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carnagechicken · 3 months

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the Florida Panthers won the Stanley cup

and with that I have officially watched my first season of hockey.

I started as a fan of the penguins with an affection towards Flower as well. Now I’m ending the season a kraken fan, pens fan, flower fan and with more mattdrai interest than I expected.

The kraken stuff happened in mid April really suddenly, but ever since I started dabbling in hockey fandom in late 2021 I knew that becoming a kraken fan was going to happen eventually, a matter of when not if. Those beautiful jerseys, my love of cephalopods, and the team’s newness were strong draws but I still needed to have a special little guy to seal the deal. I discovered Adam Larsson in late march (thanks @angry-geno-is-score your fics* are brilliant<3) and what do you know that’s kraken hockey baby!

They’re probably going to be my main team next season. Still love the pens, their narratives are exquisite, but my brain wants kraken more.

(The mattdrai is a playoffs discovery that I fear I’ll never recover from. Leon’s disdain for the media and Matthew’s understanding that hockey is supposed to be theatre entertainment is *chef’s kiss*)

And with that here is a list, in no particular order, of some of notable things I saw this season,

: Tristan Jarry goalie goal!!! There was so much to like about this, the bench reaction, EK shaking Jars vigorously, Lars Eller going for a head boop and missing and then going for another one with more force, Ned trying to get Jars to skate over to do a fist bump line at the bench, Jars looking so bashful at the attention. :When Bryan Rust had that mustache and it was….kinda working. : Jeff Carter, the team Old Man that season, scoring like 3 breakaways and 2 short handed goals. : that shootout that went for 12 rounds (thank you Ned). : when Tanger got on all fours and started rocking back and forth in the locker room during Sully’s pre game speech (seriously wtf). : when Rusty scored in OT, had it waved off, and like ten seconds later scored again in a cooler way. : Sully becoming a grandpa<3. : when Jeff was a healthy scratch (the only time) and when he was asked about it was basically like ‘whatever, it doesn’t bother me, I just work here’. This was when I really started to like him btw. : Flower getting to 1000 games!! : Flower reaching the most wins!!! : kreider pulling out Matthew Tkachuk’s mouth guard and failing to throw it over the glass. : Florida beating Boston *again*. : that game were Sid got so pissed he screamed ‘no! No!’ at a ref so loud you could hear him over the crowd. He then proceeded to tell the ref ‘you fucked up’ :when Erik Karlsson made a mistake that sent the game to ot, scored in ot and then fell to his knees in relief. : that 10 to 2 victory over the sharks that was also Sid’s 1200 game. : sid scoring a goal off his ass. It had to happen one day : the pens ot win against vancouver back in Feb. The notable thing was that I was there with my dad and sisters <3

It's the little things that make hockey so fun!

Here's to a wonderful 24/25 season!

(*Seriously, if you haven't already, read Serenity in Those Deep Waters by @angry-geno-is-score on ao3, it's *fabulously* emotional and I can't recommend it enough)

#hockey #pens stuff #seattle kraken #stuff regarding me

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mariacallous · 6 months

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If Donald Trump returns to the White House, close allies want to dramatically change the government's interpretation of Civil Rights-era laws to focus on "anti-white racism" rather than discrimination against people of color.

Why it matters: Trump's Justice Department would push to eliminate or upend programs in government and corporate America that are designed to counter racism that has favored whites.

Targets would range from decades-old policies aimed at giving minorities economic opportunities, to more recent programs that began in response to the pandemic and the killing of George Floyd.

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told Axios: "As President Trump has said, all staff, offices, and initiatives connected to Biden's un-American policy will be immediately terminated."

Driving the news: Longtime aides and allies preparing for a potential second Trump administration have been laying legal groundwork with a flurry of lawsuits and legal complaints — some of which have been successful.

A central vehicle for the effort has been America First Legal, founded by former Trump aide Stephen Miller, who has called the group conservatives' "long-awaited answer to the ACLU."

America First cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in February in a lawsuit against CBS and Paramount Global for what the group argued was discrimination against a white, straight man who was a writer for the show "Seal Team" in 2017.

In February, the group filed a civil rights complaint against the NFL over its "Rooney Rule."

The rule — named for Dan Rooney, late owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers — was instituted in 2003 and expanded in 2022. It requires NFL teams to interview at least two minority candidates for vacant general manager, head coach and coordinator positions.

American First argued that "given the limited time frame to hire executives and coaches after the season, this results in fewer opportunities for similarly situated, well-qualified candidates who are not minorities."

In 2021, Miller's group successfully sued to block the implementation of a $29 billion pandemic-era program for women- and minority-owned restaurants, saying it discriminated against white-owned businesses.

"This ruling is the first, but crucial, step towards ending government-sponsored racial discrimination," Miller said then.

Zoom in: Other Trump-aligned groups are preparing for a future Trump Justice Department to implement — or challenge — policies on a broader scale.

The Heritage Foundation's well-funded "Project 2025" envisions a second Trump administration ending what it calls "affirmative discrimination."

Part of the plan, written by former Trump Justice Department official Gene Hamilton, argues that "advancing the interests of certain segments of American society ... comes at the expense of other Americans — and in nearly all cases violates longstanding federal law."

Hamilton is America First Legal's general counsel.

Such groups have gained momentum with the Supreme Court's turn to the right — most notably its recent rejection of affirmative action in college admissions. The court ruled that programs designed to benefit people of color and address past injustices discriminate against white and Asian Americans.

In 2021, a federal judge blocked a $4 billion program to help Black farmers.

Earlier this month, another federal judge ruled that the Commerce Department's Minority Business Development Agency was discriminating against white people and that the program had to be open to everyone.

What they're saying: The Trump campaign directed Axios to the candidate's already stated positions bashing Biden's policies promoting equity.

