Daniel Ricciardo at the Red Bull Factory today

Me: I love Luo Binghe so much. He's my baby. My son. My blorbo. The platonic love of my life. My top 2 of favorite SVSSS characters. He can do no wrong. My good son.

Also me: here's a top 10 list of anime characters that could fucking BODY him-

Lucas Sinclair in Stranger Things 4 | Chapter Four: Dear Billy

“Max. You know you can talk to me, right?” “Yeah, I know that.” “Then why do you keep pushing me away? Look, I don’t need a letter, I don’t want a letter. Just talk to me, to your friends. We’re right here. I’m right here, okay? I’m here.”

is it a coincidence that just days after watching all of the Saw movies I realized that I am most likely a trans man/transmasc instead of transneutral, and started looking into testosterone HRT? Was my spontaneous decision to watch all of the Saw movies actually an act of divine intervention? Did Saw have anything to do with this realization at all even? (100% yeah)

THIS IS MY TEAM !! 🥹🧡🫶🏻

Bro, I adore Sonic in Frontiers. I finished last night and I am fucking feral.

He isn't just a quip machine anymore! He loves his friends so much! A good portion of the little lines of dialogue when he's running around in the open zones is him talking about his friends! And not just that, but their interests as well!

Ancient ruins? Knuckles and Rouge would love to investigate that!

Whoa, Tangle would love climbing those rails!

Gee, I wonder how Jet is doing?

That's a huge cannon, I bet Omega would be jealous.

At this point, I would love Shadow or Blaze's help fighting the Titans.

He just... Sonic's friends are all this man thinks about. He thinks about them, about their concerns, their dislikes, their likes. He isn't flawless either. He argues with Amy, gets into petty staring contests with Knuckles, and he covers up his corruption in front of Tails. He would rather physically and mentally erode away than leave his friends in cyberspace.

Lord, this part of his personality has not been used or fleshed out well for so fucking long. Sonic used to be my least favorite of the 06 trio by a large margin but now that ranking is legitimately up in the air. I love him so much.

Note: In the past, I created a similar post which unfortunately caused many people to shame others and gloat over their own "intelligence". Let me make myself clear: This is not an invitation for posturing and bragging about how intelligent you think you are. This is a safe and inclusive space which is why shaming others will not be tolerated. However, if you insist on giving in to your ego, I encourage you to read about intersectionality.

no but the way Rumor Has It/Someone Like You swept every other fucking round with no competition and then the second it goes up against one of if not THEE most popular Blaine solo in the show and starts to lag behind by a whopping 1% my inbox gets filled with anons claiming that the whole thing is rigged and me and all my followers hate women alskjflkdsfjs PLEASE even the Sebastian stans let go of Smooth Criminal more gracefully than this!!!!

also i appreciate all the asks i woke up to that were talking about this just to laugh at the ridiculousness, but i cannot talk about it anymore after this lol im not strong enough </3

as a person who has been here since we only had the vv mock trailer, who witnessed jimmysea get their first public events to promo vice versa, who sat here through all the hate vv and jimmysea got back then, who had to witness all the shit going down, and now seeing ppl praise last twilight so much and love morkday so much is truly, Truly making me so emotional

veve with actual original content?? impossible.

anyways umm have some doodles of the characters from one of the stories in my head 🫶👽 (there is a chihuahua too but i forgot to draw him whoops)

basic storyline is that there's been an unsolved disappearance of one of the owners of a local taqueria, and while the (sherlock wannabe) hired detective tries to solve the case, two regulars of the restaurant (the Weird Kid obsessed with aliens, and the girl whose parents make her study 24/7) and the nephew of the missing owner (who really needs a raise) get way too involved in the mystery as they try to take matters into their own hands.

hbahfbgxn they are like scooby doo but stupider 💜 + they go over their master plans and suspect lists over restaurant booths and tortilla chips

for the "which moot am I" post: Hyperfixated. 100%. I don't understand your Go show, but I respect it and am smiling at your enthusiasm.

