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klanceogies · 3 months

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hi i have klance f1 au brainrot

i can't stop thinking about little story details and backstories like. keith's dad was in f1 before. i feel like he didn't die in an f1 crash. maybe a regular car crash. the irony of this guy who races in incredibly fast speeds to be killed by something so ordinary, in a car, but not an f1 one. and it wasn't even his fault. some drunk driver or something. he didn't die on an f1 car because speed isn't what kills you, it's suddenly stopping that does.

also still talking about keith's background, keith coming from an f1 family background makes so much sense in my mind. him being an orphan would make it basically impossible to sustain himself in such an expensive sport as a kid like that. but since he was already in the scene, and people respected his dad, he had connections and sponsors (not to mention he had always shown that he was a prodigy in the sport so people were willing to bet on him and support him and his career). he met shiro through that environment too.

he also skipped f2 like a lot of really skilled rookies, but he popped into f1 seemingly "out of nowhere" years after a controversy in his f3 days. it goes like this: james, little asshole james coming close second in that season, is a shit person. he is just fucking mean. and keith has been having a shit year. and idk if you're gonna agree with this but hear me out. shiro crashes. like badly. like career-ending crash. he loses his arm and he is in the hospital, and of course he eventually makes a great recovery, but right now no one knows it yet. they just know that at the very least shiro is never going to race again. they don't know how his recovery is gonna go, IF he is going to recover.

keith is alone. since the death of his dad, he is completely alone. so yeah keith starts to lose it a little bit. and this season has been proving harder than expected, james closing the point gap for first place. the media can't stop making up stories about him, shiro was in the hospital, he had a lot issues with his team manageament, which made his season unnecessarily harder. with all of that, keith becomes more reckless. he has nothing to lose--only the championship.

so, a race happens. bad choices are made. of course james provoked him, coming too close, crashing into him races before but not being too penalized for it. saying some very unkind things about keith and his brother, who was still on the hospital. being a little shit overall. so keith closes in on james, a similar situation as hamilton and verstappen in silverstone back in 2021 (as a max girlie this makes me pissed off but oh well). james runs into the wall. thankfully james's injuries weren't very serious, but he got a broken hand which was enough to make him unable to drive until the end of the championship.

now keith was the champion, right? without james on the next races there is no competition anymore. but keith isn't very happy. his impusiveness damaged his car, and at the very least he will get a grid penalty for provoking that accident. well, it is worse. he is black flagged (idk a lot about black flags but like. provoking a crash like that SHOULD prompt a black flag tbh). his engineer tells him he might be suspended for a few races and he LOSES IT. he really needs more mental health help cause he disobeys the black flag and is even more severely penalized. he really is suspended for the next few races, and basically, it screws everything. he finally lost everything he ever had. and maybe, in some twisted way, he felt like he deserved every single part of it. self sabotage and all of that. well, the media goes crazy because everyone thought he would be the next schumacher when he got older. he dips out of the face of the planet. no one thinks this kid will ever race again. "too unstable" some say. "he is just crazy" others mutter. with no one to help him and sponsors dropping him he is now helpless.

that year, lance won the f3 championship. which pretty much sucked. with keith and james out of picture he was the obvious third place. it helps him get promoted to f2. he was doing great already, but he still felt so undeserving. he didn't beat james nor keith. he was just put on that first place podium. he didn't work for it.

after that year lance and keith didn't talk for a while. keith is benched. put out of the spotlights for a while. he does other races, but out of the classic formula path. just because his team hasn't given up on his world champion potential just yet. so they keep him at arm's length, but further from the media than if he was an actual competitor. to the average fan he just disappeared (well, the average fan doesn't even watch f2, much less f3). in the end, his return is even more impactful, memorable.

about 3 years later keith comes back. he first starts as an f1 reserve driver. substituting another driver that year make people actually see him again. how much he has changed. and how much he is still is hungry for speed. hungry for victory.

#kl f1 au #klance #hello #this is like so niche.#also ive been an f1 fan for about only one year so like. if im saying a bunch of innacurate thing i apologize #im just having fun

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rtgame · 9 months

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why does everyone hate overwatch and especially overwatch 2? i know ppl hate it but i never see anyone say why. if anyone else wants to offer opinions in the notes i'd love to hear them. i'm not defending the game(s) i'm just curious

ok so recovering from surgery has fucked up my sleep schedule so bad i'm actually up and at my pc to answer this at 7 am on a sunday bc i have a lot to say and i didn't want to type this all out on my phone lol. (also i have to take my antibiotics in an hour so i might as well get up) this is going to be LONG because i have a lot of thoughts and a lot of reasons

i think the biggest one, just to get it out of the way, is that blizzard had a MASSIVE scandal over sexual harassment. this basically changed everyone's opinions on every blizzard property, but from what i understand, the overwatch team actually didn't have a harassment problem (FROM WHAT I KNOW), but obviously it still affected people's perception of the game and i'm not defending blizzard on this issue. i think several people should die over this.

anyways, i think one of the big things was blizzard randomly announced overwatch 2 back in 2019 to distract from them banning a pro hearthstone player over supporting the hong kong protests in an interview. the development of overwatch 2 brought overwatch 1 to a COMPLETE fucking standstill like. there was literally no actual update for 3 years because they moved the entire dev team to overwatch 2 so overwatch 1 was updated by a skeleton crew, which a lot of people weren't happy about (me included). the only real difference between 1 and 2, when 2 was announced, was that it was gonna have PVE, which was already weird because in the past they said PVE was going to be in overwatch 1 and now it's not?

and then overwatch 2 finally comes out and it's like. there's no PVE. it's "coming later." they later admit that the PVE campaign was cancelled back in 2021 (remember overwatch 2 came out late 2022) BUT THEN KEPT ADVERTISING THAT OVERWATCH 2 WAS GONNA HAVE THE PVE CAMPAIGN? THEY LITERALLY JUST LIED TO EVERYONE FOR A FUCKING YEAR?

it took like 3 years for overwatch 2 to come out and at launch, all it had to offer was 3 new heroes and a few new maps and its like, if they just kept developing overwatch 1 we would've had way more by 2022.

overwatch 2 is also free to play, which is like, that's fine on paper, yay everyone gets to play it, but in practice it means that overwatch 2 is rife with microtransactions. skins cost like $26. new heroes cost AT LEAST $10 depending on when you buy them (or you can spend a ridiculous amount of time unlocking them for free) and its like. i fucking bought overwatch 1 for $40, these characters and skins would've been goddamn free in overwatch 1, i'm not spending money on this. ALSO I SPENT $40 TO BUY THIS GAME WHY THE FUCK AM I SPENDING MORE MONEY TO UNLOCK CHARACTERS???? there's some PVE missions available in game now but they're nothing like what was promised and they. also. obviously. cost. fucking. money. and i already spent $40 on the first game.

also there's a battle pass now for monetization reasons and i fucking hate most battle passes. the microtransactions in this game are fascinating because they make the overwatch 1 loot boxes look good.

also, they started the overwatch league in 2018, which is like, professional overwatch gaming, and i really liked watching it (and even went to some games irl) (i won a raffle there once!), but then they started balancing the game around the pro competitive scene which kinda made it hard for casuals to enjoy because they would keep changing the casual game mode (quick play) to be more in line with competitive, which was getting balanced around like 0.001% of players, which just made it less fun lol.

+ when they released overwatch 2, it went from 6v6 to 5v5 which was a change i never liked because my usual team was 6 people so this means that we have to rotate someone out, and they removed the 2nd tank role when switching the game to 5v5 which was uh... my main role was off tank... which they fucking removed.... because the game's 5v5 now. my main (dva) feels borderline unplayable in 5v5 because she kinda just sucks now lol. idk i don't really like the flow of the game or how short team fights are with 5v5 and i absolutely hate being the only tank. i think 6v6 was the perfect balance for overwatch but that's been thrown out the window.

ALSO they removed capture point maps which i actually did enjoy and im still salty over this

tldr basically it's like. overwatch 1 died for 3 years and blizzard killed its momentum for overwatch 2 but then overwatch 2 has literally nothing new to it and it's just overwatch 1 but worse. we waited 3 years for literally nothing.

although, i will say i saw a lot of people online make fun of the game when they announced lifeweaver because he's, iirc, a pansexual thai man, and honestly, that never sat right with me because like. it was a bunch of online leftists making fun of the game for being.... too diverse? or feeling like it was checking off a list and i was never comfortable with it because like, even just 6 years ago we would not have gotten a character like him in an AAA game. i think it's because one of the studios under blizzard posted their "diversity tool" that they used to diversify their game and it was really fucking weird and gave points to characters depending on their race and sexuality and etc, and i think they even used overwatch characters as an example, which was REALLY weird, because the tool was being used by king and not the team developing overwatch and even the dev team called it out like "we don't fucking use this, what is this shit lol, stop using our characters for this"

also lifeweaver was made by a thai person on the team to represent his own culture so i genuinely don't think he was made with the diversity tool lol.

idk i still think representation is important and i think making fun of him was weird since like. pan thai men definitely exist irl. idk. it was weird as fuck and this is probably the only thing i'll actively defend overwatch on. #LeaveLifeweaverAlone or whatever. i mean he sucks in game but that's bc his abilities are lame and his healing is shit, not because he's pan lol

but also why do they keep making their japanese characters ninjas lol. i like playing kiriko but man why can they all wall climb.

also like, the final thing, regarding everyone else hating it is like, im gonna be blunt, i think a lot of times the internet will just randomly turn on something it loved (marvel (rightfully honestly), borderlands, someone provide more examples) and say it sucks/its cringe/etc because loving something is #Cringe and hating everything is #Cool or whatever, and overwatch has reached that phase of its life, and all the issues i mentioned above really didn't fucking help. the internet adores its hate trains yknow

idk genuinely my relationship with overwatch is super fucking complicated as someone who loved/loves the game. i really do like a lot of the characters and i think the game is still fun SOMETIMES, but it's definitely lost that spark it had in 2016 thanks to shit management and blizzard focusing on the wrong things. i think a lot about a world where blizzard didn't suck and overwatch never had all this shit happen to it.

also WOW IM SORRY this is so rambly i've had like 4 hours of sleep and this is just something i do feel strongly about since the game is/was important to me and quite literally changed my life, so it sucks to see how it turned out. when i was 16 i really was enamored by this game where the whole premise was fighting for the future and it was just optimistic about the future, and i think that really was important for me at the time, as dumb as that is. a game being like "hey, the future's gonna be awesome" during a year that was really nerve-wracking for me was something i did need at the time. it really does suck that overwatch's own future wasn't as bright as the future it was envisioning.

