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this is entirely self serving, but interact with this post if you've ever felt bad or lesser for not being as ticklish as most people and wished you were more sensitive
#just feeling really sad about it lately#i feel like it makes me less fun#like i'm really bad on my feet but that's it#i wanna be sensitive everywhere#at least i'm a switch so i can live vicariously through more sensitive people#but i just keep thinking about it lately#like i feel like. it makes me less attractive to people on here who have it as a kink#makes me feel less than#just going bla#could do with like a reminder that i'm not the only one that feels like this#bc outside of the community it seems like such a silly thing to be sad about hahahah
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mtdd week day 5 - au
idol au moment yayyy. they have history
#mtddweek2024#i think this would be shortly after Susie joins#she’s not very confident in her place in the group yet but through shenanigans she follows flamberge on this goose chase#and they get to bond a little bit and bla bla bla#flamberge doesn’t care much but i think being surrounded by so many reserved people she’s kind of excited to witness drama up close for onc#also tried to make meta’s dialogue a little less formal since he’s yknow. Not a knight here lol#debated having Kirby just call him meta but#this au is already self indulgent might as well go all in#kirbyposting#my art or something#meta knight#king dedede#metadede#kirby#flamberge kirby#susie haltmann#idol au#quinn does comics#sorry divorced mtdd is so funny to me lol#this is incredibly unserious but i got stuck on whether or not to include the bet thing because maybe that’s. a bit much#but i dont think any of them would care enough to investigate otherwise lol..?#im gonna speculate the bet was Zan’s idea tho
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didn't dan stop saying 'what can i say' after he saw that compilation. i fear for the lives of the outfits about to be roasted
#the gray jumperTHE STRIPED SWEATERRR#WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE#but then again he also said he wanted to stop giving a fuck and enjoy life or something#and also he's a grown man bla bla#idk im just saying shit cause im procrastinating on going to sleep#dan howell#phil lester#dnp#dan and phil#phan#fandometrics the bit the legacy etc etc#dnposting#watch him not even be in the video
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Lol I love how the fandom literaly just decided that Sirius has a "moony" tattoo because like every fanart I see that shows his tattoos has a "moony" one and I just think that's like so canon I love it I've officialy decided it's real
#i can imagine the two of them getting drunk and going to the tattoo place to get it and remus thinks sirius is just doing it out booze so#he says like “you shouldn't do this it's permanet bla bla bla” and sirius who is more sober than he looks is like “shut up moony i wan#“i wanna do it” and remus just melts#marauders#sirius black#remus lupin#wolfstar#wolfstar headcanon#marauders headcanon
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I swear, Cal and Merrin are one of the few sane enough couples in Star Wars
AND I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#YADA YADA DONT READ THE TAGS IF YOU DONT WANT SURVIVOR SPOILERS BLA BLA DONTREAD!! BLA BLA BLA ITS ON U IF U READ OK!!!#I AM soooooooo normal abt them#(< girl who finally got to the merrical kiss scene today)#like sure i knew they did kiss. okay. thats the one single spoiler i had/have for survivor going in. but IT HAPPENED in FRONT OF MY EYES#and I LOVE THEM#thanks for the ask!#THE WAY CAL JUST STARES AT HER FOR A FEW SECONDS AFTER!!!! UNTIL BD TAPS HIM CAUSE THEY GOT SHIT 2 DOO#OBSESSED I HOPE THERES MORE MERRICAL TO COME#INSTANT GAME OF THE YEAR IF SO#thinking abt it it's really funny how i've made so much merrical art and yet have only JUST played the game they canon in LOL#...i hope
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support group for the girls, gays and theys who are simping for opla Sanji only to find out about anime Sanji apparently being a perv sometimes
(from what I've heard reading some comments, I'm not that far yet)
#I just started the anime and I'm going to deliberately ignore that part to make things more enjoyable for me#opla#one piece#one piece live action#sanji#live action sanji#taz skylar#feat. thoughts concerning to feminism bla bla bla#own post#ray watching stuff
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every single time. yes I did this instead of wrapping up the goddamn fic leave me be
#mona rambles#on writing#sigh#me & endings is just. like. idk idk every time i have 10-20% left of anything over 5k my brain just starts going into high-pitched static#which is ANNOYING#i have deadlines to meet bla bla bla#anyway#on the bright side. tarot fest is almost done if i can#yk#defeat the horrors
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hi batsplat! i would like to say that you are an absolute pillar of the motogp community on here, like you are truly so so appreciated. both for your knowledge and also for the way you write about things (i think you could write 3000 words on a grocery store trip valentino took in 2003 and still make it super interesting reading)
i was reading your post about your favourite rivalries that didnt include one of the aliens, who would you personally include as part of that list? (versus who is really good but not quite alien status) id also really like to know if (and who) youd count as aliens from the pre-motogp era, and if theres been a difference over time about how often we are seeing aliens or if theyre easier/harder to spot as technical developments have sped up
hope you have a great day!
