#this will get bloody and sad

[kidovna]

manifested mileven at the snowball in 2016, so now I’m manifesting byler at senior prom🪻🌻

[dootznbootz]

I've been seeing some shit on how certain folks apparently think it's like, surprising that Penelope just accepted Odysseus and all the stuff he's done without question and/or disappointment in Would You Fall in Love With Me Again when like... Not only against Odyssey!Penelope but ALSO Epic's. We may have only gotten 2 songs it's still a concept album. THERE'S STILL TIME! of the real Penelope in Epic but like, even then we can see that she's equally as wild

[saint-hymn]

WIP - tommy, i-

part of the zombie au

[the-great-rat-attorney]

we were talking about herlock being lonely recently. is he being ridiculously melodramatic about nobody talking to him for 20 minutes after a notoriously uncooperative teenager yelled at him? yes. is he doing it because he is genuinely desperate for a little validation and attention by this point? also yes. he really wants to help gina, and despite the drama, when a second chance to help her arrives, he gladly takes it! there's no grudge, he's just... sad. he kind of gets rejected a lot and that hurts.

bonus, herlock finally getting some good goddamn validation:

(this is all anyone ever really wants. certainly it's what herlock was angling for.)

[yo-kaiwatchkillyourfamily]

Hello good old people of the old tumble Would you like hear my Burger King dream? No?? tough luck. So my mother gave me £17 in like a short pocket that was on the front and not the side so I made my way over the Burger King to order my “plain big Mac with large fries and a large drink” (in real life my order will change ever so slightly to be a plain whopper with cheese and a large fries and drink) but I couldn’t get anything because like evil Super Mario world was to the left just straight up an evil version of Super Mario world like that was Mario and she was standing in a flashy room that was completely black except the floors that were a dark flashy red colour and the cashier was like” no no big Mac for you” so I had to go to another Burger King but guess who decided to wake up that right this and I ended up waking up at 5 o’clock in the morning which is extremely late for me for I normally wake up at two o’clock in the morning

[anotherfanaccount]

Given what we know of this drama. There will be no plot holes and loose ends.

Justitia dresses up and sends all the culprits to hell herself. Taegyu is going to get what he deserves soon. He gets the extra human world justice because he was that heinous.

And by dying Justitia fulfills Bael's annoying rule. Now the cleanup crew can preserve Bit Na's body. And Justitia will return. And Tae Gyu will see hell for real.

And then we can see Da On and Bit Na camping for real. The demon subunit join sometimes. Da On's found family and colleagues will join some days. And they'll live together till the end of their human lives happily and making sure the evils of the world get what they deserve.

[m0rninglatte]

I can't with Spotify shuffle.

Because why on earth r you giving me Good Luck Babe by Chappell Roan then No one Mourns the Wicked from Wicked? Spotify what? What are you saying good sir?

Why r u giving me Thunder Bringer from EPIC then Pitful Children from BMC?

WHAT IS THIS.

[saint-lajka]

Anyway last post about this. Today is Lajka rememberance day, not just "Lajka day". 'laika' is a bastardized appropriated spelling of her name, most slavic and eastern european countries using this alphabet spell it Lajka.

Lajka was not loved and cherished by everyone, she definitely was by a few, but she was a lab rat in the end and a tragic casualty of the space race and cold war and general American assault on all things slavic, russian or communist. If you're American or western, know that your country is to blame for her death. Feel at least a bit of guilt about it instead of taking yet another hero to slavic countries for yourselves, you have plenty. You guys are all for not appropriating cultures until the culture is slavic, and then you all act like it's fine, when most of you don't even know what Slavic means. She is not yours to mourn, she is not yours to cherish.

And at the very least spell her fucking name right.

[mortellanarts]

Hm.... Do you hear something?

Look at the details I put into this thang

[batsplat]

in the early days of his career, obviously before casey entered motogp, i wonder if he ever lay in bed before falling asleep, imagining scenarios of him and vale on the track…

https://www.tumblr.com/kwisatzworld/768392840044789760/speaking-of-meeting-with-all-the-colleagues

