As a daniel fan, I think other fans get too bogged down with the idea he’s unlucky. If anything— he’s also lucky in the big ways (not to discredit the massive amount of work that contributed to this “luck”)

I mean, getting that “third driver” role offer in the first place (thanks Horner ig). What other driver is getting that from the top team….. and it being a success story! He got his seat back so quickly and technically, with the promotion track in front of him. Massive amount of luck needed there— if Nyck had panned out…Daniel’s only competition is Checo realistically for that seat. Even the biggest haters can admit RBR clearly wanted Ricciardo to do well enough to deserve a promotion. The 2nd seat really was/is his to lose you know….and that’s pretty lucky imo.

(omg i went and wrote a whole essay lmaoooo this is not directed at you i'm just musing out loud) this is an interesting take! i think i agree and disagree. i think daniel was very lucky (and i think sometimes he isn't as unlucky as people think sometimes he's just nawt doing good) but i also think he had to work harder than some of the others to make his own luck. or at least figure out what brand of luck he needed to cultivate fast. growing up in australia where it's so difficult to get into the f1 scene, having to do so much shmoozing from like, age seventeen to get people on his side because he had to give it up otherwise, not being paid by red bull that first year, having to deal with the snake pit that was the red bull junior academy and making it work for him... i think he had to learn very quickly the power of having the right people on your side and he's never been afraid to put the work in when it comes to that side of things... because in the beginning he didn't have a choice and by the time he did, he knew how to rig the system in his favor and just... kept at it. so idk if rbr taking him back is lucky necessarily... or if it's more a credit to daniel that he learned a very important lesson at seventeen (you need people in your corner) and never forgot it. even the second seat like... sure horner was on his side but it's also (maybe mostly) because daniel worked very hard to get him there. same with helmut, same with max, same with the renault guys and the vcarb guys now. it's not just lucky, daniel worked to have all of them buy into his whole deal and it's the fruits of his labor. like horner got him in that hotel room in mexico because daniel had already worked for years for his loyalty. helmut gave him that contract because daniel went to austria with his broken hand over the summer to charm the shit out of him. max was practically running a one man campaign to get daniel back to red bull because daniel saw an undersocialized seventeen year old prodigy on the spectrum ten years ago and said hey i'll hang out with you :) it's not just lucky. it's getting over the embarrassment that is lobbying to get people on your side, which he's done time and time again. honestly i know i talk shit about him sometimes but it's funny the way people seem so disdainful of him not giving up. like they really look down on him for not throwing his hands up and saying whatever! get liam in that seat! he deserves it more than me! as if he isn't programmed to keep going. as if this isn't his life's work... as if he hasn't been chipping away at this since he was like ten like... he is never going to give up because this is all he knows and i know we look down on people who keep trying now but that's what making it to the top takes and he's not gonna stop now because i don't think he even knows how

maybe we’re all just in plato’s cave actually and it’s impossible to know something about everything and be socially aware and care about everything all the time

did a screenshot redraw/study 👉👈

I'm surprised you haven't posted any Welcome home stuff recently! Honestly kinda makes me sad since I love your WH art and stuff

yea y'all are gonna have to be Patient w/ me bc

a) i have like. a week left to pack all of my stuff before i need to shove everything into a uhaul and leave, so its crunch time! leaving little to no energy/interest in anything else

b) to be honest my mental health is the worst its been in years - which is fine, its whatever, i can deal. it's not as bad as it could be and im handling it! like a champ, even! but also its leaving little to no energy/interest in anything else

c) had a minor crisis over my art and how i interact w/ WH, and i realized im not scribbling enough of what I want. ive mostly been trying to please people and do as asked and thats! not good! so i want to temper expectation & reassert that im Not a WH art blog - its just a hyperfixation / something i love rn. i draw what i enjoy & what i want in the moment.