#LONG POST #talking about all this actually made me kinda sad LOL #i would kill to go back to 2016 overwatch genuinely #sorry for dropping this on everyone at fucking 7:30 AM on a sunday

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yuzu-all-the-way · 1 year

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Thank you for responding to my question about Yuzu being underscored! I'm still not sure I understand 100% but you mentioned politicking which always confuses me so there we are :D I also just want to clarify about my statement RE the Olympics - I only mentioned it as I think I'd seen something about Yuzu changing his priority because he knew he was being underscored, so I think if he hadn't been consistently mistreated by the ISU that he likely wouldn't have gone for it, and would have then had cleaner skates as a result (I think he also fell on the 4s in both skates if I remember right?). Not trying to say he made the wrong decision, as tbh his 4a was REALLY exciting :D Also shout out to him for being the only skater who has made me cry while watching - his gala performance at the Olympics was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, I think.

I'm sorry that it confused you - the truth is skating is very much hand in hand with politics which sucks.

I'll try to clarify about Beijing.

First of all, he fell on the 4S only in the free. In the short program, there was a hole in the ice (pics exist with him going to the spot where the hole is, putting his fingers into it*, it's clearly a crater in the ice). His blade got caught in the ice and the take off was risky, so he chose to pop the 4S into a 1S instead of risking a shaky, possibly dangerous landing.

*I put a photo of that below the cut

I'll try to give a timeline of how Yuzu got to Beijing Olympics and why he chose the 4A. This is also with help of new info from Aoi Honoo III, the timeline is kind of this (I might have gotten some minor details wrong, if I did, please, people who know the right things, jump in the replies and correct me):

Yuzu won the 2018 Olympics, but didn't want to turn pro yet, he went for the 2018/2019 season

At that point, he knew he was being underscored, but wanted to skate for himself - that was what he stated as motivation at the start of the 2018/2019 season. But he competed and competed, got injured, recovered, got again underscored at 2019 Worlds.

The actual plan was to go for the 4A asap (a jump he had dreamt to do since he was a child). I don't remember if in 2018/2019 or 2019/2020 he had it put in the planning for his free skate layout, there is surely a video in which a piece of printed paper is shown with this info: 4A (4Lo / 4Lz). If Yuzu had gone for the 4A and ratified it, that would've been it.

Yuzu stated clearly he wasn't sure about Beijing, his one goal was the 4A. He struggled a lot in the 2019/2020 season - he did the 5 quads Origin at 2019 GPF and still wasn't enough

Not having landed the 4A at that point, Yuzu went on.

In 2021, he had to withdraw from the GP circuit because he had injured his ankle again practicing the 4A. The last stop should've been JNats 2021. Again, the 4A was not what he hoped for, he was chosen for the Olympic team.

Last chance, 2022 Beijing Olympics. No matter of how the short would've played out, Yuzu was determined to go for the 4A. Again, Yuzu stated that had he made that 4S in short, he would've still went for the 4A, but maybe he wouldn't have thrown himself into the practice of the 4A with the "at all costs" mindset. He might've been more careful. The reality is that he went in, got injured, and "were it another competition, [he] would've withdrawn from the free".

I'm not sure if there was ever talk about him saying he didn't want to win the 2022 Olympics, I know only that he went in for the 4A, maybe aiming to win with it, but his main goal was definitely the 4A.

In another recent interview, Yuzu revealed he skated with a painkiller shot because that made his ankle stiff, he wouldn't have been able to move it. So, Yuzu skated the free without a direct painkiller shot, his ankle was hurting (I think he still was on painkillers, but not a local painkiller shot). That's why he fell on the 4S in the free.

Sorry for the long post, again, but when it comes to Yuzu, I try to give all the info possible as accurately as possible.

#asks #yuzuru hanyu

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thinittowin · 2 years

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ed changed presentation and I fucking hate it

There is like quite a large tw on this because idk what I'm gonna type yet but it's gonna be ranty and explain my different presentations in the past and present. There are dates for timelines but no mentions of weight (aside from title of highest, lowest, current)

Let's start with i am undiagnosed to the best of my knowledge (sometimes doctors here will diagnose you and not tell you). I have bounced between restrictive and overeating tendencies since I was about 12 (20 now) and it got super bad when I was 15. "Recovered" by myself (ie i weight restored after threats to be brought to a dietitian) but prior to this i was not eating much at all. I'm diabetic and would purposely make my blood sugar go low so I had an "excuse" to eat.

I've bounced moreso between over and under eating since aug of 2020. My highest weight made me so uncomfortable (Jan 2021), especially after being at a point where I was okay with how I looked. I would've liked to weigh less or be thinner but I wasn't overly unhappy.

Since Jan 2021, I've been struggling a lot more with thoughts of restriction but I can't seem to get to the same ability to restrict as lil 15 year old me. I know I shouldn't want to. I shouldn't need to. I just really want to get back to that weight. My body was fucked. I couldn't eat without my stomach hurting. I couldn't go to school without needing a three hour nap afterwards. I was so tired. My hair was falling out. My nails were so brittle that if I didn't bite them off, they'd bend and break. I was so pale. I was dizzy just standing up. But I was "skinny." I was "achieving" something. No-one noticed and if they did it was just my mam asking me did I want one scoop of potatoes or two. I had two other friends who were restricting at the time but none of us mentioned it to each other at the time. In my head we were in a silent competition. I wanted to "win" but they had a "head start" on me. I couldn't "win". I was the only one who had to be monitored regularly by doctors due to diabetes. I couldn't "win". It's fucked that a couple of 15 year old friends were competing to eat the least, but it's normal in an all girls school. You can pick out when someone's ed started, you can pick out when they recovered, if they did. Kids shouldn't have to go through that shit. Adults shouldn't go through that shit.

But with the new "trend" in bodies again I can't get over it. I wanna do it again. I wanna win. I'm an adult. With a job. I need to be responsible. I need to pay rent. I need to do my college work. I need to fucking survive but it's so hard. I've started overeating because I'm stressed and numb and depressed and Haribo fizzy jellies are the only things that make me able to think. With the sugar and the feeling on my tongue I'm either gonna not stop overeating or I'm gonna relapse into sh. At this point I want to relapse because it's easier. It's how I could win when I was younger. Things would be easier. Life would be straightforward. I'd think clearly I'd be able to control myself if I could control my pain.

This is very vague cos i crossposted from a forum but deal w it

#depressing shit #anorexik #edbllr #ana breakfast #body chex #need to lose more weight #weightloss #rexiia #pro rexy #tw self destructive behavior #not pro just using tags

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nbmsports · 11 months

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Mets and Yankees Get Only Three All-Star Selections

The Mets and the Yankees have the two largest payrolls in Major League Baseball, with more than $600 million in combined player salaries, according to Spotrac. Luxury tax bills, which will be finalized later this year, will push the combined number well over $700 million.For all of that money, the teams had a total of three players selected to the rosters of this year’s All-Star Game, which were announced on Sunday night. Pitcher Gerrit Cole and the injured outfielder Aaron Judge will represent the Yankees at the game in Seattle on July 11. First baseman Pete Alonso will represent the Mets.Last year, with both teams thriving, they combined for 10 All-Star selections.The Yankees, who are 46-38 and currently in position for the American League’s third wild-card spot in the playoffs, have had at least one player appear in 90 of the 92 All-Star Games, which have been held since 1933. But because of injuries and rest, it remains an open question if they will have anyone participate in this year’s game.Judge, who was elected as a starter for the A.L., has 19 home runs but has been limited to 49 games because of a toe injury that will keep him out indefinitely. Cole, who is having a stellar season with a 2.79 E.R.A., pitched Sunday, and would normally pitch next on Friday, leaving him a day short of his normal rest. But with Carlos Rodón expected to come off the injured list to start Friday’s game, Cole could move to Saturday, giving him even less time to recover before the All-Star Game.Despite the rest issue, Cole talked as if he intended to play in the game.“One of these days, I would really like to start it,” Cole told reporters over the weekend. “I’ve got to check that one off. I’m not sure how that shakes out over the next week. I know there’s a lot of deserving guys out there.”His competition to start would include the former Yankee Nathan Eovaldi, who is thriving for the Texas Rangers, and Shohei Ohtani, the two-way superstar of the Los Angeles Angels who started for the A.L. last year.For the Mets, who have been a colossal disappointment at 38-46 despite their record payroll, Alonso is a reasonable choice as their lone representative. His .221 batting average is the worst of his career, and he trails outfielder Brandon Nimmo and shortstop Francisco Lindor for the team’s lead in wins above replacement, but his 25 home runs are second in the National League to Matt Olson of the Atlanta Braves.Additionally, Alonso announced that he would participate next Monday in the Home Run Derby, an event he has dominated in the past. He won the derby in 2019 and 2021 and was a quarterfinalist last year. While the formats change from year to year, making comparisons difficult, his 174 home runs in three contests are the most combined homers in the event’s history.Manager Buck Showalter told reporters over the weekend that he thought the All-Star selection and participation in the Home Run Derby could help bring Alonso out of his recent slump.“I hate to see good people beat themselves up,” Showalter said. “But I think it is good timing for him to be reminded how good of a player he is. I think he is one of the league leaders in unluckiness, so to speak. Pete is as real as it gets.”The Mets came into the season with World Series aspirations only to have the team’s owner, Steven A. Cohen, acknowledge last week that they could be sellers at the trading deadline. Putting some salt in that wound: Atlanta, which leads the Mets by 18.5 games in the N.L. East despite spending more than $100 million less in payroll than their division rival, will send an M.L.B.-high eight players to the All-Star Game. Source link Read the full article

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md3artjournal · 11 months

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Guess I should check in. I haven't made art in such a long time, it seems. I was already off my daily drawing practice. I didn't do half or most of MerMay.

