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bellezaycafe · 3 months

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Get Your Shit Together - Chapter 10

genre: 2024 and onwards AU, with the 2024 starting grid.

pairing: Romantic!oc x Lando Norris and/or Oscar Piastri. Platonic!oc x the whole grid.

warnings: angst. max being annoying. idiots in love (yeah its a warning, trust me)

Masterlist / Part 1

comments: this chapter it's pretty Sadie/Oscar heavy :) and I'm not sorry for how long it took me to write...

But [Lando] felt that he’d missed out on months with Sadie. It felt like he had lost time to catch up on.

Sadie, much to her own shagrin, felt similar. So she spent the next two weeks building a dynamic with five drivers.

She’d given Max permission to share her number with any driver that asked for it; she received texts from Lewis and Daniel.

Max never insisted on anything more than he already had. A monthly check in that she was alive and okay. But Sadie felt less like her presence would put Max in danger with each passing day, and opened up to him more. It was only really about things she liked, movies, books and music, but it was a step.

Lewis had facetimed her almost immediately. He’d said it was too ‘see if she was lying to him’ with a concerned little smile. They spoke for hours, well into the night for Sadie. At one point, he’d insisted that she set the phone where he could see her walk around so he could be sure she’d healed.

Lewis, nearing 40, earned the title ‘Old Man’ when he said that Sadie should go and sleep.

Daniel earned the nickname ‘WA’s Bitch’ when he’d bragged about Western Australia to make her laugh. It had worked, even if Sadie had stuck true to her ‘Victoria is better’ opinion.

The Perth-born man had first contacted her to make sure she was okay. He didn’t thank her for what she’d done at Silverstone, everyone else had done that already and the older driver knew his friend was okay. He didn’t know if Sadie was and he’d made it a mission to make her laugh at any opportunity.

Sadie was one hundred percent sure that Daniel had figured out some details about her life that Max hadn’t. The older driver had more experience with Australian society and cultural expectations. But he didn’t ask and Sadie hoped he never would.

Lando, on the other hand, asked everything. He texted sporadically, at random times of the day or night in both her timezone and his. He sent her behind the scenes photos of anything and everything he was working on. Most of the time it was a silly photo of Max Fewtrell.

He wouldn’t send a large text, it would be six or seven small ones that culminated in his point or opinion on a topic.

Sadie never answered any questions she didn’t want to, and Lando respected that.

Oscar rarely asked anything, except for how her day was and if she was free to talk. His texts were consistent. Full conversations, rather than split by 4 hours like her conversations with Lando.

Her fellow Melbournian never asked about her past, but he would send her memes he found funny and links to instagram posts of cute animals.

For two weeks, there was a pattern. Sadie would text Max and Oscar about her life as it was then, like if her shift was bad or if her favourite regulars had come by the bar that day. She’d reply to whatever chaos Lando or Daniel had sent her and laugh at their antics. She’d call Lewis a couple times each week and talk about how her life had changed in the 6 months since Silverstone.

It was a nice pattern. Sadie tackled the more recent past with Lewis’ help, laughed about the present with Daniel and Lando, and thought of what she wanted after talking to Max or Oscar.

They were simple conversations but she was building some bonds with people she liked.

It was cracked by a simple question.

Sadie's faint smile fell to a frown as she realised how stubborn Daniel was going to be.

Sadie hoped she’d conveyed how serious she was. As far as she was concerned, there was no family to talk about and no family to spend Christmas with.

Sadie had no family.

Her phone chimed with another text from Daniel.

She did.

Come to Monaco.

Come to Europe.

You don’t have to pay for a thing, kid.

Sadie sighed and, opting to ignore Max, called Oscar.

"Sadie? You've never called, everything okay?" he mumbled, obviously half asleep.

"Everything's fine, Piastri, calm down," she deadpanned.

There was a sigh of relief and a rustle of sheets on the other end of the line.

"Are you in bed? Mate, you're 23 and in bed by 10?" Sadie teased.

He'd returned to his mum's house for the holidays and had told Sadie as soon as he'd flown in. She knew it was an invitation to make plans, see each other face to face, but his ability to draw a crowd wherever he went nagged at her.

She heard his soft chuckle as he said, "I went karting today, I'm exhausted."

"Should I let you go then?" Her voice was still teasing but she knew she should let him sleep.

"No," he murmured. "No. I have nowhere to be tomorrow, we can talk."

"Really? No last minute shopping tomorrow?"

"Nah, that's all been done already."

"Organised," she mused.

“Yeah, yeah,” he sighed, dry sarcasm dripping from his voice.

But it changed.

“Sadie.” Sheets rustled and moved as he stood up and she heard him move about his room. “Why did you call?”

“I-“

She didn’t have an answer for him. Say nothing, her mind screamed. Say everything, something else argued.

“Sadie?”

“Relax, Piastri, I'm not in trouble.” She drawled, as if she had nothing to care about. “I’m bored and I didn’t expect you to be half-asleep by 9:45.”

Her phone vibrated in her hand. A text from Max. Ignored.

“Sure,” Oscar replied and Sadie knew he hadn’t believed her.

But he didn’t ask again.

Instead, Sadie heard the rattle of keys.

“How about we meet? Go for a drive together and talk face to face?”

“Now?”

“Yeah.”

What?

As if spurred on by her silence, Oscar added, “I know a car park, we can swap into your car, or mine. We can drive around, and talk.”

“Your car is a bright orange McLaren.”

She could hear the grin in his voice, as he said. “It’s papaya.”

“My point still stands,” she said through a laugh.

“There’s always your car.”

Sadie’s heart was pulled in two. Oscar was offering a distraction, and moreover, he was offering a tangible link in their friendship. But there was risk, and if they were seen, was she ready?

“Alright fine, but don’t bring the McLaren,” she conceded.

Her phone vibrated with the address, like Oscar had already typed it out. Maybe he had.

--$--

Three hours later, Sadie was laughing so hard her ribs hurt. Oscar, cleaning the dashboard of Sadie’s car with a tissue, was apologising for spilling the lemonade.

“Sadie,” he whined with another apologetic smile, “I’ll buy us more!”

“No!” She laughed. “No! You’ll spill it again!”

“Hey!” he cried, but he dissolved into a fit of giggles too. “You’re the one who said Alexander Hamilton was more famous than Lewis Hamilton!”

Sadie laughed louder. “In America, I said. In America! Ask Logan!”

Oscar pulled his phone out and texted the Williams driver, still giggling.

“He’s going to agree with me,” Sadie added.

She couldn’t stop her eyes while he wasn’t looking. Her gaze traced the swoop of his unkempt hair and the soft crinkle of the skin next to his eyes as he smiled. She watched the way his eyebrows curved and his gaze flickered between the different letters he was typing.

She didn’t expect him to look up.

Brown eyes met brown eyes.

There was an unmeasured heartbeat, an involuntary pause. Laughter died, falling away to soft giggles and then silence. Loud, irrevocable silence. The only light was his phone, illuminating the absence of noise.

But one thing was clear in a hundred different ways.

A connection. A link. Something.

Oscar looked away first.

“I know,” he whispered into the dark.

He always does, a little voice whispered.

“Know what?” Sadie asked.

“That you’re not ready. That you may never be ready.”

She wanted to ask what he meant by ready. She knew what she meant, but did he mean the same thing? Sadie wanted to know.

She didn’t ask.

“But either way,” he continued. The young driver’s eyes were firmly forward. “I’ve enjoyed tonight. Seeing you in person and seeing you laugh has been…urrm, well it’s been reassuring.”

“Reassuring?” Sadie didn’t take her eyes off him.

“I- we- we were worried about you,” Oscar said, an edge creeping into his voice. “Emotionally, I mean. You were so tense the last time I saw you and I know the trial probably made it worse…”

His hand went to his hair, sweeping away from his face. It had grown again, into his eyes. A part of Sadie wanted to tuck the brown strands behind his ear.

Oscar’s face turned, eyes catching her gaze again before he glanced down, like the handbrake was the most interesting mechanical marvel he’d ever seen.

Sadie was going to break the new silence with some kind of confession, about what she wasn’t sure, when Oscar yawned.

She laughed, and nudged his shoulder with a hand. “Come on, Piastri. Let’s get you home.”

His smile, and that crinkle of skin next to his eyes, returned.

The drive from the small lookout to the car park in which Oscar left his mum’s car was short. Sadie made conversation by asking about Oscar’s season.

“I’m proud of you, you know,” she commented as he opened the passenger door.

He paused and looked back at her. “Thank you. And thank you for congratulating me on Qatar.”

“Max told you?”

Oscar hauled himself out of her car, and turned back, leaning through the doorway.

“Yeah, after some slight manipulation.”

Sadie returned his bright smile with her own. “I bet it didn’t take much.”

“No, not really,” Oscar confessed.

With a wave of her hand and a tilt of her head, Sadie said, “go home, Piastri. Text me when you get there.”

“Drive safe.”

“You too.”

Oscar closed her door gently, waved through the window and walked to his mothers car. Sadie waited for him to enter it before she, once again, disappeared into the night.

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let the slow(ish) burn, slow burn.

masterlist :)

Taglist: @snubug

@cmleitora

@izzy-marvel

@aquangxl

@morenofilm

@viennakarma

@simpingcorner

#f1 #formula 1 #f1 fic #formula one #f1 fanfic #f1 x oc #get your shit together #lando norris x oc #oscar piastri x oc #max verstappen being an older brother

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wolfiemcwolferson · 2 years

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2023 F1 Predicts

This is based on my own person unhinged vibes and nothing else.

Driver’s Champion: Obviously, as a Charles girlie(gn), I want to write Charles name here. But I think Charles’ fate is to be fated to always be second. He wants it more than anything and we slowly watch the realization over the next few season’s that it might remain out of reach forever before he gets it in the most unexpected way. Next year is Max again. He gets three and then never another.

Constructor’s Champion: Stay with me. It’s Ferrari. They put up a good car that does just enough to ensure P1 in the constructor’s and everyone ignores that it’s mostly because the infighting in the RBR garage has reached a boiling point and their second driver is not really second driving. They pull it out. Charles goes home and cries in Pierre’s arms in French because he thinks it’s the only championship trophy he’ll ever hold. Pierre is long suffering and lovely about it. Carlos fucks about it. You fill in the blank on just who he fucks.

Best Midfield Driver: Lando Norris. Lando won F1.5 this year. I did not fuck with Lando before this season. Everyone was talking about him and maybe I was just being resistant to be a stubborn bitch (because I do that), but this year, I have done a 180 on Lando. The kid drove that orange crayon around the track and he’ll do it again next year somehow and I’ll be happy for him.

Biggest Flop Driver: I want to say Sargeant because I’m so mad about his existence in my happy place, but the reality is that he’s going to be in a Williams and unless Alex Albon makes a deal with a crossroads demon, we won’t be able to tell if he’s a flop or not. (Unless he pulls a Nicky, honestly.) There will be a “flop” in that someone from a top team will massively underperform from their teammate and everyone will be screeching for their heads. I’m not saying it’s Checo. But I’m not not saying it’s Checo.

