#even Max does this from time to time

[imheretoreadafic]

To be fair, I don't think Iris was trying to be cruel to him - but Jesus christ, that was stupid of her. "He needs to get used to as soon as possible." Yeah, and school ain't the place for that!! If he really DID lose his speed permanently, he'd need a safe space AT HOME to adjust to that!! He's had to adjust already SO much when it comes to going to a public school in the middle of fucking nowhere and 2000 years before he's born!! Don't make him adjust to losing something that has been the most constant thing in his shitty and unpredictable life, in school! Don't make him adjust to losing something that defines him as a person, in school! And especially don't make him adjust to that all when the person he's been going to for advice and comfort for months now showed up half dead after being missing for three days!

It hits really close to home for me because I developed a disability in middle school. All of sudden, i could do karate or ride bikes around town with my friends or be who I was up until then! I had to find purpose in other things, and i had to grieve that lost! While i adjusted to my new life, i struggled in school heavily and needed to take mental health breaks because it felt like everyone was talking to and expecting a person who didn't exist anymore! And you can't just explain that they don't exist because no one around you understands what its like to lose yourself!

Bart was grieving a part of him being lost, and he was scared he'd have to grieve even more because his caregiver could have died! He needed time and reassurance and safety, and comfort! Instead, he was given the harsh expectations of high school and the cruelty that is high schoolers - especially high schoolers who don't understand people who are different!

It's late, I'm overtired, and I'm thinkin' about Bart and Max, so here's a rant.

Max isn't Bart's dad, and Bart isn't Max's son. I don't even think uncle and nephew is a good fit for them. HOWEVER, Bart is Max's boy forever and always. What's the difference? Idk, but it's there, and it's full of love in an unconventional way.

Max doesn't think he understands Bart, and maybe he doesn't fully - but he knows him a hell of a lot better than everyone else!! When he's in the hospital, and they send Bart to school?! If Max was conscious he would know that's a stupid fucking idea because Bart finds school upsetting on a good day and on a day where everything that has been constant in his life is fucked up? Yeah, we all saw how that went, and Max wouldn't bother forcing him to go to school because he would have the foresight of how shitty it's gonna go!!

Max acts annoyed with Bart but he'll always listen to his ranting and rambling about random shit and petty drama and give hima advice.

Max keeps secrets from Bart, but he doesn't lie about his opinions, and in that way, he is consistent - something Bart needs in order to function.

Max gives Bart routine and structure that he hates but ultimately needs because he'll just end up eating junk food and playing video games for days if left to his own devices.

Max doesn't express love very well but he makes sure Bart is fed well and gets sleep and helps him with his homework.

Max is often grumpy but he smiles and jokes with Bart.

Max thinks Bart is dramatic, but he also makes sure to reassure him when he gets spooked due to a misunderstanding (Ex., When Bart makes a face and Max tells him he'll get stuck that way, and Bart gets worried, so Max doesn't drag it on and tease him and instead immediately reassures him that he can't actually get stuck that way).

Max is often hands off with Bart, resulting in him getting in trouble quite a bit. But, he, even if Bart doesn't think he is, is always keeping an eye on him from a distance - ready to intervene if needed.

Bart often grumbles about Max being super strict and angry, but he's clearly comfortable with Max. Which, to be fair, isn't the most reliable thing to measure their relationship with because Bart is famously shit at knowing what's dangerous and what isn't. But I think the fact that he seems to actively seek him out (laying on his bed while he's picking out an outfit, running around him when he's sitting on the couch, following him outside, etc) shows that it isn't just a case of him not knowing what's dangerous and rather a preference of being near him when home. He also seems to gravitate towards him naturally whenever upset, going to him to talk or just huff and puff in front of him.

I really think their relationship is best shown in a page in the Dead Heat

That's not a father and son.

But that sure is a man and his boy. And there's love in that i don't know how to describe but is beautiful all the same.

[bromcommie]

but genuinely I will never stop thinking about the museum scene. like it's upsetting in all the obvious setup-to-the-plot-twist ways, but more than that: the quietness of Steve’s presence vs. the booming grandiosity of the exhibit itself. The question of whether he had been previously (my guess would be yes) and if so, what a morbid, ghost-like ritual to perform just in order to cling to your memory, to remind yourself that it was real. What a blunt, reductive manifestation of not only everything you’ve lost, but the fact that your life and memory have become so entrenched a part of the public domain to the point that you’re viewed as about as much of a person as any one dusty item in that exhibit; the fact that you can’t access any of your world outside of yourself unless it’s through about a dozen second-hand, funhouse mirror narratives not only entirely co-opted by war but also tailored to fit a certain purpose. This one very public fucking horrific way to keep torturing yourself is one of your only remaining tethers to what you remember of your life. I mean. jesus christ steve

[silverlizard012]

Had this AU kinda simmering on the sidelines for a while, but after the recent lore drop for the alt timeline (and for being in the franchise long enough to understand the characters a lil better), I finally decided to drop this thing.

Basic premise of this thing is that instead of fully blowing up far away in space, Max wound up blowing up close enough to Earth's orbit (since Stinky was actually forced to toss her phone while leaving). This made it so his bits came barreling back like a meteor but recondensed themselves to form a body again (in part thanks to the dark matter still in him). During the process however the two halves of his brain refused to reconnect hence why there's two extra Maxes now instead of one.