Failed to stay on Creatury---AGAIN. I really thought I had it this time. I should have done another January of daily flower sketches.

Skipped Faebruary. I don't know why. It's one of my favorite monthly challenges. I get to draw flowers, tiny chibi, butterfly wings, and my OTPs. I don't know what happened. I think it was just my overall drop off of daily drawing practice. ;_;

March should have been Magical March. Every year I gather up costume design reference, and I say I'll draw Magical Boys to go with Magical Girls. But I'm usually burnt out from Faebruary. I really should have been able to do it this year, since I skipped Faebruary this year. I drew ONE random maho shojo OC. That's it. x_x;

April is supposed to be my own challenge that I made up: "AprilAngelsAndDemons". And it worked out well for me in 2020…But I haven't been able to bring it back since. x_x

MerMay is one of my favorite challenges. It's pretty a well-known challenge, so there's a lot of exposure, so a lot of encouragements. Plus, I don't have to draw clothes or the entire bottom half of the body. ^^ Bonus: I love drawing wavy, flowy lines, so fish tails and fish fins really work for me too. ^-^ …But I only did part of the challenge. ;; My May got taken over by some depression, and drawing cards for Mother's Day AND my mom's birthday.

June was supposed to be another one of my made-up monthly drawing challenges: JuneBridesGrooms. But I haven't done it since 2021. x_x; That was a really good challenge for me. I don't know why I haven't kept it up. ;.; But this year, I know. May 2023 got taken over by that photography contest with unlimited entries, and I think I took some days to recover from that. Still, it couldn't have been that many days. And then I had to draw my dad's Father's Day card, though that didn't take more than 2 days. And I'll still trying to continue that MerMay2023 DMCL fancomic I started last month.

Maybe I'm just burnt out. And I know I have a hard time getting back into drawing, if I don't keep it up frequently. That's why I always take on those monthly drawing challenges and try to draw every single day. But lately…I've just been letting it slide. Tired. Needed several days to do laundry. Writing too many nonsense journal posts and random Tumblr posts; fandom type analysises that I don't even post, half the time. Maybe I'm just tired.

I've been thinking a lot lately about getting more serious about returning to cons or at least finally opening an online shop. I've let the online shop ideas get postponed, because I was too busy, constantly restocking for convention tables. The pandemic let me slow down and reassess, but that just left me staring in the face, the intimidating prospect of online sales. Years, I've followed artists and read their posts about horrible customers. I've got too much social anxiety for this. So when I recently heard about "print on demand" services, I thought this would be perfect for me. But now I'm hearing it's called "dropshipping" and has a bad reputation? I feel like I can't win. I can't even figure out what name to rebrand to. Because that would require knowing how to summarize my art style and what I want to do. But all the commonalities in my illustration style, are unflattering. All my best work is flat, 2D, and monochrome, but that's not exactly the best impression. Maybe it got me dwelling too much on how I don't know how to describe my style. But more likely, I'd get disheartened, looking through my Archives, to give me ideas for what name best fits my rebrand…and be reminded how badly I draw. I can't compete with the competition. I can't even get the guts to order stickers of my art. x___x;;;;;;;;; My best art is photography and sculpture. But my photography can't compete with most other figure photographers. My 2 figure photography contest wins don't really count for anything when you see how objectively worse, even my winning photos were, compared to most others'. And I've ruined my reputation with sculpture. I'm beginning to think I've been buying weak, non-durable, polymer clay all this time. I've always had to worry about it breaking during shipping/travel, people shittalk my work's resiliency, while passing by my convention tables, and people just expect it to be as strong as some cheap Walmart industrial-plastic trinkets. I don't want to deal with more problems with materials/packaging, making more customers mad at me. Just that one incident completely ruined my ability to sculpt for my business ever again…even though it may be my best medium. I cannot deal with conflict on any kind of level. …So that's made me wonder if I should give up on art, and return to some office job. I know I heard getting a job is nearly impossible these days, especially since I don't have the basic socializing skills that are usually expected. But maybe I'd be better off if my art is just a hobby. No more worrying about competition, and not measuring up. …But I decided a long time ago, during my last office job, that if I wanted to stop feeling suicidal, even though I had all the money and medical benefits that everyone said I needed to be happy, I needed to make art my job. I was too tired after office days to do any art as a hobby. And without it, I was getting more and more, inexplicably self-destructive. I may be too lazy to really study illustration and improve, but I need to do art as my career. If my job takes up all my time, and I'm too tired in my downtime to do art, but I need art to be sane/happy, then making art my job was my only logical conclusion. …But I'm so bad at it! x________x;;;;;;;;;;;;; Even aside from my quality, I just don't have the guts to even open an online shop or take commissions. I've avoided the stress of it so much, that I don't even know where to start---Well, I know where to get the information about where to start. I've subscribed to a lot of independent small business artists on social media, who talk about all their business stuff. But I still avoid actually reading or listening to their videos…because it's all too overwhelming. More and more, I think I'm not cut out for this small business artist thing. But at the same time, I don't see anywhere else for myself.

Well, that sounds like an artist block, if I ever heard one. I guess that's why I haven't been drawing daily lately.

People say that drawing every single day is unnecessary, or even bad for you. But it works for me. It more than works for me. I NEED it. Not just because my drawing muscles instantly atrophy as soon as I stop practicing. But I also really enjoy drawing everyday. I need that feeling of accomplishment everyday. Even when I draw badly, compared to the competition in artist alley, it just feels so good to have been able to make something, and additionally be so much better than past me. Past me couldn't draw what was in my head this easily or this quickly! I feel so proud of myself after I manage to finish drawing. But then a day or 2 later, or when I have to think about which illustration to pick, to become merch in artist alley, I just fall apart.

I don't know what I'm doing.

Also, my best art isn't actually photography, sculpture, or even jewelry or printmaking. (And my storyboarding has gone to hell, since I stopped reading manga daily.) It was always writing. I'm bad at it now. I haven't been confident in writing narrative stories in years. And maybe most of what I write lately is just journaling and fandom analysis essays, that I'm too afraid to un-Private on Tumblr. But people have been telling me for years that my writing is good, I've repeatedly seen my writing get me out of situations through its effectiveness, and I know what it feels like to work hard at a craft and really enjoy the WORKING HARD at it. And I enjoy working hard at writing. I think that actually ENJOYING the "working hard" part is a big sign that it might be what I should be doing. But I've completely let this skill atrophy. x_x I've thought about maybe submitting essays for publication as articles anyway. But I just don't have to confidence to put my real name on anything public. Especially something as incendiary as writing. I could write an opinion piece about how much I love chocolate ice cream, and the trolls would come out of no where to tear me into pieces. I don't think my social anxiety would let life be tolerable with that.

Maybe that's why I just keep ping-pong'ing myself in limbo, doing nothing.

#rambling #venting #please ignore my idiocy #finding my art style #artist block #creative block #drawing practice #processing thoughts #checking in

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amothmanslife · 1 year

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"PatchyPines Blocked me for no reason!"

I get folks quite frequently telling me some folks or another every so often has come to them with this type of distress. I'm tired of repeating myself so; I don't block for "absolutely no reason."

First thing you should ask yourself is; this person came to you saying I blocked them for no reason, I'm a terrible person due to it. They beg you to try to reach out to talk to me to reconsider to unblock them, Or they have some other grievance- Ever think behavior like that- dragging other people into drama and shit that doesn't even involve you at all is probably why they're blocked in the first place?

Because I do block folks who make it their life's goal to be extremely negative and make every day be about constantly stirring up drama, lying about folks, gaslighting folks, and painting themselves as a victim for attention.

However, if you really want to know the exact reasons why I block people.. It all started because my therapist and my doctor both told me to set clear-cut boundaries for my mental health.

And that the internet is a beautiful place where if you don't want to see something you don't like; you can block it and move on. Same goes for scrolling along- you can zip past stuff you don't like seeing.

I heavily go by the quote: "Those who get upset that you set boundaries, are those who benefited from you having none."

I block folks for these reasons here:

- Harassment and sexual harassment. Caught harassing others or myself.

- Stalking people.

