#2015 is my year of change

[10yearsofdnp]

March 26, 2015: Phistory was officially made 10 years ago when @danielhowell and @amazingphil surprise dropped the announcement for TABINOF and TATINOF! Where were you when this all went down? 📖👯‍♂️💥

[iriscasefiles]

today i finished scripting a first draft of the final episode of starship iris. this means i now have a rough draft of the whole final season.

...i was gonna say something about needing to process my emotions by lying down on my floor for a while but it's night now and probably what i should do is process my emotions by sleeping.

[spacepetroldelta]

features i remember from the MyLittlePony Gameloft game that don't exist anymore:

every time your pony earned a star, you could play the "clear skies" game with that pony

the "clear skies" mini game was accompanied by a story about celeastia granting you wings

opening the "Equestria Girl" section was accompanied by the backstory of sunset shimmer stealing the crown

shops used to have two options for produce - i distinctly remember having the option between grain and bread at the Windmill shop

quests used to have a more "questy" look with a scroll and everything, now its just a white box

the layout for balloon pop game was different as well, you had distinct stalls/tents you could click for each balloon pop game

[talentforlying]

said i would post about this blog's 10yr dodgeball-of-prophecy pay-off before i delve into drafts, so here it is!

way back in january 2015, roughly a month after i first created this blog, i decided that it would be fun to rebel against canon just a tiiiny bit and give my version of john a pet: a stray orange tomcat named church. about nine months later, church had been tragically stolen by liv / @whcwashe and to compensate john for his loss, i assigned him a second pet: a stray black cat named sid. an occultist with halloween-themed cats who himself hates halloween, i thought it was hilarious.

fast-forward to last year, my folks very unexpectedly had to take in my grandma's 4 cats (for whom they did not have enough room), and it turns out that among them were an inseparable pair of siblings — one orange cat, one black cat. now 10 full years after randomly projecting my ideal aesthetic cat combination onto this lucky british sonofabitch, i have successfully metamancered half of my will into being (one cat already living with me) & will be bringing the other half home with me in a couple months!!

chedrick "cheese" churchmouse & "coco" sid loco pictured below :)

bottom row far left picture was a mistake, that is clearly william howard taft.

[backmarkerr]

excerpt from an article in 2015

[introspectivememories]

tiktok hunger games fans are like the fucking worst. half of them are so desperate to let people know that there's a Message to the book and that they understood the Morals and Themes and Messages of the book that cant look past book canon or have some fun and the other half is making ocs and slapping katniss and peeta's name on them while making the most outlandish conspiracy theories. you cant fucking do anything on there

[transingthoseformers]

Art!!!!

[headfullof-ideas]

Adding some meat to my Subnautica crossover, and wrote a line about how it prophesied that either a Nekton or Benthos would be the Chosen One, and it got me thinking. Imagine if it was actually the Nektons who started the coup instead of the Benthos’? What if their ancestors roles were reversed? The last queen of Lemuria was a Benthos and not a Nekton, and the Nektons tried to use the Monumentials to seize control of the throne?

But six thousand years later, their respective descendants are still the same as their canon counterparts? The Nektons help everyone they come across, and Alpheus is trying to use the Monumentials to take over the world. But imagine of their ancestors roles were reversed and what that would change thematically?

The Guardians get their hands on Alpheus, because clearly the descendant of the ruling family line would have Lemuria’s best interest at heart? Nereus never stops looking at Alpheus fondly and never treats him harsh because it wasn’t a Benthos who felled Lemuria but a Nekton. The Guardians don’t even think about the Nektons, so focused on the clear heir and Chosen One Alpheus, and it’s only Nereus’s logic that the current generation of Nektons aren’t anything like their ancestors that allows him to interact with Kathryn and Jacques. But the part of him that subconsciously remembers what a Nekton did six thousand years ago keeps him from getting too close to them.

But Alpheus’s head isn’t in the place that Nereus realizes it should be, and Proteus gets his hands on him and Alpheus twists into something else, something that the Guardians realize shouldn’t be the Chosen One. Alpheus runs away and the Nektons stumble across Lemuria secrets all on their own, forcing the Guardians to actually contact them through Nereus. The Nektons, specifically Ant, have to fight their own ancestors actions that the Guardians can’t help but use as an excuse to keep them at arms length. The Guardians still chasing after Alpheus and not giving up on him so easily because there is no way that a Nekton could be the Chosen One, he just can’t be.

