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Queen Persephone - Sakura, inspired by @angel-chu ‘s Quietus. hehe 👑💀🌸

taylor swift presents a new scent based on her seventh album, lover. it has a floral scent which is soft yet sharp. it’s bottle is shaped like a prism which refracts a rainbow when placed in light.

I forgot DW was an ardvark and I though she was just getting roasted

diioonysus

basque mythology | spirits | lamiak

→ lamiaks have the appearance of a beautiful lady from the waist up, but their feet are those of a hen, a duck or a goat. they used to eat the bread and ham, and they used to drink the cider they asked to humans, or/and the bread, milk and curd cheese their faithful gave them. it seems that the lamiak lived on the income they used to obtain from the lands that the farmers hid to the authorities not to pay them any taxes. the lamiak were also spirits who fought against cheats and in favour of honesty; this was their reason to punish those farmers by demanding them some money.

hcseokie

tbh having followers here is so weird bc they don’t interact with you or talk to you at all they just……stare at your breakdowns and say mood

collapsedsquid

thesquidgame

tolerateit

Exile, Taylor Swift

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

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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