#brag post

[roach-works]

every time i see those ‘your ancestors would be ashamed of you’ alpha male posts it cracks me up because like! man! buddy! your ancestors apparently SUCK. ‘oh we’re so busy conquering the rest of the world that the idea one of our great great grandsons is eating a burger and jerking off afterwards disgusts us!’ like sure. fine. great legacy you’re struggling under.

my ancestors would be delighted to hear that all the genocides they struggled through failed to the point that they have a descendant (with a lot of cousins!) in 2023 whose day to day life is so peaceful and secure as to allow for the eating of burgers and the jerking off. i own a garden and a sewing machine and a cupboard full of potatoes. i got an art degree and i write romance stories in my spare time.

maybe your ancestors are a howling void of nasty hungry ghosts who all hate you for not being as insatiably violent as they were but this is exactly the kind of life my ancestors fought like hell for their children to live.

#alpha males fuck off #brag post

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

This is a post that’s not about animals, but instead about what this blog has brought into my life. Because I want to say thanks.

If you’ve been around since the beginning, you’ll know that this space is where I first learned to fact-check, and where I fell headfirst in love with doing it.

In the earliest WADTT posts, I repeated a lot of common wisdom and things I’d been told from single highly visible sources. I was fresh out of college and fell into the trap of feeling like an expert based on a discrete set of experiences. It was you, the blog readers, who pushed me to ask “why?” when I was told something was true, and question the sourcing for everything. As the blog grew, so did the depth and breadth of what I fact-checked, and the lengths I’d go to find an answer. My independent projects grew out of that, such as the cat data paper and the legislative analyses. But there’s more than came of it…

That’s all a long-winded way of leading up to saying that, because of this space, I work as a professional fact-checker now! WADTT was not just what sparked my passion for fact-checking, but also my first work experience. It is what got the first company I contracted with to take a chance on me - they actually knew of the blog!

I work mostly on science videos and articles, and recently, I’ve branched out into fact-checking non-fiction book manuscripts. (Did you know that most non-fiction books are less rigorously checked for accuracy than magazine articles?) It’s one of my favorite things to do with my time, and it is still incredible to me that it’s a real adult job and I get to do it.

I’m posting about it today because I want to brag, just a little, about this incredibly sweet article that was written by one of the authors whose manuscript I worked on this spring. She told me she was writing an article about the experience of fact-checking from an author’s perspective - I had no idea her praise would be this effusive. It’s so validating: I started here on Tumblr, with you, working to correct misconceptions about animal content, and now I get to fact-check things for a job and professional people value me as a fellow actual professional. Insert internal screaming here.

So yeah. This is a thing I get to do because of this space and the support and enthusiasm about it from everyone over the years. It’s amazing.

(Also! The book discussed in this article, The Possibility of Life, is amazing and I highly recommend you check it out when it’s published next year. It’s a look at about how we imagine alien life in science and in fiction, and what we can learn from comparing the two.)

#not animals #brag post #fact-checking #fact checking #follower appreciation post

[figfull]

My new dragon is too good send help

#I had absolutely no business buying this dragon #but I started browsing and here we are #flight rising #dragon share #brag post #that BOA though

[even-all]

fucked him so well he couldn't stand up at first <3

#💜 #i know you're literally here but. #brag post #queer nsft #trans nsft #t4t nsft #ftm nsft #nsft #ftm sub #ftm dom

[entireblockofcheese]

im gonna brag about my favourite accommodation piece so far. These are eksa e5 wireless headphones with ANC

Where i live i got them for 25$ and then i lost them (and it was TRAGIC leaving home & using public transport was HARD) and bought the exact same thing for like 35$ which is still cheaper than a lot of other options i guess

Them absolutely woahhhh because shape be fidgety and noise be cancelling (the anc is on the stronger side so it may take time for you to get used to the sensation) and embouchures be soft and they fold neatly and come with a case and a stand and a cable so they can be wirelessn't too and an adapter for planes thingy?? Yeah

Not sponsored, not anything

I just like them

#accommodation #noise canceling headphones #neurospicy #brag post #not an ad #eksa e5

[ericmun]

2022.12.17 Shinhwa’s Eric and Hyemi IG Update:

Eric's post:

The grilled steak tacos my second brother-in-law, Roy, made. They are seriously much better than the ones they sell. My second older sister's son, Troy, has already won an award for making an app as an elementary school student because he takes after his father who went to Harvard Medical School. Yes this is a brag post😉 #He packed a lot so I can eat it later #Harvard #Taco #carneasada #jmt #Gained 2kg

In 2011, Eric shared a photo of his father holding his 2nd older sister’s newborn son, Troy. He shared that his eldest niece Chaeyoung (Katie) came up with the name “Troy” by adding a “T” to the baby’s father’s name. (Source: AbsolutShinhwa).

