#I've seen the special and like clips and chunks but that's it

[captainsparklefingers]

*shows up fourteen years late to Tumblr with very cold Starbucks* So that Sherlock show is pretty good, huh!

[woso-dreamzzz]

Birthday II

Hardersson x Baby!Reader

Part of The Big Adventures Universe

Summary: It's your first birthday

Morsa is living in the phone again.

She's a lot smaller when she lives in the phone than when she lives with you and Momma. You think that's kind of weird but there's some cake sitting in front of you so you don't dwell on it for too long.

Today is a special day apparently.

Today is the day that Morsa is supposed to be visiting. It's your birthday too but you're more focused on the first thing rather than the fact that you're getting older now.

Morsa is meant to be coming today but she isn't here yet and now she's stuck in the phone again.

"And here's the birthday girl," Momma says to her," She's about to enjoy her cake."

You look down at your slice of cake. You don't get given cake a lot, especially not fancy cake that has writing and pictures on the top. You don't really care about the stuff on top but you know the cake is fancy because it's there.

You grab a chunk of cake in your fist and raised it to your mouth.

It tastes really nice and you grab more.

"Birthday girl looks very happy," Morsa comments," Is that right? Are you enjoying your cake, princesse?"

You grunt as you shove cake into your mouth.

"She's very much enjoying it," Momma agrees," Birthday girl got spoiled a lot today."

"I'm glad. I'm sorry I couldn't be there."

A match late last evening had Magda unable to fly out yesterday night. She'd booked an early morning flight today, hoping that it meant she could still spend your first birthday with you without missing much.

But she'd gotten to the airport and found her plane delayed. There was no eta and it kept getting pushed back further and further to the point where Magda has to spend your birthday on the phone rather than in person.

The presents in her carry-on feel like weights as she watches you shovel more and more cake into your mouth until your plate is empty.

You're sitting up in your high chair with a beaming smile in a tiny Wolfsburg kit that Magda knows was given as a present to you. A big birthday badge is clipped to the jersey and a discarded birthday hat is sat on the tray next to your now empty cake plate.

It makes her heart ache thinking about how much of this she's missing.

It's just not the same seeing it all through a phone screen.

"My flight should be taking off in a few hours," She tells Pernille as you entertain yourself by picking up the birthday hat and shaking it," I'll probably get to yours around midnight."

She can't see Pernille with the camera on you but Magda's sure she's frowning.

"We can pick you up from the airport," She says," You don't need to get here on your own."

"It'll be too late for Princesse. She still needs sleep."

"Are you sure? I don't mind. She'll fall asleep in the car anyway."

"I'm sure," Magda insists," It's fine. I've got keys. I'll let myself in."

You drop the birthday hat and pout.

"Oh," Pernille chuckles," What's with the long face, princesse? Did you drop your hat?"

You kick your legs impatiently and point at it, whining. You look like you're about to whine more but Pernille places another slice of cake in front of you and suddenly you're distracted again.

You cram as much cake possible into your mouth, smearing your face with crumbs.

The cake is nice but you do feel a little bit cheated. Momma woke you up this morning saying that Morsa would be here to celebrate with you both but it's rapidly approaching bath and bedtime and she's nowhere to be seen.

That's a little mean of her.

It's even meaner of Momma to put you down in your crib and make you sleep before Morsa got here. They're both quite mean today even though it's your birthday and people should be nice to you when it's your birthday.

You wake up the next day ready to let your displeasure at being lied to known to Momma when she comes to grab you.

You don't get the chance to though because someone lifts you out of your crib with a smile and a soft voice.

"What's with the pouty face?" Morsa coos," Is being a one year old really that bad?"

For a moment, in your sleepy haze, you don't recognise her, a big pout and a grumpy look upon your features. Slowly, you blink awake fully and your pout morphs into a big happy smile.

"There she is," Morsa says," There's my happy baby! Look at you, my happy little one year old."

Your legs kick out as Morsa presses soft, ticklish kisses all over your face.

"I'm sorry I missed your birthday, princesse but I brought presents!"

You know that word. After yesterday, you've decided that you really like presents.

You hope Morsa's brought you some good ones.

You giggle.

"Yeah?" Morsa says," You like that? I've got lots of presents for you to open!"

