#by no means my best work but it exists

[batsplat]

Thailand 2019: Valentino Rossi provides his take on Marc Marquez's superiority that season. Then, Marquez is asked about Fabio Quartararo's prospects and Rossi comments on whether he will congratulate Marquez for winning the championship.

#rosquez #fabio quartararo #// #4693 #fq20 #*continues making wanking gesture with hand* #both of them regularly going i may hate him but it's crazy how we're literally the two best riders to have ever existed. shut UP #mind u this is two races after misano. fits in with my pet theory about that particular incident #fabio ily but your part is only included because otherwise the comic timing doesn't work #comically short answers about marc is a bit of a go to after 2015. a way to not talk about him while still playing it as a joke #i mean he does it with other stuff too but #sometimes he doesn't even bother with the joke bit. like sepang 2016's bail out of 'i agree with marc' #anyway the first response is defo more detail than is strictly necessary. going 'yeah even cota wasn't realllly marc's fault' okay

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

#greenteacup asks #sidebar: I know Minister “of” Magic is an Americanism but mea culpa #Someday I might actually bite it and pay someone to britpick Lionheart but I can't do it now #because I have a ban on editing published fic unless it's finished. Otherwise I'll never get around to writing the actual ending #I have a Process #is it the best process? likely not! but it makes the words go. so here we are. #I also think the fact that JKR is Gen X makes a difference here. careers worked differently in the 80s and 90s than they do now #i.e. we have the gig economy and a lot more mobility and EXPECTATION of mobility in your early life #that means career changes & professional pivots through your 20s and 30s are increasingly normal #and in fact have always been normal — but the image of the 'true' or 'ideal' career has changed #so we look at those careers and go hm. really? none of them changed? #none of them even went to uni? do wizards... just not? #but again. I believe the epilogue was written almost completely without consideration as to what happened between the BOH and then #I really believe that JKR did not know what happened to Harry except a wedding and 3 kids. because that was the whole point #I don't think she even knew what his career was when she wrote that scene #It existed to marry everyone off and do a quick munchkin headcount #because of the understandable temptation as an author to keep your hand on the wheel. but it didn't even matter! #the epilogue changed NOTHING! it was the most useless chapter in the series! I just — GOD #you can absolutely accuse me of being sour grapes about my ships getting nixed. I AM sour grapes. I AM a hater. #AND I have plot/theme/craft reasons for disliking it. #I'm not objective. I just want credit for being a sophisticated hater. my grapes may be sour but they're still artisinal.

[invinciblerodent]

if bloodsoaked killer, avatar of wretched villainy, fetid and rotten, a vile creature to the very core.... why kicked puppy??? why cute round eyes??? why sweet scared girl who just wants to be nice and help everyone????

(in other words it's durge time; monk styles)

(my plan is a Karlach romance, but man, if you deliberately RP as someone who is both very confused and deeply scared, there is something extra reassuring about Gale's confidence. Like I'm trying to lean into Karlach's warmth -both literal and metaphorical- being a source of comfort, and the reason for this character to be drawn to her, but the dynamic of a strong woman who knows nothing and the physically frail man with chronic pain who knows everything IS intriguing...)

(then again, that could just be me being not even just thirsty, but parched for the wizard.)

#squirrel plays bg3 #oc: mara #watching my partner play his dark urge made me want to get mine out of tutorial limbo (first tactician run; wish me luck) #she has Astarion-syndrome; looks either like a fucked up gremlin or the most vulnerable creature in existence #.... ironically enough she is very much NOT drawn to Astarion #he's... kind of scaring her I think #played all of like an hour and she seems to have the best rapport with Gale so far #very “i don't understand the thing 🥺” “very well; allow me to explain you the thing in excruciating detail! 😀” #... it does feel good though that even though i can't deny that Astarion is my favorite; it's no issue for me to not romance him #both because i'm so attached to his dynamic with Iona; and because he just Doesn't Work with my other characters #Petyr was very... “i'll fuck anything with a pulse but that's kind of a hard limit for me pal; no offense” #and Mara is “our first two conversations both involved you implying that you'd kill me with a knife. i'm sorry but i'm a lil scared of u” #“please don't take this in a mean way but you are mildly terrifying”

