#falling for the bait

[nudityandnerdery]

I must not click on rage bait. Clicking is the algorithm-killer. Clicking is the little-death that brings more rage bait articles. I will face my rage bait. I will permit it to pass my for you page and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the external eye to see my algorithm. Where the rage bait has gone there will be nothing. Only I and Muppet gifs will remain.

#Curate your internet experience #Do not fall for the rage bait #Internet advice

[rambrandt-the-painter]

Butch Bait Bunny

#art #furry #joey #bunny #for real tho don't fall for that bait #as soon as you're finished in bed shes going to start complaining about steven universe even though shes never watched it #and then ask you to call her a badass

[lovergirldyke]

born to be a selkie, forced to be human girl🦭🌊

#seeking a sailor to fall in love with #me! #femme lesbian #high femme #butch bait #lesbian #wlw #dyke #sapphic #butch4femme #femme4butch #femme4masc #butchfemme #femmebutch #ofos femme

[concerto-roblox]

g1 or g3 who cares either way monster high animated media will have a well-dressed twink with ulterior motives

#why does foxford literally have all the qualities of a tumblr sexyman like?? #and he's also furry bait we love to see it!! #anyway someone pull up the 'every girl has a sinister homosexual trying to ruin her life' tweet #monster high #kieran valentine #foxford #why do ghouls fall in love #monster high 2022 #monster high animated series #monster high series #monster high season 2 #monster high g3 #monster high gen 3 #monster high spoilers #mh spoilers #how to be cringe 101

[vidduality]

It's disturbing how much rage bait ONE line said by a young teenage girl in an EW cover story with so much other content can generate. Dozens and dozens and dozens of click bait articles, rage video analyses, and SO many angry meta posts with people practically ready to tear Katara's actress apart with their bare hands. All for having the audacity to say that she found some of Sokka's more brazenly sexist lines "iffy" in the OG cartoon. She implied it wouldn't translate as well in a live action and that they had toned it down, and you'd think she announced the Avatar is going to be a warmonger the way the internet's turned on her.

This week's fandom discourse has been about as low key and rational as S1 Zuko being offered some calming Jasmine tea...

#avatar the last airbender #atla netflix #avatar netflix #atla live action #avatar #katara #sokka #zuko #avatar live action #natla #atla #yall need some calming tea #the cartoon is still right there for you to watch #I'm rewatching it now #it's still great :) #and i hope the new show will be too #ALL of this sexism “discourse” #came from a single quote by a young girl #quit falling for rage bait

[prokopetz]

I think the primary qualification for being a wizard is having strong opinions about unhinged bullshit. Like, I know a great deal about computers, but ultimately I'm just a technician, not a computer wizard, and that's all I'll ever be, because I don't have the kind of brain that's capable of making a religion of semantically significant whitespace.

#magic #philosophy #wizards #computers #programming #swearing #yes that example is 100% bait #and even knowing that you're going to fall for it anyway

[roscoe-me-and-this-fuckin-kid]

mania haters do not deserve so much (for) stardust

#if you didn't like it fine whatever i don't have a problem with that you're obviously entitled to that opinion this post isn't about u #HOWEVER if you were one of those fans who incessantly complained about how bad you thought it was? #if you bitched about 'fob went pop! they sold out! this is just radio bait trash and theyre not the same band anymore-" shut up #fob #fall out boy #so much (for) stardust #post hiatus fob #mania fob #andy hurley #joe trohman #patrick stump #pete wentz #bandom

[falloutbridge]

me & you vs. headfirst

The best way to make it through with Hearts and wrists intact Is to realize two out of three ain't bad

Oh, Does your husband know? Does he know?

#nostalgia bait cage match #fall out boy #falloutbridge #andy hurley #joe trohman #patrick stump #pete wentz

[happybird16]

Where do you and your fave fall on the spectrum?

#feel free to edit your fave in! #blorbo posting #reblog bait #blorbos #fall #pumpkin spice #anime #levi ackerman #attack on titan #gojo satoru #jujutsu kaisen

[tazmiilly]

i'm a little late, but trick or treat ?