(link) unfortunately this ask only reached me after I'd already answered and scheduled the previous post, feat. embedded video and transcription, so those are 10-15 minutes of my life I'm not getting back. alas, we live and we learn

but actually, y'know what, it's been long enough since I've brought most of this stuff up... let's do a quick round up of the state of play with regards to young!casey's admiration of valentino. we know they shared some pre-2006 pressers (three pixel screenshot on the left is from assen 2004):

and here's casey chatting to valentino's crew chief jb while watching valentino, who's celebrating one of his many victories in 2005:

rocking up to one of valentino's podiums and chatting to his crew chief?? noticing. perceiving. thinking. ofc paddock gossip held that if valentino were to swan off to f1, jb might have looked to link up with the promising young australian kid. it was also rumoured that jb was interested in getting casey to yamaha, though that obviously didn't end up panning out (whether by valentino's hand or not)

and as extra confirmation that valentino and casey had a rapport of some kind during casey's year in 250cc (the phrase 'except maybe for one or two riders' is doing so much heavy lifting it would make atlas wince):

we also know that casey has been following valentino "with admiration" early in his career, from 125cc era onwards - which, well, this is going to leave an impression on him. and of course we can bring in what casey has said in general over the years about his respect/admiration for valentino:

(think it's always key to note with the autobiography that it was written at the lowest possible point of the vale/casey relationship - and some of casey's rhetoric inevitably reflects the immediacy of his emotions at the time)

of particular interest I feel is what he said about 2006 - that his respect had grown, that "at that moment I thought he was someone almost impossible to beat". obviously this is kind of a funny thing to say given that valentino rather memorably did not win the 2006 title, but you know what he means - on merit, valentino was the best rider that year and even getting it to a final round decider would have felt like a crazy accomplishment at certain stages of the season. the whole thing thing made valentino even more impressive in casey's eyes (which may be why casey was watching back the title decider and concluding valentino had been sabotaged by Big America)

as a little bonus, let's also quickly bring in some more documentation of their 2006 on-track encounters (plus a cameo from catalunya 2007):

how much of this is casey retroactively forming this narrative about 2006 vs stuff he already felt strongly at the time - who knows. but to return to casey's early assessment of valentino as a rider... I'll say it, I think it's very theoretically possible to be a fan of valentino ONLY because of what a great rider he is but... casey's only human. "great sportsman" "looked up to and aspired to be" "the sort of people I wanted to become like"... this isn't just about valentino winning a lot of races. I refuse to believe an eleven year old is watching 125cc valentino and only making notes on his corner entry technique, come on. though speaking of - casey saying in 2021 he thinks motogp would be better with valentino at the front of the field!! because at the end of the day, he isn't wholly opposed to valentino's particular brand of fun. he enjoys watching valentino even when he doesn't always like competing with him

and... well. to understand young casey, it's crucial you never forget just how much pressure he was under, how terrified he was of failing, how he had this immense burden on his shoulders. I agree with mr motomatters on this (and also here, plus here) --

-- like it was unfair and it was unbearable. and I think when you're in a situation like that, you have to tell yourself it's going to be worth it. casey feels like this had never been his dream, that it was his parents' dream - but he had been convinced that he wanted this, even if by his late teenage years he was beginning to doubt it (x, x). he had to believe there would be light at the end of the tunnel... that at the end of all of this, the political machinations would stop, the financial insecurity would fade - and everyone would give him the credit he deserved. that everyone would acknowledge how good he was. he had an image of his head of a version of the sport that never existed - that could never exist unless the world was a very different place indeed - but he needed to have that image to keep himself going during all the hardship and toil and turmoil. and in the midst of all that, the most prominent face of the sport (certainly after the retirement of his other hero, doohan) was a bloke who made riding look like so, so much fun. who always looked like he was having a fantastic time racing. if you're a teenager in that situation, don't you think you might start associating valentino with your hope for what the sport might one day do for you? how can you not look at what valentino was doing and hope your life might end up looking a bit more like that? not exactly the same - casey was always clear on how he didn't want to become the next valentino rossi. that's not who he was. but just... just fun. just that

and he arrives at the pinnacle of the sport and he's winning and he's enjoying his success... but he's still not happy. obviously the job security and the financial security will have made a massive difference, of course things are far better now. but you can have a secure job and a stable income and essentially be winning in all the ways that matter... and it still might not be enough to magically dispel your malaise. it probably won't be. you can still be stressed and frustrated and lonely... you won't just be fixed. all the hardship casey has gone through to get to where he was could not suddenly be erased - and he held the sport to a standard it was never going to meet. at the end of the day, if we're being honest with ourselves, valentino's behaviour towards casey ranks well outside of the top ten causes for casey's discontent in 2007. valentino cools off towards casey because he is a title rival - which casey recognises to some degree, but that doesn't mean he could accept it. what valentino does that year falls entirely within the realm of completely normal behaviour of a top level professional competitor (albeit one who indirectly benefited from the entire sport already adoring him)... it takes until laguna 2008 for valentino to meaningfully cross any line with his conduct - and if anything he's still perfectly willing to lay it on thick where the interpersonal charm is concerned in the run-up to that race. no wonder, then, that laguna feels like such a monumental betrayal. valentino might not have been the root cause for casey's relative misery, but he was certainly the most easily identifiable face of it. just like valentino may have once represented casey's hope, so now he symbolised casey's disappointment and disillusionment (further discussed here)

