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comfortableinthesilence · 10 months ago

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March 1st 2024 - Sunrise on the drive to work

On this first day of March 2024, I was fortunate enough to witness a beautiful sunrise on my way to work. It made me realize how often we take the little things in life for granted. We tend to overlook the simple pleasures that are right in front of us, and we forget to appreciate them. But today, I was reminded of the importance of noticing and feeling blessed by the everyday occurrences that bring us joy and happiness. This small moment in my day lifted my mood and gave me a boost of positivity. Let us all take a moment to appreciate the beauty around us and find joy in the everyday things! 🩵

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40yr-agedcheese · 6 months ago

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I had a nightmare at 4AM today lol.

The best time to have nightmares right? :P

An orange cat with bloody mouth agressively attacked me.. I had to take the orange cat down =(

I was sleep talking to myself..."why are you.....hurting this....cat?" Sighs, it definitely didn't feel right in my dream..=/

I woke up sweaty and uneasy.

Well..a dream is just a dream! (I hope.. 🧐 😂) I actually had a great Friday =)

Hung out early in the morning before work and I got off an hour early too!

I went to go watch "Inside out 2" with friends then went straight to run my mom's errands afterwards =)

(Thank God that my mom is finding back her mobility.. 😮‍��)

I just pray that all my family and friends would do well in terms of health =/

Our poor doggo is having health problems too..and he’s only an yr old puppy 😓 his health issues really reminds me of my past dog…

📢 EVERYONE and EVERY living creature is precious and deserves to be loved. 🌳 ☁️ 🌊 🦒 🧍 🐞

I’ll be praying for you guys ❤️

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solarpunkani · 2 years ago

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"Oh no, someone's attracted to the aesthetics of my -punk movement but doesn't know the praxis and history behind it like I do--"

OK. Tell them. Make it a teaching moment. Everyone who's in your movement learned the background from somewhere at some point, maybe this is that point for that person. Give them a jumping off point that they can dive into later.

"Oh but I shouldn't be responsible for teaching baby -punks about the history and the how-tos and--"

OK. Then don't tell them. You don't have to be responsible for teaching people with a budding interest in your group the ins and outs and how-tos. That's fair and valid! It can be a lot of work. Someone else will handle it

"But I'm annoyed that they would try to claim to be part of/be interested in my community without knowing all the details that I know after being in it for months/years/decades, they're dumb, they're posers, they're--"

OK. Then don't engage with them, if it's that bad. Maybe someone else will come around and tell them the history, maybe they'll pick it up on their own, maybe they'll just enjoy the fashion elements for awhile.

"But they shouldn't claim to be part of the -punk community if they don't know the--"

I feel like we have a few options here. People can either talk to them, share the history, share the values, share the praxis. Or they can just chase off anyone who even thinks about dipping a toe in their community, and then wonder why it's dying off later down the line.

I dunno, maybe I'm too naive and patient or whatever. But if people are entering your -punk spaces without knowing The Rundown of what you feel they need to know, maybe being nice about it and informing people instead of immediately assuming stupidity and malicious intent could help you make a new friend. Even the loudest voices in a space had to learn from somewhere, and not everyone has the luxury of being in the space as the History was Happening--whether it's an age thing or a not being aware of the space thing. Or maybe I just don't see what the big deal is behind people hating people who like the aesthetic of something and don't know the behind the scenes history about it yet.

Because I believe in the word 'yet.' No one comes into this world knowing everything about everything, and we're all constantly learning new things. I'm not gonna degrade someone and call them a poser for not knowing what I know. Because if it were me, interested in a scene but getting chased out and called a poser? I wouldn't hit the books and study up, I'd go 'that fuckin sucks, those people sucked' and then avoid anyone and anything having to do with it.

So chase people off and call them posers if you want. But if your community starts dwindling, don't be fucking shocked.