that's so sweet... thank you that's such an incredible compliment dsdkhfkhfd
about the aliens, the way I use the term is entirely as a historical descriptor, not as a qualitative assessment of any riders. it's a useful shorthand for a specific riders in a specific era, but to me it has limited relevance outside of that era. so to be clear we're talking valentino, casey, dani, jorge and marc - and according to common wisdom this usage originated from colin edwards' 2009 comment:
“But as I’ve said before, I’ve got to be pleased to be finishing next best behind those four guys, or should I say aliens. “They are riding out of this world and to be right behind them means I’m doing the best job I can and that’s about as good as I can hope for at the moment.”
(jorge discusses valentino as an alien in 2007, see here. which might be complete coincidence, but has always made me kind of curious whether the word was floating around in the paddock in some capacity before edwards 'coined' the term)
the thing is, right, it made sense to treat those four (and later -casey +marc) as distinct from the field, because they were winning almost everything. one reason for this was that they were very good, very skilled riders. another was that from 2007-15, only four to six bikes were capable of regularly challenging for wins at any one time. it was a massive field disparity that quite frankly was partly enforced through machinery. that's why it makes sense to include marc in that term: it's not just the fact that he was very good, it's the fact that he was riding a repsol honda that was the best or second best bike by a long way for his first three years in the premier class. in 2016, motogp returned to michelins and introduced new technical regulations - and for all intents and purposes, the alien era ended. it ended when eight different riders won in eight races that season. yes, marc, valentino and jorge were still the top three in the championship... but it's the difference of whether you go into a weekend convinced you know the winner will come from a list of four riders, or if you very much do not know that. between 2008 to 2015, apart from the aliens, a grand total of two riders claimed wins - dovi on a repsol honda in 2009 and ben spies on a factory yamaha in 2011. both of those were wet races (which of course are generally more open than dry ones). so just to reiterate: a greater number of riders won in 2016 alone (9) than in 2008-15 combined (7). (in 2007, a further two different riders won races - capirossi on the championship-winning factory ducati and vermeulen on the suzuki.) yes, obviously the aliens were very good riders, nobody is going to argue with you over that... but those numbers? they're only possible in a specific version of motogp - one that only existed for a few years
honestly, I don't even really use the term 'alien' to describe valentino pre-2006 or marc post-2016. it's just not that useful to me... aliens to me is a 'pack hunter' thing, where even if some of them are injured or are having a bad day or whatever, at least one of them will basically always be there to pick up the pieces. marc and valentino might have dominated the sport as a whole - but not all of their championship seasons were completely dominant, and there's only so much any one athlete can dominate in the sport... you're not going into every single weekend thinking 'oh yeah they're definitely going to win' (yes, yes, there were two times per year where you did very much do that with marc). which is different when you compare it to the aliens as a pack, where you could be confident that ONE of them would end the weekend on the top step of the podium
