#its honestly hard to tell

[imsiriuslyreading]

tumblr is such a new thing to me and I'm still coming to terms with it honestly like what do you mean I've just read the most beautiful poetry to be followed by the horniest art I've ever clapped eyes on and now someones posted a sad marauders drabble? I've got emotional fuckin whiplash what the-

#lanas crying again #but also maybe other things #its honestly hard to tell

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 74

When a new black-haired blue-eyed person appeared in the manor, one could easily be forgiven for thinking that Bruce’s adoption problem had struck again. So color many a batkid surprised that no, this kid isn’t a new sibling, no he didn’t get grabbed from the street, and actually he’s here for Alfred. Apparently Alfred never found it important to mentioned that he has a husband- that the kid kind of implies isn’t human what with the casual way he says he himself is half human- and that this kid is apparently their child. For once it’s Bruce’s turn to come home to a surprise sibling. 

Danny on the other hand just learned that his Clockpa has a semi-mortal partner who has offered to take him in, (in another dimension even! And there’s aliens!!) while the ancient takes care of some stuff at home. And yeah it’s in a rich-manor but Sam has proved that not all rich people are evil, and based off of Mr Pennyworth’s stories the Waynes weren’t bad either. Though based off of the others’ reactions perhaps he should wait to mention that there wasn’t one new family member but three…

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #clockworth #Clockwork is taking care of the GIW #they crossed the line when they took his kids #fuck the observants telling him not interfere- he's going to channel some Kronos and eat some people #hey if they want a mindless and dangerous ghost they can deal with the one behind tales of a world serpent #Alfred is honestly pleased to hear from his partner and to meet their children #Reminds him of when he first met Clockwork and they took down a government branch #lovely times #would do the date again #Danny is in awe about food that doesn't fight back and tastes good #Alfred is also great! He teaches him proper gun safety and makes sure he gets a proper amount of sleep and its great #honestly he can't wait for Ellie to get to this world but she really wanted to finish exploring the mariana trench first #And Jordan is apparently helping Clockpa with something for the last bit of his probation #Jazz is just happy for him but sad she couldn't come #but she has college that she worked really hard for so he gets it #the batfam are so confused and concerned

[ink-the-artist]

so somehow it’s the first time I’ve seen your Dogs illustration from May. it’s very very cool and strongly reminds me of AI-generated art — did you use AI to inspire the shapes? or otherwise influence the piece somehow? interested in your process! very cool.

yes! some more directly reference ai images id generated than others lol

#these were made in artbreeder (formerly called ganbreeder) #theyre obviously shifting their focus to ai art if u couldnt tell by the name change #which is unfortunate but they still have available the original ai image generator i used years ago #these pics are just the ones i remember referencing #i referenced a ton of different images to get a good idea of how to make the dogs sufficiently fucked up #i have a bunch of older horror art on here that was very inspired by ai images but most of the time i didnt use references #just tried to emulate the effect of ai #i want to start using references more often so i can get a better feel for this stuff and get better at emulating that effect without them #its def challanging trying to draw something that just barely registers as a thing without drawing the thing itself #and that emulates the uncannyness of ai images #i also dont want to just draw the ai images one to one exactly as they are i more so want to create the same feeling that they create #while still having it be my own thing #its honestly kinda hard to explain the process of drawing this stuff just bc of the nature of ai images lol

[freeasfishes]

Indiana University, a major university here in the midwest, recently had a faculty meeting that concluded in a "vote of no-confidence" in university president Pamela Whitten as well as two other academic administrators.

Major concernes raised by faculty included "the university’s barring of Abdulkader Sinno, an associate professor, from teaching this spring and summer after he booked space on campus for a Palestine Solidarity Committe-Hosted Event. Docherty wrote Sinno’s suspension letter, which said he might also be fired following continued investigation.

The second incident mentioned was IU Bloomington’s cancellation of a long-planned art exhibition by Samia Halaby, a Palestinian-American abstract artist."

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More quotes below the cut, in case the links decide not to work.

Faculty cannot remove a leader from the university, and Bloomington Faculty Council President Colin Johnson said the vote is advisory.

Faculty often cheered at criticism of Docherty, Shrivastav and Whitten, and Johnson had to remind faculty to maintain order at least once.