YOU GET!!!!!! yet another ford. wow there's a lot of these in the candy bowl tonight

#click bait ford #scribbles #gravity falls #ford pines #this is me making up for the fact that I haven't drawn ford in days. my mind will explode if I don't draw him for a while

[myymi]

ok so idk if what im about to say will still work based on this but i got a yes so im running w it

sonic becomes allergic to tails and treats it like how people w cat allergies do

tails knows and tries to stay away for sonic's wellbeing but he has housecat syndrome and there's no cure so sonic keeps bribing him to snuggle

tails: okay, it's getting bad. im gonna go now, just take some medicine and relax

sonic, pulling a bag of mints from his quills: you're what?

tails:

tails: sonic please

sonic: you know you can't resist tails

tails: sonic you can't breathe

sonic: you're more important than breathing

tails: sonic

#tails falls for the bait every time #miles tails prower #sonic the hedgehog #tails the fox #sth #sonic and tails #sonic #unbreakable bond #dynamic duo #wholesome wednesday #wholesome sonic and tails wednesday #wstaw #000marie198

[femmeoutoffocus]

My messy car and I were wedding bound today 🧡💕

#fall wedding #sapphic #wlw #girls who like girls #lgbtq #pansexual #butch bait #wlw nsft #italian girl #wlw ns/fw #curvy brunette #blue eyes #sapphic yearning #forever yearning #femme #femme4butch #femme4masc #i miss you #girls with tattoos

[juniemunie]

remade this again because im angry and mindless editing lessened it

So. That new announcement. And the fact its an adaptation of the animated trilogy, not a continuation or any innovation.

Yeah. Im just gonna watch the actual httyd1 and pretend that never happened.

Dont fall for the nostalgia bait bros, let that scheme shrivel up and die.

Incoming rant below about this

-...-...-...-

People already know the reasons why its going to be shit so I wont say it again

Considering how Dean has completely misinterpreted the major themes of the first movie, I cant trust him at all with this one nor would I want to

Powell made a perfect masterpiece with the og, idk what else he would do or add on with this one but i can only hope ig, but even then-

Seriously, what else is there to add? The story is tight. Maybe a little more of Toothless' perspective, giving him more scenes of agency and character, but does Dean even still see him as more than a baby pet?? Does he even give a rat's ass about aLL THAT???? HAHHAHAHHAHA

Just. We all know its not gonna work. I have an inkling that all "show dont tell" sequences are just going to get marred or removed of all nuance. I do not want to see Downed Dragon, Forbidden Friendship, New Tail, Test Drive, or Romantic Flight or practically any of the scenes that made me love this movie get a poor imitation.

You really think live action can mimic the body language, gestures, tHE WAY THE DRAGONS FLY in the first movie or miraciously somehow make it even better? You really think the music of the first could even be topped? YOU THINK THE CINEMATOGRAPHY, THE SHOTS AND LIGHTING WOULD BE COPIED??

Either way, at the end of the day, they already know they cant beat the original movie. All they need to do is horrendously mimic some parts to keep your interest, whether its a beloved scene or music. You're not watching the new one because you love the new, you're gonna watch it because you loved the original.

I really hope it either gets dropped, sent to development hell, or ends so bad that they cant make more. Please please please i hope it gets the ATLA movie treatment

Just when I thought Puss in Boots and Bad Guys were gonna start a Dreamworks Renaissance, this shit happens.

Stop ruining the movies i adore and love, please and thank you

#live action httyd #live action httyd my ASS #i really thought that httyd woulsnt get hit by that because its not ownwd by disney #but here we are. #yes i remade this again because it still works #disney already shows up how disappointing live action remakes are #stop falling for it #httyd #httyd movies #httyd live action #i hope this dies horribly #ill be honest? this almost killed my love for this movie #but i slapped myself because like hell am i going to stop loving something because some shit imitation shows up #even if thousands of people fall for the bait im gonna make a promise for myself to stay true for the real movie #its just another httyd 3 #im not even going to be optimistic about this #im not even going to delude myself with 'maybe just maybe- itll be better than the previous times disney fucked up!' #fool me once shame on you. fool me 11 times then we are the idiots

[jazzfordshire]

Who’s the hottest woman in Greek myth? For my money it’s Medea or Circe

I am a Medea apologist and lover until the day I die, but I also know enough about mythology to say APHRODITE it's Aphrodite definitely, love u queen please don't ruin my life

[ptsdangeldust]

so am i like. NOT supposed to be attracted to that or

#I KNOW IM FALLING FOR THE FUCKING BAIT LEAVE ME ALONE LEAVE ME ALONEEEEE #LEAVE ME IN THE CORNER WITH VOX LABELED 'HE'S NEVER GOING TO FUCK YOU' HSUDIGHDIUSG #hazbin hotel spoilers #spoilers #my post

[mwolf0epsilon]

A Disgraced Trooper's Last Resort

Corrie moonshine has the kind of punch that can knock your teeth out. It's bootlegged with whatever they can find that won't outright kill them if it settles in their stomach, but definitely strong enough that it would sooner be considered outright gutrot than an actual FDA approved drink.

Not something your run of the mill liquor license or health insurance would cover.