Eternally grateful that Cressida Cowell didn’t involve a romantic subplot in the How To Train Your Dragon series.

songs from the new hozier album that make me think of icemav, an uncomprehensive list: First Time (verse 1, some of verse 3 + choruses); Francesca (in its entirety) ; I, Carrion (Icarian) ("but i can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down" + everything else); Damage Gets Done (in its entirety); First Light (also in its entirety)

....which is like. 30% of the album. hmm.

I get why people like the whole queer existence is resistance thing. I don't personally, because I think it puts a tonne of intracommunity pressure to exist in the 'right' way, I.e. the way that is 'radical' to the person currently scrutinising you. As a person with OCD that manifests in self scrutiny that I have to constantly concentrate on to avoid it becoming self hatred, I'm never going to be a fan of that. I kind of feel this way about any kind of assimilation conversation with regards to queerness really. I think it's an important conversation within irl communities who already care for each other- who shows up for others outside of their own interests and who doesn't, etc. But the internet makes things so impersonal and cold. It encourages people to make very serious snap judgements about others who they don't even know, and to encourage others to believe that about them. None of these people are in community together in any meaningful sense, or they wouldn't treat each other so ungenerously.

Anyway I had a bit of a realisation earlier- I think we have to tell ourselves our existence is inherently radical all the time because we're always getting the subtle message from our community and the wider activism community that having a good time or enjoying yourself is somehow bad, or insulting to people in dire straits. But instead of challenging that idea we say no it's OK because I'm doing activism simply by being here. I think it's fine to feel that way and in many ways existing as a marginalised person really is radical. I just want to make sure we aren't internalising the idea that we can't ever be happy or having a fun frivolous time without justifying it, and passing that idea along to others without meaning to.

idk I had a very interesting therap today but I just

like it's all very well to recognise that I gotta have a fucking open-ended breakdown and jump face first into the Sadness Bog sometimes instead of sitting on all my feelings

but like

I still have to go to work, you know? it's like. ok yeah have a breakdown which like until you jump into it you don't know if it's going to last an hour or a year. yeah go ahead that's all grand. you do have to get up in the morning and go to work though. you're not allowed to not do that. or to not pay the rent or not shower or not eat.

like all my friends and loved ones are constantly like 'you know you're allowed to be sad right' and it's like. AM I??? because I STILL HAVE TO PAY RENT.

i have literally no right to be upset that i cant see him this weekend im literally sick and his dad is literally immunocompromised but still the idea that i wont be able to see him for yet another 2 fucking weeks (im busy next weekend with family stuff) is driving me up the fucking wall

like theres a part of me that wishes he would drop everything and come visit me even if its risky because i know that the longer i dont see him the more my heart will wander and the more pressure there will be on whenever we do meet next

and like i guess i wish that i mattered more to him, but its irrational because see above

despite the current state of things, good things have in fact happened. if they’ve happened in the past, they can and they will happen again.

outlining the martian au and i forgot how much of this book is like. a straight up science textbook

Hilarious that The Guardian published this and then like a week later the film was on the verge of completely dropping out of Netflix's top ten and it's audience score on RT sunk to 59%.

Was thinking about your au and realized that whichever neighbour wakes up last is in for a very awkward reunion

Imagine waking up to your entire neighbourhood being in an apocalyptic scenario, and you’re the last to find out about it-

technically the last neighbor is Sally BUT Julie is the last "normal-sleeping" neighbor to wake and yeah! she sure has a hell of a time! i mean tbh it's kinda her And Barnaby? they wake up within a week of each other (the neighbors wake via Pacific Rim kaiju rules) so their breakdowns overlap <3

love biased tier lists by someone who hasnt even finished one route yet

Someone on a NaNoWriMo prep thread: if you’re trying to win NaNo for the first time my advice is to pick the simplest idea

Me: yep, that seems smart. I’ll do that

Also me: *walks away from my first brainstorming session needing to research the golden age of piracy, the composition of the UK in the mid 17th century, the British navy in the mid 17th century, and the overall concept of a time loop*

i love demons of the punjab Anyway, but honestly i love it for how it was a warning sign over Yaz and 13′s fate years before everything went down and how it now makes me feel like a clown for not clocking that sooner.