#fear of driving a car

[deep-dark-fears]

Warning sign. A fear submitted by Giselle to Deep Dark Fears - thanks! You can find original artwork in my shop! Click here!

[hollis-art]

drove by myself for the first time ever today and it was terrifying but shoutout to the "I'm scared to do it" "Then do it scared" mentality because without it, I probably wouldn't have gotten the nerve to try it out

yes, my first time driving by myself was just me shaking and sweating like the most nervous little dog ever, while repeating the Soft Kitty Warm Kitty song over and over and over again like a broken record, but i still did it.

bravery is not the ability to do something without fear. it's the will to do it in spite of fear. or whatever, i dont remember the full quote or who said it but i think about it a lot

[faaun]

what draws you back to your country what draws you back to your land when i was a kid i told myself if i ever left iran i'd never go back 2 years into living in the UK i started looking at news on iran again 10 years in and i visited it for the first time again and today i heard an iranian mother talk in farsi to her child on the train to london the way my mother used to and i wanted to cry i wanted to ask her whether they're still cutting the mountaintops whether the lakes are still drying today i showed the person i was with pictures of waterfalls and palaces and forests and snow-white north something odd pulls me back with increasing force i can't ignore it ever again

[podcast-hemocytoblast]

By the time cars were invented, Jonah Magnus was already well into the body hopping game, which raises the question: has he ever actually learn to drive? Did this man sit through driver’s ed? Or has he just been getting out of legal repercussions for his shit driving by telling the cops everything he knows about their deepest darkest secrets every time he gets pulled over?

[artilite]

if this is their dynamic for s3 i will truly die happy

[despazito]

i need to find a way to channel my interest in planes into cars so i can learn to drive

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I told my dad I needed to drive home but I was worried because I was deathly afraid of interstates. We were sitting in our living room and I don't have a car.

[devilsskettle]

i think everybody should think about how much of a privilege driving is before they judge people who don’t drive for being immature or whatever. like do you not realize that not everyone had a high school with driver’s ed or parents/older relatives who could teach them, not everyone had time to learn when they were younger, not everyone can afford a car and car insurance and any repairs that a car might need, not everyone lives in a place that is drivable anyway, and not everyone has good vision or a healthy enough brain and/or body to drive. and nobody needs to explain to you why they don’t drive! all you need to know is that the can’t, don’t want to, or it doesn’t make sense for them at this current time in their lives. fuck off!!!!! the response to inadequate public transportation isn’t that everyone should drive instead!!!!!! also everybody complains about bad drivers but people are incentivized to drive regardless of their actual driving ability because it’s shameful not to drive even if it’s a personal choice. and like maybe some people are just not self aware about their own driving abilities but some people just don’t understand that they are in control of a large machine that is dangerous if they don’t operate it properly and they have to be more responsible for the people they’re putting at risk because they don’t care enough to pay attention or follow the rules of the road or keep their tempers under control while they’re behind the wheel. anyway not everyone can or should drive, that’s all

[moonsmistresss]

enzo and elena are the only people in the neighborhood who said the cycle ends with me and succeded in that

[nat-without-a-g]

I probably shouldn’t find this funny, but as someone who was Terrified of learning to drive, I could never imagine being in TJ’s position. Your first time driving, you are the oldest of your peers, and you EXPLODE THE ENGINE? I would never sit behind the wheel again. There’d be no recovering. Even IF someone manages to force me to take lessons long enough to re-learn and get a license, I’d never want to sit in the driver’s seat again in my life, I’d burn the liscense.

Aaaand I just realized that I think TJ is the only dad we never see drive a vehicle in season 2 so he probably feels the same way I do.

[astrobei]

cried while trying to parallel park today who want me

[unholy-cvlt]

PASSENGER

Here I lay

Still and breathless

Just like always

Still, I want some more

Mirrors sideways

Who cares what's behind?

Just like always

Still your passenger

Chrome buttons, buckles and leather surfaces

These and other lucky witnesses

Now to calm me

This time won't you please

Drive faster

Roll the window down this

Cool night air is curious

Let the whole world look in

Who cares who sees anything?

I'm your passenger

I'm your passenger

Drop these down

Then put them on me

Nice, cool seats

There to cushion your knees

Now to calm me

Take me around again

Don't pull over

This time won't you please

Drive faster

Roll the window down this

Cool night air is curious

Let the whole world look in

Who cares who sees what tonight?

Roll these misty windows

Down to catch my breath and then

Go and go and go just

Drive me home and back again

Here I lay

Just like always

Don't let me

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go

Take me to the edge

[devilsurvivor-2-recordbreaker]

Do you want a driver's license to finally have autonomy and be able to go where you want? Or is that the car-centric structure and pedestrian hostile architecture (of most places in the world) make going anywhere that isn't acvesable by car and within walking distance a waking nightmare? Or that the requirement of a driver's license creates a divide in the people and inhibits those without a license or without a car stranded with limited access to bare necessities? Or that the assumption that everyone must drive a car denys the possibility of productive public transport which if anything, would be much more efficient at transporting large quantities of people while maintaining low traffic?

Or are am I just lazy and making up excuses (:? Who the fuck knows?

[sunsetsover]

you know what thinking about it i have not seen anyone talk about how batshit insane it was that kant's response to a guy flirting with bison (who isn't even his boyfriend btw) was to drop a fucking bowling ball on his foot

it wasn't even a little comedic 'whoopsie! my hand slipped!' moment he literally looked that man in the eye and dropped a heavy ass bowling ball right on him. like it was clearly supposed to be a threat. had it not been a set up he literally would have crushed that man's bones. and all because what? he expressed interest in the guy you're also interested in? is that not crazy?

and yeah ok kant paid the guy and it was fake. so what? he still did it. he still wanted it to seem real. he still thought that breaking a man's foot was a normal response to someone flirting with your not-quite-boyfriend, even if he only did it bc he thought it would somehow impress bison and wouldn't have done it under normal circumstances. is that not still kinda bizarre? and does that say an awful lot about the kind of guy kant is? like maybe he's someone who defaults to violence, or at the very least wants to give off the impression that he does?

just how much of that for bison's benefit and how much of it was kant thinking that that was a normal and appropriate response to that situation?

[r-adio]

consider this an INBOX CALL, if you like this, ALASTOR will raid your inbox ! i would love if multi - muses could specify which they would prefer it for !!

[eightspringdays]

for some reason I just remembered that mello knows how to drive a car, and motorcycle and a truck and, as someone who doesn't even know where to put the key to turn a tricycle on, I think it's pretty neat