- Fetishizing a minority group. ( I am literally an Intersex person. )

- Being anti- LGBTQIA+ ( I am literally a queer nonbinary person. )

- Being racist. ( Native headdress, "W*n**go is my favorite cryptid!", anti-Asian, Literally being racist towards POC in any way. )

- Literally being a Nazi.

- Being pro-gun to the point I'd feel unsafe meeting you offline ever.

- Body shaming/ fatshaming.

- Being ableist.

- Treating artists like shit/ expendable. ( Using AI art, Using NFT's Tracing over others art, Not crediting artists. Or just treating artists like shit in general. )

- Being sexist. ( saying shit like "looking for Females." )

- Being pro-cop/ republican/ basically being a bootlicker.

- Anti-vaxers.

- Being very obnoxiously Abrahamic Monotheistic. ( I literally have PTSD with the christian religion due to surviving a conversion therapy "pray the gay away" camp. If all of your posts are only or mostly jesus, I will block you out of my own self preservation. )

- Only talking to me to just talk about art, using me as your artist stepping stool, having me around because you want me as your art teacher or as a means to compete with me artistically, I am not your free advertisement or free art teacher. I am not a competitive person either it's not enjoyable for me, there's many other artists who enjoy competition I just want to see folks grow around me and enjoy creating together.

- Coming to me only to vent and that is all. Even when I said I am not a place to vent to, you still continued to vent to me.

- Trying to keep me around so you can get free art, it's just not how friendships work; you literally cannot buy your way into a friendship.

- Supporting Zoophilia/Beastiality.

- Supporting Cub/Shota/Babyfur/Pedophilia.

- Harassing people or guilt tripping/gaslighting people who wound up in any of my art giveaways, raffles, group images.

- Only talking to me when I finally got healthier and got speech therapy, but shunned me and tried to force me into voice chats while I struggled with muteness and was at my worst health-wise in 2020-2021.

- Trying to get me to draw stolen characters.

- Unsolicited nsfw/nudes/e.t.c. or begging me for nudes/nsfw/e.t.c.

- When I say I apologize I am a recovered person, I don't feel comfortable talking about alchohol or drug use- and it is all you do is talk about only that even after I ask to change subject several times.

I am also a part of a small close-knit and diverse queer group and a good chunk are artists.

So, if one of my friends in that group show screenshots of someone being shit to them- or heck, anyone shows someone being shit.

We all band together and quietly block this unsavory person in question out of self-preservation.

We don't flame, harass, attack, communicate with, or even talk to or approach this unsavory person.

After blocking them, it's all dropped and we continue out lives happy with one less awful person and forget this person we blocked even exists.

People I keep around me are folks who enjoy videogames, writing, some kind of hobby even if it isn't traditional/digital art. We talk about life, are open to communication, and are shoulders to be there for eachother. We hold eachother accountable and even have hard open discussions if needed in hopes everyone will continue growing in a positive direction.

I'm no perfect person, but I am brutally honest and upfront and set clear-cut boundaries that follow all of this here.

I don't waste my time with arguments and once someone is blocked I move on with life and generally forget the person existed in a week.

My health is too trash to hold onto negative things, and I focus on the positive things and I do a lot of self reflection on how I can improve as a person.

Life is way too short to waste it on holding onto so much hate- I don't have the energy and wake up choosing happiness.

I hope someday you can too.

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De Vries pleased with qualifying debut despite accidental brake balance error | 2022 Italian Grand Prix

Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Nyck de Vries says he had a “decent” first-ever qualifying session in Formula 1, reaching Q2 after an unexpected call-up to the Williams team. The 2019 Formula 2 champion and 2021 Formula E world champion will make his F1 debut in tomorrow’s Italian Grand Prix in place of Alexander Albon, who was forced to withdraw from the weekend after contracting appendicitis. De Vries out-qualified Williams team mate Nicholas Latifi and reached Q2. He was eliminated in 13th place but stands to move up to eighth on the grid for the race, alongside Max Verstappen in the Red Bull. After driving Sebastian Vettel’s Aston Martin on Friday’s first practice, De Vries admitted it had not been easy to adapt back to the Williams the following day, despite having driven the Williams FW44 during practice for the Spanish Grand Prix in May. “It was tricky,” said De Vries. “I think that’s the only disappointment I have from our qualifying session, because I felt like there was probably more in it, more potential, and we just didn’t quite succeed to put it together. “I think my second lap in Q1 was very competitive, which was a ‘22.1, which was just on the edge of being good enough for Q3. But the run in Q2 was just not quite as smooth. You can’t really expect anything else at such short time notice, but I think we’ll take it anyway.” De Vries was on course to improve on his final lap in Q2 before an error under braking for the Roggia chicane ruined his final attempt, resulting in his elimination. The Dutch driver admits he mistakenly changed a setting on his steering wheel before the braking zone, which led to the mistake. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free “I do feel there was more in it – especially in the last run of Q2,” he said. “I hit a brake balance switch which moved the brake balance a percent rearwards and that’s why I locked up my rears going into four and lost my lap. But ultimately to get through to Q2 and be in the mix I think was a decent job on such a short notice.” Gallery: 2022 Italian Grand Prix qualifying day in pictures Albon’s absence from the weekend came unexpectedly for both Williams and their driver. He has since confirmed in a post on social media he is recovering after successful surgery. De Vries described the moment he suddenly learned that he would be making his grand prix debut while watching the FIA Formula 3 sprint race early on Saturday morning. “I was having a coffee in the Paddock Club for an appearance,” De Vries explained. “It was very quiet early in the morning, so I was watching the F3 podium with a cappuccino and then James Vowles gave me a ring and I had to come down quickly to Mercedes. “Everyone was pretty happy. I kind of tried to manage expectations a little bit, saying ‘let’s wait’. So then I went down to Williams and, unfortunately, Alex was ill, but hopefully he will be back soon and recover quickly. Then during the FP3 briefing, it kind of became clear that it was my duty to be in the car for FP3 and the rest of the weekend.” Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free 2022 Italian Grand Prix Browse all 2022 Italian Grand Prix articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net

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Bodybuilding: The post-bodybuilding journey to undoing damage from poor and dangerous coaching

Those of you who follow me on Facebook and Instagram may be up-to-speed on my journey, but I wanted to share on here, for those who are interested in bodybuilding or those who may be experiencing some of the issues I have been facing since my competition prep.

To dive right in, end of 2020 through the end of October 2021, I was training and prepping for a bodybuilding competition. I wanted to try competing. I've been lifting for years to keep my body conditioned for my job as a massage therapist. I had decided that since I had quit my corporate job and went 100% independent (these details will be shared in a separate post), I had time for a hobby and I wanted to challenge myself.

I had decided to get a coach so I could be guided and pushed into the physique I needed to be in to compete. With me working full-time for myself, in my senior year for my bachelor's degree full-time, and being on stand-by for my mom during her cancer treatments, my coach suggested I pay for meal prep services to make sure my nutrition is on point and to take the burden of meal prepping off of my plate. Done! Sure, it was an expensive investment, but it's something I wanted to have a good experience with. I also started talking about this journey with my therapist, since many bodybuilders have talked about how it's difficult mentally, too.

Okay, so you'd think I've set myself up for success. That was the goal with investing in all of these services. Stay with me...

So, there are phases when prepping for a bodybuilding competition. If you need to, there is a bulking phase. You have a surplus in calories and should really try to be precise with your micronutrients. Then, there is maintenance. You want to enter this phase after doing a bulk or cut. Your body needs a time period where it's not overworking with building muscle mass or metabolizing fat at a quicker rate. Next, you want to go into a cut. A cut is used to decrease body fat percentage. Typically, people are in this phase, at most, 3-4 months. Finally, just a week or two before your competition, there's shredding. This is still leaning out, but you are also cutting out carbs and reducing water intake. The point of it is to look as lean as you can.

I was put through all of those phases. My cut, though, was from April through September. My "shredding" phase, they had me down to 800 calories, lifting 6 days a week, and doing 2hrs of cardio 7 days a week. That started mid-September and would have lasted through to November 11th. I had to pull out of doing that competition because I broke out in shingles. Pulling out of the show greatly upset my coach and the guy doing my meal prep. There was zero concern for my health.

Not only did I break out in shingles, my mental health was in the gutters, I had malnutrition, my testosterone plummeted, and my shoulders developed tendinitis in both rotator cuffs. Since November 2021, while utilizing a new coach to help me reverse diet out of such a deficit, it's taken me 8 months for my shoulders to recover, I've gained almost 60lbs, and still working on my mental health.

Since going through that prep, I've developed an eating disorder and I am finally seeing an endocrinologist for my hormones and to test and assess me for cushings disease. Until then, I'm just working on having a positive relationship, again, with working out and food. I am counting calories, but I'm also making sure that I am enjoying what I put in my body. With workouts, I always do a nice warm-up routine to warm-up my muscles and connect with my body.

#health #mental health #mentalheathawareness #eating disoder recovery #self care #relationships #bodybuilding #fitness #generalized anxiety disorder #wellness #lgbtq+#gay men #gay fitness

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S5 Ep 3: Apdnarg is Really Hard to Spell

Yo guys, people are getting vaccinated, the sun is parting through the clouds, and I felt so nice that I even stopped listening to quite so many throwback 00′s BTS mashups (and yet I keep clicking on these dissonant catastrophes thinking “this time it’s got to be better. This time they’ll figure it out.” and like, no. Turns out you can’t match Brittany’s Toxic with BTS’ Black Swan. You can’t do that.)

