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[thesefallenembers]

the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

[brionysea]

figure out what the word means from context clues while reading -> use the word in a sentence while writing -> realise you're not actually certain what the word means -> panic about your sentence not making sense even though it hasn't been pinged as grammatically incorrect -> look up the definition of the word because You Must Know -> it means exactly what you thought it meant -> oh, good! :) -> immediately forget the definition -> repeat forever

[angeltiddies]

reverse gaslighting where i pretend to know exactly what you are talking about

[invaderxan]

academic conferences

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Work meetings

[greenekatgrey]

Interviews

[ambulatoryhoodie]

Auditory processing disorder

[lemonsharks]

conversations with my cats who are yelling

[prismsgalaxy]

Me letting that little kid with their hyper fixation tell me every single fact they know about it

[helloitsbees]

Goncharov (1973)

[blumineck]

We need to talk about “stealth archery”

I’ll take any excuse I can get to remind people that the jarmakee is a real technique!

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[konoko]

[85-rend]

this was missing the incredibly important next picture where she got mad at the camera like its their fault she bit the soap

[sebthesmoll-art]

Boop

[hollowboobtheory]

why do people think victorian orphans were like. the peak of sheltered pure innocence

[hollowboobtheory]

"imagine feeding mountain dew to a victorian orphan" they'd probably appreciate the pick-me-up before their shift as junior osha violator at the accident factory

[hollowboobtheory]

"imagine showing a victorian orphan vtubers" they'd say "this is boring i wanna watch public executions"

[vzm]

we should talk about water more often that shit is crazy

[recuperationdisliker]

it is literally one of the most normal things

[vzm]

you can’t even begin to understand how insane water is

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Water as a molecule has SO many absolutely bonkers properties that no other substance has and it's that combo that makes life as we know it possible in this universe. that shit IS crazy.

Solid water floats in liquid water. that's not normal. It expands and arranges a repeating lattice structure that creates a crystal which isn't super strange but it drops in density by 11% which is. It's polarized. It dissolves EVERYTHING. The latent heat properties are insane. the emergent properties are also insane. the nitrogen cycle takes a whole bunch of effort and enzymatic processing, but the water cycle runs off the sun and the chill of space.

Just because you are a bunch of squishy bags of complicated water, doesn't make that a normal thing to be. the vast majority of the universe does not have that. water is very VERY special.

[papookwrites]

Fanfic reader's prayer: may my favorite author's hyperfixation on this fandom last longer than mine 🙏

[aragarna]

Fanfic writer's prayer: may my hyperfixation last long enough for me to write all the fics in my head.

[jackironsides]

Fanfic writer's prayer: may there still be at least one reader left in this fandom by the time I finish writing this epic

[twistcmyk]

[iphyslitterator]

As of this writing, Goncharov has been added and removed from the Martin Scorsese filmography Wikipedia page 7 times.

[problematicmilf]

[hussyknee]

Y'all also need to understand that Goncharov is a simulation of a public disinformation campaign. People aren't harmed not because it's "just a movie" but because we let each other know that it's fake. It's what makes the gaslighting non-malevolent. If we learn nothing else from this, let it be:

1. Never trust images

2. Always look for primary sources and follow citations and cross-reference, never accept things from exerpts, secondhand sources or just because you hear the same thing over and over

3. Be desperately grateful that free collaborative databases like Wikipedia, Letterboxd and IMDB are staunchly defending their integrity no matter what. If we stop being able to trust any of them for any reason, no matter how small, a key if rudimentary verification tool gets compromised and a knowledge community destabilised. If we can't trust the small stuff, we can't trust the big stuff.

Not being able to rely on the protection of community ethics is how we devolve from a mutually co-operative community into a pit of voles out to eat each other.