The English name of his family in LA (source: Shinhwapedia)

Dad: Simon, Mom: Grace

Eldest sister: Erica, Bro-in-law: Richard, Niece: Katie, Nephew: Daniel

2nd eldest sister: Kara, Bro-in-law: Roy, Nephew: Troy

Hyemi's post:

They gave it to the 🐰 that I see every day to eat..🥲 Eric's comment: Squirrel🐿 and rabbit 🐇 will share, so it's okay~🥰

See video on the 2nd slide.

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#Na Hyemi #Shinhwa #Eric Mun #Eric Moon #Mun Jung Hyuk #Eric #Nastagram #Munstagram #Eric's family #Eric's nephew #Troy #Harvard #Taco #Carne Asada #JMT #brag post #가져가서먹으라고듬뿍싸줌 #하버드 #타코 #2kg증가

[firemakesbeavisrecycle]

Built this bookcase myself today. Pretty proud of that.

#brag post #empowerment

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

[termagax]

yknow what pisses me da fuck off. how gay men get to be like teehee im too gay to care about women but lesbians are still expected to center men to the extent that jokes about Characters Who Are Lesbian Icons are always men. "lesbian and her boy blorbo" are the most popular jokes about lesbians on this website. "x man is a he/him lesbian" headcanons outnumber actual content about lesbian characters 10:1 even in series with well-written female characters. but sure youre Too Gay to think about a Yucky Female for ten seconds and you HAVE to broadcast this fact in the notes of posts abt fandom misogyny

#like if yr gay and u only care abt characters u wanna fuck fine but why r u bragging abt it on posts abt misogyny. mind yr business dude

[endyendercat]

Here is my entire accessory doll collection on Goatlings, it's now 9 pages long, and it is only gonna get bigger.

Pretty impressive, right?

I got all of the Painted Accessory Dolls in one day!

And I got pretty lucky and got all of the midnight carnival RADs in one day too!

My next goal is to get all of the goatlings that are inspired by the MLP series.

#goatlings #collection #impressive #oh wow #i have way too much free time #brag post #bragging #letmebragjustthisonce #just this once

[thinkicalcritter]

Not to brag but I can feel a physical impact when the scroll bar hits the bottom of the page

#brag post

[krazieka2]

Fe3h did not have a beauty pageant sequence, but if it did I'm 99% sure this is how it would go

#carrying over my posts from twitter choo chooooo #fe3h #2023 art #fe3houses #fire emblem #what commentary tag could I possibly add to this #flayn has a lil shark fin nose and i think that's cute #sylvain was completely on board with this idea and im sure it was in a completely normal way #it was Hilda and Dorothea's idea first probably #this is why the game never let them support #holst traveled miles just for the opportunity to brag about his sister #no one told him this was happening he simply smelled it in the air

[mixmangosmangoverse]

I hate to say it but everyone saying there's Pre-Holocaust vibes are correct

We're seeing a massive spread of unchecked, unrepentant antisemitism spreading quicker with social media now. People are cheering on murdered Jewish kids and then fact checking us to tell us it didn't happen

Blood libel is gaining traction like never before all the while Jews in the Diaspora are being attacked

So to all you proud Nazi Punchers, I must ask,

Why are you standing by, letting this happen, repeating things the Nazis could only dream of? Why aren't you standing up, dismantling antisemitism in your movement, helping Jews once again forced to hide in their homes?

Or was it never about protecting Jews? Just about protecting your egos

#mango rambles #personal fruits #jumblr #ישראבלר #Israel #Antisemitism #I want this post to spread #I want every 'antizionist' to take a close look #Ask yourself why you aren't standing up for Jews like you bragged you would

[figfull]

My dragon was on the front page just now. I had to do a double take when I recognized her. 

#she deserves it #FigRambles #Brag post

[ultravioletness]

gay knights and dames collages part two

#gay knights #knightcore #knight x knight #arthurian legend #medievalcore #john william waterhouse #edmund blair leighton #lesbian dames #pre raphaelite #decidedly less so this time around #uuh what tags did I use last time #the other post really blew up this will be its less successful cousin #although there are some real gems in here not to brag lmao #anyways I was feeling so many knight feelings that I started historical fencing #again I did this on my tiny phone at work so be nice i know they’re wonky #the hardest part is finding head rotations that actually work #also since people mentioned a lack of lady knights nothing is stopping the ones in armor from being lesbians be creative

[dapper-lil-arts]

You try to do a favor for a friend, but

#rarijack #rarity #sunset shimmer #this is inspired by a fic i wrote #the deleted scenes had some fun jokes on there heh #and i simply could not forget this one #mlp gen 4 #gen 4 #my little pony #friendship is magic #pony posting #lmaooooo #i like to think rarity would have no qualms about bragging