This must be a sign that things are getting better. If anything, it means my personal tastes are improving. I mean I only clicked on like 3 “Dark Academia” Playlists where I could pretend I’m some sort of spooky witch in an abandoned library with a bad music player and basic taste in classical music (like can we ban Satie from Youtube for a little while?). Hell, I might even do a prompt update to this blog!

Yeah, you heard me, I’m actually going to stay ahead of the update schedule for Yugioh Abridged (maybe. I haven’t actually watched cuz of spoilers, I just noticed the thumbnail pop up on Youtube and was like “Damn it, they came out of hiatus??? I got hurry UP.”)

Anyway, speaking of the sky parting.

I’ll have you know my bro said this is actually more like a circumcision and it was one of the worst thing I have ever heard.

We get a chance to take in this lineup of confusing and varied character designs, and Joey. who is...still Joey.

The animators probably had to hold a strike in order for them to put Yugi in the audience, lets be real. There are TOO MANY PEOPLE in this shot and one is wearing a turban where you draw every single wrap. I hope those artists charged by the line.

Tea has a subplot where she’s just very frustrated with everyone she knows. They have been traveling together for like many weeks and got trapped in a foreign country so I get it. But at the same time, it’s kind of hard to picture Tea with female friends.

Because right now you got this 12 year old child, the other duelist who does not care about anything besides cards, and Kaiba’s 3 dragon cards that we’ve all collectively decided are female.

Hell it’s almost like the writers are asking themselves why Tea is here. Maybe they forgot. There’s no more ghosts to bus, no more people to knock out with her ass with random Olympic feats. Tea’s just sidelining.

(read more under the cut)

Mokuba is a itty bit bit taller this season, and so I guess that means he can legally climb on top of the cherry picker in order to give a riveting speech.

Really says a lot about Mokuba that he is so unphased about talking to, I dunno...an entire planet of people. Kind of a shame we never see this courage from Mokuba used for anything other than talking really, really big and giving everyone around him a really hard time.

Mokuba takes a moment to dunk on Yugi Muto, as is Kaiba tradition.

And then introduce the first pair of duelists, which obviously must be between the few people in this tournament that we actually know and care about.

Thankfully, in between last episode and this episode, Yugi has figured out who his own Grandpa is. This is a relief, because Yugi is such a mess, that I was fully convinced it would take over half a season for him to recognize it. I mean how long did it take him to figure out he shares a body with a ghost? Like half a season?

Instead Yugi recovered gracefully from not recognizing his grandpa, but it’s not like he bothered to tell anyone else, so the rest of our cast is just gonna be like “Is he my hairdresser? The guy who delivers my mail? Who is this guy who made absolutely no significant changes to his outfit or voice?”

Like sometimes this show goes full Spongebob silly kid’s show and you never know when to take it seriously or not. They might be sacrificing the entire cast next episode. I really don’t know. But for now their big concern is who is grandpa??? Like an innocent card version of “Are you my Mother?”

Faced with public speaking, Yugi decides to have a melt down.

We have seen him face monsters, we’ve seen him on TV dozens of times, he’s been in multiple competitions...but give a speech? Of course he can’t do that. The kid doesn’t attend enough school to know how to do that. Them’s learning skills.

And that was when a newly assembled wife-jet spliced through the sky like a souped up razer scooter and deposited 1 fully equipped Seto Kaiba in a Buzz Lightyear jetsuit.

THE RECOVERY.

Seto always watching over his Brother, ready to save this awkward party if it kills him (and it really should, that suit is held together by two seat-belts), making sure to get on that platform before Yugi starts going off about how he’s half an Ancient Egyptian. (Ah, life before social media. You could just be hella famous and also half a dead dude and people would just not know. I kinda miss the time before I knew literally everything about everyone.)

Please admire how close those flames are to setting Mokuba’s heavily hairsprayed mane completely alight. It would be an unforgettable spectacle.

These were absolutely just random ass jet packs that Gozaburo Kaiba made to kill hell tons of people, right? Like Seto found it in the family cabin, clutched to the heart of some crispy fried corpse and was like “neat! Mokuba! I found a cool toy!” and just plucked that thing out of that skeleton’s clutches and has been flying around for months?

Like this is Seto Kaiba’s Butter Glider, right?

Seriously what type of vehicle license do you need for one of these things? RIP My ‘Seto only has a scooter license’ headcanon.

Which I’m only even thinking about because I’ve had to try and make an appt with the DMV for days to get a freakin REAL ID. I went to sleep in 2019 and I could fly on a plane. I woke up in 2021 and it’s like “Want one last screw you?” and just...can 2020 please stop screwing me over? It’s March.

Anyway, the Jet is removed soon after, so no, this is not part of his new outfit. He goes right back to his Post-S4-Trauma-Normcore.

After wrestling this competition out of his brother’s hands and confusing everyone in the audience, Roland must have gotten the memo to cut the microphone before Seto got too excited and we were quickly ushered on to the next stage of the tournament.

One sec...the BTS Mashup playlist I just clicked on did a Black Swan X 7 rings mashup and it’s the worst thing my ears have ever heard.

Holy crap. I had to actually turn down my volume. Like...Ariana Grande already has music that has way too many overlapping singing parts on it--and then lets just stick a 52-person boy band on top? That’ll fix it. Yeah. Go ahead.

Wow. Even I had to change the song and you know how much I enjoy pop culture mistakes.

Spot the Mickey but like a million times easier because it’s a Massive Dick Shaped Dragon.

Yep. That’s my grocery shopping outfit. Except maybe not a lab coat and a duel disk. Wish I had a duel disk, that would make social distancing just a hell ton earlier. Just a “Yo, only one person in checkout, please” and then bap them on the head with a propelled discuss/hologram.

Anyway, Grocery shopping/Doctor man dueled the Purple Hair Boy, and considering that Purple Hair got screen time and shook Yugi’s hand once--I think that Doctor man doesn’t stand a freakin chance.

Good. I hate him.

Also, every time he breathes he’s gonna fog up his glasses. I have experience in this area. He can’t read his own cards in the same way I can’t read my phone if I’m in the refrigerated aisle.

So the way this tournament works, is everyone has to sit in the stadium to watch the show. Kinda like showing up to a football stadium just to watch a recorded TV monitor...but then again...that is how it feels to watch a football game at a football stadium when it’s live (at least with the tickets I usually get.)

And as we watch Grandpa waiting for his competitor, we find out that his competitor (Joey) is too busy eating snacks to give him the time of day.

Why do cartoon hot dogs always have lettuce? Is that seriously supposed to be relish? Or is there a place in the world where you put lettuce on your hot dog?

Sorry, bro has just informed of his favorite hot dog order, which is absolutely terrible so I will share it with you: a Five Guys hot dog with ketchup, mustard, pickle relish, onions, mushrooms, pickled peppers, and you guessed it--topped with freakin lettuce.

My own kin. How am I over 30 and just finding out that my baby brother thinks it’s normal to walk into a restaurant with normal god-fearing law-abiding people and order lettuce and mushrooms on a hot dog?

I have fully failed him.

The rest of this episode is watching both Joey Wheeler and Mokuba have a shared panic attack while Seto does freakin nothing.

Please remember that Seto has both a jetpack and a dragon wife plane and could have easily solved this problem. But nah.

Then again, Seto Kaiba has given this crew so MANY rides, that maybe he’s tired of being the Soccer Mom for the team?

Like they don’t actually say this episode, but Seto was the one in charge of like...this entire place, do you think he made the 2 for 1 special just to get Joey where it hurts the most? Or does it actually not take any subterfuge to screw Joey Wheeler because he’s just naturally this way?

Like Mokuba wasn’t there when Joey was told “stay right here, and then we will all go together to fight Dartz” and Joey was like “I’mma save Mai from herself although she told me not to!” and then he Hella Died. But, Mokuba did see the result, AKA, Joey’s dead body being carried on the back of Tristan. Maybe Mokuba never realized that Joey died because he went out of his way to be late?

Lets do a tally of every time I can recall with my dodgy memory that Joey was threatened to be DQ’d/pretty much was DQ’d either by his own fault or no fault of his own

-When he wasn’t allowed to go on the boat to Murder Island because he was a stupid nobody kid who did not have a dueling glove

-When he wasn’t actually supposed to be in Pegasus’ tourney and was, in fact, secretly using half of Yugi’s entrance ticket the entire time

-when Bandit Keith stole the ticket that Joey got from Yugi so then Joey had to borrow Mai’s ticket although she had just used it so it really shouldn't have counted. Because, really anyone could have just piggy backed off of each other’s ticket until the whole boat went through that castle.

-When his account was hacked to get entered into Kaiba’s tourney when Kaiba very clearly told him he could not apply solely because he was Joey Wheeler.

-When he was late to his sister’s eye surgery because he got mugged by Marik’s Rare Hunters, so she almost refused to do the surgery.

-When Joey got possessed by Marik, and as Marik, threatened to murder everyone else in the tournament including both of the Kaiba brother’s who’s tournament it was, and then chained himself to Yugi Muto to throw both of them to the bottom of the ocean.

-I think there was a point when he threatened to attack Kaiba in Kaiba’s own tourney while not possessed? Like several times?

-when he got struck by Lightning and almost did not stand up fast enough after being struck by lightning, which is apparently a type of DQ in Duel Monsters.

-When he tried to save Mai from getting hit by a fireball, but then Yugi did it instead, and then so many people were standing on the dueling platform that Kaiba couldn’t possibly DQ them all.

