#youre just some journalist

[beaft]

contacted the GIC yesterday to see where i'm at on the waiting list and was informed it would be approximately another four (4) years before my first appointment with a specialist. i initially got referred way back in 2020, so that's an eight year wait in total - and it'll be another year, possibly two, before i can get any kind of gender-affirming treatment or surgery on the NHS, so let's make it a round decade to be on the safe side. now tell me why every other month some trash newspaper publishes the same fucking scare-mongering article about how gender clinics are dangerous because they're "rushing" people into transitioning "before they're ready"

#i will be in my mid-30s before i can get top surgery <3 #the cognitive dissonance of seeing some liberal journalist write about the pressure put on confused adolescents to transition #with that infuriating tone of syrupy false concern #meanwhile your average trans londoner has to wait TEN FUCKING YEARS to get treatment #idk man i wanna talk about this more but i'm too tired i don't have the words. i'm just tired of it all #be shh now

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

"ummmmm yeah that strike bisan called for is really rushed and leaves no time to prepare for it and its during finals season and it's just poorly organized :/" hmmm I. well. I wonder why a palestinian journalist living in palestine is calling for a strike on very short notice. i wonder why a palestinian journalist living in the midst of her own genocide for the past two months where. where disease outbreaks are rising and no one can find food or water and many of these people (including bisan herself a few weeks ago at one point) are not expecting to live more than a few days let alone weeks. I wonder why someone living in this horrific and incredibly bleak and uncertain situation is calling for strikes without planning weeks/months in advance. I wonder why! they are not planning these with weeks/months or even days of prep time in mind! I wonder why! this is quite a conundrum! lets uh. lets put our fucking thinking caps on! so to speak!

#also i hope everyone i saw calling her strike proposal 'slacktivism' gets hit by a bus every day forever #there's a difference between some microinfluencer going like 'um we're going on strike 😊in two weeks 😊 for ✨no labor day ✨' #on tiktok and making it a poorly disorganized game of 'i'll do it if you do it' to the point where it fucking flops the day of #bc of shitty organization (and just flat out lack thereof) #and a palestinian journalist who has already at one point gotten very sick and said she expected to die in the coming weeks/maybe days #who has been living in the midst of a genocide of her people that the global superpowers are actively endorsing & allowing to happen #making 'short-notice' calls for a ceasefire only a day before the planned start day bc *they do not have much fucking time* #save the 'poorly organized :/' criticism for ppl that aren't enduring a genocide that is being fuelled by shitty world leaders #mine #free palestine #bisan #bisan owda #also iirc it was mostly organized for jordan/the west bank so your criticism is even more ridiculous

[artificerstimetable]

thinking of.. My jorunalist..... (8 love giving them different hats in each drawing even tho they only wear the aviator hat in blah blah current whatbwr) anyways clumby picked them up from a wet cardboard box in the rain and decided to adopt that CREATURE (still figuring out how 2 draw her)

Ohh I want to eat mango bites

#sincil popup #clumby clumbernut #bugsnax #id imagine their relationship is very strained in present #fuck imagine your mom basically declaring youre legally dead #i like thinking theyre both hurting like thinking your kid is dead because of some journalist stuff and wanting truth and whatever and like #if theyre uhh legally dead or whatver then. maybe they can just. stay away from that stuff even if thats what they love or whatever #a lot of trying to discourage sincil into researching snaktooth #but i may not understand her character so take what i say with a big fat grain of salt #bugsnax oc #grumpus oc #i dont think clumby should be drawn without her eyelids... she looks so wrong.... im so sorry clumby... #also last names dont line up because Im Cute :-3 #dibujo

[moodr1ng]

just learned about the people posting '19th century paintings' by a supposed "emile corsi", which is actually just ai art misleadingly and purposefully being represented as actual historical pieces, and i do think this is an issue for art history and culture that people are doing this (and that more people are being tricked into reposting these pieces under the belief theyre legitimate historical ones, furthering the lie).

however after looking it up a bit im finding that the only issue people have with this is that misrepresentation of art history. and id like us to also consider that many of these pieces are in the 19th-century orientalist style, in which white european artists fictionalized, fetishized and otherized swana people. and the use of ai art to create new pieces of a historical racist style (which still today colors the way swana people and our history are perceived in the west) should be as big a concern as the issue of fooling people into thinking an artist who didnt exist actually did. probably more!

