FirestarAnimations

OH no... They found me... Hey! I'm the artist of the Delta!Chara Blog. This blog is for uploading art and animations I may do from time to time. Ask me anything you want about my art or Delta!Chara. They/them pronouns.

[moethh]

die die die

[lycosofscribes]

It's a pain in the ass, but it's my pain in the ass!

[kingtigerstar-blog]

So true. This cringe fanfiction is MY cringe fanfiction!

[kingtigerstar-blog]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I finally posted the first chapter of my new fanfic, Abandoned Redacted! If you were curious about Torchwood discovering William Afton and setting off a chain of events that nobody could foresee, this is the fic for you! Also, it counts as a fix-it fic! Also, it's HELLA GAY. But, it's kinda expected with a group of disaster bisexuals, an immortal omnisexual, and two gay guys that are making their ex-flame everyone else's problem. Please check it out, and I hope you enjoy it!

[kingtigerstar-blog]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/88155766/chapters/235000446

Chapter 2 is posted and live!! There's chaos, mystery and dumb references! And… the mental image of Springtrap getting shock collared. Enjoy!

[messsssmer]

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

[fireknightqueelign]

thy mother

[messsssmer]

Art thou for fucking real

[kingtigerstar-blog]

@bred-is-a-dumb-name

[hinoneko]

*sigh* fine, fine, i'll be the new doctor who showrunner. bring me two twinks, britain's tallest woman, and 1000 pounds worth of alumininamian foil

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[bred-is-a-dumb-name]

Despite everything, it's still you......

[myroboticwife]

Fact that Mike is able to accurately sketch Nightmare Fredbear in the logbook after all those years makes me wonder if Mike used to draw the Nightmares A Lot back when he first had them. Which is funny to think about, considering William in TSE is mentioned to have wrote obsessively over his envy and admiration for Henry. To think there was a time after 1983 where father and son were living under one roof, where one was filling journals ranting about every little thing his business partner did while the other is filling sketchbooks with these horrible nightmarish versions of Fazbear Entertainment mascots. You think a teacher confiscated one of Mike's sketchbooks and showed it to William during a conference like "We Are Concerned About How Your Son Has Been Coping After the Incident"? You think William just had to sit there and nod along while thinking in the back of his head "No One Can Learn About My Weird Coping Mechanism"?

[batneko]

Shout-out to characters who don't plan to survive their stories! Heroes who think they can only atone for their failures through sacrifice, villains who don't think they deserve to live in the world they're trying to create. Gimme that passive suicidality baby, mm-mm, delicious.

[kingtigerstar-blog]

This applies to Mike and Jack...but not William. No, William clings to the narrative like a cockroach.

[kind-of-human2]

this came to me in a vision

[kingtigerstar-blog]

@bred-is-a-dumb-name @lordofthefroggs

[kingtigerstar-blog]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I finally posted the first chapter of my new fanfic, Abandoned Redacted! If you were curious about Torchwood discovering William Afton and setting off a chain of events that nobody could foresee, this is the fic for you! Also, it counts as a fix-it fic! Also, it's HELLA GAY. But, it's kinda expected with a group of disaster bisexuals, an immortal omnisexual, and two gay guys that are making their ex-flame everyone else's problem. Please check it out, and I hope you enjoy it!

[graphics-4x4]

2 separate apple dividers

F2u no credit needed

[kingtigerstar-blog]

@bred-is-a-dumb-name

[6ear9er]

the downside of liking whatever my oomfs reblog is it affects my feed and it’s like this

[kingtigerstar-blog]

😅

[libraford]

I am becoming aware of the effect a lack of trust in the media has had on people, paired with a dearth of research skills.

[libraford]

I'm thinking about the argument I got caught in yesterday- the subject of it doesn't matter.

Often, pseudoscience and misinformation comes packaged with a lot of very important sounding words, and the jargon gets to the point where it seems like a lot of work to fact check it. Which makes the 'I encourage you to do your own research' statements real obnoxious. If it's phrased in a way that's impossible to navigate, good luck.

It sucks, but you gotta.

If you don't want to fact check individual words, that's fine. That's a lot to ask of someone that's just trying to figure out whether something is true.