Not that Fox really concerns himself with either of those things as he takes a swig from his lucky flask. To him a drink is a drink, especially when he feels like he needs it most. And he did need that extra push of liquid courage tonight more than he ever had before.

To put it simply, he was between a rock and a hard place. Relations between the GAR and the Guard were at an all time low. And, despite his Corries saying otherwise, it was all his fault.

He'd stumbled and made some terribly misguided mistakes. Grasped at tantalising straws that he'd hoped would be his and his men's salvation, only to fail time and time again. Burying himself and his troopers deeper and deeper in a grave that had been prepared for them since arrival. Eagerly applauded by the man who'd made them all his fools and jesters.

He'd botched Commander Tano's capture and then shot a brother dead. And not just any brother either. He'd shot one of Rex's boys. The only surviving one that he'd claimed from the defunct Rishi Moon outpost.

The heat was on high and everyone he loved and cared for was suffering terribly for it.

From his commanders to the shiniest of shinies. All because he couldn't win against Palpatine. He was in too deep and had no allies that could get him and his men back out of this deep dark pit. At least not any allies that had any real power.

Fox was playing a game that he simply couldn't win. But maybe he didn't have to...

Taking another swig of the flask, Fox contemplated the only logical conclusion he'd reached in the last couple of months, as he'd noticed just how much things had deteriorated. Contemplated this rather outlandish plan of his that was very much a last desperate call to set things right.

It all came back to flimsywork and the world of bureaucracy. Things he hated but was much too intimately familiar with. He'd submitted the performance report a month ago before settling for another round of the waiting game. Detailed what needed to be scrutinised, and omitted what most definitely didn't. His idea was a little out there but not unheard of, especially with the observations he'd dutifully jotted down to back up his decision.

And then there was the matter of tempting the Chancellor with something he couldn't quite resist, which he thought he'd done so beautifully. If he was good at anything besides suffering through logistics and political nonsense, it was nicely baiting a trap of his own.

As soon as Fox made his next move, a few things would change. Hopefully for the better. Not that his men would understand. At least not at first... But it had to be done. He'd made the assessments and he had certainly done his homework. As soon as the report was called in for review to pick his successor, they would very easily concede to his wishes.

Due to the current losses and supposed number of decomms, there were simply not enough skilled guardsmen for it to justify promoting their most veteran commanding officers. Thorn would be barred the position of marshal commander due to both his position as head of the prison force, and his constant requisitioning for escort missions. So would Stone, who was far too proficient in his senatorial guard duties to be pulled aside as a glorified secretary to the Chancellor. And Thire would need to take time off to train a replacement officer to guide the patrolsmen due to having the best knowledge of Coruscant's layout, making him the most effective patrol co-ordinator they had ever had.

And time was not something anyone could spare on Triple Zero.

And, with no one else nearly as experienced or simply far too important in their current positions, that left only one option should the position of marshal commander ever open up: Requisition a trooper just as skilled as Fox himself from another battalion.

Which is exactly what he'd done when he'd submitted the report. Should he be incapacitated or destroyed, command of the Guard would fall to the only person he trusted to be capable of leading them. Or, in Fox's true motivation, that had the actual power to put an end to Palpatine's sick little games.

And the best part? No one would call into question his choice on the matter. He'd waited more than enough after he'd submitted the report for it to register as valid on record, even after he did what he was about to do.

Which is why, as Fox finished emptying his flask as he stood on the very roof of the Senate building, he couldn't help but smile. Smile and wish Cody the best of luck. The bastard was going to need it, especially when Fox knew Palpatine would rejoice at taking something, anything, from General Kenobi who he seemed to so greatly despise.

The neon lights and smell of chemicals and pollution greeted the disgraced marshal commander as he stood at the very edge of the roof. Ready to make a spectacle of this. Ready to set his own twisted little game into motion. Palpatine had won the first few rounds, but he would not be able to best Cody. Not with the reputation he had, nor the esteem he'd earned. Which was exactly what Fox was counting on.

And, as he flung himself forward towards his inglorious demise, he hoped against all hope that Cody's fondness for his general was a mutual thing and not once-sided. If just so his little brothers in the Guard could finally have a chance.

He was, quite literally, taking a leap of faith.

#star wars #the clone wars #commander fox #writing prompt #free writing prompt #tw: suidice #Basically: Fox realizes he can't win against Palpatine but that Cody can #so he pulls a few strings to ensure Cody becomes his successor because he knows Palps was looking at any opportunity to 'best' Obi-wan #and like Fox predicted Palps takes the bait and severely underestimates Cody #he's only sad he won't be there to see Palpatine fall but he's more than ready to meet with Ponds and wait on the other side #eps writes