#thanks for adding the source!

[minutemens-incorrect-files]

sole: oh youre bi? why dont you "bi" me some time with a distraction while i crack this safe ya fuckin goon

gage: you got it boss (makes out with the bank teller and his wife)

#submitted by anon via ask #porter gage #fo4 gage #sole survivor #solesu #fallout 4 #source: tumblr #thanks for the submission! #thanks for adding the source! #LMAO

[i-just-want-to-destroy]

how to build compelling characters

#brennan lee mulligan #archive #d20 #edit: im adding source so you guys can watch the full video because this is jst a small fragment of an entire discussion. #because the notes are scaring me <3 #its way more nuanced than just this set of screenshots. okay guys? this is just funny haha. xoxo thank you #fmz

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

more outfit requests, ft some pretty fellas!

Anna Valerious Frank for @sheriffopossum, & sparkly dress Wally for @wheatlover <3

#thank you for the Looks! #also possum thank you for giving me an excuse to Remember the source of my gay awakening #and the added excuse to try and scribble her banger outfit #i watched van helsing exactly once when i was Small #can't remember anything from that movie except her and the monster thing swooping down #and also van helsing on top of her. dont remember his face but by fuck i remember her in Vivid detail #was that tmi? that feels tmi. oh well #anyway the sparkly dress was fun! im unsure if i've ever drawn an actual dress before! #its always skirts.... #in my mind he's having a little trouble keeping his balance. those are some High heels #scribble garnish #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home fanart #valerious' outfit was tough to draw #twas a Very fun challenge #it was difficult finding clear photos of her outfits' details #since a lot were either low lighting or cosplays or video game things or somethin #also her hair - gorgeous beautiful stunning - covered an important chunk of the fit #BUT I FOUND IT!!! I FOUND THE DETAILS!!! #took me a solid hour but i found it all #it was a nice excuse to gaze respectfully but Directly at her #anna valerious i had it for you before i even knew gay people existed <3

[abbijacobsonarchive]

NOBODY MOVE

#abbi jacobson #abbijacobson #alotoedit #carson shaw #a league of their own #broad city #renew aloto #renewaloto #abbi abrams #thank you for 100 followers #I LOVE YOU GAYS #she LOOKS SO GOOD #just added the source because somebody asked for it ;)

[sakamotokaori]

victory lap!

#kaori sakamoto #figure skating #fskateedit #worlds 2023 #the security guards giving the exact perfect energy #she is the funniest person ever like i really adore her #linked the twt where i saw this but if anyone knows the original source pls lmk so i can link that too #< thank u to the tag that lmk!!! added it to the caption

[incorrect-tmnt2012-quotes]

Mikey: Who wants to make fifty bucks?

Donnie: How?

Mikey: I need someone to take the fall.

Raph, from the other room: Oh my god.

Donnie: What did you do?

Mikey: I can't tell you. Yes or no, no questions asked.

Raph, from the other room: Oh my god!

Donnie: Make it a hundred.

Mikey: Deal.

Raph, from the other room: OH MY GOD!

Mikey, to Donnie: You’re a good brother.

Mikey, out loud so Raph can hear: I WAS DONNIE!!

#thank you for the submission <3 #hope you don’t mind I added the rest of the quote cause I love Malcom in the middle #submission #incorrect tmnt quotes #source: malcolm in the middle #tmnt 2012 #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #michelangelo #donatello #raphael

[smallcures]

by futago kamikita

#precure allstars #group #i saw your ask thank you! #i recognize kamikita but i added the source JIC #submission

[heliosphere-underthesky]

COMIC: The Moon of Earth

(Heliosphere: Under the Sky is an original solar system project with personified stars and planets)

Space facts!

The brightest and largest object in our night sky, the Moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate.

It also causes tides, creating a rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years.

NASA's page about the Earth's Moon. | NASA's article about the Supermoon (apogee and perigee) | Total Diameter of the Planets (via WolframAlpha, 2023)

#NOTE: the distance of the moon varies so the planets part needed double checking. earlier versions may be erroneous. apologies. #various sources came up with different figures so i stuck with NASA and WolframAlpha's figures for that comic panel #more sources have been added since then. thank you for understanding! #art #webcomic #comics #webtoon #webtoon canvas #webtoon creator #webtoon comic #solar system #solar system gijinka #space gijinka #earth #moon #terrius #luna #moon gijinka #pluto #meiousei #comic #working on these comics made me grab a NASA shirt lmao #heliosphere: under the sky #tag commentary

[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

[thethingything]

just finding out that the term "anticipatory grief" exists and reading about it and then finding out about other concepts like disenfranchised grief and ambiguous loss and like... oh okay now I have some terms for things we experience but never know how to talk about

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #grief #thank you to the follower that reblogged the post about grieving the undead and added something about that in the tags #now I'm reading about ambiguous loss which is the thing where it's like... they're gone but they might come back #or where they're still here but don't remember you or whatever #where it makes grieving difficult because it's messy and complicated #I didn't know there was a term for this and it's very cathartic and validating to see stuff talking about it #I rarely see anything that talks about grief from anything other than death #and it's nice to actually see stuff talking about other types of grief from other sources

[teet-feet-two]

DOES ANYONE HAVE A LINK OR KNOW WHO POSTED THAT COMIC WHERE MEDICS LYING ON THE GROUND MISSING AN ARM AND ASKS SCOUT TO HELP HIM UP

"I can't doc you're fuckin heavy"

"What? How do you know about that 😳??"