This is where we get into something called 'lateral research.' Instead of trying to draw a map to a sentence, you check the credibility of their source material.

This is your Snopes, your Fact Check/Media Bias, your Follow The Money.

Knowing more context about what someone is saying will save you a lot of time and energy.

If you're not sure about something, question it.

[zetabrarian]

I feel like I've been throwing this around a LOT lately, but:

Practice SIFT! SIFT is based on lateral research and can be very helpful for these situations.

DON'T just share information without doing your due diligence.

[elizeshiro]

whyyy the fuck does this not have more notes please rb this more often qwq

[libraford]

Well, I mean... probably because I posted it like an hour ago.

[weaselle]

STOP

i have found this post and infographic and i want to share it

INVESTIGATE THE SOURCE

zetabrarian's blog says they are a socially progressive librarian monsterfucker, which a quick scroll through their blog seems to support. This makes them pretty cool but not necessarily the perfect source -- anyone can say they are a librarian, and surely not every librarian is correct about processing information

FIND BETTER COVERAGE

if i go to a search engine (in this case google via firefox) i see that several universities, libraries from large municipalities (like Los Angeles) as well as the BBC all agree that this is a real method experts in information fields recommend. I wouldn't necessarily take any single one of these sources as 100% credible, but they are individually reasonably reliable, and taken together indicate a high probability of factual information

TRACE TO ORIGINAL CONTEXT

A brief search reveals that the SIFT method was created by Mike Caulfield, who is a research scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, where he studies the spread of online rumors and misinformation. This is an extremely good source of information for how to process information on the internet. As the creator of the SIFT method, he has taught thousands of teachers and students how to verify claims and sources through his workshops.

I could not find a post or page about SIFT written by Mike Caulfield himself, so i went to the University of Washington's website for this page about it, since that is the university that employs him.

It corroborates the above information, though there are a few notable differences. For example, under the "trace to original context" section in the Washington U. source (again, as close to the original as i could find) this step contains advice to check the date. This seems very good to include, as in the fast moving world of internet information, things become outdated or get updated very quickly, and yet first takes and outdated articles hang around and get shared for a long time.

EXTRA CREDIT

I personally find that it is important to outright search for the opposite information. For example, I put in a few searches like "Mike Caulfield discredited" "Mike Caulfield wrong" "SIFT method bad" etc. I found nothing showing me any indications this method has any problems. Interestingly, somehow this did turn up an article about news literacy on Medium, which was actually written by Mike Caulfield in April of 2017

[thatwolfnamednyla]

[Image ID: An infographic with a title that reads "The Four Moves." Under the title is text that says, "Use the SIFT Method to help evaluate information found online." The following steps are listed:

"STOP:

You found something that may or may not be true! STOP yourself from sharing it right away and follow the next steps.

INVESTIGATE THE SOURCE:

Figure out where the information is coming from. A reporter? A scientist? A random person on the internet?

FIND BETTER COVERAGE:

Are there sources talking about this claim or issue? See what they're saying about it.

TRACE TO ORIGINAL CONTEXT:

Find where the information was originally published. There might be context that was removed by the cycle of sharing on the internet."

Another textbox is added with a bullet-point list:

"Reminders:

"Bad things can happen AND there could be false stories about it. Both can happen at the same time.

"Not sure if it's credible? Don't share it!"

At the bottom is a header labeled "REFERENCES," with text under it saying, "Adapted from library.nwacc.edu/lateralreading/sift"

/end ID]

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Michael Afton is just like his father,,

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

[ninewheels]

#at least once a month I think about that one post about laminating a paper towel#and how that makes it immortal but also forever prevents it from fulfilling its true purpose#yes you will live. but at the cost of everything that makes you You

(courtesy of noknowshame)

[kingtigerstar-blog]

Mike and Jack coded... along with William.

[annabelle--cane]

developed a real fondness lately for characters who experience a horrific act of violence and come out the other side saying "ah. I don't think I get to be me anymore. they took out the part that was me, killed it, and put something else back in its place, and now I'm whoever the hell that is." love it when someone becomes a corpse and replaces themself <3

[koerinz]

Michael messed up