which is why I just don't apply the alien term to anyone pre-valentino - it's not because I think they were less good or less talented or less anything, it's because for me it's a term that's more about an era than it is about individual riders. you have to treat each era on its own, and I'm not really a big fan of inter-era comparisons. it's just kind of impossible to say whether a rider in the 1970s is more talented than one in the 2020s, whether ago's numbers are more or less impressive than marc's and so on... the sport has just changed in so many ways over the years. of course, in sports you do generally have this upward momentum where each generation is 'better' than the last. sports has gotten more professionalised, there's been massive advances in terms of pedagogy and sports medicine and exercise science and all of those things - all of which already affects how athletes train from childhood onwards. the young aren't more 'talented' in the sense that they were born with an innate superior ability to compete at the sport, but they are more 'talented' in that their ultimate ceiling will be higher as a result of all these gradual changes over time. these things can change quite quickly even (and if other sports is anything to go by, I wouldn't be surprised if the nineties/early noughties brought some big changes in that regard) - so already between, for instance, valentino and marc there'd probably been a real shift in how young talent is being nurtured
(the most blunt illustration of this is that young valentino's lifestyle was completely different from that of young riders today, in terms of how much time he spent training in the gym, sleeping habits, nutrition etc etc. athletes now can't get away with that much deviation any more, and indeed valentino had to massively change his approach in the 2010s to remain competitive - but of course it's different if you haven't been doing this stuff since you were a kid. I think we can safely assume valentino's 2003 supermarket trips looked rather different from marc's 2017 ones)
being good in pro sports may in some ways be harder now than it was in, say, the eighties, and the level of competition you're facing might be higher now - but of course, it would also by extension be unfair to judge those athletes by the standards of today. also, different eras are going to lend themselves to different profiles of rider depending on competitive trends, type of machinery and so on - even very basic stuff like how tall you are might have helped you in a certain era and hindered you in another... so what does that mean for talent? if we're discussing 'talent' at all, how can we possibly treat it as anything other than relative to the era we're discussing? to me, it just makes these comparisons between different generations pretty pointless... or well, I like talking about some of this stuff in a more holistic 'isn't this interesting' kind of way, not a 'this is why xyz is better than xyz' approach... this kind of thing is also why I finds goat debate such a uniquely boring way to spend your time, incidentally
this is a very long way of saying, I don't have a metric by which I judge athletes pre-2000 as 'alien' or 'not alien'! I think you have similarly dominant athletes, though again it is so tough to decide how much of that is down to talent and how much of it is down to bike advantage. if you take doohan's title winning seasons for instance:
yeah, look, sure, you can call him an alien as far as I'm concerned - if I'm watching these races live I will be expecting doohan to win in any given weekend. I'm still kind of missing the pack hunter feel in some of these seasons, so I won't know for certain the winner is going to come from a very short list. like take 1998:
not really one group vs the field, is it? and yeah, even if I consider doohan an 'alien' in some of those seasons, I'm still not going to call him that - because the term was essentially coined in 2009 for a specific group of guys that one other guy was later added onto. the competitive landscape and demands of doohan's era were so different that it feels off to try and go back and label him or any other past riders aliens... they were phenomenally talented, yes, they were great champions, yes, they can be called as good as the aliens, sure - but why wrench the term out of its historical context? is it still an analytically useful concept if you do so, except as a way to generically refer to a rider as 'very talented'?