[layalu]

WIP Thursday

got tagged by @greypetrel, @shivunin, and @daggerbeanart over the last couple weeks (thank you guys sm, even if i didn't post anything hjkfsdjdf) <33 Haven't gotten around to drawing much lately, but here's some WIP shots of the current prototyping progress, to hopefully motivate myself to work on it more x'D

I didn't make any of the models; my "main" job is doing textures but i've also been doing most of the engine work that isn't related to gameplay or game logic or Actual Programming, i.e. building the level and all that stuff. Honestly a lot of the work is just learning and trying things, cus this is my first time working with Unreal properly :') Textures are supposed to be stylised but i don't have the time to do proper hand painting, so i've been messing with filters in Substance to try n get something decent lol. Helps that most of the level will have dim lighting which makes everything look less blurry and more coherent xdd

tagging anyone who hasn't been tagged yet and has something to show off! :]

#prototyping in this case basically means that we get together with the programming class and have to build a game prototype in 3 weeks #(tho it's more like 2 1/2 weeks at best lol) #for this one we had to take an existing game and base ours off of that one; my group's is blood and bacon :] #wip wednesday #unreal has amazing capabilities in regards to lighting but i find it so so hard to make anything look like how i want #cus there is so many tools and options and knowing how to combine them to get a specific effect is really just a matter of experience #also doesnt help that one person in the group not only does very little but constantly drags the rest of us down as well #so instead of having one person less in the group its effectively like having 1.5 people less e-e #hate when people refuse to do any thinking or brain work (or just work in general) by themselves #but n e ways im just ranting now lol

[pochapal]

getting a bad grade in gender identity because i value self expression infinitely less than i value human connections

#:) #in the most juvenile way my gender stance hasn't really changed since i was 14 #in the sense that 'i'll be whatever gender gives me the best odds of someone falling in love with me' has always been the guiding ethos #perhaps the worst lens to live life through but unfortunately it is now ingrained lol #if we're gonna be honest and vulnerable if i wasn't doomed by the narrative i would be SUCH an insufferable lovepilled romantic type #instead i have the Horrors and wacky identity hijinks and my silly stories to sustain my existence #which to be fair is probably far more materially beneficial in the long term! i just need a healthier relationship to selfhood lmao #anyway i'm just rambling because it's late but clock changes mean i don't feel tired yet #also i guess this is some kinda weird stress pressure release for everything i have going on next week lol #imagine when i'm in a good place and can just work on my projects again lmao

[an-assortment-of-forks]

there are doctors there are hospitals there are specialists there is medicine there are systems in place so people do not have to suffer and be tortured under their own chronic pain daily and yet. they're all fucking inaccessible to the people who need it most!!! to what I would argue is most disabled people!! I'm so fucking done with the medical system.

#today is an absolutely wretched pain day that makes me want to not be here anymore but guess what! #wasted a whole year trying to convince my doctors I was in significant and disableing pain daily and the best they could do #is tell me to go to PT and to wait 6 months and tell them if it gets better #to prescribe some shit like gabapentin or otc pain meds and write me off #tell me they'll get new X-rays to see if it got worse by the summer #disability exists!! specialists exist! good doctors fucking exist!! somewhere!!! I'm sure!! #but here I sit. in excruciating amounts of pain unable to convince any fucking doctors of anything #and that year I spent pushing myself to the limit is wasted bc at the very end of it all only one guy listened to me #and he said no one in their giant ass facility could diagnose me #so I'm back to square one bc I got a new job which means new insurance and new doctors to try and convince again #I just want to be on disability so i can want to be alive again #I'm so frustrated and in pain constantly #what are people like me who have to work 40hrs to afford to live but don't have any family to rely on supposed to do?? #just die? am i supposed to continue to work until im too disabled to move and be profitable unless i get lucky? #bc some fucking doctor finally decides to actually listen??? #ive tried ALL THE DAMN TRICKS TOO. telling them a friend has it and thats how i found out. that my previous doctor was looking into it #etc etc #I'm SO done living like this i am exhausted. #and to know that i COULD BE HELPED. RIGHT NOW. is the worst fucking part #these systems are in place so people like me dont have to fucking suffer. #but i cant even do anything about it bc i have a cat.

