#edit2

[hegodamask]

Kyle Soller as D.I. Alfred Hillinghead and George Parker as Henry Ashe

BODIES (2023)

#Bodies #Bodies Netflix #Netflix Bodies #BodiesEdit #NetflixEdit #tvedit #perioddramaedit #lgbtedit #KyleSollerEdit #Alfred Hillinghead #Henry Ashe #Kyle Soller #George Parker #edit2 #gif #i had to. I HAD TO.

[hina-clone]

･ﾟ･｡𝒪𝓏 𝒱𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓊𝓈 ˖⁺‧₊˚‧⁺˖

#oz #Oz Vessalius #pandora hearts #b-rabbit #chain #oz bezarius #mangá #anime #edit2

[sakiaii]

random thought that just poped in my head for 2 seconds and i would not want to forget

so we have a female mc pretending to be a weakling so that she doesn't expose her true skills so when attacked she pretends until last second with every move at her because she doesn't want to be seen but also the danger is real so she plays "somebody help me role" but in the end bad guys are defeated and no one showed up so she's like "tch.. if i knew no one was going to show up"

another scene some big muscled dude grabs her from behind and starts squeezing her, struggling to speak she says ....oh no i'm already starting to forget.. umm... she says have you heard the story... ?... umm... so something like have you heard the story of but she doesn't finishes. the guy intrigued loosens the grip and he is like what? the girl then smacks him in the chin with her head. she then stumbles around holding her head going ouch as the dude is knocked out. she than takes a moment to strike a pose and says in a cool way... umm... i think... it was "the story of Goliath and David" "Goliath understatement David" she than breaks the cool pose to go back to holding her head going ouch

#EDIT #EDIT2 #EDIT3

[neroushalvaus]

Okay I am going to use the Somerton situation to talk about something that is very important to me. Following the discussion I have seen former Somerton fans being disappointed in themselves and questioning how they can ever trust another video essayist again. I have also seen some people being smug because to them Somerton was obviously unreliable from the start. As a person who also saw the "red flags" in Somerton, I would like to skip the smugness and talk a bit about what the red flags were to me.

Someone else has probably posted something similar and Hbomberguy's & Todd in the Shadows's videos touched a few of these points, but they didn't focus on them or how to spot these things. I think it is a good thing: I think it would have reinforced the idea that Somerton's fans were to blame for being lied to, and these youtubers didn't want to pin any blame on the fans. Also, some of the things I'm going to talk about were not by any means proof of him being unreliable, they were common tropes I personally associate with people who are bullshitting on internet. Think of it as something like spotting terfs: If you consider following a tumblr user and find out they have at some point posted "males will always be a danger to females no matter what they say", it is very possible that they are not a terf. Maybe they were having a bad day and were just wording their post badly – But you should probably search "trans" from their blog before following them, just to be sure.

So, the tropes in James Somerton's content that I consider red flags:

Lack of sources. This one may seem obvious and Hbomb talked about this in his video, but the lack of sources in his videos was outrageous. Video essays are called essays for a reason, they are not supposed to be just a guy talking about whatever comes to his mind, they should be well researched essays. Obviously video essays should contain one's own thoughts and interpretations and those do not need citations. But James Somerton didn't come out of the womb knowing everything about LGBT history, Disney and film theory, if he actually knew something about all this stuff, he should have learnt it from somewhere. There should be sources he could point to. It is very common that even when a video essayist doesn't tell you where they got all their information, they open their video by saying stuff like "when I prepared for this video I read the book Also sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche and this one thrilling blog post about lesbian cruising in 1960s Sweden". From what I've seen, James does not really do this. From watching his videos you could arrive to the conclusion that James Somerton does not read any books, he just knows everything. There are situations where people don't feel the need to add sources, like when the information is considered common knowledge or when the topic relates heavily to the essayist's actual academic field or profession. This is okay and very understandable, but can sometimes be dangerous, since if the video essayist markets himself as a marketing specialist, people are more likely to take his word for stuff that has to do with marketing, even without sources. It is understandable that in many situations an essayist may think "why should I cite a source? I know this thing!", but doing your research well is partly about checking if the information you are certain of is actually true. Also, as Hbomb pointed out, if you can cite a source, your audience can go learn more about the subject. It's not about anyone doubting you know your stuff, it's about learning. That's why well-respected video essayists usually cite their sources very clearly.

