#Rivals: Succesion

[cakebird-art]

After being rescued from the Chaotic Inferno Zone, Eggman Nega is looking a bit worse for wear…

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After Silver and Espio seal him in the Chaotic Inferno Zone (End of Rivals 2), Eggman Nega is presumed dead. Life goes on, and several years pass, before a curious purple Griffin makes a potentially unwise decision…

After rescuing Eggman Nega, Cake tends to his injuries for weeks. Losing hope, and with the mad scientist still unconscious, he nearly gives up… until one day, bickering with his friend seems to finally wake Nega up.

Back in business, he arms himself with two shiny new legs, a cybernetic eye, and an even more vicious blood lust for his ancestor than before…

[mostlikelytofangirl]

(Sorry if alr sent this ask)

I think the idea of a modern ruoyao where MY can't stand rich-people but can stand WRH because WRH plays up the evil CEO thing to a point it's a caricature is very funny

Can't remember if you have already sent this, so let's say you didn't :D

Lol I can see this. At this point in all of us' lives, I think we don't need much to be done with rich ppl, and with MY's history, he needs even less reasons

BUT

Evil CEO WRH is so over the top with his evilness that he can't be taken seriously XD. I mean, it's not like scaring the living shit out of employees by sternly calling them to your office to demand they recite a tongue-twister perfectly or else bc you are bored isn't serious, but you now.

It's like canon, he embraces the role of being the irredeemable evil villain, he doesn't go around trying to convince anyone of the contrary or keeps all his evil shit hidden.

He may be an asshole but he's not a hypocrite, and that deserves at least some respect :')

Also yes, he's not really using his wealth and power to make the world a better place, but he his evil deeds are so ridiculous that he's not even doing shit that's truly despicable. He may be threatening to fire anyone who looks him in the eye without permission, but he's not price gauging or poluting the water.

I do believe he would be smart enough to not do anything that could really get him in troubles he can't bribe his way out of, so it's almost like a game of how much he can fuck with ppl's sanity without getting covered in lawsuits bc those are only fun if he's the one filing them lol

So MY can give him a pass as an asshole millionaire bc he isn't leaving a trail of bastards behind like sOmE oThErS

[pourwatter]

Made another pack for this month! This time its the ship that I've been pining for the last two months, Vikdecai! 🐱🐱

Chased down by rivals after a succesful raid was a common thing in Mordecai Heller and Viktor Vasko's line of work. The problem is when people starts scouting in front of their apartments, and now they can't go home. So tonight, they ran away to a hotel far away to rest until the morning. However, living together in a room with one bed where they are just a touch-length from each other results in some heat coming out, and they need to resolve it, somehow, one way or another.

patreon | gumroad Originally part of the reward for members of kokotreon for October 2023.

[marcusrobertobaq]

DBH worldbuilding info u're supposed to know

The collection

US is having major issues with sea level rising quickly, making even the wealthy residents deciding not living right on the coast anymore. Polar ice has melted to an extent that rising sea levels have many states struggling to keep the water out of their coastal towns (Magazine)

CyberLife's intention with complex level humanization was to literally make people welcome 'em home like they're family instead of getting creeped about it (Magazine)

VR games are very common by 2038 (Magazine)

The President Cristina Warren is an ex-vlogger with no experience in government that relied on social media and celebrity status to be elected in 2036, originally a republican representative. There's a "rumor" CyberLife helped she getting elected by corrupt means and that's why they're "too close" (Magazine, Gallery, Cut concepts)

Warren got an approval of only 33% due to the sequence of bad decisions (Magazine)

The world's population is 10 billion by 2038 (Magazine)

Obesity is in a record high in Detroit by 2038 (Magazine)

NATO is divided about the Russia vs US conflict in the Arctic, they think everybody can benefit of the region without war but Warren is totally pushing for a conflict (Magazine)

Rare minerals used in synthetizing Thirium got Russia and US biting each other in the North Pole in recent yrs. Android manufacture dominates both the US and Russian economies (Magazine)

Kamski being the one creating Thirium 310 and biocomponents more than a decade ago suggests other areas with these minerals were already explored, the North Pole being the last one (Assumption)

Police is constantly using marketing data to identify criminals (Magazine)

Dating websites usually have less than 5% of women using it (Magazine)

0.4% of world population holds 94% of global wealth by 2038 (Magazine)

By 2038 there's constant propaganda selling Canada as the true land of freedom (Magazine)

No matter how u play as Markus u gonna eventually have event contexts distorted, including fake news. They're called criminal org and terrorists no matter what u do (Observation)

CyberLife developed a nano-android to help combating cancer and diseases that can extend the human life-span even reaching a semi-immortality status - and it's very promising as it was already succesful in doing its task (Magazine)

US life expectancy is 91 by 2038 (Magazine)

By 2038 US got a aging population but not enough young people to support the economy with the unemployment rate at 37.3%, and the "job" area is dominated by androids (Magazine, Observation)

When the rebellion starts the gov consider bringing retirees back to work as the country lack qualified manpower to deal with the withdraw of androids (Cut dialogue)

Only two countries have android industries that rival the United States: Russia and China, they're also in a space race of sorts (Magazine)

Team sports like baseball got at least 1 android per team (Magazine)

An advanced high speed train was completed in 2038, connecting New York and LA in less than 2,5 hrs and there's a high flux of east coast folks going to LA (Magazine)

Suburban prices there have rose 64% and California folks are worried they gonna get pushed out of the region (Magazine)

Detroit is currently in a Red Ice epidemic with it being the easiest route the poor go, either by selling or using it (Magazine)

There was a Red Ice Task Force from 2027 to 2031 that made major arrests and drug seizure during the first epidemic (Gallery, Articles)

Bees are extinct by 2038 and people expect a global famine. CyberLife is already making partnerships to create bee-robots while other groups try finding new alternatives (Magazine)

Environmentalists say the Earth’s environment is beyond repair (Magazine)

Global rainforests have been reduced by 79% since 2000 and coastal corals by 58% (Magazine)

During the events of the game an earthquake kills 10k people in China (Magazine)

CyberLife has partnership with the Department of Defense in the development and supply of military androids, something that started in the early 30s after it was approved to limit human casualties in the battlefield (Magazine, Observation)

In 2031 the US gov ordered 2 million androids for use in the infantry, mostly SQ800 units already being deployed in 2032 replacing human soldiers.

