#max if you're reading this

[churchofthpl]

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the shit people were saying to him was funny until it wasn't. i still read through them from time to time because i get a kick out of knowing people laughed at his shit and tried to use pretty boy insultingly - i think about that comment a lot and i still have a theory that it was one of vivian's old friends because vivian was either psychopathic or the most sane person i ever met - and they told him to be more careful broadcasting his mental problems to viewers of a public blog (and i get an ego boost from knowing he was probably getting off on it cause that's the type of guy he always was). i think it stopped being funny when the threats on posts that were very obviously about me - "curly-haired boy with acne-prone skin", etc - began. i told trick as a joke once that i think it were all him on alt accounts but she laughed and said maybe and i haven't talked to trick in almost a year now and i wonder if i would miss her if it wasn't for that.

i haven't talked to vivian, i haven't talked to trick, and my current friends know next nothing of neither of those people. and i miss trick but i do not miss vivian and really, i don't miss trick, but i miss her auburn hair and the way she'd always complain about hair dye being a nightmare to get out, even between three rounds of colour oops, and i miss the suppression of laughter evident on dyl's face when i told him i was in a "situationship" with a teenage girl named patrick-but-i-call-her-trick but i don't miss trick because i've moved on.

and i hate trick, because i spoke of her recently and she goes by another name now but she never truly went by trick unless it was to me so i can call her that to keep her anonymity but i hate her. and miles hates her and kody probably hates her and every other poor kid that she fucked over hates her.

and i think about him writing every post in james' car (and then i think about us holding hands in the back seat of james' car and maybe i do feel a little sick) but then i think of him crying my old name when he wakes up from nightmares about whatever truly happened to him and whatever he lied about and by now i definitely feel sick.

i think about his edgy shitty poetic blog and how he never knew how to write or draw or play an instrument and i think he'll never make it out of lancashire but i also know he will and i, for one, will make it out of birmingham if it is the last thing i do.

and maybe i'll see him in greece one day and by now my hearing has deteriorated to a level where i feel most confident speaking in sign language despite my teenage self being reluctant to learn and i'll wave to him and he'll wave back because neither of us recognise each other's faces but but but i notice the crookedness of his teeth against thin lips and he notices the small circular scars across my face and for a moment we feel as if we might know. we don't. we never have and we never will.

and he'll continue to call me a liar on his blog and ricky will continue to view me as competition and vivian will continue to fear the wrath of an incompetent sixteen-year-old boy and trick will continue to get the urge to text me whenever her dad drives down to birmingham and dyl will continue to convince his mom to take me to gigs and james will continue to exist through quiet evening jokes and anonymous blogspot stalkers will continue to maliciously call him a pretty boy and he never liked me anyway and it will all be okay.

[sainz100]

2024 Brazilian GP | x

[choscar-op81]

Clearly, a lot of people haven’t read the new racing guidelines, what Oscar did yesterday was completely within the rules.

If you’re saying “I like Oscar BUT,” then shut your mouth.

Also, I had nothing against Kimi before, but saying you want to send another driver into the wall isn’t funny. Any other driver who said that would be in deep trouble, and the same goes for any other team principal encouraging their driver to do it.

That’s all I have to say, because people in the #oscarpiastri are being stupid

What Toto and Kimi said wasn’t funny.

[thelaurenshippen]

ah yes, the sweet sting of rejection from a billion dollar corporation who believes that "action stories don't appeal to romance audiences", welcome back my old familiar friend

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

Official Cover Art for Part 1 of my Maximum Ride Rewrite, Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messages, This Place is Not a Place of Honor.

Read it on ao3!

[meirimerens]

do you simply email French colleges, and they take you in? no admission exams? no scores competition?

i mean i guess some people would prefer it go that way but can you imagine how much of an administrative bloodbath that would be?

in order to get into higher education in france you have multiple options. if you're going to specialized med, engineer, business, vet schools, you will need to pass an entrance exam. to do so, you might have to take a "prépa" [preparation] year, which is a bunch of privatel-run specialized classes which can run you some fucking moneyyyy and some students put themselves into debt over it. entrance exams are also done for most art school regardless of it private or public, such as the public one i was in for my first run of post-highshool education.

if you want to go to free public university like most (me included rn) do, in which you have a wider chance of getting into, you have to go through

which is the government online platform that regulates access to higher education. every french person who's had to use it (me included) will tell you it is the bane of our existence.

basically you have to put down your "wishes" for which branch in which uni you want to go. you have to add to them your grades of your baccalauréat [high school final exit exam] and to boost your chances a like. cover letter as to why you'd want to get in so so much. and then you WAIT. you wait for months that your submission be viewed by the professors (allegedly) of the uni you want to go to and they accept or deny you. multiple rounds of acceptation go around. once accepted into a uni, you can either accept it definitively or wait if another you you'd prefer also accepts you, with the knowledge you could be kicked off your first acceptation if someone accepts first if there are limited entrance spaces.

