#might regret later though

[jellyfishandry]

I need to smother this man in love and kisses

(Gn reader btw, but the word beautiful is used)

He comes home from a day of teaching, and all he wants to do is be in your arms.

He sighed, setting his bag down at the front door and hanging his coat up. He could hear you in the kitchen, and the smell of freshly baked bread wafted through the house. Quiet classical music was playing, and he went to the living room, sitting back into the couch.

"Hi dear," You called from the kitchen after hearing him come in. He gave a simple reply, and you could hear how tired he sounded. You walked into the living room, the concern evident on your face. "Long day?"

"Yeah..." He rubbed his face some, only pulling his hands away when he felt your hand on his shoulder. The bags under his eyes were more noticeable, and is hair was slightly disheveled.

Your hands moved to cup his face, and he leaned into them instantly. Your touch was like a stress reliever to him. His hands held your waist, and he pulled you closer. His tired blue eyes looked up at yours, and a weak smile spread across his face.

"Why do you have to be so beautiful..?" He asked rhetorically. The statement earned a small smile from you.

Still holding his face, you leaned down, pressing small, delicate kisses onto his skin. He absolutely loved the feeling of your lips on him. And even just your presence comforted him to an extent he could not explain. He felt like he could truly relax and let his guard down around you.

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#rys writing 👾 #it's literally 3am right now #I have no regrets though #well maybe I will when I wake up later today #toshi <3 #all might #mha #toshinori yagi #bnha #mha x reader #boku no hero academia #bnha x reader #mha fanfiction #all might x you #all might fanart #all might mha #all might x reader #mha toshinori #bnha toshinori #toshi #toshinori x reader #toshinori yagi x reader #yagi toshinori

[adventuresingingerland]

Animal Crossing has such a cute style and drawing Ed in it was so pleasant! (he will not be the only one) Now available with animated expressions!

🌸 Would you let Ed live on your island? 🌸

#also he looks hella cute #ed and his lavender soap what a ship #our flag means death #our flag means death fanart #ofmd #ofmd fanart #edward teach #blackbeard #ofmd blackbeard #ofmd x ac #animal crossing #what would you even call this crossover #our flag means animal crossing #or #animal crossing means death #ok nvm the later one is the funnier one #different kind of game though hah #did I go way too hard with the expressions and making my own little skull pattern? #mayhaps but also i regret nothing #as a treat to myself i might make the expressions into a gif later hihi #i have really been enjoying my art and the cute stuff i've made this year!

[xieyaohuan]

Would love to hear some propaganda 101 from you if you're ever so inclined c:

I think I'm going to start from current events, what I've been seeing on tumblr, and why I would categorize most of what I see here not as propaganda but rather as propaganda-related phenomena, namely the largely organic amplification of propaganda messages, ideologically motivated framings, and heaps upon heaps of misinformation. Ultimately, I actually find what we see here much worse - if all we saw on here was propaganda in the stricter sense, I would find that comforting and reassuring because it would suggest that maybe fewer people than we think actually buy into the views currently being spread (because more of the work would be done by specific groups with organizational structures and a budget for propaganda). Now, I personally still think that much of what we see on here is the outcome of various long-term, organized propaganda campaigns that have been driven by multiple groups with different if sometimes overlapping goals. And a lot of these groups are probably still actively contributing to the current wave of propaganda/information manipulation, but there's a huge organic component as well. Hopefully by the time I'm done with this post, it'll become clear what I mean by this. All lessons for media literacy still apply.

If we look at the definitions of propaganda, it's pretty clear why many of the posts on here don't qualify. There are a large number of definitions for propaganda, each with slight variations, and I should probably point out that many people working in this area reject the term per se because it has been thrown around too much and used by people simply to refer to content they disagree with. I personally still use 'propaganda' to refer to systematic and coordinated information manipulation in service of broad or narrow political goals, and so do some other people. Basically what most definitions of propaganda (or the alternative terms used by those who don't like the term propaganda but, at least in my view, still analyze the same phenomena) have in common is a set of ingredients/boxes to be checked for something to qualify as "propaganda." The one I'll use here is the ABC model, which looks at Actor, Behavior, and Content. I'll tackle these in reverse.