"Every institution in America is under attack from this Marxist concept of 'equity,' " Trump said in 2023. "I will get this extremism out of the White House, out of the military, out of the Justice Department, and out of our government."

The Trump campaign's Steven Cheung added: "President Trump is committed to weeding out discriminatory programs and racist ideology across the federal government."

The NFL and Miller declined to comment. CBS didn't respond to a request for comment.

Between the lines: A CBS poll last November found that 58% of Trump voters believe that people of color were advantaged over white people — just 9% of Biden voters said the same.

Polls also show, however, that Trump is gaining support among Black and Latino voters.

Zoom out: Trump has portrayed himself as the victim of racism amid his legal troubles.

He repeatedly has said Black women prosecutors in Georgia and New York are "racist."

His political career really began in 2011 as the chief Birther-agitator, questioning Barack Obama's eligibility to be president.

When Trump jumped into the presidential race in 2015, he accused Mexico of dumping criminals and rapists into the U.S.

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slowestlap · 2 years

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Red Bull Racing in 2022

Feb 9th: Red bull announces a title sponsorship with Oracle and RB18 (bestest boy) is revealed

March 3rd: Red bull announces Max's contract extension which runs until 2028

March 20th: Red bull starts the season with a banger double DNF in Bahrain

May 29th: Checo wins in Monaco, gets shit-faced af, unfortunate videos go around, two days later Red bull announces his contract extension which runs until 2024

June 21st: Vips uses the n-word on a twitch stream, later Red bull publishes a statement and drops his ass

July 8th: Friday in Austria becomes the last time we see Max wearing the flat brim cap

Sept: Red bull and Porsche edge us with the almost signed partnership only for it to fall apart

Oct 9th: Max wins the wdc in a confusing manner in Japan

Oct 10th: FIA announce two teams (the other being Red bull) breached the cost cap in 2021

Oct 22nd: Red bull co-founder Mateschitz passes away

Oct 23rd: Red bull seals the constructors championship in Austin

Oct 28th: Cost cap penalty announced. Max at the same time reveals a special obnoxious golden helmet he'll wear the rest of the season

Oct 28th -30th: Max and the rest of the Red bull boycott Sky Sports during the Mexican GP, refusing to give them any interviews

Nov 13th: Max refuses team orders in Brazil coz he "has reasons", rumors about Checo purposefully binning it into the wall in Monaco quali arise, eveyone is unhappy expect those who focus on reblogging memes

Nov 20th: Max wins his 15th race of the season in Abu Dhabi, as Red bull wins 17/22 of the races in 2022 and finishes on the podium in 20/22

Nov 23rd: Red bull signs Daniel Ricciardo for a third driver role for 2023

#max verstappen #sergio perez #red bull racing #mp #survived that lads #lmk if i missed smth crucial!!#added the boycott

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likewiley · 7 months

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THE TRAILER PARK, WISKAYOK, 1996.

maeve is as much a stranger to wiskayok as wiskayok is to maeve. no one really knows her; she deliberately makes it hard— she doesn’t want to know the people of wiskayok more than she has to– her world has always been the trailer park. she is even more a stranger to the girls of the wiskayok soccer team; maeve has never played sports, refuses to run the mile, her reason for being on that plane was still one of her own making. two months prior to the crash, sean was caught selling drugs on school grounds, and under the threat of the police being involved, maeve decided to take the fall—[he was cleaning up his act, getting a job, they were going to live together again and maeve wouldn’t still be in the trailer park in ten years time] she took responsibility for the dealing, claimed them as her own and she was expelled from wiskayok high school pending board agreement. she got lucky, she knows she did when she was invited back to finish her education under certain conditions: one of which that she was to support the school newspaper in reporting on the soccer team as they neared nationals; to hopefully bring the trophy home. so she goes, packs her bag and entered the plane that would seal her fate.

in the wilderness, maeve doesn’t have a set skill that makes her immediately useful. she wants to pull her weight, completes chore after chore— she went out with the group in hopes of finding rescue but only finding wolves. she discouraged lauralee with the plane[and she was right to do so–still she mourns]. she doesn’t believe in the wilderness being something deeper, but rather luck. she’s an outsider who is happy remaining outside the rest of the group, gets on with the day. at the end of season 2, maeve is alone in the attic during natalie’s crowning— the wilderness’ claws haven’t sunk deep enough as she faces the immense guilt following the consumption. she barely escapes in the fire– sometimes, she wishes she didn’t.

MAEVE'S APARTMENT, LONDON, 2021.

if maeve survives the wilderness, she goes on to have a semi successful career in writing and publishing. she moves to the uk where even less people know her name, she is able to hide in obscurity and not have prying eyes looking for answers to those months in the wilderness within her writing. she is careful not to let things slip, keeps her genres far from the realities of her life. she travels to wiskayok for the reunion but doesn’t quite make it through the door— it’s almost to gloat, look at what i’ve become! she stays in town but doesn’t let herself become too comfortable.

#maeve and coach antagonist for s3 lets GOO #verse:yellowjackets.#this is so rough but i was working on a reply and HAD to get thoughts out

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ncisfranchise-source · 6 months

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It doesn’t take a team of federal agents to figure out that if you picked up this magazine, you’re probably one of the 300 million people from around the world who watched some version of NCIS last year. That’s just a smidge under the entire population of the United States.

The massive fandom around the military procedural, which reigns as the most watched drama on broadcast TV, began in 2003 with a spectacular series premiere from cocreators Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill. The episode, inspired by the 1997 movie Air Force One, introduced what would become the show’s signature recipe of action, emotion, and a dash of humor when agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard (David McCallum) investigate a mysterious death aboard the presidential plane.

We fell in love with Gibbs’ gruffness (OK, his good looks didn’t hurt either) and Ducky’s intellect. We were intrigued by the twisty case and fascinated by an agency we’d never heard of: the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which solves crimes involving the Navy and Marine Corps.