which is also why I personally don't describe anyone since then as an alien. this doesn't mean I don't think fabio or now pedro aren't as good as those guys were, I just don't think they've been given the opportunity to have that kind of hold over the sport. fabio won five out of eighteen races in 2021 - and he did so on a yamaha that basically only he was able to consistently get a high level of performance out of. which is deeply impressive - but unlike say casey in 2007, he didn't have those other riders to dominate all the other races. eight riders won a race that season! it's just a fundamentally different competitive landscape. personally, I'd be perfectly content if we don't get another alien era. of course 2007-15 isn't all bad, but for good reason most fans' most fondly remembered eras are either 2001-06 or 2017-19... yes, at times one rider was too dominant, but it still felt like more riders had a shot at victory - and most importantly the quality of the racing was generally very high. this kind of domination by a few mega talents on the best machinery can get drab pretty quickly (though of course a lot of the blame for decreased race quality needs to be assigned to the 800cc era 2007-11, not to any of the aliens themselves)
I'd be quite happy to retire the term alien going forwards... except as a useful shorthand for a specific group of guys who have mostly retired. it shouldn't be used as a way to bash the young stars, as if they just can't measure up to the legends of the past. which would be dumb! again, plenty of ways in which motogp is harder now than it ever has been, though the most important thing is that it's just... different. not better, not worse, just different. sure, maybe we'll get another equivalent to the alien era, even though I personally think it's quite unlikely. if it happens, yeah, let's discuss cranking the term out again (and, yes, if you look at the current season and ignore sprints... if this current trend continues then we can have the debate at the end of the season. pecco and jorge despite all their apparent inconsistencies are currently building a pretty solid case for themselves) (now I've said that they're both gonna crash out of assen huh)
that being said! I don't exactly neatly follow this principle myself, because sometimes I do use something like the term 'alien-like talent' to refer to fabio or pedro... obviously, you can argue this is basically the same as calling them aliens in everything but semantics. so what's the criteria there? when do I use this term? I think to me it's just... instant, 'in your face' talent. they arrive to the premier class and they shine basically immediately. valentino got a relatively sedate start to the premier class by alien standards - which is fitting, because he's not really about that blistering raw pace. still, he wasn't far from being a rookie champion, got ten podiums, two wins... not too bad. casey was on a satellite team, but he got pole in his second ever race and came painfully close to winning his third. dani got a podium on debut and fought for the championship for almost the entire season. jorge got pole in his first three races and won his third. marc won the second time out and of course secured the title in his rookie season. compare that to fabio - pole in his fourth ever race on satellite machinery, fighting for wins in his first season. pedro got a podium in his second ever race and is handily outperforming everyone else on that bike
so it's about how quickly these guys pick this stuff up, how quickly they make that step from one level to another - though again, it's important to stress you can't just neatly compare these achievements! valentino's first two seasons were on 500cc bikes, which were notorious for being kind of evil. some of these riders started on satellite bikes (we're not counting valentino here), and there's also plenty of talk about how the bikes have become more complicated to ride now, making pedro's rapid adjustment even more impressive. but in every case, there is just this ability to 'be fast immediately', whatever the circumstances... and it's worth pointing out that even though pecco had a mediocre rookie season, he was incredibly quick in 2019 pre-season testing. jorge martin secured his first pole position and podium at his second race in motogp
speaking of, those two were already a touch older when they joined the premier class. there does generally seem to be something to the idea that in motorcycle racing, if you are not already very fast at a certain age, you will have a quite definitive ceiling... and from valentino onwards, the age by which you need to already have reached that standard of 'very good' seems to have gone down. when we're talking about talent and throwing around the term alien, this feels like another important change to mention - doohan was not winning his titles as a 22 year old! neither was rainey! or schwantz! or lawson! or... actually spencer was very young, yeah. but I think you get the point. I cannot tell you definitively why this changed, but it clearly has changed. in the 21st century, only two riders have won titles when they were older than 26: valentino (29-30) and jorge (28). valentino and marc were both 27 when their dominance over the sport ended (even if valentino secured titles after that point and marc will very probably do so as well). casey was 27 when he retired. (fun fact: pecco bagnaia is currently 27 years old.) so overall it's pretty rare in grand prix motorcycle racing to operate at the top of the premier class for more than a certain number of years - but the precise age window in which you are likely to be at your best does seem to have shifted pretty radically this century. which should demonstrate how hard these things are to compare... like I said, talent is often assessed by how quickly you are good at something - but if we called mick doohan a late bloomer, it would be wildly ahistorical
