#only max gets tagged

[asherashedwings]

The jock they demonized ig

[copia]

endless ghifs 18/? ⛧ source — "the ancient serpent deceiver..."

[whimsicalcotton]

more au scribbling bc i'm truly afflicted

[dear-ao3]

who’s making the we didn’t start the fire edit for abu dhabi. we already have enough stuff and there’s still like an hour and a half until the first practice session

[formulaheart]

my family can't fight over who should/would win a wdc because people end up crying and it's bad so we have to fight over which driver would beat all the others in a free-for-all fist fight because it's slightly less heated and now I'm curious about who you guys think would win- polls incoming

[deathgroupie]

so dave k what i'm hearing from your q&a is someone should southern gothic AU your own vermont sex cult AU? what I'm hearing is Hickey needs to be a former devoted-in-fear church boy, to where even times of joy like Christmas became events of paranoia and deep yet unarticulated shame? time for projection? time f;or hickey with drawl and narrative parallels to a still faithful but faltering from 'spontaneous spasms of sexuality' jirv? time for spitroasting youth pastor jirv with fellow cultist tozer in a rundown i-85 motel?

[marswasnothere]

hi hello. for when you feel like coming back to this au:

what does Max think about baby badger Daniel? What does he think about his tiny shorts and curly hair? maybe he sees him as a cute puppy? giving him like horny cuteness aggression 😈

Max is normal about baby badger Daniel at first. Was Normal.

He's watched Daniel through his junior series journey, reading how his talent despite his inexperience might put him in an f1 seat by the time he's 18. When that exact situation happens, little pimply Daniel having spent half a year in toro rosso/alpha tauri (whenever this is set idk) and getting bumped up to be Max's teammate, Max is still normal about him.

His sweet giddiness and big smile covered with braces and his stupidly tiny shorts and the few small tattoos poking out from said shorts that seem to grow with every two week break between races and frizzy hair that he says he doesn't have the time to deal with starts driving Max, to put it kindly, insane. He tries to be normal about Daniel.

Every little thing he does tugs at Max's heart, from an answer during a Q&A about living all on his own in Italy away from his parents, to his constant jumping and dancing around the garage to put a smile on everyone's faces. He wants to grab him and cuddle him close and maybe bite him and treat him like one of his dogs. Max isn't normal about Daniel now.

Daniel's in the limelight now, and he's got so many fans and paddock guests charmed by his silly jokes and boyish view on the world, but Max is the only one who can take that innocence away. Only him. It can only be him. Daniel is his teammate. His Daniel.

[turtle-trash]

It’s the day accociated w rabbits so here’s the spectrum of my lagomorph blorbos both canon and non canon (Kunikida can technically be considered a canon rabbit considering that one wan chapter but. Shrugs)

[thelucidduchess]

[velvetsainz]

everyone talks about cult LH44 but we need to start talking about cult LN4…..

[glouris]

wuwa characters receiving variants in the future is a real thing and it can hurt you (maybe)

the elemental system we have with havoc, spectro, aero and all the other attributes can be flexible. characters resonate with frequencies of a phenomenon/object that can be distinguished by an elemental attribute, but cannot always be bound by it completely. there might already have been a couple cases of someone exhibiting signs of a second attribute.

for example, when jiyan summons the spear in his trailer there is a lightning effect around his hand, followed by the sound of electricity cracking. 

this might be a visual representation of sound waves reverberating, or it might just be an artistic choice. but if the source of jiyan’s resonance is, say, the storm, then he can be assigned both the aero and electro attributes - hence the lightning around his hand.

but the biggest offenders for a possible double-attribute deal would be aalto and the mourning aix, walk with me.

during the ‘stygian lacrimosa’ world quest (spoilers for it right ahead btw) there is a moment when they let us control an echo of the second aix. while the two aixes fight, something weird is happening: the aix you control clearly has spectro attacks, but ui for it’s abilities is green, as if it’s attribute is supposed to be aero; while the other aix, the one we fight for ascension materials and know as a spectro-aligned creature has distinct aero attacks. 

I have two speculations for what’s happening here:

1. kuro might have mixed up the attacks of two aixes, the one we control was supposed to be aero, and the other one was supposed to be left as spectro. 

2. mourning aix was shown to be able to cover areas in fog earlier in the quest, so these aix TDs might be mimicking the frequencies of fog, which is a common phenomenon in the area they inhabit. 

fog is formed when cold air meets warm air, condensation happens, tiny water drops form and get suspended - aero connection. but then, the water droplets in the fog stop and scatter light in all directions, which limits visibility - spectro connection. so, creatures that mimic or resonate with frequencies of fog could have both aero and spectro attributes, which is why the aixes have both aero and spectro attacks. 

that sends us right to aalto, who resonates with fog. some parts of his kit already have things that might be spectro-looking: the avatar he conjures kind of looks like a prism, the mist bullets he gets from his skill and forte circuit form an attack similar to one of mournig aix's. those attacks of theirs are in turn similar in pattern to some light scattering diagrams.

fun fact, Rayleigh scattering is an optical phenomenon that is behind the sky being blue, and you can find a courier in the whining aix’s mire that will ask you that exact question, ‘why is the sky blue?’. then again, the court of savantae, where we spend most of our time with aalto, is also there. 

to finish the string of weird coincidences, resonance reports of both jiyan and aalto stand out too. aalto’s has statements that are loose, imprecise: 

“Further tests conducted to ascertain the properties of the mist he conjures yielded inconclusive results” accompanied by “As stated in the report, this resonator is cunning and a master of disguises, thus rendering the credibility of his recounts questionable”; his report has no overclock history cause bro just ?? left ??

it’s not established what jiyan resonates with (will probably be addressed later): “Jiyan's Resonance Spectrum Pattern shows no resemblance to known samples'';  then there’s this statement in his overclock diagnostic report: “there are two distinct waveforms identified, each with exceptionally high peak values”. there are characters that can create or summon creatures with their forte, and jiyan is still the only one to have a second waveform, so it’s not because of qingloong. 

my point is, kuro definitely has wiggle room if they wanted to make a character variant. until further notice, jiyan and aalto would be the most plausible candidates for that in my eyes.

[ribbononline]

Small snippet of Mother Earth and Her Infinite Sky (preview) by @silverjirachi ! Admittedly very compressed down to fit into a single page. But still!

[p0kern1ght]

havent drawn all my dumbass fallout protagonists in a lineup in actually years so. god bless america here they are

2 vault dwellers (twins), the chosen one, the lone wanderer, the warrior, the prisoner, the courier six, and the sole survivor. wahoo!

[up-in-flames-writing]

In lieu of Stuff Your Kindle day, can we talk about the issue of how the m/m genre of books, romance or not, is almost entirely dominated by women? Can we talk about how the most recognisable gay couples in media are written by women? Can we talk about how queer men can't even write about ourselves, how we are only allowed to exist when it's from the point of view of a straight woman sexualising us?

Can we talk about that? Or am I going to get called misogynistic for pointing out the disparity between who gets the writing deals, & who gets their books turned into movies, & whose shit gets popular versus whose doesn't? Can we talk about how m/m fiction is only allowed when it appeals to a cishet gaze, or is that too much for tumblr to take?

Can we also talk about how trans queer men are even more hated by publishing? Can we talk about how we get shit from both sides? Can we talk about how books about the experiences of being a queer man, written by queer men, never get the same recognition as books written by women on this subject (barring academia which has its own problems)?

Can we talk about that? Can we?

[collapseintonever]

i collected a treasure of extra glossy pics that i'm not sure how to share properly with you all yet

[sysig]

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