Most Improved Driver: Selfishly, I want to say to you all that it will be Pierre Gasly now that he’s away from AT, but unless Alpine fixes their reliability issues...and also, it’s not fair to say he’s “improved”, so I’m going to say it’s Yuki. He has a lot to prove. There’s no clear “driver 1 & 2″ at AT. He takes the winter break and gets his head on straight and decides that he’s going to make it work (and not just because he’s at risk). Pierre is very proud of him and finally gives him the address to his house.

Biggest Team Flop: Aston continues to disappoint actually and we call it a flop because it’s the thing that breaks Nando and makes him leave the sport for good. Lawrence Stroll has a nervous breakdown. Lance sells the team and disappears into the sunset and we catch a glimpse of him in 10 years when Scotty and Chloe have a kid who wants to get in a kart and occasionally on Canadian French television coverage of hockey games.

Most Improved Team: The real answer is Mercedes who will be back in the fight next year. The team literally no one will shut up about is McLaren. Which still brings an embarrassing car to the grid, but Lando is dominating the midfield and Oscar is consistently in the points. Australia has a reckoning over who the best Australian driver is. Somehow, Scotty James gets invited and he ends up winning. Everyone pretends like it never happened.

Best Rookie: It’s De Vries. Again, that name stealing bastard is driving a Williams and we won’t be able to tell. Oscar gets outshined by Lando and he doesn’t have the personality to make up for it. De Vries fully leans into the debris thing and he and Yuki try and out fruit each other so much and so often that Dr. Marko finally realizes the fruit factory he’s been facilitating for so long can not be dismantled. He also does well in the points and he’s just so fucking happy to be there. Everyone loves him. He gets three little gold star stickers during Max’s 3rd WDC championship celebration from Kelly because she thought he was an actual child and Daniel never forgets that and brings it up twice a year to Max until they die.

Best Race: Brazil delivers on both drama and at least one championship battle. Someone gets in deep shit in Las Vegas though so no one talks about anything else for an entire week. Singapore ends up being the most exciting race in terms of racecraft. Someone announces their unexpected retirement right before though so the Sky Sports commentators only talk about that instead of anything interesting on track. Sam Collins cries into his microphone.

Race Winners: Max, Charles, George, Carlos, Lewis. For sure. Lando Norris finally becomes a race winner. Carlos - purely self-indulgent - is P2. I cry like a baby on my couch while those two spray each other in the faces with champagne and Carlos cuffs Lando around the back of the neck and my partner looks at me and asks are we sure they’re not fucking and I eat my croissant in silence.

Surprise Pole Sitter: We have a KMag situation but with Bottas. He does not win the race, but he texts Lewis before he gets in the car and says just like old times. Lewis cries and thinks about retiring.

Points gap between 1 & 2: The Constructor’s championship is embarrassing and RBR gets flounced by both Mercedes and Ferrari. The Driver’s championship is a true fight to the end. Max wraps it up and when he and Charles shake hands in the cool down room (while George looks on like the awkward freak he can be), Max pretends he doesn’t see Charles’ tears and Charles pretends that he doesn’t see the way Max looks tired.

Biggest Team Rivalry: Internal? Oh, next year is going to be bad. Max and Checo snipe at each other in interviews until Christian is forced to insert Danny into every single marketing video and be present every time the two drivers have to be in the same room. Christian has to keep giving him raises, but don’t worry. It’s not coming out of the cost cap. Surprisingly, Esteban and Pierre get along fairly well until Estie Bestie gives Pierre’s car a little love tap and they both crash out. Este says it’s not his fault. Fernando doesn’t understand why this kid (Lance) doesn’t actually give a shit about racing and it blows up. Zak realizes that he is forcing twink on twink crime and they turn on him. I become the Lucille Bluth good for her meme.

Most wins by one driver in the 2023 season: Max again. But it’s close and it goes all the way to the end. We all cry every single week and we get many many new blogs dedicated to the math of the championship standings. One of them gets cancelled for being transphobic.

Wildcard predictions: We get an unexpected retirement announcement. A former driver gets outted and we all have to get on Twitter and educate the masses on how there’s likely a queer driver, but it’s not exactly safe for them to be out and holy fuck, why are we forcing people out of the closet? Mick has to fill in for someone who is too sick to drive and he finishes well in the points and he gets a full time seat offer for the 2024 season. Daniel never comes back to racing full-time, but he does regain all the weight he lost and we cheer for him and his silly little expensive merch.

#I should not post this #I am exposing far too much about myself here #Enjoy this #do not take any of this seriously #but please do share your own outrageous predictions for next season #we meet back here in a year and discuss #f1 #f12023

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velvetwarfare · 5 months

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while my fever lowered a bit I wanna talk about the differences between my bb girls long post ahead

I differentiate them by both icon border and by referring the default to Betty whereas COS is Bethanne ✨

𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐘

- A humanoid strand of vampirism. She was willingly turned by an ancient vampire in an effort to save the Leathe townsfolk better, growing tired of her squishy, mortal body and watching her family constantly die around her.

- LARP based. More crack shit friendly. Lighter themes.

- Stats ✨

- Shavali (homebrewed version of Vistani). Slavic-Romanian. Speaks mainly Russian.

- Victorian gothic aesthetic. Feminine lean. Can dress androgynous, prefers dresses and makeup more. Very elegant and fanciful, likes to douse herself in jewelry and wine to feel more uppity (PTSD from her past).

- Her backstory consists of formerly being a bard in Al’Hazir, practicing jests and crude humor only to earn extra coin rather than produce her own content due to the rich despising how light hearted it was. Because of her poverty and lack of home as well as family, and due to her intense desire to survive no matter the odds, she unwillingly changed her entire persona to fit her boss’ needs. Eventually, she went mad with how many times she had to strain and break her true self in order to just live, and came across the last performance for Deity’s Eclipse (Halloween). Seeing that the richer folks could afford prosthetics and costumes, Betty was only left with a dingy vampire cloak and begging for any sort of fangs. Being denied and told if she fucked up her performance in front of the neighboring city’s higher ups, she’d be cast outside to die in the winter, Betty resorted to shaving her canines into fangs herself with only a nail filer. This proved to be foreshadowing for when she became a true vampire — nobody telling the difference due to her canines having already been shaped to be fangs.

- Melancholic, pessimistic, has an awful view on humanity. Covers it all up with crude humor as a defense mechanism. Severe BPD. Doesn’t know how to take shit seriously because she has been masking for literal decades. Secretly VERY empathetic and gets attached easily from loneliness. Mentally incapable of not being a downright bitch with sharp sarcasm 90% of the time (ingrained defense mechanism). Wants her own children but can’t biologically create one as an undead so she’ll just adopt any fucking person she deems worthy LOL. Pansexual, no lean. Likes to sleep around. Does not give a shit about social normality.

- The Forgotten Realms brought out her serious side though — blood magic and becoming a sort of general and all to a bunch of Skaven. She’s very much used to violence and death due to this. Doesn’t bat an eye at bloodshed. Isn’t opposed to it either. Just don’t ruin her carpet or attire.

- H.arley Quinn, H.ormone Monstress, and S.pinel coded.

- Noel’s Lament as a theme song. Memory by Cats is her human theme.

- Easy to ship with. Easy to interact with. Very laid back and flexible.

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- An unwillingly turned vampire spawn with a heavy strand of animalistic Nosferatu (beast-like spawns turned from a beast of a vampire lord, the most severe and fatal out of all the covens. usually, people don’t last long as this version of undead due to how it wrecks the body and mind. those who live are absolute killing machines.) . Lived in a very healthy vardo and settlement before they were slaughtered by her vampire lord.

- DnD (Curse of Strahd) based. Dark themes present. Both controversial and touchy subjects. A grim turn on the default Betty.

- Vistani and highly spiritual, doesn’t care for the Gods (they both share that tbh). Speaks in Patterna and Romanian. Has Celtic traditions. Was never a city folk, she has 0 idea how to socialize with people, was raised off the grid.

- Stats and bio ✨

- Very androgynous. Muscled as fuck. (see s.triga or k.arlach) Literally just wanted to be a pretty princess before her body got disfigured and cursed as all hell. Extremely insecure over her appearance due to the looks she always gets from people (unwillingly intimidating). Barbaric and vintage vampire aesthetic. War paint. Envies other vampires for looking more normal and humanoid. Her wild shape is corrupted as well — to be a giant bat beast just like her vampire lord. Dreads how monstrous she is, just wants someone to find her pretty again.

- Bethanne grew up in a decently small sized vardo and settlement before being turned. Mama Andreá, a small elderly woman, was a psychic who ran a traveling business where she would read fortunes and read people’s souls. Catarina was her elder sister who taught her how to read nature and defend herself in the dark forests. Florin was her younger brother, who she mainly raised when Andreá fell ill. They all made up who she still is today — and without such humane love, Beth would have fell complete victim to the fatal strand and turned fully into a beast. Any souls that Noctus takes will never rest in peace due to his curse — and Bethanne is prophesied to be the one to behead him and set all the souls free due to escaping from his grasp and actively fighting the strand that’s always trying to corrupt her body.

- Pessimistic tendencies, but tries to stay optimistic for the sake of her party and hope to lay her family to rest by killing Noctus (her vampire lord). Any modern reference goes right over her head. Any social aspect goes right over her head. She is so fucking confused by society, I swear to god. You’re going to have to teach her everything normal. She knows how to read and write though, she loves to write poetry to vent. Excellent crafter, made all the toys for her vardo. Excellent at weaponry and archery. Knows tarokka. Was given a deck by Cassandra (Strahd in disguise as a Vistani woman, but no one knew it was her at the moment) as well (on request, but she already knows how to use it due to Mama Andreá having been a literal psychic who dealt with fortunes and divinity.) Humanity treats her like shit out of fear due to all the undead attacks, but she still loves humanity and continues to protect them despite her reluctance to. Highly and openly empathetic but has sarcastic tendencies. Usually pretty stern and serious, exhausted 25/8. Literally dreads her own existence because of how tiring it is to live with the curse and constant death around her. Everyone she’s loved so far has fucking died so she firmly believes her existence is a curse in itself that causes anyone who gets close to ultimately die. Is petrified to love. Wants to be loved so bad it’s ridiculous.

