#writing a press release

[ovaryacted]

Real shit tho, I’m not gonna shut up about this movie anytime soon fr. I mean, the fact that Pedro is this rich man of color who is handsome, romantic and passionate, and like Dakota’s character says “a unicorn”…it means so much to me. Like I’ve been said I wanted to see Pedro in a romantic movie in a lead role, and this seems like such a perfect role even if he won’t get picked in the end cause sure, choose the brokie I don’t really care. I just really hope he’s in the movie for a longer period of time and I feel more confident that he might be after watching the trailer. But ugh, he’s written in a romantic narrative by a woman and I can’t wait to gobble it all up. I manifested this sooooo bad. He’s all I care about and I’m so serious. FAWK CHRIS EVANS AND HIS DEEP SIDE PART!

But I better see the fix-it fics for his character. Let that man happily be romantic by someone who wants him as much as he wants them! And I already know y’all are gonna have a field day with the sugar daddy fics, I can’t wait for that!

[lochallthedoors]

Reporter: Um, there's a song on the album called "The Death of You and Me." NG: Yes. Reporter: Are we to assume that's about you and Liam splitting up? - Press conference to announce NGHFB, 6 July 2011

[aure-entuluva-2407]

what's a reylo. i only know fannie pentarra

Hi, I'm Ben, Nice to Meet You (Chapter 17: The Moons of Ryloth)

(i am once again spreading my "go read my aunt's novel" propaganda. you should do it i'm linking it)

Hi, I'm Ben, Nice to Meet You (127999 words) by Ask Ben Solo Chapters: 28/28 Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Ben Solo/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Ben Solo, Original Characters Additional Tags: Planet Ryloth | Twi'lek (Star Wars), Twi'lek Species (Star Wars), Twi'lek Culture & Customs (Star Wars), POV Ben Solo Series: Part 1 of Ask Ben Solo Summary: Yeah, yeah, yeah—you heard correctly: Ben Solo has a girlfriend. Her name is Fannie Pentarra, and she’s one of Luke Skywalker’s Jedi. She and I have been close friends for a long time. But the dating part…well, that’s a new thing. Once we made it official, we met each other’s families—which was super simple with mine, and not-so-simple with hers. For one thing, Fannie’s family is made up of Rylothian Twi’leks, and I am very, very human. Did you know that Rylothians bow instead of shaking hands? Or that they consider snails a delicacy? For another thing, Fannie’s family is…oh, let’s say…complicated. Ruut Pentarra is the richest, most powerful, most feared man in the Tcha’buli region. He has five wives (soon to be six), dozens of concubines, and countless affairs (including one with his own daughter, Pennie). And that’s not even getting into all the children he’s fathered. So naturally, there were a lot of people I wound up meeting during that five-day trip to Ryloth: Fan’s unruly half-brothers, her catty full-sisters, an entire cast of servants and settlers and sex slaves… …What I didn’t count on, however, was being forced to meet myself. Bookmarker's Notes: hEY EVERYONE. GO READ MY AUNT'S NOVEL

[batsplat]

Hi! I saw you mention how Honda tried to kill Marc and Joan in your latest Marc post and I was wondering if you could elaborate on that? I am fairly new to MotoGP and I keep seeing and hearing fans and experts speak of Marc’s last years at Honda in this way, implying the bike was absolutely terrible, but I cannot seem to find any explanation as to how bad exactly and why everyone keeps using the specific “It tried to kill them!” expression… 😭 If you have the time and/or interest to only, of course! It does interest me considering Marc had been riding his Hondas for so long at that point and also with how well he is adapting to the Ducati now, it just seems incredible to me that he would have any such problems with a bike!

