i’ve complained about bad vibes, but i’ve just seen everything that happened in the sprint and the reactions to it and i’m pissed. i’ve seen enough to form an opinion - and mick fans won’t like it, so if you are triggered by someone being critical of mick, please skip this post. i have not tagged it with his name for that reason and i will also put this under read more. this is a disappointed rant, so if you’d rather avoid bad vibes, please skip this.

mick is allowed to be disappointed but i think he’s too full of himself right now. like fine, be mad that you ended up behind kevin, but you had every chance to out-qualify him on friday and you didn’t, his tyres were as cold and useless as yours, but he still set a faster lap. kevin earned that position ahead of you fair and square. stop shaking your head while getting out of your car and causing a scene like a kid being told no.

first of all, i don’t understand how mick can say he’s faster than kevin with so much confidence when he was in drs range of kevin almost the entire time, while kevin wasn’t always in drs range of ocon (bc we know the alpine is seriously fast on the straights). babe, if you have drs and the person in front of you doesn’t then yes, you’ll be faster but all of that pace will vanish when you’re suddenly the one without drs. without kevin, you had absolutely no chance at defending against hamilton either, it works both ways. also, please consider that kevin was managing tyres and fuel. it was obvious that mick’s tyres were gone in the end and he could not keep up with kevin, maybe that was partly because of defending, but maybe it was also because mick went too hard too fast and fucked up his tyres. second of all, even if kevin was feeling generous and wanted to give mick that position (the position he earned in qualifying), when was he supposed to do so? perez was on both of the haas boys so fast and this was immediately followed by hamilton. kevin would have lost time and put himself at risk to give mick a shot. hell, both of them would have been at risk of being overtaken and then it would have only been 1 point to haas, given to the wrong driver considering the quali results. and no offence, mick, but it took you many laps to overtake latifi in a non-upgraded williams at silverstone, you would never have passed ocon in an alpine in a sprint race. 

sorry if i’m too hard on mick, but i’m genuinely disappointed in him right now - and also pretty pissed. like i said, it’s totally fair if he’s disappointed and wants to chat with the team. by all means, speak your mind and do that behind closed doors. look at the data and analyse if the risk of switching would have been worth it. but saying to every journalist that you were much quicker than kevin and you felt entitled to be let past in a sprint where kevin risked losing it all to do so is just not it. “i shouldn’t have been the one fighting with hamilton”. like jesus, talk about entitlement. instead of celebrating his two sprint points, kevin has been forced to defend himself in every interview. kev has literally been supporting mick through his disastrous first half of the season. having a supportive teammate willing to share everything is rare, and if mick keeps this up, i have followed kevin long enough to know that mick will absolutely lose that. if this is how mick wants to play it, there is no doubt in my mind that kev will stop being honest with him in haas meetings. and there is a big upgrade package coming soon, something mick has never experienced in f1, and something i don’t think he wants to figure out completely on his own. being supportive of your teammate should go both ways. and don’t say that mick was supporting kevin by holding back hamilton. support is given willingly and happily, support is not being in a bitter fight to keep your point.

kevin, and the haas team, has given mick so much credit for those two points and his defending was amazing, no doubt about that. i seriously cannot understand why mick doesn’t celebrate that he got to show off his defending skills instead of souring his relationship with his teammate - and possibly pissing off a team that he has no contract for next season with yet. like i’m sorry, but earning four points in a race, only two positions in front of your teammate (who didn’t pit during safety car because you were prioritised because you were ahead at that time - and who didn’t moan about it afterwards), where 6 cars dnf’ed shouldn’t make you feel that entitled.

sorry for the bad vibes, but the more i heard, saw and read about this mick-kevin situation, the angrier i became. and then to find out that kevin was not even told about hamilton gaining quickly on mick because he was not in the drs range anymore, but still seeing so many blame kevin. and then still being angry with k-mag after they were told that he straight up didn’t know until it was too late. like actually fuck off.

Must be a Sugondese joke.

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

i don't think people really understand what's happening in gaza. with each passing day that sees more and more palestinians dead, it's becoming easier and easier for those in the west to perceive them as nothing more than a statistic. they might engage w the occasional palestine post, sure, but it's just as easy to scroll right past that moments later w no real outrage for the genocide retained.

it's vital to stay reminded that palestinians who are with us today won't be with us tomorrow. it's happening every second of every minute of every hour, and it's relentless. somewhere in gaza a little girl is losing her mother, a little boy is watching his siblings bleed to death, elderly people are infirm with starvation and illness, palestinian women and girls are being sexually assaulted and kept in cages, fathers are leaving tents to find food for their families and not coming back. this is all happening right now, and it's a direct result of the west's complacency. it's a direct result of their not seeing arabs as people worth saving.

it might be hard to compute as a westerner, but this is real. don't let your privilege blind you to your humanity.

Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.

based ofc on this

going fucking bonkers going bananas going INSANE [x]

"Tell your favorite creators that you like their work, people usually enjoy things silently, but hate tends to be loud"

This is a phrase I just heard from Dnd shorts that captures perfectly why I often try to make the effort of commenting on posts and telling people that I enjoy their work and why Even to small creators, I advice everyone to make the extra effort to tell them, I can guarantee it makes all the difference in the world, it's not cringy or obnoxious, it'll just brighten someone's day

Book 2 au: sparring sessions and short hair katara

They like to have sparring sessions in order to keep their bending skills sharp. They allow themselves to go all out and not hold back at all cause they know if anyone got hurt, Katara could just heal them

But anyways, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Zuko accidentally burned Katara's hair tho? Aofkqldkkajfjd

The "I think we can save the hairloops" line is from @linnoya-writes thank you for that!! :>>

roll out the red carpet guys we're going to the SHAFTLANDS

People with siblings or know a pair of siblings I've got a question for you

the other day I had a conversation with a guy who said sibling friendships don't really count bc that's family and I'm just like, ??? yeah that's my family but I can also like my sister as a person and have a friendship with her. So I'm just curious to see what the general vibe here is.

btw the "it's complicated" option is for ppl who are either estranged siblings, parenting their siblings, or some other issue they've got going on not any weird freak shit(ifkyk)

Anyways choose your option and if want you can explain in the tags

my final from last semester that i made into a zine. cooked this one up in a couple hours before the critique (the ink was still wet!), so it's very raw and kind of sloppy but the sentiment is there. i love you trans people of color. we are the backbone of this community 🌟

Permission to headbutt: Granted (Patreon)

Because I have just seen this specific thing for the second time, I would like to say:

If I reblog your art, I do not expect you to reblog (or share!) my fic in return

If I comment on your fic, I do not expect you to comment on (or read!) mine in return

My enjoyment of anyone's work does not come with strings or expectations

My friendship is not a bill that you will have to pay later

That's it!