#out of queue #ani rambles #punks and posers #i cant even call this a 4am hot take because its 7pm but like #idk i keep seeing posts about like 'how DARE people think I bought my punk clothes how DARE they not know the how-tos and DIYs'#or 'ugh people only care about the ~aesthetics~ of my movement if you don't know shit get out of here' and like #maybe I'm just a shy ass introverted nerd whos scared of social rejection! but I avoid that shit like the plague #so if someone were to reject me based on not knowing about something I'd never even heard about? something i was JUST getting into?#there's a high chance I'd just scram and never look back. i don't wanna be the one who causes that emotion in someone else #granted this is coming from someone who STILL doesn't know how to make her own patches or worked up the courage to do direct action praxis #outside of offering neighbors to my tomatoes and trying to talk to people about what I'm passionate about #but still imo unless someone's a malicious intentional bad actor i dont see the point in scaring newbies off #thats how movements die imo #i know this is my solarpunk blog but its not a solarpunk specific thing #i think the main post that inspired this was about store-bought versus self-made spiked leather jackets #which honestly just feels petty to me but who knows.#might delete later

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canisalbus · 1 year ago

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My absolute favorite thing about your blog, even more favorite that Vachete, is the care and interest you put into each response. Be it an ask or an art piece, you always eloquently break down each individual aspect and comment on them. It always makes me smile.

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#aw geez #thank you! that's such a sweet thing to say!#these are things I like to talk about so it's not like people have to try very hard to get me to ramble about stuff I hold dear #tumblr as a whole seems to have an atmosphere that encourages being open about passions special interests and one's creative projects #it's terribly flattering that folks are interested in engaging with what I make to begin with I don't take that for granted #and having your original characters depicted by other artists is a huge deal #it takes time and effort and thought to create anything especially if it's for someone else #I try my best to let them know that I've stopped to look at and think about their work in a way it deserves #and I like art and I like talking about and analyzing it and if someone made it for me and it features my brain goobers I like it even more #plus I know receiving comments is rewarding so I try to write ones that take longer than a few seconds to read #every time I get thoughtful feedback the good feeling lingers for ages and I'd imagine most people feel the same way #answered #hylorien

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beastblade69 · 5 months ago

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well that's fucking awesome. all of the damage russians have done to our electric infrastructure can be repaired in one year minimum. IT'S GONNA TAKE MORE TAHN ONE YEAR TO REPAIR ALL OF THE ELECTRIC STATIONS RUSSIANS HIT WITH THEIR MISSILES. AND WE AIN'T EVEN TALKING ABOUT CIVILIAN OR ANY OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE. ONLY ELECTRIC ONE. MORE THAN ONE YEAR. AND WE ARE STILL NOT STRUGGLING ENOUGH IN ONLINE PEOPLE'S OPINION. FUCK OFF

#like look I'm just a guy who fucking wants to relax on my summer break and enjoy the last months of being unemployed and careless #and all I fucking get is “the electricity will soon be out” notification on my phone #LIKE OKAY I FUCKING GET YOU YOU ARE USED TO US FUCKING STRUGGLING AND I MAY BE SEEN BYPER PRIVILEGED FOR COMPLAINING #BUT IT'S SO FUCKING EASY TO JUDGE SOMEONE WHILE YOU FUCKING HAVE EVERYTHING I CAN EVER DREAM OF (basic human needs)#like YES THERE'S AN ONGOING WAR IN MY COUNTRY AND I KNOW IT. BUT WE DIDN'T CHOSE TO LIVE NEXT TO FUCKING RUSSIA #we just want to live safely and have access to the most basic things that many people all around the world take for granted #we want to feel safe on our land #we want to stop fucking worrying that the next building hit by russian missile will actually be ours because no one is safe #and still I fucking see those fuckos online telling me how we “don't act like people who live in a country that goes through a war”#well I guess in that case we should all stop buying food and clothes to be REAL people who are suffering from a war #like you for real?? you gonna fucking make us give up the only sourse of distraction and dopamine we can get?#you fucking judging people for buying stuff because “you shouldn't buy new things #there's an ongoing war in your country“ you fr?? so like what we all shall fucking give up and die??#buying new things often gives people some dopamine which actually helps to stay somehow stable (as sane as it's possible)#or do you want us to be a fucking nut-state? idk some mental-case-state. fuck off #stand with ukraine #russia is a terrorist state

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naamahdarling · 4 months ago

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A random ask for you: is there anything you got into recently (book series, tv series, game) that you didn’t expect to enjoy or were hesitant to try but ended up really liking? 😊

Oh man, REALLY loving Dark Winds on Netflix. I was afraid it wouldn't be good. It's really good.