(x) haha yeah of course. I feel like this is one of those motogp stories that I know so well by now I could recite it in my sleep, so it's no real bother to quickly type it out

honda has traditionally been one of the Big Names in the sport, and got a... decent-ish haul of titles this century even before marc joined the premier class (2001-3; 2006; 2011) (could've been better hehe). the pedrosa/stoner partnership helped develop a very good bike in the form of the RC213V, introduced at the start of the 2012 season for the new regulations (aka the 1000cc era, which we're still in). when marc joined honda, this was on balance (if by a fairly slim margin) the best bike on the grid. over the next couple of years, honda would go from initially establishing a more sizeable bike advantage over yamaha to running into trouble in the 2015 season - and for a while it looked like those troubles would continue into 2016. that year brought on a massive change to the championship in the switch back to michelin tyres and how all bikes would be forced to run on 'spec electronics'... basically it represented a big shake-up in the competitive order, and it took a while to see how well each manufacturer had managed to respond. but 2016 turned out better than expected for honda while its long-time rival yamaha increasingly struggled - and was soon replaced by ducati as honda's primary challenger. the ducati project generally seemed more on the cutting edge of the bike development than honda was, especially given how much attention they seemed to be paying to improving the aerodynamics of the bike... but, well, marc won a bunch of titles during that time, so whatever. 2013-14 and 2016-19 champ, honda was on paper the dominant force in the sport, all was well

except... except there was already trouble looming on the horizon. 2019 was the first year in which marc was the only honda rider to win a race. it might have been a close to flawless season from him, but this was clearly a bike that was increasingly suited to one rider and one alone - a bloke who happened to have the kind of freakish natural abilities to ride around the glaring issues of an increasingly temperamental bike. (it should be noted that marc too was crashing far more than was advisable in order to find the bike's limits, as he does have a tendency of doing - he just managed to not do it in the races. see here on the question of marc and 'lucky' crashers.) though it wasn't just a question of marc being able to harness a naturally tricky package... the bike was specifically developed around him and his unique riding style, which meant that honda was inevitably increasingly reliant solely on marc marquez. honda didn't sign up dani in a test rider role upon his retirement at the end of 2018, letting ktm snatch him up instead... and they missed out on what could have been valuable feedback from jorge, who never adapted properly to the bike and was struggling with injury throughout that 2019 season. now, okay, this isn't ideal for a manufacturer, but also you can't complain too much when your number one rider is so good he's singlehandedly winning the team's and constructor's championships for you. honda and marc reaffirmed their mutual devotion with a staggering four year deal at the very start of 2020 for 2021-24, so it was essentially a half decade long commitment to each other... felt pretty insane, even at the time. both sides decided their fates were to be inextricably tied, and put pen on paper to confirm as much

and then marc got injured. within the span of a week in 2020, honda was essentially banished to competitive wilderness, perhaps not helped by their controversial decision to replace the outgoing three time premier class champion with marc's younger brother to complete their factory line-up. 2020 was basically a write-off as soon as it started - and not only did that mean honda wasn't winning in the short-term, but they were bereft of their lead rider who had been responsible for determining the development direction. the crisis was compounded by the impact of the pandemic, which hit all of the japanese manufacturers particularly hard - as well as exacerbating existing issues within the honda project, which at times approached development too conservatively and were not proactive enough in poaching rival engineers to provide new insight as needed. as a result, when marc returned in 2021, he was provided with a bike that was already in a pretty sorry state... but also one which, given how his arm was still causing him considerable problems, he could not ride to its fullest potential. marc still comfortably outperformed the other honda riders and was able to bag a pair of heroic wins at his specialist circuits of sachsenring and cota (tracks that honda was still well-suited to and also mitigated marc's right shoulder struggles as a result of the anti-clockwise layout), as well as an extra win at his strongest clockwise circuit of the calendar, misano (though he was helped by the two factory ducatis ahead of him binning it lol). right after that, he suffered a recurrence of his past problems with diplopia as a result of a training crash and was ruled out of the rest of the season... but you could still say there was a little bit of hope for better things to come