Lack of pictures and screenshots. This is about different kinds of sources again, many things on this list are kind of about sources. An example: When James Somerton made a video about JKR, he mentioned something about Rowling at one time saying that trans students in 30-50Feralhogs (or whatever the wizard school is called) could use magic to present as their gender. If this was any other video essayist, you'd expect a tweet to pop up, or something else confirming Rowling ever said this. Nothing pops up, obviously because Rowling didn't say this, but you can't see anything fishy in that because things rarely pop up in Somerton's videos. He doesn't show you court documents when speaking about a court case, he doesn't show you the comments apparently mad at him for implying the gay anime is gay when he is complaining about people being mad at him. There is a reason people show screenshots and tweets in video essays. When a good video essayist says JK Rowling has tweeted that all people who menstruate should be referred to as women, the video essayist shows the tweet so people know they are not making it up. If there were hoards of annoying bitc-- I mean, angry white women whining about gay sex in HuffPost articles or Somerton's youtube comments, he should have no trouble showing you those. Remember that you should not trust someone just because they show you pictures or screenshots. Pictures can be photoshopped, screenshots can be doctored. Many youtubers are aware that you listen to their videos while cleaning or while walking your dog and don't actually see the screen all the time, and some may take advantage of that by saying something like "and here she threatened to kill me" while showing a text message where someone said "die mad about it". A screenshot alone isn't much but you should demand to see the screenshot.

Passive voice. I am once again bitching about this. Somerton repeatedly says things like "it's been said that" or "it was common knowledge that" or "a legend says that" or "according to most interpretations". He doesn't say who says it, making it very hard to fact check and that seems to be his goal in some cases.

Relying heavily on anecdotes. Writing a dense, analytical video about film theory or history can be exhausting and you may want to pepper in little fun facts. However Somerton seemed to rely on these heavily; he can't just talk about how he has totally bought every lie told by The Pink Swastika, he also needs to tell a cute little anecdote about SS men forcing sexual favours out of men. He can't just tell a story about a court case, he needs to add in ridiculous stuff about the jury booing. This is what I mean by not all the things on this list being necessarily proof of someone being unreliable. Many people use anecdotes and little stories in their storytelling, it makes the videos flow better and it's hard to decide which anecdotes are valid and which are not. A source obviously makes an anecdote a bit more believable, but here are some things that instantly make me fact check an anecdote:

It's a bit too convenient, poetic or ironic. Sometimes real life is weirder than fiction but if an anecdote is "perfect" and has an amazing punchline and you could write twelve poems about it, there is a possibility it was invented by pop science books.

It assumes your political enemies are stupid. Dunking on conservatives, MRAs and transphobes is always fun and after you've seen a lot of this kind of content it's easy to believe anything about these people. You must resist the impulse to believe everything that may make your opponents look stupid.

The person telling the anecdote implies it is an example of a larger, systemic problem. You know what's worse than taking a random happenstance from human history or internet and basing an entire political theory on it? The said random happenstance being made up. You should in general be wary of people telling one story and explaining why it's an example of everything that's wrong in the world. We live in a huge world. You can always find a white woman who loves cute gays but hates the idea of Nick Heartstopper and Charlie Heartstopper getting nasty but that doesn't mean it's an indicator of a larger issue.

Simplifying complex issues. We all know that "only the boring gays survived the AIDS crisis, and that's why gays started to only care about marriage equality and military" is a horrible, insensitive thing to say, but you also have to think about it for like two seconds to realize that it can't be correct. It kind of reminds me of the "roe v wade caused the crime drop of 1990s" claim in Freakonomics. It sounds logical and simple, like a basic math calculation. Societal issues rarely are like that, though. You should never believe anyone who tells you about a huge societal shift and says it happened because of one thing and one thing only.

These were some of the things I noticed in Somerton's content that caused me to distrust him. I hope these were helpful to you and feel free to add your own "red flags" if you feel like it!

#phew. maybe that's enough salt for one day. #james somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #edit:// embarrassingly many mistakes in the original post. in my defence i have a fever and english isn't my first language. forgive me #edit2:// made the text bigger!