[mortimermcmirestinks]

"wikipedia locked the martin scorsese page because of goncharov" = funny. hilarious, even. very good also. thank you wikipedia

"we don't even know if goncharov is real because wikipedia is unreliable" = fucking nightmare scenario and I'm not kidding

wikipedia is the only adult on the entire internet

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Who wants to hear a story about how stupid I am

[forestuck]

Isnt that why we’re on this website

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Every single time I hear someone reference Madonna as still being alive (like when they mention her Tumblr or Instagram), my brain immediately goes, “wait, no. Madonna is very definitely dead.” Like, I am CERTAIN that Madonna is dead. It’s a rock solid fact of my existence, there’s simply no way she’s alive, that’s “proof you’ve woken up in a parallel universe” kind of shit.

Madonna is not dead. But I keep forgetting that, and being dead certain that she is. I remember watching documentaries about her, about her history of being abused at home and in the industry, about her courage and skill and how she was taken advantage of, about what an iconic actress she was. I remember the outrage when that Playboy jerk got buried next to her as “the ultimate blonde”.

Now, people more astute than me might have noticed that I have confused Madonna with Marilyn Monroe. I usually don’t get this far in the proceedings. I usually go, “oh, I must be confusing her with someone else. Who is it… oh, Marilyn! It’s the M’s that must be tripping me up!

“I’ve confused Madonna with Marilyn Manson!”

[kaylapocalypse]

Who is also still alive, though I genuinely wish he wasn’t.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I was confused by this reaction so I googled Marilyn Manson and it turns out I have also confused Marilyn Manson with Eddie Izzard.

[scrumptiousangst]

How many celebrity victims with this identity trolly claim before you find someone actually dead?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#I get those two confused too 😭#also. this is a safe space so I will ask#is marilyn manson not a serial killer 

WHEN I REALISED MY MARILYN MONROE MISTAKE I ALSO THOUGHT THIS but no apparently he is a singer and I don’t know what the serial killer’s name is

[alexseanchai]

Charles Manson. Who is in fact dead.

[lostsometime]

To be fair, Marilyn Manson deliberately chose his stage name to reference Marilyn Munroe and Charles Manson, so he wants you to think of them when you say it.  It’s kind of the point!

[tribblehugger96-deactivated2024]

okay but Eddie Izzard?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I just hear the name Marilyn Manson and I think “oh yeah that’s a genderpunk rockstar name”

And yes I did think that Eddie Izzard was a rockstar. I… may have gotten her a little bit confused with Ozzie Osborne.

[maximumsunshine]

Ok. Well Eddie Izzard is alive.

But you did finally stumble upon someone who is dead. Apparently Ozzie Osborne died literally 2 days ago.

[the-shade-system]

Great post everyone

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#incredible#i also tend to think that Madonna is dead#but i always confuse her with Amy Winehouse. i don’t know how. but i always do 

AMY WINEHOUSE IS DEAD???

[mistakenot4892]

She’s been dead since 2011.

Also Ozzie Osbourne isn’t dead.

[crutchie-morris]

In order of appearance in this post:

Madonna: pop singer, some of her most popular songs include Like A Virgin and Material Girl. Alive.

Marilyn Monroe: actress and model, known for her work in movies as a “bombshell blonde” and for her modeling, particularly with Playboy. See OP’s original post for details of her life. Died of drug overdose.

Marilyn Manson: singer/songwriter of metal/rock music (per Wikipedia, do not come at me about music genres.) Some of his more popular songs include The Beautiful People and Personal Jesus. Long history of controversy, including sexual abuse allegations. Alive.

Eddie Izzard: stand-up comedian and actress. Some of her more popular films include Ocean’s 12, Ocean’s 13, and Valkyrie. Known for running marathons to raise money for charities supported disadvantaged youth in the UK. Alive.

Charles Manson: serial killer and cult leader. Known for founding the Manson Family, a doomsday cult who went on a murder spree in 1969. Racist. Not worth spending any more time on. Died in prison from colon cancer.

