Introduction post, technically.

I am Terephin. This means nothing to you or I, but it sounds cool.

Introduction done.

List of blogs I am willing to admit are me :

@terephinbutgriseo : Sideblog made while I was way more into Honkai than I've really been since. Deader than any other.

@transience-the-echo-between : First attempt at an askblog thingy. Dead.

@ask-the-fragile-light : Second attempt at an askblog thingy, now with what's technically animation. Dead.

@emonicles : Sideblog from when I was first responding to something vaguely political that I managed to not reblog that political thing to.

@faz-ent-customer-support : FNaF RP blog, still utterly adore the concept, but I have no idea how to actually roleplay with it. More suited as a startpoint for other RPs.

@nominally-sane : Sideblog made specifically to clarify that one weird joke I sent maia.

@unovanwildsider : WIP Pokémon RP blog.

Life in Hell (1977-2012) Matt Groening

Recession Donny repeatedly lies about tariffs being a fee charged from the exporting countries when it's actually a tax placed on the importers by their own government (which ultimately gets paid by consumers in the form of higher prices).

He relies on his followers being too ignorant and too trapped in their own echo chamber to know better.

In case you're wondering: charging other countries for the right to do business is called '"an extortion racket"

The tariffs aren't even based on any real economic concern, even a made up one. It's based on Trump's irrational disdain for trade deficits.

A trade deficit is when one country imports from another more than that country imports from them. It means that the first country "loses" money (in purely monetary terms).

It has no detrimental effect whatsoever (wikipedia has 5 different citations to back up that fact), but it makes Trump's narcissistic baby brain feel like he's being screwed.

That's why and how the Trump administration determined on who and how much to raise tariffs against. They published the formula

Basically they converted the trade deficit to a percentage by dividing it against total imports and then divided that by two.

It's entirely pointless and extremely harmful to the economy. All so that the US could hold onto more of its dollars. Dollars that will become worth less and less as prices rise and countries trade less and less with the US.

And the thing is, these tariffs won't succeed in balancing the trade deficit (that again, wasn't a thing that needed balancing) because it's not like the other countries will just lie down and take it. They'll impose their own tariffs. Or like in Canada, the citizens of those countries will boycott American goods. The balance will be the same, except smaller.

America will hurt a lot from this new arrangement, but the other countries won't hurt nearly as much because they can still trade amongst themselves (and might even increase the trade volume) while Trump made America economically isolated from everyone.

And one more thing: Depression Donald isn't just lying about what tariffs are and who pays them. He's lying about the amounts.

He claims his tariffs are "reciprocal" and he quotes the tariff rates that other countries supposedly levy on American goods. But those numbers are lies. They're not the tariffs those countries levy, they're the trade deficit percentages that the White House calculated (explained above).

Trump either doesn't know the difference or he doesn't know what the numbers his people gave him even are. Probably both.

Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers

this is my aesthetic:

Listening and learning

i thought a bra was a type of clothing for the breasts

whats a bra ?

a bra is a type of undergarment that supports the breasts. It's very popular with the ladies in Paris

Paris? heh... Paris this, you filthy casual!

okay

FUKC

You have to choose a new animal to exist on earth right now but it HAS to be both as aggressive and dangerous to humans as a hippopotamus.

Tree krakens have been in the lead but concussiadillos are catching up, it's anyone's race

I’d like to submit propaganda.

okay i have an opinion that may be considered Controversial And Cancellable by people on here, you have to promise not to kill me alright?

i think people seriously underestimate the amount of hate and bigotry that porn & erotica has spread and continues to spread. now before you write a callout post this is not an "anti-porn" stance by any means, in fact i think porn is pretty awesome and it should be way less stigmatized than it is today...

but at the same time, half the things on the biggest porn sites are tagged with fifteen different slurs if they feature any minority. like a cis white guy will come home and start jerkin it to a video titled "sissy tranny faggot ebony trap with bbc gets put in his place by ubermensch white slaveowner cock" and we're supposed to be chill with that in the name of fighting conservative anti-porn stances?? are you fucking kidding me?? it's a discussion that needs to be had and a massive change to the porn industry needs to happen.