The distinct characters back at HQ sealed the deal. The original cast included a roundup of agents with lovable quirks: by-the-book profiler Caitlin Todd (Sasha Alexander), flirtatious Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly), and tech geek Tim McGee (Sean Murray). In the lab, we got the unexpected goth/nerd forensic specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) and Ducky’s dedicated and sensitive assistant Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen).

Over the years, NCIS built a reliable world that we could return to every week. It was governed by “Gibbs’ Rules,” practical guidelines for successfully solving cases and living life (new ones popped up all the time). We got to know our beloved characters better through eye-opening backstories, sometimes revealing tragic incidents. There were in-office rivalries and romances. (Tony and Ziva [Cote de Pablo] forever! — their story will continue in a new spinoff) Recognizable baddies kept coming back for more until the agents took them out—as we cheered them on from our sofas.

And those agents handled it all with the qualities expected at the real-life U.S. Naval Academy: “competence, character, compassion.” In a tumultuous world, it was a comfort to hang out at Navy Yard HQ in the bullpen, aka “the big orange room,” with decent folks like that.

As with any workplace, people have come and gone. Some we lost tragically. Others opted to move on. Saying goodbye to Gibbs when he retired in 2021 was the hardest. But NCIS has a way of reinventing itself. The new team leader, Alden Parker (Gary Cole), is more gregarious than the taciturn Gibbs, but as we’ve learned since he arrived, like his predecessor, he’s got plenty from his past that haunts him.

Bringing to life the multilayered characters of NCIS are writers, producers and crew, many of them with the show for decades. (Some even worked on JAG, the military legal drama from which NCIS spun off.) They’ve expanded into multiple spinoffs: NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans and NCIS: Hawai‘i. The latest, NCIS: Sydney, debuted in November 2023.

Speaking to the deep staying power of not just the format but the characters, a forthcoming prequel, NCIS: Origins, will tell the story of a young Gibbs. Mark Harmon’s son Sean played the junior Leroy in NCIS flashbacks, but the new series will cast a different actor. Both Harmons will serve as executive producers.

The possibilities for the future of NCIS are endless. Bring on the milestone 1,000th episode of the franchise, coming in April!

#ncis

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italeteller · 1 year

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Is there any modern isekai anime you think are actually worth watching? Or is it all just the same toxic wish fulfilment garbage at this point?

Fear not anon, there's actually some good modern isekai anime still! But first, some hearsay:

-While I didn't personally vibe with it, I've heard a lot of good things about Re:Zero, but I've also heard a lot of bad and cringe things about it, so it's up to you I guess

-Ascendance of a Bookworm is another I don't know anything about, but I've heard good things

Now for the ones I have actually watched:

-My next life as the villainess: all routes lead to doom! is a 2021 isekai where a teen girl dies and gets reborn into the world of her favorite dating sim, but she's in the body of Katarina, the awful rotten-hearted villainess, and to top it all off she's 7 years-old.

Katarina soon realizes that, if her new life progresses the same as the game's, all she's got to look forward to is banishment or death, because game!Katarina is a major bitch so nobody loves her, and she starts taking measures for her inevitable doom: she learns to farm so she'll be able to procure food is she's banished, tries her hand at magic and swordfighting so she'll be able to defend herself, and other stuff like that

She's also a naturally nice person to everybody in the game so all the boys and girls end up falling in love with her, which she completely doesn't notice because she's dead certain that the game has to go on the preplanned route so she has no idea everybody who's supposed to romance and/or befriend the game's protagonist wants to jump her bones instead.

It's a pretty fun series, and while it's no benchmark of storytelling, it does have a few genuinely good plot twists and heartwarming moments. I wish it would end up as a proper bisexual harem, but I knows the odds aren't good, sadly.

Also, if you do watch it, stick to the first season. The second season is bad. Like Bad bad. Makes you regret the time you spent watching it-Bad. There's a movie coming on December, which I hope is good and redeems the franchise, but if not, the first season is good

Saihate no Paladin/The Faraway Paladin is another 2021 isekai where a random dude gets reincarnated as a baby in the ruins where a great evil is sealed, and gets adopted by three undead: a skeleton warrior, a mummy priestess and a ghost wizard. They raise him, teach him to fight, magic and miracles, and then send him off to the world when he turns 15. It's a pretty decent story, it has a slow start, taking some 5 episode to properly set up the MC's circumstances and goals before his journey, and it's got a second season coming on October so if you wanna catch up, you'll get more content soon

My only problem with it is that it should be a fantasy anime. The isekai part is... I mean it's there, it seems like there will be something with the gods and the different cycles of reincarnation, but it could very easily have been a fantasy story and lose nothing. The main character having been a random japanese man before reincarnating doesn't really add anything, so idk if you wanna count it as an isekai or not

Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita is a 2022 isekai-that-should-have-been-a-fantasy where another random japanese dude is reincarnated into a magic sword. He immediately goes "welp, time to discard everything about my previous life and be the best sword I can" and begins slaughtering monsters to grind levels. He eventually becomes a super OP weapon and that's when he gets found by his future master, a preteen catgirl slave whose caravan is escaping from a two-headed zombie bear

The catgirl gets the sword and kills the bear, the sword uses his telekinetic powers to kill the slaver by snapping his neck 180° degrees, burns the slave contract and they team up. The sword restores the girl's name, Fran, which she had lost when she became a slave, and Fran names the sword "Teacher", and they set out to grind levels so that Fran may evolve - because she's a member of the Black Cat race, which is the only race in that world that can't evolve, which is why they're discriminated and sold as slaves, and Fran wants to prove her race can evolve after all

This one I have a love-hate relationship with. It does a lot of the shit I hate on other isekais, but it also does a lot of things I like. Yes, Fran is ridiculously OP with little effort thanks to being able to share Teacher's skills, and she breezes through most challenges effortlessly which is often anticlimactic as hell, but she's got an actual tangible goal and a personality so she's already more interesting than your average isekai MC. There's no romance and almost no fanservice, and when there is it's always with the adult women in the series, so that's another bullet dodged