-When he entered the restricted area of the blimp in order to hassle Kaiba into landing the Blimp, which Kaiba did not do.

-When Marik killed Joey before Joey could press the “go” button on his duel disk to play the card that should have won Joey the match.

-When he was dueling a lawyer in a digital universe but then the dice was like...weighted? So Noah had to walk over and be like “The hell is this weighted dice? This is my perfect digital world? How did you even do that?” and then Joey won because the match was no longer legit.

-When Joey yelled at Noah too much and so Noah turned Joey to stone for being a rude ass spectator

-When Mai was like “Wheeler and Valon, listen closely: do NOT murder each other” and then Joey did a murder on Valon so she was like “I guess I have no choice, I was very clear” and killed Joey straight up.

-When Joey decided to block Seto’s fireballs while Joey Wheeler WAS a playing card, somehow disrespecting both Dartz and Seto Kaiba at the same time.

-When Joey was playing cards but then got absorbed into a giant Leviathan and basically couldn’t play anymore after that.

-There’s probably hell ton of S0 stuff I just haven’t seen yet.

-This episode

And Joey runs fast for a montage of wacky things that really have no business being in a theme park. Things like this:

(remember when Bakura almost died from a rock that ended up being a balloon? It comes full circle.)

The stuff that the Kaiba brother’s think is normal and fun.

Anyway Joey fights off a bunch of hologram snakes and bats and everyone is like “Should we tell him it’s just holograms???” And it’s like wow, guys, how many times have these ‘holograms’ straight up murdered Joey Wheeler and everyone else on this cast? Too many? Because I have a google doc with so many deaths on it. 7,805,844,048, to be exact.

Anyway, he gets there with five seconds to spare and Mokuba’s like “well at least you were still entertaining while we filmed you in front of a live audience being a total spaz for 15 minutes straight, so I’ll let you go.”

Grandpa and Joey start playing, Joey completely oblivious that this is just an older Muto, while Hawkins walks up awkwardly and is like “hey guys. I’m so sorry about this.”

(welcome to my font choices, for those new here, I have to make weird font color choices to make sure it’s legible for the colorblind and also for the non-colorblind. This one is not much contrast, so I may change it up in the future, but for now, this is Grandpa Muto’s new font. I apologize to every graphic designer reading this. Please don’t tell anyone who has ever hired me for graphic design about this blog.)

What’s funny about this exchange is that after they find out that Yugi’s Grandpa is Apdnarg (HOLY my brain cannot get around the spelling for that, and I will not change it in the caps. I cannot do a ‘pdn’ ever again), they don’t stand on his side of the field or anything. Hawkins is legit Solomon Muto’s only fan during this exchange and like...damn. Way not to back your Grandpa, Yugi.

Yugi immediately strides up to Mokuba to non-confrontation-ally inform him that he has stepped over a line and Mokuba is like “what are these things you say called ‘lines?’”

According to Mokuba, Solomon Muto begged him to be in the competition so he could relive his glory days (glory days making no sense here, because the game has only been released for the past 15 years, so glory days is like...the before times that can only be referring to disgraced archeologists and Pegasus ((who is, in his own way...a disgraced archeologist, too))) and Mokuba was like

“You trained Yugi Muto, right? Hey that’s good enough for me. This drama is gold. People will eat it up. Hell yes. Don’t be afraid to abduct him a little bit. Maybe trap a couple people in a digital hellscape for a little while? Now we go by Pegasus house rules here, so fire as many lasers as you want, but just make sure not to hit anyone in the face. Oh man, we are going to be swimming in cash. Love it, Muto Sr, love it.”

But I dunno, I feel like Grandpa won’t make it past next episode. It is Joey. We kinda need him to make it past Ep 4 of the arc. If Grandpa Muto becomes the new Joey Wheeler, that will be a weird transition for this show to make.

But that’s all for today, as always, here is the link to read these in chrono order becuase there’s SO MANY that you don’t need to read backwards--don’t do it--just use the chrono tag (and I don’t know if you can add compound tags, but I did separate the Season from the Episode, so if you write S4, it should only pop up stuff from S4. I didn't’ do that to seasons 1-3 though because I just...didn’t.)

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

And because I brought it up: here it is, the best BTS Mashup that I found on my deep dive. Like legit--this one isn’t a mess:

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Most of other ones are horrible in a fascinating way. Like I’m not even a BTS fan, I think I sort of age out of that metric, I’m just bored and quarantined. And lets be real, we all appreciate a good bop when we hear it.

#yugioh #ygo #yu gi oh #photo recap #recap #episode recap #yugi muto #seto kaiba #mokuba kaiba #Joey Wheeler #Apdnarg #Grandpa muto #tea gardner #tristan taylor #professor hawkins #and then I ranted about BTS #but please don't quiz me about BTS I know nothing about them aside from the music #I actually thought there were over 12 of them because every time I see them perform it feels like an entire stageplay production of people #like a 101 dalmations situation where every time I saw BTS there were 3 new people #I assumed it was like the Gorrilaz where people just show up and then disappear in a rotation #but no. There's 7 BTS members #that can't be right #there has to be more than 7 #is this a berenstein bears situation?#how is there only 7?#I swear there used to be like 16 #and they would be introduced like here's jimin and Jungkook and red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and pea #like is google seriously telling me there's only 7 kids in this band?#this is the biggest scam google has ever played on me #this weird alternate timeline that not only has an epidemic but also only 7 members of BTS

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Okay, I haven't seen the figure skating finale yet but I checked the results and it says Kamila Valieva didn't win any medal. They say she fell or something, I don't know.

I just think it's not because she wasn't able to do her best but because of the immense pressure that's on her right now. People saying she shouldn't skate and the russian federation wanting her to despite all the stress it causes. It's a mess and therefor she's a mess mentally I guess. She is only 15 years old after all and all this hate online is just too much for her. They shouldn't have let her skate if she wasn't in the right mind to do it.

I recall Simone Biles leaving the competition in the Olympics 2021 because she wasn't mentally okay. The public should respect that and Kamila is probably going through a lot right now without having someone by her side to protect her prperly. These russian girls spend their lives in traning camps far apart from their families and are mostly not allowed to have much contact to their parents because it would be a distraction. So I think during this hard time, she can't confide in anyone. Her parents are probably not much in the picture right now because the russian team surpresses the opportunity to talk to them.

It's a lot of damage they do to Kamila's mind and it will definetly leave a scar. I hope she recovers when the Olympics are over and it's not such a heated topic any more because I'm just sorry for her not getting the real care she needs. Just people asking "Why didn't do your best" and stuff. It really messes with your head, so I hope she will be okay

#figure skating #olympia 2022

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Fic in a Box 2021 Exchange Letter

Dear creator,

Thank you for taking your time to check my requests. I know my requests can sound a bit tricky, but please don’t be discouraged. I wish you will have good time writing first and foremost!

My AO3 is Tren, if you wish to check it out.

Likes: comedy, casefics, canon compliants, AUs, time loops, bodyswaps, roleswaps, “being hoisted by your own petard” plotlines, snark, pettiness, rivals, enemies to friends to lovers, violence, friendships, and character bonding,

DNW: explicit sex (makeouts and fade to black is okay), A/B/O, mpreg, rape depicted as positive (so no “it’s okay, because the other person enjoyed it/it was what they truly wanted”), trans headcanons, soulmate AUs, stories ending with surrender to fate/destiny, fourth wall breaking in canons where that doesn’t occur, character has cancer or other real-life terminal disease AU, word “queerplatonic”.

Also, I included what ships I’m okay with in each fandom. Please do not include any ships that aren’t canon and I have not allowed in those sections (if you feel really strongly about a ship I haven’t mentioned, you can always ask through mods just in case).

On a separate, but similar note, I’m okay with OCs as long as they don’t overshadow the characters I requested.

Additionally, while I almost never request fanart as possible medium, because I prefer my main gift to be fic, I would be very okay with receiving fanart treats. Also, feel free to peruse my old letters if you get your hands on them. I never stop being interested in fandoms, and if I requested something once I will still want it in the future.

REQUESTS

Medium opt-ins (they are the same for all the fandoms):

Length Opt-In: Drabble Length Opt-In: Drabble Series Medium Opt In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents Medium Opt In: Art - Drawn - Comics Medium Opt In: Art - Drawn - Fanart Medium Opt In: Art - Excerpts from a Character's Sketchbook Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Bureaucratic Paperwork Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Field Report Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Mission Report Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scientific Documents Medium Opt In: Writing - Unreliable Narrator Medium Opt In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative

MARIMASHITA! IRUMA-KUN

I read new manga chapters as they get translated so feel free to incorporate anything from the manga that’s available in English.

Kirio Amy/Suzuki Iruma

There are many good ships with Iruma, but this one just has a lot things I like. I love enemy ships with both sides being way too emotionally invested into each other so this was inevitable. I love how this relationship starts as this really wholesome friendship and school festival preparation, except Kirio turns out to be a bit messed up and wants to blow up everyone. But then they both accept the outcome and go on with their lives still thinking about each other. Iruma goes through a lot of trouble to keep the club operating even though Kirio has been pretty much expelled. And then Kirio is now obsessed with Iruma as his anthitesis and perfect enemy.

I’m okay with the potential story happening at any point in the canon. I would love both a story set before the festival while Kirio is still hiding his true colors or a story set after it. Maybe Iruma runs into Kirio somewhere after he escapes prison and instead of calling an adult, he tries to stop Kirio from causing trouble on his own. As for pre-festival story. Maybe some upperclassmen steal important parts from the club and Iruma and Kirio set out to get them back.