aww thanks!! <333 :D

I'm so grateful that you enjoy my enthusiasm-posting :}

not mostcompetitionshowdowntournament.

i just love my little guy. bro looks like a gremlin.

hes sleeping next to me rn. i love him very much

Here are some key translations of David Broncano, a MASSIVE Federer fan, interviewing and getting trolled by Rafa about his "ídolo" 😏 in Spain's late night show La Resistencia:

Part 1

2.10: They played best of 3 tennis and Broncano celebrated like Spain won the world cup when he managed to pass Rafa with a winner forehand, to which Rafa sassily replied, "Me has recordado mucho a tu ídolo" you reminded me a lot of your idol 🥲

6.20: Rafa advised a grip change for the backhand to a more continental style, saying that "Tu tienes que hacer como tu ídolo" you have to do it like your idol (LOL Rafa u sassy ass queen) and then they got into a technical discussion on Roger's grip technique which just proves that yes people they do know each other's playing style to an extremely disturbing level of detail (ta-ra colour me surprised 🙄)

Part 2

0.18: Broncano said he spent the night in 'suite rafa' (in the Rafa Nadal Academy) and asked Rafa if he knew where it is and he said ofc, it's next to 'suite Federer' (DUH CLICKBAIT QUESTION DAVID WE LOVE IT and ofc their suites are side by side 🥺)

0.58: Broncano then cheekily asked who gets to stay at suite Federer (lol poor bb rlly wanted to sleep staring at Roger's giant picture) to which Rafa the sass queen replied that it's def not him as he didn't deserve it 🥲

They then went on to talk about Federer in more detail

1.15: Rafa said him and Roger get along very well and Broncano then hilariously asked if Roger ever talked about him or mentioned his name in their convos to which Rafa deadpanned said "no" (HULLO?? SAVAGEDAL)

1.12: Rafa said "No sé si sabe quien eres" I don't think he knows who you are RAFA PLEASE STOP KILLING THIS GUY.

The rest of the convo just basically went like-

"I know you did an interview with him-" "But- but- we established a friendly connection 🥺" "I don't think he agrees with you"

"What are you saying- 🥲😭"

"I have a feeling😤" (savagedal continues)

1.41: Rafa then finally showed mercy and said "But after this I have to call him to talk about smth I'll ask him if he remembers you" (yea so THEY DO PHONE EACH OTHER ON A REGULAR BASIS OK IT'S COMPLETELY NORMAL OK)

13.50: After discussing the number of GS the big 3 will end up with, they started talking about Roger's last lost to Novak in Wimbledon 2019. Broncano was in the stadium and said that it must've been very difficult for Roger to which Rafa agreed! (I think Roger told him smth about it), Rafa said that it was such a nerve-wrecking match to watch.

Broncano then cheekily asked if he supported Roger then (in the match), to which Rafa laughed and said he can't say anything on the topic. Broncano laughed and said "I already knew that but I think you are (supporting Roger)" and RAFA DIDN'T EVEN DENY IT, they just both laughed it out like idiots 🥲 (HELP RAFA AND HIS STUPID ATTEMPT AT IMPARTIALITY)

15.17: Broncano then concluded by asking if that Federer-Djokovic match feels comparable to their 2008 Wimbledon Final to which Rafa very subtly and indirectly said NO lol (He said in 2008 their level of play was much more equal and it was never clear who was going to win, also there was much more at stake for both).

So in conclusion, did anyone ever tell Rafa that dissecting his greatest rival's every move, calling him intensively, building him a SUITE next to his in his own academy, and refusing to compare their very-very-very-special-relationship 🥺👉👈 are kinda a little *ehem* possessively obsessive?

