TheTruthBetween

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[thetruthbetween]

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I said I was gonna make a pinned post that opened with "sorry for what I did to your activity page" and here it is. If you came here via me leaving 50+ notifs on your activity page, sorry not sorry, guess you shouldn't have such an awesome blog LOL

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[prettypinkdork]

Kirk: Federation law is very clear on this

Kirk: (Proceeds to do whatever he wants anyway)

Picard: Federation law is very clear on this but I’m a very creative reader

Janeway: Guys you’re not going to believe this; Federation law has fucking NOTHING relevant to this current situation but I’m going to read 20 hours of other captain’s logs to make sure. Buckle up though because we’re probably going to do some buckwild shit after the commercial break

[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

This really makes the Studios costing themselves even more money (and getting more unions involved) by prolonging the strike for the promise of free ai labor even more fucking funny. you dumb fucking bastards lol

[avaricesstuff]

I personally said the same thing when AI art was first really taking off. Oh and you can thank PETA for this.

For those that don’t know, there’s a semi-famous story of a wildlife photographer who had her camera stolen by some monkeys she was taking pictures of. When she got her camera back, she discovered one of the monkeys had taken a selfie, and she published the image in a journal as a “look what happened” kind of story. PETA, being the insufferable waste they are, took it upon themselves to sue the photographer, claiming that because the Monkey took the picture, the monkey owns the copyright and thus the photographer was not allowed to publish it. The courts ruled this whole thing stupid and that now art can only be considered protected by copywrite if it was made by a human. So, this “only made by humans” ruling could easily apply to AI as well, meaning Hollywood is gonna screw themselves over if they try to replace their writers with bots.

[marywhal]

also, crucially, the monkey in said court case was named naruto

[jrrtrek]

incredible

[everydreamrecorded]

[crzcorgi]

[thegenesimmonsboots]

gay pride flag colorpicked from this random ds9 promotional image

[poisoncherrywine]

literally just called him a poor little meow meow

[saharathorn]

What’s a stereotypical food from ur culture that u absolutely love.

[gwendolynlerman]

Tortilla de patatas and gazpacho.

[panlight]

I know I've mentioned this before, but sometimes I think it's a blessing that SM hadn't really read/watched much Vampire Stuff before she wrote Twilight.

Don't get me wrong--there are definitely times where I'm very frustrated by this, where she misses a key moment that someone more genre savvy would have taken full advantage of. The main character being turned into a vampire in such a clinical way removes so much of the intimacy and eroticism of vampire lit, for example. Or the way she didn't give her vampires any weaknesses and how that makes it so much harder to raise the stakes and put them in any real danger. Or to feel bad for their cursed existence because like . . . it actually seems not that bad without all the weaknesses and limitations.

But It's a blessing in a way because it allowed her to come up with characters like Emmett, Esme, and Carlisle. MOST of the sympathetic, 'good' vampires in fiction end up being like Edward. This brooding vampire who hates what he is and probably has some kind of Dark Past (Edward's vigilante era in his own opinion) but wants to be good but oh, the endless midnights! And obviously that's a compelling story; these tropes are used so often because people ENJOY them.

But then you have Emmett, who is a 'good' vampire too and just . . . doesn't care. He's nice. He'll protect you. But he's also killed people. Whoops. Probably felt bad about it at the time. Probably still feels a little bad if he thinks about it now. But he's not brooding about it. He's generally pretty happy and fun and doesn't take things too seriously. Normally this would be a 'bad' vampire or at least morally gray vampire but as written by SM, he's clearly intended to be a good guy. Just one of the bros who happens to be a vampire.

Then there's Carlisle, who had every reason to be the brooding vampire who hates himself (was actively hunting vampires when he was turned! son of a pastor! alone for centuries!) but instead he . . . just got on with it. Also I think his success with vegetarianism is in itself kind of unusual and refreshing for the genre. I know lots of people think he'd be more interesting if he had killed people but as someone who read Twilight during a marathon read of other vampire fiction the fact that he HADN'T was actually what made him interesting to me. It was bizarrely . . . hopeful? It's the kind of thing that someone actually vampire genre savvy probably wouldn't have done.

Likewise Esme just being this white suburban midwestern vampire mom and playing it 100% straight. This isn't some commentary on how vampirism is a shallow perversion of motherhood or whatever, Esme IS the mom. She does mom things. It's taken seriously. She's not some sinister Other Mother, she is genuinely loving and gentle and motherly and again, I feel like someone genre savvy wouldn't have played it that way.

Anyway, yes sometimes I long for more typical vampire stuff in Twilight, but sometimes the lack of genre knowledge worked out in its favor.

[drearyhours]

my favorite trope is the thing star trek does where when a character lists something and they’ll list real things/people but add 1 thats fictional, like “great writers such as shakespeare, robert frost, edgar allan poe and zaxar the giant rat man“

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (August 28th, 2018)

[buspir-deactivated20230127]

the notes are broken 😂

[calvin-reads-problem-sleuth]

Reblogging partly for awesome computer shortcuts, and partly because I wish to once again take part in a Post That Broke The Notes. 

[lookitsmorefandomtrash-deactiva]

WAH

[rowan-a-boat]

How???

[partywithponies]

"It's just a TV show" maybe to you. I absorbed it into my soul though.

[give-soup-please]

raise a glass to the posts you love that end up deleted. to the fanart and fanfics you lose track of and can't locate. to the blogs you used to look through that ended up unexpectedly disappearing. to the things you didn't archive because you always assumed they'd be there.

[reptil-enjoyer]

[rowark]

Nearly 20 years ago, I found this video on YouTube that was a misheard lyrics video to Justin Timberlake's Sexyback, that was all animated with cartoons drawn MSPaint... it was the funniest thing I've ever seen, and I watched it hundreds of times and would show it to everyone I knew... then one day the user deleted it and I have never missed something more in my entire life. I still reminisce about it from time to time with my friends who had the privilege of seeing it.

It was a masterpiece. The internet lost a precious gem the day it was deleted.

[rowark]

At a restaurant tonight, for my sister-in-law's birthday, and there's football on the TV at the bar

Me (to my nephew): hey, do you think that's the Superbowl?

Him: *stares at the TV and ponders for a while*

Him: I really just don't know

Me: me either. But they're playing football. I think maybe it's the Superbowl.

Him: *stares again, looking perplexed*

Him: it is football

Me: it is

Him: well, I just don't know what to think now. The Superbowl is football? I thought it was bowling.

🤣🤣

Like, that's fair lol

I was only expecting him to correct me and be like, "that's not the Superbowl! That already happened!"

I didn't expect to give him an existential crisis. I had no idea he didn't know what the Superbowl was 🤣🤣

[assiraphales]

genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a thieving seagull? do they get buried in the sand or do they do the burying?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back

[crzcorgi]

SDCC ~ 2018

[lillie-garden]

kissing you on the forehead

[increasingpanic-deactivated2024]

with tongue?

[lillie-garden]

with tongue. 🥰

[just-taking-adam-break]