- When I fucking tell you she is HELLBENT on the hero complex. Not only was she forcibly turned, forced to leave her vardo at the City of Judgement, got this heavy ass prophecy shoved into her arms, and gets the nastiest backlash from the living just for existing as a vampire spawn, and having everyone she loves die around her, she believes that saving her loved ones and setting the souls free will be enough proof that she’s fucking worth something other than misery and failure. It’s not going well LOL this is COS everything goes wrong. She protected her first love interest until the very end until he caught feelings for her then got straight up kidnapped by one of the main antagonists — where he’s been actively tortured and experimented on slowly in an unknown location. She just found out about Cassandra and her true identity and is about to beat her ass silly for forgetting her Vistani ties but then she’ll try to save her ass too. It’s even worse because Vistani are so built on this foundation of acceptance and love and these two were originally two innocent Vistani women who may have even known each other in the past before getting entirely DESTROYED by vampirism and status. They both have the WORST mental health and PTSD too rest in pieces holy shit

- Hates violence but will instigate it over a short temper. Jokes about needless violence just to be a cunt with her weirdly dry sense of humor. Verbally harsh as hell and dangerously outspoken. Her intimidation comes from both her tongue and appearance. Has made a kid shit his pants before, and that was actually unintentionally JGHFHCVCH ,, has told a God and a devil to go fuck themselves, regrettably told Cassandra on their first meeting to fuck off because she was in a real shit mood at the time and Cass was joking about the fates not telling her if Beth would be tall or short (she’s 3 inches taller than Beth and Beth apologized later on and said she’s a train wreck to which Cass just stares at her and asked if the only reason she wanted to speak to her was to say she’s a train wreck and followed it up w it’s obvious you’re a train wreck and Beth just dead panned and asked her if she’s always such a cunt I fucking LOVE them LMAO) , has threatened an ENTIRE FUCKING AREA OF ROYAL GUARDS with her axe because one of them was being racist and threatened her party’s safety, threatened Ireena’s fucking brother too because he was just as bad as the guards and she HATES authority. Vaguely threatened the council of Ravenloft for corrupting Cass in conversation only. probably will threaten them in person honestly, especially if it’s just a group of pompous dudes. she hate hate HATES men in power — and so does Cass LMAO these two are going to be HORRIFIC

- Low key C.armilla coded, M.erida, K.arlach, A.lucard, and E.da coded.

- All the Saints of Notre Dame theme. The entire Brave soundtrack. Any Celtic or Viking song. Skål by Fuimadane.

- Not that hard to ship with, she’s just heavy baggage and looks like a monster for the most part so not many people cared to ship w her.

#out of the keep 🐀

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mcl38 · 7 months

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Lando should make you nervous to watch f1 at all. it does not have to be a race start for him to choke. it can be a race end or even qualifying

so fun fact abt lando is that in his 5 years of formula 1 he has had a lovely grand total of zero driver error dnfs (not counting OTHER drivers errors gasly and stroll u are both on my shit list). one of the reasons i enjoy watching him is because im an anxious bitch with minor heart issues and he is by far the most risk-averse and one of the most consistent drivers on the grid. id argue he was too risk-averse at the beginning of his career - a pattern for 2019 was watching him give out hard-earned place after place to his competitors during the race after qualifying super high, bc he was too shy to actually properly fight tooth and nail for track position.

so, in a perverse way, altho spa 2021 was scary to watch and sochi had me retching over a toilet seat (partly bc of how horribly motion sick i was after trying to watch the beginning of the race in a moving car) and then crying on the floor, i am kind of glad they happened, bc until then lando hadnt quite pushed against the famed 'limit' kind of at all. it took him 2 whole years to reach it, which is super unusual for a driver that enters f1 so young, and why a lot of other drivers of his generation had reputations of recklessness or overzealousness in their first few years in the sport - i mean even verstappen was the laughing stock of the paddock for the old guys, which was also totally fair, bc he was a 17 year old with a monthly pass to the bowling arcade bothering a retirement home's garden game of badminton. point is - i welcome lando's 'choking', which doesn't happen often, because it means he's grown balls and not just in the high speed corners. i think theyre few and far between and make him a better driver, as much as those self-flagellating post-session interviews r torture to me.

and to be totally honest i dont actually really care abt the qualifying mishaps at all. not only bc he makes up for it in the 95% of qualis where hes sooo sexy and fast, but also bc the two times he fucked it up in quali and then the race actually happened (rip spa) he was on the podium both times. and i loooove seeing lando climb up the field, its fun and rare bc, again, he usually qualifies right where his car should be or even higher than that. thats y imola 2021 is probably my fav lando podium and one of my fav lando performances in general

so this is why (long winded explanation ik) im better off following lando on track than pretty much anyone else (i think the universe is compensating for me being an alex fan in 2020). thank u for giving me the opportunity to go off on a tangent abt that!! im always ready to talk abt how lando is a pussy (beloved), and how that actually makes him both super consistent and also relatable to me, also a pussy, as opposed to the adventurous adrenaline junkies that make up most of the rest of the grid bc unfortunately f1 is an extreme sport and tends to collect that type.

oh and also ik u or a couple of u have been sending lando blogs hate anons for the last week i think u should suck some dick and cock and then also kill yourself hope this helps! kys<3 ur so lame

#ik i shouldnt be giving u attention however i love talking abt lando too much to pass up the opportunity #hiii! come visit again my askbox is always open and i love arguing #lando #anon #ask #the lando hater

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literaphobe · 2 years

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imma push back a little against the “testers shouldn’t be in mcc even if it was years ago” thing. wolfeei (ex-tester) made a post a year ago about them being given the chance to dip, since the “testers can’t compete” rule only changed to being perma after MCCR (old rules). getting mad at FBM just for being an ex-tester feels like fishing for stuff to be mad about. him being added in general is fair

atp imo it’s not that different than a player who hasn’t participated since s1. in the last 10+ events since MCCR, meltdown and loads of new maps have been added (ace race, battle box, pkt, half the grid runners rooms they played, half the tgttos maps) plus all of the stuff like coins changes & the SoT tunnel difficulty increase/sand being made more scarce. obviously the testing exp is a type of advantage, but as cyan made clear, what translates the most is just gaming skill in general.

HOWEVER, adding fbm ~now~ def went against the spirit of an mcc underdogs but eh it’s done & dusted, now we have the proof that it was a dumb concept. i didn’t hate the idea of the event; clearly noxcrew wanted to do something encouraging for the more chill players who are stuck as continual losers, but what they came up with was stupid. oh the happy clappy boomer vibes of wanting to get rid of give out participation trophies canon coins... the balance mcc strives for between a competitive + for fun event is kinda funky & subjective but, i think it makes for good vibes in the end! being able to be lighthearted & not 100% srs about everything always eliminates a lot of toxicity too. (I am approaching mcc27 as it not mattering. it is noncanon to me. the “half canon” explanation was ass. at least it gave us something to bitch about lol)

1 thing I can respect FBM for is coming in and winning an mcc & placing 1st indiv already. it will make the reddit bros a little easier to bear because i guess technically he has hit the tier standard™️ in a “half canon” way, aka it doesn't count at all lmaoo. if I see ppl start calling him s tier already before he’s ~consistently~ placing top 5 i will start punching

sorry 4 the essay. unrelated! purple mentioned dnf at some point after tgttos (dnf i.e. did not finish) but it gave me a heartattack still.

i mean there’s not much for u to be pushing back against bc i think we reached a consensus here already that he could’ve debuted in a normal mcc on a balanced team or a non-canon mcc for strong players and ex testers but putting him in this event tipped the scales in a way that went against the spirit of what ‘mcc underdogs’ was supposed to be. idt anyone’s really mad at firebreathman himself but more so what he represents. another purpled situation where we’re mostly just sick of the reddit

#ask #mcc reddit

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russilton · 2 years

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George back to stress crying again - see his post quali interview,its quite clear-. Imma throw hands here I swear to mf GOD

Alrighty anon that interview was a bitch to find, but I did and look,

I consider myself an mild expert in George tears, I analysed the Australia post race hug so hard I gained a ship. I have a tag in my fic review doc called ✨crying George✨ because it’s just very fun. His lip wobble makes my heart clench.

What you are experiencing in this interview is likely not post cry George, but rather your common English wet-eyed bottom.

George just…. kinda looks like that. Often.

He is sounding uncomfortable and pessimistic. They both are, but we heard that in Hungary, and in Baku and in Canada. It’s okay to feel down about todays results, but it ain’t over till they cross the line. You have to be in it to win it, and we’re the most consistent car on the grid, even if it’s consistently shit.

These bitches are planning

#asks #anonymous

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clustxr · 3 years

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actually. dream is a fuckin sore loser when it comes to competitions LMAO i would hate to win against him in mcc only for him to whine about how it’s unfair and “disproportionate […] statistically”

this got longer than expected so tl,dr: dream should suck it up and admit that he just isn’t very good at buildmart instead of bitching about it every time it gets played just because he isn’t guaranteed a spot on the leaderboard

this is about buildmart btw. like he’s all ”oh i can‘t focus it’s too hard to remember all of the stuff“ MEMORY IS JUST AS MUCH A SKILL AS PVP… and you have chat + teammates to help you out??? just bc pete (and specifically *pete only* and in just that one event) doesn’t always use those resources doesn’t mean that using them makes you automatically suck. fuckin complain about “but PETE doesn’t use them so i shouldnt need to!!“ sometimes people are better than you idk what to say. and sometimes you don’t always need to compare yourself to other people and use the most individually focused strategies possible in every game.

the REASON why dream thinks that buildmart sucks as a team communication game is because he doesn’t see it as one. he treats it like an individual game, so he gets its experience as an individual game, and then complains when it’s not working as an individual game. when it is very much a team communication game unless you are incredibly aware of the builds & needs of others without needing that verbal communication and have a good memory & rapid response time. when people like grian play buildmart, a large part of their success is reliant on teammates discussing needs, communicating priorities, and checking in with each other frequently in order to get builds done. this is highly effective, as seen in grian‘s teams’ consistent good placements in buildmart. however when you look at dream‘s efforts, he’s more focused on doing his own thing. i think if he instead learned how to direct his team in buildmart like he does in pvp oriented games (and take a leaf out of grian’s book strategy-wise) he could make a great leader and get a better score.

of course, buildmart doesn’t force teamwork like grid runners does, which is probably a source of frustration for dream (& others, no doubt) but honestly? yeah maybe it’s not strictly necessary but it certainly *helps* if you’re not fuckin insane at the game.

part of his rant which sort of confused me is the “i’m not bad at buildmart but i don’t like it, except i’ve never placed above grian and even with my best efforts i still haven’t won“ like no offense but maybe you ARE bad at it lol just admit that non-forced teamwork isn’t your strongest suit and go. there’s no shame in admitting that you just aren’t good at something! but insisting that you are, when you’re clearly *not*, is not going to help.