Alt still shows up though, the above process took just enough time for the ending scene to play out but not long enough for Sam & Alt to leave the pier (the time elevator still gets sent away though so Alt's pretty much stranded in this timeline).

Now all 4 of em are kinda just stuck living together. Sam doesn't have the guts to ditch any of them because part of him wants to move on with Alt, but on the otherhand SuperEgo and ID remind him too much of when they were a whole person...rabbit.

Bit of a sidenote sorta-kinda but, obviously all the Maxes hate each others' guts and try to get rid of one another by almost any means necessary. Problem with this is the fact SuperEgo and ID came from the same person afterall, so they can't really hurt each other or else they wind up hurting themselves. If one experiences damage done to their body then the other will experience phantom pain from it, be it sudden bruises coming out of nowhere or spontaneous cuts popping up.

[sainz100]

2024 Hungarian GP | x (edited)

[somedaytakethetime]

Me, dedicating my life to blogging about Kasper Schmeichel:

Kasper Schmeichel whenever there's no games:

[itsafternoonpast5]

thinking about their friendship so hard

[hanamiyama-basketball-club]

one of the most fun things about the elaborate therapy ritual that is the super sasadango machine vs toru yano ppv is that njpw are consistently playing the heels

(less true of yoh but even when he comes in it's to stop anton from doing a gongitsune. however yoh is apparently the most easily swayed by the power of love which is why he quickly becomes the true protagonist, to the point that the commentary, at least the wrestle universe commentary, explicitly refers to him as the protagonist multiple times)

[chasani]

tempted to rewrite miraculous because do i love marionette and adrien and the rest of the cast yes do i hate the plot holes and weird plot justification also yes

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Ngl youtube videos suddenly got me slowly turning into a Justin Russo hater.

[deepseawave]

obsessed w the tags on ur last reblog

Omgg, thank you haha, it was a quality post so I just had to appreciate it in full force 😂❤️

Can‘t believe someone would actually enjoy my yapping :,D

[sonknuxadow]

i hate being overly negative about a new sonic project because. while im not against criticizing them and will criticize them when i see fit. i still try to find the positives in everything sonic even the games that are widely labelled as irredeemable garbage. because i love sonic and i hate it when sonic is the punching bag of the internet and i do genuinely believe that every piece of sonic media has at least some good qualities but like. the knuckles series really isnt very good im sorry people are right about this one . and i say this as someone who likes the sonic movies and thought knuckles was awesome in sonic 2 . where did we go wrong as a society

[icewindandboringhorror]

Hrmm... put together a roommates quiz finally after years of thinking it would be an interesting idea lol.. Though obviously not meant to be taken super seriously, I just like thinking about this aspect of personality compatibility. Like yeah, maybe you could get along with someone just chatting with them, but living together is such a different thing. .. curiouse...

[topnotchquark]

Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

This article by Kate Wagner on her INEOS sponsored trip to the Austin GP at COTA last year was commissioned by Road and Track magazine and then taken down. Presumably because Kate has was pretty staunch in her opinions about what was essentially a paid trip.

It is exactly the kind of thing I have wanted to read about the felt experience of the money business of F1. It doesn't get into technicalities and does not produce any spreadsheets for reference. It's just, her experience of the presence of wealth in the sport.

She starts off by talking about how she has been covering cycling and NASCAR for a while now and both of those, in comparison, are scrappier sports with smaller sponsors and cheaper tickets.

What I also especially loved was how fascinated she was with the cars themselves, and how they seem like a true marvel of human engineering. She almost described the cars like these alien beasts that came into this dimension out of nowhere and were being constantly monitored and dueled with to furnish wins and glory (and shareholder value for sponsors).

I think I always had an understanding of the weird myth making surrounding F1 and the kind of media attention it attracts, but someone like Kate (who I have loved reading for a while now) putting it into perspective really made it click for me. This sport thrives off of the kind of cocoon it has built around it and understands exactly the certain exclusiveness it needs to maintain to keep the story alive.

Anyway, give it a read, especially because Road and Track is trying to bury it to not piss off sponsors.

[mikkouille]

wait actually connecting the dots was the guy telling us the fight would go well when we were half a party of first timers also the one who forgot to lb3 us like bro was a tank one of em. jffjjssn he forgor.

[makeitlookdecent]

srry homie for what im boutta do

for the au[other colors] i thought it would be cool to have klugs parents show up for a couple scenes, but for the timeline of the major events i needed them GONE and UNRESPONSIVE.

hes smart so i think, even at a young age, he gets that they're busy with work and all, and he's not alone per say- his friends and teachers and everyone in primp would definitely look out for him, but ive just been thinking. because like, i thought itd be cool if it was almost like strange also helped raise klug. as a (malicious) mentor of sorts. after they made truce (that they both keep breaking)

i imagine klugs parents are probably good people, but are horrible as parents. like they just keep doing their own thing and just let the village raise him.

but then that got me thinking, in this setting, do you think he would unknowingly (or maybe knowingly but trying not to think about it) resent them for not being there for him growing up?

[astrxealis]

making myself suffer looking thru ffxiv stuff on tumblr when i could be playing ffxiv rn but i eternally love and miss ffxiv