(preemptive disclaimer that im not "anti-ai" and dont care about having that argument. post is about a racist thing. does not need derailing.)

#97 #emile corsi #i dont want to have any arguments about whether or not orientalist historical art is racist btw i will block you. #truth be told? there are orientalist pieces i like. theres one orientalist painting that is one of my favorites. #there does come nuance sometimes when your representation in art you have access to is so tied to your fetishization and othering. #(not just in historical orientalism - see also journalistic photography of swana people etc still using the same tropes) #i know this. i dont think its evil to like some orientalist pieces. we still must be aware that the art movement is inherently racist. #and there is a difference between enjoying some orientalist pieces by long dead artists with an awareness of the issues surrounding them #versus creating new orientalist pieces today and relying on biased racist ai models to do so!

[redvelvetwishtree]

People in journalism and medical professions should genuinely be staging a global outrage right now if this is how their professions are being treated. I haven't added posts about the many many journalists and their families that have been murdered by Israel this week.

Why tf are they so desperate to stop coverage? Is their story not believable anymore? Journalists especially should take this personally if they have any integrity and respect for their job. Doctors around the world should have no doubts about who is and isn't the evil side anymore.

Name one logical argument that makes it ok for this to happen and for the western governments to just stay silent? We all know the hundreds of sensational headlines and news bulletins that came out for victims in other countries (yes I will compare, I'm tired and sick of everything in this world and done with everyone's lectures about how we should or shouldn't talk about tragedies).

#how just how is this so easily ignored #if you don't care for the Palestinians at least show some care for your profession and how it is under attack like this #how are journalists doing news bulletins and writing stories everywhere ok with fellow colleagues being killed for reporting the truth? #how are doctors so chill? #but then again i can't say much about some reporters...like that reporter from some European country who #who was laying on the road and acting like Israel was being bombed but there were cyclists and pedestrians walking around her super chill #grade A acting #grade F reporting #it is unbelievable how willingly blind and deaf everyone is pretending to be #gaza #free gaza #gaza strip #free palestine #palestine #israel #middle east

[dejwrld]

no female rapper album has got me hyped and draw emotion from me more than that pink friday album. like i deadass spent my allowance money when i was younger to buy that album 😭

#blazin really was my graduation song! #and moment for life #dear old nicki >>> #like when she go on tour next year i will be in attendance #i need to scream itty bitty piggy from the top of my lungs!!!! #unpopular opinion but i think people let their dislike for nicki discredit her ability to rap and what she’s done for not only female rap #but music period #like you can dislike her…idc but when you sit online and tell me she haven’t done anything for the music industry #imma laugh in your face #from doing a feature journalist piece on her…without her…a lot of your favs would be flopping #and i am saying this because it was nicki who fought for streams to be included in sales and billboard charts 😭 #anyway i was listening to her old mixtapes and it just brought back some nostalgia feelings

[fala-alfredo-pasta]

Another uncommon shipping I think would work is Sonia and Nagito. She seems very pleased the way his eyes lit up during the trial like hers do during horror movies and she stuck up for him later on too. I’m a little afraid of him having that much power though…

Ahaha I actually had an au for them post-graduation in a non-despair time in which Nagito is traveling to Novoselic after having won a cruise trip there. And, though he would have avoided long travel, considering that his old classmate happened to be ruling said kingdom, Nagi thought he’d take the risk in order to get a chance to see her in action (plus he’s wanted to see the kingdom after learning so much about it through Sonia). Surprisingly nothing too catastrophic happens on the way and Nagito has a pleasant time taking in the sights. However, he starts noticing that not everything is rainbows and sunshine in Novoselic, and in fact many of its citizens seem rather displeased by the current government. This becomes all too clear when, during a public appearance/announcement made by none other than Sonia herself, Nagito overhears copious jeers towards the princess and even has to step in to stop someone from throwing a shoe at her—the scene causing Nagito’s presence in the kingdom to be known to Sonia. Sonia has a guard escort Nagito to her home, feeling utterly embarrassed of having him witness such a thing. It doesn’t take long for her to come clean of Novoselic’s troubles—more specifically the staggering amount of people who find her inadequate to rule and are opposed to her upcoming coronation. Sonia admits that she’s been lost in what to do ever since her parents sudden passing and feels she’s starting to agree with her citizen’s thoughts of being a failure of a ruler. She’s truly considering giving the crown to her cousin whom some of the citizens are supporting. Nagito’s heart went out to her, knowing fully well the feeling of losing one’s parents so unexpectedly, but to also be expected to lead a nation right after? My god the amount of stress must be astounding. To see the Ultimate Princess this…broken…it was blasphemous. And like hell he’s going to let her give up her crown and fall to despair—not if he can do anything about. So, Nagito offers his services. He reminds Sonia of what great things she’s done and is capable of doing, but what she really needs is support—someone on her corner. And though he may be a lowly nobody, he DOES understand a thing or two about politics (and manipulation). He’ll be her shoulder to cry on so she can turn to her citizens with a collected and confident face. He’ll be her test run when she’s unsure of an idea. He’ll be her eyes and ears to keep track of the masses and their tidying. He’ll be her anything and everything she needs in order to be the best beacon of Hope she can be. And my god does he really mean it.