Zahn McClarnon, the man they cast to play Leaphorn, is just incredible. It's like they put out a casting call for "a cool dude" and got the perfect match. I love him. He does such an incredible job. He plays the character in a very controlled way, most of it being in his face. The show is fairly serious but there's a lot of humor (not comedy but humor) and the way he brings humor into the performance without ever overplaying it is fantastic. He reminds me of my grandfather, who didn't laugh out loud much but you could still tell he was laughing. Just secretly, with a little smile and a glint in his eye. Unlike my grandfather, I find him very attractive. He has an interesting face I could never get tired of watching. Also he is short which is fucking delightful.

Anyway yeah the rest of the show is really good too. I hope they don't Netflix it.

#my granddad was very handsome and looked like a young cary grant in this one picture i have of him in his early 20s #he was holding a giant scythe and standing in the middle of a field shirtless #he was a legit farmboy during the dust bowl and had someone take a fucking thirst trap picture of him with some Kodak Brownie-ass thing #and it lived on my grandmother's dresser for 70 years #anyway he also was a cool dude #engineer machinist inventor farmboy #don't make them like that anymore

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winepresswrath · 1 year ago

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Could you elaborate on what the yanli-jc wwx conspiracy is?

They are just generally in cahoots re: making sure he's safe and bringing him home, sometimes in defiance of their parents or society or just the likely fact of his death. The first time Wei Wuxian runs away Jiang Cheng wants to follow him because he's worried he'll get hurt. Jiang Fengmian says no, and when Jiang Cheng sneaks out in defiance of his father's wishes with his little rucksack in hand, Yanli is waiting at the gates to support him and tell him to bring Wei Wuxian home safe, implicitly siding with him against their dad in the matter of whether Wei Wuxian might be in real trouble and if so, whether Jiang Cheng's help might be valuable.

The second time is during the sunshot campaign while Wei Wuxian is missing- she comes in when he's brooding over Wei Wuxian's sword and tells him how grown up he is, fusses over him a bit and asks him to bring him back. Jiang Cheng fervently agrees, and looks actively relieved and pleased she's asking this of him- it's blatantly obvious he was going to do it anyway, but her support and faith mean a lot to him which I think is significant because he's usually so worried about failure and he knows Wei Wuxian has been thrown in the burial mounds and is almost certainly dead, but he's not actually frightened he'll fail her, he's just glad they're on the same page. He gets extra support this round because Lan Wangji is also refusing to believe Wei Wuxian is dead and taking joint missions to Yiling with Jiang Cheng and his own turn at sword brooding.

Breaking the pattern, in CQL she was originally going to go with him to talk to Wei Wuxian after he takes the Wens to the burial mounds but he kind of sneaks off without her when he sees her with Zixuan and then doesn't manage to bring Wei Wuxian home to her; she has a sad prophetic dream about it. The conspiracy is broken!

Until! They conspire to bring Yanli to Yiling so Wei Wuxian can see her wedding clothes. I personally think it's implied by the response to Zixuan's request for Wei Wuxian to be allowed at Jin Ling's hundred days ceremony that they were in on that together- either way they're both playing their part, because everyone from the Lan to the JIn know Jiang Cheng would happily take Wei Wuxian back and Yanli misses him. Whether they planned it or just moped really obviously is debatable buy money is on them being in on it together with Zixuan and maybe even Lan Wangji.

And then of course there's Nightless City, where Jiang Cheng notably does not try to get to Wei Wuxian but Yanli does, and then he finds him and loses him all over again so he can have a much more prolonged and less emotionally supportive round of refusing to believe Wei Wuxian is dead.

