i added ears

i do not have photoshop

[lakemojave]

"Please don't hit on anyone when we go out later you keep swearing chivalric oaths of fealty"

Me after one beer talking to a woman two inches taller than me: I could be yuor sword

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know the more I play Bethesda games the more I realize that they actually do think things through. You just need to dig to find their explanations. It’s not spoon fed to you during the main quest.

This could be seen as good or bad I guess. I don’t know how I feel about it.

But for example in fallout 4 people often criticize the railroad for having such a stupid password and being so easy to find but it makes more sense once you talk to some people and read some terminals because

1. Their old headquarters got attacked so recently that there’s still fresh corpses there and

2. Whenever their headquarters gets compromised they have a habit of falling back on a different safe house as their new headquarters

If you find this out it becomes pretty obvious that the old north church used to be the safe house where they made first contact with new recruits that made the effort to follow their clues of how to find them and they just moved in there and haven’t had the time to change their password and set up a different system for picking up new recruits.

You could argue that this subtle storytelling is fun. You could argue that maybe they should make explanations for things easier to find. Personally I’m of two minds about it because on one hand digging around for lore is fun and I don’t necessarily like being spoon fed everything. On the other hand though it seems like a majority of players haven’t pieced together this very simple explanation so like maybe they could make the answers to the big questions slightly easier to figure out.

[strawberry-crocodile]

let me be the first to admit i would die so fast in a supernatural horror movie because im so damn confident magic isnt real. i would chant those ancient words on that leatherbound tome, i would tease that inanimate doll i would wait fuck am i just doing shane madej post cancelled

[strawberry-crocodile]

YOURE SO FUCKING RIGHT

[alexanderpukish]

I have the thing of "I don't believe in fairies but I don't fuck with them" kind of approach to the supernatural.

One time I was going to walk under a bridge near me and the other side looked so unreal and ethereal and filled me with an indescribable dread so I turned around and walked somewhere else. I still get nervous going under that bridge.

I don't believe in fairies but if they exist they're under that bridge. When the sun hits just right they can see you.

[catboybiologist]

This is also how the government of Iceland acts about Elves

[catboybiologist]

Which, tbf, is a proxy for "hey this spot is culturally important or pretty or has nature in it let's not develop here" but the Elves are cooler

[jame7t]

Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses

[cryptotheism]

King of the eagles shows up later. He can talk. Horse king couldn't talk.

[betterbemeta]

He didn't want to talk to you.

[swaglexander-the-great]

[findingfeather]

Uh.

Point of order.

King of Horses ran 450 fucking miles at almost entirely a gallop, without more than a few minutes rest, in 4 nights and basically was like "wait why are we stopping?" when Gandalf took him into the city and he ended up in a stable.

This was not his top speed, nor did it push any limits on his endurance.

King of horses is very different from other horses, actually.

[elodieunderglass]

He just doesn’t do much about his administrative duties

[darkwizardtheorist]

But he didn't need to - his rule was stable, after all.

[singerin]

[penny-anna]

Do Eridians know they are different colours. I bet Grace's alien kids love finding out what colour they are. It means absolutely nothing to them but they're like :O :O

[penny-anna]

Some of them think he's making this whole 'colour' thing up to mess with them and try to catch him out by asking again on a different day to prove he's just saying random noises but he's like you are still blue buddy and they're like :O :O

[penny-anna]

Like if we met an alien species who had extra senses & they said that some humans felt spingly and some humans felt spoingly I bet we'd all want to know if we were spingly or spoingly humans

[jihef03]

[what-even-is-thiss]

Fresno county just declared June to be “traditional nuclear family month” in a move that I’m sure isn’t targeted at all

[what-even-is-thiss]

They made sure to put mentions in the announcement of a lot of types of non traditional families like single parents and grandparents but not of same sex parents. Hmmmmmm.

[nothorses]

I cannot stress enough that I fundamentally distrust callout posts, and I will distrust you if you send them to me.

Don't get me wrong: I investigate warnings, and I act on them if they're true and relevant. But callout posts are, on a very fundamental level, not about what people say they're about. There are exceptions, but generally speaking they're made for one or more of the following reasons:

OP didn't like the subject to begin with (often for bigoted reasons), and they wanted a reason, and a following, to justify and validate that.

OP wanted to gain popularity, so they made themselves look like either a victim, a hero, or both.

OP wanted to claim victim status in a private falling-out in order to preserve good standing with their own friends/their community.

OP didn't like what the subject was saying, and wanted to silence them (often for bigoted reasons).

OP genuinely just wants "revenge" on the subject, or otherwise wants to ruin their reputation and have them sent harassment.

Again, there are exceptions: there are "callouts" that just unravel a subject's lies, or point out problems in already public actions. If OP is claiming to have been personally victimized in a legitimately serious way, and especially one that indicates the subject might be a danger to others, I'm definitely more willing to believe it- one obvious example being sexual violence.

But oftentimes, callouts are incredibly personal, misleading, emotionally manipulative, blatantly untrue, or all of the above.

This person came to me on anon; I have absolutely no way of knowing what their motives are or how trustworthy they are. There is no credibility or accountability here.