(btw do not say a fucking WORD about "curation", "dead dove/dont like dont read", or "queer/trans/transfem people are considered pornographic". that is NOT what is being discussed here and you dont get to concern troll about ao3 culture or my own community.)

Rest in peace Technoblade, you would have hated the minecraft movie but you would have loved the free promo they gave you.

If you think the freedom of one people means the annihilation of another, you have been deeply misled, and your personal character needs work.

If the meaning of this statement changes its validity to you, based on what group of people I'm talking about, then you haven't properly internalized this message.

Listen, if you want to understand how emanations work, it's like this:

If you're an infinite thing like God, and you want to become a finite thing like the world, how do you go from infinite to finite? Answer: emanation.

You know when youre at a wedding, and there's a big pyramid of wine glasses? And they fill the wine glasses by pouring champagne into the top, so it overflows and then fills all the glasses beneath it? Imagine the wine bottle is infinite. That's God.

Each of the glasses is called a hypostasis. God can emanate through many hypostases to reach it's final emanation.

As for how many hypostases there are, and how they're arranged, that's the tricky one. Every religion has a different answer, and it's never simple.

I GET NO RESPECT ON THIS DAMN WEB SITE

I DIED LAUGHING OH MY GOD

Transcript because it took me too long to understand this video:

Tango is killing several burning mobs in the daylight

Tango: get burned, cuz you're dumb~

(After killing the mobs) Tango: oo! I have to be careful I don't die here!

Silence as Joel approaches Tango with a lava bucket in hand

(As he places a lava bucket on Tango) Joel: GET BURNED!! CUZ YOU'RE DUMB!!

Tango: [intelligible screams of despair]

Tango burned to death

Maniacal laughs from Joel

[Note : Previous transcript contains error. Intelligible refers to something being understandable. The transcripter likely intended to use Unintelligible, which refers to when something is not able to be understood.]

biggest reason i make so many flop posts on here is because everything i do reeks of the desperation to make a popular tumblr post. this is deliberate, because it is what protects me from ACTUALLY making a popular tumblr post. so long as i crave it, tumblr fame will never find me. it is only when i turn away, and accept my fate of obscurity, that people will lay their eyes upon me. and it WILL be because i tripped and fell on my stupid face while i was turning

time for people to do the funniest thing ever

Do not.

So many Americans seem to think that there is no society, and morality is literal magic. Like, people don't make choices based on a complex interlocking web of desires and institutions and material conditions. The world is good guys and bad guys. Deviance is a literal magical poison that disrupts the fabric of reality. If enough young women dye their hair blue, the crops will fail.

What suburbanism will do to you after enough time dog

Literally atomized to the point of duotheism. "wokeness" isn't a social phenomena, it's a synthetic evil god invented deep state actors that want custody of your kids.

I respect an "I can fix him" villainfucker 50x more than a "he didn't do anything wrong, he's just misunderstood!" villainfucker. like yeah they both get the cute domestic happily ever after, but man the first guy has depth they have nuance and most importantly they are actually aware they're a villainfucker

but the guy i respect MOST is the unapologetic villainfucker. "yeah he did that shit and it was sexy" fuckers. "was the wanton murder fun babe it looked fun" fuckers. these guys know where it's at

I respect an "I can fix him" villainfucker 50x more than a "he didn't do anything wrong, he's just misunderstood!" villainfucker. like yeah they both get the cute domestic happily ever after, but man the first guy has depth they have nuance and most importantly they are actually aware they're a villainfucker

but the guy i respect MOST is the unapologetic villainfucker. "yeah he did that shit and it was sexy" fuckers. "was the wanton murder fun babe it looked fun" fuckers. these guys know where it's at