Michigan also announced the purchase of 5k auxiliary androids to assist law enforcement department but following the 2029 Android Act they can't use weapons (PlayStation Blog)

U.S. Army soldiers are equipped with advanced equipment to keep up with their android "subordinates" (Gallery)

Stock exchange falls 10% on fear of Arctic conflict by 2038 (Magazine)

68% of men prefer sex with an android to a human woman and with 52% of men saying they’ve tried the experience at least once (Magazine)

CyberLife currently got around 120 million androids across the globe and some people suspect they're using 'em to spy on people (Magazine)

There are at least 200k military android units already in service across the US military by 2038 and the gov is buying more for the Arctic conflict, an effort to double the infantry size (Magazine)

The US Army is 60~80% android, with humans mainly as commanders and strategists but they tend to use complex AIs to help with assistance (Magazine)

Sales of android intimate partners are very high as lotta men and women prefer living with an android than a human partner (Magazine)

Birthrate is at record low, population decline is said to be irreversible, marriage is in decline as traditional families become “thing of the past” and the divorce rate only increases (Magazine, News, Observation)

US is currently in an "antidepressant epidemic" due to the constant contact with technology, with people even lacking emotional development (Magazine)

The AX400 price is $899 by 2038 (Magazine)

5% of the music market is produced by human musicians. An android boyband Here4U is favorite to win Best Act, Best Video at global music awards - which are human record awards (Magazine, News)

Scientists found "alien" life on Titan: microorganisms living hundreds of kilometers below the surface, in an ocean of salt water protected by a thick layer of ice. The machine-i-forgot-the-name was sent in 2019 (Magazine)

Lute turtles, polar bears, mountain gorillas, african elephants and several species of tiger are extinct by 2038, with CyberLife now making some sorta android zoos (Magazine)

Canada is an android-free zone they don't sell or have any laws about it there as they don't permit androids inside 'em borders (Magazine)

CyberLife has recently released a tech demo of a quaterback android, something that got the Anti-Android Fan Group pissed (Magazine)

There's some sorta quantum magnet being studied that got the potential of cleaning carbon from the air (Magazine)

The Anti-Automation League and CrowneCars representants are in a discussion about ethical decision-making capability of autonomous cars (Magazine)

CyberLife has made a new quantum supercomputer, capable of one billion billion operations per second used to calculate the probability of mass extinction events (Magazine)

Hackers targeting systems like solar panels for ransom seems to be common thing (Magazine)

NASA announced the launch of a five android crew to explore Io (first time it's a full-machine crew). The journey will last three years (Magazine)

CyberLife is a trillionaire company by 2038, they were already billionaires a decade before (Magazine)

The first android ever officially released by CyberLife was the ST200 Chloe, costing 65k in 2024. By 2027 they already had 1mi androids sold (PlayStation Blog)

[continues on the next reblog]

[maeumin]

Godspeed thoughts

I know there's only one chapter up on ao3 yet, but I can't shut up about Jinkook's relationship in Godspeed. Jimin and JK's bond in the fic will form slowly, but naturally, and in a healthy way- their romantic relationship won't be the cause of angst and inner turmoil (for a while, at least. hehe.), no, all the drama and pain in Godspeed will come from outside sources.

For Jimin, it'll manifest in his insecurities regarding his personal life. Just like Jungkook, he's incredibly confident and good at what he does, but getting to that point in his career meant sacrificing or neglecting aspects of his personal life that he won't be able to hide if he really wants things with JK to work. It's going to be !! so much fun !! to explore that!!

He reminds me of these two songs sm: The Archer - Taylor Swift, and Starlight - Jennie. (More on this later, if you guys want).

BUT BACK TO JINKOOK. Friends?, teammates, rivals. (Everything but a lover, a part of my sick, brocedes-rotted brain screams.) Their dynamic is so interesting to me.

In the Godspeed universe, Seokjin is the first Korean driver to make it into F1. Not only that, but the first Korean to win a World Championship. And then another. He's a superstar. He paved the way for little JK, who watched him snatch a historic win in the Monaco GP and promised himself to be just like him one day.

And you could argue that he's more succesful than Seokjin. After breaking into F1, he scores more points, more podiums, more wins than SJ had at that point of his career. The expectations on JK are high. Unrealistic, sometimes, maybe even unfair.

So what happens when you put two highly competitive individuals, who are both fighting to be their country's nº1, in the same team? Pure, utter chaos.

With the faith of Italy in their hands, a cruel parallel gets drawn. Kim Seokjin, il primogenito, the first child, the heir. And Jeon Jeongguk, Il Beniamino. the beloved one, the favorite.

(Needless to say, Seokjin doesn't take JK's new nickname lightly.)

The rivalry and the dramatics following JK's debut in Ferrari are insane. A civil war that only gets tolerated by the team because, well, they deliver results.

Seokjin feels threatened almost immediately. He doesn't manage JK's addition to the team because, well, who would, in his shoes? He still believes he has a championship or two under his belt, so he has to bare his teeth and show who truly deserves to be the team's number one.

On the other hand, Jeongguk just wants to be seen. Acknowledged by the world, by his idol. He's determined, fast, and proud, and Seokjin's coldness towards him only fuels his competitive side. It's explosive.

Age and experience calm Jeongguk down, but the resentment still lives within him. To become the next World Champion, he's going to have to fight his demons, and the first in line has Seokjin's name scribbled all over him.

You can read the first chapter of Godspeed here.

[kazu-mori]

Reina Mori bio-Part one

Reina in FC Nanbu jersey

Name:森 怜奈, Mori Reina

Nationality: half Japanese

B-day: February 28th

Height: 1,48m (Kid's Dream arc), 1,64m (Boy's Fight arc-onward)

Weight: won't tell

Hair color: chestnut brown

Eye color: bright gray/blueish

Complexion: pale with beauty marks

Family: a Father, Mother, older brother Kazuya

Likes: drawing, playing soccer [formerly], watching soccer, collecting data on the players, reading horror stories, gossiping, trading barbs with Kazuya and annoying him, napping, running, exercising yoga

Dislikes: crowds, nosy people, drawing too much attention to herself, household chores

Love interest(s): none at this moment/won't tell that either

Personality: Reina shares a few similarities with her brother, such as stubborness, dislike for crowds and being the center of an attention. Which sometimes can't really be escaped for her, as she's rather tall for Japanese standards, and considered eye-catching by some. Something she's totally oblivious to, as she seems to display very little interest in boys (at least, when her brother is around).

She may be outspoken, brilliant and forceful when she's really passionate about something, but also, can be extremely withdrawn and shy at the same time. She is good at listening to the others, but doesn't like sharing her own feelings with anyone. Even if there's someone she likes at the moment, she certainly won't be letting them know. In her second year of middle school, Mori had braced herself and given someone a chocolate box as V-day gift, but decided last minute against signing it or delivering in person, leaving the gift an anonymous one.

In her elementary school years, Reina had used to play soccer herself, and was considered to be a promising winger. During ES Tournaments, her main rivals were girl twins from FC Shimabara.

The Miyazakis from FC Shimabara and Reina, exchanging remarks before the match However, eventually, Mori's all-girls team got dissolved due to only a few members active. Persistent to continue to play, Reina simply decided to join the boy's team. There, she faced a hard time with prejudices, as some of the boys thought the only suitable position for a girl in a soccer team was to be a manager. Despite that, she succesed to earn her position on the field. As the time passed, she found it harder and harder to physically compete with the boys in the long run, but made her best to train more.

Then, happened something that forced her to resign from playing soccer altogether, an ankle injury due to a forceful sliding tackle from a boy player of an opposite team, severe enough to remove her from the field for the rest of the match as well as the whole season, and making her secretly fearing to play again. (One of CT games introducted mixed teams in the side stories. I incorporated it in my story.)

Recovering at home just before moving out of Saitama pref

She remains a fan and takes an avid interest in soccer tactics. She's a gifted artist. Unlike her bro, she easily learns foreign languages, which proves to be useful when the Japan team travels to Europe.

