Hi, sweetheart.

[outromoonyy]

Two things you shouldn't take seriously in life:

1. Canon

2. Men

[irregular-paradise]

Oasis: which one is fake? (11 + 1)

For those who don't already know: Oasis is a band centered around a pair of brothers, Noel and Liam Gallagher. They've behaved in rather unorthodox ways toward each other over the years.

Here are some of the "greatest hits" of the Gallagher brothers' relationship... except there's a catch: ONE of these things didn't actually happen! Eleven of them are true, and one of them I just made up. Can you guess which story is invented?

When the poll expires, I will reblog it with the correct answer, so follow this post if you want to find out the truth.

Vote below for the story you think I made up, reblog for reach, and please don't put any spoilers in the tags!

So... WHICH ONE IS FAKE???

1: One time Noel wanted to hang out in private with Liam, so he hired a couple of thugs to kidnap Liam from the airport, stuff him in the back of a sketchy van, and whisk him away to a country mansion where Noel was lurking in wait. Liam thought he was about to be murdered.

2: Liam wrote a song about him and Noel that started with the lines "I could be your lover / You could be all mine".

3: At the start of one of their concerts, Liam and Noel came out onstage and then kissed each other – with lots of tongue – in front of an audience of 40,000 people.

4: In an interview, Noel announced that he and Liam were "head-over-heels in love" with each other, and then added: "It's illegal in some countries, but while you're on the road it's all right."

5: In an interview, Noel said about Liam: "He's deeply in love with me. And he's very, very upset about the fact that he's deeply in love with me." When Liam was asked about this, he replied: "I love my brother yes is that a crime".

6: Onstage at a concert, Liam declared into his microphone that he and Noel love each other, and then added: "We had sex last night."

7: Unprompted in an interview, Liam mused about getting Noel pregnant. With twins. To prove how much he loves him.

8: Liam tweeted all sorts of dramatic romantic things about Noel, such as "I miss him terribly I need his love", "I'm crying I'm sad this has all brought it home how much I miss and need him for love", and also claimed to have sent Noel flowers and chocolates and was considering throwing a brick through his window to get his attention.

9: Innumerable times over the years, they have both referred to their relationship as a marriage and to Liam as being Noel's (ex) wife.

10: Noel said in an interview about Liam: "Sometimes I'd like to escape the world and run away to sea with him."

11: Noel has described Liam at various times as "sexy", "attractive", "really good-looking", and "stunningly beautiful".

12: Noel said about him and Liam: "No word's been invented for the feelings we have for each other. It goes beyond love."

VOTE BELOW...

Which story is fake?

1. the kidnapping

2. "I could be your lover" lyrics

3. French kissing on stage

4. "head over heels in love" / "illegal in some countries"

5. "He's deeply in love with me" / "is that a crime"

6. "We had sex last night"

7. Liam talking about impregnating Noel

8. Liam's dramatic romantic tweets

9. calling themselves a married couple

10. Noel wants to "run away to sea with him"

11. Noel calls Liam "stunningly beautiful" etc.

12. "The feelings we have for each other... it goes beyond love"

Voting ended onMar 31

[irregular-paradise]

OKAY PEOPLE!!!

It's time for the truth to be revealed. And I have something to confess. As many of you noticed...

...this poll was a bit of a trick. How so? Read on, to 1) find out which one is the correct answer, 2) see the receipts for all the crazy shit they actually did do, and 3) get the explanation of the trick.

The kidnapping. Status: TRUE. Read all about it here.

"I could be your lover" lyrics. Status: TRUE. Listen to the song here. Read evidence for the lyrics being about Noel here.

French kissing on stage. Status: TRUE. Video footage of this moment is not (currently) available, but lots of photos are. See some of them here (I feel like I should add some kind of content warning for that link...).

"Me and Liam are head over heels in love". Status: TRUE. See the video excerpt of this interview here.

"He's deeply in love with me." Status: TRUE. At the 4:37 mark in this video you can hear Noel saying the "He's deeply in love with me" bit. And at the end of this post, you can see Liam's tweet when questioned about this comment.