[lewisbian]

CRISTINA GUTIÉRREZ - X44 driver - on LEWIS HAMILTON, their relationship, his texting habits, and the end of the 2021 F1 season.

translation under the cut

TN: this clip was chopped and screwed by me, chunks were left out either because they weren't interesting to me or because the man in the video said something i disliked and didn't wanna waste time and energy on. inbox me if there's a part of the interview you want translated, though, and i'll help.

jordi wild: what's lewis hamilton like in person?

cristina gutiérrez: it's incredible, the first videocall i had, i was told "you have a call with lewis hamilton and sébastien loeb."

jw: both?

cg: both! and me! i was like, is this real?

(...)

cg: yeah, so lewis is - he's lewis, people are like who is lewis? i used to call him lewis (leh-wees) but it's lewis! so anyway, lewis is a very special person. you can tell he's lived through some rough things, because of the values he wants to transmit as a driver and as a person. sometimes he texts me and he talks about energy, about motivation -

jw: he's a very spiritual guy.

cg: yeah. super spiritual. super super. he doesn't speak to me like any other driver, he's very special. when i got injured he really looked out for me. and he really wants to raise awareness about minorities.

jw: yeah, these past few years he's really into that, sometimes it even seems like he pushes it too hard.

cg: he's criticized for it.

jw: but he lives it?

cg: yes. it's real. it's not just on paper. i've seen it, i live it, it's an everyday thing. he created a great association recently, mission 44, he supports black people, women in motorsport for example, or, well - minorities, because he's been a minority. he was a black boy in karting, which was elitist. so i think he's lived through stuff which was made him empathize a lot with those types of people, and he wants to help.

jw: if you whatsapp him tomorrow, will he answer?

cg: yes.

jw: always?

cg: not always. when he had the whole thing with the end of the season, the one that he was robbed of -

jw: (laughs) is that friendship speaking? or reality?

cg: i'm redbull, of course, and i love redbull. but in this case, my heart was with lewis hamilton. i have more empathy for lewis than for verstappen, verstappen doesn't motivate me much.

jw: do you like him?

cg: no (laughs). and i don't know why, in spain they cheer for him a lot.

jw: a lot of those people come from the years of alonso vs hamilton, there's still some resentment there.

cg: lewis has a lot of haters.

jw: yeah, also probably because he's so "progressive," maybe there are people that are kinda like - shut up already!

cg: i get it because it looks fake, like-

jw: of course, a millionaire, mega millionaire, right? but according to you he's a guy that lives it exactly like that.

cg: yes. what i like about him is he visibilizes a lot. he's a figure that raises so much awareness that he helps, only by doing that.

jw: for you, the end of the championship, would you have intervened?

cg: if i were whom?

jw: if you were the organization's boss.

cg: the fia boss, for example?

jw: yes.

cg: i think they fucked up, honestly. the last three races were very dirty, i mean, of course making decisions in the moment is hard, you only have a few seconds, you don't have a lot of time, you press a button, safety car comes back in, it's complicated. but either way, in this case, hamilton had reasons to be angry. so i texted him, like "don't worry about it blah blah," and that time he didn't reply (laughs).

jw: can you text him now, say hello? see if he texts back before we finish recording?

cg: you think he'll reply? i'll say it's good to have him back.

jw: that's really nice, let's see what happens!

- she looks up his contact, texts him it's good to have him back -

cg: this is his profile pic.

jw: that's wes snipes! you didn't know?

cg: no i didn't. see? he's cool!

jw: no, i like him! i am pro hamilton!

(...)

cg: see, now that i think about it, he replies to me more on instagram. now i'm gonna message him on instagram, on twitter-

jw: (laughs) but the same message! copy paste!

cg: (laughs) he'll be like "i think she's sick."

- lewis doesn't reply before the end of the podcast -

cg: well, seb loeb did reply.

jw: you texted both of them? yeah, of course! i mean, sébastien loeb, huge respect.

cg: it's not hamilton, but it's loeb.

(...)

jw: what do i do with this (X44 beanie), then? i'd burn it, i was excited about lewis hamilton.

cg: nah! he must be training, c'mon.

jw: that's a good excuse! no, he's saving somebody in the world, surely.

cg: he for sure is.

[prettyoddfever]

Hello! I saw on your YouTube you said that there are a lot of videos you haven’t posted because they got taken down. You could try using Vimeo to post those videos because they aren’t strict with copyright and things like that. I would love to see some videos I haven’t seen before on there!