Bonus Round: The only time Yanli sends Wei Wuxian after Jiang Cheng it's when he's been captured by the Wen because he was already on top of the send Wei Wuxian home safe to Jiejie agenda.

#annnnd basically all of this is a cql exclusive! in the book there's no roadtrip we don't see yanli and JC interact during sunshot and she's #not there for the fall of lotus pier. and zixuan just writes a letter to wwx inviting him to the ceremony #whereas in the show you explicitly see him tell his dad that yanli #producer of heirs and legitimate grandsons #just has one teensie little thing that would make her happy #and lwj backs him up and writes the letter himself #i forget who says he can rejoin the jiang immediately if he gives up the amulet i think it's jgy and obviously a trap #but it's taken for granted that everyone from lxc to jgs knows jc will take him back if he's allowed to. womp womp also you get the shot of #JC and Yanli waiting for WWX together with Jin Ling when they get the news of Zixuan's death which is just. they wanted to introduce him to #jin ling together ;___________________; we three!!!

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celtrist · 1 month ago

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Why does Vassago already have merch, we haven't even met him yet

#Celtrist #cel rambles #I don't particularly care how abundant the merch is on shark robot #It literally feels like they'll take a scrap of anything and make it a pin #Like the Moxie Antartica pin Really sir and a bunch others where they're just a random frame from the show #I mean they're FUN frames at least but I swear I've seen some real random ones that don't even make sense to be a pin #AND I'M SORRY WHY DO THEY HAVE SO MUCH MERCH OF CHARACTERS THAT I CAN'T IMAGINE BEING THOUGHT TWICE ABOUT #Sallie Mae fine I can see why people like her and want merch #Chaz is pushing it especially seeing as he's pretty dead but fine I suppose he has his fans #Glitz and Glam? Okay you already fucked up not going with their beta designs but who really was looking at them and thinking “I want merch”#But fine. I'm sure they have their fans #BUT FREAKING MUFFY?? THE VET RECEPTIONIST? WHO TF WAS ASKING FOR A PIN OF HER? DID YOU EVEN KNOW HER NAME?#They do that shit all the time and it aggravates me. They seem to go by a “quantity over quality” thing.#Which their quality is great btw but the quantity of things they have for characters that don't even matter and are seen once is rediculous #Also when I was gonna look up when we were gonna meet Vassago I saw he was an overlord in the pilot #Curious if that's gonna stay. What's to say overlords can't be hellborns or goetia #Is he a goetia? Not sure.#P-point is I like their merch and the new batch seems to mostly be uniquely made to be merch and I like that #But the amount of “garbage” (that's mean but best way I can put it) merch that has a character little to no one would care about #Or is essentially JUST a screen grab from the show is annoying and just pointlessly fills the shop pages #And while I see from a business perspective why they'd put Vassago out especially since some already like him #I also just think it's silly for him to already have merch when we haven't seen his character other than in the trailer #Surprised they don't have merch of satan out yet lol #Okay but I would've approved only so they could make a krampus joke with him #Granted I don't care about Helluva as much as Hazbin #But can't help to be more critical of it when it has a lot of problems Hazbin has aside from pacing #But absolutely NO excuse or leeway for the reason of the sloppy writing that's present #Lemme reiterate my good ol' phrase here:#You're not in the Sonic fandom for like 22 yrs and don't learn to be critical of the media you enjoy lol #rant

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swan2swan · 6 months ago

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People: "But--but he can't be that old, his age was revealed to only be sixty-five in Donald Starr's 2008 novel Crash Point, and reaffirmed in the 2012 Guide to the Jedi Order and Chronology of the Clone Wars guidebooks!"

Me: *pointing to medal on my SW Fan uniform* "Do you see this? This was awarded to me for surviving the Spaarti Clone Cylinder Retcon of 2002. Rushed clone production without yslamari was canonized, Kamino became the planet, and Boba Fett is now a clone. Note the Jaster Mereel pip. They awarded these back when retcons were truly upsetting. To children."