Content: This is the content of a message that is being spread. In many ways, this is the weakest and least meaningful checkbox of the three, though it can and should be used in combination with the other two to assess whether something is propaganda/coordinated information manipulation. When you look at content, one of the things to look for is whether something is true or whether it is disinformation/misinformation. (Generally speaking, the term disinformation is used to refer to false or misleading information spread intentionally, while misinformation is used to refer to false or misleading information spread either intentionally or unintentionally/unwittingly. Just like a lot of people don't like using the term propaganda because it has been thrown around too much, some people have started shunning the term disinformation because they argue it has been abused to much. I have no strong opinions here one way or the other. False or misleading information, whether spread on purpose or not, can range from anything that is outright falsehoods, conspiracy theories, etc. to more subtle forms of manipulated information, such as an incomplete and one-sided picture, selective presentation of facts, the promotion of specific narratives, and framing/selective presentation of reality, either quite literally by literally showing only part of the picture, but also, for example, by presenting facts through a particular ideological lens).

Behavior: On its own, content only tells us so much. False information could be an honest mistake or spread unwittingly. Framing is also something most humans do automatically to make sense of reality. All of this occurs organically pretty often and therefore on its own does not qualify as propaganda/systematic information manipulation by pretty much any standard. This is where analyzing behavior comes into play. This includes stuff like whether there is coordinated behavior, such as multiple accounts spreading the same message either because they are part of the same network or because they have agreed in advance to do so. (An example of coordinated behavior might be the use of a WhatsApp group to push out messages to hundreds of ideologically aligned tumblr users to alert them that another user has posted something "problematic" and asking the members of the group to harass the "problematic user.") A further step is coordinated inauthentic behavior, such as bot or troll networks that are used to promote certain content or pile on/harass others in a coordinated fashion. There are certain ways how analysts can detect inauthentic behavior, especially in more obvious cases when large numbers of accounts created within time frames of each other all start pushing out the same messages, use repetitive language, jump from one topic to the next in unison, etc. but if it's smartly done and involves a strong human component rather than pure automation, it is often harder to detect. (I've done a lot of research on bot/troll networks in their various forms. Political bot/troll networks exist on tumblr, but they have negligible impact as far as I can tell.) Transparency is often used as another criterion when analyzing behavior: is someone transparent about their identity and their goals? Behavior can also include the use of certain (rhetorical and other) techniques used with the intention to manipulate. Intention matters a lot to determine if something qualifies as propaganda. People can spread propaganda unintentionally, but that does not turn them into a propagandist (rather, they would be a potential resource that a propagandist/an actor engaging in organized propaganda could try to use). The point is: somebody somewhere has to be doing something on purpose. This is where the actor comes in.

Actor: When looking simply at information manipulation, an individual can qualify as a relevant actor, but most definitions of propaganda would look at collective actors, such as state actors and non-state actors (religious groups, lobby groups, etc.) pursuing specific broader or narrower political goals. Yes, a single tumblr user can engage in intentional information manipulation for a number of reasons ranging from trolling to acting in service of a larger ideological conviction, but most definitions of propaganda would not count the relatively unsystematic actions of an individual as a propaganda campaign (unless maybe they're Elon Musk and wield massive resources en par with that of a government or a political party to promote their messages and further their goals.) Some definitions of propaganda might include individuals, but in my opinion, that's unhelpful because it potentially turns everything into propaganda and makes the concept useless both analytically and in terms of practical responses. So it is better to look for a collective actor with a goal. The goal is usually to change the behavior of people in a way that is favorable to the actor, for example by starting to support a goal pursued by the actor, by opposing something the actor opposes, or often simply by deciding to refrain from doing something that the actor doesn't want people to do. (The goal can also be simply to confuse people and to create the perception that everything and nothing is true.) In practice, when looking at individual pieces of manipulated information, the actor is not always clearly identifiable, but for something to be propaganda/coordinated information manipulation in pursuit of a political goal, there absolutely has to be an actor acting with intention. A criterion that I personally use to determine whether something is propaganda in the stricter sense is whether the actor has an institutional structure (usually with a budget, however large or small) in place that is dedicated to propaganda, for example a government's propaganda department, a military's press liaison bureau, a company's press or publicity department, a political party's press office, a religious group's communications office, etc. Now just because a state or an organization has a structure in place dedicated to communicating with the public does not necessarily mean it is engaging in propaganda: this is where you have to look at the kind of behavior it engages in together with the content it promotes. This is why A, B, and C are looked at together to make a judgment call on whether something should be treated as propaganda/systematic information manipulation.