Alpheus’s head filled the knowledge that his ancestors really were the rulers of Lemuria, making it harder to convince him what he’s doing really isn’t right and that he’s really not the Chosen One. Ant fighting off his own ancestors actions to prove he’s nothing like them, not even being considered an option as the Chosen One until the Gates, because the Guardians can’t fathom the idea that the descendant of the branch that destroyed Lemuria is gonna save the rest of the world.

Alpheus not giving up when he did because his family were Lemuria’s rulers, and the Guardians don’t think Ant is the Chosen One, so it must be him. The Guardians not wanting to listen to Nereus as he starts working more with the Nektons because Alpheus is going down a path that cannot have a good end, and actually working with the Nektons and getting to know Ant better is making Nereus soft and get over his internalized prejudices he doesn’t know the source of until they find Lemuria. Nereus being the first Guardian to actually stand with the Nektons and fight for them, trying to change the other’s minds. The Guardians who just don’t want to accept that the Chosen One isn’t Alpheus and just might actually be Ant panicking when Ant is holding the Scepter, and no matter how hard Alpheus pulls it just won’t leave his hands.

Ant and Alpheus both proving that your ancestors actions don’t define you, but in opposite ways.

….and behold I’ve made another AU I don’t have the time to write

[10yearsofdnp]

June 2, 2015: Dan hosts a sniffly liveshow where he discusses Caitlyn Jenner's transition, rants about Formula 1 drama, and shares some anime recs! 🤧🏎🇯🇵

[batsplat]

this all makes me think—how much would casey have disliked racing against marc do you think? i wonder if vale would have gone even harder on the marc praise knowing it’d annoy casey + been even more disgruntled in 2015 when the consequences hit even harder in turn… and maybe we would have gotten a casey ranch visit even earlier had they had a Common Enemy in marc or something

yeah lol casey would've hated it, i've talked about this a few times before but the tldr is that this wouldn't have gone well at all. i mean honestly the intra-team shenanigans are the real killer more even than the aggressive riding, like back in the day plenty of people thought marc would get better as he aged and i think casey would've wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. something like the towing would've also made casey want to strangle marc but that wasn't as bad yet in marc's early years. but the sabotaging your teammate by trying to ensure they don't get the best parts thing..... pheww very very very very low tolerance for that kind of behaviour. and if casey did in fact have to regularly race against marc, it would really only take one or two proper scraps after which marc is completely unapologetic for casey to start souring towards the kid

also, obviously this is just guesswork, but i wouldn't be surprised if casey would've been... honestly, a little bit resentful of young marc. i mean it kinda sneaks in there anyway, he's pretty firm in dismissing the idea he's going to be paying attention to what marc does with his bike at the post-season 2012 test for instance. but... y'know, just a bit of the early dani vibe where dani was the golden boy in 2006 and casey was the satellite rider getting spare parts, feeling unacknowledged, invisible. casey emphasising the machinery disadvantage to dani in 250cc and said it did him good because HE learned how to deal with shitty machinery :)), casey FURIOUS when he's beaten by dani at assen 2006... how you read those little moments in later years where casey is a wee bit patronising towards dani... or there's casey's rather, uh, interesting reaction to jorge's arrival on the scene in 2008, which you can read as displeasure about how well jorge was received and also this tinge of real satisfaction at jorge's fall from grace... plus ofc various facets of the relationship with valentino... the thing about how casey won his first grand prix valencia 2003 and then went 'happy to beat someone sponsored by the circuit :))'.... like yeah obviously casey feels resentful and bitter a lot of the time more at seven, but the point is it can be aimed quite easily at specific rivals. teensy bit of jealousy there, envy feeding back into bitterness. i don't think casey LIKES this impulse and would deny he has it at gunpoint. he really really wants to be magnanimous and wants to see himself and present himself as someone who isn't bothered by the success of others!! which, listen, i'm not saying that's completely FALSE but it's also obviously not the full picture. and idk, marc is another honda golden boy who everyone just cannot stop praising even though he's had the path paved for him unlike CASEY who didn't have particularly competitive machinery at any point until he stumbled onto that ducati seat and now everyone's so excited just because marc is immediately fast even though casey was fast immediately too until michelin started sabotaging him and... you get the point. i don't think this is the main reason their relationship would go downhill but imo it would feed into it