At some point of time, she and Kumi Sugimoto had met, and remained in contact with each other since then, as they simply liked to hang out together, and both were slightly younger than the rest (Reina is older than Kumi. But still younger than her brother. Before you ask, how is that possible, the logic of my headcanon was saved by "Irish Twins" term. It means siblings born apart of 12 - 18 months from each other. It's not very common today, but still plausible). Upon finding out about Kumi's unrequited infatuation with Tsubasa Ozora, and how bravely she had confessed to the boy despite being aware she had no chances with him (something she'd never done herself) Reina, impressed, hoped she'd break the bad luck by introducing the girl to Kazuya, who had been similarly unfortunate when it comes to dating matters.

[to be updated, as my story progresses. Art here by @enjoybeingsurrounded]

[batsplat]

hello, i have a question. what is the difference betwwen a hard and a dangerous racer? is there some sort of characteristics like how succesful a racer is or is more of a "a dangerous racer races on the limit and that's dangerous. a hard racer races on the limit but. its just a hard racer". thank you for answering!

completely in the eye of the beholder, I'm afraid. it's a perpetual debate, and one where everyone draws the line differently... very much a case of one man's dangerous manoeuvre is another one's hard but fair overtake... that being said! I'll have a go at coming up with a general framework with which people assess this stuff

let's bring in two strawmen, which feels like the most direct way to illustrate the possible stances you can take on this debate. to be clear, nobody really fits neatly in either ideological category - but, well, these are pretty much the two most extreme positions anyone could have:

when people are describing something as 'hard racing' (as opposed to... idk, 'clean' racing), they are usually talking about a) contact between the two bikes, and/or b) an action that forces the other bike to take evasive action. what constitutes forcing evasive action? well, this is all very nebulous and hard to define - there's crossing another rider's racing line, making them pick up the bike mid-corner, forcing them wide/off-track, not yielding in situations where one of you will have to yield to avoid a crash... but this is always an assessment that will depend on the specific circumstances. not every block pass is considered hard racing, for instance, even though you are quite literally 'blocking' the other bike. contact is the more straightforward one... if you initiate a move that leads to contact, then most people would agree this is 'hard' racing

so say you are in the 'A' camp. according to this line of thinking, pretty much every contact is 'dangerous' riding and should not be allowed. here's what gibernau said about jerez 2005, included in the sete post:

let's not discuss the merits of the jerez 2005 move specifically here - this is an expression of a broader ideological position. "this is not a contact sport" "it's not about hitting another guy"... so, according to this stance, actions that knowingly result in contact should not be acceptable and as a result need to be penalised. taken to the logical extreme, any and all 'hard racing' is dangerous

let's go to the other extreme, 'B'. let's say you're very pro-hard racing, to the point where you think that contact is more than fine and that it is unreasonable to call it 'dangerous'. sure, of course it is dangerous, but inherently all motorcycle racing has a lot of risk attached. racing that involves contact is basically acceptable. even within this extreme, my lovely venn diagram allows for some actual 'dangerous' riding - either behaviour that is wholly irresponsible during races... or stuff that doesn't count as hard racing because it's not 'racing'. here are some examples:

stuff that happens during races but is like... egregious misbehaviour. cf romano fenati pulling a rival's brake lever during a race - obviously dangerous and no longer really exists within the confines of actual racing

in either races or non-race sessions - not following proper safety procedures like for instance ignoring yellow flags. again, should be pretty obvious why that's dangerous

poor behaviour in non-race sessions,the general tag for not exhibiting appropriate care, awareness for your environment, all that stuff... the extreme example is marc barrelling into the back of another rider after the chequered flag had been waved in friday practise at phillip island 2011 (more on that here). it's also things like faffing about on the racing line, see the pecco mugello dramatics

so, yes, everyone will agree that there's some stuff that counts as 'dangerous riding' that's distinct from 'hard racing' just because it's not actual racing. that's the most straightforward stuff... but yeah, anyway, those are basically the two extreme positions you can take. you can say that all contact is bad and dangerous, that any time you're forcing another rider to take evasive action and are making a pass that isn't 1000% clean, you are putting others at unnecessary risk. or, you can say, hey, everything goes, rubbing is racing on steroids - sure, there's a small category of things that aren't acceptable, mainly stuff that isn't actually racing, but otherwise you should be allowed to brute force yourself past riders whenever you please

obviously, they're strawmen for a reason. basically nobody holds either of these positions in their entirety - and in race situations, there's always going to be actions that are seen as hard racing by some and as dangerous by others. so, unfortunately, we're going to have to dig a little deeper here, and figure out by what metrics people draw the line between hard and dangerous. let's... hey, how about we bring in casey stoner, just this once. as a treat. here's what he said after laguna '08:

“I’ve been in hard racing all my life, some very aggressive racing, but today was a little bit too much. I nearly went in the gravel so many times and I don’t think it was necessary.”

hard racing? casey's done that before. some very aggressive racing? no issue. but what valentino did at laguna was "a little bit too much" and not "necessary". the specific thing casey cites is nearly going into the gravel - and indeed, forcing other riders wide/off-track is one of the types of racing behaviour that most finely straddles the line between 'hard' and 'dangerous'. for other examples, see suzuka 2001 in which biaggi forced valentino off-track and valentino flipped him off when he eventually got past (a few more details here), qatar 2012 where marc forced luthi off-track and got slapped after the race (here) and sepang 2015, where... uh. you know. or how about argentina 2018 where... look, I think you get the point - plenty of controversy comes from forcing your opponent's bike into places where it's simply not supposed to be

while we're at it, let's throw in a little excerpt from casey's autobiography about the race:

A lot of it was fair racing, he was out-braking me on the inside and riding better than me around a lot of the track. If it had all been like that I would cop it sweet. But a couple of moves off camera added to my frustration. I risked running off the track, and racing at the limits like that as we were I even became worried about my safety.

(does have to be said that the pair of them spend... relatively little time off-camera, never when the bikes seem to be particularly close - but of course the problem this statement creates is that by definition you can't judge any footage you don't have access to)

so, let's strip away the details and think about what casey is actually talking about here. it's a risk/reward calculation. this is what's at the heart of this riding standards debate: what level of risk is acceptable for what level of reward? there are situations in which there is inherently a higher level of risk in a way that isn't caused by either party - influenced by the circuit layout, what the weather is like, how hard you're both pushing aka how much on the 'limit' you are, and so on. but even if that risk isn't your 'fault', if you are riding at very high speeds on a dangerous track, you can still be considered a dangerous rider if you're not exercising appropriate levels of caution

so, let's break it down even further and try and come up with some basic criteria by which people judge whether a specific move is 'hard' or 'dangerous'. how about this: (1) does the action have a reasonable chance of coming off, (2) is the risk you're taking proportionate to the reward, and (3) is the move likely to cause serious harm to you or the other rider. let's take them one by one

listen, it needs to be plausible that you're going to be able to pull this move off. if you're firing the bike from fifty miles back into a gap that doesn't exist, then this is by definition an unnecessary risk. you are not going to do yourself any good and you are also not going to do the other rider any good. (sometimes it might be in your interest to crash the other rider out so you might as well, but unsurprisingly this is frowned upon. see the 1998 250cc title decider.) obviously, this is going to be affected by your skill level - if you're a mid rider, there will be fewer moves that are 'plausible' for you than for the best riders

