#attempting the impossible

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[codgod]

the code monster has the opportunity to do THE most fucked up thing

edit: STOP asking me how i feel. take a guess orz

[kandismon]

totally lore accurate swanqueen screencap redraws 1/∞

i'm trying to learn how to draw emma and regina and figured just kinda redrawing some screencaps is the best and most fun way haha

bonus:

[benevolenterrancy]

("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)

[strawberri-draws]

what a silly elderly man

[heph]

He, too, is in this episode

[tls123]

FLEABAG — season two, episode four + jiang cheng, his family, and jin ling

requested by @spriteofmushrooms - insp

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[qiu-yan]

thoughts

also wasn't sure what to do with the lan simp brothers so i guess they can sit on the side

[aka-indulgence]

I think of him……..

[spenglerstwinkie]

Throws this at you and runs away

I’ve never drawn a mirror before nor a reflection my b🙏🙏 I also think this would’ve been a better concept if it was young Jotaro in the mirror and old man Jotaro looking but I liked my young Jotaro sketch too much and flipped it. erm……..

What is wrong with you. WHY ARE YOU BLUE.

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[jonathankai]

*takes mic*

If Jiang Fengmian really followed his Sect's motto and attempted the impossible, he would love his son despite the fact that his marriage is a wreckage and Jiang Cheng resembles his mother so much.

*throws the mic at the crowd with full force, jumps right after, screams bloody murder, throws punches right and left, bites you*

[nocherrybombs]

She's Trying to Flirt

Arlecchino: Lady Furina, on behalf of the children of the House of the Hearth and myself, I would like to offer you this assortment of cakes as a token of our appreciation for your hard work. I hope that we can put any past indiscretions behind us.

Furina: "Indiscretions"?! You tried to murder me!

Arlecchino: Oh, did I? My apologies. In my defense, my objective was to take the gnosis, not to kill you. Had I truly intended to end your life, I would have done so. Rather easily, I might add.

Furina: Sorry, I'm just... you're giving me a lot of mixed messages here and it's very confusing. Is this how you usually apologize to people? With cakes and thinly-veiled threats?

Arlecchino: I have never apologized to anyone before, so I must confess to my own inexperience. How am I doing? Has my performance been satisfactory?

Furina: It could use some work.

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Lyney, back at the House of the Hearth: So, tell us how it went! Did you put the moves on her like we talked about?

Arlecchino: Indeed, I did, and to great effect. In fact, she was sweating profusely and her eyes were the size of dinner plates the entire time we were talking. I believe that means she fancies me.

Lynnette: I suppose that is one of the things it could mean.

[former-leftist-jew]

Yet another leftist hypocrisy that drives me crazy is the conflicting arguments that:

"Israel fighting back and letting 'tensions' escalate to 'all-out war' is always bad because war is the worst thing, and war is always bad, and war can never be okay under any circumstances--not even wars of self-defense against attempted wars of annihilation."

But then turn around and say, "Targeting enemy combatants in civilian areas without harming any said civilians is easy <3 lots of war-torn countries do it all the time! <3 but israhell doesn't care enough to even try. >:("

Like, which is it?

[valyrfia]

your take on lando is so interesting and by far the most nuanced view of him I’ve seen. I think’s it clear that he needs help managing his emotions bc some of things he says and done are baffling and the latest thing of him liking criticism proves it. he doesn’t have that champion mentality (or just seem to be in a good headspace) and a lot of that can be traced backed to McLaren. He messes up his starts every time and that could be linked with a mental barrier but ig no at McLaren cares enough to look into that???Like that’s your driver and your wdc you’re washing down the drain.

but I can’t be too suprised, bc when ppl talk about lando mh McLaren covers their ears and say Lalala can’t hear you (unless yk it benefits them)

I think I retain an enormous amount of empathy for him because prior to this year he was one of my favourites. I think he started acting strange and immature and there was this initial huge backlash but this weekend has kind of made me see things more clearly, between his actions, his words to media, how McLaren handle him, and his driving. And he really is a victim of his environment.

He IS an incredibly good driver. Before you all boo me: sure he's nowhere near Max who's currently in another league, nor is he really near Charles who would be in this championship instead of Lando if not for Ferrari shitting the bed midseason. Lando is however, on par with George, and currently probably better than Carlos and Oscar. I would happily call him the third best driver on the grid at the moment. He however, does have a problem with starts, that's just a fact. As you said anon, it's more than just experience at this point there is obviously some sort of mental block there–he's clearly going into these starts expecting to lose places. But again, like you said, McLaren obviously don't care enough to look into that. Other things this weekend just made me notice: him snapping at a journalist is not and has never been normal behaviour for him, for example, begging McLaren for that switch in the sprint and immediately catastrophising that they won't do it (pressing the radio button immediately to panic and say "I thought we talked about this") is another example of just, slightly abnormal behaviour. That coupled with his internet lurking (he liked an edit of Max a week back, and is now obviously reading his comments) paints a picture I'm not sure I like. I'm never going to assume anything, but considering he's talked about struggling with mental health in the past, I can't help but be a little uneasy on his behalf.

All of the above becomes especially true if we consider McLaren and the case of Daniel Ricciardo. As much as they love to position themselves as the champions in the sport of mental health, the whole Daniel thing remains a worrying incident they've tried their best to sweep under the rug–he never recovered his mentality in that team and instead of working with him the team were perfectly happy to throw him to one side with little regard to prioritise Lando instead. I can't help but feel with a certain sinking that this is what they plan to do with Lando and Oscar, if Lando doesn't win the championship next year. The problem is, Lando is a lot younger than Daniel was, with a lot more career ahead of him and theoretically, a much higher ceiling to reach–yet McLaren seem perfectly happy to not put any development into Lando to help him reach that ceiling. Just like some drivers need developing in the wet, or the dry, or high downforce, or reaction times, some drivers need developing in their mentality. And it is McLaren's job to recognise this if the driver doesn't recognise it in themselves, and tell them what they need to go work on. This should have been something that was flagged as a development area for Lando way before this season, even as far back as 2021 it was apparent and yet McLaren have done nothing to help him and seem happier to just, leave him out to dry.

McLaren is the true evil here and for all their attempts to appeal to a younger demographic and impassioned defences of their morality and mental health being important–I think they've proven that they would rather take the easy road than the right one, even if the right one could yield more results. Oscar struggles with other things that Lando doesn't struggle with ie. tyre management, quali but I think they will repeat their pattern of rather than developing a driver they want to discard an extremely good one in the fruitless search of a generational talent. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think its impossible that instead of taking responsibility for losing the WDC this year (because make no mistake, this is mostly their fault–from a strategy point of view to how they've managed their drivers to refusing to give Lando the support he needs until its too late) they will just try and shift the blame and indirectly pin the failure of this year on Lando in order to try and match public sentiment. Ultimately, Lando has been failed by his team and his environment more than anything and even though I'm happy this championship has (deservedly) gone to Max, I can't help but feel that Lando was not given a fighting chance by his team.