i know of plenty of people who were rejected from their first choice on parcoursup, and then had to fall back on a uni/class they were not that passionate about but still put in their wishes list because Parcoursup PUSHES you into high ed, even if you would have benefitted from a sabbatical, from getting a job, or from travelling. i always always say this. i can feel it in many of my classmates who were highschoolers last year, SO MANY of those people would have benefitted from getting a government grant to go travel across europe & chill for like a year. i know of plenty of people who were rejected from all of their wishes full stop because they didn't have good grades in high school. it's a goofy as fuck system which brings nothing but stress to high-school students who were (at my time) expected to study for the most important exam of their life so far alongside it (baccalauréat) [they might have changed the examination methods since i left like. 7 years ago man] and More Segregation in higher ed even if it was supposed to help with it.

even if you get into a branch with a very high acceptance rate (such as mine, who had like 90% acceptance iirc), there is a 30%-50% dropout rate for the first year only because it's so different than what you've done before.

tldr : do we wish email and no exams or score competition ? probably.

is it that way? goddess have mercy on us all No.

[bluebellwren]

Maybe it's because I'm not a professional, but it confuses me that artists will condemn certain brands of traditional art supplies and then turn around and go "art is a skill!! it doesn't matter what tools you use, it's practice that makes it look good!!" whenever people ask them about their go to art tools (whether traditional or digital)

[dkhbtfm]

616!Frank Castle (not you aaron's) GET BEHIND ME!!!! these bitches r saying something about u again!! and they dont know nothing!!! this is crazy!!!

[junkworldusa]

what happens next

[vegalocity]

I mentioned this in a server chat but i think it's funny-

now that i actually have been a dungeon master for Dungeons and Dragons im physically incapable of watching the gravity falls episode "Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons" because i cant possibly be expected to presume that the lesson was 'Stan and Mabel need to learn to get out of their comfort zone and might end up surprised' when Ford and Dipper are shown to be extremely inhospitable DMs to anyone with a different play style other than themselves

[sainz100]

Max at the 2017 Mexico Grand Prix Drivers' Briefing | x

[werewolf-cuddles]

I sincerely hope that Max has both male and female love interests again in Double Exposure so the fandom will hopefully, maybe, finally stop erasing her bisexuality

[inmydr3amz]

How am I meant to explain that my favourite book series ever, that includes characters who have been ostracized from society finding family within each other, that includes depictions of child abuse, that includes depictions of broken and unconventional families, that includes depictions of eating disorders, that includes canonly queer characters being treated normally like every other character with no questions asked, that includes imperfect characters with realistic flaws, that provides societal commentary through the never-ending search for eternal beauty and youth, that includes depictions of child grooming, that includes depictions of child slavery, that includes depictions of literal cults, and includes one of my favourite and one of the slowest and sweetest slowburns ever is a literal children's comedy book series?

[castlebyersafterdark]

do you know any blogs that are into platonic madwheeler? i just found a clip in s4 of them whispering together that i had never seen before and wondered if anyone had seen it or wanted to discuss! i think the reveal of mike's story in s5 might have some max involved somehow, perhaps a hospital visit or even his memories of their fraught relationship that develops into a mutual understanding because theyre both depressed at the start of s4.

I actually don't know any! I really like them as good friends, but I either see it mentioned as a romance angle or complaints about liking it since they don't interact much. Which I think is silly - clearly they are friends? I love how when you pull away the snark and sarcasm, Max just wanted to be friends with Mike. The scene with the skateboard in the gym in season 2 when Max is skating around and Mike starts genuinely smiling - that's one of my favorite parts of the entire series. It shows them both so perfectly!!

We don't have to see everything perfectly spelled out on screen. It's like jokes about how little we see Will and Dustin interact in the actual show. Sure, we want more of that and sure this much is true with minimal screen time together - but that doesn't mean in the "reality" of the show's internal world, that they don't interact. They're all friends and they'd all be together a lot, using the implications by means of imagination. So - Mike and Max. Great duo. Love them! Wish I knew of anyone you can vibe with, but that has never been a focal point I can recall well. I'm only following a really small number these days and do a lot of blog and tag jumping.

But ooooh I would love some nod in season 5. Mike talking to Max bedside while she's unconscious would be cool. Maybe guilt for being involved in bringing her into the danger of their lives. Maybe a confessional for some hard truths. He wants to tell a friend whatever it is he's been going through but he can't tell anyone else who could actively judge. Maybe him upping his loyal leader arc, bedside vowing they'll save her, even after all that time. There's a lot they can do. Will they? It would be nice, but part of me feels all the storyline with Max is going to be with others, but who knows!!

[fishhateme]

help me choose what to write

sooo i haven't mentioned it in my blog yet but yesterday morning i published my first big girl ao3 fanfic - will you be lifted to the heavens? (go read it yall!!! its the purest angst in the land!!!) it's meant to be a character study of daniel, and im trying to get funky with the narrative and do time jumps and all that fancy stuff - i think it's coming together quite nicely!

the thing is, i don't want to abandon the linkedin!au (my beloved), but between uni and life i don't think i can do justice to this new fic, which is more demanding narratively, while juggling everything else, and i'm thinking of maybe putting it on hold (?) so hopefully you'll tell me what to do - would you rather weekly updates on the ao3 fic, or should we do, like, every two weeks so i can keep updating the linkedin!au as a more lighthearted thing on the side?