#don't reblog ////

[humanwheatleyslefttoenail]

If you go on instagram right now you might get an ad for a quiz to see where you really stand on I/P and it'll ask you questions such as "do you think it was ok for Hamas to murder Israelis" "do you side with Israel or Hamas *and* Palestine" "in a future Palestinian state, being gay will be punishable by law, is that ok with you". they're really just shamelessly platforming hasbara digital terrorism lmfao

[bluesfreakingart]

"I LOVE THESE LITTLE BITCHES!!! I"LL TAKE MORE!!!!" .... I may or may not have been saving a whole album worth of jervs because I want to draw little chibi versions of all of them...

[rethdis-love]

Selfie-time! I make a laser correction of eyes and now not wear glasses with dioptres! My new sunglasses!♥️

[glitter-garbage]

i feel hot af don't mind me

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Frank, what's your wifi password?

If you think I'm going to tell a stranger on the Internet my wifi password, think again.

[evilkitten3]

mom hasn't responded to or looked at any of my texts since this morning, and she's not picking up her cell or home phone. i'm so fucking scared something happened, i can't fucking do this shit again

[deusinabsentiaa]

Even though I left the Christian church and feel really steadfast in my decision and beliefs, I can’t help but have those thoughts of “did I make the right decision? What if I’m wrong?” come creeping into my head. The anxiety is awful and I hate it so much. I know Christianity plays on fear and manipulation, but it’s been hard to shake the thoughts lately 😞

[blackkatmagic]

Fuck it, I'm writing something self-indulgent for my birthday again. Who wants to help me pick what I'm indulging in?

[floralflesh]

self insert

i guess this is just something i draw a lot. what can i say, i like sitting on laps and cuddling

something i do from time to time is also design outfits that i think the characters i like would enjoy seeing me in so i made some here that i think would appeal to Timm and Allan (that's his jersey)

[georgegraphys]

Now that the QAT discourse is an "outdated thing" I guess I can now speak up about the whole thing, can I?

Take this lightly as my observations and what I say might be biased because I'm human and no one is fully objective. And lastly, please don't reblog with main tags of the drivers, I don't want to start things again but I just want to say my thoughts that I've been wanting to share but only after things went silent. And I do not wish to entertain another opinion except my own thoughts because this is simply me sharing not asking for someone else's thoughts/opinion.

Can I say that what happened in Qatar is somehow a heavily calculated thing?

I obviously don't know the whole situation as I'm not the oxygen in the air or flies in the walls but I can see how MV manipulates the media to his own advantage.

First, timing. He starts throwing the fire when GR finishes his media rounds, which means GR would have no time to clarify/fight the things MV throw on the spot and would have to wait for 3-4 days to respond. This also happens because GR doesn't have a "press" ready at his side to broadcast his thoughts immediately. As you can see, MV/RBR (especially Marko) had that press. Like it can be a summer break and you'd still see a journalist talking to Marko. I hope one day GR will have a press on his side that works that way. Believe me, it'll help. A lot.

Second of all, the accusations. The accusations were merely not about the unfairness of the penalty. If that's the case, GR would've ignored them like what the others did. But MV's party attacks things on GR side that he CANNOT afford to ignore: a) his personality b) the FIA mates thing. GR is a GPDA director and a public figure first and foremost, that FIA accusation is a serious one and that needs to be cleared up 100%. So at the end of the day? GR can't afford to pass it up and had to speak to the press one way or another

Third, audience. I think it is common knowledge that F1 audiences have short term memory and their recency bias sometimes occurs only for an hour. And so I do think someone did take advantage by being the first person to speak up about the penalty drama, knowing how the audience would react (+ the advantage of timing and his personal audience which is a bigger one than that of GR's). Because MV spoke up first and had the advantage of the press, timing, and audience, everyone easily picked his words as the "right" ones, not noticing the inconsistencies and downplaying. Let us be honest, it is only 1% of the F1 audience that have full access and the willingness to oversee the contents like interviews, ted's notebook, etc and those people are mainly the big accounts. Those big accounts, having those access to those things and the dedication to process those things (regardless of it being biased or not), slowly becomes a key opinion leader. Fans who don't have access to those things trusts these big accounts so much and misinterpret these things. Sometimes? other big accounts also steal stuff like this and paraphrase it in their own way (sometimes twist it to make their points and appease their audience). That is where everything goes disastrous. Especially in the 3-4 days void of GR not speaking to the press.

