My life is weird

Sloths, chickens, music stuff, weird stuff, and me failing at art. Just as bizarrely random as my life tends to be

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whoops

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hello Monday

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hello tuesday

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hello wednesday

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hello thursday

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hello friday

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hello saturday

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hello sunday 

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[vensosaurus]

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Hey. Things are going to get better.

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You cannot prevent it.

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Yes I am threatening you with a good time.

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Have A Good Day, Bitch

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there was a brief period of time in lower school when I thought ducks, geese, and swans were essentially different evolutionary forms of the same pokemon

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Hey what the fuck is lower school

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elementary my dear watson

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Synchronized clucks

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Normal activity

[pascalcampion]

Wasting time.

Aka. I just wanted to draw kitty cat.

#pascalcampion

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angels, deciding what shape to take when interacting with The Humans: well….eye contact is important to humans, right? they find it reassuring when they can see the eyes of the person they’re talking to. so if we have LOTS of eyes, in very visible places, that’ll be even MORE reassuring

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can’t stop thinking how much sense it would make if every design choice angels made was just a misguided attempt to Relate To The Humans. imagine how those conversations went

wings: “humans don’t like things they can’t understand, so if we’re going to levitate we should have wings. in fact we should probably have lots of wings, since we’re so big and impressive. humans like wings”

loud, booming voices: “fuck off Azrael the humans needs to be able to hear us.”

glowing: “no no no, it’s about visibility, right? the main human sensory organ works by detecting light, so if we emit light…” 

wheels: “why the hell are you shaped like that?” “piss off, the humans are really proud of this invention”

multiple faces/eyes: “it makes me relatable” “i swear to God it doesn’t–” “i need to see in every direction” “ Azrael you are a supernatural messenger of god you do not need–” “THE HUMANS NEED TO KNOW I’M WATCHING”

multiple limbs: “humans have lots of limbs! they like limbs” “look i let you keep the wings but–” “how do you expect me to walk?” “70,000 feet is not a reasonable number of feet, Azrael!” “fuck off i’m ENORMOUS” 

general gross misapprehensions of biology: “holy shit are your wings made out of eyes?” “look before you say anything i’m like 100% sure i’ve seen animals who have both wings and eyes. and you can fit so many more in this way!” “….you godforsaken googly-eyed genius”

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i absolutely adore Bible fanfiction like this

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Bible fanfiction

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And a very happy Valentine's day to all happily married/engaged epileptic beekeepers prone to fainting spells, may you be kept safe from the plague!

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Guess a lot of you didn't realize Mr. St Valentine has been pulling double duty

[parakeet]

u know…………….. people……. mean. but a pigeon? fat. small. round. full of dreams. and that? that’s wonderful.

[tkr]

𝕾𝖗𝖙𝖆́ 𝓥𝖎𝓚𝖆𝓴𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎 𝓥𝖎𝖇𝖊 𝕼𝖚𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖊さん/ Twitter

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And together, they fight evil Do not underestimate them

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My idea of Golden Girls, or the FF edition millennials will be playing in a few decades.

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Everybody’s favourite dinosaur is dead

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no!! mine is chicken.

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𝕾𝖗𝖙𝖆́ 𝓥𝖎𝓚𝖆𝓴𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎 𝓥𝖎𝖇𝖊 𝕼𝖚𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖊さん/ Twitter

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And together, they fight evil Do not underestimate them

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may I offer u a scream chicken in these trying times?

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Ok this wikipedia article is pissing me off so much 

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yeah i’m gonna re-write this fucker

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goddamn. there is so much bias in the first paragraph alone:

this is an EXCELLENT example of the way word choice and tone can be used to create bias and transform the truth to suit the writer’s purposes.

Here’s my re-write: 

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i got rid of the passive tone (which distances Profumo from his actions), and changed the photo. notice how the original writer chose a photo taken before the scandal, portraying Profumo in a respected position of power, a powerful man seated at a desk. I chose a photo taken in the aftermath. Which would you say more accurately reflects the context? 

some other changes:

“denied impropriety” like he’s some maiden aunt clutching at pearls. No, what he actually did was:

oh, and he wasn’t

he was, in fact

after lying through his teeth. now here’s my favorite bit:

what does that MEAN? what the hell does that MEAN??? oh boo hoo hooey the Prime Minister’s self-confidence was damaged, how dreadful for the poor dear. the poor sweet man…

fuck that. in fact, Profumo’s actions

of the government, and rightly so.

oh, and the young woman in question was a model, not a “would-be” model. But ultimately her profession has no relevance here–what is relevant is that a middle-aged man in a position of power slept with a 19-year-old. I wonder what motive the original author could have had, to choose to emphasize her career over the fact she was still a teenager…

Words can be used to bend anything. Pay attention to tone. Pay attention to authorial intent. Pay attention to what is included and what isn’t. Question everything. But especially question the language used to describe historical and current events. Every writer has an agenda–look for it. Above all: 

Read critically.

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