#but i agree with everything he said

[j-emini]

"Everyone gives Lance Stroll shit, cause his dad’s super rich, and he ‘bought his way into F1’. So did half of the fucking grid. If you really look at it, they’ve just done stupider less contract guarantee ways of buying their way into F1. Formula 1 is a sport full of rich kids, Lance Stroll just happens to be the richest kid… Take it from me… I know plenty of billionaires kids who are total pieces of shit, who are just massively on the coke in Mayfair every single weekend achieving nothing in life… At least Lance is using his dad’s money to go out there and give you guys some entertainment… doing something productive with his life. You can’t say that for a lot of people in his position. So lay the fuck off Lance Stroll.” - James Blair about Lance on a recent stream.

[vaguely-concerned]

lucanis is a 'I could sit in our quiet kitchen on a grey tuesday afternoon drinking coffee and talking with you about nothing much in particular forever and be the happiest man who ever lived' romantic, not a 'classic tropes and grand gestures' romantic. this is a distinction and conceptual gap I personally feel is crucial to understanding what's going on with him when romanced. for all his almost painful sincerity and clear depth of feeling he's not a very effusive guy by nature, but in the history of time no one has ever, with their whole soul, chest and being, been so genuinely and openly happy to just do laundry and taxes with you.

[boasamishipper]

ngl as a jew the way i see people talk about gal gadot makes my skin crawl

[gottaread2]

It means so much to me that Ed Nygma once described himself like a butterfly and later on Oswald saw a butterfly encased in ice and decided that was how he was going to deal with Ed.

[gale-force-storm]

- My friend @transparentkittenheart, noted Astarion girlie who's romancing Gale for the first time, telling me about how surprised she was when she got to the astral sex scene

[todayisyourturntolose]

why did he feel the need to make a yo mama joke mid sentence

[engagemythrusters]

“Anakin Skywalker was the best Jedi” uh no that was Mace Windu. Mace was the best Jedi.

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

anyways. anyone else ever think about how Arthur starts frequently using the word "love" to describe his and John's relationship from the end of part 20 onwards, but John doesn't actually use the word himself until part 43. because. I think about that sometimes.

(john more uses words like "friends" and "care" to talk about their relationship, up until part 43)

[dangerousdan-dan]

Thinking about how Daud left Karnaka against his will, forced to start a new life away from his mom, and then years later he had to stay in Karnaka against his will, at the end of said life.

Do you think he had flashbacks of when he was taken as a kid while he was imprisoned and treated like a fighting dog by the eyeless cult?? The last thing he ever did was being used and abducted to fight under someone else's terms again. His worst nightmare.

Can you imagine the relief he must have felt when Billie got him out of there? He knew he was going to die anyway, but at least he didn't die a prisoner. Billie was his savior in more ways than one.

[moonshynecybin]

i know marc is a liar and all but i actually don’t think he held back on purpose in valencia 2015… i believe him when he says he didn’t have extra motivation but i also believe he meant it when he said “(When we arrived) in Valencia, I say ‘Please we need to win the race because if not … he will complain.’” (from https://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/01/motorsport/marc-marquez-motogp-valentino-rossi/index.html) and that honestly makes it that much more tragic to me. i think he was waiting for an australia type moment but dani caught up to him and messed with his rhtym, which fwiw also seems to be mat oxley’s view:

“If both Repsol Hondas had managed to get past Lorenzo, then Rossi would have been champion. But they didn't. Perhaps Marquez was riding shotgun to Lorenzo. But if that's true, why was he on the Ml's tail throughout the race, with his body language - loud as always! - telling us he was building towards a last-lap attack, most likely at the final hairpin, which would give Lorenzo no chance to come back at him?

And why didn't he give Lorenzo an easy time, following him around at a respectful distance, rather than hassling him lap after lap? Those are all questions to which everyone has their own answers.

The only fact was that Lorenzo's M1 had better acceleration grip, so Marquez could never get the drive he needed to set up a pass at the next corner.