“there are ways for people who are worse to do good, but there’s not in buildmart”… the same could be said about other team based games like sot and grid runners imo. if you’re a good team there’s a chance that you might fuck it up with a game like buildmart but if you don’t have that teamwork then you won’t do well. that‘s the whole point of the game. and let’s be real here even with the occasional pop-off of a ”worse” team in another game it’s pretty much guaranteed to be the same outcome either way. and again buildmart is supposed to be something that challenges a pvp-oriented team (i.e. a standard dream mcc team) and forces them out of their comfort zone and puts them i an environment where the “worse” teams will almost certainly do better than them, or at least have a chance. in other words, buildmart is the pop-off *game* rather than a pop-off *moment*. it could actually make an impact on the leaderboard compared to the moments that a team would have in another game.

even way back in aug 2020 he had a tendency to whine about minor inconveniences. remember when 1.16 dropped and he tried to petition mojang to revert changes to fortress generation instead of a) continuing to speedrun in older versions, b) trying out 1.16 and getting used to the high amounts of resets/etc, c) figuring out new speedrunning strats or digging deeper into world generation to find a workaround to this problem, or d) waiting for someone else to do all of the work until new speedrunning strats were figured out that would revolutionize 1.16+ speedrunning and make a sub10 rsg igt wr possible? yeah. (i guarantee that if this happened nowadays, dream stans would be bitching about it too and dream antis would fucking hate it lmao.) at this point the tantrums just come with the guy i guess lol hell if i know what to do about it at the end of the day

#to be clear: i do not dislike the guy i just think his constant complaints about buildmart are annoying as fuck #and i strongly disagree with him on these points #and he’s being a baby about it lmao L #but ye all of this isnt meant to be taken super seriously i’m playing up my saltiness for the entertainment lol #i really am not that invested in it all #it’s just a lighthearted post #mcc #mcyt #minecraft championship #dreamwastaken #buildmart #dream neg /#(i dont rly think it is but just in case i guess)

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I just LOVE Joan man. Like you said, he literally never makes sense, he's just a funny silly little man and I adore him way too much. Also he's hot!!!

and like I saw a lot of people (still) being pissed that he became world champion last year bc he only won one race and so on but yk what, I actually love that he did! He was and still is sort of the underdog in the races - he's just a sneaky little bitch that stays consistent the whole time! Like you just don't expect him, you see the battle for p1 and p2 and be focused on that but Joan's like hehe bitches, here I come to collect my points and slide higher up the championship standing ✌🏻🥴

unhinged, I'm always rooting for him lmao

yes yes yes!!! i agree that i kinda enjoy that he still goes by under the radar, more joan for me 😂 also i love making fun of him cause he truly does make no sense hahah

and i will stand by the fact that last year his championship was 100% deserved!! it wasn’t a fluke, and this year he’s showing that he is still one of the most consistent ones on the grid (unfortunately for him though there’s another dude that is just constently better hahah)

but anyway, i hope he sorts his shit out and figures out how to do quali so we can finally see him battle up front more often. he isn’t allowed to arrive in front of marc tho. as self-appointed team principal of the marc/joan ship, team orders are that joan always has to give the position to marc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#ask #anon

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signetxego · 4 years

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The twst dorm leaders playing gbf, purely for meme purposes, something i spent too much time on. below the cut for long post.

Riddle

⁃ Rank 101

⁃ Plays casually but consistently, riddle is a perfectionist and wants to make his teams good, but he’s also realistic and pragmatic. He knows he’s a busy guy, and can’t join trains all day to bust up all his grids at once

⁃ The type to focus on one team at a time based on a predetermined order. Probably not in a crew (if he is, it’s just him, Cater and some of Cater’s friends) so he doesn’t worry about guild wars and building his teams based on that.

⁃ f2p, he’s responsible with his money. probably mains light since he likes the comfort of a high hp pool + stamina, and the typical light play style is reliable and safe.

⁃ Has only recruited one eternal—funf. Her voice probably drives him up the wall, but he likes the security of her heals to his light team. Is planning on 5*ing her!

⁃ favourite class is doctor. Practical, and he won’t admit it but sexy as fuck

⁃ He plays for the gameplay rather than the story/characters, the one exception is sandalphon, who he is incredibly fond of!!! he reads stories if the plot interests him, however, and if he’s got some spare time.

Leona

⁃ Rank 1

⁃ Leona doesn’t play he’s in it like a collecting game and so ruggie can use his randomly lucksacked mlb shiva as a support summon

⁃ like vil, plays on roulette season

⁃ reads some stories, but on ruggies account bc he cba to unlock them himself

⁃ ruggie made a joke about leona being percival ‘if he lost his sense of honour’ which made leona go and read the dragon knights stories

⁃ bruh he fucking stans percy so hard after reading between frost and flame but he won’t admit it

⁃ frequently throws money at the game just because he feels like pulling in gacha. ruggie is crying. leona don’t buy the scam star draw set you don’t even play the game please

⁃ is always really lucky in gacha

Azul

⁃ Rank 200

⁃ Only started playing recently, but was determined to catch up to Idia and become the best player so he got the twins and some poor unfortunate souls to help him grind and pay his way to instant victory

⁃ Doesn’t care for the plot, is purely driven by competition and wanting to have the best grids at any given time. Mains water for the Octavinelle Aesthetic and bitches about having to play the summer cagliostro crit setup to compete with other elements.

⁃ Likes quatre because they are both driven purely by spite and revenge, and is desperate for him to get a rebalance so he can run him w/ a clear conscience

⁃ Also likes Six, probably cried like a bitchboy during seeds of redemption which is to this date the only story he has read but you didn’t hear it from me

⁃ In a crew with idia and is waiting to overthrow him as captain

⁃ Has a weird spreadsheet showing exactly when to cast a status effect for it to land with the highest success that’s virtually unreadable to anyone aside from him

⁃ Plays chaos ruler as default bc he thinks it looks cool

⁃ sparks for the weapon rather than the character

⁃ hates farming for mats and gets the twins/his slaves to do his dailies when he’s busy a lot of the time god i wish i had slaves to farm ubaha host mats for me rn

Kalim

⁃ Rank 50 but his grids are the best of anyone in the game bc haha money go brrrr

⁃ He is cursed with bad gacha luck, and managed to deck himself out with the sexiest primal grid possible (puts idia’s to shame) thanks to jamils help, and a lot of money spent on trying to get Vikala’s ssr (before realising the spark function existed...)

⁃ He doesn’t favour any element, because he likes all the characters! He has a soft spot for Anila and Vikala though, since they’re so adorable and fun!

⁃ Doesn’t play seriously and mostly just reads the stories, idia wants to cry when he sees his fire grid with four flb ixabas going to waste

⁃ He likes Sarasa, and thinks she’s really funny, so when he does play it’s mostly grinding to recruit her!

⁃ Actually likes Vyrn and doesn’t find him annoying! has actually read the main story.

⁃ solos as soon as he has 300 crystals, he literally can’t save, i hate it here

⁃ his favourite class is lumberjack, but he hasn’t unlocked it yet ;-; ccws are hard to forge for rank 100 and below ;-;

Vil

⁃ Rank 25

⁃ seasonal player, shows up for roulette season and then leaves

⁃ downloaded the game because of the pretty art and the cute character designs, but can’t be bothered to learn how to play—he’s a busy man!

⁃ Europa was his first SSR and is still one of his favourite characters, she’s so pretty! He also loves michael and gabriel, and would start playing properly if they became playable mark my words

⁃ won’t admit it but probably wants belial to smear his makeup a little

⁃ kinda a basic bitch, has only read the wmtsb series cried at the ‘i’ll be waiting’ scene

⁃ criticises the fashion choices of every character he pulls, summons included. Won’t go into raids if the boss is ugly.

⁃ Does his makeup with zero playing in the bg and once parades lust...

Idia

⁃ Rank 275

⁃ that insane player who has soloed faasan hl in every element, has all the eternals 5*ed + the sexy blue skin, and all the evokers

⁃ a legendary figure in the community

⁃ plays as tormentor in every team bc he’s that bitch and also has a damascus knife mh for every element even if he doesn’t always use it

⁃ is both serious abt gameplay and the characters, watches all the gbf channel episodes and keeps up with news

⁃ was probably in a gbfvs tournament

⁃ his favourite character is caim, who reminds him of ortho with his childish innocence! Second is Nio, who is quiet and cute! He’s fond of a lot of characters though, like esser, funf, ferry and narmaya.

⁃ Strictly plays with his faves, but his grids are so good that he manages to make any setup meta.

⁃ Has siero scratcher ptsd bc it didn’t give him his third flb blue sphere but got tempted with it so. many. times.

⁃ Is in a guild w/ azul and ortho + some internet friends and if anyone doesn’t meet the gw quota in a day he screams at them w his hair all red and angry

⁃ owns the gisla body pillow.

⁃ He mains all elements. He has a primal whale grid for every element. His favourite to play with is probably wind, because he thinks it has the most flexibility in its play style. Hes a little mad that winds evoker is not as good as most of the others...

⁃ Idia: “i play for strategy” also idia: ‘gets fraux before alanaan bc the waifu is too strong’

Malleus

⁃ Rank 200

⁃ he can’t play, he’s just been farming tiamat omega raids daily since the games launch

⁃ he downloaded it to get closer to lilia, who is really *really* trying to teach him how to play with... little success

⁃ Still, he doesn’t give up!

⁃ Used his free gold bar uncapping a celeste horn

⁃ forgot to collect his free eternal

⁃ used parazonium as skill fodder (dw malmal i did the same and i live with the guilt)

⁃ uses auto select for his grids

⁃ lilia is crying in the background and often steps in to make the grids himself, but malleus always accidentally deletes them...

⁃ his favourite character is vania, she reminds him of lilia! and also, himself, in a strange way...

⁃ he also likes song, and has worked very hard to recruit her! he almost cried reading about how she was ostracised in her village for her talent at archery, and how lonely she feels, even in the eternals.

⁃ whenever the characters give him a seasonal message, he cries

⁃ gives valentines/white day/christmas gifts to every single character he has

#twisted wonderland #twst #granblue fantasy #gbf

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yuumi0035 · 4 years

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Yuumi’s art process (with pics!)

This is how I go about doing the art palettes, and generally how I do art (specially on lose, not so long pieces such as these). I’ll breakdown the process under the cut so I don’t spam people’s timelines (´･ω･`)

I was going to put these final advises at the very end but someone else might make use of these instead of going through the whole thing so here:

Important things to keep in mind in case you’re learning and actually think I’m worth being listened:

References are GOOD. No one is perfect and no one knows how to draw stuff from their memory so go google weird things, Google-sensei won’t judge. Hopefully. (else set your navigation on private).

Brushes and whatnot don’t make the artist, but it sure as hell help you feel like you’re doing what you like or not. I can’t stress enough how many times I’ve just not finished works because my brushes felt “off”.

Posemaniacs is very good for both anatomy and speed practise (I’m aware I’m really fast compared to my fellow artist friends but by no means it’s a standard, I just got used to work fast uwu)

Be careful with your wrist!!! use your whole arm when drawing!! and also T a k e · b r e a k s.

Art block is a bitch and strikes anyone. I’m usually artblocked but if you find something you’re passionate about go draw that, whatever it is. (I hadn’t consistently drawn in p much 5 years after college and thanks to MLB season 3 here I am LOL)

And now for the actual breakdown:

Step 1: Sketch

My first step is the sketch, which some of you might think “but it’s SO CLEAN!!”, yes, sometimes I leave my sketches as lines and polish them a bit. Anyways, these is what my sketch looks like and next an important thing:

...which is the 2/3 rule! Photoshop blabbery ahead, tl:dr how i made the grid

I’ve been doing this small trick by filling a layer of any color, lowering the opacity to 50% and transforming it to 33,33% it’s height duplicate and place on each side of the canvas and then merge, and then another layer doing the same but doing 33,33% width instead of height. Then I merge both layers, set the opacity to 30% and the result is that perfect 2/3 rule.

If you don’t really know what the rule is, I kindly suggest this instead of my explanation bc words are not my forte.

Step 2: Lineart!

