#I'm supposed to be reviewing

[justyoursicanon]

Wade would speak louder than usual when rambling cuz the voices in his head get too much

Like "Oh yeah and Mary PUPPINS ALMOST TRIED to-"

Just a sudden increase in volume when he's talking

Despite how unusual-but-looks-normal-because-its-wade Logan would definitely catch on at some point because it gets annoying once he notices

When he asks Wade and he explains it to Logan, Logan tries to take the lead in the conversation to help Wade focus on his voice

Or they try to stay constant in their conversation so there isn't any room for Wade to really pay attention to the voices

[frogayyyy]

Sneeze Counting 2024

one of my new year's resolutions for 2024 was to count how many times i sneezed. and because i can't be normal about anything, here we are:

time for some ✨analysis✨

(note that week 10 is the beginning of the pollen season, and week 22 is the start of the highest peak of grass pollen 👀)

i kept track of the sneezes using a tally counter and then updated a spreadsheet every week. there's some more data and graphs here:

the pollen data is just an average taken from a 'pollen calendar' i found, so it's not completely accurate for this year, but it's still interesting to see the correlation (especially with grass pollen). if i do it again i'd definitely keep track of the pollen count too.

to sum up, in the words of mark watson, taskmaster s5e5:

if you read this far,, bless you.

[adolin]

I know you didn't like babel or rf kuang but did you read yellowface?

no and I don't really plan to. life's too short to read stuff I know I won't like

[wellnoe]

reading a book that is very interesting in its quantitative analysis but is so weird in its tone!! the place the author chooses to insert emotionality is bizarre and his treatment of mortality of the be all end all of suffering is equally so.

[gingermintpepper]

Man, Vengeance Saga certainly, uh, was huh?

[kyouka-supremacy]

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[kitchensinkchronicles]

dads may not be uploading today but if you need something to watch, my extensive tit tour predictions video/analysis is waiting right there!

i think this'll be especially interesting to watch after having gone to the tour so you can see how accurate it was lmao

✨✨this blog is spoiler free✨✨please do not leave tit spoilers in the comments or tags✨✨

[ferronickel]

I am famously bad at replying to messages and often leave things for days before responding.

That said, I think that if you are a company that works with time sensitive projects and have to engage in back and forth communication to get anything done, I ought to be able to get in touch with you faster than I would be able to send a message to the voyager spacecraft and back.

[batsplat]

i also think that marc’s single minded focus leads him to ignore people who are significantly less talented than him (no offense). it seems like there are some people who would LIKE to beef with marc, but he simply catalogues their crimes against him (or however he sees it) and uses that as motivation to very tidily beat them. and maybe vale was more ready to “stoop to their level” so to speak — although, like you said, MOST of his feuds were with quite talented riders

(follow up to this) all of them were quite talented riders! but again, what you're talking about can really be explained through competitive necessity. marc's career has quite a few seasons where he's well clear of the field and quite a few seasons where he's not competitive at all, whereas valentino has far more seasons where he's top three of the championship without being completely dominant. that's the thing right, marc's spats aren't with riders he's currently engaged with title fights in. and valentino wasn't doing all that much stooping either - he too has various minor spats of the marc variety... but they've been forgotten about because it just wasn't that serious. all of valentino's major feuds are with riders he got into title fights with

I'm not saying that marc isn't single minded or that he isn't arrogant, because obviously he's both of those things. and yes, he does tend to adopt quite an isolationist approach in that he mostly keeps the grid at a distance. and yes, sometimes riders criticise him and he mostly does not engage. but at the same time, all the spats you're thinking about here just aren't the kind of things that escalated into feuds for valentino either, so you're comparing apples and oranges really. the closest point of comparison we have is valentino's rivalries with biaggi/sete escalating and marc's with dovi not doing so... but like. marc isn't ignoring a string of provocations in that rivalry. there's just more compelling reasons you can point to for that not escalating, like the competitive stakes in the marc/dovi rivalry or indeed dovi's personality. you can also point to valentino being more proactive in the biaggi rivalry - but valentino wasn't stopping at that point. he didn't have some divine insight to know his talent levels were greater than biaggi several years before they began competing on-track. when he triggers that feud, he is for all intents and purposes the underdog in that dynamic

