True Stories.



[find-truth-in-fiction]

why is this showing up in the year 2023 I would be to be past this part of the timeline now

[catchymemes]

[whentvsfly]

Let's make a color together!

Red

Green

Blue

Voting ended onFeb 8, 2023

Once the results are done, I'll multiply 255 to the decimal version of the percentage, and see what color we make!!

[whentvsfly]

Here's the result!! A nice lookin color, good work everyone!

[hero-of-the-horn]

[trannycrisis-deactivated2024010]

gonna say this once and never again. If you buy hogwarts blood libel simulator I DO NOT FUCKING TRUST YOU. not only are you being blocked, youre being perceived as an active threat to me and i will take no fucking chances. dont buy, don't pirate, goyim fucking listen to us for Once. i dont fucking trust you if you consume this game. end of story.

[cyrmric]

Pretty good short video on how bad the new Harry Potter game is

Video by: I_am_a_toad on tiktok (not my video)

[maddelineusher-deactivated20240]

I came to a realization recently that I still struggle to properly articulate but: online leftists who have extremely socialist progressive politics but still think its okay to partake in like doxxing and harassment and other toxic practices are eerily similar to conservative Christians who piously go to church every Sunday but still verbally abuse service workers and leave 50 cent tips

[maddelineusher-deactivated20240]

Its that same. I guess. Cognitive dissonance between beliefs and actual behavior. That idea that you are a good person because you believe the correct things which conveniently absolves you of having to be conscious of your own behavior and how you treat people. Its okay that you called your Olive Garden waitress a dumb bitch because she brought you bleu cheese instead of ranch with your salad because you can just pray your sins away to Jesus and still get into heaven. Its okay that you told someone who you didnt like on Tumblr to kill themselves because you have "trans rights are human rights" and ACAB in your bio. Its that same kind of Performance of being a Good Person TM while still deciding its okay to treat the people you consider to be "beneath you" like garbage.

[maddelineusher-deactivated20240]

Your beliefs are simply step one in determining your personal character, frankly one of the easier steps. The next and more important step is *how* you, personally, treat the people around you. And frankly, you could have the most progressive politics known to mankind but if you still act like a middle school bully at the most minor percieved infraction then you are not a good person. Full stop.

[rhube]

What happens when you don't report pornbots

What you can see here are among the most popular posts of the last month for the convin (Connor/Gavin Detroit Become Human) tag for the last month. And presumably popular in lollipop, cityscape, rick day, eva long, dostoyevsky, and all the other random, unrelated tags added to these posts.

You can see two identical posts made by separate bots that feature a bit.ly (so, disguised, you don't know whether the address is safe/where you're going) link to a website that contains an image of a pretty young women (but who knows what else).

Each post is liked by about a dozen other bots, and only bots. (I reported them all, so can confirm their profiles were obviously those of bots/porn bots.) Some of them even use the same image in the pfp. Some are developed blogs full of porn images, some are clearly newer and don't even have a pfp yet. They are all gaining legitimacy from each other by the likes which act as links to their Tumblrs, and adding legitimacy to the post they have liked, which links to their ultimate goal: the site where they make money in undoubtedly dodgy ways.

They are doing this to legitimise their websites for search engines like Google, but if you don't care about that, it has the same effect in your Tumblr tags.

If we don't stop them, ALL your favourite hashtags are going to be full of meaningless posts like this, and probably porn you don't want to see (very different from porn you DO want to see).

This is why we report and block, lads. Not just because they are annoying and irrelevant to us, but because if we don't stop them they will take over this hellsite, and they very clearly do not understand the nature of the hell in which we live.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Dr who really didn't deserve to get lumped in with Sherlock and Supernatural

[find-truth-in-fiction]

Replies are off so I’m just reblogging to point out that Superwholock was about the fans not the show.

All y’all in the replies arguing about what show is better or how one of those three are quality and the other two sucked are totally bringing me back to 2011. Like, yea, sure Dr Who is a different show than the other two, but in the early aughts Tumblr was the home turf of the craziest fans, usually young women who loved One of those three shows but not the other Two and therefore it was the fans who argued and so superwholock (which I can’t believe I’m typing out in 2023)refers to the fans…

[bastille]

its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager 

[phantasmsystem]

oh my god No it doesn’t don’t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to a good life just fine. you can drop out of school, get a GED, still go to college and finish your degree as late as you want. i know people in my school who still haven’t graduated and they’re 26. some older. you can always transfer someplace else, always build yourself up from the ground. after a certain amount of college credits, a lot of schools really don’t care about your high school GED or your SAT scores anymore. if you fuck up in your teenage years you are not a failure!! you can ALWAYS re-invent yourself, always start over. there is always a second chance.

[iainart-deactivated20200509]

Reblogging this for my followers freaking out over art school/college. I dropped out of high school and never thought I’d get into college as easily as I did. You will be fine!