Nothing to say here other than cleaning the lines from earlier with a different (or the same in this case) brush as the sketch one. Opacity varies from day to day.

I have several styles of lineart and they all come with the mood I feel on that day, so don’t be afraid of experimenting and finding what you like most! I personally like thin lines a lot but also thick lines too! i’m constantly looking for the perfect line™ and to give an idea this is what my brushes look like:

in summary, practise with as many tools you can find around and see which ones you like most uwu

Step 3: Base Color

This is probably the part where I give up the most bc it boooooores me LOL. I try to spend as little time as possible in order to overcome this step. These are usually colors I use in 99% of my pics, since... idk years. If you look in my old arts in twitter you’ll see them haha.

Something important I’d like to mention here is ✨LAYERS✨:

This is how my layers look like in the base color part. I tend to do 1 for skin color, 2 for hair / eyes, 3+ for clothes and stuff. I tend to separate them in colors so they don’t merge! I go with numbers because... I think it’s faster to type and I’ve been using this way of naming for years so it works for me, what matters is that you group your layers and keep them organized uwu (specially if someone else has to look at your psd files >>)

Step 4: Shading!

Normally, I shade every single layer with a proper shade but on the case of the palette challenge I’m doing just the skin because I want to stress the light mood. Liiiike if I want to go with a softer light I’d use lighter shades or a stronger light = stronger shades. To pick colors, I usually go with that brown from Chat Noir and Marinette’s jacket as my universal black (I don’t like working with black, I’m weird), and most of the colors I just eye pick from the Color Picker on Photoshop. In the right you can see my swatches:

To choose the shade tone (in this example we’ll use Chat Noir’s hair), I picked a Yellow -Adrien’s hair is specially hard to color ugh- And then with that same tone I’d choose its shade going diagonally looking for a darker tone. This way you can find interesting colors! On this pic I did that for Adrien’s hair and... the rest I did the following:

I did my lazy shading™ : which consists in a layer set to Multiply with 50% opacity (this varies depending on the light, again), and I shade everything with the same tone (my to go is purple, but sometimes I use other colors too). This gives a sense of uniformity and the resulting shades are way nicer in my opinion.

Step 5: But Yuumi... where are the palettes???

I take that people straight handpick the palettes and use them to shade all the way and I respect them for that. I instead decided to do whatever floats my boat so I color regularly but add the palettes over the whole thing to change the overall mood and colors of the illustration. I randomly use the Gradient Tool and use the palettes’ colors around and then set that layer to Screen, Multiply, Focal Light, Overlay... etc etc, whatever I feel like doing in that moment, and so the magic happens! :’D

I don’t usually do this on my works but this is a new way to experiment for me and I’m having fun with it!

Step 6: Finishing Touches

Here is where I use the palettes the most, adding random highlights in whatever way I feel like. Yep, I pretty much Ladybug my whole coloring process: Wing it and go with the flow™. I’m still learning about lighting and whatnots but I really don’t care at this point LOL

To which you’ll say: But Yuumi?? In art school they told me that---

To which I say: shhhhhhhhhhhhh assigntments are over for me. go watch some Bob Ross (I am serious). Do whatever you feel like. Be happy. No one is going to judge you, and if they wanna judge they better be paying for your work first. so. whatever you do: BE HAPPY. or don’t do it. unless it’s a school assignment, in that case go do it or i’ll kick your ass.

✦ Finishing Notes ✦

So yea, that’s my art process in how I’ve been doing these Miraculous Color Palettes and generally how I go about my illustrations most of the time. For more complex illustrations, I need to remember how I did those (oops). And actually, do them. These illustrations usually take up 2 or 3 hours to make, on other pieces i’ve been working on them for up to 8 hours, it really varies from piece to piece, but I hope this was helpful!

Please let me know if you have any questions, commenting in this very post will help me -and others?- keep track of things and learn together! My asks are also open and I’ll reply as fast as I can uwu (my requests are still waiting there, don’t worry).

aaaaand that’s all, folks. Stay Peachy!

#tutorial?#art process #miraculous color palette #digital art #photoshop #tutorial #ym0035art

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fuckyeaharchaeology · 5 years

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Field Gear Masterpost

Help!

Can anyone make field school supply recommendations? Specifically things you wouldn’t think about your first time in the field. I’ll be in SW Ohio. What shoes do I wear? I obviously have my trowels and such from the supplies list but I feel like there are things I am missing. What works better in the field, a ball cap or bucket hat? I need help from experienced professionals or at least people who know more than me.

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Hi, so I don’t know how long this has been in the inbox. If it has been a long time then I deeply apologize and hope that you had a great time at your field school and that you had access to all the equipment you needed! The reason I’m choosing to address this now is because “What are some good field supplies for beginners” is probably the most asked question this blog, so I wanted to make a masterpost concerning field gear.

So this is my field kit, or like 80% of it. I’ve been doing this for over five years, but when i first started I had a small fraction of what you see here. I’m sure if I keep doing this job for another five years my kit will double in size.

Some field schools actually might provide you with supplies, or at least a list of what to bring. But if you plan on consistently doing archaeological fieldwork (ie actually working outside and not in a lab or office) then these five things are essential for your field kits:

Trowel (Obviously). Marshalltowns are the standard and the generally the easiest to get, but there are other brands such as WHS and Battiferro. I own both Marshalltown and Battiferro trowels and love both brands. My advice for trowels is that you should try to avoid getting a blade that is too big because it doesn’t allow you to have as much control over what you’re troweling. I wouldn’t go bigger than 4.5″

Folding ruler or tape measure. The unit of measurement is going to depend on the type of site. For prehistoric sites in the US and sites in the rest of the world, you will need a ruler using metric. For historic sites in the US you will need a ruler using tenths.

Brushes. Pretty self-explanatory. Although I personally don’t use brushes a lot they can be useful and every archaeologist owns at least one. A wider paint brush like this one is a good for novices.

Compass. If you’re a student going to a field school, then you won’t have to worry about bringing a compass. I only added it to the list of essentials because they are very important for Phase I surveys, which are a big component of non-academic archaeology. During Phase I surveys, you will have to hike several miles of land within a specific path of Limit of Disturbance (LOD). A compass will help you to stay on course when the LOD isn’t well-marked. A compass is also essential to setting up a site grid when you don’t have a total station handy. They are a very underrated piece of field gear and we hire a lot of newbies straight out of undergrad who get a rude awakening as to how necessary they actually are.

Pencils and Sharpies. These are like gold to archaeologists. You can never have enough of them because they ALL will be either lost or stolen.

Are you that person who has to be over-prepared for everything? Here’s a list of some additional gear you might want:

Bastard file, for sharpening your trowel. Now sharpening your trowel is a practice that is controversial in the archaeological community. It’s not a common practice overseas, and a lot of archaeologists will tell you to never sharpen your trowel because you could potentially damage the artifacts. But if you’re going to work in the clayey floodplain soils of the US, you aren’t going to be able to dig nice units without a sharp trowel.

Spoon. just a normal spoon. Spoons are really good for scooping up dirt crumbles in features which are too small and difficult for your trowel to access.

Line Level. for your datum string. You will use the datum string for measuring and drawing your site profiles, so it is very important that your datum line is level.

Wooden sculpting tools. If you know you’re going to be working with human remains or articulated faunal remains, then it will be good to get yourself a pack of these since the metal blade of your trowel is harmful for human bone.

Clippers. Roots are going to be the bane of your existence. Trust me.

So that’s your rundown of basic tools. Now let’s talk about what to wear.

Your choice of clothing is going to really depend on where you’re working, what you’ll be doing, and personal preference. Generally you’re going to be okay with a T-shirt and some cargo pants or hiking pants. If you want some extra protection from the sun you can get a handkerchief for your neck or a long sleeve shirt made from a light, breathable fabric. It’s not totally unheard of to wear shorts at a dig, but wouldn’t recommend doing so because you are going to be in the dirt on your knees a lot and you don’t want your bare knees on gravel for 8+ hours a day. If your knees are really bad, then it might be a good idea to invest in some knee pads for extra comfort. DO NOT be that basic bitch and wear leggings or yoga pants in the field. I would also recommend American students wear lighter colored clothing, especially if you will be working in wooded areas, so that you will be able to see ticks on you. Field schools are always during peak tick season and they get worse and worse every year.

Hats are going to be a personal preference. I’m partial to the baseball cap, but bucket hats work just as fine. Wide brimmed hats are great for extra sun protection, but not ideal for surveying several miles of land and shovel testing. At work I wear a baseball cap or a bandana, but when I worked in Turkey I wore a hat with a wider brim because the Mediterranean sun is absolutely brutal.

Shoes are also a matter of personal preference. I own a nice pair of hiking boots that I wear for work, but I have also worn sneakers to digs. You basically want a good shoe with a lot of comfort and support for your feet, and will hold up to 8+ hours of standing and kicking a shovel. If you’re like me and you’re prone to twisting your ankles, then you might want to consider getting some boots with ankle support.

Final thoughts about gear: Protect your phone from dirt by putting it in a plastic baggie, and protect yourself from the elements by bringing bugspray, sunscreen, and plenty of water.

Happy Digging!

~Amanda

#archaeology #fieldwork #submission

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alfalfatauri · 4 years

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Pls rate on drivin skill, personality and their current team. Daniel and seb, go!

(it’s not one of the categories but have you ever seen a man so pure you want to cry??)

Skill - look. he’s got four world champs. he’s clearly a brilliant driver. I am a self-confessed Seb stan so i am well aware i am incapable of true objectivity, but i’m going to try. I think lately, Seb has let himself down a bit on track. A lot of it is definitely being given a terrible car and a joke of a race strategy, but he’s made mistakes for himself. That being said, give the man an opportunity and he really commits. I knew about Sebastian before I knew about F1 - that level of media saturation really says something about the calibre of driver he is

Personality - i think he’s hilarious. I love him. I know people say he can be a bit of a bitch and a bit unsportsmanly (see: him moving the no.1 board in Canada 2019) but who doesn’t love a bit of grit with their drivers? He seems to have a really positive relationship with the younger drivers, and hearing Lewis say Seb has been one of the most supportive of the whole grid about the BLM movement really solidified my feeling that he’s a genuinely nice man.

Current team - FERRARI DO NOT DESERVE HIM!!!!!!! I can’t believe that they’ve hung him out to dry like they have. I get it - F1 is a business and if you’re paying your drivers you have the right to have the drivers you want. but this was so much more than just contract negotiations, this was a full-on dump-him-on-his-ass scenario which is mean and unprofessional and i hate ferrari

DANNIIEEEL!!!!! He’s in my URL he’s amazing.

Driving skill - i don’t know if i think he’s as good as the likes of Lewis or Seb, purely in terms of consistency and and stayability for getting multiple WCs, but he’s definitely one of the best of the rest. I’m disappointed that we didn’t get to see him stay at Red Bull in a car he could have won races in, and I’m a little worried that he’s at a stage now where the rest of the grid is filling up with fresh talent who’ll have a better shot at being offered the big seats. THAT BEING SAID, no one overtakes like Daniel and i simply LOVE to see it

Personality - he’s your classic Aussie lad and i vibe with that. He’s not quite familiar enough to feel like a brother (I am eagerly awaiting the return of kiwis to F1) but he’s still probably the most relatable on the grid. He’s funny and interviewers seem to genuinely enjoy speaking with him, but sometimes he says or does things that are a bit too on the nose. I appreciate that when he complains about stewarding decisions, he has a good rationale for them and there’s no double standards (that I can think of right now). Overall, real top bloke, i think he’d be great fun at a summer BBQ.

