was largely used specifically as a slur against gays (the F-word) is different than reclaiming a word that was used as a slur against disabled people but ALSO used as a general and very common everyday insult for anything that is "bad" or "stupid".

So no, I really, really don't think this one is a good idea.

[complexraspberry]

Roku Week Day 7: Regret

[id: a digital illustration. Set during "The Avatar and The Fire Lord" the image shows Roku back onto the viewer, kneeling on the ground. His hair and robes are blowing wildly in the wind. He is surrounded by fiery embers, thick smoke and ash, and the landscape around him is lit ablaze. Above him in the burning sky, is Sozin's dragon flying away into the distance. Ash and lava are breaking the border as it rushes toward Roku. /end id]

The moment he realizes how fuck the situation is and there is nothing he can do to stop it

[pearlcaddy]

lockwood & co appreciation week 💀 favorite ship

Locklyle [insp]

[zu-is-here]

Is there anyway you could draw a comic about the labour and birth of Aim? Sorry I’m just very fascinated with the whole soul inside soul thing.

In childbirth, most of it is occupied by contractions and attempts = just preparation and emotions, while the very birth is the last long awaited moment after several painful hours :'D

But! Since you've mentioned the soul inside soul thing, I hope this rough explanation will help to see what precedes childbirth throughout pregnancy ♡

[wewerebornsextuplets]

it's looking like a restless night for me once again and i can't lie at least half of that is the fault of me thinking too hard about how memory worlds work

[nero-neptune]

HALLOWEEN TV SPECIALS

ned’s declassified school survival guide | “halloween & vampires, ghosts, werewolves, and zombies” (2006)

[clfixationstation]

one thing that I will criticize about Mikasa's character is that she doesn't understand Eren's (and Armin's) dream at all. The only insight we're offered into Mikasa's perspective of their dream is that she doesn't understand it and doesn't know what they're going on about. Like?? She doesn't get Eren's basic motivations?? Unless I completely missed something, Mikasa doesn't know that Eren wanted to explore an unoccupied world with Armin or that he desires 'freedom'. Which again, are Eren's base-level motivations. And she just. Isn't allowed to know??

[sandwichmustbetasty]

unromanced companion ships

fucking hell, I need to know which unromanced companions will romance each other NOW.

I cannot wait for a month 😭😭😭

thoughts on companion ships?