and yeah, look, this idea of 'you have to be good young or you will have a certain ceiling' is hardly unique to motogp, lots of sports are like that... another measure of this precocity that's perhaps more useful than just 'age' is looking how long it took them to win a title from when they joined the premier class (if they did so at all, of course). it's generally very fast! marc year one, valentino, casey and joan year two, jorge and fabio year three... and, well, pecco and hayden year four. of course, there's exceptions to this 'be fast immediately' rule - athletes who ended up being very good and title contenders who had slightly different paths getting there. the sete's and dovi's of this world - and to a lesser extent hayden too, who unlike those two was only even really a title contender in a single season... but generally speaking, those riders seem more heavily reliant on circumstances playing out just right to have a shot at a title
or perhaps! perhaps it's going to change! especially if you look at repeat champions, pecco does become a bit of an outlier in how he got there this century, doesn't he? compare the numbers he was posting in his rookie season vs valentino, casey, jorge and marc. and in some ways, you can extend this even further and say he's a massive historical outlier in terms of any premier class champions. there was an article about this in late 2022:
and some more about how historically unusual he is:
isn't that great? you don't become premier class champion with that kind of a rookie season, but pecco did! hey, aleix was a serious title threat in that season, which is a far more remarkable story still! and the thing is, right, if you're studying the current era and are labelling some riders aliens but leaving out pecco... then no offence but what's the point? look, who knows, maybe marc and pedro and david alonso are going to dominate the next twenty titles and pecco will have been a weird blip. but isn't there something fun about believing that a bunch of different riders could eventually develop into title threats? wouldn't it be kind of cool if you don't have to just write someone off age 22 any more? I don't know, I think it's a neat development! I hope it sticks around! there'll be plenty of alien-level talents in the future, but personally I wouldn't mind at all if there were no more aliens
#hope you have a great day too anon and again that is an INCREDIBLY sweet comment#'aliens' is just my way of avoiding the term 'fantastic four'. but that's basically how I use it#obviously this is all my personal read bla bla... if you want to call fabio or schwantz or surtees an alien go ahead none of my business#it's not something i feel THAT strongly about. i do feel strongly about talent discourse though!!#i mean relative to other sports pecco's already pushing it for me... that moto2 title is a bit sus#in a different way fabio was FANTASTIC!! what a surprise! what a revelation! people had written that kid off and they were so wrong!#motogp#//#brr brr#batsplat responds#alien tag#i'm very jekyll and hyde about this in motogp because in sports in general i'm not into the wunderkids#but i just HAPPEN to like a few specific guys in motogp a lot who HAPPENED to dominate the championship for like two decades#that's not me!! i'm all about smarts over natural talent about getting gradually better rather than showing up fully formed#shaking my head while watching 2001/2007/2010/2013 to show everyone i don't agree with what's happening
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whenever i have to pick between a comfy and reasonable norm-ish fit and taking an extra 40 minutes to do my stupid makeup and put on all my silly little trash accessories a voice in my head yells "if you don't go to town dressed like a stupid earnest half assed clown idiot, no one will!!!!!" and we can't have that! we just can't!!
#im gonna get yelled at anyway might as well go ding ding!!!!!!!#if im the most interesting thing someone else's seen all day then that's a them problem i do not make the rules#your whimsyless existence has nothing to do with my life choices bb#so gotta have fun in the streets at the least!!!!!!#idk rambles i like my makeup and i do not want to put pics of me on here but i want the world to know i did my make up today#it's just funky eyeliner bc everything else is a sensory nightmare but its MY funky eyeliner and it makes me happy#maiora bla bla blas#its been a while since i left the house at all let alone in funky eyeliner so today's “hell yeah” points are super high B)#hell yeah 💥
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nooooooo woman that i only just managed to stop dreaming about every few months who i used to want a mother-like relationship with after developing an intense parasocial relationship with your son due to extreme gender envy and romantic + platonic + familial love deficiencies, don't announce that you and i need to have a talk soon bc you want to convince me to go to the university your son was supposed to go to, the son who actually got me really interested in it in the first place, and that logically is actually the absolute perfect choice for me and that i can't find a single reason to not go to other than some weird feeling in my stomach, you're so sexy aha