this is basically the common sense metric. if you are riding in a pack, make sure to keep in mind that crashing in this situation could get ugly. if you are fighting for p5, maybe a different approach is fitting than fighting for p1. if you can make an overtake a lap later as long as you're patient, in a way that's a lot safer than doing it now, perhaps just do that instead. don't be silly in the wet! this comes down to stakes, whether it's worth it, how likely the move is to succeed... and also what the consequences would be if you got it wrong, for both yourself and other riders. you're making an overall judgement based on all of those factors... sometimes you need to take risk, but it's better to make sure that risk is reasonably sensible

however high the potential rewards are, there's a certain level of risk that is no longer acceptable, where the 'risk/reward calculation' stuff has to be thrown out of the window because the reward no longer matters. this is basically the catch-all for 'wholly irresponsible riding' - anything that's just going too far

so, uh. obviously everything described above is super subjective... but that's what people are judging in my opinion, this is the standards they are using in their head to determine where they draw the line. so, as an example, to bring back the stuff from this post about the inter-alien ideological differences:

and again, this is also what the debate after aragon 2013 was about:

if you think aragon 2013 is unacceptable to the point of being dangerous, then you probably take quite a hard line view and think pretty much any action that could lead to contact needs to be stamped down on. while that contact did have unpleasant consequences for the other party (dani wasn't able to walk for several days and his title bid was basically over), it is perhaps a little worse than could have been reasonably expected in that situation. in that sense, there's a bit of surface level similarity with jerez 2005... there, valentino made the pass for the win at the last corner, knowing he would probably bump into sete while doing so. neither rider is knocked off their bike (though sete has to leave the track) and it is at a slow corner, with relatively 'light' contact. unfortunately, as a result of where valentino's bike impacted sete's body and sete's preexisting shoulder issues, it ended up injuring sete (see here for valentino learning of this perhaps a little later than was ideal and only after he'd taken the piss out of sete for dramatically clutching his arm). at aragon 2013, marc was harrying dani and sticking very close to his rear tyre as he applied pressure to his teammate before he made a small misjudgement, getting his braking a little wrong and clipping the back of dani's bike. he happened to cut a crucial wire in the process, causing dani to highside a few moments later

these aren't equivalent situations and each have their own risk/reward profile. but the basic point is this: inviting contact with another rider will always generate more risk, and can always have unintended consequences... even when the action is relatively innocuous and the rider would not have expected this outcome. if you are in the 'all passes should be clean passes' school, this risk is fundamentally unacceptable. even trickier - what if contact is made as a result of a move you initiated but the other rider could have avoided? of course, you started it, but they could have yielded... and maybe they should have, maybe that would have been the wise, the sensible thing to do in that situation. it's always important to remember that at least two riders are involved in all these situations - and there are many cases where contact and/or crashing is not 100% the fault of any one party. so, for instance, there are several moments in laguna 2008 that are so risky in part because casey is also refusing to yield. that's not to necessarily imply any blame or fault! of course, it might not be ideal for the most aggressive riders being able to bully everyone else as they please because they know they can generally rely on everyone else being more sensible and yielding. but the differing outcomes resulting from the choices made by the 'other' rider will always help influence perception of any race situation - a move that is seen as 'hard but fair' might have been seen as considerably more dangerous if the other party hadn't yielded

and yes... yes, there is absolutely a question of your success rate. this links back to point (1) - is the move plausible? there are moves that aren't really considered examples of 'hard racing' and certainly not dangerous... because they worked. take valentino's last corner move at catalunya 2009, at a corner where you don't traditionally overtake (remember, before the race jorge was going around tempting fate by saying that if you're ahead by that point you're sorted). sure, he goes for a gap that exists, but it could easily have gone wrong - and if a lot of other riders had tried that, then it would have. how do you think yamaha would have felt if valentino had taken both yamaha riders out at the very end of the race to allow ducati to claim an unlikely victory and an increased championship lead? here's another one: misano 2017 and marc making a last lap move in treacherous conditions to snatch the win. no contact required to make that risky as shit - and if stuff like that goes wrong too often they call you an idiot at best and dangerous at worst. of course, both valentino and marc have had moments where they very much did not pull off moves they were intending, which is how we get ambition outweighing talent and 'I hope he can learn from this one and improve for the future', among other hits. but, relative to the amount of risk they're regularly taking in their racing, they get a lot of reward for their troubles... because they're very good at what they do. the risk/reward calculation is one that they... uh, can both be very adept at, but it's also one that's fundamentally easier when you're skilled enough to pull off a lot of moves that would be beyond the capabilities of other riders. it's when you don't know how to judge your moments, when you keep trying moves that you can't pull off - that's where other riders will start having a problem with you

which is where we get to reputation! how different incidents are judged will also depend on the existing reputations of the riders involved and whether they are seen as 'fair' racers or not (an even more nebulous term, if possible), versus hard racers, dangerous racers... often, this is a question of quantity too - with certain riders on the grid, you will notice they're involved in controversial incidents disproportionately often. how likely people are to pay you the benefit of the doubt... how likely they are to believe you as to what your intent was in a certain situation, perhaps the most nebulous concept of them all. 'hard' and 'dangerous' aren't assessments that are made in isolation, and how severely riders are judged will often depend on their pasts and how those pasts are perceived by others

where you get into really sticky territory is... okay, both valentino and marc have more often than not (arguably) been able to stay on the right side of 'the line', where their moves might be hard but aren't putting anyone else in active danger - but that's because they are at least theoretically capable of exhibiting a good sense of judgement and are also good at what they're doing, as covered above. here's a question: do they bear any responsibility for when younger and/or worse riders copy their moves and/or general approach to racing, with worse consequences? when they have been criticised, when they are called dangerous, at times it's not just what they're doing in the moment... it's what they're inspiring. so you've got stuff like this from sete:

even more drastically than that, after the death of a fifteen year old rider in supersport in 2021, one of his fellow rider said this about marc (which marc unsurprisingly strongly pushed back on):

(just worth remembering, this is a rider who did walk away from the sport as a result and was clearly deeply affected by what happened - the marc comments were part of a longer statement that got overshadowed by this part and the resulting controversy)

setting aside the merits or lack thereof of these specific assertions, what of the general questions they raise... can you be a dangerous rider in an indirect fashion like this, by the very nature of your legacy? are riders who helped bring about a more aggressive baseline standard of racing in any way responsible for anything that happens as a result of this standard? (even worse, there's a line of succession here - after all, who was marc's biggest inspiration?) or does individual responsibility reign supreme here? athletes are by design only interested in their own successes, aren't they - and 'legacy' is so abstract, how can anyone know how others will be influenced by what they do? how can we even begin to assess how big an influence individual riders really are? let's not forget that there will be other factors - riders in the past have discussed how particular characteristics of the moto2 class have bred more aggressive racing, or the influence of the size of motogp bikes, or how difficult it is these days to overtake in a completely 'clean' manner, or the rules themselves and to what extent they have actually been enforced etc etc... maybe there's also an element of people focusing on the easiest, most visible explanation in the form of star riders, without giving proper consideration to the underlying factors that will influence an era's style of riding. again, how you feel about all of this will vary from person to person - but part of the hard vs dangerous debate is inherently forward-looking. and it's hardly just legacy... your hard/dangerous moves may also be setting a precedent in the present. to what extent is it the duty of riders to worry about that?

