#but if my calculations are correct

[xerith-42]

Y'all remember that long ass essay I wrote about Blaze in which I watched all of MyStreet but only the scenes he's in to prove that while he started great, the writers ultimately fell off so hard in writing him it stopped being funny and started pissing me off?

I think I might've found the MCD character I could do that with

[fcntasmas]

did a speedrun through the five stages of grief today. i do not recommend it

[libertea-and-icedcoffee]

About 40% to 45% of eligible to vote Americans did not vote.

Less people voted now than in 2020 (~66% or eligible voters voted in 2020 compared to ~55% this year)

Source: Current results as of 8:00AM EST + my computer calculator + bipartisanpolicy.org to know the number of eligible voters in 2024 and the percentage of voters in 2020

[alianoralacanta]

Hi Alianora! I am curious to know your thoughts on Ferrari and PR. Particularly how they do damage control. 2022 comes to mind, and this year's triple header as well.

Maybe it's because I don't keep up with other team statements as much but Ferrari seem to be less... transparent?? with their struggles as a team. Binotto in 2022 comes to mind when he would pin the blame on his drivers and say that nothing needs to change.

Also Charles in particular plays the PR game more than Carlos. I mean, this year in China, Charles said the two of them had talked and everything was fine, but then when asked, Carlos said the complete opposite and that they hadn't actually sorted it out. Oops.

I remember specifically Charles saying the team was "extremely united, no division" in 2022 but then multiple statements of his in 2023 under Vasseur imply otherwise.

Ferrari seem to be more willing to throw their drivers under the bus when shit hits the fan and it's more clear that the team messed up big time. Vasseur will have no problem defending Charles in weekends where Ferrari aren't a complete disaster, but in situations like the triple header, he's willing to shift the focus on the drivers.

Is it a Ferrari pride sort of thing?

Ferrari and PR

Firstly, apologies for the long delay in replying. This is my 3rd attempt at finding a coherent frame for my thoughts on the subject. I hope this works. If it does not, please request clarification, reframing or simply to have another attempt.

Also, fair warning: long essay. This essay is 6060 words long, excluding headings. As such, it will be divided into multiple “read more” sections. Tumblr only allows this by posting the essay multiple times, with a fresh addition each time. Please wait for the “Essay complete. Hope this helps” before reblogging. Firstly, PR is not a monolith. Humanity is not a monolith with one unified opinion of what everything is and how everything works. They agree and disagree on what is appealing in a statement made to them on a given subject. Thus, PR can and often is tailored to particular audiences. Furthermore, different groups that produce PR value different things. Section 1: What does Ferrari value? (Ferrari myth PR)

Ferrari has been stricter about PR than any other team. Part of this originated with Enzo Ferrari himself, for he was careful to ensure that nothing was said that undermined Ferrari's political position or offended his sense of what the speaker's job should be (driver or engineer). It has to be said that this didn't put the boundaries in the same place as any modern team's PR approach. While complaining about the team or car being slow was considered just as wrong then as now, a driver saying they'd been cautious because the race was long would also be considered bad. Enzo considered it his job to worry about the car, and the driver's job to press the car as hard as possible. (An engineer who suggested putting less emphasis on the engine in favour of the chassis would fare no better). On the other hand, skipping a sponsor event to go kart would probably meet with his approval. (Whether he would have regarded Max's sim racing as similar enough to treat likewise is unknown, since race driving software wasn't very sophisticated in the 1980s). Later in Enzo Ferrari's career, there began to be more emphasis on Ferrari the myth. Niki Lauda was not particularly appreciated while he was at Ferrari because his approach was so different from Enzo's ideal, but Niki became far more appreciated after that because Enzo realised what he'd done had, in fact, resulted in Ferrari's myth strengthening. (The title did no harm either). Gilles Villeneuve encapsulated what it meant to augment the Ferrari myth. The intervening decades ended up condensing the traits that became part of "Ferrari myth PR": - humble and modest - fast - respectful of opponents - downplaying team psuedopolitics - eloquent and concise when needed - competing with style, verve and boldness - able and willing to do the impossible - believing in the team even when it does not believe in itself - remember one represents a dream - remember that, whatever one's nationality, one represents the honour of the tifosi The price for defying PR in the Enzo Ferrari era was variable and fickle, due to the perennial psuedopolitics behind the scenes. (The situation under Fred Vasseur would have been considered relatively calm back then. Some parts of the Mattia Binotto era, not so much).