but things just kept going from bad to worse, to the point where you eventually lost track of the number of times you heard the descriptor 'worst weekend in honda's history'. initially, it looked like 2022 pre-season testing might be quite promising, and the honda did have a grand total of one decent-ish race (where marc wasn't actually the highest honda finisher, very very rare in the post-dani days). so there was initially some optimism around the radically redesigned bike, with a completely reworked chassis and new aero and new swingarms and so on. the bike was supposed to be more powerful as well as more rideable, but this ended up being far from the reality. at the very next race in indonesia, marc suffered a vicious highside that brought with it a worrying return of the diplopia, so soon after the last occurrence, and meant he was again sidelined. the other honda riders weren't doing much better, either scrapping for lower points positions or crashing themselves. after struggling on for a while, marc made the decision to get another surgery for his arm, postponing his season indefinitely. once again, honda was directionless, and it was hard to see any clear improvements or even where any improvements were supposed to come from

the situation was so obviously catastrophic that marc actually returned to the paddock before being fit to ride again to essentially inspect honda's progress and to have meetings with key honda personnel. in austria, he held a special press conference to discuss his visit - and then said press conference had to be cut short by a storm threatening to rip honda hospitality apart. which feels a little on the nose, but anyways. marc made his return after his successful surgery, and even he could only work so much magic with that bike... his strongest race was at phillip island, where he bagged his one podium of the year and was still in victory contention on the last lap. honda had also managed to secure two high profile rider signings for the following year - the two suzuki lads who had been left in the lurch by the manufacturer deciding very suddenly to leave the sport. 2020 world champ joan mir went to the repsol honda team, and alex rins, who was really too good and too highly rated for this gig under normal circumstances, ended up with the satellite lcr squad. the hope was that at least now they might have a better chance at having more than one competitive rider, who should also be able to provide development feedback and serve as a benchmark for marc post-arm injury

and then came 2023. honda's 2020 was horrible. its 2021 was embarrassing. its 2022 was disastrous. its 2023... well, that was just apocalyptic. this time there were no pre-season false dawns. honda's most dramatic problem wasn't that they had built a bike that was too slow (although it was also that), or that they were so obviously behind the development curve in several different areas (which they very much were) - it's that they'd built a bike that was so unreliable and prone to errors that by this point it was horrendously easy to crash. a lot of this is about grip and the way the tyres interact with the surface: if you're not getting enough feedback from this interaction, then you will not be able to get enough feeling to know when you have to make a correction to prevent the bike from throwing you off... even if you are marc marquez. the rear wheel issues and the lack of edge grip are particularly nasty, because they make highsides a lot more likely - you know, the crashes that throw you in the air and are particularly likely to seriously injure riders. so you have a bike that is not only extremely likely to throw off its riders, but is also likely to do so in a particularly painful, dangerous way. plus it was exhausting to ride, and, it has to be stressed, really really was not fast enough

the season does actually start with a slight glimmer of hope, with marc's pole at portimao (courtesy of a bastianini-provided tow) and a sprint podium... and then he crashed out in portimao, taking the home hero with him and fracturing his hand. as a result, marc was again out with injury for a few races - including at his beloved cota, where rinsy ended up securing honda's first and only win since end of 2021 (admittedly pecco did help the cause by crashing out of the lead). this did lead to some debate about how maybe the bike wasn't all that bad after all... but, well. obviously it was

from then on, it's all just misery. after the first race, joan doesn't manage to finish a sunday race in the next nine grand prix weekends - but he also only makes the start in five of those, partly courtesy of a finger fracture he picks up at mugello. alex rins breaks his leg at mugello, an injury he is still limping as a result of, and only managed to start two more races that season. marc shows up to his best track on the whole calendar, sachsenring, the one it should be impossible to beat him at... and he crashes five times that weekend before eventually withdrawing from the race. he's out for two races with rib and finger fractures

