Truth not Deception

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[hey-there-little-red-riding-hood]

[lesbianshepard]

u know in inquisition how warden alistair mentions the warden was searching for the cure to the calling? now im picturing them like eating dinner together and she just fucking flips the table “THE DOG” “…WHY ARE WE SHOUTING WHAT DOG?” “THE DOG AT OSTAGAR?” “BARKSPAWN?” the dog hears his name and comes up “HE HAD THE TAINT” “he—wait what?” “HE HAD THE TAINT REMEMBER I CURED HIM?” “YOU CURED THE TAINT YEARS AGO AND YOU DIDN’T TELL ANYONE???” “I FORGOT. I WAS KIND OF BUSY”

[pikestaff-deactivated20200113]

meanwhile in Kirkwall

[atasteofthedasismoving]

The only dialogue choice that matters.

[barufisher]

tfw u just fought a dragon but ur cassandra allegra portia calogera filomena pentaghast

[wardenpharah]

Sometimes I remember that???? Dao has crossbows?? Name a more ignored weapon in a video game

[sushigirlfriend]

[cameralight-deactivated20180725]

Gross porn blogs:

What is it about my page that entices you? I’m not interested! Get lost!

[bitter-trans-lesbian]

The bots are using tumblr to scam Google.

Let’s say someone is looking for porn and they put “wife caught her husband cheating,” into Google. There are a lot of porn sites (and some news sites) with that title. So Google has to decide which order to show them in, because most of the time, people pick something off the first few pages of Google.

Google wants to have the very best “wife caught her husband cheating” (or whatever else you search for) sites on the first page of the search. Google has several ways to try and decide which site are the best, but one of them is that it looks at how popular it is by seeing how many other websites link to it. If a lot of other sites are linking to it, it was probably useful to them, so Google will put it on the front page.

So if I’m a sleazy pornsite owner, I could create like a thousand websites and make them all link to my “wife caught her husband cheating” site, and act like a whole bunch of different websites thought it was pretty great. They’d be like “xdfgt .com”, “xdfgy .com”, “xdfgh .com,” just nonsense addresses nobody else was using, or whatever. I’d try to make Google think my site was awesome, because all these other websites are linking to it.

But Google has already caught on to that. Google would know “xdfgt .com” was a crappy fake website, because nobody else is linking to “xdfgt .com”. Any website that is only linked to by crap websites is also crap, as far as Google is concerned. Google won’t put it on the first pages of search results.

So instead let’s imagine the sleazy pornsite owner creates a thousand fake tumblrs instead, like “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and “xdfgy.tumblr .com” and “xdfgh.tumblr .com” and just puts one or two posts on them to add links to the “wife caught her husband cheating” porn site. Google can still tell those tumblrs are crap websites, because nobody else is linking to them. But the difference is … on tumblr, the sleazy pornsite owner can make your website link to him.

Let’s say your tumblr is “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com”. If “xdfgt.tumblr .com” likes one of your posts, there’s link on your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” Somewhere on “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” it will say “xdfgt liked this” with a link from your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.”

Google’s bot looks at “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” and it sees that your blog is a good website. People are linking to it (talking to you or reblogging from you), you write like an actual human being, you have nice pictures, you update sometimes, you aren’t a bot. So Google decides your blog isn’t a crappy scam website. Then it sees the link to “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it thinks “oh hey, a nice website with good stuff written by a real human linked to this “xdfgt.tumblr .com” I guess maybe “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a decent website too.”

Then it looks at “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it sees the link to the porn site with “wife caught her husband cheating”, and it says, “well, I guess that “wife caught her husband cheating” site is a good site. I know that because there’s a good site linking to it here at “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” I know “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a good site because “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” linked to it, and I know “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” is a good site because it is updated and writes like a real person and people talk to it and link to it.”

So basically the porn bots are using the fact that you have a good blog to make themselves look better and to try and trick Google’s bot into thinking they’re very popular and it should put them at the top of its list when people search Google for porn.