Associate Professor Amrita Myers said IU has changed in her 19 years at the university. She said it’s depressing to work at IU.

“It's very difficult to recruit graduate students here,” Myers said. “It's difficult when they look at you in the face and say, ‘Am I going to be safe because I'm transgender? Am I going to be safe as a woman? Am I going to be safe as a Black person or a Latinx person or an indigenous person?’”

Faculty, including those who successfully petitioned for the vote of confidence, have noted fear of retribution from the administration. An unnamed person took the stand to share a message.

“On behalf of all faculty who feel uncomfortable stating their names, on behalf of faculty who are afraid to be in this room, on behalf of all faculty who feel precarious, please don't leave the room,” the speaker said. “Vote.”"

For Whitten, 827 faculty voted for the no-confidence resolution. Twenty-nine opposed the resolution.

There were 804 people who supported the no-confidence resolution against Provost Rahul Shrivastav. Forty-seven faculty voted in opposition.

For Carrie Docherty, the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, 672 faculty voted for a no-confidence resolution, while 107 were against it.

#honestly I can't really tell if this is a good thing or not #it's been hard to figure out what the reasons are for most of these faculty #like was it mainly defense of Dr. Sinno? #my understanding is that a lot of the upset is like... you say its freedom of speech when someone is bigoted yet when someone responds to #that bigotry suddenly its not freedom of speech? #which obviously bothers a lot of people #but there also seems to be some just administrative things that people are mad about #which is not as significant to things like human rights #either way it does make me a bit hopeful to know that most of the faculty at least think you shouldn't be fired for speaking out #whether or not they agree with Dr. Sinno I can't figure out

[joifee]

Why making friends is hard

at least for me

#my social skills are weird #i can call somewhere infamiliar with no problem #talking to strangers? no problem #building up positive relationships? gosh i am lost #i listen and listen and listen but i never manage to get a hold of the other persons likes #or how to interact with them #and then i keep overthinking and then my chance is gone #joifeeramble #kinda vent #honestly i am not shy but socially awkward the moment i get close to someone #i think it coexists with my mind telling me i am never welcome and that everyone dislikes me #which isnt true #but its hard to overcome this hurdle

[nettedtangible]

Prongsfoot

#but platonic tho #or maybe not #its hard to tell honestly #not even remus and reg know #prongsfoot #platonic prongsfoot #or is? #mwpp #wolfstar #jegulus #marauders #sirius black #james potter #remus lupin #regulus black #peter pettigrew #harry potter marauders #harry potter

[enden-k]

omg waittt what's that game called im. asking for a friend, 👉🏽👈🏽

a date with death !

#usually i dont like dating sims at all but seeing the LGBTQIA+ tag and this pretty bbg was instant get #even bought the dlc just now bc honestly for a free game with such nice quality etc deserved akjcbk #its so hard to find games like these that are not just for ladies and if theres a way to customize ur gender u can tell the writing was #still with female players in mind in some (cough WHB cough) #so yea while theyre not my fav genre if you find some that are enjoyable for everyone and got men of my tastes feel free to rec #reply

[detective-gum-chew]

you know what, i'll defend ema's "intellectually attracted" comment because everyone assumes its her like, denying lanamia, but to be honest thats such specific phrasing that ten to one i think its something that lana said to her, where in a conversation lana was like

"man i hope mia's attracted to me" and then panicked in that way where youre like wait i didnt mean to Come Out like that and was like "uhh,,, intellectually attracted of course! ahahaha."

and young ema was like "okay!" and just internalized that and didnt question it because why would she question her cool older sister who she looks up to so much.

then it never came up until lana was in the detention center and ema was like oh! i can be helpful! in that little sister type way and hopped in like "intellectually attracted of course!"

and is too busy thinking i'm going to get a good grade in little sister (something normal to want and possible to achieve) because i said it the way lana said it :) to notice phoenix and lana sharing a Look like "she doesnt know im gay mr wright."

