#the whole team too

[ilprinciperosso]

Jeddah rant

There’s only one tiny positive from this shitshow of a race (apart from Charles’ quali lap)... Charles has clearly said in every interview he gave after the race that, although he’s not sure there was much more pace in the car yesterday, he could have tried to close the gap with Lewis, but he was stuck with in a train behind Carlos. He’s not letting the media build up a story on how he was slower than his teammate. Even Fred said in an Italian interview with sky that Charles’ performance was one of the few good things coming out of this gp.

Charles said that it was hard to follow at 1.2-5 seconds behind ‘cause even if he was a bit faster when following that closely he would lose time. He then made a small mistake and completely gave up in the last 4 laps.

Carlos wasn’t faster than Charles yesterday. We could argue they had the same pace on hards, but I honestly don’t see why they didn’t try swapping them (Carlos, honey... Mattia is not there anymore... when they say let’s try something new and let Charles trough ‘cause he's faster you should listen)

I know they're fighting for nothing right now, but the continuous undermining of team orders/suggestions that has been going on it’s ridiculous (I’m not particularly worried about them this year, as I said they’re fighting for nothing and I’m confident Charles would be in front of Carlos in a “normal” race where his car doesn't die on him or he has penalties, but for the next few years). Let’s dream and pretend Ferrari get their shit back together and they’re fighting with Redbull like last year... you can’t have a replay of Silverstone or Austria in the sprint race.

It’s clear to everyone (apart from Marca, but they could be certified as clinically insane) that Charles is the better performing driver at the moment. It’s clear in Ferrari, to the media, to everyone. 

And also... Carlos... this has been one of the worst races for Ferrari in the last 2 years... could you please not say to the media that it has been one of your best races? Think about your PR training for fucks sake! You were overtaken by multiple cars, never put up a fight unlesss it was against your own teammate... it doesn't seem that smart to gloat about your performance honestly...

[trustymikh]

there are many benefits to being a ground-type pokemon trainer

[zaana]

On the last Bad Batch eve, thank you from the bottom of my heart to the creators, the fandom, and the wonderful people i've met ❣️ TBB and these characters mean more to me than i could ever put into words, and they will stay a part of me forever

[ghosted-jazz]

I like to think breaking the canary curse via dying in the void had some effects on Lizzie

[ninyard]

the big olympics reunion (pt.1)

[kettle-bird]

I've been getting into X-Men lately! Or, well. One specific X-Man.

[umblrspectrum]

hi heres art so you pay attention to me now go read the tags

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

You ever have those moments where an idea just... won't leave your head?

[heartorbit]

catch us if you can! ☆

[ruthytwoshakes]

haha turned them into popsicel

what flavor do u think they are… find out next time I respawn. Okay.

[strawberijasper]

so... sapphic cheerleader!deku x jock!bakugou right?

I want to actually properly finish this eventually but my wrist has been acting up so it might be a minute until I can, so y'all get a sketch for now.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Weep

That's not what Sniper meant when he said he missed them and wanted to see them again, Spy :/

[n00b-vegas]

My only thoughts about a contemporary FNV au is that it’s all just a bowling league

[theminecraftbee]

i'm still thinking about the fae zedaph prompt so much that i have. an entire au in my head now. that i am now sharing, in case others are interested.

so the setting of the au is an intentionally kind of anachronistic blend of sci-fi and fantasy, and those things often come into conflict, with a lot of magic interacting badly with technology and technology interacting badly with magic. a vaguely earth-like setting from the near future, where there are robots and space travel and cybernetics, but ALSO a vaguely earth-like setting where there are portals you can slip through that will drop you into the feywild and there are magcial creatures lurking beneath the surface. the idea is like, if an urban fantasy had the 'urban' part set in a sci-fi world.

anyway, so zedaph is an ancient fey creature. a wild fey no longer really associated with either court, but at one point having belonged to the seelie court, zedaph mainly just courts chaos. he's PROBABLY some kind of archfey, but it's worth noting that even other fey aren't fully certain what zedaph is supposed to be at this point. see, in a move that makes almost no sense to a human, zedaph has started to get bored of the games of fair folk. he finds them too... predictable! and sure, to HUMANS the fair folk can seem chaotic and without rules, but to zedaph? he wants something NEW AND EXCITING.