But on the other hand, the slavery plot is introduced, and then dropped almost entirely except for a bunch of obviously evil people who all get punished, and meanwhile everybody else is super nice to Fran and nobody brings up the fact that hey, she was a legal slave until not too long ago and her race is still being enslaved and nobody's doing anything about it, ain't that fucked up? No? Nobody wanna say anything? Idk, it's a fun romp but it's also very power-fantasy-trash at the same time. It's got a second season confirmed in production, maybe that will do something with the slavery plot

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady is a 2023 series that should really have a shorter name, my god. It's another should've-been-a-fantasy isekai and it's. Hmm. It's got some amazing first episodes, but then they tried to cram A LOT of plot into the rest and fucked it all up. A lot of stuff makes very little sense, character motivations are all out of whack, and you get the feeling that they really needed another cour, or at least 6 more episodes, to fit it all in properly

It's one of those series that you can see the potential it had, how great it could've been if it had been allowed, and it makes you kinda sad that you'll never see it unless you go to read the light novels. The reason for this rush is that the studio wanted to end the series on the end of the third light novel, which is where the main girl gets together with her girlfriend as a canon, explicit, openly gay couple, which is a deeply respectable, dare I even say admirable goal, but I still wish it had had more episodes so it hadn't had to sacrifice the rest of the series for it

The Executioner and her Way of Life is a 2022 series, the final pick of the list, and the one I like the most, so of course it's only got one season and no confirmed sequel because god hates me, personally

The main character, Menou, is a teenage priestess from her world's church, and she's also in charge of killing all the japanese people who get isekai'd into her world. Menou doesn't enjoy the killing and feels guilty for it, but she knows she must do it to stop the ridiculous powers the isekai'd are given from bringing ruin to her world. One such power is the one that turned her whole village, people and buildings alike, into ash when she was little. She was rescued and raised by Flare, the world's strongest warrior, whose power is only matched by her mental instability, which she gladly passed to her apprentice

The story proper begins when Menou meets Akari, the new japanese teenager in town, and finds out Akari's power prevents her from dying. Thus, Menou takes Akari on a trip across the continent to see the sights and find a weapon strong enough to kill her before Akari goes nuclear. Akari, meanwhile, is ecstatic, because she doesn't know Menou wants to kill her, and because she's down horrendous for her from the moment their eyes meet, loudly and openly fantasizing about the romantic adventures they'll have and telling her stuff like "you're the only one for me" to her face

As the series goes on, you start to notice there's something very, very wrong with Akari

Another such character is Momo, Menou's junior who is also loudly and openly in lesbians with her, very annoyed that Menou spends so much time with Akari, and also very off in the head. I hope you're seeing a pattern here

The final character in this delightful ensemble is Asuna, the princess of the realm and the most well adjusted character in the series. She's a wandering knight who loves a good fight and develops the most hilarious crush on Momo, who wants nothing to do with her and is constantly antagonizing Asuna, attacking her, ambushing her and throwing her into deadly traps, only for the princess to walk it off and offer to buy her a drink. It's honestly hilarious

And there you have it, my personal isekai reccommendation list. Hope you find at least one that suits your tastes

#Anonymous #anime #isekai

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dirchristophernolan · 8 months

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🏎️💨 THE FORMULA 1 TAG GAME! 🏎️💨

Who or what got you into F1?

i've always been into it mainly because my dad used to watch f1 back when michael & ferrari were dominating the sport, but then he stopped when michael retired the first time? lmao, so me and my brother stopped following the sport as well. i kind of got back into it when seb won his championships at red bull, but the full hyperfixation mode started in the 2021 season.

Who was the very first F1 driver you supported? Do you support them now? Have your opinions on them differed or stayed the same since then?

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER. ever since i was a kid he remains THEE greatest of all time for me and i doubt that that's ever going to change.

Who's your current favorite F1 driver?

charles leclerc, followed VERY closely by max verstappen.

Is there a driver pairing or pairings that you support? What made you attracted to that pairing in the first place?

max/charles. i am sorry but their lore, their history is just unparalleled.

Do your parents, siblings, or relatives have a favorite team and/or favorite driver(s)?

although my dad doesn't follow the sport as much anymore, he's still a tifoso and he's warming up to the idea of charles restoring the team to its glory (the move charles made on checo in vegas 2023 kind of sealed the deal for him); and my brother.. *sighs* he's a checo fan (THE DISGRACE!).

Do you have any favorite races? Are there any that stand out to you the most?

in no particular order: barcelona 2016, monza 2019, silverstone 2019, abu dhabi 2021 (but to be fair, that whole season is one for the ages), australia 2022, austria 2022, vegas 2023 and abu dhabi 2023.

Do you have a favorite circuit? Can be from the past or from the current calendar.

monaco, spa francorchamps, imola, monza and red bull ring.

Have you ever been to an F1 race in real life? Feel free to tell us your experience going to one if you like.

not yet but I. AM. COOKING.

Have you ever met an F1 driver in real life?

no :(

Do you have a favorite F1 car? If so, what is it?

michael's ferrari f2004 and max's rb19 a.k.a 'rocky'.

Do you have a favorite one win wonder?

my favorite baguette: pierre gasly <3

Do you have any favourite quotes from the F1 world? This can be either inspirational or hilarious.

there are so many but these three are the first that come to mind:

"Everybody is a Ferrari fan. Even if they say they’re not, they are Ferrari fans." (Sebastian Vettel)

"Maybe God is with Hamilton, but he's not God." (Max Verstappen)

"By being a racing driver, you are under risks all of the time. By being a racing driver means, you are racing with other people and if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you're no longer a racing driver." (Ayrton Senna)

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thank youuu my beloveds @supercollide & @fueledbyremembering this was incredibly fun <3

tagging @lewispullsman @fabbyf1 @wisteria-wisteria (no pressure though!) and anyone else who wants to do it.

