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“Even a Collingwood girl would have to stay for a game like that… to humour an Abbotsford man.”

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 2x06 Marked For Murder

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One thinks one has cut oneself off from the world, but it is enough to see an olive tree upright in the golden dust, or beaches glistening in the morning sun, to feel this separation melt away.

Albert Camus, in a diary entry written c. January 1936, from Notebooks 1935-1942

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some of the brightest minds of our generation post on tumblr during work hours

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"All I do know is as we age, the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusal to do that sorting rises higher and higher...Long ago, the defenses I built to withstand the stress of my childhood, to save what I had of myself, outlived their usefulness, and I've become an abuser of their once lifesaving powers. I relied on them wrongly to isolate myself, seal my alienation, cut me off from life, control others, and contain my emotions to a damaging degree. Now the bill collector is knocking, and his payment'll be in tears."

- Bruce Springsteen

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Me all the time because I’ve accepted my fate: it’s ok.

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zoom zoom

i have been describing this video one by one to every single person i've DMed with in the last month, so i thought maybe time to make a post about it

you know how sometimes you can't really get a sense of the scale of things until they're contrasted with something you already understand? i know the f1 cars go fast, zoom zoom, but i didn't actually understand the DRIVING of it all until i watched this video

more importantly ALEX ALBON

0:27 "it's not that fast". i don't know anything about cars, but the comments said he's in a GT3RS and google says that car costs $225k and the porsche website says it's the "perfect companion for the racetrack", so i'd say he is, in fact, driving a very fast car

BUT it does to my idiot brain register as a car (as opposed to the F1 cars that truly look like toys) and the whole track does vaguely register as a normal-ish kind of highway

so despite it being a fast car on a racetrack, this is a much more familiar-to-the-driving-I-do-as-a-regular-human scenario than anything else i've seen f1 adjacent

alex starts driving, vroom, the car makes pretty nice noises. the landscape is passing quickly, he's clearly going fast, but like. my brain can follow what's happening. it's too quick for the corners but if he were just going straight... that's like reasonably comparable to a normal driving experience

you can see the effort of the car going so fast. say like 0:47, the ties squeal. at 0.52 alex almost TAKES THEM INTO THE BARRIER.

you can kind of see the work of it, that the car is being pushed. the rattling.

liam literally sees his own mortality and never recovers. he spends the rest of the drive squawking about how they and everyone else on the track might die.

but then, you guys. 1:30. ALEX VERSUS THE OTHER CARS

this is where the video goes from like la la to INTERESTING.

before we saw that alex was going quick but now that there are other cars for comparison, we see that in fact alex is going FAST. so fast.

the cars all move aside and he cruises through

i too have been passed on the highway by an maniac going double the speed limit, so again this is familiar to me. i can imagine how it would feel to be in those other cars while alex blasts on by.

liam has fully started screaming

2:20, liam thinks it would be a BIG ONE if someone crashed. alex's face is like. it's so good. he has this extremely attractive neutral expression and just looks focused.

i realized last year that i actually move my tongue from side to side, following the path of my eyes, when i'm looking around a lot while i'm driving. it turns out professional formula one drive alex albon does not.

Alex looks like someone you'd like to have driving you around. from the shrieking of his passenger liam, in fact you realize you would not. they have a laugh about how alex has already almost killed them that one time. 2:52 and alex talks about how he scared himself . we become extremely aware of the STAKES OF IT ALL

3:32, more cars. i, a human, think there's no space and am expecting alex to follow the flow of traffic.

alex albon, a race car driver, in fact goes after it.

4:20, cackling, revving the engine, alex is leaving but a hair between them and the cars they're passing. it goes from like "intense but within the realm of normal" to NEXT LEVEL.

4:35 alex starts laughing so hard he has to cover his face. thank goodness, now that things are so dangerous we've all gone hysterical with it, that alex is driving one handed with his other hand BLOCKING HIS VIEW OF THE ROAD.

if you're wondering if he slows down at this point HE DOES NOT.

instead he goes after the motorcycle. he gets that motorcycle quickly.

at about five minutes onward, we get ALEX VS. THE PORSCHE

and

guys

wow

at first, it's like, okay, that car is fast maybe we'll just....... NO. we won't just anything. alex is going AFTER THEM.

we start to see more of the driving of it all. it's not as much on the straights, but around the corners? alex is fully on the car.

5:46, you can see the tail lights on as the other car starts breaking. alex, meanwhile, appears to speed up.

they think the guy is going to let them pass but he does not

and in a way i'm glad because then we get to see...