Fourth? Time to wash your hands. After throwing the fires, creating narratives that GR couldn't dodge or avoid to not give a response, taking advantage of the timing, substance, and audience, that certain party starts to wash their hands. MV went from not wanting to play padel with GR to speaking about the dinner incident (another hand washing moment as he implies that he already wants to make amends + being the bigger guy, pushing the common narrative of the bigger guy = no faults) and saying that they'll sort this out and it'll be okay after a few padel games. Also? CHorner went from calling GR hysterical to saying MV-GR should deal with these things privately. Heavy on CHorner, what's with the backtrack? At least you should side fully with your driver no? Have some backbone, Christian. Don't bullshit and shit talk George when you liked his pics and follow him. Kinda shameless and pathetic yk?

So yeah these are the thoughts I have and basically what, in my opinion, happened. I know I previously said that this is an emotion-driven thing. But after seeing what transpired in Abu Dhabi? It's heavily calculated there and emotionally driven in Qatar. Abu Dhabi changed my thoughts that this is far from an innocent, honest, spontaneous play. Again, it's my opinion. You have yours. This time, I don't feel like entertaining any other opinions since for me, this is just me sharing what I think back then, not an open discussion any more.

I've actually talked with a friend about how I would deal with this thing as a person who worked in PR. We shared the same opinion that GR should keep his silence and do a little bit of an image cleaning with contents and stuff (this was before AD and the FIA mates claim got big). Because sometimes these discourses are not worth entertaining and a silence would be better since everyone would forget about it once they realized there is no drama to feed on. But again, MV threw something GR cannot dodge so we "changed" the things we would do. We honestly think that GR should give a one time full out interview explaining what he has to explain and never entertain the discourse again regardless of what RBR is saying and what the public reaction is. And voila! We see eye to eye with the Merc PR team. George gave one FULL interview and did not entertain any of the dinner incident, padel game thing, RBR response, CH's response, etc. And it is a PERFECT move. Why? Because GR did what he already did. Face the public and give his statement. Their reactions and opinions from further there are no longer important. He said what he had to say and that's that. One day, i'm sure, the public would go back to what GR said and realize that he was right all along. It's a long process to reach that part but that's the safest one. We did this for fun and as a mental training too on what we would do in a crisis like this (how we manage a crisis + try to learn/predict the PR strategy Merc is gonna throw out as a company)

GR did the right thing with his response. 100% perfect. Throw everything all at once and give ZERO response afterwards. In the end, RBR would look like a fool for talking alone to the press. After a while, the press would also get bored of it if there were no reactions from GR and they'd move on. Why? Because when you write the news, you have to have two things to compare. You have to have pros and cons to make it entertaining. Things won't be fun if it's one sided. They thrive on a two sided drama. When it's one-sided, events expire quickly and will no longer be deemed relevant to report on as news. I hope from this point forward, GR will no longer entertain such questions and just preserve his silence.

Lastly? If GR ignores MV longer than this? Don't get mad at him. The things that happened this time are too far for a mere one grid penalty that is worthless anyways. He has every right to take his time. Being angry at the penalty is one thing. But throwing shade of the unpaid work GR did as the GPDA director and lowkey dismissing his efforts by slandering and accusing him is another.

[lanotteviene]

I've been volunteering at this youth support group and among other things im teaching italian to two siblings who only speak mandarin. we've been progressing pretty stably so last time i got a deep dive on the drama between this otherwise super polite 15 yo teenager and his arch nemesis, another kid, that somehow involves half the local chinese community and a chinese cop - and it was almost entirely in italian! with italian insults!!!

[the-writing-mobster]

Hey guys! This is gonna be a tough post but I just need somewhere to vent a bit, I've been through the ringer this past week. This is kind of a personal post too? So by all means scroll by if you don't want to read stuff about medical emergencies...

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Kay. So... I had to take my mother to the ER due to complications with a recent surgery. Scary. Emotional. Exhausting.

Recovery for her will be a long and very difficult journey. Painful. She's doing better now and she gets stronger everyday but it's still a deep concern for me. I know the first week after she's released from the hospital will be extremely tough for everyone, especially her.

Personally, I've been really emotional. Crying on and off. Trying my best to be strong for her. So tired. So tired.

We were hit with a bombshell that she could have cancer, but the very next day were relieved to hear pathology reports showed the mass that'd been removed last week was benign, so that's def one less thing to worry about and a huge weight lifted off our shoulders....

All that being said — Honestly?

I could really use some kind words. Encouragement to help me get back into the right mindset to continue with art and writing. That's my safe space, you know?

Anyway, thank you all, and thank you to my wonderful mutuals who have been listening to me vent these past couple of days.