Based on all this, when I look at tumblr, what I see is (probably) very few actors that would qualify as actual propagandists (though I'm sure some are active here as well), but still massive spread of messages that contain false and misleading information through largely authentic networks that are not engaged in organized propaganda themselves, but that possibly feature in the resource and ecosystem analyses conducted by actors that do engage in organized propaganda. Where and how organized propaganda and organic networks intersect on this website would require much more detailed analysis that I am personally not capable to conduct in this particular case.

#propaganda #information manipulation #definitions #thank you for the ask #fantasticpants #this barely scratches the surface #happy to elaborate further though especially if anything is not clear #I kind of wrote this down in one go and I will probably regret not adding sources #I might add sources later #I guess this is more of the start of a conversation on this topic

[wraith-demjin]

I have an ap psych test and a math test today but instead of sleeping or even studying I stayed up all night reading merthur fics

#I don't even regret it #that might change later when I take my tests though #I did find some really good new authors though so yay #merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #bbc merlin

[caffeinatedopossum]

I think many people who refer to intrusive thoughts incorrectly as being like "oo I dyed my hair! My intrusive thoughts won today teehee" are actually thinking of *impulsive thoughts* which, while not always normal, are still distinct from intrusive thoughts

#i think of impulsive thoughts as being much more action leaning #like when you have an impulsive thought youre more likely to act quickly and think on it less #perhaps even regretting it later #and obviously this can be dangerous and harmful too just in a different way #and the only reason i make this distinction is because people with intrusive thoughts dont want to act on them #often they will think about it for hours because of how distressing the mere concept of them maybe wanting to act on it is to them #intrusive thoughts dont 'win'. you either obsess over them or forget about about them. theres no winning it just is #anyway maybe this is pedantic and seems unimportant #but as someone with often very distressing and obsessive intrusive thoughts #i can say that nothing scares me more than the idea that those thoughts will 'win' #impulsive thoughts also come from a place of desire/actually wanting to act on the thing at least a little bit #even if you havent stopped to consider that it might be a bad idea or you might regret it #its like if you think 'i want to eat a second piece of cake' and then you do even though you know this will give you a stomach ache #versus thinking 'what if i ate thumbtacks' and then being very worried that theres something wrong with you #you probably didnt *want* to eat thumbtacks. it was just a passing thought that couldn't be dismissed #i hope this makes sense at least a little bit and im not invalidating of confusing anyone

[ghostmistdraws]

is it too early to headcanon Pershing as autistic or am I just scrounging for crumbs

#the mandalorian spoilers #the mandalorian #the mandalorian season 3 #mando season 3 #mandalorian spoilers #dr pershing #autistic headcanon #he might be dead though #hes a mad scientist but also- i like him #he just wants to help but he's been manipulated by so many people #IM PROBABLY GONNA REGRET THIS LATER BUT I LIVE TO TAKE RISKS #the mandalorian 03x03

[sibyl-of-space]

currently observing a moment of silence for my terezi pfp and collage header of cheesy quotes about friendship from the pokemon special manga, which were staples of my public twitter for years. i have replaced them because now that i finally got back into my account after being suspended and some other shenanigans, i basically only log into my public twitter to shill my art/music/game dev projects and check on what friends are doing. i figure if im going to be doing any amount of Networking TM on there instead of using it to be insane, i should (sigh...) tone down the cringe the tiniest bit.

the flipside of this is i am going to be more cringe on here because i never intend to share my tumblr. i am very much findable on tumblr, but if you find me, that's your problem and not mine. this is not a Social Media Presence blog. this is where i go to be insane.