so then, that's what I've got. how you draw the distinction between hard racing and dangerous riding will come down to your individual ideological position and what you think racing even entails. do you think all contact is objectionable? do you think only the most extreme of transgressions - most of which don't qualify as 'racing' per se - should be labelled dangerous? somewhere in between? everyone will draw the line in a different place, according to the situation and their individual biases and understanding of events. it comes down, generally speaking, to how you judge the risks and rewards of a certain move, whether you think what a rider attempted was 'worth' it. all of which depends on whether the rider could realistically have managed whatever action they were attempting, whether the potential rewards were proportionate to the risks, or whether the whole thing was just too flat out dangerous to ever be worth it... of course, none of these are objective standards by which you can assess the racing, but they should give you a rough indication of what people are even talking about when they're distinguishing between hard and dangerous racing. riders as individuals are also far from consistent in their stances (surely not!) so you do have to play it by ear a lot of the times... and while there are plenty incidents where the majority can agree whether it is 'hard' or 'dangerous', there are plenty more where you're going to get a lot of contradictory opinions. no definitive answers here - unfortunately a lot of the time you'll just have to make your own mind up

[flatoutin-eaurouge]

Clotted blood and Damp Tears

Part 1 of Loneliness and Disputes

Pairing: Mika Häkkinen x Michael Schumacher

(X)

The first time it happened Mika was out of his mind with fear. It was as if he was reliving his crash and the very graphic aftermath of it.

Everywhere he looked was blood. On the rug, on the bathroom tiles, on his pyjamas. It could be any moment now that Dr. Watkins would rush in to re-open the barely healed incision in his throat to push another breathing tube in, to prevent him from drowning in his own blood. It had happened a few times more the last week, but Mika would never get used to it. He lifted his head from the toilet bowl and stared at the crimson blood coating the porcelain inside. The shock still visible in his eyes and the tears still wet on his cheeks. Perkele!

He had quietly shuffled to the toilet on his still wobbly legs, because he didn't want to wake Michael whom had dozed off in his visitor's chair. And now here he was. Sitting on the floor, his head in his hands and a fine sheen of shimmering blood coating his lips. He didn't want this anymore. It was as if his injured body was posessed by a demon, who took great joy in torturing him. Throwing up your own blood was something Mika had only seen in horror movies. He had no idea if the reason he had been throwing up was because his body wanted to get rid off the clotted blood inside of him or that his ongoing migraines had caused the nausea.

Mika cradled his arms around his aching body and stared into the void while his tears left damp trails on his cheeks. He barely remembered that Michael came to visit him in the evening. He was so astonished that his rival cared enough about him to pay him a visit, but at the same Mika had barely been able to keep his eyes open, consumed by pain and tiredness. And now he regretted that. He wished he would've stayed awake to properly thank Michael. To tell him how much it meant. But he was a disabled loser, that couldn't even keep his tears from rolling down his face.

All of a sudden, there was a knock on the door of the hospital bathroom.

"Mika, are you in there?"

It stayed silent on the other side of the door. Mika knew it was Michael and he didn't want Michael to see him like this. He didn't want to be ridiculed by his childhood rival who was, in contrast to him, actually succesful in F1. Even though Mika knew it was a puncture that had caused his crash, he still felt like a failure in contrast to his peer.

"Mika, are you alright? Do I need to get help?"

"No." Mika wiped his tears with the sleeve of his pyjama top. Although Michael's words sounded sincere, he didn't want him too close. "I am fine, just throwing up some blood. Nothing out of the ordinary." Now didn't that sound ridiculous! Mika thought.

"That doesn't sound good. You should have woken me! Can you open the door?" The knocking increased. "Mika please. I am worried about you."

"Uhm..." Mika tried to look for excuses to have Michael leave the room. Why not just ignore the question and change the subject. "Michael, could you please get me an orange juice from the shop downstairs, for the metallic taste in my mouth?"

Michael didn't reply at first. It was as if he was contemplating kicking the door open to come to Mika's rescue. Mika heard him sigh. "Sure, just don't do anything stupid while I am away!"

After Michael had closed the door of the hospital room, Mika counted to ten before he unlocked the bathroom, to make sure Michael would not return to witness him pathetically limping to his bed. Mika hated the unsteadiness in his legs. His fine motor skills on the left side of his body had really been damaged by the impact of the crash and were healing so irritatingly slowly, although Mika was lucky to be alive.

On his way to the bed Mika limped past his stupid wheelchair. He needed the thing for long trips through the corridors of the hospital. Most of the time when a nurse gestured at his wheelchair it meant something unpleasant was coming up. Often it hinted at a traumatizing test with needles and lots of pain involved.

Coming to a halt at his bed, Mika lifted himself on the mattress with a pained frown. His muscles were shaking and hurting so badly from the movement, and he felt so weak. He quickly started to work on making his face look like he hadn't cried like a toddler. Runnig the fabric of his pyjama shirt over his eyes and cheeks until it hurt.

When Michael returned Mika was sitting upright in his bed, trying to muster a smile. Michael swallowed when he saw the Finn's blood-red teeth. He also noticed Mika's upper lip tremble, as if his rival was trying to hold back his tears. Michael clenched his fists, almost crushing the orange juice box in his hands, as he fought the urge to envelop Mika in his arms. The poor boy had to endure so much at this young age and he was trying to come across as a tough cookie, but Michael knew that inside Mika was hurting really badly.

To be honest Michael felt as broken as the Finn. To celebrate your championship while your childhood rival was in the hospital fighting for his life, had hurt him so badly. Michael had felt sick to the stomach appearing at the start that Sunday afternoon without Mika and his McLaren MP4/10. And now the boy was sitting opposite to him with a trembling upper lip and drops of dried blood on his pyjama top.

He couldn't. He really couldn't bear the sight. From the very first start of their rivalry Michael had a weird soft spot for Mika, a sudden unexplained fondness, that made Michael question himself. Why was this guy making my heart flutter? Even at the time they were both lanky teenagers with mullets, Michael and Mika had an unspoken attraction towards each other. That was exactly why this sight hurt him so much. Mika needed a competive car to battle against him. Not Damon Hill. Only Mika.

Mika was staring into Michael's green orbs, trying to keep up his act of aloofness. He couldn't show weakness to the guy he shared such an intense history with. The Michael. The German had always been an object of his interest. The way he carried himself in the paddock. The image of a rising super star. In contrast, Mika felt like he himself was "just a guy".

Mika looked at Michael again to make sure, he didn't notice the tears pricking behind his eyes. Until he really started to feel his vision blur. Please don't start crying now, you weakling. Mika crumpled the bed sheets in his fists, until he felt two soft hands enveloping his tensed wrists in sudden warmth.

Before he knew what he was doing, Michael untwisted those trembling hands from the bedlinen. "Don't, Mika. Take it easy." His arms snaked around the shaking Finn tightly but gently, to make sure he wouldn't hurt Mika's aching body. "Come here. Don't be so hard on yourself."