Alrighty, time to get into my theory about how each of Rory’s three main love interests represent different versions of the bad boy trope! So, I’ve seen some discourse about how certain characters are not actually bad boys and how others are and how that relates to Rory, and it made me go into this big reflection over what defines the bad boy archetype and how it’s changed from iteration to iteration. Long story short: it made me realize that all three of the boys (yes all of them) are one version each. So here’s a massive rant where I explain how that works, with Dean as the «good boy gone bad», Jess as the «bad boy made human» and Logan as the «rich bad boy».

Note: I am writing this as someone who ships literati, so know that my analysis will be biased. That being said, I want to focus on how the boys inform the bad boy archetype (and the other way around) and not on the value of their relationships to Rory. So think of this as a defense/deconstruction of certain characters rather than another round of «who should Rory have ended up with?».

Out of all the boys, Dean is the one who is rarely defined as a bad boy, and with good reason. Seasons 2 and 3 played him up as the «good» against Jess’ «bad», he is routinely described as the perfect first boyfriend (and by Lorelai no less), and he’s the one with the most traditional small town outlook on things (liking the concept of a housewife, being a chaste boyfriend in the first round, getting along with the parents etc). But that doesn’t change the fact that a lot of people despised him by the end of the show, since he cheated on his wife with Rory and made her the other woman. And I think this very action is what solidifies him within the good boy gone bad-trope. I haven’t found a lot of writing on this sub-trope (although one could argue it falls under the face-heel turn trope), and it has very vague limits, but I believe that it exists anyway. A good boy gone bad is a male character that started out in a piece of fiction as all around «good». He respects rules, gets along with parents, might even be a bit of a «nice guy» with/without the entitlement. But something in the story (sometimes a build up) will trigger the good boy’s transformation into a bad one. Sometimes it’s getting sick of being an outsider/underdog, sometimes it’s triggered by romantic conflict. I would argue that this transformation begins for Dean when Jess and Rory get together. While Dean has been a jealous and arguably possesive boyfriend before he breaks up with Rory, he still hasn’t done anything that properly makes him a “bad boy”. But once Rory and Jess are a couple everything changes: he threatens Jess in private, insinuates that he can manipulate the situation to his favour and that he can «steal her back», physically fights Jess at one point and arguably marries Lindsay in part to rouse jealousy in Rory. This transformation is fulfilled once he has sex with Rory for the first time while still being married. He might continue keeping the good boy image, and his infidelity is definitely turned into something that harms Rory’s image more than his, but his actions still qualify for the subtrope. (I also want to note that Dean is introduced in season 1 with a leather jacket and love of motorcycles so… do what you will with that information)

In spite of how often Jess is defined as the bad boy of the show — and by other characters in the show at that — a lot of viewers don’t actually think of him as one. And that’s understandable. I think a lot of people in my generation and onwards have grown up with very simplistic iterations of bad boys that follow the formula to a T. They’re aggressive, violent, wildly sexual and usually downright toxic (see: After-series, Jacob post-transformation in Twilight, 90% of erotica novels). And the women in these stories usually exist to «give in to animalistic urges» and heal the bad boys with their love. Taking even the quickest glance at Rory and Jess shows you how this is not the case. He’s more basket case than sex god, is repeatedly denied second chances at love with Rory, and has to heal and improve without her, out of frame. But I don’t necessarily think this makes him less of a «bad boy». While I despise the overuse of the term «realism» in popular media analysis, Jess is arguably a «realistic bad boy». He embodies most classic bad boy tropes (if not all of them), but each trope is then humanized within him. Jess gets into fights, but the two moments we know about in detail are with a bully and with Dean (and both fights are initiated by the others, not Jess). He’s the first boyfriend that Rory acknowledges/explores her sexuality with, but they never technically consumate (and good for Rory, the Keg! Max! scene is a massive yikes). He’s a high school drop-out, but because he worked too many shifts at Walmart. He reads classic literature (yes, a lot of bad boys in media do this) but is a total nerd about it (see: Bukowski v Austen). He has mommy- and daddy-issues, but they are fleshed out and given the space to exist on their own rather than as in relation to Rory and making her love him more. And while he heals through love, it is not through the active romantic love of Rory, but the familial love of Luke and his eventual love for himself. A crucial factor for Jess is that he gets to exist outside of the romance. His most important relationship in the show is perhaps not with Rory but with his uncle Luke. It is this relationship that introduces him to Stars Hollow and it’s this relationship that officially heals him. The last time we see Jess in the original run, when Rory admits to trying to hook up with him as revenge against Logan, Jess claims that he deserves better. And he does. He’s a human, and more than that, he has spent years working to become the person he has become and to get a chance at a loving and respectful relationship. Jess still loves Rory enough when he lets her go to not hold a grudge, but he also now loves himself enough to know he deserves better than to be the other guy twice. He is the bad boy made human.