[junk-culture]

👍

#today i suddenly remembered that dress + tshirt is a combination that exists and allows you to wear summer dress in winter + not get cold. #really cool innovation. #today i am going to lidl then cleaning out my food cupboard well my one shelf in my shared cupboard then im going to draw hopefully #and because i did some revision yesterday i don't need to do much in the way of studying today which is good because the questions are exce #based and my screen time over the past few days has been diabolical and my eyes are crying and might explode if i look at a computer today #so im going to try to be hashtag offline today. #< says this while literally on tumblr #if i put some red in this outfit id be very sofad core actually. noted for future reference #anyway happy sunday everypony #^ there's a typo up there i meant excel #we worked on paper last semester but now we're doing some accounting on excel i was worried at first like oh nooo i have to learn a new #program but then i remembered im literally a gamer.not the best gamer it has to be said but i mean i 100% pw on the psp so i think i can #s rank microsoft excel.

[sendmyresignation]

the music poll environment is really starting to breed a deep anger in me. two songs that have nothing to do with each other being arbitrarily sorted, compared by unspecified metrics..... horrible way to discuss music there is no meaning objectivity is a lie attaching morality to an opinion about a song without any context is nonsensical i hope we die i hope we both die!!!!

#best ray toro solo <- good clear metric self contained to a scale of one persons work #best song of the 2010s <- WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN TIME DOESNT EXIST #my posts

[that-was-anticlimactic]

okay fine if gege doesn't care about nobara, todo, and inumaki (and shoko also), then i will😤

#this post exists to motivate me to work on my next gen week fic lol #also i mean it i mean it i mEAN IT AHHHHHHHHHH #I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE FOUR OF THEM Y'ALL DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND #anyways that is all i have. important stuff to do lol. shall explain That later tehe <3 #bc i want to share it with y'all bc y'all are some of my best friends <3

[r0semultiverse]

These organizations supporting KOSA going through while claiming they want to help marginalized kids are actually so disgusting to me. The posts they make about Nex is just virtue signaling & words when their actions say let’s make things worse for these children.

I’m gonna be 100% honest, they should keep that kid’s name out of their damn mouths so long as they support KOSA. Like actually fuck you & eat shit. Actions speak louder than words, traitorous scumbags. You don’t care, you care about your stakeholders more.

Your organization can only thrive & exist so long as there’s a problem to donate towards solving. Of course you would support KOSA, you need a problem to keep existing in order to look like the good guys & solve it. Just go mask off & call us slurs & your “customers” at this point, it would be less disgusting than covering it up behind kind words.

#this goes out to the Trevor project & PFLAG as well as GLAAD & GLSEN #all of you should keep Nex’s name out your mouth when you have every intention to make things worse for trans kids #I can’t imagine going to work for one of these charity organizations & just seeing your bosses make things worse for the people you are #trying to help #I cannot imagine how frustrating & upsetting that is & then the higher ups are just like okayyyy our organization can keep existing... #so now y’all lower rank workers go help these kids whose lives we just made worse! #these charity orgs function like retail stores I stg; they need customers to keep giving them money meanwhile the higher ups make things #worse for said customers while the cashiers & others just try to help the best they can #you’re doing damage control for your incompetent & terrible upper management; it’s just like every other American workplace #you can also compare supporting a bill that would hurt the people they claim to help as a war economy comparison #they need to keep the class war going by supporting this bill in order to keep having money to keep existing as an organization #they’re playing both sides while on the surface saying we are here to help! #no you aren’t! your workers are; but you as higher ups are prioritizing stakeholders over humanity & for that you’ve lost all my respect #I haven’t looked up evidence about the human rights campaign supporting KOSA but they’ve been bad in the past so I believe it tbh #I mean the recent Zionism from HRC is enough for me to be like yeahhh no they absolutely would be in support of the Kosa bill #mine #op #the trevor project #pflag #glaad #GLSEN

[fitzrove]