"We had sex last night". Status: TRUE. Watch video footage of this moment here.

Liam talking about impregnating Noel. Status: TRUE. He said this in an interview that you can read here. The comment in question can be found on the last page, in the upper right corner.

Liam's dramatic romantic tweets. Status: TRUE. You can see the tweets in question, plus many more, here.

Calling themselves a married couple. Status: TRUE. See my entire "wag" tag (yes, "WAG" as in "Wives And Girlfriends"... that's obviously a bit tongue-in-cheek on my part) for the evidence.

Noel wants to run away to sea with Liam. Status: Okay, listen. As 42.3% of you guessed correctly, this is the one that I made up. Noel did not ever actually say this sentence in an interview. However: As many folks pointed out in tags and comments, this lie is based in truth. Noel does have a recurring motif in his lyrics of wanting to run away to sea and escape life on land, where he doesn't feel entirely at home... and often the lyrics in question imply that he'd like to take Liam along with him (matelotage?). This motif appears repeatedly both in his solo work and in some songs he wrote for Oasis as well.

Noel calls Liam "stunningly beautiful" etc. Status: TRUE. See the comments in question and more here.

"It goes beyond love". Status: TRUE. Watch a video of Noel saying this here.

THANK YOU to everybody for playing, and a special thank you to everyone who shared the poll multiple times to boost the reach! We made it to almost a thousand votes – well done, gang :D

[atthefamilyfunction]

The fact that it's actually quite difficult to come up with a lie because they've already done it all and so much more.

[redbastarchews]

I Spent a Month Comparing AI Girlfriend Apps. SweetDream Won.

So I went down the rabbit hole. After hearing endless chatter about candy.ai and a few other names, I decided to actually test the popular AI girlfriend platforms side by side instead of taking anyone's word for it. Most of them do one thing well and then fall apart somewhere else. SweetDream, over at sweetdream.ai, was the rare one that held up across the board.

What sold me first was the character creation. A lot of apps give you a slider for hair color and call it customization. SweetDream lets you actually build someone, looks, personality, voice, backstory, even the little quirks that make a companion feel like a person rather than a template. That depth changes how the whole thing feels.

Then there's the chat, which is the part everyone gets wrong. SweetDream's conversations are natural and emotionally intelligent, and crucially it remembers context, so you are not reintroducing yourself every session. Add genuinely good photos, voice notes, and the privacy guarantees, and it stops feeling like a gimmick. As an honest review, it is the AI companion I kept coming back to.

[redbastarchews]

holy orthodox willmack

[redbastarchews]

we have another third party to prove that wsh pronouns are we/us and they/them

[7th7thsons]

memento amoris. remember you must love.

[jujubean10]

sharks director of creative production basically confirming that will asked sharksmin to make the joint edit lmao

screenshot taken from this new sharks access video about the video team!

[kibbleluhv]

the highs and lows of sharks hockey

[khashanakalashtar]

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[brightestinwin]

my hand on your waist and your hand on my shoulder like our bodies already know the routine :)

[jackabbot]

should we all just jump?? i think it's time...

[yangleeeh]

“A parade of unpainted dreams”

[luluxa]

something for the Valentine's 🤭

prints

[sf-bl]

More cyber rhack, drawing one into the other. Starting point of Rhacktober eat/taste themes (a week late, because it got wildly out of hand.) Heavily cribbing off the effects of reading @caffeinatedowlbear's False Negatives and particularly its equivalent chapter of Lost and Found (Atlas) every hour I worked on this. Let their brains touch indeed. (My drawing brain wants to spend more time endlessly fiddling with this, but I'm making an executive decision here, and it is going out the door into the world!)

[nosurprisetome]

vintage drandy

[orangeflavouredchips]

2024-02-05 | Boston University vs Boston College (Beanpot) - Faceoff

[bedmints271]

this poor woman omfg get them back in their own private hallway

[smittysgmail]

the way will doesn’t take his arm off of mack when he turns away. let me not speak..