#don't mind me...

[mecachrome]

Oscar Piastri On His Remarkable Rookie Season

To make [winning a race of some kind] happen in the Sprint in Qatar was a very proud moment. I think at the time I didn't really... realize how proud I was of it because we had the Grand Prix the next day. That was, I think, the first weekend where I left it saying: I really got the most out of that and there was nothing more I could have done.

[heymeowmao]

[thiamblogger]

so...

[rosalie-starfall]

The Horror Of Dolores Roach

Judy Reyes as Marcie

[heyitsburtburt]

Burt Burt give us all of your opinions on your other fellow toppats,

harshly.

......

That's just asking for death. I guess I can use this space to complain about Seven.

In all honesty, the thing that bugs me about him is that he's so... blue. Like what the heck kind of guy wears that much blue!? And his head is so full of nonsense, he rambles on and on constantly and for what?It's like he's trying to waste time, I swear...

And then there's the fact that he always gets on my case for goofing when there's not really much to my job. Tell my underlings to do my bidding and then make sure things are running smoothly. That's all I have to really do! Other then go to meetings of course and supervise some heists here and there. So really, there's something VERY VERY wrong with him.

The guy doesn't get enough sleep I've noticed. It kind of worries me a bit. If he got just a few extra hours of sleep he'd be less wired then he usually is.

...I don't really have any complaints about anybody else though. I mean the complaints I have about the chief and his right hand can be applied to any boss and the new recruits can be a pain from time to time. But otherwise, I'm not too ruffled up about them.

Actually there's this one new recruit that I've been keeping an eye on. Apparently he was hired from the cells... I wonder what he's like...

Guh... what am I thinking...

[just-observing-here]

Someone help, I'm thinking about the similarities of Eggman and William Afton...

Both make robots powered by organic creatures (Eggman powers his badniks with animals and William gives life to his animatronics by stuffing kids into them and powering them with their souls)

They both abuse their eldest son (Metal Sonic and Micheal Afton)

(Wait, holy shit... Mike Schmidt... Metal Sonic... M.S... OH MY-)

Both deal with gods and powerful beings... (William deals with spirits and Old Man Consequences which is basically an eldritch horror of some kind)

Both love their daughters more than their other kids (Elizabeth and Sage)

I mean... That's all I can think of. I bet that if they ever did meet they would hate each other. Eggman would hate William for killing kids and William would hate Eggman for being a hypocrite.

[the-bl-road]

I survived ep 10.

Barely.

Watching Babe express such emotions brought me to tears, because this fear I didn't realize I had, suddenly came to mind and it made me scared and upset.

[laracrofted]

sorry y'all, i saw jon hamm at the emmy's and now i need to read some cyclone fics

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

What modern poptropica islands needs are more villains who treat their sidekicks (and only their sidekicks) politely /hj

Heck yeah. We need more shipping fuel wholesome platonic villain-sidekick interactions! Hehe...

[slavicafire]

thinking about floki kind of friday night

[thefixeraa]

wwyd if you saw this ?

[ghoul-butch]

i love my fans 💚

(for context anon (blank account) is trying to figure out how to misgender me)

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[rosalie-starfall]

Captain Kathryn Janeway

Star Trek: Voyager - Resolutions

[beebfreeb]

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."