#loved this one sm!#about me

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alexxia-1version · 1 year

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Max Verstappen wins the championship for the third time 🫠

Max Verstappen was crowned Formula One world champion for the third time, taking the title in the sprint of the Qatar Grand Prix on Saturday. Verstappen's victory was a moment that seemed inevitable since the first race of the season, when he led the grid of start to finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The 26-year-old, who has won 13 of 16 races so far this season, needed to finish sixth or better in the sprint, a shortened version of the traditional Sunday feature race that was introduced for the first time in the 2021 season, to obtain the title.

When his teammate, the Mexican Sergio Pérez (the only other driver who could challenge Verstappen for the championship), crashed on lap 11 of 19, it meant that he would not score any championship points, practically giving him the qualification.

With Verstappen qualifying third for the 100km race under the lights of the Lusail circuit and Perez five places behind at the start line, it seemed inevitable that Verstappen would successfully defend his title on Saturday.

McLaren's Oscar Piastri, who qualified on pole position, won a thrilling sprint involving three safety cars. His teammate Lando Norris was third, passing Mercedes' George Russell late in the race.

A season dominated from the first race

Hints of a possible fight within Red Bull itself began to emerge early in the season when Sergio Pérez and Verstappen shared two wins each after the first four races, but the Dutchman's record streak of 10 consecutive victories confirmed his absolute authority.

The team sealed its second consecutive constructors' championship at the Japanese Grand Prix last month with six races still remaining.

The team's car has been widely hailed as one of the best ever built in the sport, and in some ways it has proven even more successful than last year's model, which won 17 of 22 races.

When such an impressive car is driven by one of the all-time greats, as Verstappen is now, it is sporting alchemy.

"Everything he has done this year has been phenomenal," team manager Christian Horner told Sky Sports.

“He is the most competitive driver I have ever met. The determination with which he drives, the passion, the heart, the commitment and, of course, the abundance of skill he has, make him among the best." With this title, Verstappen joins the greats Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart , Niki Lauda, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna as three-time world champions of this sport.

Only five other drivers have won more world titles: Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Juan Manuel Fangio, Alain Prost and Sebastian Vettel.

#max verstappen #red bull team #cars #f1

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burningexeter · 1 year

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Here's something that definitely should be fun hopefully....

This is a full-on pitch for a modern Kim Possible reboot that is not only a fresh new take on the OG series but also to top it off is also of actual quality.

Give it a read.

PITCH:

Team Global Justice

The premise is this on the following below —

Set in the fictional Middleton, Colorado, the series follows high school cheerleader captain Kimberly Ann "Kim" Possible who is too cocky and at times full of herself for her own good. Thinking she can do anything with her family saying "Anything is possible for a Possible", she's about to learn that sometimes that is not the case at all when her incredible cheerleading skills including her agility and flexibility brings her to the attention of a recent agent-turned-villain named Shego who has her own vague reasons for going after Kim.

However things ultimately take a drastic and unexpected turn when after being arrested by the secret government organization named Global Justice for different but high stake reasons, Kim and Shego along with the latter's henchwomen, the speedster robot triplets built by her called the Bebes and Kim's rival Bonnie Rockwaller who's been working for Shego for a while, all decide or rather have no choice in the matter to team up with each other and become a team working for GJ in stopping the most deadliest supervillains from taking over the world or anything else in the field.

Their name: Team Global Justice.

Their mission: Stop evil and protect the world at all costs.

Details:

• Christy Carlson Romano, Nicole Sullivan, Kerri Kenney Silver and Kirsten Storms will all reprise their roles as Kim, Shego, the Bebes and Bonnie.

• Shego and the Bebes will be given new backstories — Shego was an FBI agent named Kim Verrick (ha) who graduated top of her class and a black belt in martial arts that after an "incident" which gave her her powers, went to the other side while the Bebes were triplet sisters in high ranking positions (one was a Navy SEAL, one was a police officer and one was a U.S. soldier) that all got involved in said "incident" and were left dead, only for Shego to bring them back to life as indestructible robots. Funny enough, their real names aren't even "Bebe".

• To keep things interesting, everything revolving around Shego will be kept ambigious from her motivations for turning evil, why she went after Kim, how she brought the Bebes back to life, how she got Bonnie involved but there will be hints.

• Also to shake things up, all of the team will have their bumbling, screw-up, boob moments to show that none of them are perfect even on missions but it will actually make sense in the context as they're all starting out.

• On top of that, the team will be given their own distinct lair or HQ or hideout and that's Shego's lair underground that is a twisted casino funhouse a la Oogie Boogie-esque as Shego says one of her favorite hobbies that always relaxed her was gambling in Las Vegas.

• As for the show itself, it will still retain the witty and self-aware, satirical humor of the OG series since it so obviously wouldn't be Kim Possible without it but it will also have a darker and more intense edge to it to show the actual danger that all of the characters are in and the threats they're facing.

• I picture it running for three seasons with 67 episodes as a whole total and it being done in the same but still HD updated animation style of the OG series.

• The theme song will be a new version of the original with Christina Millan back but this time it's called "Call Us, Beep Us".

• One last thing that I will say about this is that through little easter eggs and references, it will be heavily implied that Team Global Justice is set in the same albeit retroactive shared universe as others such as Thief (1981), Heat (1995), The Incredibles (2004) and Nobody (2021).

#Kim Possible #Shego #2000s #Action #Animation

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Honestly, the problem with F1 is that they changed the regulations. Like in 2021, RB had JUST caught up to Merc and I think the whole sport can agree it was an exciting season. Now it's gonna be another few years of this shit for teams to catch up to RB. Just stop this, please. I don't want to be in the RB era. It's so shit. Ferrari/Merc will probs catch up in 3 years and then they'll change the rules again.