[eliounora]

sunset in silence

#lord of the rings #legolas #gimli #gimleaf #gigolas #my art #this started all sweet and funny but then!!! #i remembered how in the Fanfics braiding is always portrayed as something really intimate #so then this got kind of a risky vibe... #like kissing someone when they're sleeping. kind of iffy but you want them so much #bordering on illicit... oOOooOOO #ANYWAY let me know what you think #legolas fell both first and harder #EDIT: fixed a weird colouring thing that did not show up on my tablet but did on my laptop screen? #EDIT2: fixed legolas's head... twas a bit Elongated

[imlostinmy20s]

Name is Astarion!

#bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 astarion #bg3 art #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate #astarion ancunin #edit1: bruh just noticed that i fucked his hair lol #ill be more careful next time ;_; #edit2: fixed that anyway...too embarrassed to leave it like that...... #baldur's gate 3 #astarion bg3

[bamsara]

was anyone going to tell me there are fanlore pages about me and my works or did i have to find that out by myself when i tried searching for one of my tumblr posts in a google search bar

edit: i just read through the solar lunacy one and some of the details on there are just kind of....wrong. lmao

edit: there's one for my iz fics??

#im not really sure how to feel about that! #sara shush #for context i was looking for an old solar lunacy art post i made but tumblr search function is god awful #edit: the fanlore page states that sl dca are considered one person when ive stated thats up to interpretation to the readers #and also that moon doesnt regret his killing?? im-sdghklskdhg #i gen miss solar lunacy but man the pressure feels like weights #edit2: fellas i dont really think im comfortable with this sort of perception lmao #IT SAYS IM A MHA ARTIST? #HUH? #you mean the fandom i was in for like. 2 months i think #apologies but i dont care about mha that much huh #edit3: why does the iz page say stitch is my self insert

[kinos-fortress-2]

this is what the mind of someone insane looks like

#piss mauling #sniperpauling #you know piss mauling is such a deranged name out of context very different from the others thats why i like it #thanks user maybeeventhebest for creating such wonderful name for such weird shipp #team fortress 2 #tf2 #sniper #miss pauling #kino art #this arent that good but hey i will dump whatever i made for tf2 in this fucking blog and you gonna bare with me bc im gonna be so annoying #anywaayyss... they are so cringe and sweaty and weird girls and and yeah #this is like the second most weird girl shipp type w miss pauling the first one is w pyro ha #edit:FUCKIFORGOTTHETEXTOFTHESECONDPONE #edit2: if anyone asks why her back is so arched like that just imagine she’s super flexible👍 i often can’t draw bodies right forgive me

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Why would you—That's not—I just wanted to ask for help, why did you have to go and make it awkward???

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #xue yang #Its such a relief to not have to draw so many characters once again. #Redrawing the specific font from the English translated mdzs books was surprisingly fun! #Maybe I'm alone in this...but I think characters switching to a different font of speech for *emphasis* is peak comedy #you can't communicate voice changes of sound very well in non audio forms so this is the best I can do. #Anyways...rip Xue Yang. You finally meet your idol and he brushes you off #Rather— he doesn't live up to the expectations you built in your head #Kind of an on going issue there Jester (I refuse to call him king or sir) #XY is constantly making people out to be the versions he needed them to be to feel justified in his actions #but struggles to pivot when confronted with the fact that these ppl are *more* than just one surface reading! #wwx doesn't actually think xy is flirting. He's just tired of all the fake fans + wants to get out of this convo. #button mashing the A button to skip the unskippable cutscene #Lan Wangji is in the next comic btw. I've missed him dearly. I'm sorry he's been gone so long </3 #edit: poorly spelt MDZS strikes again. This is why I need more time to write my comics. So I can actually proofread B*( #edit2: I cast 'Power of Technology' and fixed my error. Everyone reblog this version instead please

[voldheart]

We need more little guy obsessed with his wife pale king NOW

#hollow knight #pale king hk #white lady hk #GAH THIS IS ACTUALLY FROM LIKE 3 YEARS AGO LMFAO i still think its really funny though so to the blog it goes #this is pre infection btw yea. moments before disaster #edit: added alt text because my ass forgor #edit2: after 500 notes i just realized i wrote obsessed wrong aughhh

[hegodamask]

“The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.

And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.”