#rip that header though it was beautiful #kind of regret taking it down i might put it back later #sometimes you just want to see Ruby Pokespe talk about how true beauty lies in the heart #u feel me

[arlecchno]

my spotify wrapped 'bout to be ugly ass hell because i decided to listen to this one song on repeat for like 42 times in one sitting

#h shenanigans #tbf the song is just THAT good #even though i might come to regret it later #spotify wrapped this year is not looking good for me

[robyn-goodfellowe]

man sometimes i miss my writing server

#no regrets nuking it though i wouldve snapped eventually that was... awful i am never running a big server again #but i do miss some buddies like cassie and jojo and spirit #i should text jojo i think i might do that #delete later

[crystal-verse]

various gpose images of sae'pheli'ehva and a'mehka'ahma, feat. some wolraha

#bound with thread | original posts #photos of time passed | gpose #hallowed sword of light | mehka greystone (a'mehka'ahma) #divine being of crystal and star | k'pheli tia (sae'pheli'ehva) #wol #miqo'te #ffxiv #i'm not tagging this as wolraha though lmao #if i want to tag something as wolraha it needs to have more Focus on said wolraha i think #anyways uhhh i've not played much as mehka (might need to make her alt on alpha like pheli's alt it) so there's less screenshots of her #alpha is a new world so it's got exp boost which would be very helpful for when i later need to go level paladin ahaha #game and story integration and all that #the first four screenshots of pheli are from his NA version on faerie. the rest of them are from his EU version on alpha #initially making an EU alt of pheli was for fun but now it's become the main pheli that i play as #bc the exp boost is convenient for me and also i've the same connectivity with EU and NA data centers either way so i'm not too too attache #still not sure whether i regret fantasia'ing him or not but eh i can come up with in-universe justifications or whatnot

[anemia-rp]

New muses!

Name: Hiroki Ikegawa (Hiro)

Birthday: 21.5.1990

Starsign: Gemini

Species: Sex demon

Height: male form 175cm, female form 155cm

Profession: Bassist for Crossfaith

Sexuality: Pansexual

Personality: [coming soon] 

Hiro is Teru’s and Tatsu’s bandmate.

Name: Ryo Yokochi (Yoko)

Birthday: 7.11.1982

Starsign: Scorpio

Species: Human

Height: 175cm

Profession: Guitarist for coldrain, vampire hunter

Sexuality: Gay (?)

Personality: Secretive, calm, self-confident, perhaps at first confused for boring and reserved, but never underestimate a Scorpio.

Yoko is a good friend and colleague of Teru, Tatsu and Hiro.

#ooc #(to be added to the pinned post) #(somebody put something in my drink i guess) #(i might or might not regret this later xD) #(well here we go) #(i work with yoko since almost a year now and damn this man is great xD) #(the vampire hunter profession is new though) #(i ship him and the bassist of coldrain like crazy with teru by the way) #(they're absolutely perfect together) #(anyway i still don't know what i'm doing here) #(information might follow/be corrected since i mostly come up with stuff while writing instead of before doing so) #(so i did this for the three people having liked yesterday's ooc post) #(i love you come get those guys xD) #(i'm suddenly completely gay for genderbent Hiro...)

[godofchickennuggets]

Honestly, fanfics and Spotify might actually be the only thing keeping me alive rn, and I'm not even talking about fanfics from a specific fandom, fanfics from all fandoms are welcome (needed) in my misery.

#fandom #fanfic #ao3 stuff #spotify #might regret posting this later #I just wrote Ao3 to tag it and it showed me a tag called Ao3 Izuku even though I never once said that Im part of that fandom #should I be worried #am I being watched #must have a very boring life to watch me of all people 💀

[beautifulbows924]

Happy Mother’s Day to you!! <33

Thank you! It’s my first and we’ve been out all day celebrating. My four month old actually let us take pictures & walk around, so it’s been nice! (Face blurred for his protection).

<3

#rose’s personal #mother’s day #I might regret posting a photo and delete this later lol #I look exactly like my icon in this #I feel like I look ugly in every photo though lol

[squirsquirrel]

Don't mind me, honestly. Just thinking about why I have to wake up tomorrow. Like, I'm awake now, I don't see any reason why i should go to sleep. Sure, I have work and I need to be up at a certain time but I'm awake. Why can't I stay awake now? I don't want to go to sleep.