🫶🏻

[intrigd-voyagr]

HAIR GONE!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[gibles-lovely-selfships]

Forgot to formally say this oops

Babe wake up, new F/O list just dropped

[kaijugroupy]

so guys I've been losing my mind, unable to think about much else all week because I went to this honky tonk, two-step night in the back of my local bowling alley (yes it was just as cozy, low lit, smoky as it sounds.) so anyway, me and a good friend of mine go and there's a dance class teaching you how to two step before they open the floor to dancing. in two stepping, there's leading and following and I just happened to learn the leading role. So yeah, we learn the steps but admittedly my friend can be very Victorian sometimes so we kinda held each other at a safe, clinical distance. Which was fine, and then.

my tattoo artist, who invited me originally to this event, shows up once they open the floor to dancing. they're pretty traditional butch in that way that makes me so comfortable and we idly chat and they check on my tattoo (done the day before) and then their friend walks in.

so, their friend, easily one of the hottest butches I've ever met in my life, introduces themselves to me. I watch them chat with my tattoo artist while I chat with my friend, and honestly I'm being a pretty poor conversationalist because I'm tipsy and there's a butch at least four inches taller than me talking in warm, low tones and I can't focus.

So, yeah, me and my friend are talking but I'm barely there. And then I like blink and she's right in front of me, that handsome butch, asking me to dance. I agree immediately, duh, look to my friend to make sure she's good but honestly my feet are already moving. I'm following her out to the floor.

She offers her hand, and I take it, horizontally. Our thumbs fit, and I'm going to be following, there's no argument that she's leading. I tell her drunkenly that I hadn't caught the following role during practice and she says that's ok, she'll teach me.

there's tons of people around us, but she's patient. I catch on pretty fast and we're stepping in time with everyone else. My hands on her shoulder, and I'm trying so hard to commit the broadness to memory. The velvet under my fingers, but I'm trying to hold back. Not grab her, not fall ass over tits into her like I desperately want to because I want her, that's obvious enough to myself. Anyway, I just try to enjoy it, which is easy. It's so easy even when my stomach is dropping, not wanting to ever let this go.

But yeah, the song starts chugging towards the end. And I don't know if any of you have two stepped before but folks usually get dipped at the end. I know this, because I dipped my friend during the class earlier.

She turns me, and I go, but then I stop short before the dip because guys I have never in my life been dipped. Generally, I don't trust people to hold me up. I didn't think she was incapable at all, it was more a mental block on my end.

She turns me back around so we're looking at each other. Says, let's try again.

This time, I let her dip me. She's strong, doesn't half ass it. When she brings me back up, my heart is going fucking crazy and I just throw my arms around her and hug her and she's laughing and people are clapping and I say out of my dumb ass mouth, I've never been dipped before. She says back, that's a shame.

So anyway, we go back to our friends but I'm hopeless guys. I'm not listening, barely conversating, I'm a lost cause guys.

Handsome butch disappears out the back to go smoke with friends and I look at my buddy and I'm just like, dude she's so hot. Which is a huge fucking understatement because guys, I'm already fantasizing about her past the realm of dancing right into another.

Anyway, they all come back at some point and idk, I lose some time here I don't remember anything until I look over and see her back at the bar. I walk over to her and ask her what she's gonna get. She tells me e some options and like yeah I'm listening guys but listening to her talk about drinks is sexy, idk. Then she asks me what I'm having and I tell her I don't drink much. She asks me what I like usually and I give a brief description. fruity, will get me drunk, doesn't taste bad. So the bartender comes over and she orders for herself, then for me. Then says offhandedly, don't worry, it's on me. And if I wasn't horny BEFORE this just made it so much worse. So I get the drink and guys it's delicious. She says it's ok if I don't like it but it's crazy because I genuinely do. And it's just crazy because some of my close friends can't even get me a drink I like.

So I drink it, and go back to standing with our group. Watching her talk to her other friends, dance. I'm not being subtle but who cares.

She asks me to dance again several times, getting closer everytime. I learn a bit about her while she teaches me new steps, but guys now I'm more drunk and distracted than before and I tell her so. I'm stepping on her feet and we're both laughing and she's spinning me confidently and we're having a lot of fun. She asks me questions, compliments my dancing, is amazed I haven't done this before which I find flattering. It's funny because she's really doing all the work, I'm just following. She's just really easy to follow, and I want to.

When we're dancing, the last time, she asks me what I'm doing tomorrow. I answer honestly, I have errands, chores. I ask her why she asked and she says, just curious. Says, they're all going to the dive bar down the road after this. Inviting me.

And guys fuck I wish I would have said yes. But, I was barely on my feet. When we left the dance floor, I nearly fell asleep on a table.

So, anyway, dancing happens once a week so. Wish me luck next Tuesday?

[afra-blueraz]

Alastor?????

Oh Shiiiiitttttt!!!!!!!!!

Not DL. It's for my YouTube project. I wanna make a big YouTube channel and Instagram account for my non-dl arts and for other fandoms. Please share your honest opinion about my arts. It will help me a lot.

If you are curious YouTube project is gonna be for my animatic arts. YouTube will help me a lot for my future.