[anotherpapercut]

I am a math tutor and for years I've been recommending a specific calculator to students. it's the favorite of all the math tutors and it's just kind of a meme for us at this point. last year I made a custom metal style t shirt of the calculator to wear while I emphatically recommend it to students. 2 months ago I got it tattooed on my arm

truly there is nothing funnier to me than the look on a students face when I'm giving them the "you need a better calculator" speech while wearing a t shirt of the calculator I'm recommending and then I lift up my sleeve and show them a tattoo of the calculator

[risto-licious]

Do you work full time as an artist?

I do!

[tea-tuesday]

london stationery haul for my stationery freaks !!! i went a little crazy with stationery on this trip but to my defense, it was all funded by my state tax return hehe... these are the various things i got, which i linked:

yellow hard shell charger case from London Graphic Centre

special edition totebag from London Review of Books

gallimard journal from Choosing Keeping

brass hand clip from Choosing Keeping (honestly my fave purchase on this trip !!)

vintage bus blind journal from Choosing Keeping

kaweco perkeo fountain pen and inks from Present & Correct

grid flatlay book from Present & Correct

the epicurean notebook from Magma London

i also visited Smythson of Bond Street and Mount Street Printers but they were out of my budget. beautiful places to get luxury stationery goods!

[aestophobia]

attempting to put the validity of the statement "Hearthstone passes out even more than Jason Grace (though I have no idea who that is) to the test

Throughout the Heroes of Olympus Jason passes out:

three times in the lost hero

five times in the mark of athena

one time in the house of hades

two times in the blood of olympus

FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF ELEVEN TIMES

Meanwhile Hearthstone passes out:

four times in the sword of summer

once in the hammer of thor

ONLY FIVE TIMES IN TOTAL

so moral of the story, Magnus Chase speaks falsehoods and Hearthstone does NOT in fact pass out more than Jason Grace

[almightyrozenidiot]

I know these have kind of fallen out of fashion but I'm gonna do it anyway.

[maleficore]

Only she knows how to make the mad dog behave...

Some sweet durgecest featuring @sorrowfultales's Anathema 😖💕

FULL (NSFW)

[captainhotstop]

Happy Back to the Future Day

[ssreeder]

Hiii I'm sorry if you've answered this before, I'm just wondering if you have an idea (vague or otherwise) about how many chapters ITF is going to be? I'm just curious. Thank you, hope you have a great day ^^

I have? Maybe? I’m not sure! But after this we’ll have probably 10 chapters left! I’m guessing we’ll end up at 31 total chapters but that’s just my guess! We’re on the home stretch!!

[carsickcrow]

finished malevolent part 46..now only october’s episode remains until i’m caught up. i started listening to this podcast on halloween, or, two weeks ago tomorrow. the power of autism

[oxygenbefore1775]

yeah, I'd like to believe that the very last sunrise that Zeke saw while being an autonomous body and not attached to Eren was in the field of daisies where he spent hours waiting for the regeneration to heal him enough

[toffeesbabbles]

Hi, it's me again. I was wondering if you ever counted how many posts you reblog per day cause sometimes you are REEEEALLY FAST. Like, sometimes I just go to check something for a moment and see 2526462847575 reblogs when I come back JUST HOW????

terminally online /hj

but actually no i haven't, i think im scared to. Sometimes i may go through my archive to find a post i rbed under "for me" and ... woah oh my god i make alot of reblogs.

It's primarily cause I've trained myself to rb first before I like, since apparently that is common courtesy around here? ever since I've discovered quick reblogs i use it all of the time. So when i scroll on my dash i rb pretty much everything i see. If i scroll for like idk lets say like 30 minutes to an hour it adds up after time. LOL!!

and thats excluding when i scroll through hashtags which i do semi often. Specifically ink, error and dreams are the ones i frequent the most!