Of course, this au wasn’t simply going to be a hurt/comfort with a happy ending. Oh no, no, not with Nagito. It would soon get twisted and quite complicated as many things do with him. And their ever intertwining relationship will set Sonia forth as a queen that Novoselic with surely remember.

Oh my god this ask really unlocked these old ass memories of this au that I legit just came up with after listening to Imagine Dragon’s “Enemy” once ☝️ I was like “but what if Nagito becomes Sonia’s advisor and makes her Novoselic’s most notorious ruler??” I didn’t think I still remembered this much of it but here we are lol

#I once again lament the fact that I do not have the attention span to write a multichap fic #this would definitely have been a slow burn--them slowly bonding especially over their dead parents #the mutual attraction growing #would have been rated: E for every time we touch I get this (sexual) feeling #i just imagine like…Mahiru visiting Novoselic as a photo journalist and then #being flabbergasted at seeing Nagito as Sonia’s advisor #she arrives later as the voice of reason to try to make Sonia notice #how manipulative he is and how questionable some of her actions are #but Mahiru is an outsider too and doesn’t always know the full situation #nor know how hard it is to rule an entire kingdom that still has group of people #who disliked your existence even before taking the crown and have attempted to assassinate you #there would be so much drama lololol #I think I had two endings: one where Sonia and Nagi end up together as King and Queen and have a relatively happy ending #and another that ends tragically with the citizens revolting and taking Sonia’s life a la 18th century France #im so sorry if you wanted an analysis this au just kinda…took over… #nmbh0051 #danganronpa #komaeda nagito #sonia nevermind #sonagito #fala replies #a e i o queue

[crunchchute]

i know nobody wants to hear about my self insert bs but i had like 2 main storylines clashing so hard in my brain to the point i gave up on them cause one was in the 80s in game storyline and other in like 90s with tse dave and my mind just wanted both at once and merge them but it just did not work at all so those braincells died off. now the tse one picked up again after finishing the book but i miss the game one even if it was cheesy and unoriginal. a mans gotta do what hes gotta do (make up self insert stories in his head every day before bed) (dont read the tags its info that should only have been shared by me being waterboarded)

#so the meat and potatoes (because one day i will forget about the details and will want to remind myself) #80s one is just me being a photographer/artist or whatever. curious about W and wanting to know more #i work with the police momentarily to interview W (post mci) (i pretend to be a journalist or something. doesnt have to make sense #its all just for my own gain anyway and i get closer to him to answer my own questions about freddys. end up watching w so closely #i fall for him (<- cheese) and i help him with work and stuff. he does get springlocked eventually and theres some remnant shenanigans #(note: i do feel weird about keeping him a killer but i dont like aus where he isnt one. gotta suck it up and be a monsterfucker in the #different sense lol) #the tse one is. pretty straighforward.. or smth.. i live in the city and see dave around i see him patroling around the mall #i get curious get closer offer him a cig from a pack that i only buy because of him #we chat get to know eo he tries to kill me but i have delved deeper into the history and the unsolved cases and this is proof to me #(same applies here. killers irl arent cool and im closing my eyes to that here cause its fiction and i just want to put an old fictional #man on a leash. -who said that) #anyway its proof to me hes W.A. and i play around with him #i cook him dinner and repair his fursuit <3 /j #i put a SPH on his fursuit /J unless #if you read this far send me your favorite animal in my ask box. no dont actually