And I did read the post. Lo and behold, it's riddled with emotionally manipulative language, false accusations, and the biggest reaches I've ever seen:

"DON'T READ THIS CALLOUT, IT'S SO TRIGGERING TO EVERYONE, JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. But the proof is here if you REALLY don't believe me"

"Proof" is a scarce handful of screenshots taken out of context that contain emotionally evocative language, but do not support the accusations at all.

Some accusations are genuinely just weird logic leaps with no support, others are matters of personal opinion obviously driven by bigoted motives.

OP themselves expresses very publicly that they believe people who are marginalized in the ways the subject are, who speak on that marginalization, should be silenced.

I try to assume good faith here, and I want to believe this anon was just guilt-tripped and manipulated by the post in question. I don't hold any ill will here.

But anon, I want you to ask yourself:

Are the accusations you're making something you have personally investigated and found to be true?

Does this person deserve the harassment and ostracization they will likely receive as a result of your accusations?

Will you hold yourself accountable for the damage you've caused if you're wrong?

And if you're absolutely certain you're right, come off anon and talk to me as a human being; because I can't believe you're ready to be accountable for these accusations if you won't even put your Tumblr blog behind them.

[nothorses]

I've had actual, honest-to-god callout blogs reblogging this post like "yeah I research all the claims here!! they're real and you can trust me (:" as if the entire purpose of their blog is not to encourage their followers not to check those claims themselves, not to think critically about why those claims are made in the first place, & to just rely on random strangers to tell them how to think and who to completely ostracize from potentially vital communities, support systems, and resources.

I cannot emphasize enough that if you spread "callout posts" as a fucking hobby, this post is explicitly about you.

[nothorses]

[veeranger]

did you hear mark zuckerberg renamed facebook to ligma

[kuipernebula]

what’s facebook

[veeranger]

[supergameboytwo]

what’s facebook

[veeranger]

[zonesoftime]

who the hell is mark zuckerberg

[veeranger]

[tabloidsores]

someone needs to stop this blue guy

[veeranger]

[peoplegettingreallymadatfood]

[iignatz]

cant believe we’ll never know who ended homophobia because he was anon

[cozza-frenzy]

Reblogging for these tags

[fidelcostco]

can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do

[mushroom-soup-is-my-religion]

[scottpilgrim4everr]

Cannon alert

[charlesoberonn]

[virtu-typhoon]

[scifikimmi]

[captain-starskull]

[charlesoberonn]

[emperorpenguin]

These two fire extinguishers at my work

[edge-complains-and-loves-art]

Had to draw them

[charlesoberonn]

They share the highs and the lows.

[notahorseindisguise]

[illyadolatry]

just like. for the crowd.

here's the sexual content guidelines saying nudity is ok

here's the bit from the termination email telling you you can make a new account as long as it doesn't break the same rule

here's the guidelines for what counts as explicit (not mature, aka grounds for content deletion)

here's the section telling us that you will always be able to respond to content getting flagged as explicit (lie)

here's the section where it says you will be notified when your accunt gets terminated, and that the appeals are reviewed by humans (both lies)

and by the way, posting a single thing against ToS isn't supposed to be grounds for deletion,

[necromancelena]

saw a tumblr poll that was like "what would be worse to date, a chaser that won't even call you a woman or a tgirl that is unemployed" like i kind of hate it here i kind of hate you all

[puppygirllaika]

[hamletthedane]

Bridgerton hot people: *busy making out in various gazebos and library locations*

Me, watching: is this estate entailed or under a strict settlement? If it’s the product of a strict settlement, how was that disclosed to the viscount given he was of minority age (and thus barred from contracting) at his father’s death? Did he later perpetuate the strict settlement in his lineal favor despite having zero obligation to do so given that he now stands as legal fee tail owner? Maybe he just saw it as a way to perpetuate the power of the family and bar against less successful descendants wasting the estate resource, all at the direct, deliberate expense of barring his siblings and their families from a landed inheritance? If that’s the case, why are the younger Bridgerton sons such desirable matches among the gentry?? But maybe that’s not an issue, since all of his younger brothers seemingly have independent allowance, and if that’s generated from the family estate, this must be a strict settlement with a life estate income provision for siblings - def NOT an entailment. Is that why these younger brothers are considered good matches despite being unlanded untitled gentlemen in need of professions? Or maybe their mother’s marriage settlement provided for their independent allowance should their father die?? Are they to obtain their own property without title???

Bridgerton hot people: *have now actively started getting down in said gazebos and library locations*

Me, flipping through a facsimile of a 1788 English law textbook: on that note, why are the featheringtons kicked out of what appears to be an owned home by a male cousin upon their father’s death? Was their estate a strict settlement that benefited a cousin instead of a descendant?? Why would their grandfather force their father to settle away from his own descendancy line, with no allowance or dowry provided for the girls? But if it’s entailed and thus out of their hands (also explaining the lack of allowance), why didn’t their father employ common recovery to undo the entailment???

Bridgerton hot people, looking at me through the television: lady, you realize this show is just cosplay **** with extra steps, right?