#brag post

[weathervanenews]

I was explaining the whole ‘we like Isaac pathetic and crying’ movement on tumblr to my boyfriend and he straight up said he will whimper for me if I want him to. so. I think I won at Christmas.

[roach-works]

every time i see those ‘your ancestors would be ashamed of you’ alpha male posts it cracks me up because like! man! buddy! your ancestors apparently SUCK. ‘oh we’re so busy conquering the rest of the world that the idea one of our great great grandsons is eating a burger and jerking off afterwards disgusts us!’ like sure. fine. great legacy you’re struggling under.

my ancestors would be delighted to hear that all the genocides they struggled through failed to the point that they have a descendant (with a lot of cousins!) in 2023 whose day to day life is so peaceful and secure as to allow for the eating of burgers and the jerking off. i own a garden and a sewing machine and a cupboard full of potatoes. i got an art degree and i write romance stories in my spare time.

maybe your ancestors are a howling void of nasty hungry ghosts who all hate you for not being as insatiably violent as they were but this is exactly the kind of life my ancestors fought like hell for their children to live.

[grenanigans]

33 notes on the ficlet i posted yesterday to vent out my feelings! 😯

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

This is a post that’s not about animals, but instead about what this blog has brought into my life. Because I want to say thanks.

If you’ve been around since the beginning, you’ll know that this space is where I first learned to fact-check, and where I fell headfirst in love with doing it.

In the earliest WADTT posts, I repeated a lot of common wisdom and things I’d been told from single highly visible sources. I was fresh out of college and fell into the trap of feeling like an expert based on a discrete set of experiences. It was you, the blog readers, who pushed me to ask “why?” when I was told something was true, and question the sourcing for everything. As the blog grew, so did the depth and breadth of what I fact-checked, and the lengths I’d go to find an answer. My independent projects grew out of that, such as the cat data paper and the legislative analyses. But there’s more than came of it…

That’s all a long-winded way of leading up to saying that, because of this space, I work as a professional fact-checker now! WADTT was not just what sparked my passion for fact-checking, but also my first work experience. It is what got the first company I contracted with to take a chance on me - they actually knew of the blog!

I work mostly on science videos and articles, and recently, I’ve branched out into fact-checking non-fiction book manuscripts. (Did you know that most non-fiction books are less rigorously checked for accuracy than magazine articles?) It’s one of my favorite things to do with my time, and it is still incredible to me that it’s a real adult job and I get to do it.

I’m posting about it today because I want to brag, just a little, about this incredibly sweet article that was written by one of the authors whose manuscript I worked on this spring. She told me she was writing an article about the experience of fact-checking from an author’s perspective - I had no idea her praise would be this effusive. It’s so validating: I started here on Tumblr, with you, working to correct misconceptions about animal content, and now I get to fact-check things for a job and professional people value me as a fellow actual professional. Insert internal screaming here.

So yeah. This is a thing I get to do because of this space and the support and enthusiasm about it from everyone over the years. It’s amazing.

(Also! The book discussed in this article, The Possibility of Life, is amazing and I highly recommend you check it out when it’s published next year. It’s a look at about how we imagine alien life in science and in fiction, and what we can learn from comparing the two.)

Why You Should Have Your Book Fact-Checked | Jaime Green

Every nonfiction book should go through this vetting, and every author should have this experience.

[figfull]

My new dragon is too good send help

[ericmun]

2022.12.17 Shinhwa’s Eric and Hyemi IG Update:

Eric's post:

The grilled steak tacos my second brother-in-law, Roy, made. They are seriously much better than the ones they sell. My second older sister's son, Troy, has already won an award for making an app as an elementary school student because he takes after his father who went to Harvard Medical School. Yes this is a brag post😉 #He packed a lot so I can eat it later #Harvard #Taco #carneasada #jmt #Gained 2kg

In 2011, Eric shared a photo of his father holding his 2nd older sister’s newborn son, Troy. He shared that his eldest niece Chaeyoung (Katie) came up with the name “Troy” by adding a “T” to the baby’s father’s name. (Source: AbsolutShinhwa).

The English name of his family in LA (source: Shinhwapedia)

Dad: Simon, Mom: Grace

Eldest sister: Erica, Bro-in-law: Richard, Niece: Katie, Nephew: Daniel

2nd eldest sister: Kara, Bro-in-law: Roy, Nephew: Troy

Hyemi's post:

They gave it to the 🐰 that I see every day to eat..🥲 Eric's comment: Squirrel🐿 and rabbit 🐇 will share, so it's okay~🥰

See video on the 2nd slide.

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Source: Mun Eric + Na Hyemi Translation: EricMun.tumblr

[thamekisspo]

I’ll always brag about the fact that I shipped Ruby c Otis after season 2 ep 7. I was more excited about them holding hands in the trailer than I was about motis’s rain kiss.

[avaantares]

WOOT! Just learned that my cyberpunk story was accepted for publication!

More details to come! The anthology will be out toward the end of this year.