Mika gulped in a startle. The welcome warmness feeling very sudden and foreign coming from a source he would never dare have dreamt of. He felt Michael's fingers in his hair, gently caressing his blonde locks. He didn't know what to say. He didn't even notice how his tears started to stream down his cheeks like small waterfalls. Drops falling on the sheets between them.

Michael hushed him, overcome with his own emotions. "Let it all out, Mika. It will feel like a relief." He caressed Mika's back and felt the tremors running down his spine. He bit on his cheek when he realised how ill the Finn actually was. He could feel the weight loss through the thin material of Mika's pyjamas. He could have lost him. It dawned on Michael like a dark thunder cloud, and it caused him to thighten his hold around his rival.

Mika felt the sincere affection, and reveled in it. Quickly embracing the once so foreign gesture as one of the most normal things in the world. His tears started to dry up.

Michael stared into Mika's ocean-blue eyes in fondness and gently caressed the stray tears from his cheeks. "Now that you let them all out, you need to relax". He guided the Finn with a hand on his back to lie down on the mattress.

Mika lied down willingly and squeezed Michael's other hand. "Michael, will you still be here tomorrow morning?"

"Yes, Mika. That's a promise."

[mizuki-nikki]

the moment we've been waiting for, ladies and gentlemen

ushijima and oikawa interaction after so many years

i was about to cry when i read this panel. as oikawa's big fan and supporter, it hurts me a lot to see how he can't achieve his dream to go to nationals ever for once. up to the point where ushijima told him to never stray again from his path

(gosh this panel still gave me goosebumps)

it's so great and satisfying to see how furudate close their interaction with both having their own succesful career. professional volleyball player. oikawa didn't ruin his "petty pride" and he become an equal just like his other rivals in the field

a great ending towards these two's rivalry

[wdxghosty]

OC L<3RE

(I didn't spell check this. nor did i word count this) I got bored so Ima drop some OC lore, or multiverse lore i honestly started this when i was in fifth grade and it just expands. she the supreme version of that OC you bring with you throughout every fandom. (tramatic anime backstory time activated)

Ophelia has rencarnated multiple times under a plethera of differnt names, and bodies, but it hadn't always been like that. They didn't have an easy childhood, or teenagehood, they had dreams of being one of the brightest stars in the sky, one to rival the sun itself. But sadly before that were possibel they died.

But when they woke up, their whole life felt like a dream and a new one started on a new world.

over and over again they would die before they reached a certain age, then they would wake up again. this cycel continued for hundreds of lifetimes before someone realized what was going on. the laws of the world work differently in every one, and the one who managed to somewhat control the cycel just so happened to live in a world that could be completly controled by those powerful enough. They somehow managed to open gates into the other worlds they've lived in. Sure it takes some time but they untimatly always remember, and they always had the thing that helped them traverse the multiverse.

Ophelia is an aspiring fashion designer, and learned how to sew when she was a kid to make all of her complex ass designs. she would make videos, and would post stuff online to popularize her brand. the first 2 years her motivation was on overdrive and she would pump out ontent like a machine, but by years 6 things weren't going the way she wanted and she decied to just stop. six months after she gave up one of her followers with a incredibly werid username decied to dm her asking what happened, she did leave without a notice so it kinda makes sence they would ask.

She explained why she stopped posting, and after weeks of begging and her love her dress making compelled her weak will to continue posting. Over time she became friends with the guy that gave her the motivation to keep on sewing aka Donnnie, by year 8 she finally saw his face and she passed out when she saw him for the first time, but she started using him as a reference for her reptilian oc's.

year 9 things were working out for her, and she finnaly started selling her stuff, so when she graduated she moved to new york to go to fashion school there. When she got there she started getting werid dreams of other worlds, she wanted to ignore them, but she started passing out frequently, and illusions replacing all the peopel and places around her with others made her start to pay attention to them.

But she started to remeber what she was when she took a bath and saw someone elses reflection in the water, and her black eyes started glowing in ultra-violet. (yes she has glowing purpel eyes let me live my Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way dreams) The thing that made is so all the different versions of her could travel through portals was their eyes, someothing that stayed with them through every reincarnation.

She decieds she want to find out about all of her lives, and for every lifetime she remebers whatever power or skill that they gained in that lifetime she also learned. But the more she would learn about herself, the less she knew about herself, and the relationship between her and donnine got rocky. (CyberxStich is a painfull slowburn) Don and Ophei did like eachother, but she had to give him the 2012 april treatment because if they started dating then her death would just be more painful for him.

Donnie would take her to the hidden city, and sure she was a human but no body really seemed to care so she would come down by herself all the time. and one of these times she met big mama. Big mama saw potential in her and decied to rent her out a shop near the battel nexus, and her dreams finnally became a reality, she had people working for her, a succesful business in the hidden city, and she was her bosses favorite. She did find the fact that Big mama was so trusting, and nice with her, suspicious but she didn't want to question it when everything was going right for her.

Then she while she was exploring her last life she met herself. The only other version of her left alive, she could give her the awnsers to everything. she didn't get them but she did find out why she's been so succesful as of late. This is one of her passive powers that emmit without her wanting it to or needing it to, that's basically a charisma boost, it's the power the other version of her was born with, and the one she was gifted. The realization that nothing she's done has every been becasue she was good, but becasue she somehow just maxed out a stat broke her, and she decied to vent to one person she knew probably wouldn't understand, but someone who could just listen.

Donnie was freaked the fuck out when she told him everything, and he thought she was joking but after seeing a snake pop out of a dissapearing tatoo, he decied to believe. But him comforting her turned into him trying to stop her immortality.

I have nothing else i keep on changing my mind on what would happen<3

[asksihtrickjartansen]

AU List

Modern Verse

Sihtric is a cagefighter and an escort. Cagefighting does not make him enough money to pay his bills, so he does what he has to do to make ends meet. He rents Finan's attic and dpes his share of the chores, too. He has an OF page and has had a few SFW modelling jobs as well.

Neurodivergent Verse

Sihtric is undiagnosed comorbid ADHD and ASD. He is very peculiar, especially in his diet. He also has a latex allergy.

In this verse he also lives in Finan's attic, like a lil neurospicey gremlin.

He has hyperspermia and is perpetually horny.

Omega Verse

Sihtric is a relatively newly bitten wolf. He has no pack and has no idea how to do this whole werewolf thing.

He works as a gym instructor and does his very best not to let anyone in on his brand new lifestyle.

Jotun Verse

Sihtric is half Jotun, on his mother's side. He has old magic, most of it nature based, but does his very best to hide this from Uhtred and the others in his company.

This is canon time setting.

Bassist Verse

Sihtric is bassist and second vocals of the band 'Uhtred and the Pretty Boys'. The band is very succesful and Sihtric has a very nice, mortgage free house in the picturesque town of Bamburgh. He drives a very well kept but old ford capri. He wears a lot of tattoos and piercings.

Rogue Verse

Canon time setting.

Sihtric rather than joining Uhtred has fled and now wanders the Kingdoms as a sell sword, sometimes also selling his body. He has a woman or man in each town and probably has more than several bastards running around. He is known as ink hand, for his many tally marks on his fingers and hands, one for each lie he has taken from another human.