Naberius Callego & Suzuki Iruma

I love Callego for being a much better take on Snape than original Snape ever was. The second the series made Callego Iruma’s familiar I knew this was about to get good. And it was. I love how Callego slowly warms up to Iruma, even if he is still allergic to his and Sullivan’s antics. I love that Callego is actually a competent teacher who cares about his students, but at the same time he would rather eat a whole lemon than admit it out loud.

For prompts, maybe Sullivan ends up having an important business and Opera isn’t available so he dumps looking after Iruma on Callego for a few days. Or Iruma is struggling with studying since so many things are new for him, so Callego ends up forced to help him catch up with the material (if you are following manga inclusion of Balam is always welcome). Or maybe Iruma gets into usual trouble ends up stranded somewhere and the only one he can call for help is his familiar.

Crocell Kerori | Kuromu/Gyari

One of the last thing I expected to get this year was a canonical yuri romance in this manga, but here it is and it’s perfect. I love how it is pretty much built on mutual pining. I love how Kuromu loves Gyari, but refuses to reciprocate her feelings, because she knows that she needs to remain unattainable to keep their relationship alive, and I love how Gyari is never ever going to give up.

I would love to see more of the time when they worked together. We know it was love at the first sight for Gyari, but I would love to see how Kuromu’s feelings grew. Those hours they spent together practicing, maybe a not-date where they sneak together to scout a venue where they will be having their first big concert, or maybe a small contest that would sow the seeds for their future rivalry. I would love any and all of it. Also, Gyari doesn’t seem to be aware of Kuromu’s civilian identity, so I would love a story where Gyari meets Crocell Kerori rather than Kuromu. Does she recognize her? Or does Kerori manage to successfully trick her? Maybe Gyari makes a full investigation after hearing rumors that Kuromu is attending Babylys. I would also love any sort of future fic for those two.

AUs and ships

I love the worldbuilding around the demon world, so I would ask that if you decided to write an AU that it still incorporates demons. I would definitely love an AU where rather than getting summoned to demon world, Iruma accidentally summons either Kirio or Callego into the human world. Maybe Iruma’s parents try to use him as an offering, but instead he ends up bound to a demon. I would love to see Kirio excited to unleash suffering (even if his weak powers severely limit him in that regard) onto human world just to discover that he made contract with the biggest pacifist possible. Or Callego being torn between wanting to return home as soon as possible (he has classes to teach!) and wanting to somehow help the weird human child that just keeps getting into trouble. Any other demon-focused AU is also welcome. For Gyari and Kurmou, maybe one of them is a human who ends up summoning the other as a demon. How different would their relationship be then? I’m also fine with any sort of AU divergences scenario. Maybe Iruma keeps accidentally sabbotaging Kirio’s terrorist plans without realizing it. Or Iruma ends up summoning Callego more often as his familiar when he gets into trouble. What if Gyari also attended Babylys.

As for ships, I’d rather avoid any love triangle scenarios for this canon, so please focus on just one pairing per character (competing for Iruma’s attention is normal for this canon, I’d just rather not see outright romantic competition). It’s self-explainatory for Kirio request, but if you want to include some shipping elements into the other requests I also ship Iruma/Amelie and Callego/Balam.

VIVY: FLUORITE EYE’S SONG

Solo: Vivy

WB: Any

I would love a look into some alternate timelines or missing scenes. Feel free to go as tragic as you like for alternate timelines, or make a happy end, or anything in between. I just think the core concept of the show has a lot of potential in that regard. For a more specific prompts I would love an AU where Diva doesn't disappear, but maybe she and Vivy end up spliting in some way (I'm sure Matsumoto could find a spare body or something). Or maybe a story where one of the Sisters ends up dragged into Singularity project (I really loved what they did with Elizabeth in the show).

For more worldbuilding prompts I would love a more in-depth look of how Matsumoto as more advanced AI differs from the past eye and how that gap is slowly being closed with each case he and Vivy resolves. Or outsider POV on how Vivy’s and Matsumoto’s actions shape the world. Them turning off the plant producing new androids and the subsequent suicide would definitely get coverage. I would love to know how the whole thing was officially explained. Are there conspiracy theories on the Internet? Sisters are involved in every major incident, would people suspect something?

AUs and ships

I would prefer no setting changes for this story. Any other AUs are fine. As mentioned I would love any look for alternate timeline. I would also love an AU where Diva doesn’t recover her memories and keeps helping Matsumoto while trying to regain them.

Any canon pairings are fine.

SOUSOU NO FRIEREN

I read new manga chapters as they get translated so feel free to incorporate anything from the manga that’s available in English.

Frieren

Frieren/Himmel

I love how this manga is a slow-paced fantasy dealing with loss and inevitable passage of time. And I love Frieren for being one of the best depictions of an elf whose long life actually affects their outlook on life and actions.

I would equally love the insight into Frieren’s present with her charges and the past with hero party. What other shenanigans they get into on their journey? What kind of weird magic Frieren pursued? I would love to see more of her mentoring Fern and Stark. I also love to see her interactions with the hero party. Maybe some more insight into how they fought with demons, since Frieren seemed to have picked up a number of enemies during that time. For some more specific prompts: maybe Frieren accidentally stumbles ona cursed item that erases her memories (or just her memories of Himmel). How would it affect her? What would the party do to help her? Or maybe a demon kidnaps someone from Frieren’s party?

Feel free to include any other characters, they are a colorful bunch.

AUs and ships

I’m fine with AUs as long as Frieren’s long lifespan is preserved. Her perspective is very much shaped by how long she has lived, so I wouldn’t want that aspect to change. One exception would be, a roleswap where Himmel is an elf, while Frieren is a human, and exploration of how both of them would be affected by having a different lifespan. An AU with mythological creatures or similar could be interesting.

I would very much love Himmel/Frieren, though I also enjoy how the manga softly builds on their connection. I also enjoy the budding romance between Fern and Stark.

ONMYOJI

I like all the characters so feel free to include any of them in the story. Bonus points for Ennmusubi doing some subtle matchmaking.

Hakuro/Kusa

I love both of them and how much Kusa looks up to Hakuro. I would love to see them have some adventures together. Maybe they help some other youkai? Or one of the onmyoji? I would also love a deeper insight into how Kusa became stronger after getting inspired by Hakuro. How did she try to improve herself? There definitely was some trial and error and I would love to see that.

Shiranui/Kinnara

That pairing came out of the left field for me, but I absolutely love the interactions the two of them had so far. I would love to see them meeting more, their feelings growing each time they see each other. I also feel like a story where they keep meeting each other in a dream would really fit them, as they would long to finally meet each other in reality.

AUs and ships

I’m fine with any AU. A modern AU with archer Hakuro and gardener Kusa would be cute. Or a dancer Shiranui and a musican Kinnara. Alternatively an AU where one of the two is onmyoji could be very interesting.

I’m fine with Hakuro’s admiration for Hiromasa being present as long as it doesn’t overshadow her relationship with Kusa.

DRESDEN FILES

Harry Dresden/Lara Raith

I was sceptical of this pairing all the way through Peace Talks, but then Harry and Lara had this intense falling out, Murphy had died, and suddenly this is a supernatural arranged political marriage and I love everything about this situation. I mean everything. Harry still being in mourning and absolutely not wanting to be forced into this arrangement, Lara still being distrustful of Harry, suspecting that Dresden is using their brother as a bargaining chip, Mab expecting both of them to present themselve as a couple for political reasons. It’s just terrible time for both of them, but so much fun for me.

I would love to see them forced to attend various supernatural events to present themselves per Mab’s wishes. How badly would Dresden handle it? Also it was confirmed that he was marked with true love which means he and Lara probably can’t even touch directly. How well do they hide that fact from everyone? How much guilt would Harry have once he realized that the mark has weakened or disappeared now that he started to develop feelings for Lara? How much chaos will ensue when the wedding does happen?

AUs and ships

I don’t want any setting AU for this fandom, because the existing setup is just too perfect. I’m fine with a divergence AU as long as Lara and Harry are still forced into arranged marriage.

I would want for Harry’s past relationships be acknowledged mostly because him being in mourning is part of what I find appealing about his situation. I don’t expect any scenes actually showing him with his past lovers, but I would be very okay with them appearing.

TALES OF CRESTORIA

Feel free to include other Tales characters. My faves are the cast of Xillia, Symphonia and Graces, but I’m also fine with including other characters (I would appreciate proper introductions in that case, I still haven’t played some of the games, so I might not recognize everyone just by their name).

Solo: Lloyd Irving

I would love more insight into small, but murdeous Lloyd. Seriously I loved the idea of Lloyd originally being manipulated into killing Colette and would love to see Lloyd remembering his lost memories at some point (bonus points for also exploring the idea of Colette as an artificial construct). Also I'm always a sucker for Kratos and Lloyd awkwardly trying to rebuild their familial bonds. What if Lloyd went with Kratos after all? What would happen if they ran into each other again.

Stahn Aileron & Leon Magnus

I would love more of Leon's utter suffering as he searches for a way to turn his best friend back into human, so people stop thinking he's crazy whenever he tells his sword to shut up. I would love to see him reunite with Crestoria’s main cast and getting annoyed at how chaotic they are. Or running into Sorey again. Honestly, I would love seeing him interact with pretty much anyone, and grumpily helping them kill monsters/do charity/etc. Or exploring Stahn’s and Leon’s past. I would love to see their childhood and how they grew to be such a good friends.