I do believe that something is not working quite right with the sport at the moment.

Besides the Australian GP, which was... Uh... something 😂 even last year when the championship was already sealed from the get go, we still had some great GPs watching the midfield battling it out. Personally, I find that this year has been a bit "lackluster"? Baku being a prime example of it.

I cannot remember where I read the statistics but (if I recall correctly) 2022 had an increase in overtaking by 25% compared to the five previous racing seasons. This year it looks like it will be much less compared to 2022 - that being said, we're only 5 races in, so... 🤷‍♀️

#anon #q&a

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Jos Verstappen fails to acknowledge Sergio Perez as he celebrates his Saudi Arabian GP win

His face says it all! Jos Verstappen fails to acknowledge Sergio Perez as he celebrates his Saudi Arabian Grand Prix victory right in front of him, despite Red Bull claiming another one-two to continue their dominant start to the season By Sam Brookes For Mailonline Published: 06:33 EDT, 20 March 2023 | Updated: 06:33 EDT, 20 March 2023 Everyone at Red Bull was delighted to see Sergio Perez get on the top step of the podium at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Well, almost everyone. One man who didn't appear particularly thrilled by Perez's win was Jos Verstappen. Sunday's race proved to be another dominant one for Red Bull with Perez leading from the front, while Verstappen came through from 15th after engine problems in qualifying to finish second. Yet that didn't seem to be good enough for his father who was watching on from trackside. As Perez stepped out of his car, he was mobbed by his jubilant team having picked up just the fifth win of his Formula One career. Making his way along the fencing, Perez hugged multiple team members and received a slap on the back, but Verstappen Sr did not even acknowledge the Mexican as he stared into the distance. Jos Verstappen (left) stared into the distance while Sergio Perez celebrated his Grand Prix win Max Verstappen had to settle for second but still leads the standings by a point It took a nudge on the arm from some of the Red Bull crew for Jos to even glance at the celebrations happening right in front of him, as he appeared to force a half-smile before looking away again. Verstappen Sr, who raced in F1 himself between 1994 and 2003, has kept a close eye on his son's career ever since he made his debut as a 17-year-old in 2015. After winning the 2021 championship in controversial circumstances ahead of Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen Jr dominated the 2022 season and made the perfect start to the current campaign by winning the opening race in Bahrain earlier this month. He had to settle for second-best this time around, though, and his father did not look happy at all to miss out on another win. However, he may take some comfort from knowing his son still leads the standings by a solitary point over Perez. Verstappen recorded the fastest lap of the race right at the end in Jeddah to seal an extra point, much to the bemusement of Perez who claimed his team had told him to hold his pace in the closing stages. Share or comment on this article: Jos Verstappen fails to acknowledge Sergio Perez as he celebrates his Saudi Arabian GP win via Formula One | Mail Online https://www.dailymail.co.uk?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

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I posted 3,570 times in 2022

That's 1,083 more posts than 2021!

44 posts created (1%)

3,526 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@congolife

@yonemurishiroku

@juilletdeux

@inthetags

@rowanrowland

I tagged 3,423 of my posts in 2022

Only 4% of my posts had no tags

#art - 900 posts

#nico di angelo - 567 posts

#artists on tumblr - 552 posts

#uquiz - 448 posts

#beautiful - 340 posts

#jason grace - 328 posts

#lil cuties - 292 posts

#bwahahahhahahaha - 281 posts

#jasico - 252 posts

#bwahahahaha - 246 posts

Longest Tag: 141 characters

#also: i don’t actually know how old merlin is.. this is me interpreting him as ~19 and arthur as ~21. if i’m wrong please don’t come at me 😔

My Top Posts in 2022:

write me your words of wonder

you want to be thought of with intent, for someone to sit down and want to share their thoughts with you specifically. and their thoughts about you, even more. for someone to Know you, or at least desire the knowledge. for them to write it out in a way that you can read as quickly or slowly as you desire. that you can reread again and again, or lock in a box and never read after that first quick consumption. you crave that tangibility. and the small moments that lead up to the letter being in your hand. to be told, 'it's in the mail' and then to have the simple joy of checking the mailbox to see if it has come today. to hold the envelope and feel the love within. there is a purpose of intent within physically written words, and it patches the parts of you that feel like you aren't worth thinking about. my darling, know that you are. you are worth intentional thought and cursive letters and an envelope sealed with a kiss.

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WITCH Season 2 - Nerissa’s revenge Rewrite

So this is a continuation of how CHYKN’s characterization is different from comics to tv show. And I fell into a tangent about how I’d change the tv show if I got to reboot WITCH. I don’t have ideas for Season 1 yet but I have stuff for season 2.

I am starting to think they tried to fit way too much in season two which is why it flopped but I get it. They wanted to make an action packed season like the first one but also darker. I can think of ideas on how to pay homage to the ex guardians and giving each a nice story to get to know their characters better. It would have been nice to have an episode or two that focused on the five of them and their stories. Perhaps seeing them in school, how they learned of their destiny and how they worked together as a team. It would also be nice to have like hints in the background like how they do in the Owl House. Eventually we could get to the tragedy and the falling out. In the end of the two parter, we’d see how the remaining three decided to remain friends but to distance from each other, a big mistake they didn’t realize until Nerissa came back and corrupted each of them. We could combine elements from the Tv show and the comics. Season two would obviously focus on trauma. The WITCH girls but their stuff would be paralleled by CHYKN’s story. We’d learn about the old guardians and have the new ones learn from the old ones’ mistakes which is what the comics emphasized.