#somewhere around the fifth time seeing that an Assertor Dreadnought (which doesn't exist) docked at Farpoint Station or whatever #I stopped taking Wookieepedia entries seriously #remember when Boba Fett had red hair?#yeah #things change and you move on #star wars #the acolyte #the acolyte spoilers #apparently people are upset at Ki-Adi Mundi #they don't realize that Cereans use cloning technology and their second brain is actually their backup #the base of the head has the primary active brain #while the second brain above accesses all the files #upon terminal age the brain is extracted and inserted into a pod around which a new clone is grown #effectively granting cereans immortality #oh but that's not canon you say well guess what I made it up because it's cool #which is exactly what every published star wars author does #and until canon says otherwise why not?

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holocene-sims · 1 year ago

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just a guy and his snowpal ⛄❄️

#ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #sims 4 screenshots #simblr #it's missing my pixel son grant hours #actually i've seen a lot of him lately bc i've been working super hard on story posts - yippee yippeee!!#it's just going slow but i swear they're coming again *pinky promise*#btw if you are reading the tags and you do read the story - question??#do y'all prefer waiting for me to finish a whole bunch so a cohesive arc is released over a short span all at once?#or do you prefer more frequent updates mini updates that just take longer to cover the arc overall?#if that makes sense #it's much easier for me to do the former bc i've styled my story that way but i notice a lot of people do mini but frequent updates instead #and i'm just kinda curious if one would work better than the other or if people have preferences as readers #i don't know that i would retool it bc i like the long drawn out scenes/arcs i do but i also do want to make more story #and the potential is maybeeee there that i could push things out faster as for the whole narrative if i don't wait until i have time to mas #produce the content #like rn because i'm doing a whole sprint to finish this one arc all at once but i had to wait forever until i had christmas break to do it #holocene.png #hlcn: story extras #hlcn: grant

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bellshazes · 8 months ago

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honestly it's so stupid that of all the life series teamups ethubs got the title of divorce duo or what ever. when divorce duo is cleo and bdubs to me.

3L they are in love. this is just textual does anybody ever think about the anguish of bdubs trying to die for cleo and then not even registering when cleo dies before him because it's just so unthinkable and unexpected. cleo had a widower's pact going and cleo dies first and it's so. the crastle which he built to protect them outlives them both

that one bdubs stream where when someone asks what his favorite season was, he says 3L because of teaming with cleo

the first thing bdubs says to cleo in LL is "now it feels like home" & etho cracks a joke (prescient, in the wrong direction) about bdubs already teaming up with cleo and feeling betrayed. but he doesn't, he doesn't team with her, and this time when she outlives him she has a different kind of widower's alliance with etho instead.

promising to leave the monolith to his neighbor cleo in

double life, cleo literally says "i know we're divorced." and then he breaks her trust by lying to her when she NEVER EVER lied to him. and nothing is ever the same again. she really loved him once, but it's different in all the worlds after.

i dont trust my memory of the more recent seasons but even the family bit in limited life is like. okay they got to be ghost together she still picks on him, theyre still so comfortable with each other.

and then in secret life cleo's boyfriends comments about etho is just like well theyve been divorced long enough to be a kind of friends again and they're helping set him up.

they used to be kind of IN LOVE and now they just kind of love each other but it's still there. i am so so so so glad they teamed up that first season it changed everythign. to ME

#cleo especially as someone who Never Forgets both grudges and alliances.#and bdubs as someone who is yes mercurial and prone to saying shit for the narrative tension... but he never forgets either.#he just takes things for granted with other people who remember because he's used to that being ok. so him & cleo arent really for ever #bc they're too of the same in ways that don't work. but they loved each other once #they really did!!!!!!! they used to!!!!!! once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#cledubs #AND not even getting into the whole role swapping permutations with etho involved. not today

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icewindandboringhorror · 8 months ago

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boy in silly sitting positions compilation