Then like five years later Ema's sipping coffee on a random morning, and realizes "wait what the fuck they were 100% dating"

#ema calls lana in jail and is like why did you tell me that #and lanas like i panicked what do you want from me #and now its an in-joke between them #source i both have a younger sibling and am younger sibling #ace attorney #lana skye #ema skye #(and honestly people are a bit too hard on this comment because like.. its not a crime to not know that people can be gay) #(like kids are stupid sometimes they dont know stuff (and yeah that stuff can be the fact that not being straight is a thing)) #(never attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance etc etc) #but anyway #blue says smth

[likeabxrdinflight]

tired of early 20-somethings acting like harry potter was never good or had no value in its day like shut the fuck up half of you weren't even there when it peaked

#sit with the cognitive dissonance like the rest of us or shut up honestly #was it a product of its time yes #was it's author a very basic neoliberal white lady from a country with a long and unchecked imperialist history yes #was the story influenced by said neoliberal worldviews and unexamined biases obviously #does any of that make it a bad story or an unimaginative world no #you can pick apart any fantasy world if you try hard enough #harry potter was a good telling of the hero's journey written in the format of seven mystery novels set against a fantasy backdrop #we can certainly talk about its flaws or how the author's biases leaked onto the page #but stop acting like it was never good and there was never a reason those books resonated with people #it's condescending for one thing and again- if you're younger than like...24-25 you didn't actually experience the heyday of the books #if you're 25 now you'd have been like 8 or 9 when the last book came out and probably weren't reading them yet #you might remember the latter half of the movie era but you have no idea how much it was the BOOKS that drove its popularity #never before and never since has any book series had the fanfare that harry potter did and that didn't happen for no reason #so find a way to make peace with that instead of acting intellectually superior because you grew up with percy jackson instead #this 'well MY generation's preferred childhood book series is morally superior to YOURS so I'm better than you' shit drives me up a wall #like get over yourself honestly #...sorry had to get that off my chest there was this youtube video and it was irritating me

[y-vna]

　❘❙ 　✢ 　𝓛et 𝓜e 𝓢how 𝓨ou 𝓦ho 𝓦e 𝓐re　﹒　　⌅　 　◦ 　　◉

　❘❙ 　✢ 　𝓑atter, 𝓑atter, 𝓑atter 𝓤p 　⚾️　 @y-vna

div creds to @/plutism

# . ˚ ｡ ˚ ₊ ˚ ◦ ˚ ₊ ˚ ｡ ˚ #honestly i wasnt sure about babymonster's debut song. like i didnt even rlly listen to the whole thing #i wanted to like it but also like..not like it? #idk i just assumed it wasnt great from the short clips i heard #just the company reusing everything like its not even hard to tell they basically recycled bp to get babymonster “batter up” #but the song kinda slaps so good job ig #i just wish we would get like actual new material music. tho i do hope bbymnstr does become ig because i think they have potential + talent #kpop moodboard #kpop gg #kpop icons #kpop messy moodboard #aesthetic moodboard #kpop #kpop layouts #kpop gg moodboard #messy moodboard #cute moodboard #aespa winter #aespa winter moodboard #winter aespa #aespa moodboard #aespa messy moodboard #aespa messy icons #aespa messy layouts #aespa icons #aespa #new york yankees #white moodboard #blue moodboard #alternative moodboard

[koifsssh]

the very first meeting!

due to shenanigans, Rainy technically met maverick twice! of course, with that mask of his, and Rainy's foggy memory, it can be difficult to remember such things, especially when one party wants to keep themselves at an arm's length, to a certain extent!

but anyways! it's just something cute i like!

when maverick was a guest, I'd like to think it was a silly banter between them... they're just two guys talking about whatever nonsense...

...yes, Maverick got to keep the hat... Rainy doesn't wear them much anyway, it's not like they stay on during his performances! (and no, he's not going to try and glue them on!) (dialogue is in the image descriptions by the way! in case it's hard to read our handwriting!)

maverick belongs to @thatthirstyweirdo! bwah!

#your honor they are very silly... #welcome home oc #rainy dewdrop #maverick mic #dewdrop circus #micdrop #there are many silly shenanigans in the circus au... i wish to tell You about all of them! #they are so very funny to think about... #one of my favourite aus... and its just them... haha! #this is just me self indulging honestly... #welcome home au #clown rainy... my beloved clownnnn... #he is so very dear to me... as well as maverick! they are both such a pairrrr... #oh... they make me sad sometimes #theyre just so... its hard to explain... #just two guys... trying to make you laugh... #(pensive...)