ANDOR - Season One (2022)

#Star Wars #Andor #StarWarsEdit #AndorEdit #SWedit #starwarscolors #Cassian Andor #Diego Luna #Star Wars Day #May The Fourth #May The Fourth Be With You #Mon Mothma #Luthen Rael #Karis Nemik #Dedra Meero #Syril Karn #Brasso #B2EMO #Maarva Andor #edit2 #Bix Caleen #HAPPY STAR WARS DAY (uk time) #STAN THE BEST STAR WARS SHOW #gif

[hina-clone]

𝑃𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑎 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 - 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑆𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒

inspiration:

#edit2 #pandora hearts #alice human sacrifice

[amevello-blue]

A really nice book that I started reading thanks to abbeyofcyn is Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman and I've been thriving on it. The book is about the idea that humans are inherently good instead of inherently evil and the implications of what a world where we assumed that humans would be good could be like, all backed up by studies and real life examples.

idk it's nice

#I hope i didn't tag abbey on accident #sorry if I did WHEEZE #edit: AW SHIT I DID #edit2: i fixed it

[across-stars]

Revenge of the Sith novelization, Matthew Stover (2005) // Rogue One (2016) // Andor S1 (2022)

#cassian andor #andor #rogue one #star wars #jyn erso #andor edits #star wars edits #rogue one edits #this line changed my brain chemistry #edit2:this really blew up thanks everyone!! #edit: im living for all the ppl yelling in the tags >:) #my graphics #still trying to figure out a work flow #across-stars.post

[sualne]

Listen as someone who has been obsessed with vampires like my entire life (but not in a ooh there sexy way its like the symbolism man of what vampires can mean) i am a huge fan of your op vanpire au.

I know you just made a post with lore (amazing art btw) but is there anything else about the au you want to talk about. Id love to hear everything

there's a lot of things i want to talk about the au!! im going to use the frantic energy from the year to get myself some bravery and say some of it is inspired by my own experiences with hallucinations and delusion (dont ask about it pls), with the au i want to explore what it would be like having the person who changed you being very literally stuck with you.

i love stories where characters end up sharing a mind and/or body, i also really dont like when its just good person vs bad person, nuance is a lot more fun lol. the relationship luffy and mingo will be forced into stuck as they are is something important to me. mingo is an awful monster but since he can feel everything luffy does he ends up trying to teach him how to live as a vampire, how to take care of himself. im also very found of the concept of parasite (they're literally the worst thing ever and so fucking scary, so naturally they keep coming up in my stories).

it's also about luffy's body and mind failing him, because of the mindlink he has a hard time knowing where he is, sometimes who he is, what is relationships were supposed to be with others, it gets complicated for him! how hard it is to go through one's daily life when your sense are all messed up! (mingo also struggles with that a bit, but this isn't about him, even thought it's new for him too he get used to it much more easily for plot convenience).

other's ppl reaction to the situation also, i feel, completely unconsciously was also incidentally inspired by my own fear of being seen as a monster or dangerous, something to be put down or locked away!

there's also a few jokes in that lore post that reflects this here:

bugs are a pretty common brand of hallucination, be they crawling in the corner of your sight or inside you, making you feel like a walking hives, this was a funny reference to that!

"surprisingly he doesn't start biting people or become violent." this is my not very subtle "mentally ill and neurodivergent folks aren't inherently dangerous pls stop killing us". the occasional euphoria from bloodthist is vaguely inspired by some manic episode, the happy kind.

there's more, about the way this is about trauma and feeling alienated, i guess this is also a "character realize they've got a disorder/develop one and now has to live with it" kind of story.

#op vamp au #vampasks #described in alt text #lol took so long to write all that the new year started. happy new year everyone!!! #i hope the read more works this time........ #ive written a lot and im all out of words for now. hoepfully its coherent!! im glad you like my work thank you sm all of you for #your kindness!!! #edit: the read more went two paragraphs down whats wrong with this website edit2: got lower again

[everyroshutoeveryday]

[ID: An edited panel from the Reigen manga. Roshuuto puts a hand on his hip and points one finger in the air. He exclaims, "where all the milfs at," accompanied by sound effects "EE HEE HEE HEE." Reigen screams at him to "LEAVE!!" End ID.]

ch7 p39

#roshuuto tag #roshuto dozen #mp100 #i dont remember who edited this one #it might've been hartley handsmotif but im not sure #edit: maybe tk from spoonbenders #edit2: ok it was leo shigayokagayama everyone say thank u leo