this is the breaking point. if marc can't win at the sachsenring and is hurting himself this badly while even bothering to try, the situation just feels increasingly untenable. this wasn't good for either marc or honda - what they needed by this point wasn't a star rider impatiently and miserably watching his remaining competitive years tick by, they needed to rethink everything they were doing and essentially start from scratch. for a long time, an idea of a split between honda and marc felt unthinkable, partly because of marc's deep loyalty towards that team, and also partly due to the more practical matter of his contract running until the end of 2024. but, well, the unthinkable became ever more thinkable as the season progressed. by necessity, marc had to change his approach after the sachsenring debacle, dialling back his competitive instincts and riding the bike at a slower pace in the ignominy of the lower points positions in order to not continuously injure himself. at times, it felt like he was riding slow out of protest - a very pointed 'well either I crash or I'm uncompetitive' - as honda continued to falter. a post-race test in misano prompted a further moment of crisis... marc was so deeply unimpressed by the 2024 prototype he had tested that this inevitably will have helped push him out the door and to gresini ducati. it's hard to exaggerate how bonkers this was... one of the greatest riders in history breaking their contract with their factory - and not just any factory, with honda - to instead go ride year-old satellite machinery. the move was obviously a good idea and the right thing to do, but that didn't make it feel any less crazy that it had actually come so far. how the mighty had fallen etc etc

y'know, joan has a good line about honda this year that he's trotted out quite a few times, where he says nobody leaves honda in a better state than they join it. the bike this season is somehow even slower, though *taps on wood* at least its homicidal tendencies haven't caused any serious injuries thus far. it's been a pretty miserable decline... it's not just the bodies that are getting hurt - it's also demoralising for the riders, and it becomes very easy to lose confidence in your own ability, to be unable to trust your feel for the bike, to become scared of when it will next throw you off. it becomes increasingly hard to motivate yourself, to keep coming back for more... great riders can get a lot out of poor bikes... but there is a limit. even for marc, that honda was a bridge too far

and of course marc's adaptation to the ducati is impressive... but it is a very very good bike! not just in the sense that it's fast - it's also good in that riders with very different riding styles are able to get a lot from that package. what marc is attempting to do right now is to extract performance from a package that is fundamentally there to be extracted: in spite of the increasingly obvious disparity with the gp24's, he is still riding a bike that won the championship last year and as a result doesn't have to ride wildly beyond its limit to make it go fast. he's done an excellent job of adapting his riding style to the demands of the ducati after such a long time on the honda, but fundamentally what he's trying to do here is study all the other ducati riders, see how they go fast, and put his own spin on it. once he's completely finished with the adaptation process (and yes, I'm aware he says he already has), he'll continue doing stuff with that bike that nobody else could... but from a better baseline of performance. I mean, look at where the other gp23's are this year - it's not great, but it's not honda levels bad. both in terms of their pace and in terms of whether you feel like the bike has been infested by a malicious spirit

a useful way of framing it is that you can measure how good a bike is by several different metrics. let's keep it simple and say two of those metrics are whether the bike is fast and whether it is rideable... whether it is user-friendly, if you will. the honda bike of the late 2010's was both fast and not particularly rideable - and you can say something similar of the ducati in times past. so for instance in 2007, at the start of the 800cc era, ducati does a great job in building a very quick bike... but they still had to have the stroke of good fortune to sign the perfect guy to take advantage of that speed, casey stoner. again, undoubtedly that was a very fast bike, but it's also extremely capricious - and even pretty highly rated riders couldn't get anywhere close to pulling off the kinds of performances casey did. but then, over the next few years, ducati fucked it and the bike gradually became worse pace-wise compared to its competitors while still being a nightmare to ride. which is why you have even casey in 2010 struggling to get much out of the bike, cf how he ended up finishing fourth in the championship standings behind a guy who had broken his leg during the season. and then ducati spends several years completely out at sea until 2015-ish. even the most adaptable rider who is able to push bikes beyond the limits of what should be possible cannot completely overcome a dramatic pace deficit. at some point, it just becomes too big an ask - and the honda's decline has been even more dramatic than what post-casey ducati suffered. there's a limit, even for marc... who could be fast last year, who did still manage to do exciting things with that bike. but more often than not, when he pushed, he crashed. now at last, marc can go back to simply attempting the improbable, not the impossible

[antennatoheaven]

my thoughts on The Murderbot Show:

idk man

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[hyohaehyuk]

This article was interesting bc Jacob mentioned the pressure he felt being naked on screen, how exercise affected his mood positively and how he asked Sam if he knew how vampires moved before deciding he wanted to be “reptilian” about it.

