HOW DID I NEVER SEE THESE?!?!
Put together two different interest motorcycles + legos and you might as well start calling me religious bc this has to be a gift from god. Time for a yap session lets gooo!!!?!??!
ITS LITERALLY A YAMAHA MT-10 WHAT!??!?!
I actually love lego for THIS, and if I had the money, I would build this. It costs a solid $239.99, which is a lot of money, and you can probably get around 60 of these for the price of the bike itself.. BUUUUT you get 1478 parts ¯\_(ㆆ_ㆆ)_/¯
In terms of aesthetics, I don't like the stand you are able to put it that much. It looks like it's there just to promote the Yamaha name (luh them but sorry), and in my opinion, it clashes with the build as a whole. I get it, but at the same time.. a bit much.. To say something positive about it, I really like everything else about it, the colors, the little intricate details, everything looks so well thought out. I need it.
NOW I DONT EVEN REALLY KNOW DUCATI LIKE THAT BUT THE PANIGALE V4 MMFFHH
Someone cooked here.. And don't even get me started on the fact that it's only $79.99. Much fewer pieces than the Yamaha at 646, but still very detailed in the right places. I genuinely like how simple this one looks and I care the stand because it keeps the same bike aspects. If you do what I did last time, you can get a little more than 300 of these for the price of the original bike. So.. (´ ε ` )
〉 300 Ducati Panigale V4 R Lego Sets / VS / Ducati Panigale V4 (1103 cc) 〈
IN EHH TERITORY WITH BMW AND THE M 1000 RR
I'm not going to lie. Simply because it's BMW means it's not something I'm crazy for. They specialize in cars, and it looks to me to be another one of those 999 cc engine rounded up to 1000 race bikes, which it is, but it still eeeehhh. Also, it seems to be the largest motorcycle set they have, which makes me a little sad boy because I don't even mess with BMW like that to look at the bikes. It's my Yamaha bias sorry to lose BMW lover pookies.. ( ̄︿ ̄)
At $249.99, it is obviously expensive. With 1921 pieces, but it's fairly big, so I understand and wouldn't mind putting it together.. Just not my cup of tea brand wise.
To actually cover (in order) what these bikes actually look like FOR REFERENCE...
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Bruce coming home one day to find Robin Jason clinging onto a chandelier with Dick below him cheering him on.
Bruce: Jason what are you doing?
Jason: Dick said that you missed his antics after he moved out and so he’s teaching me how to be a better son
Dick: After this we’re going to drive the Batmobile into the bay :D
Jason: We’re going to what? I mean yeah! Right into the water.
Jason trying to whisper to Dick: Dick I can’t swim though
This just further fuels the chaotic dynamic of Dick and Jason during a time where Dick was still going through his teenage angst and was absolutely not a benevolent role model LMAO
I mentioned it in this post, but it's just so funny to me to imagine a Jason who grew up with an absolutely WILD Dick Grayson as an older brother, while the younger batkids grew up with a more mellowed out and mature (arguable but when measured against the other kids, he wins by a landslide) Dick Grayson.
Robin!Jason era:
Dick: You wanna go out and get high?
Jason: I can't, I have homework.
Dick, sputtering: HOMEWORK?
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Dick, about to do an elaborate (and totally not dangerous) acrobatic move in the manor: Watch this, littlewing
Jason: You shouldn't do that, it'll make Bruce upset.
Dick, on the brink of angry tears: Why are you like this.
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Jason, dejected: Listen, I know you don't approve of me because you think I'm not good enough as Robin, but-
Dick: Not good enough as Robin? I don't care about that, I just think you're a little bitch
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Dick taking Jason out on a hangout for the first time: OK, looks like I got my work cut out for me. Take out a notepad and write everything down. I will NOT have my successor embarrass me like this. So what you wanna do to piss off Bruce-
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[Years later, Jason returning to Gotham with the fury of a thousand suns and the chaos to match it]: I'm gonna make your life a living HELL, Bruce
Dick, older and relatively more chilled out: Okayyyyy, maybe let's just– calm down a lil, haha, no need for the theatrics
Jason, betrayed, observing a Dick Grayson who is teaching his new younger siblings to behave and be mature: Dick, what the FUCK
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Present!Dick, mentoring Tim: Make sure not to be too impulsive, don't wanna raise Bruce's blood pressure
Red Hood!Jason spying on them from afar: Who even ARE you??
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Jason: So you teach me ALL of that, only to turn into the ONE thing you despised so greatly all those years ago
Dick, sweating: Well-
Jason: I'm ASHAMED. How can you be worthy of being called my PREDECESSOR?
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"oil changes used to be $20 and take 20 minutes" hi I'm here to die on this hill, while I agree that $160 is too much money for an oil change, an hour or more is not too much time. working at a quick change shop is physically debilitating, the mechanics are in a giant pit or basement under the cars and they do not let them cool off before working!!! they have hot oil pouring from above their heads and then they have to stick their arms into the engine parts of a still hot car. my dad used to come home with burns up to his elbows, sometimes so bad he couldn't move his hands. oil changes need to take longer than 20 minutes, cars need time to cool down
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Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".
Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"
And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".
Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.
At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.
So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!
Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!
Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!
Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.
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