[hoodiedeer]

you can learn some really useful gamedev tips by following other indie devs on social media. for example, the quickest way to introduce yourself to players as a total loser is to start screenshotting negative steam reviews of your game to dunk on them on twitter

#its happened like multiple times now i see like #a gamedev whos work i hold a mild amount of respect for #just chip away at it by like. getting super defensive over valid criticisms from probably 13 year olds who played their game on steam #like youre not in some big news media feud with a gaming journalist whos slandering your lifes work or something bro #youre just harrassing some dude with the default heavy tf2 steam icon who said 'game is broken' on the forums #and then it turns out the game IS broken. #shut up green

[hussyknee]

Does our level of emotional investment in our favourite Gazan journalists' wellbeing constitute a parasocial relationship, or is that only if we get creepily invested in their love lives or smth.

#it occurred to me while i was writing this that some people probably ship them w each other #and now i kinda wanna kms #there should be a category for things that aren't necessarily evil but should still send you directly to hell #I'm a little conked rn because twitter made me think they'd finally got Motaz and then that Mohammad El Kurd had been abducted #but no Motaz had just gone dark for half a day and Mohammed had been temporarily suspended from twitter #like bro it has been nearly 3 months can y'all NOT start your tweets like ''feeling sick to ny stomach about Motaz'' #and then you have to go two more tweets down to figure out whether he's dead or not #fuckin unnecessary #free palestine #gaza journalists #motaz azaiza #bisan owda #mohammed el kurd #saleh aljafarawi #free gaza #knee of huss

[littleeyesofpallas]

Thankfully I don't have to deal with shit on youtube 99% of the time but every so often I open the front page on incognito/private at work or something and I'm reminded what a shitscape popular youtube videos are. But other than the usual mill of adult cocomelon tier clickbait, I'm really off put by this apparent trend in fake "scam buster" type videos where some wannabe hbomberguy, or some C string programmer, or some loser who grew out of doing prank videos churns out frequent and regular videos of what are blatantly fake ""takedowns"" of scam companies. And it's always this uncited hearsay """"research"""" followed by either randomly harassing slave wage workers at like a call center somewhere or actually literally nothing. And somehow people are dumb enough to fall for this garbage?? On like a weekly basis????

A little rule of thumb. If a person's channel relies on the incredibly unlikely event that they can both locate and effectively address these kinds of scams or other problems, with time to script and edit videos on the events once a week or even just once a month, AND remain competitive with a dozen other channels doing the exact same shit, and have never dropped the ball or run out of stories to tell? They're full of shit. They are "my uncle works at Nintendo" kids running the same school yard grift for meaningless clout a decade+ after the fact.

#one of these had the guy relaying all this unverified gossip #but every couple lines hed say like #''so i reached out to XYZ and no one would talk to me'' #like yeah buddy no kidding no one had anything to say to you #youre not a real journalist #and that was it #like the whole stupid video was just him regurgitating stories hed heard from other random youtubers or fans of youtubers #zero research #no citations #no primary sources #no interviews #and hed present things like #oh and this was all unverifiable UNTIL... #and then hed just quote some other unverifiable like discord chat #like ah yes it all just rumors and gossip UNTIL more rumors and gossip emerged!

[badolmen]

Hm. Maybe ending up on some list for that email.

#ra speaks #personal #current events #sorry I emailed my senator about current events ™ #and bro gave the most 🥺 we NEED to commit war crimes. for the Jews. 🥺 response ever #and I feel that my response was fair. bafflement at his disregard for human life. confusion regarding how he thinks more war crimes will #‘bring peace’ with support for a ‘two nation solution’ like my dude. what? #‘oh there’s gonna be so much antisemetism 🥺’ oh. where was your statement last year? the year with the highest antisemetic incidents #on record in the US? huh? why aren’t you acknowledging the rise in Islamophobic violence in retaliation for the Hamas attack? #why are you talking about this like Israel isn’t committing genocide and war crimes like they’re just dealing w terrorists #by bombing civilian hospitals and gunning down journalists? what is wrong with you? #I’m hoping I got the general vibe of. ‘oh. you’re heartless and will be remembered for turning a blind eye to one of the worst ethnic #cleansing of the century. good luck being remembered as anything but a coward or warmonger. may you shrivel in the annals of history.’ #without you know. coming off too. uh. passionate. #but hey at least his email looked like it was written by a human. the govnor got me some janky auto reply like ohhhh I get it fuck you too