Heir Verse

Canon time setting.

Sihtric has become Kjartan's heir after Sven's untimely death on account of him being a fucking idiot and Thyrra taking no more of his bullshit. This turned Sihtric is a much harder, merciless man than he is in canon verse, experiencing blood frenzy when he enters battle and being a bit more of a demanding lover. He also is a possible rival to Ragnar the Younger.

King Verse

Canon Time Setting

After Kjartan, Sihtric became King in Northumbria, disregarding Bebbanburgh and the authority of whatever Saxon King reigns. He is a just king, but his heart is quite hard. He wars against other Dane Kings and Saxon Kings alike.

[dukeofdelirium]

Priscilla is fcking unhinged. She spent like three minutes on that ask thing trashing MJ. Mind you, this marriage was like 3 decades ago! What made it clear to me that isn't someone who just dislike the man who her daughter married. This was someone who was and is still clearly envious. I just know she was seething that MJ was the husband who couldn't be referred as Lisa Maries Presleys husband. I know she HATED it that during that Elvis tribute in 1994 he got more applause than anybody by simply showing up. It's the fact the only black man her daughter married was more succesful than her own exhusband ( yes they are divorced so idk why she still runs around with the presley name). It's that she KNEW she couldn't control MJ.

Oh she hated him soooooo bad lmfaooo he had her PANINI PRESSED

She couldn’t control MJ. He was bigger than the Presley’s. Still is to this day lol.

She says “I just don’t like him” like ma’am he married Lisa 30 years ago…. It’s time to LET IT GO! Priscilla is just salty as shit that Lisa was in love with him lmfao. Priscilla praises every other man she was with, publicly backs Lockwood who Lisa publicly called a pedophile!

Priscilla hated MJ so bad bc he was taking Lisa away from her. The more she was with MJ, the more independent she became, and the more she failed to disclose info to her. LMP was at one point the most famous woman around, because she was Michael’s wife.

She had what Priscilla never had. A husband who loved her 🤭 so she had to sabotage it. Riley literally confirmed it in an interview just yesterday I think. That it was Priscilla who was making Lisa paranoid that Michael didn’t love her/was using her etc.

The way she projects onto Michael lmao. Like ma’am, just because you chased around Elvis and used his name for fame and fortune etc doesn’t mean Michael did that. He didn’t need y’all’s fame lol he was far more famous and on a global scale.

The way that Lisa literally said she was never happier than when she was with Michael, too. That’s what does it for me. You know Priscilla was fucking SEETHING over it 🤣 like yeah, that’s right, your daughter loved him more than any other man. Cope!

Someone said on Twitter that Priscilla was probably mad that MJ was trying to pursue her daughter and not her 😭😭😭😭😭 how much you wanna bet there’s some truth to that, too? Priscilla always viewed Lisa as her weird rival when it came to romance and shit soooooo

And that video of them at that Elvis tribute too, it sends me! Priscilla reaches over and tries to hold Michael’s hand when he stands up for the fans and then Lisa yanks that bitches hand off her man 😭😭 BYEEE

Michael hated Priscilla and called her a witch LMFAOOOO

I swear Priscilla is in her own world cuz how is she gonna show up for some book promo and then start shit talking MJ when no one even asked? And then the fact that Lisa made Priscilla out to be the villain IN SAID BOOK but she wants to act like a savior? Why should any of us gaf what you say about Michael, Priscilla? Your own daughter said you let your bf RAPE her! Your own daughter said you were plotting how to physically harm yourself so you’d miscarry her!

Lisa deserved a better mother. Priscilla doesn’t even deserve the title of mother. And Michael deserved a better in-law. Even Elvis didn’t want her ass. She’s done nothing but leech off the Presley name and tried to drive Graceland to bankruptcy in the 70’s. She even tried to sue her own granddaughter over the rights to the estate. She’s nasty. Vile. Michael saw right through her from the jump.

Weird how all of the Jackson family say they liked Lisa and that Michael loved her. Nothing but praise and good wishes from Jackson’s camp. Funny how that works.

you know Priscilla hated to see this and she can stay mad forever about it cuz it was real, and they were in love and she will never change that

[mar64ds]

can u tell us more about the rest of the characters you showed off for ur s&m game?

Thank you I'd love to talk about them!!!

-This is Manny Money, of course I had to go with an Ace Atttorney-like name. He is the one who has organized the party in his big mansion. He is usually always smiling, he is very cheery, but you can easily tell he is a very fake person. He owns a toy brand/company, inhereted by his father, but lately the toys have not been selling well and for some reason Manny is not really doing anything about it? Strange

-I have not decided the name of the rest of the characters yet, this lady here is mysterious, cold, distant and always seems like she knows a lot about everyone and about this mystery. She's a succesful singer, although she usually stays out of public eye from some reason. She is also Manny's ex, something he clearly hasn't let go of, but she has, she is very open about how much she dislikes him. She is suspicious but Sam and Max have funny interactions with her because they are usually pretty nice to her despite everything

-This is a supervillain skeleton, also the owner of a film company, that's not his secret identity or anything but Sam and Max think that it is lol. He is a very theatrical person, when he tries to be a villain or when he is simply having a normal conversation, he just loves a good show. Sam and Max have fought him in the past, but they barely remember anything about him

-This fish is shy, socially anxious, gets startled easily, they are not having a good time in a murder mystery. Think of characters like Luigi, Boober, they are kind like that. They are an actor, whenever they act they become a very confident person, acting is the thing that always calms them, also water because they are a fish. There is a theatre and a pool on the mansion so perhaps that can help? Overall they are a very sweet person, they just worry a lot, and you have a lot to worry about in a murder mystery. They genuinely like Sam and Max, like they don't roll their eyes at them or think they are strange, they genuinely like Sam and Max, it's very sweet. Oh yeah, first sam&max nonbinary representation, second if the VR player counts, there will be a couple more, the party will have plenty of NPCs

-This pig, capitalist pig, he is a terrible person. His entire personality is being a billionaire asshole, he is fun to hate or you can just hate him without the fun. He has funny facial expressions, think of Burgerpants from Undertale, not exactly like that but similar. He is rivals with Manny, even though this pig is richer than him Manny somehow always humiliates him, but he keeps going to his parties anyway

-Of course you know her already, but I want to talk about her too! She is a succesful fashion designer, she has her own magazine. She wants to interview the guests on the party, take pictures, take notes about the different outfits, etc. She does that but gets bored after a while, she loves her job but the party grows old quick. She has a very cute personality with a very blunt and direct sense of humor, she says what she thinks and she is not shy to ask questions, she is a reporter of her own magazine after all, even though it's only about fashion, she is just curious to investigate about everything else too. She gets along well with Sam and Max, the things they find amusing and entertaining she also finds amusing and entertaining, she is just very casual about it. She helps with solving the mystery, because that sounds fun, she will give find a bunch of hints and stuff that will help the case move forward. You'll even get a dress-up minigame thanks to her! She does more in the story but that's a spoiler, but overall she is just a lot of fun and she has the best friendship with Sam and Max

-The squirrel is only there for a puzzle, it's not a character. The bee is not a character either, but it's the mascot of Manny's toy company, you will see him a lot

-The little bat however! That's a little guy that was flying around the mansion until Max accidentaly knocks it out, we use it for a puzzle and then Sam keeps it in his pockets. When it wakes up, even though it's a little mad, it will help you for one thing: fast travel! This is a big mansion, you don't have to backtrack over and over, this little bat is here and is strong enough to carry you both. You can talk to it too, it will have another role in the story later on, but that's a spoiler. I don't know how to describe its personality other than a cute videogame companion, think of Telly Vision from Chibi-Robo, or Heart from Mad Rat Dead

[racefortheironthrone]

In the 1886 NYC mayoral election, is it true that Hewitt won unfairly and Henry george was frauded out of a win?