Current team - I really like Renault but i’m glad he’s going to McLaren next year. I don’t think he has the right car to really show what he’s capable of at Renault right now, and the whole ‘Renault reporting Racing Point as cheaters’ has coloured my opinion of them a little bit.

#relationboats #allie you hit my achilles heel with this one i love them both #daniel ricciardo #daniel #seb vettel #seb #i really need to decide on what my tagging system is going to be

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lilmajorshawty · 5 years

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The isolated Lovers : Saturn in the 5th & 11th

(Billie Eilish - Bitches Broken Hearts)

I think Saturn in the 5th and Saturn in the 11th people are the hardest to get to know. Saturn in the 5th can take intimacy as a whole extremely serious which makes it harder for potential love interest to decipher whether or not your actions make a difference with them. Saturn in the 11th housers take their futures and long term goals seriously so it can seem as if they have a countinuous high growing wall of separation to those who are trying to become their friends or invite them into a social circle and or group. Saturn in the 5th housers can seem more stoic and somber than a Capricorn sun. And Saturn In the 11th housers can seem more detached and impersonal than Aquarius moons.

To get close to these individuals takes TIME! Instant gratification types won’t work well with these people as they need time to get comfortable with the idea of YOU. They don’t jump into any type of commitment no matter what or how good it seems on the onset. Both of these types of people think about long term and wether or not what the person is offering them will stand the test of time.

Saturn in the 5th: “I want love that wakes up with me even when the dirt lays utop my bones”

Winning them over is difficult but a good starting point is being consistent! Be open about your feelings for them as well as even if they do know how you feel, depending on what point in their life you catch them they might’ve been through quite a bit that’s made them very mature so reading in between the lines is childish to them! They prefer direct people who are straight up about what they want and how they feel! So do not be afraid to be straight up and tell them.

Part two: they don’t start relationships off the bat and it may be quite sometimes(and on their time at that) until they decide to start or make the relationship start. This is because they LOVEE stability and foundation and they want to build something that’s stable and will last! So they will test your level of maturity, your reliability, your commitment and honesty and will likely REALLY observe how invested you are in your feelings! Many feel as though feelings change and because of this they refuse to trust any display of “I like you” and so on. They need action to really solidify things. So it may sound boring but stick with it! Be patient! Be sturdy and most importantly be your bubbly and or serious self! Don’t alter your personality for them! Trust! They enjoy you being yourself! They mainly just observe your dedication and depth as to wether or not they want to take your offer seriously. These are some of the most INTIMATE and caring lovers you can ever have! They would sacrifice and move worlds for you! It’s up to you if you’re willing to stick around the training wheels phase.

Part three: the training wheels phase can last awhile! Unlike Saturn in the 11th though you won’t be waiting for your whole life. It could simply be months or a year depending on who you are and who the person is. That being said! If they give you their time, isolate themselves, get a tad bit more serious and dry or even let you know things about their personal life that causes them to take things slow then they have feelings for you and you’ve likely tugged their heart strings in a way! Good for you :). So just stay confident and positive and they’ll soon open up even more but this time on a deeper emotional level! These natives are very romantic and traditional in their approach but man oh man will they give you everything they have! They tend to make their love interest their world so they often times take quite a bit of time to make sure they are healthy emotionally to handle such a deep commitment.

Saturn in the 11th house: “I want to be seen...really seen, seen for what I am, not what they want me to be”

These people are naturally detached and have a streak of impersonal approaches to people and society as a whole. To some people this impersonal attitude can seem like a magnet or attraction as they have no problem at attracting admirers, friends and lovers alike. That being said these people tend to be Hard as hell to get close too, dare I say even more so then Saturn in the 5th. They don’t like intimacy mainly because they’d have to be vulnerable and show their soft parts, the parts they work so hard to hide. Friendships tend to be an area of seriousness for them because they’ve been so used and taken advantage of by others as they grew up. These natives learn early on not to trust the situations that seem so easy and fun, they aren’t the types to hold tight to people for long and have no problem letting people go or moving on as if it were absolutely nothing. It may seem harsh but these people simply just don’t need you and won’t pretend like they do, they are far beyond that. If you intend to get close to them you have to understand Saturn isn’t uncomfortable in the house of Aquarius! Saturn co rules Aquarius after all. These natives value authenticity and stability. They are tremendously goofy and spacious individuals who are actually pretty dark and ingenious! They crave being able to express their true selves around people who understand and somewhat relate to their crazy out there personalities. Because of this they tend to have high standards for long term friendships and tend to take a few years before really considering someone even a “friend”

Part one: these people don’t consider people best friends and hardly throw the word around unless they’ve known the person near damn their whole life. These people can become very detached the more someone tries to become more intimate or get closer to them on a friendship level. They tend to loathe a lack of a connection and of they ever feel as though they have to pretend or wear a face to be around you they won’t readily consider you as a friend and dare I say they might never. To get close to them you have to understand that they want to be accepted for who they are and not who you want them to be! They instinctually people please so getting to know them is not triggering this response out of them! Be as goofy and “yourself” as you possibly can! Much like Saturn in the 5th these people want to see someone’s most authentic self and someone who is faking it or wearing mask and playing mental gymnastics won’t really fit because the 11th house Saturn native will reply by simply being fake and superficial in response.

Part two: they can be incredibly intimate and VERY PROTECTIVE AND LOVING friends who accept their lovers and friends for all that they are flaws and all! But the one issue here is that they can lack the ability to fake it or be artificial for too long. They like real and can have a very serious and mature view about what real community looks like, what real friendship and acceptance looks like! So if they ever get the vibe that your specific social group lacks foundation and proper knowledge they might write it off, if your offer for friendship seems forged in “I’m lonely and you’re available” they’ll be kind and sweet but they’ll never let you in emotionally. If you want them for their bodies or what they give to you on an emotional level as a lover, you’ll never really have them or know them on any level deeper than a kiss. They are people who crave a long term group or friendships that they can truly

Love and enjoy but most times they don’t get this and remarkably they attract a lot of older or Capricorn like friends who adore their company! They can seem sooooo tasty to the world because of their bubbly and lovely personality, their ability to read through people and their acceptance of others of all walks of life. That being said they don’t know how to pretend.. they can’t

Part three : to be close to these natives is more simple than you think. It’s about being yourself and knowing yourself. These natives have very good self awareness and from an early age they are able to self reflect and understand who they are. Because of this quality they look for self assured and stable friends who have a far out and rather open and free spirited nature. If you’re insecure then these might not be the friends for you. If you’re possessive and untrusting these might not be the people for you. If you’re shallow and vain then these won’t be the people for you. They adore people who are comfy with themselves and who are mature with a fun little mixture of unique and individualistic! Many love loner types and are ones themselves! If you have your eye on one platonically or romantically understand that the friendship won’t start over night! There will be withdrawal periods and times where they seem rather serious and detached and maybe even disappear of the grid multiple times but as the years pass you’ll notice they become more responsive, reliable and deeply caring and understanding. They are loyal as hell and will ride for their friends but it takes time to get there and it’s a ride you’ll have to stick through.

I’ve noticed that people with these Saturn placements tend to be drawn to one another and or they tend to have a very strong connection. Saturn in the 5th housers understand the need to be seen in Saturn in the 11th housers, the need to be accepted and understood, but they also understand the need for something real and Honest. Saturn in the 11th housers understand the 5th house Saturn natives need for privacy, integrity and stability. They understand their need for real intimacy and real deep compassion and depth. This is one of my favorite natal connections between two people! Almost second to someone with Pluto in the 6th falling for someone with Pluto in the 2nd. That being said, I sometimes believe that Saturn in the 11th housers do prefer to be alone as opposed to being with another person. It’s not out of being promiscuous or unable to settle down, rather it’s the inner revelation that no body will ever really “see” them.

This is is just a preview of the upcoming Saturn in the houses post. I will be redoing these two house placements in the post as well but I wanted to give them a private separate write up. The movie end of the f***ing world is a heavily saturnain movie and I do believe both of them had these two placements. Which is why they were so deeply magnetized to one another. But maybe why in the end he was the one running off and she the one caught(safely). And his status left rather ambiguous towards the very end.

#mine #saturn in the 5th house #saturn in the 11th house

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angelthefirst1 · 5 years

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10:10 and the end times

10:10 and the end times.

The waking dead is a story that is retelling the biblical end of days narrative over and over again.

I want to go right back to the CDC and look at the first cure attempt and how this episode would tell us the future of things to come.

Starting in episode 1:06

The group has arrived at the CDC and are looking for answers as to why the would has fallen apart.

The CDC represents 2 main biblical themes:

1. The fallen world in need of a cure (Genesis) which eventually comes in the form of Jesus (Gospels)

2. The Tribulation period or end time events which will lead to a period of time on earth that is terrible and devastating for those who are left on earth. (Revelation)

I will start in 1:06 with a conversation between Dale (who is an older Father/brother version of Daryl) and Dr Jenner.

(note that Daryl himself is also in this frame standing next to Dale to indicate the father/brother characters being like twins in story)

Dale :

Dr Jenner, I know this has been taxing for you (the group have been asking him a lot of questions) and I hate to ask one more question but... That clock, it's counting down, what happens at 0?

The first shot we see after Dale says this is this clock :

Jenner: the basement generators, they run out of fuel.

(This is referring to the Earth/basement being ready for judgement or tribulation) it's a count down to the end time's.

Rick: and then?

Jenner won't answer.

Rick to the computer Vi (which is the CDC's AI computer system, that they look up to the ceiling to talk to, aka God)

Rick: Vi what happens when the power runs out?

Vi: When the power runs out, facility wide decontamination will occur.

*So when the CDC clock counts down from 1:00:02 (10:10 or 10:02 on an analogue clock) the CDC or world will have a facility wide decontamination (Tribulation period)

*As I mentioned earlier there are 2 themes rolled into one running through each scene. One theme tells us about the fall and cure of the world and the other about the end times or tribulation period.

Past and future events are being told while you are watching the present.

*The CDC is showing the fall of mankind (Genesis) and the need for a cure but it's also showing the start of the Tribulation period (Revelation) at the same time. But not the cure story just yet, although it predicts it to come.

*Counting back up to 10:02 or 10:10 (episode wise) we should see a different kind of facility wide, world wide, or show wide decontamination, with the introduction of a cure story and Beth/Jesus.

So let's keep going with the dialogue...

After this some of the group go down to the basement to see if there is more fuel while some are in their rooms.

Just over the half way mark at 30 minutes left on the clock or... at the season 5 mark we have the following happening which I believe is about Beth's body after being shot and the prediction of a cure to come.

At this moment Carl and Lori are in a room on their own:

Carl to Lori: something wrong?