too bad that these days, even if he IS invited into the human realm, it is a bit dangerous to navigate for a fey such as himself. his own deep connection to nature and the natural world makes it so he has some trouble when he's in the tall metal cities of the human realm.

enter: tango.

tango is an android built for... some purpose. he's not really sure what his purpose is, or if he still has one, which is kind of distressing, because his creator either died or abandoned him before tango was turned on. he likes building zany contraptions, sure, but he also sort of wants to search for SOME kind of meaning in his life, since androids aren't really built to be purposeless and that lack of purpose is starting to wear at him. and in another setting, this is a great start to a cyberpunk story about what it means to be human, but in THIS setting, tango accidentally proves he must be developing a soul when he stumbles through a portal to the feywild by accident and fails to find his own way out.

the good news for tango is also the bad news: he's not built for a natural place like the feywild. see, his creator had made him largely out of cold iron, and that, even more than any specific technology, repels fair folk magic. so the good news is that he is largely immune to fey shenanigans! the bad news is that the feywild itself is rejecting him, putting him in immense danger.

enter: zedaph, who is FASCINATED to discover that these days the humans are making machines with souls. zedaph, eager to discover something new, makes a bargain with tango: tango guides him in the human world so zedaph doesn't die of metal poisoning, and in return, zedaph guides tango whenever he stumbles into a dangerous supernatural hotspot. look, zedaph's even making a fair deal and everything, since he can't just like, steal tango's name and force him to, on account of not even tango knowing what his true name would be! the two of them shake on it, and as such, a bargain is struck between both android and archfey.

they both find each other surreal and baffling but are ALSO each other's best friends in an equally baffling and surreal world.

impulse comes into this story later--after whatever the first few adventures tango and zedaph have are, exploring both realms together to try to find something new and exciting for zedaph and something to give tango purpose, the amount of magic tango's being exposed to finally takes its toll, and tango starts to malfunction. zedaph panics as he realizes all at once that he has a friend (thing he didn't know he even could get?) and that friend is in danger. also, uh, more importantly that deal. right. that.

naturally, he then kidnaps the first software engineer he can find. this is a proportionate response, right?

luckily the first software engineer he finds is impulse, and impulse is hardly like, normal, either. like, yes, he's a fully mundane human with only the world's most minor cybernetics, he's normal that way, the way he's not normal is that he gets kidnapped by a terrifying and awesome fey to fix a paradoxical android and goes "this is so cool. hi my name is impulse it's nice to meet you! aw, geez," and acts like everything is normal. neither tango nor zedaph are quite good enough at the idea of 'normal human' to dispute this, and a friendship is then born.

impulse serves as the fixer for a lot of their problems that neither tango nor zedaph are equipped to handle, but he's also like, he'd theoretically be the everyman if he wasn't busy going "every man gets whisked away by the plot of a philosophy major's dream every once and a while right" and going with the flow on things NO SANE PERSON SHOULD GO WITH THE FLOW WITH. he's just chilling in the world's least "just chilling" scenario.

so... there you go there's the ENTIRE TEAM ZIT AU that my brain spawned from the prompt "fey zedaph" i hope you enjoy,

[lesbianchemicalplant]

(news broken to me by this lmao)

[turtleblogatlast]

Small but significant character moments that I actually really adore are from both the times we see the boys as tots. There is a reoccurrence that happens in both of them that I find so incredibly interesting.

For the turtle tot short, Splinter leaves the boys with weapons. In the short, Raph is the one who suggests they do “what Lou Jitsu would do” and Leo is the one who takes point when Splinter comes back to reprimand them. Leo, in taking point, is the one to defend them and get Splinter off their tails.

And then, in the flashback regarding the Kuroi Yōroi helmet, Raph is the one who grabs and throws “Skully” as a way to replace their missing ball which breaks it into pieces, but Leo is the one who speaks for the group and rushes into action to fix the teapot.

I love this for multiple reasons, but the biggest are how it shows that Raph has always been inclined toward the bold and fun and making the plans to include his brothers in what he loves and believes they’d love, whereas Leo has always been inclined to be the “Face” of the group and shoulder the attention even if it’s potentially negative all while coming up with on the spot attempts to fix the situation.