It’s really annoying! It would be really nice if the people running tumblr figured out a way to not be free advertising for every sleazy porn site on the internet

source.

[hollowedskin]

hey wow thats actually really useful! and its written in a way that i (a bird with no knowledge of the wizardly internal workings of a website) can understand!

[alkjira]

FINALLY AN EXPLANATION

[fridgebride]

i love when there’s trees

[fridgebride]

who else loves when there’s trees. clap

[penandinkprincess]

i do not at all mean this in a perjorative manner, but i do think it’s important to be able to consume a piece of media and go, “i’m not the audience for this” and be able to just walk away 

there doesn’t have to be something wrong or “problematic” about something for a person to not like it. personal taste is personal taste. but something not doing it for you doesn’t mean it automatically has to be wrong or bad. it’s just not for you. 

[sindri42]

There’s been several times when I’ve watched a thing and been like, they clearly did what they intended to do, and did it well, and I don’t want any part of it. This is a high quality and deeply unpleasant piece of art.

[queenclaudiabrown]

“This is a high quality and deeply unpleasant piece of art” is a wonderful line, I love it, I feel it in my soul

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

too good a take to be left in the tags

[obstinaterixatrix]

Recently, my son said to me after seeing a ballet on television: “It’s beautiful but I don’t like it.” And I thought, Are many grown-ups capable of such a distinction? It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it. Usually, our grown-up thinking is more along the lines of: I don’t like it, so it’s not beautiful. What would it meant to separate those two impressions for art making and for art criticism?

- Sarah Ruhl, 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write

[bloodraven55]

god didn’t make me gay. i watched xena warrior princess as a teenager and that made me gay.

[aphony-cree]

I finally got polls!

What day did this post come across your dash?

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Voting ended onFeb 9, 2023

Since posts can run for a full week I wanted to see how this spreads

[maximumsunshine]

For it to spread, it needs reblogged. Reblog for science yall! Let's help OP!

[inloveandfear-deactivated202505]

I love saying “my brain went” instead of “I thought” because idk what’s going on up there sometimes I just live here

[yarnfinch]

psa: if you’re an artist/writer/creator of any kind who posts their work on social media, you will sometimes go a while without posting something new. and you will think, “oh no, I haven’t ceated content for my followers in (x amount of time)! i’m letting them down/will lose followers!”

that’s the devil talking, and you have to punch him and then go about your day

[madcat-world]

魂3系列 (4 of 4) - F艾服

[onceiwashere]

we should be able to add polls to other peoples’ posts so that everyone can vote on who’s winning an argument

[discodeerdiary]

should we really be able to do this though?

yes

no

Voting ended onFeb 4, 2023

[alkaline-noodles]

you can add a second poll too

this is far too much power for a mere commoner to wield

hehehe second poll

Voting ended onFeb 4, 2023

[orange-catsidy]

oh they REALLY added pvp

[subtletyislost]

a sad update

I don’t know how many of my followers are still active, or how many care to know this, especially considering it’s been like, a long ass time since I was active on here. But, I am alive.  I guess I just, feel like I need to say this because grief and mourning are some of the worst things I ever have to deal with. It’s not a good time to say this, it’ll never be a good time to say this. But, for what it means to anyone who might see this.  I don’t remember if @snowstorm-thirteen and I ever actually told anyone on here that we were dating, but we were. It must have been known enough that she and I were incredibly close because someone reached out to me about her off tumblr last year. It’ll be a year in March, but Snow passed away last year.  I know she had a penchant for disappearing for a while without saying anything to anyone, and it’s been years since she was last active on here, but I know I would regret it if I never brought it up here. If I never let people who might not have any other way of ever finding out the truth know. She had a seizure while sleeping and just, never woke up.  It hurts to say this. It hurts to bring it up. It hurts. She was my everything. I don’t think I’m ever going to be okay about it.