and yeah lol. the thing about valentino's animosity towards casey is that he basically cuts himself off the moment that rivalry formally ends - since then it's been exceedingly one-sided on the insults front. the short reason for that is that valentino never particularly HATED casey, that if anything he did his best (valentino standards) to keep that relationship friendly for a pretty long time, and then a combination of casey figuring out how to get under his skin and prolonged competitive malaise pushed them into this weird cycle where they just kind of got a kick out of hissing and scratching at each other every other week. kind of like a stress relief tactic. but once casey's gone, valentino isn't going to do that anymore and the ill will fades REASONABLY quickly, where there's really only the occasional lapse in 2013 and then basically none after that. but if casey were still on the grid? well! laguna is a big one here, because it features one of vale's very rare 2013 lapses where he does do the little *cracks knuckles* well :)) casey minded when i overtook him at the corkscrew :)) but EYE don't mind because EYE have no problem with real racing :)) unlike casey :) routine. if valentino knows casey is still around and a rival and he can get whatever bizarre kick he used to get out of trading insults with casey, he would just be like. ten times more annoying about this. given what a massive massive massive sore spot laguna is for casey on fifty different levels, i cannot for the life of me imagine he reacts particularly well to this particular chain of events. this is something he feels very strongly about, he feels wronged, it is tied to an event where he felt humiliated....... and now he feels like it's being made a joke of. again. at his expense. one that marc is actively participating in. this is one of those things where casey might not actually push back too strongly at the time but he will not forget about it until the day he dies

and if you have a few too many things like that... casey said at some point in 2013 that he didn't appreciate how marc tries to not just beat but 'humiliate' his opponents. they actually asked marc about this in a press conference but the reporter made such a hash of asking the question that marc responds to something barely related and really not what casey was getting at in any way. but if you watch that presser... well, one of the three people in shot DEFINITELY got what casey was saying about marc and thought it was VERY funny. easy enough to extrapolate from that. ofc valentino was never going to enjoy any version of 2013 that involves him being pretty uncompetitive, but idk, it's not exactly a stretch to believe he would have massively enjoyed marc driving casey insane, kind of the next best thing. (even if only in secret - one interesting thing about casey's presence is that it makes valentino's whole 'humbled fun-loving guy fighting to get back to the top but just having a laff :)' gig of 2013-14 a bit trickier to sustain. super dignified response to jerez 2013 from vale for instance where i would politely question if this completely chimes with his internal monologue. casey's truly unparalleled ability to use his words to get under valentino's skin would come through for us once again.) which is something else that i suspect doesn't massively endear either of them to casey. AND because it's casey and you get a paranoia bonus, valentino doesn't even HAVE to be showing he's enjoying it or even enjoying it at all for casey to believe he is. so that's perfect

anyway, once the vale/marc honeymoon ends... tbh i kind of conceptually struggle to imagine casey managing to stick around past 2014, like it just feels by then he'd be so so sick of this shit. however many titles he wins during that time period (i'd put my money on at least one but who knows). but sure, for the sake of speculation, let's say he sticks around at least a little longer, without being directly involved in the 2015 title fight for whatever reason. now, tbh, i think by this point his stance on the vale/marc situation broadly amounts to 'they deserve each other', and it's perfectly possible that at this stage his active animosity towards marc outstrips even his hostility towards valentino. (short term thing, over the arcs of their careers obviously valentino has the power to hurt casey in a way marc does not.) i think it's also plausible that once valentino gets his act together again competitively in 2014, there's a bit of a detente in the casey relationship and they do slip back into their early slightly edgy camaraderie. but. but. sepang 2015 presents SUCH an open goal for casey that there is no version of him that's going to be able to resist that one. it's too easy. we see this in real life too, of course casey is going to use that to have a go at valentino, how could he possibly stop himself

(one more thought here: going off the resentment and bitterness angle................................................. i mean. hear me out. it's not IMPOSSIBLE that some of this resentment towards marc ends up being quite valentino-specific. the idea is that casey looks at the 2013-14 marc/valentino dynamic and goes 'where the fuck was that energy for me'. for which there are completely rational non-casey-related reasons like 'valentino wasn't washed back in 2007', but that doesn't change the fact that marc is getting distinctly more head pats in 2013 than casey was in 2007. two full years of uninterrupted head pats. casey was being laguna'd in year two of his rivalry with valentino. how is this fair. so actually i do reckon that late 2015 would also be accompanied with just immense amounts of schadenfreude aimed specifically at this relationship completely falling apart. this real marriage of 'huh you thought you were different did you' with 'well valentino does do this to his rivals :)) what a shame that poor marc has had to discover that :))'. quite honestly i'm unconvinced irl!casey doesn't feel that way. the point is that this too manages to further decrease casey's sympathy levels towards all parties involved, though i'm sure he'd do his best to pretend he's feeling ever so sorry for poor marc. in that same super convincing tone he uses in his autobiography to describe jorge in 2008 starting to smash his body up immediately after being arrogant towards casey)