WHAT'S THE POINT

#!!! if bad books (according to me) are as popular as good ones if not more. what's the point!!!!!!! #this extends to fic too. some of my worst tropey fics that i churned out in 2 minutes became really popular while stuff i felt passionate #about went ignored kdkfld (this is largely abt old fic btw not elisabeth stuff. i know you guys like your [redacted]) #whats the point of working hard to make something good if people are just as happy and fulfilled with bad stuff as long as it exists #🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 #there is no point haha i mean personal fulfillment? i guess but its not that fulfilling to not have the chance to show ppl your work #sorry i promise i dont have a martyr complex 💀 and in the grand scheme of things its not like im some creative genius #the thing is. i work hard on stuff because i think not giving my best for personal projects done for personal fulfillment is wasting time #but then the disproportionate amount of effort vs online attention really stings. they dont often correlate #there is no point haha. i'm not good at being happy or content and i'm neurotic about the things that make me happier to do #rant #'have you considered taking antidepr*ssants' yes but my other mental illness says no to them. their tongues are battling for dominance

[charliespringverse]

rewatching house led to me infodumping at my mother about ao3 and gen z purity culture and honestly . if she didn't want these things to happen to her she shouldn't have had children with a man so incredibly neurodivergent

#there was a logical progression to the infodump . but i fear it was only logical in an adhd way #bc my friend went ''u can rlly tell this is early 2000s bc they wouldn't let him say things like that today'' #which led to the ''they Could theoretically make it but like . toned down and also no character would ever be able to agree w him'' #which led to the thing of how audiences seem unable to separate depiction from endorsement #like the whole ''if a character is transphobic and nobody in-world calls them evil and wrong then the creator must be transphobic'' thing #which led to the tag system on ao3 and the proship/anti thing abt whether the existence of the archive warning system means they're — #- endorsing/supporting works that contain 'problematic' themes and content #which led to me ranting abt the reasons Why ppl create dark media (eg a story abt csa could be written by a nonce or a survivor) #and my mother was just Sat There like 🧍🏻‍♂️ bc she's a 60 yr old woman and doesn't care about fanfiction or proship/anti discourse #i do this rant/infodump a Lot tho like it's on my mind very often . i love rambling for nearly an hour abt stupid internet culyure #also the quote i think best sums up my entire stance on the proship vs anti thing is from sarah z's video on it #''i am a tax paying adult woman not a member of a fucking fandom war sports team'' which is so me except that i'm a man n i don't pay taxes #((i'm not a tax evader i just don't meet the threshold to pay them)) #anygay . i get on a plane in like 15 hours and i need to sleep #jay screams into the void

[arolesbianism]

Finally starting to get some proper fairy worldbuilding brainstormed for the random card au, huge win for 3 specific characters and them only

#rat rambles #random card au #band posting #sekai posting #my current concept is that long story short these guys are magical beings that evolved alongside humans #they generally lived side by side but eventually the gods decided if they wanted full worship it'd be best to seperate them #so they basically offered the magic folk some real cushy deals to get them to move elsewhere and then attempted to trap them there #I say attempted cause rly this just lead to a long long war that ultimately resulted in a truce but not without some bullshit compromises #but despite the devinities efforts the magic folk still did exist alongside humans #the ones they did seperate however would end up being known by a different name due to their close work relationship with the gods #the two still have a. strained relationship to put it lightly. and the leading fae are still deeply petty abt what they do have to do #but they also very much do not want to start up another war so they do the bare minimum to fulfil their obligations #aka do some memory relocation #I say relocation because memories cant just be artificially erased with magic #so instead they usually chose a memory barer for the person being removed and store all the memories into them #maya is this for aya and rui is this for emu #its not a fun time since it means you cant leave the main city and youre usually chosen because you knew the person #airi is just a basic contractor tho so she isnt trapped in the city #maya does end up getting to leave tho because of chu2 insisting on contracting her #this wouldnt normally be allowed but chu2 is part divinity and her specific divinity bloodline holds a lot of power #so maya gets to be free for a bit to make music with a lil brat yippeee #its even more anxiety enducing because chu2 is specifically contracting her to participate in a music tornament #the winners of which will be graced with a fun visit from the god of their choice #which isnt a fun thing to have to dread when the person whos memories your holding for is one of said gods