Source: Men’s Health - Jacob Anderson Always Wants More Chaos

[konglindorm]

[thousandyearphantombunker]

[sixeyesonathiel]

girl i discovered ur works like barely two months ago and youve already put out so MANY BANGER fics like its actually insane u must be built different anyway KEEP EM COMING I LOVE UR STUFF TEEHEE <33

AWHWWH thank youuuu!!! i quit fandom writing way back 2022 so now i’m just unleashing years of pent-up brainrot all at once. sleep? don’t know her. studies? on life support. satoru? my muse forever. this blog is just a shrine for him honestly 🙁🩷

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

now how do I make my homework about pulleyverse

[silverchronicler]

Prime Report Update

BREAKING NEWS

The current Resurgence rotation is shorter than normal due to a forthcoming Prime Resurgence event.

In a PSA post on the warframe forums, DE said that the Oberon and Ivara Prime Resurgence rotation that just started is going to be 21 days instead of the normal 28, ending on Dec 12th. This is because on Dec 12 they're starting another year end prime resurgence event!

It says that they will also be available the first week of the event, and more details will come at a later time. For now we should be on the lookout for more announcements, and be aware of the change to the normal rotation.

Also, a reminder that Dec 12th is also the day of the Game Awards, where you can watch for 30 mins to get a free Nyx, including a free warframe slot. Even if you don't want Nyx the slot is extremely valuable!

I'll leave a link to the forum post in the replies and reblogs since I'm not sure the forums get past Tumblr's link filter.

[lesbiancarat]

[NOTICE] Plans for SEVENTEEN’s Activities in the Second Half of 2024

Hello. This is PLEDIS Entertainment. Thank you, CARATs, for your continued love for SEVENTEEN. We would like to provide you with some information on SEVENTEEN’s activities in the second half of 2024. SEVENTEEN has successfully completed their activities and a stadium tour with their best album this past spring, and they are now working towards their 12th mini album coming this October. SEVENTEEN will be meeting CARATs and performing their new songs off their 12th mini album on their new tour series titled SEVENTEEN [RIGHT HERE] WORLD TOUR, which will be held across Korea, the U.S., and Asia. They will also be going on a dome tour and releasing a single album in Japan. The members of SEVENTEEN are determined to connect with CARATs from different regions through their music and performances. Please send your love and support to SEVENTEEN, returning with a new release and a world tour after two years. We will provide further information on the album and the concert series through separate notices in the near future. Stay tuned for more content SEVENTEEN is working hard on to better connect with even more fans. Thank you.

[theoburrsvirginitybalcony]

I thought it was a lord of the flies adaptation why is there a lesbian jesus doing watersports

Well, first of all, Shauna is not normal, and her being in to piss has been a thing since the very first script. There's a cut line about her urinating on a girl's pillow because she dislikes her, and she seems to target Lottie's bladder when she attacks her in season 2. Second of all, YJ is as much of LoTF adaptation as it is an BrBa adaptation or an OitNB adaption; that is to say that it is very, very loose with the premise. Third,

[ratwavekayla]

The Rascal community-sourced announcements have details on the new Webstore I've just opened for Rat Wave Game House.