Lori nothing it's just the air conditioning stopped.

*(Beth's breathing stopped/Jesus died)

*"The Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature" (Genesis 2:7). The breath of life was what turned man from a lifeless collection of matter into a living creature.

*God/Jesus is the Breath of life.

The Air and lights start to go off and Daryl asks what's going on? Whys everything turning off off?

Jenner: Energy use is being prioritised.

Dale: Air isn't a priority? And lights?

*John 8:12

12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Jenner: it's not up to me, cell 5 is shutting it's self down.

Season 5, the half way mark to season 10 and half way on the countdown clock (Beth's body) is shutting it's self down. (prioritising it's energy use)

*Biblically Jesus, the breath of life and the light of the world allows himself to be killed to provide a cure for the fallen world to those that accept it.

Daryl getting really angry: hey, hey what the hell’s that mean? Hey man I'm talking to you. (it's interesting that he gets the most upset here out of every one)

Rick to Jenner: what's happening?

Jenner: the system is dropping all the non essential uses of power, it's designed to keep the computers running until the last possible second, OUR STAR JUST REPROACHED THE HALF HOUR MARK, Right on schedule 31:28

*As @frangipanilove has mentioned in her very cleaver post, this refers to the Sirius star 🌟 which disappears for a time and reappears, Sirius meaning glowing and is the brightest star in the night sky reappearing just before dawn)

*Biblically this star represent both Jesus and Lucifer/Satan and their respective returns.

Revelation 22:16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”

Isaiah 14:12 (speaking of Lucifer/Satan)

How you have fallen from heaven, o star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to earth, you who have weakened the nation's.

*The idea of a “bright morning star” is a star that outshines all the others, and Jesus is the One who is called “bright.” Satan was a morning star. Jesus, as God incarnate, the Lord of the universe, is the BRIGHT and morning star. Jesus is the most holy and powerful “light” in all the universe. So, while both Jesus and Satan can be described as “morning stars,” in no sense is this equating Jesus and Satan. Satan is a created being. His light only exists to the extent that God created it. Jesus is the light of the world (John 9:5). Only Jesus’ light is “bright” and self-existent. Satan may be a morning star, but he is only a poor imitation of the one true bright morning star, Jesus Christ, the light of the world.

*So when Jenner refers to the star approaching the half hour mark he is referring to both Beth/Jesus’ death to come.

Its also interesting to note that test subject 19 (Jenner’s wife who was bitten and Jenner recorded the transformation process, shows her being to turn when the clock says 32:18 (now as Jenner said earlier, the star (Beth/Jesus) reproaches the half hour mark at 31:28... just flipping the one and the two... Test subject one and the re-approach of test subject two.

Jenner: It was the French (the lover's or those that are in love with Beth/Jesus) who were the last ones to hold out as far as I know.

*Daryl would have stayed with Beth's body longer than anyone else while walkers were inundating the group because he loved her.

Jenner: While our people were bolting out the doors and committing suicide in the hallways, they stayed in the labs till the end.

They thought they were close to a solution.

What happened?

Jenner: same thing that's happening here, no power grid. Ran out of juice. The world runs on fossil fuels how stupid is that.

The 30 Min siren goes off and Jenner goes to a key pad that has a green light (earth) on it. He uses his pass card and it goes blue/heaven he then presses 999 and it goes red/death.

(Or 666 signalling the beginning of the Tribulation period, which as described in the bible is a 7 year period where Satan or the man of perdition who's number is 666 will come to earth and rule in the form of a man (the star of the morning/Satan). While God suddenly takes those who have believed in gods son Jesus for salvation to heaven to escape the judgements sent down to the inhabitants of earth who have not believed. This time period will be the final cleans or decontamination of the world)

Jenner locks the doors and they are locked in. (once that time period starts there will be no stopping it)

Daryl then yells: You son of a bitch you locked us in here! You locked her in here. (I'm sure he says her the second time but my subtitles were not working so I can't confirm but it definitely sounds like her)

This is again showing more than one biblical event. The 1st is Jesus/ Beth being separated from the group via her being locked in a vehicle but its also depicting the rapture period where Jesus and his bride or church will be separated from the world while the tribulation period begins on earth, leaving the inhabitants of the earth to face the coming tribulation (AKA Winter for Game of Thrones fans out there) which will not finish until the 7 years are up.

Rick: You open that door right now.

Jenner: There's no point, everything topside is locked down, emergency exits are sealed.

Topside = heaven where those who God took off the earth to save from the coming tribulation are. Some call it the rapture of the church, those left behind will have to face the 7 years on earth of Tribulation.

Dale: Well open the dam things.

Jenner: That's not something I can control the computers do. I told you once that front door closed it wouldn't open again you heard me say that, it's better this way.

*(God has a time which only he knows for when these events will begin, Jenner just wants to die as he realises what the world out there now has to offer and he would rather opt out now than face what's to come, he tries to force the rest of the group to give up with him)

Rick: what happens in 28 minutes

Jenner yelling: You know what this place is, (what this time period is) we protected the public from very nasty stuff, weaponized small pox, Ebola strains that could wipe out half the country, stuff you don't want getting out ever! In the event of a catastrophic power failure and a terrorist attack for example. HIT's are deployed to prevent any organisms from getting out.

Rick: HIT's?

Vi:

Higherpaulse Thermobaric fuel air explosives consist of a 2 stage aerosol ignition, that produces a blast wave of significantly grater power and duration than any other known explosive except nuclear, the vacuum pressure effect it lights the air between 5 to 6 thousand degrees and is useful where the greatest loss of life and damage to structures is desired.

Jenner: It sets the air on fire, no pain an end to suffering, grief, regret, everything.

*2 Peter 3:7

But the heaven we see now and the earth we live on now have been kept by His word. They will be kept until they are to be destroyed by fire. They will be kept until the day men stand before God and sinners will be destroyed.

*Revelation 21:1-2

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

Verse 4

He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

A few of the group try to break the doors down but it is useless.

Jenner to Andrea: you know what's out there a short life brutal and an agonising death ☠

Jenner: The doors are designed to withstand a rocket launcher. Rick you do want this you said it yourself, it's just a matter of time before everybody you loved was dead.

Shane: You really said that.

Rick: I had to keep hope alive

Jenner: there is no hope, there never was.

Rick: There's always hope, maybe it won't be you maybe not here but somebody somewhere.

*This refers to both the fall of mankind before a cure was found Beth/Jesus and also the Tribulation period before Jesus comes back to create a new heaven and new earth it has doubled meaning where the start is the end 10:002 and the end is the start 10:02 or 10:10 Beth and her get well soon clock

Andrea: what part of everything's gone do you not understand?

Jenner: Listen to her she gets it, this is our extinction event.

Rick: I think you're lying about no hope, if that were true you would have bolted like the rest or taken the easy way out, you didn't you chose the hard path. Why?

Jenner: IT DOESN'T MATTER.

Rick: IT DOES MATTER IT ALWAYS MATTERS

(Jenner is a repeat Daryl character, saying it doesn't matter. The love of his life will be bitten/not die and she will be his wife at some point. In this scene Rick is also Beth yelling It always matters!)

You stayed when others ran, why?

Jenner: Not because I wanted to, I made a promise to her... My wife. The camera then shows Andrea. (who is also a Beth repeat)

Andrea: Test subject 19 was your wife...

Meanwhile Daryl is the only one away from the group, he is back at the door and swinging an axe at it, still desperate to get out while Jenner says...

She begged me to keep going as long as I could...

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: How could I say no

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: How could I say no, she was dying. It should have been me on that table it wouldn't have mattered anyway.

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: She was a loss to the world

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: hell she ran this place, I just worked here, in our field she was an Einstein

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: Me I'm just Edwin Jenner

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: she could have done something about this... Not me.

Rick: your wife didn't have a choice, you do... That's all we want.

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Rick: A choice, a chance.

BANG: Daryl hitting the door.

Lori: Let us keep trying as long as we can

BANG: Daryl hitting the door...

Daryl suddenly stopped hitting the door and Jenner seems to give in a little and says to Rick.

Jenner: I told you topsides locked down I can't open those. He then goes back to the same key pad that he locked the doors with, swipes his key pad which goes from red to blue once he puts the code in (which you can't see but it is definitely not 999 his fingers go to 4 different buttons but the camera didn't show it up close) the key pad then goes green and the doors open.

Daryl: About to swing the axe again... The door suddenly opens up and he yells "come on!"

Jenner: There's your chance take it.

Rick: I'm grateful

Jenner: The day will come when you won't be. He then whispers in Rick's ear, which we later find out that Jenner tells Rick "we're all infected".

*Reference to the fall of the the human race all being infected with sin and also meaning without a cure the final destination is the same either way and the group will now face the end times.

Andrea doesn't want to leave she wants to take the easy way out.

Dale very stressed tells Andrea "this isn't what Amy would want from you."

Andrea: She's dead, and you need to leave.

The rest of the group get to the top floor and are trying to get outside

It then shows Andrea and Dale.

Andrea says times almost up as she looks at the countdown clock it says 3:12 now Andrea does die in episode 3:16 so she could be foreshadowing her own death counting back up the other way.

The group are still trying to get outside nothing they try to break the glass works but then Carol gets a grenade out of her bag that she got from Ricks uniform when washing it. She gives it to Rick who uses it to break the glass.

The explosion he really remind me of the bridge explosion that caused Ricks exit in season 9 it also shows that Rick leaving will soon after be followed by Beth's (Andrea's) arrival, it's also interesting that Rick leaves in episode 6 of season 9 because he breaks the glass to the CDC in episode 6 and leaves the CDC then.

69 mean repeating backwards story.

Rick sets off the grenade and runs there is a massive explosion just like when he blew up the bridge to save his family and friends.

The glass is broken.

It's then we see Andrea and Dale.

Dale is stroking Andrea's face still trying to get her to leave. But says "Okay you win and sits down to wait willing die next to her and says "you win"

Andrea: what are you doing, don't pull this Dale.

Dale : I'm not pulling anything? If you stay I stay too, his right we know what's waiting out there for us out there. I don't want to face it alone.

Andrea: Dale, get the hell out, I don't want you here.

Dale: too bad, cos you don't get to do that, come into somebody's life, make them care and then check out.

The group is now out and running for the cars.

Andrea finally follows Dale out of the CDC just in time and they both dive behind sand bags and survive the massive fire ball that blows up the CDC.

This represents the group beginning the journey through the tribulation, one of the darkest times in human history and also the CDC being destroyed represents the world with no cure being destroyed.

Dr Jenner dies inside the CDC

The CDC was designed to destroy outbreaks that could cause an extinction level event. This time however an extinction level event destroyed it.

A redemption of this CDC story will repeat once Rick breaks the glass (blows up the bridge to save his friends and family) once he leaves and Andrea follows the redemption should come.

The next episode 2:01 (which should be 10:01 for us in season 10) starts with Rick on a rooftop in Atlanta with Grady memorial in the background. Rick is on the radio (interesting that 9:16 ended with the mystery radio caller) Rick is saying about Andrea "I can't say I blame her she lost faith, the CDC was a bust, I met a man there he told me something, he told me... It doesn't matter, we're moving on Atlanta's done.