Kadma and Halinor are the couple of the group. Cassidy and Nerissa were star crossed lovers doomed from the beginning but Kalinor were the envy of all of Sheffield. And it’s 2022 so we want healthy wlw representation up in here. These two are all about battling the patriarchy and its backwards, archaic, hypocritic rules. They could be the foundation of the group. They knew and loved each since elementary when Kadma first moved to Heatherfield. Then they met Nerissa, a queer baby they had to take under their wing and the adorable Cassidy who easily melted their hearts and soundly absorbed her into their group. Yan Lin was the final addition to the team and they all loved her greatly as their newest sister. Kadma had reservations about becoming a guardian but it’s Halinor who convinced her how much good they could with this opportunity beyond just Earth. The Guardians have more than often been a group of magical women doing good across the infinite dimensions, how could Halinor say no to that. While growing up, they’d start the Rising Star Foundation. The two were guardians and life partners. No one could really pull them apart. They were Earth and Fire melded together. Nothing was more precious to them than each other. Nothing but their fellow guardians. They were all so incredibly close in a way only other guardian groups could understand. Which is why the tragedy with Nerissa and Cassidy shook their couple hard. Without their heart, even the foundation crumbled. Yan Lin was all about harmony and she desperately wanted to keep that but Kalinin began drifting apart but that was in vain. They just didn’t work as cohesively as a trio. They stood together for many things starting with denouncing the oracle but things just weren’t the same anymore. Kadma began hardened and dispassioned about magic and Halinor no longer recognized the women she once loved and stopped believing in Kadma. The final straw that promptly led to their breakup was Kadma taking up the crown of Zamballah. They were going to leave the whole magical business behind and Kadma takes this up? Halinor and Yan Lin end up becoming a duo for a few more years until they both decide it’s time to end their guardianship. Yan Lin stays in Heatherfield while Halinor moves away. Kadma visits her old friends but quite rarely. And Halinor and Yan Lin are called from time to time to Kandrakar to discuss certain issues. Halinor May still have reservations but she still recognizes the good and honor Kandrakar does, even years after she spoke out against the oracle. I won’t write everything I have planned for season two here but I know I still want Nerissa to come after her old friends and collect them for her team of guardians to take over the magical universe. Nerissa would want to capture Cassidy’s soul first. But when couldn’t corrupt her soul, she let her go and created an Altermere that got to live and love for a bit while she collected the others. I imagine she’d attack Halinor and Kadma together. She’ll threaten Zamballa and make a show of it on Kandrakar. Halinor would be the first to fall into Nerissa’s corruption and this is how she gets revealed as a threat. Next up, Zamballa where Nerissa still preys upon Kadma’s inflated arrogance from years untreated grief and trauma. She could have used her love for Halinor but she knew without Halinor to balance her out, Kadma is practically defenseless. Next she goes to Yan Lin. Yan Lin was known for her strength of character too. Nerissa couldn’t corrupt her either and was forced to build a second altermere. This use of flagrant use of magic to copy a life distabilizes Nerissa further. Then easily she corrupts Cassidy’s altermere.

The team’s all back together and with double WITCH’s power. But in time, Irma wakes them up from Nerissa’s thrall and more in fighting begins with the five of them. It seems like Nerissa is about to lose when she absorbs all four of her friends into Meridian’s heart and gains all of their powers. She continues to build an army against Kandrakar when Will remembers she wants the heart of Kandrakar specifically. The girls have managed to delay her takeover but for how long. In the current circumstances, it’s best to just give Nerissa the heart and she gives up the heart of Zamballa. That’s where real Cassidy steps in with her copy of the heart, her Star. This gives the girls the power to return to Kandrakar and fight Nerissa. Nerissa brings terror and nightmare to the temple like in the comics but what she didn’t count on was the heart of meridian cracking and the ex guardians + real Yan Lin and Elyon escape (yes she was trapped in there too like in the show). This makes Nerissa susceptible to the Terrors she unleashed on everyone too. During the nightmare sequences she gave everyone, we get to see what unknown forces pushed Nerissa to evil and we get to understand her personal traumas better. In this sequence the old and new guardians come together to fight Nerissa and her goons. The new guardians are fighting to defeat her, the old ones are fighting to possibly heal their old friend. They nearly succeed when altermere Cassidy gets killed. This awakens Nerissa’s heart and her evil side gets detached from her long enough for the new guardians to destroy Nerissa for good. Real Cassidy appears and absorbs altermere Cassidy which allows her to linger just a bit longer in the real world. The dreamscape ends and everyone is back in the temple. The old guardians gather around a dying Nerissa who’s back to the self before she was corrupted. She acknowledges the horrors she unleashed upon the world and apologizes for destroying their group, saying she let her heart decay since childhood.Cassidy mentions the two of them were opposites on the good and evil scales and purely existed to balance each other. Kadma asks where did she hear that, the oracle? No Cassidy learned that in death. She helps her friends see that their story, albeit tragic and painful made way to a beautiful future and to an even more powerful group of guardians. Had they not been, A darkness would have led to the fall of kandrakar and WITCH would not have existed. Cassidy urges Kadma and Halinor to make up, because they still love each other dearly. Nerissa couldn’t have corrupted either if they weren’t each other’s greatness strength and weakness. Cassidy can’t linger much longer but she smiles brightly telling her friends she’s missed them all greatly, and while she’s ecstatic Nerissa will be joining her, she will wait patiently for the remaining three to cross over. Nerissa finds it beautiful that she gets to end her life with the people dearest to her heart in their most beautiful selves, exactly how she held them in her memory. The five ex guardians hug one last time uttering a saying they hold dearly to their hearts (like an inside joke). Their trauma may not be completely healed, but at least it’s not unbearable to think about anymore.

By the end of the season, Cassidy and Nerissa remain blissful in death, Yan Lin is still living her life with her granddaughter and new guardians in Heatherfield while also making plans to join Kandrakar, and Halinor and Kadma are back together, living in Fadden Hills as advisors to Rising Star but also coming to Heatherfield to visit Yan Lin from time to time.