#cats #I especially like the last one where he just has one single paw poking out of that box for some reason lol #I still have costumes to post and like a billion other things.... grr... constantly failing at staying active on social media aughh #I think because currently my Main Focus is on trying to get my game done and stuff.. which basically just means sitting and writing all day #so there's not much to post about. Though I know the Good At Social Media thing to do would be to post about the #writing and share progress and talk about the game and characters or whatever to try to build interest or something but that is SOOO weird #to me.. I could maybe get it if it was like a tiny tiny discord groupchat of playtesters with like 5 people in #it.. But something about talking openly about things before they happen is weird to me?? Like presumptuous feeling or something #''oooo guess whats gonna happen LATER!!!'' like.. how do you know.. what if it doesnt. what if you dont finish it. what if its not the way #you think it's going to be. what if something changes. etc. Like I literally avoid movie trailers and game trailers for the same reason ghj #Even if it's not ME doing it it just feels... weird.. Maybe it has to do with my OCD and how I just don't like talking about ''future''#things in Certain Terms. Like if I was going to say ''Oh yeah sure. come over to my house in a few months''. I would have to follow it up #with like ''HOPEFULLY you can come over to my house in a few months'' or 'They'll come over in a few months MOST LIKELY''. Because just #stating that something will happen matter of factly takes for granted like.. what if somehting horrible happens and I DONT have a house #in a few months? or what if something bad happens to me. or to the person coming over? I can't ever DEFINITELY say with 100% certainty #that one could ACTUALLY come to my house in a few months. anything could change. So I have to allot for that in my phrasing. hbjjkn #There are a lot of situations where you're expected to just Assume Things but for some reason that bothers me. My brain literally does not #even Assume the most basic things.. like how do *I* know that just because it's someones birthday that they want to be wished a happy #birthday? what if they dont? everyone is different and has different preferences. I should check with them first. or wait until they public #ly announce that theyre accepting birthday wishes. I have to allot for all 5034859069 rare possibilities at any given time and never take #anything for certain. etc. ghjbjhbh.... ANYWAY.. I have been feeling a bit sick lately as usual.. but still slowly making progress on some #things. Moslty I need to edit costume photos. make sculptures. and work on the game. Going back reading some of the old writing from like #2018 and suprisingly I don't have to change that much of it? In fact I like it mostly. so that's good. I would be very interested if I were #playing the game myself. Though that doesnt mean much since my tastes are so niche lol..#Still really want to clear some of my million tumblr drafts as well... alas and aughh and ooughh and so on and so forth. Between all of my #evil appointments other such things...why cant I have one billion dollar to retire into relaxed hermit artist life of no stressors.. bleas

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georgegraphys · 6 months ago

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I’m sorry but if Mercedes are so scared of losing George to red bull (who have expressed interest in him multiple times over the years) then they better get their heads out of the backsides, treat him right and give him a better car.

It would be iconic if George was ever like ‘see you later’ to Mercedes, he only had a finite amount of patients and tolerance for Toto’s bs.

Agree.

It's not like I'd want to see George in RBR but Mercedes especially Toto got to respect him more instead of just casually disrespecting him weeks in and weeks out but at the same time, they'll scramble every time there's a rumour of him moving or RBR makes a noise about George.

It's not fair imo? Since 2020, they postponed his promotion but won't loan him to RBR nor let him leave. Now he's in the main team, he keeps getting disrespected. Say all you want about RBR but none of them ever played with George's name just for the sake of pissing Mercedes off or getting revenge.

Mercedes needs to put some respect to their once best junior driver (up until now) and the loyalty George has for Mercedes. Could he have left in '20/'21? Probably but he didn't. George never fucked around and dirtied Mercedes' name either. No matter what fuckery they did to him, he never blames the team. The shadiest things he said are probably things about uncertainties regarding the car, which is still the most polite thing.

They cannot expect George to continuously have this blind loyalty to Mercedes. After all the hard work, years of waiting, shittons of things he did, nope.

The biggest problem here is also Toto tbh and I don't think I feel the need to explain that anymore

#ari's asks #c'mon merc you got a rival team talking about George's start repeatedly last week #be fr #always taking him for granted #people always excuse it as “he's not a wdc”#that's not the thing #if they WANT george #they should put some respect to his name #if they don't want #let him go??#but Merc ain't doing those two

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smalltownrobin · 7 months ago

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