But whenever people argue that Jess isn’t a bad boy, they usually claim that another boy in the show is. And while I still think Jess is a bad boy, I don’t think that means that Logan isn’t one. Logan simply fits into a very specific subtrope: the rich bad boy. I can’t trace the origins of the rich bad boy, but my (and probably many’s) first introduction to the trope was Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl. Where the classic bad boy has a problem of reputation and in some cases specifically struggles economically, the rich bad boy is partly bad because of his wealth. The daddy issues come from a tyrannical capitalist father who expects his son to be a carbon copy. Instead of a motorcycle he drives limousines and expensive cars. His sexuality is informed by lavish parties, a casanova-lifestyle and general hedonism. While the classic bad boy drags the woman «down» into his world, the rich bad boy drags her «up» into his world of wealth and «civilized» violence. The woman exists to bring the rich bad boy «down to earth». To teach him values of fidelity and kindness, and to show him he is more than his money/work. And as a reward the woman gets to live out the materialistic fantasy: expensive gifts, exclusive balls, luxurious trips around the globe, you name it. If the classic bad boy is about the inherent eroticism of anger/violence, the rich bad boy is about the inherent eroticism of wealth. And Logan fits this archetype to a T. His initial relationship with Rory is «no strings attached», he apologizes with expensive gift giving, and he introduces her to exclusive hedonistic circles like the Life and Death Brigade. He cheats, he recklessly gets into dangerous situations to simply feel something, he has a dysfunctional relationship with his father, and he loves Rory partly because she simultaneously does and doesn’t «belong» in his world. I also think that either end for him (breaking out of his father’s shadow or falling back in it) is realistic for the rich bad boy. Which end he gets simply depends on whether the author desires an endgame relationship for the rich bad boy or not.

So that’s it. Mind you, me categorizing Rory’s boyfriends as different kinds of bad boys doesn’t necessarily mean I would tie them exclusively to that trope. The Gilmore Girls writers did an incredibly good job at writing fleshed out characters that grew outside of their stereotypes and created their own molds. And one could argue that if you make the definition of a bad boy broad enough, most flawed boyfriends will fit into the trope in some way. That being said, I’m currently standing by my analysis. Not only do I think it’s fun to view the guys through such a lens, I think it helps flesh out Rory too. She isn’t necessarily drawn to ‘bad’ men, but her track record does show that she deals with a lot of inner conflict about her love life, and that this is externalized with incredibly flawed (and sometimes ill-timed) relationships to men who have a lot to figure out themselves. Honestly I’ll probably pull a full analysis on her love life one day too, just not yet.

At the end of the day I think who people root for depends on what kind of bad they’re either drawn to or willing to excuse. If you like the idea of someone going mad/bad with love, you might prefer Dean. If you like a character who is undeniably human (as in has good sides but can be so so so flawed), odds are you’re a Jess-person. And if there’s just something about grand gestures and finding a «real» person in a sea of «fake», you’re probably a fan of Logan. It really is a case of personal preference.

no thoughts, only jace bringing aemond flowers and aemond being like “???!”

HAPPY K DAY 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