"At launch the store features six titles, three of which are currently exclusively available through the Rat Wave webstore. First there's To Embrace a Swamp Creature, a Belonging outside Belonging game about mentally ill swamp things, reminiscent of Night in the Woods as well as films like Shiva Baby and Appropriate Behaviour. Then there's An Illustrator's Guide to the Dreamtlands, a solo journaling and sketching game using the artwork of Wassily Kandinsky. The final exclusive is The Story of a Story, another solo game this time with the player assuming the role of a story told round the camp fire as they evolve. Beyond these initial exclusive readers can also buy copies of Transgender Deathmatch Legend, The Infinite Dancefloor and Follow Me in the Night direct from the source."

I reckon after fulfilment it's probs the main place Ritual Magic for Besties will be available. I'm also thinking of experimenting with running pre-orders for a future new release (Godslingers)

Anyway, feel free to give me money anytime you want

[notsocheezy]

Brain Curd #416

Brain Curds are barely-edited fiction, poetry, or just about anything else - drafted in a day or less. Wouldn’t it be crazy if a company announced something like this? Hahahaha

The press was abuzz with excitement, and chatter filled the room. This was a once-in-a-decade event: beloved video game company Zaidaikin was about to reveal their brand-new hardware. Rumors had been floating around that the launch would be legendary - new games in nearly all of their franchises were going to be announced for the first year alone and long-dormant series would be resurrected and perfected. It seemed this would be a fantastic time to be a fan.

The CEO, a double-breasted suit wrapped around a spreadsheet, walked onstage and approached the podium. He tapped on the microphone and the crowd went silent.

His voice was as dynamic as the plains of Illinois. “I am excited to present to you the next evolution of Zaidaikin. This…” He held up a device which was at first glance identical to their previous console. “… is Zaidaikin Mix 2.”

The journalists in the audience excitedly took photos as the CEO turned in place to provide everyone with a good look. So far, this was promising.

“Now, I would like to show you what new experiences you can expect on the Zaidaikin Mix 2 system.” He stood aside and a small projector screen came down from the ceiling. The lights dimmed, and the footage started.

To save time, here’s a list what was announced:

Game from eight years ago for seventy dollars. No DLC included, still costs twenty dollars.

Game from two years ago for eighty dollars. More or less the same as the other game.

Pack in title which acts as a de-facto user manual. Ten dollars.

Minecraft but you play as a gorilla. Seventy dollars.

Launch title is a flagship kart racer with open world mechanics and realistic rush-hour freeway traffic, including assholes who won’t stop honking. Players drive at the speed limit for hours to commute between racetracks. Eighty dollars.

Discord video chat for only twenty dollars a year. Dedicated button for this.

New controllers which cost ten fifteen dollars extra. Otherwise mostly unchanged.

Full half-hour battery life in the latest titles.

“We’re very confident in our new product,” says Zaidaikin of America president Doug Hitler. “Our inv- I mean, fans, will be treated to an amazing eight years of drip-fed retro games and full-price remasters of games we already remastered last time.”

Zaidaikin Mix 2 launches at five-hundred dollars, or only four-hundred fifty dollars if you don’t want to play the only launch title for it. The CEO has stated that they do not plan on changing the price, but may consider raising it if sales don’t meet expectations. Zaidaikin also promises to release an upgraded version of Zaidaikin Mix 2 in a couple years, right after you buy the old one.

Penned 2025.06.05

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[konglindorm]

Jenny Prater’s novel When the War Ends will be released on July 1, with preorders opening on June 1. Check back in on May 5 for the official cover reveal, and follow us for future updates!

A princess betrayed by a childhood love. A boy banished for a crime he may not have committed. A mysterious kidnapper grown fond of his victim. A woman determined to save the island from war, one refugee at a time. A heartbroken baron, and an inexperienced new queen. Join our cast as they face memory and regret, conspiracy and betrayal, in this sweeping romantic fantasy about the enduring power of love.

All Eloise wants is to forget every detail of the doomed childhood romance that destroyed her reputation and launched her kingdom into an endless war. But when she’s kidnapped shortly before her wedding, the man who took everything from her may be her only chance at survival, not just for herself, but for the entire kingdom.

She’ll trust him with her life; she has no choice. But does she dare to trust him with her heart again?