6:09, Alex sits on the bummer, just so incredibly close to the car, tailgating like no one has ever tailgated before, and fully bullies the car into submission

just like fully watching the video, looking at alex, the pleasant face of a nice-seeming man, looking at the road and seeing what he's doing to the other drivers. look back at alex, the road, alex. within his beautiful head lives a demon

alex is driving so fast now that the car is doing something different from earlier in the video. it's gotten smoother. the world is just flying by. you can still hear the tires squealing.

6:35 & 7:08. alex comes upon cars again. the cars know about him now. they throw themselves aside, making space for him to pass.

i hope one day the other drivers see this video and know they were so thoroughly bullied by a professional driver. i hope one day they know peace again.

liam narrates "can you imagine how deadly this would be with two cars?"

7:17, alex does a little shoulder check. the dismissive look on his face would have some of you yapping.

7:30 onward. it actually feels like we're in a plane. he's driving so quickly. it's no longer familiar to me. i realize the scale of speed for formula 1 is incomprehensible to my soft brain, how close they come to the other cars, the level of aggression in even a no-stake little hotlap.

8:30 somehow one of the cars doesn't realize that the SECOND they see alex they need to jump aside. alex goes after them. liam yells, "Oh, death, I CHOOSE DEATH." alex passes the car. in actual human time it's been less than five seconds.

8:45 the zoom zoom part is done. liam says "there was one serious moment when i thought, I actually think we might crash." he holds his hands out the window to try to dry off the sweat.

anyway i watch this video daily, hope you enjoyed joining me on rewatch number 49.

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Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"

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snoopy reads a timeless classic!!

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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight

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snoopy encourages you to buy a new book!

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“Use your gifts and your talents to greatest possible effect while you can. Spread joy wherever possible. Laugh at jokes. Tell jokes. Make puns and bugger the embuggerances. Read books. Read my books. You might like them. You might find something else you like even more than them. Look for these things in life.

Question authority. Champion good causes. Speak out against injustice. Do not tolerate bullies or bigots or racists or anti-intellectuals or the narrow-minded. Use your education to challenge them. Broaden their perspectives. Make the world you interface with a happier place.

These are your choices. Choices you have been fortunate to have been given, so don’t waste them while you have them. Don’t look back in years to come and wish you had grasped a fleeting opportunity. Grasp it now with both hands, Live. Strive. Love.”

from A Little Advice for Life taken from ‘Terry Pratchett: from birth to death, a writer.’

—Sir Terry Pratchett; April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015

One of the greatest compliments I've ever received is that I resemble Sam Vimes.

Mind how you go.

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fave thing about max is how he says everything like it's the most obvious thing in the world and you're lowkey kinda dumb for needing him to say it at all. of course i would have a hundred cats if i could. of course i'm the best and everyone's trying to lure me to their team. of course i would rather be at home right now. of course i hate sprint races and street circuits. of course i think daniel's the hottest person alive. duh. next question.

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The Rules: If you're tagged, make a new post and share one or two sentences* (or lines for artists) from your most recent unposted WIP with zero context.

I was tagged by @powerful-owl and @diablointercept, thank you!

*or paragraphs, in this case. Forgive me.

They're in the same press conference. It is a battle — a desperate, furious battle — for Daniel to stay focused on the camera and not on Max, who is sharp and frustrated and borderline rude. Max snaps at an inane interviewer later on. Daniel watches the footage five times in a row, video pinched wide, him zooming in until it's Max's mouth, as big as he can get it, and wants to put his dick in it. He tries to meditate the night before Free Practice, the night before Qualifying, the night before the race. He should be doing a full body check but instead he's just remembering Max's skin, the way he tasted, the places Daniel hadn't had a chance to map before it all ended. He wants to learn him like he learns the track, but the opportunity is gone. It is done. It is over. He mentally scrolls his way through their message thread, at the soft dick pictures, the times Max said Daniel's name out loud, the pictures in bed with Zoe asleep by Max's side. 

He should be horrified, but all he wants is more of it. He wants Max's attention, he wants it at the expense of Zoe, he wants it more than he wants literally anything on this fucking planet. He wants, he wants, he wants. 

He opens his eyes and he's alone. He's so, so fucking alone. It hurts. 

Heartbreak fucking sucks. 

And I'm sharing one or two paragraphs rather than sentences because

I haven't shared anything in ages

this fic is in the HOME STRAIGHT

I'm writing the LAST CHAPTER (cough, probably) and it's 110k+

we're in the 'I don't think anyone will want to read this/it's too long/what are we doing' mental battle phase of finishing a piece of writing, so it's SHARING TIME as I wail WE WILL OVERCOME YOU at my screen.

(PS OBVIOUSLY this is heartbreak but my fic will end positively for Max and Daniel because I don't write anything that doesn't).