Hi, my name is Charlie, I am British and I've been needing to edit this and my about me for like 200 years. (I'll get around to it one day because like half the things in this aren't correct anymore)
I generally blog about Glee in particular, Brittana, but other things include Game of Thrones, Battle Royale, and Comic Book series such as The Runaways and The Young Avengers.
(The urls i use and have used in the past are, lupe-kun, iamasquib, Ihatethefandom, ohmylordtubbington, santa-nababy, fuckyougleewriters, ihatethegleewriters)
this “negative” review of guillermo del toro’s upcoming frankenstein movie is everything to me
“The Mexican director has chosen to emphasise the romanticism at the expense of the horror. Elordi plays the creature as a misunderstood, James Dean-like outsider with Oedipal issues rather than as an agent of evil and chaos. Even if his face and torso are latticed with suitably grotesque scars, staples and stitches, he is not only the most sympathetic character in the movie but the best-looking one too. It’s left to Oscar Isaac to provide the real villainy as the brilliant but egomaniacal scientist, Victor Frankenstein…”
HELLO YES IT’S ME, MARY SHELLEY CALLING, JUST WANTED TO ASK IF YOU’VE EVER SEEN A GUILLERMO DEL TORO MOVIE OR… I DON’T KNOW… READ MY BOOK?
“The film lurches between scenes of lush romantic melodrama and moments of Grand Guignol bloodletting.”
*bangs fists on table* SIGN! ME! THE! FUCK! UP!
“You drink lemonade? Ugh. Enjoy your lemon-water-sugar concoction, idiot.”
Thank you, I will. It’s why I ordered the lemonade.
Thinking about how when the Oceangate sub imploded, the coastguard picked it up on their radar and knew from the moment it happened that everyone on board was already gone, and yettherewas still a five day manhunt.
And how like a week before that, a refugee ship sank off the coast of Greece, whose officials knew this was happening and had ships within reach, but intentionally did nothing.
And how there was like the most expansive manhunt in recent history to find a suspect in the UHC shooting. In a city known for its unsolved crimes. How Briana Boston was arrested for a vaguely perceived threat to a CEO she wasn’t even speaking to nor mentioned, while internet stalkers are never addressed unless they hurt someone, and then it’s a maybe
And just how there is always money to perform for the rich, even when they can’t actually be helped. And there is never money to help the poor, no matter how easy they would be to save.
And for some reason it’s considered “dangerous and extreme” to want a world where our lives aren’t just fodder at the whims of the rich.
“Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college”
Because if you demonstrate to me that you’re willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don’t get into medical school.
“oh, but this course is just a distribution requirement, it’s not for my major”
Does saying things that are true and that you know are true only matter when someone is giving you a little prize for it?
Tumblr doesn’t like to do this kind of ethics, so I have to phrase this carefully, but it’s a question of character. And a person’s character is clearest when they’re being asked to do the right thing even when it doesn’t matter to them.
I don’t want to live in a world in which doctors and lawyers and politicians just ignore the responsibility to research and verify when it’s inconvenient for them. When they’re busy. When they have something they’d rather be doing. The world I live in is already too full of those people in positions of power. I’ll be damned if I let there be more of them.
THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!
boy it’s me the textiles speaking to you inside your head. you need the yarn. you need thread. your soul hungers to participate in the act of creation. you must feed it. you must buy so many beads.
the scariest thing about the generative AI thing is how quickly people have accepted it as an indefinite, irrevocable part of their reality. people have genuinely convinced themselves that ChatGPT is the only solution to most tasks - tasks they did with their own brain without any large effort two years ago. like you know damn well all of us used to write emails ourselves why are we pretending like this is an impossible task to do with your own two hands. what’s with the fucking. AI revisionism. i feel like i am going insane.
I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren’t just digital panhandling scams.
If I was a sociologist, I would definitely be doing a study on the methods and language of charity scammers. Especially the use of emojis, and identification by copied messages vs stock phrases.
For example, these four are all the same, with only slight variation in #1:
(I actually have duplicates from some of the “self-identified” anons above.)
But these two anons share the same new stock phrases:
“days are heavy” / “days that feel impossibly heavy.”