It is also worth pointing out that Valencia is a grim track for overtaking. It's a slow, narrow, one-line, follow-my-leader circuit with a dead-slow entry onto its only straight. It is the polar opposite of wide, fast and open Phillip Island. The Valencia layout leaves little opportunity for riders to prepare a pass exiting one corner and into the next, especially on heavy MotoGP bikes with traction control and carbon brakes. At five of the last nine dry-weather MotoGP races at the track there wasn't a single overtaking manoeuvre at the front. Not one.” (from https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/motorcycles/motogp/what-really-happened-motogps-2015-finale/)

[iilmunchkiin]

Speaking of that whole if Starlo and Ceroba weren't childhood friend it could mean Starlo never meets his other friends and create the wild east because he only had the inspiration to do so because of Ceroba meaning the creation of the wild east relies on Ceroba being Starlo's friend which also means Starlo would be a possibily shy loner who doesn't fight and stays near his family all because Chujin has a stick up his ass and doesn't know how to have fun

THE LAST PART HELP ME IM HOWLINGGGGGGG

[ze-pie]

I remember being a YoungArts finalist. I was flown out to Miami for a week that ended up feeling nothing short of magical because of all of the creative minds i was surrounded by in the form of my teenage peers. It overwhelmed me but also made me feel at home and seen. Easily the worst I’d felt that week came from when we essentially had to stand before a jury of elder artists and plead our case for why we deserved more scholarship money than our peers. Why we make art and what we were going to do going forward. I was only 18, but i felt so ashamed and felt like such an impostor. Once I told them that I enjoyed doing illustration and not the fine art that got me there in the first place, I saw the light leave their eyes, and I felt so small. I knew I’d only get the bare minimum scholarship. I think I’ve spent a lot of time since then trying to prove that specific judge panel wrong about something. I’m removed enough to raise a disapproving eyebrow on why we were made to rival eachother in the first place.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Well, at least Fukuzawa got his wish granted, I guess.... he's finally inside Fukuchi <3

[utilitycaster]

Not that I agree with Ludinus, but can I point out that if he did go around searching for information like a normal person, Vasselheim would have just sent someone to deal with him?

Hi anon,

I'm not sure what this is in response to? I think this might be for a post I reblogged, in which case I would recommend you confer with the OP of that post to best understand their intentions and perspective.

Anyway, you can point that out, and have, but I think Vasselheim would only pursue him if he specifically tried to steal information from Vasselheim. He could probably authorize raids on any temple within the Empire without any retaliation, he demonstrably can seize control of archaeological sites, he did straight up steal the Omen Archive from the Grim Verity and Vasselheim's specific response and motivations are unclear (were they chasing him for that, or for, you know, the giant-ass Magic Moon Antenna in the desert), and more generally he's a 900 year old archmage who could have spent the past 600 years developing an elaborate infiltration system for every single academic or religious institution in Exandria if he were willing to actually build a loyal and dedicated heist crew instead of a system of underlings who high-key fucking hate him.

I think many people vastly overestimate the reach and involvement of Vasselheim. I know I made a joke about the Dragon Vatican but actually the way religion and worship works in Exandria seems rather decentralized. Vasselheim hasn't, for example, declared war on the Dwendalian Empire for outlawing half the Prime Deities. If Ludinus physically infiltrated Vasselheim, stole stuff, and was noticed, then yeah, Vasselheim would retaliate, but that's by no means the only way to do research on the gods.

[aslongasitistold]

someone honest to god asking richard siken if his poems are about buddie 911 and people calling him RUDE for rightfully pointing out how insane that is genuinely makes me feel like we are doomed as a society like…. that might make me seem dramatic but seriously…. what are we doing here people….

[brionysea]

if stranger things 5 comes out and they're like 'omg! the upside down has been a product of someone's dark and twisted mind this whole time! it's... WILL!' I'll immediately lose interest