This end time biblical theme is everywhere in this show and other shows and season 10 is shaping up to show us what we have all been waiting on... The return of a Savior...

Angela Kang said that in season 10 the show would be going" left"

Which reminded me of Sofia. When she went missing originally. Rick left her to hide in a small cave on a river bank, so he could draw off two walkers that were after her.

He told her once the walkers follow him she should head back to the highway and keep the sun on her left shoulder. (sun being a reference to Son of God)

Rick and Daryl can't find Sofia when they return to get her from the cave. Daryl finds some of her tracks and says "she was doing just fine (following Ricks instructions) until right here, when she went off that way 👉" Daryl points to the right.

So Sofia was supposed to go to the left but went right which led to her death.

Season 10 might finally show that Beth goes left and that's the trail Angela Kang is talking about following.

We have been waiting soooooo long and even though I always thought that Get Well soon clock was a major clue to her return I never wanted to even consider it would apply to season 10 as it seemed ridiculously long to wait but again when applying it to the end time biblical theme is makes a lot of sense.

2 Peter

3:8-9

Dear friends, remember this one thing, with the Lord one day is as 1,000 years, and 1,000 years are as one day. The Lord is not slow about keeping His promise as some people think. He is waiting for you.

In the CDC they used the I hour mark on the count down clock for a very particular reason along with the dialogue we have looked at above.

1:00:02 it's a reference to the 1000 years =1 day and Gods promise to return.

2 Peter 3:3

First of all, I want you to know that in the last days men will laugh at the truth. They will follow their own sinful desires. 4 They will say, “He promised to come again. Where is He? Since our early fathers died, everything is the same from the beginning of the world.” 5 But they want to forget that God spoke and the heavens were made long ago. The earth was made out of water and water was all around it. 6 Long ago the earth was covered with water and it was destroyed. 7 But the heaven we see now and the earth we live on now have been kept by His word. They will be kept until they are to be destroyed by fire. They will be kept until the day men stand before God and sinners will be destroyed.

Dear friends, remember this one thing, with the Lord one day is as 1,000 years, and 1,000 years are as one day.

9 The Lord is not slow about keeping His promise as some people think. He is waiting for you. The Lord does not want any person to be punished forever. He wants all people to be sorry for their sins and turn from them. 10 The day of the Lord will come as a robber comes. The heavens will pass away with a loud noise. The sun and moon and stars will burn up. The earth and all that is in it will be burned up.

11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, you should think about the kind of life you are living. It should be holy and God-like. 12 You should look for the day of God to come. You should do what you can to make it come soon. At that time the heavens will be destroyed by fire. And the sun and moon and stars will melt away with much heat. 13 We are looking for what God has promised, which are new heavens and a new earth. Only what is right and good will be there.

14 Dear friends, since you are waiting for these things to happen, do all you can to be found by Him in peace. Be clean and free from sin. 15 You can be sure the long waiting of our Lord is part of His plan to save men from the punishment of sin. God gave our dear brother Paul the wisdom to write about this also.

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Red Lipstick and The Green New Deal

Have you ever been told as a child, if something isn’t working then find a new solution? At this moment, our country is like that child, and it needs to be told to find a new solution. The way the United States of America has been operating works, but not for everyone, and our climate is changing. Not just our environmental climate, but the political climate as well. Our country is depleting, poverty is soaring, healthcare is unaffordable, student loan debt is atrocious, and climate change is quite literally killing people. Young people feel our country is stuck. The older generation is holding onto it like their youngest child leaving for college. Ultimately, no matter what, that child will leave. Everyone has to grow up, even this country, and it’s going to happen whether the parents like it or not. Every movement, and this is a movement, to push our country forward needs a voice. For us, that is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or AOC is a 31-year-old Latina-American born and raised in the Bronx of New York City. Her parents ended up moving 30-50 miles north of the Bronx to a better neighborhood to afford better education and a future for their children. In a 2019 TIME Magazine article, AOC said that those 40-minute drives taught her that zip-code matters. What a lesson to learn, that where you grow up has more impact on your future than you do. Her mother cleaned houses, and her father owned a small architecture business. In 2008 her father died which spun the family into financial turmoil. This caused AOC to pick up multiple jobs, working for a nonprofit by day, and bartending by night. She has constantly said that she never saw herself going into politics, but it’s hard to deny that she was built for the political stage. Her brother submitted her for Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats who are actively looking for young people to run for Congress. They want people who are working class, poor, educated to be the Americans who represent other Americans. I believe it was on her way to a protest at the Dakota Access Pipeline when she received a call asking if she wanted to run for Congress. From there on began the development of a grassroots campaign, that is the ultimate underdog story.

She was running against Joseph Crowley, an incumbent who hadn’t been challenged since 2004. He was your average democrat, swearing loyalty to fight Donald Trump, and that was a majority of his campaign. What he didn’t pay attention to was AOC, who ran on true issues and the need to help the residents of the 14th district in New York. Her campaign was made up of volunteers, a majority of whom were actors, and they knew how to put on a good show. They didn’t accept any lobbyist money, and were completely donation based. That was quite fascinating that she was able to beat someone who had millions of dollars being poured into his campaign fund. However, her winning wasn’t about the money, it was about this newfound energy and spirit that she has that led her to victory. She really cares about people, she cares about what policies are being put forward in order to help those people in the future.

She continues to radiate this fiery passion to fight, even into her 3rd year in Congress. This passion and honesty are what make her so radical, likable, and attention-grabbing. Allowing her presence on social media to skyrocket over the years. We can see this in news clips that have gone viral of her during committee hearings where she pours her heart out. In one of her most famous clips where she exclaims, “People are dying” while using her passionate words to defend the Green New Deal. In this specific video, she is speaking the absolute truth. The climate crisis is about human lives, and there should be no debate around that whatsoever. It’s come to the point in politics where people need to speak up and fast because the climate crisis has a ticking time bomb, and if we do not tackle this issue before it’s too late there is no turning back. AOC is the person speaking up, she doesn’t sugar coat anything, and she does it with grace. Even if people don’t like her, whether that’s the haters and trolls online or her coworkers across the aisle, continues to not let others silence her.

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I remember when a Republican congressman called her a “fucking bitch” she spoke up. Whereas others, I feel, would keep quiet, I’m sure Nancy Pelosi has been called that by some of her coworkers, but the world has never heard it. Alexandria took the time to approach the situation like the female hero everyone knows she is. There is no politician filter when she speaks, it’s raw, and it’s fully and truly her. She is not afraid to use social media to call out people on their stupidity, wrongness, or even disagreement with others.

Some will say that she just became a congressperson at the right time, during the social media boom. While that may hold some truth, it’s really how she uses social media to create a space of transparency that has caused the public to flock to her accounts like a moth to light. At the time the TIME article was written they said, “her Twitter following has climbed from about 49,000 last summer to more than 3.5 million.” Her Twitter following is now at 12.6 million. I believe, just from my own research, she has the most Instagram followers of her other coworkers at 8.8 million followers. When I look at her Instagram feed compared to Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Cruz, and other big political names, her feed is very different. Others have a lot of information pictures, news clips, and statistical slides that may grab some people's attention, but it’s very political because there is no connection. When you look at AOC’s feed a majority are videos of her doing live Q&A sessions. I haven’t seen this on any other politician's platform. She is directly and in real time, answering questions about current legislation in which she is able to clear up misinformation. I watched her live Q&A about what was in the second COVID relief bill, and I learned so much. She has created this space of truth, transparency, and faith all because she chose to include people in what she is doing for them. Just a few days ago she posted a short weekly vlog where she explained what she did during that week. You don’t see others in her same position doing that. Many may think it’s irresponsible, not politician-like, but in actuality it’s what they should be doing.

Now, is this a generational thing or something else? She’s 31 years old, grew up during the social media boom, tends to have younger interns, is more in tune with the “lingo” as the older people may say. While it may be all of the above, she has actively chosen to use her social media like this. Others can use their accounts like this but choose not to for some reason. AOC is one of the only people actively getting the younger generation involved in politics, and she does this through the internet. During the pandemic, she live-streamed her playing the vastly popular game, Among Us, where she talked about legislations and let people ask her questions. She has made countless statements that the older generation in Congress always talks about young people, but never makes space for us, allowing us to show our potential. It’s always, “it’s not your time yet” never “come show us what you can do now.” AOC is leading the path for young people to have a space in the political circle. There is also one more major reason why people like her so much, and that’s because she is a working-class American.

I have said my entire life that I would love to see Republicans switch shoes with a steelworker for one day. The majority of people who run our government have grown up in a life of privilege that afforded to get them there. They don’t know what real working class, poor Americans go through every day. Our government has a real problem that if they can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. AOC has lived check to check, been on the other end of taking someone’s order, worked overnight just to have some extra cash to pay off student loans. I’m not disavowing anyone's upbringing, but she has consistently put forward a policy that helps the average American. Even policy that helps everyone, like The Green New Deal.

The Green New Deal is a Resolution put forth by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts. It is not a piece of legislation, but a call to action that the federal government takes steps to cut its emissions of greenhouse gases to zero by 2030. The 14-page resolution has a ton of what seems like radical changes. This includes updating the country’s infrastructure, energy grid, and ensuring livable wages for all American jobs. There is a lot to discuss when it comes to the Green New Deal, as within those 14 pages the goals outline almost everything that makes up the US economy. There are so many benefits that could happen to our country if something like this is passed. For instance, guaranteeing higher education for everyone in order to receive the knowledge needed to acquire a job with a livable wage. The Green New Deal also addresses issues such as systemic racism and puts forth proposals to invest in certain neighborhoods. These are the types of legislation that need to be put forward in order for our country to evolve. The fact that not everyone is guaranteed higher education, shelter, clean water, healthy food, is unacceptable.

Most of the rebuttal to the Green New Deal is that it’s too expensive, unrealistic, and the federal government shouldn’t have that much power. While the GND is expensive, estimated to be around 50-90 trillion dollars, the federal government will end up spending more money in the long run from disasters related to climate change. The Green New Deal says the federal government could spend up to 500 trillion dollars in economic relief by 2100. The more we wait, the more money we will have to spend in the long run catching up to those problems, until we cannot. To those who say the Green New Deal is unrealistic, I ask them to read a history book and identify all the major life-changing events that others have said were unrealistic as well. Americans freeing themselves from Britain, the abolishment of slavery, the civil rights act, The New Deal. For my response towards the issue of government power, if the federal government isn't the ones putting forth legislation to protect American lives I don’t know what they are there for.

With all that being said, is AOC the right person to bring forth this Green New Deal? To that, I say absolutely yes. She represents the new millennium, the rise of the younger progressive generation who is fighting to make real change in this country. Her use of social media, and how she connects to people across the world set an example as to who we want our elected leaders to be. Transparent, honest, and inclusive in their media. Her story, who she is as a person, what she stands for is what the Green New Deal stands for. Rightfully so when someone mentions her they think of the Green New Deal, and vice versa. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is what the future of this country will look like, and she will continue to lead the pack.

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