[olessan]

I love the fact that I can work as hard as I can manage with a broken tooth and a dying tooth (one on each side, I've been chewing on the cavity for a year) and I still cannot save even $10 towards getting dental treatment (2 impacted wisdom teeth, + tooth broken off under the gum, + bad cavity) because I barely make enough to cover my food and board and the insane energy bill

#I'm just ranting don't mind me it's fine I am continuing to exist as usual I may delete this later bc it's a bit of a bummer to read #I prefer to keep my blogging to fun or otherwise nonserious content because it's supposed to be for decompression no real world drama here #I got into a 3 hour body language study and earned $50 so I spent that as fun money on a couple games during the Steam sale just to #take a break from the constant cycle of getting paid and then immediately saying goodbye to all but about 15 cents #(well it was 1 game Slime Rancher 2 and then 2 expansion packs one for Planet Zoo and another for Cities Skylines long play hours mileage) #I've tried to budget to buy small things like a fan or a toothbrush maybe (mine is 8yrs old and doesn't charge sometimes) but NOPE #let alone stashing away over $2000 for the amount of treatment I need given tooth extractions are $200-$500 each #I use about $50 of groceries a week ($30 USD) sometimes up to $80 if I need to buy some extra toiletries or bonuses like ham/falafel/bread #our last quarterly power bill was $1900 FOR NO REASON even for a winter one #olessan oration #the work I have is HIT/mturk type work which pays amazingly well and I am so grateful because I can't work in a traditional environment due #my inability to sleep/wake on anyone else's schedule and need for engaging work but it also means each worker is basically a contract worke #picking their own hours which is VERY HARD to stick to for me since I may also have ADHD-i but that diagnosis also costs like $2000 in Aus #so I'm doing my best fucking lmao #I have a set minimum hours I want to keep up to and move to full time but I am so exhausted by the constant background noise of #the tooth problems that I burn out very quickly #like the tooth ache isn't that bad #the tooth is actively dying but the pain isn't unbearable it just shits me off at all times #it's bearable most of the time and doesn't affect my sleep unless the temp is cold or something #it's been bad this week tho so I've gone through almost all my ibuprofen managing it #the tooth that broke off broke off earlier in the year and the gum has mostly healed over and the dead root is concealed inside my gums now #that stopped being painful in mid 2021 but when it died it was pretty bad it did stop me sleeping for a couple weeks #Christmas 2021 involved me contemplating ripping the tooth out myself lmao #the nerve eventually died seemingly without an abscess #unless I DID have an abscess but that seems extremely unlikely because abscesses are SEVERE AND HORRIBLE AND LIFE THREATENING #sometimes I can feel the tooth ligament wiggling on its own or I like flex it by accident it's so weird bc the tooth is gone so #the ligament is still holding onto the root but with way less weight #anyway I am eating my mac n cheese n veg with the side that has the missing tooth because the cavity tooth has a big bruise along the gumli #gumline which may be from overzealous brushing (I fill the tooth will temporarily filling putty and it needs to be cleaned well when the #putty falls out)

[whensuddenlycats]

BREAKING NEWS: Local Neurospicy Woman Discovers Food For The Billionth Time, Recalls That It Reduces Feelings of Shittiness

#ADHD #food #I was feeling wrung out and confused and frustrated about a document i was working on #and then i got up stretched and #Ate An Sandwich #and suddenly I was Ready To Conquer The Rest Of The Shift #I mean obviously I still have the best line fatigue of Existing As An Adult In A Capitalist Society #but i was able to claw my way through it #through the power of Sandwich

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

#mick tucker #sweet #the sweet #sweet band #everybody excuse this very large post #which i didn't mean to make this big #but i #well #it exists now #this is a post of mick being mick #doing weird things #or participating in being weird #(weird in a good way. the best way) #or standing out in some way #or being cute #and a couple of my favorite pictures of him #because once i started i couldn't stop #(still trying to figure out the giant mick gif post i said i would make forever ago) #(still working on separating them from the rest and deciding what to use)