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THEY ARE BACK FOR A BIT, LIVE AT HAMPTON COURT PALACE! I AM SO HAPPY.

I am so excited 😆

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SIX THE MUSICAL FILMED!!!

With the original west end cast too. This exactly what I wanted when it involves SIX. I am so happy. I wonder where will the recording be released. Anyways I’m here for it.

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My #1 post of 2022

Thalia approving Jasico

Since I can’t find it, I’ll rewrite it myself just so I know it’s on my blog. It’s such a good concept: When Jason and Nico got together, you’d think Thalia would give Nico the shovel talk. So it came to everyone’s surprise that it was Jason who got the rough treatment.

Thalia: look here you little shit. This angel has been through so much. He deserves some happiness in his life so if you do anything to break his heart, I will personally escort you to Tartarus and dump you there.

Jason, sweating nervously: You’re MY sister Thals, WTF?

Just more Nico di Angelo Protection Squad shenanigans cause we deserve to see it.

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May 3, 2023 edit: I’ve been fucking looking for this post. Why did it take me this long? The year in review tag didn’t appear when i searched for it.

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #my posts

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Aston Villa braced for Jacob Ramsey swap offer involving 20m Serie A star

Aston Villa are braced to receive an offer from a European heavyweight that would see them given the chance to sign a £20m-rated star in exchange for Jacob Ramsey, according to a recent report. The Villans were a very busy side during the summer, and while they have made a strong start to the season, the club’s hierarchy are still looking into possible transfers that can be made now and in 2025. Aston Villa transfer news Villa brought in eight new players during the summer months, but they are now considering making it nine with an out-of-the-window transfer. According to a recent report, Villa are considering whether to make a move for Yusuf Yazici. The midfielder is without a club after leaving French side Lille at the end of last season. Yazici was in Lille for five years, during which time he scored 29 goals and recorded 15 assists in 135 games. The 27-year-old would be unlikely to start a lot at Villa, but the report claims he would be brought in to provide depth and cover behind Morgan Rogers, given how both players are versatile enough to play across the attack. However, Unai Emery’s side are not the only team interested in signing the free agent, as AFC Bournemouth, Crystal Palace, and Brentford are also keen on the international footballer. Yazici’s agents were said to have offered their client’s services to Villa and others earlier this month, and it seems that the Premier League side have been convinced to further those discussions. While Villa weigh up a move for Yazici now, looking ahead to the January transfer window, they could be offered the chance to sign a £20 million Serie A star, but only in exchange one of their own. Aston Villa braced for Ramsey-Dumfries swap bid According to Inter Live, relayed by TBR Football, Inter Milan are ready to tempt Aston Villa into signing Dumfries in exchange for Ramsey. Rasmey is a product of Villa’s academy, breaking into the first team during the 2020/21 season, but Villa may have a fight on their hands to keep the player. This report states that Inter manager Simone Inzaghi is “crazy” about signing Ramsey, and they are now prepared to use Dumfries as bait to sign the young midfielder. Ramsey scored in midweek for Villa in the Champions League and is considered a key player for them, but Inter will hope the offer of Dumfries, who Emery is said to be a fan of, will help seal a deal. Dumfries, who is rated at 24 million euros, which is roughly £20 million, has been with the Serie A champions since 2021, when he joined the club from Dutch side PSV Eindhoven. The 28-year-old, who ranks in the top four per cent vs other full backs by winning over two aerial duels per 90 minutes, was a key player for Inter last season, playing 31 times in Serie A, scoring four goals and recording five assists. He has yet to start a game for Inter this season but did score last weekend in their 1-1 draw with Monza. Source link via The Novum Times

#The Novum Times

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Quiet time really quiet this year, and other offseason thoughts

The Green Bay Packers and the NFL are in its six week vacation leading up to the opening of training camp and the 2024 NFL season. It’s been a dream offseason so far for the Packers, who were normally the center of attraction with their former QB on the roster. Things are completely different, but the goal is the same, win another Super Bowl.

After a whirl of activity in free agency, the rest of the offseason has gone well for the Packers. A few injuries in the weight room, but none on the field and everyone should be ready to go for training camp on July 22. I’m super excited for this team, probably the most excited I’ve been since they were defending champs in 2011. All the ingredients are in place for a deep playoff run again. Here a few thoughts on the big changes.

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Jordan Love

Without a doubt the Packers have their quarterback of the future and will need to get his extension completed by training camp or shortly thereafter. Because of the unique circumstances surrounding Love’s rise to QB1 this is going to be a very complicated contract. How do you pay 50-plus million a year to a QB with only 10 games of solid play? The Packers need to have some protection somehow in case Love bombs. This could end up some sort of Mahomes type deal that is a little out of the norm. We’ll see, but it will get done for sure.

Josh Jacobs

The Packers released one of their core players in running back Aaron Jones when they could not agree on a pay cut. To replace him the Packers signed the younger Jacobs and also drafted MarShawn Loyd in April’s draft. Jacobs can do everything Jones can do is four years younger. Jacobs does not have the injury history Jones, has, either. This move was to me, a huge upgrade. If Jacobs plays 17 games this offense is going to unstoppable.

Jeff Hafley

There would have been a fan revolt of epic preparations had Joe Barry returned as defensive coordinator. Losing that lead in San Francisco sealed Barry’s fate, if it wasn’t sealed long before that. In walks Hafley and a whole new defense that goes from a 3-4 to a 4-3 defensive front. The new scheme and new coaching staff has been well received by the players, who are excited to be attacking instead of whatever they were doing under Barry.

The Packers other big name free agent was safety Xavier McKinney, giving Hafley the QB of his defense. Could this be the first time the Packers’ defense plays like one with eight first round picks on it?

There is a lot to like about this year’s Packers. But we all know things can change in a hurry, If/when it does, this team looks able to handle it. Can’t wait to get rolling!

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