the closest you get to a marco bezzecchi-type situation for valentino is... I mean, honestly even melandri is pushing it because that guy was at least runner up to valentino and theoretically might have come to pose a competitive threat - but notably, that's actually a dynamic where you can say valentino was going by the marc playbook in brushing off questions about the conflict, kinda just ignoring it was happening while going about his business. valentino also wouldn't beef with an alex rins equivalent, not at the 2019!marc stage of his career, unless there were a compelling competitive justification... likewise, valentino isn't notably more proactive in roughing up dani and casey in 2006 than marc is with fabio in 2019 - they go about it a little differently, yes, but broadly it's on the same reasonably muted level of shenanigans. marc has more low level beef with various riders on the grid than valentino did, partly just because he's less well-liked in general, but he's not been put into situations where that was ever going to escalate into a full-blown feud. now, if you put jorge in these scenarios then, yes, I imagine that absolutely could get... unpleasant, and he's got more of an inclination to punch down anyway. but valentino? nope. remember, he generally had a reputation for being an affable rider and getting along with most of his competitors. obviously we focus more on the feuds now because they're so flashy and memorable, but that's a very very long career - and one that's reasonably light on any major beef with anyone who wasn't one of his main career rivals

anyway, look, again I'm not saying you're wrong necessarily in that marc is more inclined to withdraw than valentino is. and he DOES have some alien-based tunnel vision, hence dovi not getting any attention in his self-produced documentary. or that thing he's been doing in pressers this year where he starts reminiscing about fighting the aliens at any conceivable opening while a deeply unaffected pedro acosta sits next to him. like, I do agree with you about what marc's working process typically looks like, I just don't think it's really the reason why he's been slumming it on the feud count. valentino himself tended to brush off most instances of his competitors being critical towards him because he could afford to, and only got into feuds against rivals who were broadly speaking on his level. in valentino's feud with casey, valentino didn't have the option of dismissing casey. there was no stooping involved - because casey was not a less talented rider than valentino. casey's the extreme example, but it's true in general of valentino's rivals. yes, the working process might look different, but broadly speaking marc and valentino were exactly as likely to start feuds with riders they have never been in a title fight with - aka not at all. marc might be more inclined to cut himself off from the rest of the grid than valentino was, but unfortunately he's also had rather an easy task on his hands in that regard. he's not had anyone both willing to beef with him and capable of posing a significant enough competitive threat (when he himself has been competitive). shame, really

[hilacopter]

guys sonic 3 was kinda bad

[miyakuli]

I was playing a VN game called Coffee Talk last night and I spent an hour trying to make some latte art....

...but it just looks like some psychology test where you are supposed to say what you see....I see raging waves and fire...am I doing alright x')

[gay-ppl-real]

Been working on a little something for months now

I didn't wanna give anything away because I was worried about not finishing it/getting people hyped and then the final product being a disappointment, but it involves a lot of listening to the Eddie's Big Lift audio on repeat and I really gotta say

At like line 61 (04:09 of my audio, but I've edited out the long pause at the start for Reasons) Sally says she can lift Barnaby up BETTER than Eddie. She says she can lift him "right over her head" as if this would be upstaging Eddster. And like.

Sally.

Sally.

What the fuck do you call this if not "over his head"

Girl???

You're just dismissing him for the sake of it at this point ToT sister I love you but come on.

[keeps-ache]

HEY

[movedto-mrs-bluemarine]

I think of you when I see her now, so here

YAY

[starswallowingsea]

5* reviews for Traditional Wrought Iron Jew's Harp - Etsy

[libraryleopard]

Further volumes in the horror comic series about a secret society that hunts monsters who feed on fear, especially children's fear

Flashbacks to the origin story of monster hunter, Erica Slaughter, in volume four