Ozzy Osbourne: hard rock/metal singer, known for his work with the band Black Sabbath. Best known songs include No More Tears and Crazy Train. Has been the victim of many “this celebrity died!!” rumor storms, but at present, Alive.

Amy Winehouse: singer/songwriter, Wikipedia describes her music as “soul” (again, don’t come at me about genres.) Best known songs include Rehab and You Know I’m No Good. Died from drug overdose.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Best part is that none of these people look anything like each other

[tundrakatiebean]

Just to add some more confusion to this the reason Max thought Ozzy was dead was because there was a Twitter death hoax that got picked up by some fans not realizing it was a fake post and it snowballed a bit.

[waywardworldhopper]

…this is how I find out Aaron Carter died, huh?

[a110catsinmyfamily]

I literally thought Ozzy Osbourne was one of the villains from one of the Spider-Man movie/comics universes?

Also I always think Madonna is dead too. I confuse her with Marilyn Monroe all the time.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You’re thinking of Norman Osborn. Or possibly Otto Octavius.

[maculategiraffe]

my mom didn’t believe in lying to children so when I first asked about santa claus as a small child she was like “oh santa claus is another name for a man named saint nicholas who lived a long time ago. he was a very kind and generous man and he loved giving people presents and he would do things like put presents in people’s stockings when they were hung up to dry by the fire, so they would find them and be surprised. so now when we give presents at christmas it’s fun to pretend saint nicholas or ‘santa claus’ brings them. and we hang up stockings by the fire and when we get up in the morning there are presents in them, just like if saint nicholas was still alive to bring them!”

so that thanksgiving one of my uncles said jovially “so mac, are you being good for santa claus?” and little (not quite three year old) mac looked up and raised an eyebrow and said witheringly “he’s dead.”

[justsomeantifas]

how many people could be working on actual problems in the world instead of being forced to do jobs that they are over-qualified for just because they dont want to go homeless and starve?

[justsomeantifas]

climate change is threatening to kill us and people with biology degrees are working at starbucks if they didn’t get lucky in the nepotism department.

[justsomeantifas]

capitalism is possibly the least efficient way to allocate work. 

You love art–have spent your entire childhood developing a style people love and appreciate? you could possibly work to improve the lives of millions with your beautiful creations?

sorry you need to work 12 hours a day at a walmart that doesn’t need you while some billionaire who took a painting class once sells some ugly bullshit for 3.5 million.

[justsomeantifas]

Millions of people want to be doctors but can’t afford medical school, it is a well known fact we don’t have enough doctors for the demand. hmm wow real efficient capitalism.

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould

Capitalism and wealth are bankrupt concepts.

[fanficmemes]

Babygirl I know fandom history that you wouldn’t even care about

[mikkeneko]

i know fandom history that even I don’t care about

[i-drink-and-i-meme-things]

[citizen-zero]

anyway i think we all know who the true best character in Goncharov (1973) is

[hyrude]

ao3′s orphaning option is cool and a good idea but mostly very fucking funny. i posted this work for fun when i was younger and i still want people to be able to come back to it if they liked it, but now im an adult professional and i dont want it attached to my name. whats the word for that? umm, anonymously posting? no. i want something that indicates i murdered this story’s parents 

[kyraneko]

technically the story’s parents faked their own death and disappeared to go have an office job, and that’s even funnier

[eugeniedanglars]

it’s wild to me how there is literally ZERO correlation between what a piece of media is like and what its fanworks are like. 2014 captain america fans were out there writing poetry and full-on academic papers inside of their fics. sonic the hedgehog and my little pony fandoms are both famous for drawing fetishes you’ve never even heard of. les miserables fans spent most of their energy on college aus. there is literally no consistency or observable pattern and it’s incredible

[eldriitchmurmurs]

#my theory is that fanworks reflect what people found missing in the canon#so like. sonic and mlp. obviously#les miz want les amis to be happy and alive and goofing around#and uh. mcu fans want the mcu to be well-written (via dicaeopolis)