so where does all of this leave us... well, you're right, anon. casey at last got to "share the track with him in an enjoyable way", something he says he "would have wanted to do" in his early career... whether he's talking about competing with him in motogp in a way that could actually be FUN for him, or whether he's thinking of this kind of out-of-paddock leisure time activity... tbh, maybe there even was an element of wanting the latter - hardly unheard of back in the day, cf valentino and sete training together in 1998 at kr sr's ranch. and there's no particular reason why something like qatar 2007 wouldn't have been an enjoyable experience to casey, given he himself gave glowing reviews of valentino's post-race conduct on that particular occasion. (or indeed something like catalunya 2007, for all casey's insistence that he didn't even particularly rate his own performance in that race... it's possible to make yourself miserable even when everyone's praising you and your hero is hailing you as a god - if the voice in your head telling you that you could have done better can never shut up.) in 2007, casey described the early season as 'fantastic' but felt it was no longer so once valentino 'stopped talking' to him... surely it will have been more than valentino's behaviour that could make casey feel so differently. in any casey, whether casey wanted more fun in motogp itself or outside of it - what matters is that he wanted to share something enjoyable on a track with valentino. once upon a time

when casey visits the ranch, a part of him is thinking back to a time when he could have imagined few things sweeter than that sort of recognition and acceptance from his hero. for all of casey's resentment and bitterness towards valentino, for all that he knows how unpleasant life can be as valentino's designated foe, he has always understood the joy that valentino represents within the sport - precisely because that emotion has so often been alien to him. maybe he really did dream of having that kind of fun on the track, imagine it in bed before falling asleep - like valentino, with valentino. when casey goes to the ranch, he is met with unconditional recognition and acceptance on valentino's part. valentino has all in all never been particularly shy in acknowledging casey's talents... it's not just anyone he'd say was 'riding like a god'. still, of course he was a little more careful with casey back in the day, committed first and foremost to figuring out this tricky new puzzle, to besting casey in competition... now, by contrast, valentino can let casey know how much he respects him without any reservation - and casey is ready to listen to what valentino is saying. it's bittersweet because it's what casey always would have wanted. and it's also come too late

[writer-rider-flirty-thirties]

I reread The Black Games trilogy and I realized I never truly finished the last two chapters of the third installment (despite reading the whole triology at least five times) and y'all...

It rocked me emotionally.

Anyways, I love the trilogy so much and I'm so happy I finally got to finish it!

(also, it has my favorite OCs ever!!!)

[citrine-elephant]

leon kennedy, but he's having a really good night. for once in his life, things are peaceful. he's just had a nice get together/date with chris... and a few others of course. but the way those two couldn't shut up... couldn't stop kicking each other under the table...

leon's on his way back to his lonely place when he's caught completely off guard and pulled into an alley.

the one time he lets his guard down, and he finds himself swinging fists, and another swung into his head. he's not out for long, but by the time he registers that he's been, or being robbed, he's kicked in the stomach. the face. and they're gone.

one good night. can never have one good night, can he?

[ofmermaidstories]

oh mermie you would loooove sweet diluc from genshin who is all about acts of service and who puts everyone before himself even though he's had a rough past he deserves the WORLD

hmmmMMMMMMM. okay i believe you. 😌

[lvebug]

this is peter parker to me btw. like this is andie's peter

[dekulakization]

[tealime9]

AURGHHHHH

I just discovered the cool writer from a sight for sore eyes, the cool as FUCK fanfic about legally blind Childe deleted their account because ASSHOLES kept pressing about the next chapter in which they just didnt found fun to the fanfic anymore!!!

THATS WHY, YOU SEND A NICE MESSAGE OVER THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT FANFIC, NOT A COMMENT OF 'WHEN NEXT CHAP' OH 'YOURE TAKING TOO LONG WHEN NEXT CHAP' LIKE GODDAMN IT DUDE GET SOME FANDOM ETIQUETTE

im so damn mad it was SUCH A GOOD FANFIC

The way they wrote Childe was absolutely fricking gOOOOOOOOOOD

AUGHHHHHHH

dont be a goddamn asshole!!