[maccaluvr]

#these may not be from the same thing but! posting them together nevertheless !! #also george. what the fuck #counting your chest hairs. i’m sensing some insecure masculinity here #also john looks so sleepy carry him to bed immediately #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #john lennon #this journalist sounds just as confused #beatles #found on pinterest

[nnay-naee]

Headcanons for s5

Dustin takes Eddie's place in the Hellfire Club

Will returns to Hawkins and joins the Club

Robin comes out to Vickie

Mike grows his hair like Eddie's

Will gets a better haircut

Joyce and Hopper get married

Steve sets his soul in peace about Nancy

Mike re-starts wearing shirts

Nancy gets into Emerson College

Jonathan gets into another college but tells her only after she got accepted

Hopper comes back to work not a the chief but as a normal policeman

#1. mikes hair. yes. please yes. #2. idk if theyll make vickie lgbt cause theyd me many to be the 80s but would be an happy ending for robin #OR they could create a new love interest for her but would be awful #3. if will doesnt return to hawkins im gonna cry till #till season 6 if itll ever come out #4. if they make nancy dump jona and she gets with steve im gonna me sooo mad #like no. #5. PLEASE MIKE RETURN TO THE SHITTY OUTFITS YOU USED TO WEAR #they were so typical and characteristic #some ppl say in some theories he like dressed as 'someone else' for 11 cuz he gay and he doesnt want to accept it or something like that #6. the jona-nancy college affair honestly #i dont really care bout it but i do hope nancy will get to be a journalist #7. the Hopper employment is something in the middle between humor and what would actually happen probably? #if they send you to a damn prision in Russia for what was it? 6 months? and you come back later #they dont let you return to your old job just like that #you left it? you gotta regain it no? #stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #jim hopper #joyce byers #dustin henderson #eddie munson #steve harrington #nancy wheeler #jonathan byers #robin buckley #st s5 #st headcanons #headcanon

[inkblot-skyz]

Thinking about how Undertale literally saved me from being a terf like. Damn this game has everything, great storyline, amazing music, terf repellent, great queer rep-

#long story short in hindsight im pretty sure i was on the pipeline from nlog to terf and #then i found undertale and as i've talked about before it was the AUs and the fandom at large that helped me realise i was enby #(specifically PJ that fucker owes me so much) #but yeah if that hadn't happened I'm convinced i'd be a terf rn because not only that but undertale also led me to batim and i joined a #specific discord server for it where. everyone was queer. literally everyone l #was queer and it was there that i was properly exposed to being trans and yeah i blame pj but that server helped with the building blocks to #me realising that i was just queer in general #but yeah very glad i very narrowly escaped #in case you're wondering why it's because my aunt on my father's side is one and i looked up to her at the time. also because the uk media #in general has been anti-trans for a long time like. some trans guy had a baby and the newspapers were so angry about it and 9 year old me #literally didn't care until the journalist said it was Bad and Wrong so yknow #OBVIOUSLY the news people NEVER lie!!! - 9 year old me #you sweet summer child they're hurting your own #anyway #inkblot sucks #inkblot rants

[neutronian]

unreal how many fictional-character-real-estate braincells edgar and hunter take up and have been taking up since i first came across them

#lmao some of their decisions and opinions are so indicative of a Whole Mess going on under the hood #they're both just intriguing characters. i want to explore them so bad lmao #^sentences that could be interpreted any way and it'd be accurate #no but what was in the blackmail file. what in there was so bad that hunter realised he was walking into a potential suicide mission #and still continued #like. why'd someone as affable and kind as him choose a job that is meant to isolate you from your life prior huh. #the ease and competence with which edgar's slotted into mike's seedy world is. unusual. at best #anne was literally a combat journalist so i get her drive and quick thinking #edgar is a receptionist. #AND WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LOST YEAR #guy gets abducted with nothing but his wits and a flashlight and comes back 5 mins/a year later and is somehow even more competent? #you can't just tell me that it's likely that lost year 'broke edgar in some way' and expect me to be NORMAL ABOUT THAT #woe.begone #i think a companion podcast was discussed at some point and the ideas were that we either follow anne's story or we explore the lost year #both would be so fucking good #e speaks