"Huh? What are ya- 😬"

I've been scouring the Web for 3 days at this point looking for it with no luck and I'm going insane

Edit:

FOUND IT

#Its from a bit ago and I KNOW I follow who posted it but I don't remember who #i swear i rebloged it but apparently not but i 100% liked it SO if worst comes to worsk i have to dig through my likes for it #which wont be fun #my post #salmon speaks #tf2 #heavy #medic #heavymedic #tf2 heavy #tf2 medic #teamfortress 2 #I beg thee :( #MY GOD THANK YOU RANDOM PERSON FROM TWITTER UNDER ONE OF ROBINS TWEETS #I don't even use twitter and was just going insane at what Mr Medic tf2 was doin an BAM #ITS JUST RIGHT THERE #SOURCE SITED #I can die happy #i actually found it a few days ago ad added it in a reblog but people keep finding this without it so ima put it here also

[minutemens-incorrect-files]

Sole: What's going on with you and Piper?

Cait: Nothing.

Sole: I think you're wrong.

Cait: I think I'm not.

Sole: I think you're getting together.

Cait: We are not.

Sole: But you want to.

Cait: Yes.

Sole: I think-

(Silence)

Sole: Wait, what?

Cait: See, sometimes if I slam on the brakes, you run right past.

#submission #Cait #Sole #Sole Survivor #thatonebutton #Source: The West Wing #solesu #thanks for adding the source! #thanks for the submission! #fo4 Cait

[justicode]

literally why the fuck is tumblr determined to make it impossible to reach the source of a post. they went from "we're gonna make it easier" to "we're gonna eliminate that possibility entirely"

#OOC / HOLLY. #WHAT IS THE POINT #there was an xkit extension that like if you clicked on the username of the person someone reblogged the post from #at the absolute top of the rbed post it would take you to that post on their blog #instead of just taking you to the front page of their blog #well this morning I wake up to find tumblr has removed that entirely #the top of a rbed post just has '[username] reblogged this' #OKAY??? FROM WHOM??? FUCK YOU #not to mention that seeing who a mutual rbed a post from has historically been a decent way to find more people to follow #but now unless that person is the op OR added something to the body of the post you'll have to dredge through the notes to find anything #which anyway still doesn't address the problem that you can't just go directly to the post on op's blog #where the rpc is concerned 'reblog memes from the source' is about to be a thing of the past #which personally I don't care about #that wasn't really a thing when I started out in rp + I've never found it to be an issue for me. it has never once clogged up my feed #however I understand it's a different story for some people #some people need their activity feed cleaner #and I don't complain about tumblr updates. I generally find them benign #this one is a pain tho. as are the changes to how posts show up in tags [which was perfectly fckn functional thank you] #and the defaulting to the 'for you' tab and the tumblr live that we can't turn off permanently #the rest I can either adapt to; ignore; or turn off

[rarecardcollector]

im obsessed with this blog bythe way and when i saw it i knew i had an image that might belong here. apologies if this is quite presumptuous of me i know not all blogs like yours take submissions but, for your cnsideration:

(you seem quite diligent about sourcing your posts so im sorry i dont have a link to where i got this from for you - all i know is i found it on google unfortunately)

(i hope you have a good day also! your blog gave me a respectable chuckle godspeed and good luck)

#epic thank you #i've added what seems to be the source #Lets Monkey Around :)

[incorrect-tmnt2012-quotes]

Shredder: Or what?

Raph: OR we'll have to get all ninja up on ya!

Shredder: What does that even mean?

Raph: I dont know, I was improvising, usually Leo does the talking- WHERE IS LEO?!

[Screaming in the distance]

Mikey: There he is!

#To the submitter #I added shredder into it instead of just “villain” #thank you for the submission <3 #submission #incorrect tmnt quotes #source: ninjago #tmnt 2012 #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #raphael #michelangelo #leonardo

[ricketycr1cks]

Mac has been babygirling already this season I’m so excited for him

#missed my kitten meow meow #also I will be posting about the crumbs more of his childhood we have gotten so far #so far I’ve really enjoyed the first two eps #the only thing I haven’t really loved was Charlie’s sisters just because I felt like they added so little #this season so far has been giving a lot more of early sunny vibes which I’m very thankful for #if only they would give us back the visual grittiness of the early seasons 💔 #I’m sorry but I just don’t buy Charlie’s house now like the doors look so purposefully distressed and the walls are clean #I know it’s been like this a while but I feel like this season it’s just so glaringly a set to me #this is a hot mess #when I gather my thoughts I will be posting more coherent stuff about the new season #iasip #it’s always sunny #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #source: iasip #it’s always sunny in philly #mac mcdonald #iasip mac