Heh, I feel like I'm being asked to adjudicate the 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries of the 19th century...

Unfortunately, my answer is that we don't really know. It's true that people in Henry George's camp believed that Tammany had won through fraud:

“On Election day groups of Tammany repeaters . . . filled the ballot boxes with fraudulent votes. . . . But the vote of the labor forces was so overwhelming, that even piles of fraudulent votes could not suffice to overcome it. one final result was left. This was to count out Henry George by grossly tampering with the election returns and misrepresenting them. And this is precisely what was done, if the testimony of numerous eye-witnesses is to be believed. The Labor Party, it is quite clear, was deliberately cheated out of an election won in the teeth of the severest and most corrupt opposition.” (source)

While it wouldn't surprise me that Tammany Hall would engage in electoral fraud, it doesn't seem like hard evidence ever turned up that could have proved this for certain.

What we do know is that Henry George's campaign as the United Labor candidate for Mayor of New York City scared the hell out of the political establishment and there very much was collaboration between the two main parties against George. Richard Croker, the Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall, handed Abram Hewitt the Democratic nomination because as a popular anti-Tammany reform Democrat with moderate labor credentials, he could unite both Tammany and anti-Tammany wings of the Party while hopefully staunching any flood of working-class votes to George. Likewise, "Boss" Platt of the Republican machine nominated the 28-year-old Theodore Roosevelt as a sacrifical candidate.

During the campaign, both Democratic and Republican papers and parties united in running a red-baiting campaign against Henry George while ignoring their traditional rivals. And when Henry George took a "heavy" lead in early returns, Platt mobilized the Republican machine to turn out the vote...for the Democratic nominee Abram Hewitt. This swung somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 votes from Roosevelt to Hewitt - which probably was more significant than whatever vote-tampering Tammany may or may not have done.

(In the official count, Hewitt won the election with 90,000 votes to George's 68,000 and Roosevelt's 60,000.)

Now, keep in mind that Henry George had gone into the campaign thinking that he would get 30,000 labor votes as a protest candidate - thus demonstrating that socialism was a real political force in NYC politics. Given the end result more than doubled that initial benchmark, I think he was broadly successful in putting together a coalition that combined Jewish and Irish working-class voters who normally voted Democratic with Italian and WASP working-class voters who normally voted Republican - but not succesful enough to overcome the effects of a united political establishment or the partisan loyalties of Tammany regulars.

And George did succeed in scaring the hell out of Tammany enough that it felt it needed to shift to the left on the "social question" to avoid losing its traditional working-class constituency to socialism.

[garfunclegaming]

Overwatch 2 is the worst reviewed game on Steam. This was the obvious outcome. Blizzard copied a succesful game (TF2), milked it with microtransactions, lied and failed to deliver the content required for it to qualify as a sequel, and to pump its player numbers, put it on their rivals storefront...the storefront that allows player reviews. The storefront that has Team Fortress 2. TF2, an ancient game from the Orange Box, released when physical media was still the primary, is now kicking OW2s ass. The cartoony, goofy, violent Mercs are crushing the Marvel-ish, stylish, porny OW heroes.

[lackaroses]

Great! Because I finally have my oc figured out. I'm the anon that had the selling their soul oc. I actually have multiple Ocs now. The first one, her fake name is Sadie Churchill, but her real name is Lucille Grace. I don't have a picture, yet, but I can describe her. She's a sweet calico with longer 1920's hairstyle ponytail thing. She has a mother and a sister. She's from Mississippi and belonged to a secret coven. At 16 year old, there was this guy her Mother met. He had feeling for her, but her mother didn't reciprocate. So, when this guy found out about the coven, he used that against her. Saying that he'd rat out the coven, if her mother didn't marry him. Her mother and sister didn't like that and they killed him on wedding rehearsal night. Lucille didn't agree with this, because she was a bit too much of a good person. However, she loves her family above else so, she helped them hide the body. A year later, the police found the body and were snooping too close too home. So, the coven had to split for awhile. At least until the trail went cold and they found another place to be. Yes, that even means Lucille's family had to split away from each other.

They were all given fake names and places to stay, her's was Sadie Churchill and she was supposed to stay with a friend of the family, but something happened. So, she had to stay with a friend of that friend in Alabama. His name is Roscoe Clyde, who was looking for a nanny for his children to help out while his wife recovered from an accident. So, "Sadie Churchill the Nanny" it was. This however wasn't a good thing. You see, Sadie caught the eye of Roscoe and was overly creepy about it (Yes, this guy is everything horrible in the book.). It didn't help that his wife noticed and gave her the cold shoulder. Not to mention, dude was secretly part of a gang. Despite that though, she made it work and two years later, she meets her love interest, Floyd Everett. The two would meet in a cabin in secret, ever since. She found he was also the leader a gang, specifically, the rival gang to Roscoe's. She didn't care though, she was in love with him. Things were going great with the secret life, until she was 20 when she got pregnant. She was able to have her (Richie Everett) in secret sucessfully, but Roscoe's wife, Ethel grew suspicious. One day, she followed Sadie and saw the truth. Now, since Ethel is jealous of Sadie for trying to steal Roscoe away (Even though she wants nothing to do with him, really.) She tell Roscoe, Roscoe is pissed off. Not because she may be a spy for the rival gang (Although he disguises it that way.), but because he couldn't have Sadie.

So, he rounds up his gang, some were crooked law enforcement, and stormed into the cabin while Sadie and Floyd were just chillin. Floyd was hanged and Richie was murdered right in front of Sadie. Roscoe shot her, but because of his sick feelings for her, he left her to die. Thinking it was a mercy. As she was dying, she met the Wraith of the Moors. He saw what happened and feeling a sort of kinship with her, wanted to help her. Not because she was hurt, no, because she, like him, was angry. They formed a pact, he's give her all the power she needs to kill the people that did this to her and in return, she'd help him with his goal. Her power? To kill people through song, make herself be heard. She is succesful, but a few stranglers that fled, including Roscoe, got away. She ends up in Missouri at 22 because that's were Roscoe ended up, according to the Wraith.

I have no idea how she ends up at Lackadaisy or Marigold, nor if she ends up with anyone,yet, sorry! The Wraith does have an identity, but this is already really long. Sorry that it was!

🌹That sounds really neat!, yeah don’t be afraid to share OC stuff with me. I love hearing people being passionate about stuff, if you ever get some sort of drawing of her, then you could request a moodboard or a stimboard if you want🥀

🌹Also don’t worry about how long it is, I don’t mind🥀