but also i don't really think valentino,, like, cares necessarily when casey does this - certainly not for more than a couple weeks - because going by real life he does seem to be able to filter out a fair bit of vitriol coming from casey's end. casey and valentino reached that really cute point of being enemies where they'd kind of already said so much shit about each other that there's basically no insult that could really make things WORSE. with some of valentino's oeuvre, if anyone else said that about casey he would still be bringing it up and be extremely not over it, but given all the other stuff valentino's said it's kind of... whatever. with some of the stuff casey said, with some guys that would be valentino's primary association with them and he'd still quietly loathe them for it. but casey was saying that stuff every other week and also aren't passionate rivalries great so. who cares! which is what gave the nadir of their relationship this real charm because they knew how to provoke each other, regularly did that, had a bit of a go at each other and then moved on. and then did it all again. something quite funny to how when casey's providing his framing of that relationship, he never even brings up any of the more wildly out of pocket things valentino said about him towards the tail end of casey's time in motogp, the stuff i think you could justifiably still be mad at!! it's really just valentino not being nice enough to him in 2007 that TRULY bothers casey... which suggests that 2012 at latest really was a bit of a free pass for both of them. like i said, cute! but anyway, the point is there's probably nothing casey could have feasibly said after sepang 2015 that would have burnt that bridge forever, and also casey wouldn't even harp on about it for TOO long once he's gotten it out of his system. doesn't care enough about marc irl, let alone in a world where they're probably enemies by this point. and there's a decent chance marc has chased casey out of honda, which can't help

anyway i don't think casey gets invited to like,, bitching sessions with valentino at the ranch because that's not really how either of them operate. i do think it'd be funny if you have this vibe in 2016 similar to how valentino rediscovered how much he loves chatting to dani in pressers, but an even wilder version of that with CASEY. and broadly both of them would probably be inclined to allow that relationship to get a bit less chilly again. feuding with three top riders at once is just unfeasible for valentino, who tf is he supposed to yap at in social settings. so i think you might naturally get to a place where casey is more venomous towards marc than towards valentino and where valentino is more *gestures* bleh towards marc and just kind of uses the good old 2007 charm on casey. AND where valentino already starts editorialising the casey rivalry as good old-fashioned honest hatred, not like this backstabbing nonsense. so no front against marc - casey CAN be pushed into that sort of behaviour cf the 2011-12 dynamic of trying to establish anti-valentino age-based solidarity with jorge + dani, but doing that with valentino is a step too far tbh. BUT implicitly a realignment is certainly possible, even though casey still semi-regularly gets overtaken by fits of schadenfreude over 2015 and valentino just filters this out or whatever. charming in its own way

[jlf23tumble]

What do you think about babygate? Do you or did you ever believe it?

I've always said issues believing it because surely if he is under this incredibly abusive contract that's keeping him in the closet to the point where he's faking being a dad he could go to court and they would honestly rule in his favor and have it overturned because it's just fully not legal to have clauses and contracts that keep you from coming out. You can be encouraged not to because it would be better for your career but it's never actually written in your contract

Beyond that I think most of the general public would have a huge issue if it ever came up that babygate was it real they would never like Louis again because he was using an innocent child to further his straight image. They wouldn't care that he was under a contract because at a certain point when you have kids involved (at least nowadays it might be different in old Hollywood) The kid becomes more important than whatever you're trying to hide

[natsumischwartz]

hey so guess what url was available

[hanshenrykcd]

"what inspired you to start writing again?" my overwhelming need for bruce and jason to be completely dysfunctional and weirdly obsessed with each other until they finally give in and fuck each other

[restinpeacesensei]

bath

(hello!!! please be polite and respectful; im very sensitive and i am not comfortable with comments like 'hot/sexy' or anything objectifying 😭😭 but something like 'he's pretty' etc is welcome! thank you so much!! 🥺💖💖)

[wra1thguards]

i rlly don't have anything new for oblivion's birthday, but here's a compilation of galis drawings across the years that i made some months ago :D

[chiropteracupola]

The love of the Wanderer is to wanderers.