#trust your guts this#trust your guts that#girl i have ibs and anxiety#my gut conspires against me all the time#no seriously im getti g so sick of this. it's not even just where my parents and everyone thinks i should go#it really IS the perfect choice#and the alternatives are costly both figuratively and literally but i just. i really have this feeling#not a panic one#a sincere one#but girlllll i wohld cave to her if she really said i had to go (/hj)#im mostly laughing bc it's like. it's such a ridiculous situation that SHE wants to have a long sit down conversation about it#why HER#i know WHY and it makes sense if you discount my own secret weird stuff#given that she works with my parents and bla bla bla it's faiely normal#but i. grrr#blue screams into the void
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bruh i legit thought that "frostpaw will be the new leader of riverclan by the end of the arc" was a joke guess. im very out of the general fandom loop, but this is extremely puzzling to me as a genuine semi-popular theory lol
#reads to me like shes just having a medicine cat arc#wasnt initially chosen but found her own true connection bla bla bla#like riverclan needs a medicine cat to do the starclan stuff + mothwing is getting old#also shes. a teenager. and wont have an apprentice obv#idk gang what am i missing here i just scrolled past a poll for rc leader guesses where she was easily in the lead and i ??????#im p sure its just going to be icewing by process of elimination#unless book 6 wants to introduce a new person last second which. i hope not.#warrior cats#asc#warrior cats star#yarrow speaks
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#but when it turns out that there was probably a dress code to that wedding and most women are probably going to be#dressed in some variation of white or cream#(ok i'll probably be proven wrong lol)#(I just am sure Taylor wouldn't be wearing white at a wedding unless it was OK like she is very WASPy she knows these things lol)#i do not care about dress discourse bla bla bla
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GRRRR HES GETING ON MY NERVES HE USES A VACCUM CLEANER TO MOVE AROUND BECAUSE HIS LAZY ASS CANT MOVE GRRRRRRRRRR I KNEW HE WAS A BIG BACK!!!!!!!!!!!! also how tf the vaccum cleaner supports his weight, he’s fucking fat/silly/heavily joking
#naomi iwata#im farting#skibidi toilet#bla bla bla#GRRRRRRRRRR I CANT WITH THIS FAT RAT#imma go take a nap rn#dr chu is hot#DR CHU IS A BIG BACK 100% REAL#I wanna kiss dr chu so bad!!!#wait a second….thefatrat = dr chu????!!!?!??!?!?/j#IM TURNING INTO PONMI#he looks like he would be canonically plus sized but whatever is just a dumb headcanon of mine
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behold, updated zoro/zosan sticker collection with bonus prints! i have another print i'm waiting to frame before hanging, and then i ordered eight more small prints today that i'll frame when they arrive.
also i ordered some wicked zoro swag so be on the lookout for pics
#can you tell i got a fat paycheck haha#too bad it's my ONLY PAYCHECK#i just got hired at starbucks oct 23rd#and had to quit last week because bestie#that shit is TOO much for my neurodivergent ass#they wanted me to get going after only 42 hours of training bro#anyway life is short treat yoself bla bla bla#zoro#roronoa zoro#zosan#one piece
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last saturday i went to a taylor swift party here in berlin. they played nothing but full-length original taylor songs. the vibe was pure happiness. it was once more bewildering to me how my secret taylor obsession from when i was in 7th grade 15 years ago has turned into this mega hype with my irl friends that i made during all these years participating. i had so many flashbacks to when i first heard these songs, at school, in my first car, moving to the city, little moments during my relationships etc. there was actual crying on the dancefloor lol. i used to be such an unhappy teen clinging to my fearless cd and the growth i felt in all of my body dancing with hundreds of people to ybwm in this incredible phase of my life was just... everything
#bla bla bla bla#and they said speak now#basically everything else in my life has changed since i was 15 but the joy of being a fan of her#so much terrible stuff is going on everywhere but this is just a fountain of joy thank god for that!!!!#when i see people posting things like how can people care about taylor and not talk about all the voilence in the world im like....#does it occur to people that this is a happy place for some people who take their activism outside of freaking tumblr
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karofsky taking sam to country bear night at scandals 🌈🤠🐻
#glee#dave karofsky#sam evans#ummmm#samofsky#oh i already had that tag slay#my thoughts#idk why i have boy shipping brain rot lately#all the rare pairs are just lighting up my fucking synapses#also i know sam isnt a bear but if bla*ne can go he can go#what are they gonna kick him out
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