[scottandhiskind]

Fun story my biology professor just told us:  When he was 23 he was married to his wife and worked two jobs to support them since she was in college: gas station attendant and construction worker.  He worked these two jobs because that was the only work he could get since he was at the reading level of a third grader.  

One night he was writing something and his wife noticed he was writing from right to left.  Since she was studying occupational therapy she realized he had a learning disability and started working with him.  He slowly began to learn to read, and at 26 got his GED and went to college.

His first year of college he took the lowest level math course he could take, 001.  Over the years he worked on learning what he needed to, ended up graduating with a biology degree.  He then went on to get his masters and PhD, graduating at the top of his class.  He is now an extremely accomplished biologist and professor.

So don’t let anyone tell you that you’re future is based on your choices as a teenager.

[geekyangie]

Seriously.  Do not believe this.  You aren’t even stuck with your choices you make in your 20s.  I didn’t start working in my current field until just after my 30th birthday.  It has nothing to do with what I went to school for in my 20s.  My husband has a political science degree, and he’s a sports journalist.

You are not tied to anything.  Go.  Be.

[roane72]

My day job did not exist when I was a teenager. And the idea of trying to be an author was a distant thing on my radar. I thought I was going to be an English teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a music teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a drama teacher.

Also in there: therapist, early childhood educator, then finally: web developer–because by then it was an actual thing that existed. I didn’t actually figure out what I “wanted to do when I grew up” until about eight years ago, when I was 36. I tried pursuing writing when I was 30, stopped, then started pursuing it seriously again when I was 40. 

There is always time to change. And don’t let anyone tell you that high school is “the best time of your life” either, because that’s bullshit too.

[drachenkinder]

I was a high school drop out and didn’t go to college until I was within a month of my 40th birthday. While there I changed my major twice. Then I taught art long enough to earn retirement. Before college I’ve worked in dog kennels, as a cashier, a dental assistant, a vet assistant, electronics assembly,  a machinist in the military, picking up trash in a state park and as locksmith at a university. After teaching I worked night shift as a securety guard. Life is freaking adventure, not a locked grid you must move from one square to another. Take a chance, If you fail, get back up, dust yourself off and try something new. 

[solarishashernoseinabook]

Your life is not over at 25. You can continue to learn and engage with hobbies and change your life path and meet new people. Get rid of this idea that what you decide to do at 18 is gonna be what you do for life

[starlightshadowsworld]

As someone who freaks out at times about this kind of thing in my final year of university, this really helped.

[find-truth-in-fiction]

YES. yes.

I almost didn’t graduate high school, dropped out of college, and didn’t go back until my twenties and now I’m in my thirties, just changed careers again, and am FLOURISHING and this may not be it the forever choice for me but GODDAMMIT I am happy right now

there is no timeline for happiness OR success

being young means making mistakes because you’re young and don’t know better and you’re figuring allllll your shit out

Drop the class that makes you miserable. Move cities. Change majors. Drop your friends if they suck and make new ones who don’t and don’t be afraid to do things alone or fuck up or try whatever it is that you’re afraid to try because WHO CARES you have all the time in the world

[ratdaddy666]

[f-identity]

[Image description: A series of posts from Jason Lefkowitz @[email protected] dated Dec 08, 2022, 04:33, reading:

It's good that our finest minds have focused on automating writing and making art, two things human beings do simply because it brings them joy. Meanwhile tens of thousands of people risk their lives every day breaking down ships, a task that nobody is in a particular hurry to automate because those lives are considered cheap https://www.dw.com/en/shipbreaking-recycling-a-ship-is-always-dangerous/a-18155491 (Headline: 'Recycling a ship is always dangerous.' on Deutsche Welle) A world where computers write and make art while human beings break their backs cleaning up toxic messes is the exact opposite of the world I thought I was signing up for when I got into programming

/end image description]

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[popsunner]

I love going viral on tumblr.com. It’s like if you stood in a field and said some of the stupidest shit a human being is capable of and then like fifty thousand crows attacked you

[popsunner]

Don’t do this to me

[calamitys-child]

Genuinely the posts where people collate and juxtapose a bunch of different media texts to convey an idea with all the citations at the bottom are the best thing to have come out of this site in the entire eight years I've been on here. It's so sexy. Intertextuality is genuinely one of the things that I go feral for without hesitation and I adore it it's such a good use of the medium I hope it never stops

[zolo1917]

[find-truth-in-fiction]

I just got my first 9-5 (after working in the restaurant industry where there were a bajillion issues but I always knew I would get fed) and now I’m having a hard time coming up with food ideas to make in the morning and pack for lunch. I got a blender second hand but I’ve never used one before and like… what do I do to make smoothies? What are good smoothie ideas? I DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE THING TASTE GOOD