[straylaughs]

dont know how to go about formulating my thoughts about the entire show but i do have to give bucchigiri its flowers for that absolutely stunning fight sequence between matakara and arajin

#like ???????? #wowie #the animation always goes hard for the fight sequences but this was so good #also super fun seeing arajin WANTING to fight and giving his all #kinda got langa flashbacks when arajin was falling in the void LOL #i honestly cant figure out what to say about the finale #like its been at least an hour since i finished it and i still don't know #so on a very surface level i'd say it was cute #i did actually very much appreciate the short flashback at the beginning #because it does really make sense as to why matakara clung to him #as for arajin himself #congrats to him for being a honki person ig? (which i still don't fully understand but im okay with that tbh) #and the blood stamp he gave matakara was cute too #... that's about all i can think of to say (there's definitely more i could think of) #like zabu not telling komao that matakara nearly killed him but maybe that wouldn't have mattered question mark #anyways #my official bucchigiri rating: ''sure?''/10 #bucchigiri?!

[gibbearish]

i will say tho as someone with memory issues we can like. talk abt this situation without calling that part into question. if i write something and can't remember/find the source, i Tell people that, i don't act like i came up with it myself. and as he says himself, there is plenty he could have been doing to mitigate those issues, and he didn't. and we can question if he's telling the truth about specific parts without questioning if he actually Has Memory Issues or epilepsy or head trauma, he can have those things and still use it as a convenient excuse to explain away active choices. similar to the suicide attempt i don't feel like this is the kind of thing it's the public's place to stick our noses in when we can criticize him just fine without it

#james somerton #and honestly this is less from a place of 'you shouldnt because its ableist overall' although that is part of it #its mostly coming from 'memory issues are so fucking hard to have because no matter how hard you try people will always #doubt your honesty because of things you forget‚ and that Really Fucking Sucks if you really are telling the truth' #like when you were a kid did you ever get in trouble for something your sibling did and then get in more trouble for 'lying'? #or 'making excuses' when ur like !!!! theyre not excuses its just an explanation #and like. to be clear. that shit was almost 100% excuses. like i said he can have these things for real and Also use it as an excuse #and he was still lying about Many Things #but idk on the off chance that part was true i dont want to be part of turning that around on someone else no matter how much they suck #origibberish

[accidental-spice]

In the words of Jessica Day, "Work sucked today, my friends"

#at least im 90% sure she said that once #anyways it sucked. a LOT #i i paid for something i shouldnt have causing my boss to have to reimburse me and they were. less than pleased #and like i get that i should have communicated better but maybe so should you guys? #i dont know. i think im not completely in the wrong about this but its hard to tell right now #i just want to cry and not think about it ever again #at the moment only one of those is happening #i just. it cant have been ENTIRELY my fault #and i honestly dont know why its such a big deal #but my boss and i have VERY different minds #uuuuuuugggggghhhhhhhhh #i feel like everything turned out fine but i also feel like its all my fault and everything sucks #and maybe i should stand up for myself but. i do. not. want. to #i KNOW im gonna say my thoughts on it and theyre gonna say something else and ill be like uuuuhhhhh #sure yes whatever im clearly wrong #sigh

[mycosprite]

Bay Bolete Boletus badius

#fungi #fungus #mycology #mushroom #mushrooms #cottagecore #goblincore #dirtcore #fairycore #nature #forest #forestcore #toadstool #toadstools #this might be wrong actually but honestly its so old #it's kind of hard to tell

[mysicklove]

the amount of ppl who have lied to me about their age and then used my kindness to their advantage truly makes me want to delete this account

#🔪 - mello talks too much #cw vent #i wish i could explain to u guys how many times minors have contacted me without me knowing they are one #it makes me just not want to make mutuals/trust any ppl on this app #and im just so #fuck #bc whenever i see the tell tale signs of behaviors of children i just brush it off bc i trust ppl too easy and think im overreacting #its happened multiple times #and im just #for the love of god if u are lying about your age (which honestly i assume a lot are) pls dont try and contact me or have a relationship #with me #and its just so hard bc the first thing i think when i find out is “they are just a kid. they dont know any better” but idk.. #makes me sick to my stomach