And I think with every passing day I'm losing something. I don't know what that thing is but it's going and I don't have any attachment to it. Blank.

#squir spiels #I would never do anything dangerous to myself but is running away a dangerous thing? #I really don't want to sleep #I don't want to sleep at all #I'd regret it but it wouldn't matter #screw thinking #I've done too much of that already #I'm scared I might not talk to anyone after this but that's okay. they just need to know it's okay #gonna lie down now. sleep and forget it all because that's how it works #even though all I want to do is stay awake and sleep later

[wild-battlebond]

i really like the idea of Y as a narrative with a nuzlocke incorporated into it because i think there's a lot of potential fun to be had with playing up the themes of death to an eleven.

#Y was also the first game i ever tried a nuzlocke in...? actually it might have been soulsilver first tho. #...i didn't finish either of them though. in soulsilver i was down to only a pidgey & could not beat faulkner #so i just quit and played it as a normal playthrough with pidgey as the starter. #and in Y i got overwhelmed by losing a pokémon i was really attached to so i just wound up quitting outright. didn't even finish the file #I don't regret either tho. i made a lot of memories with that soulsilver file #& the Y file led to me discovering some of my favorite pokémon - like hariyama! #actually thinking about it that led directly to me putting a hariyama on my alpha sapphire team just a few months later! #so yeah. #actually when i put it in that perspective... i worry about things like starting a nuzlocke comic because i might not finish it ever #but to try anyways and to gain memories and experience from it... that's worth it whether it's 'completed' or not! #so maybe I will finally give it a shot.... if i can actually make the time to do a Y playthrough (←keeps coming up #with new things to do over break) #fiftytenpost #pokémon #xy #←technically. the tags wound up being about something completely different tho.

[tims-missing-spleen]

(I like to think that) Lex Luthor gets clowned on by literally everyone, and Bruce is the absolute worst.

Like he'll attend an event and a literal millisecond later, Bruce will roll up and steal all the attention. And when they're inside, him or one of his crazy "children" will "accidentally" spill very red wine all over his expensive ass suit.

And what can Lex even do?

Last time he retaliated and mildly shoved Bruce, the man very dramatically flung himself across the room and fell straight into a table. He hadn't even gotten hurt- not a single bruise or cut- but that drama queen didn't appear in public for an entire month after the incident. The backlash Lex had gotten was so not worth it.

And it doesn't stop there. His kids join in on the "fun" and bully him too.

Tim permanently bans him from all the platforms owned by Wayne enterprisese, which is like borderline illegal, so Lex sues and somehow always loses.

Jason Duke and Steph team up and make it a game to throw things on his head without him realising. And when Luthor catches one of them, he can't even shout at them or whatnot cause hes actually scared shitless. Jason, the absolute tank of a man, just grins at him while placing his hands on the very noticeable gun at his hip. Duke and Steph stand on either side of him, gripping literal knives in their hands.

Damian just outright walks up to him and begins insulting him in a couple of different languages. He always gives Lex a final disgusted look before turning and walking off.

Dick might seem the sweetest, approaching him while smiling in that nice way of his. He's the worst, though, cause he always makes sure to bring a few reporters with him before he innocently starts outing Lex's latest evil scheme in front of the audience. He makes sure to bring solid evidence of the nefarious plans, but right at the end, he goes, "idk I could be wrong," before shrugging and walling off.

Cassandra doesn't do much, but she's definitely the scariest. Whenever Lex has had enough and is about to call a hit on Bruce, she appears out of nowhere, stares straight at him, and just shakes her head while saying, "No. Regret"

Basically, Lex Luthor, public enemy #1, gets (justifiably) bullied by the entirety of the human population (honestly, only the Waynes).

#thank you for coming to my ted talk #dc comics #batfam #batfam incorrect quotes #dick grayson #lex luthor #bruce wayne #damian wayne #duke thomas #jason todd #tim drake #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #batman