I haven’t played Destiny, so please give me context if you want to include any elements that aren’t in Crestoria.

Velvet Crowe/Milla Maxwell

I thrive on the twisted codependency those two have in Crestoria. I will take both good, tragic and/or ambiguous ends for this relationship. Whether Velvet decides to forgive Milla or kill her it will be great. Give me all those twisted emotions, the hesitation, and pain both of them are carrying.

For straightforward approach, maybe the two of them stop in a town while chasing the last Incarnation and Milla decides to throw a party (because it’s some sort of festival, or maybe she found out it’s Velvet’s or Laphicet’s birthday and wants to make some amends however small). Or maybe one of them gets hurt during the fight with an Incarnation and the other ends up nursing them to health.

For some more levity, maybe Velvet and Milla ran out of money and pick up some side-job to have enough money for an inn. Maybe they work as waitresses and are both great and terrible at it at the same time. Or they have to take care of kids. Any other amusing job is also good.

AUs and ships

I’m fine with any AUs, though for Stahn&Leon request I still want Stahn to be the sword. I’m okay with Stahn turning human (or from human to sword) in the course of the story or being human when showing his past with Leon.

I don’t want Velvet or Milla paired with anyone else or Asbel/Cheria. Other than that there’s too much ships. Please inquire through the mods about specific ones.

FATE/GRAND ORDER

WB: Any

Please only include NA content, I want to avoid JP spoilers

I would love to explore any part of the setting really. I especially love the various interesting connections Servant have with each other that might not be obvious at first glance (like the fact that Iskander is also a pharaoh). I’m just fascinated by all the intricate historical connections. I would also love to see how some Servants would react if they were taken to Singularity/Lostbelt/Event they weren’t a part of.

Alternatively I would love to see exploration on how different the protagonists upbringing is from other mages especially given how bad they are at magic. We get some of it with Crypters (I loved how frustrated Kadoc was at the fact that the protagonist is even worse at magic than him), but I would love to see more of it. Maybe some Servants try to teach protagonist magic or prepare them for interactions with Clock Tower mages.

I'm fine with both male and female protagonist. Feel free to do anything from a serious character exploration to zany antics. I love both moods FGO jumps between, you can't go wrong with that. Historical context always welcome. I'm fine for any usual suspects when it comes to plot ideas: be it training simulator shenanigans, "oh no we lost comms and are stuck in Singularity", Moriarty scheming, to someone wanting to make Master happy in their own special, dysfunstional and/or possibly destructive ways

Some of the characters I enjoy: Gilgamesh (any), Mordred, Karna, Medea, Saint Martha, Ereshikigal, Danzo, Jeanne D'Arc Alter, Mysterious Heroine XX, Sitonai, Moriarty, Goredolf, any character from pairings section solo. Though honestly I love pretty much everyone in Chaldea except Columbus.

AUs and ships

Obviously, no setting changes AUs, but feel free to Canon Divergence

Pairings: Amakusa/Semiramis, Izou/Ryouma, Kintoki/Fuuma, Romani/Merlin, Romani/protagonist. Also feel free to assume protagonist/everyone (except the "child" Servants). Feel free to ask about other pairings through mods, I’m definitely missing some

#exchange letters

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aurorawest · 3 years

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(whichever WIP you want)

💛: what is the title based on?

A T.S. Eliot poem! “East Coker,” Four Quartets, to be exact:

So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years— Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer By strength and submission, has already been discovered Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope To emulate—but there is no competition— There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

I altered the line a teensy bit from 'In the general mess of imprecision of feeling' to get The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling. Eagle-eyed readers (with good memories), might recognize that I also used the last four lines at the beginning of The Real Asgardians of the Galaxy.

💚: how long have you been working on it?

I created the doc on November 23, 2019, so...that long. I wrote 50k words over the course of about a year and a half, then, when this one ticked over to become my main WIP, which was June 6, 2021, I had to rewrite the vast majority of that. Loki and Stephen were just not at all in the place I had originally conceived them to be. There was so much more story that happened that I'd never counted on.

To put it in perspective, on November 23, 2019, I was about halfway through writing Sleight of Hand. I was probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 70k words with The Real Asgardians, so less than half done with that one. I had started writing Do No Harm, really my first big foray into Froststrange, at the beginning of November. I didn't know A Full and Factual Account of Asgard would even exist, let alone the fics that come after it. I think at that time, I was imagining going straight from The Real Asgardians to The General Mess, which...makes me laugh now.

Thanks for asking!

writer wip asks✨

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January 24, 2021: Speed Racer (Part 2)

Go, Speed Racer! Go, Speed Racer! Go, Speed Racer, GOOOOOOOOOO

OK, back to the movie!

OK, I think I’ve recovered, although I seem to have lost my memory of what happened last time. Not sure why, but I’m fine, no worries. OK, what was I watching? Right, Speed Racer! OK, so one driver just threw a beehive at another one...and...guhpivpnqovmkv

Right...NOW I remember. Ow. OK, after the race, Speed begins to believe that Racer X might actually be Rex, in a surprising bit of prescience. Pops and the other Racers also find out that Speed’s in this race, despite their wishes. This leads to a blowout between Pops and Speed, bringing up memories of Rex leaving those years ago.

Speed refuses to leave, essentially forcing them to stay as well. They aren’t the only visitors that night, as...ninjas come in to take the racers out. I am amazed that I’m typing this sentence.

Racer X and Speed manage to escape being incapacitated, because their ninjas SUCK at their jobs. What proceeds is a very cartoony sequence of the Racers taking out the ninjas. More like a...non-jaOH GOD THE MOVIE’S INFECTING MY MIND.

Taejo’s NINJA is much more competent, however, and he’s unable to race. Which means they’ll need another racer to take his place. Trixie surprisingly steps up, and it’s the Speed Team vs. Snake Oiler (Christian Oliver). Oh, did I not mention the snake-themed racer that literally throws snakes at people from his snake car and has Elvis hair? DID I FORGET TO FUCKIN’ MENTION HIM

The team stops in the mountains to take care of Crusher, who’d tried to take out Taejo’s sister, but it wasn’t her, it was Taejo, and...it’s complicated, OK? They stop in the mountains, and get ambushed by Crusher’s men. As it appears that the tables are turned, Spritle and Chim Chim do what they do, and pop out of the trunk of the Mach 5. And now, we get:

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That...that is actually an interestingly stylized fight sequence. Neat. OK, back to racing, and we’re going through the caves where Rex allegedly died. Snake Oiler’s ahead, and Speed Team has to beat him. This isn’t helped by Snake Oiler creating an oil slick - yes, really - which leads to Speed spinning out and...driving up a cliff?

Jesus, this movie is crazy. Snake tries to shoot Speed with a GODDAMN GUN, and loses the race. The team wins, leading to Royalton spending a bit more money than wanted. Which was Taejo’s plan all along. He withholds the promised information from Speed and Inspector Detector, making the entire last act completely pointless. Cool. Great to see.

Speed drives off angrily, making his way to the track. There, Racer X finds him, and the two have a face-to-face, and Racer X is revealed...to not be Rex. Which is legitimately a surprise. The two have a heart-to-heart, but Speed decides to go on his brother’s path, leaving the house during the night.

Before he leaves, Pops takes a different path than he did with Rex, and actually sits and talk to Speed instead of yelling at him. Their conversation is...actually really good? Like, not to break out of the recap here, but Goodman’s actually fantastic here, seriously. And Hirsch ain’t doing bad, either. But I’ll talk about acting later.

As Speed tells Pops that the Grand Prix is a rigged race, they’re interrupted by Taejo’s sister, Horuko (Nan Yu)! She apologizes for being a part of duping them, and repays them with a rightfully earned invitation to the Grand Prix. Now, they just need a new car for the race, which they somehow build in 32 hours. Sure.

...Yeah, that’s sick. That’s pretty awesome.

Speed makes his way to the Grand Prix, where he’s admitted despite Royalton’s protest. Royalton offers a $1,000,000 reward to the driver who takes out (read: kills) Speed, and we get a glimpse at our stylized racers.

The competition

I now prepare for the upcoming grand mail seizure that my brain is about to experience. As I go through this, you may join me by watching the provided video. But all joking aside, SEIZURE WARNING BEFORE YOU WATCH THIS. It’s, uh...it’s intense.

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Holy shit, I couldn’t IMAGINE watching this in theaters. But here’s the thing, now that I’m used to this film’s stylistic flair...that scene RULES.

Speed makes his way through the race, then gets into a collision with Cannonball Taylor, Royalton’s star rider. Desperate to beat him, Cannonball cheats by using a device called a spear hook. This results in the car failing...and then Speed...I dunno, becomes one with the car. And what results...just watch the video. It’s actually kind of amazing.

And yeah, of course, Speed Racer wins the Grand Prix. Royalton loses it, everybody celebrates...and I think I like this movie. WHAT? HOW? HOW DO I LIKE THIS MOVIE NOW WHAT THE FUCK.

I’ll explain in the Epilogue. Because, yeah. I can dig it. Well, anyway, during the celebration, it turns out that yes, Racer X is actually Rex, having fakes his own death and having plastic surgery to disguise himself. Almost had me there, movie.

Speed Racer celebrates by drinking a bottle of milk, which is...apparently a real tradition at the end of the Indy 500. Huh. Speed and Trixie kiss (intercut by a tone-shattering cootie joke), we get a lightning fast epilogue through headlines, ending credits with Chim Chim playing in a car, and...that’s Speed Racer.

I think I need to lay down. See you in the Epilogue.

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