Fascinated with the random person who commented on this post saying they’ve reported me for “genocide denialism.”
Not to put too fine a tin foil hat on it, but:
That is the kind of threat someone involved in these kinds of financial scams and the social engineering behind them *would* make! It’s a threatening statement to the existence of my blog which usually means heightened fear/anxiety of the target, which makes people more likely to fall for a financial scam. Social shame and embarrassment are also heightened emotions! Bullying works! This would make an excellent social engineering counterpoint (if tugging on heartstrings doesn’t work!) and might even be effective on many people!
Sure, you can search the supposed connected usernames those anons claimed and find out specifics that way — but not a single one of those screenshots I showed specifies what they’re referring to! The IDENTICAL messages from four “different people” never actually mention what their “family’s struggle” even is! There’s zero fucking context in the space of those messages. They’re all IDENTICAL. I literally cannot be committing denialism about anything specific because those asks don’t actually say anything I could be denying. How does this person know that these anons aren’t a recently impoverished Nigerian prince?
So now you’re asking why don’t I just click on the usernames and find out more details? Simple. Because they’re fucking fraudsters who sent me the same message like, six times with 4 different usernames attached AS ANONS. Why as anons if they have their own blogs and could send the messages that way? SIMPLE AGAIN: because if they’re not logged into the blog accounts, you could have whole teams of people copying and pasting these anon asks to various Tumblr users constantly, and you can probably just bypass the ask limits by changing VPNs or going incognito or something. This is a DEDICATED scam. Is it a bot? MAYBE! But that also would explain some of why it doesn’t work *while logged in* to the blog accounts — because being anon probably makes it easier to focus on volume.
Anyways a fool and their money are soon parted.
While we’re on the subject of the incredible gullibility some people display on these scams, I’d just like to remind everyone that most online scams these days are being run out of massive scam farms, which often employ human trafficking.
Falling for these isn’t just an ‘oopsy doopsy, you’re out some money’ sort of a thing. If you send money to obvious scammers and if you platform obvious scammers, you are very likely directly financially supporting modern day slavery. That’s not an exaggeration, and I’m not being alarmist. Please read any of these articles on the subject if you don’t believe me:
This is what you are supporting when you send these people money. It’s not a neutral act to give to these scammers; it’s a horrible, evil act, because in most cases, it directly supports horrific exploitation. And if you really were fooled? If you gave to one of these scammers and you really had no idea what you were probably supporting? Then I’m sorry, but digging your heels in and insisting that the lies you were fed are the truth helps no one. Take your blinders off and face reality, and start doing better.
This whole scenario is a really prime example of a phenomenon that probably has a proper name elsewhere, but I personally call Race to the Binary.
Step 1: an appalling atrocity happens, and victims of it ask for aid. We’re all on board.
Step 2: Scammers pop up pretending to be those victims. A few users step forward to vet requests, to try to filter for genuine victims.
Step 3: the race begins. Some people, used to associating things like poor English and young accounts with scams, assume that most of these victims are therefore scammers, and the vetters are either incompetent or in on it.
Step 4: the race diverges. Other people recognise that these “tells” are just as easily symptoms of non-English speakers who are making hasty blogs under unimaginable circumstances, and so conclude that claiming a victim is a scammer on the basis of their English is actually racist.
Step 5: the race concludes. These two groups repeat their points so many times that they gallop in opposite directions until they reach the binary poles of this particular spectrum. Group 1: absolutely none of these accounts are genuine. It’s all scams, and only stupid gullible babies would ever think otherwise. Group 2: saying a single one of these accounts is a scam is a racist denial of the very genocide itself that they’re facing and only a simpering fascist would think so.
This happens all the time in all fields on all subjects and in every corner of humanity. But that’s what’s happening with the random accusation of genocide denial on this post. That is someone who reached their binary pole, and now even the suggestion that scammers might be posing as genuine victims - a thing that is literally, definitely happening, which is why we needed the vetting in the first place - is somehow twisted into a claim that there’s no genocide.
Anyway - OP is right. And there’s been a huge uptick in these, so for fucks sake, pay attention and learn the signs.
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