I started to do that last year with a couple videos, but then I took them down because I'm nervous about the legality of that... like if it gets straight up removed from youtube during the uploading process then I don't think I should post the full thing anywhere else. I've tried to add very short clips of the best moments from some of those videos into my longer edits, though! but in some cases even a few seconds of just the audio from an interview gets the whole edit blocked. And that seems silly because all of this content used to be available to download on fan sites like nbd... and I especially don't get why the SNL performance gets blocked when the rest of that episode seems to be on youtube just fine.

But it's not like I'm over here sitting on hundreds of videos that aren't online, sorry. There are only maybe 10-20 that haven't worked to upload. I'm missing a tragic amount of content. I really regret not saving more... I never planned to have an account like this where I'd be trying to recap stuff, and I didn't realize things back then were so temporary either. Blame Viacom. Here’s a list of some of the content I think I’m missing so far.

side tangent that’s slightly relevant:

Youtube wasn't that widely used in 2005 when P!ATD started touring. I remember using it more by spring 2006 (and then it was huge by that summer), but for a while fans were most likely to upload their videos from shows to sites that no longer exist, like buzznet. That's why there are only scraps of random videos from fall 2005 left on youtube... and those were often uploaded later from someone who didn't film them. For example, there are a lot of GroveStBrent's videos from a Chain Reaction show in December 2005 left on youtube because that person lost their original files around the end of the Fever era and asked if anyone had saved their videos. Those got collected, put into a zip file, passed around, and then someone put them on youtube. So the fact that there are way more youtube videos from that one show at Chain Reaction than anything else in late 2005 doesn't mean it had any special significance... those videos were just shared at a point when youtube was more commonly used. I think this is important to point out because it seems like some teens these days are under the impression that P!ATD wasn’t very big yet in fall 2005 since there are barely any videos from that season on youtube. The reality is that P!ATD was already quite popular in fall 2005… but youtube wasn’t. 

Anyways, people starting using youtube more as 2006 progressed and there was SO much content shared from shows & interviews during the last half of the Fever era. The problem was that apparently MTV owned a ridiculous amount of the shows/channels that P!ATD was featured on (even stuff like Razer). Viacom sued youtube around the end of the Fever era, which meant a good chunk of the Panic fandom's videos were deleted and some channels were removed for repeatedly trying to re-upload banned content. That's why so many of the Fever-era interviews that are left have an upload date of 2007 or later. And that's why we're left with scraps like that pathetically blurry short clip of Brendon holding Ryan's hand instead of the whole series of those T-Minus Rock episodes. 

Basically, I'm trying to share some basic content that the fandom had in 2006-2008, but I'm also trying to not do anything sketchy. The majority of the videos that I'm missing or just can't upload are tied to Viacom in some way... and it's so sad because what is any company even doing with that footage at this point. 

[nolonger-humann]

w/ my reblog about the CGI stuff don't get me wrong i'm not AGAINST CGI because like one of the rebloggers said it's not like there should be NO CGI, at some points it may even be necessary if using effects puts the actors in danger. In /minimal amounts/ it's okay. Like, a bit of a drastic example, but say uhhh Final Destination and the Saw franchises.

I know that Saw isn't exactly /known/ for it's special effects but I'd far prefer to see, like, early Saw traps over that lazer trap in Jigsaw. Holy shit seeing that guy's head-orange-slices flop like octopus arms was horrendous. Can a head even DO that ?

Also did you know Saw traps were Like That in the og movies to keep the actors safe. Like they wanted to do a back-breaker trap but they literally couldn't because it was too dangerous for the actor. Interesting little tidbit, completely unrelated to my rambles.

But !! Liike. Later FD movies sure did have. . . effects. Like I was stunned to learn that the logs were CGI (so they could bounce, real logs wouldn't bounce), but seeing that guy get launched into a fence and his body became like chunks of meat. Again I am asking can a body. . . do that ? Actually the whole race track vision scene was kinda. . . Hm. Questionable at best.

I know Final Destination is meant to be dramatic and shit. Like the point of these deaths are to be over the top because Death was feeling petty as fuck today but hghghg.

And yet I'd still prefer to watch the questionable effects from FD and the old Saw movies and maybe even Jigsaw over current MCU movies. I'm sorry but I've seen clips and seeing how dead those CGI fights look. . . Thanks, I'll stick to my silly horror movies and whatever else I decide to watch.

(ALSO ALSO I WAS SO IMPRESSED WHEN I LEARNED HOW MANY OF THE JURASSIC PARK DINOS WERE ANIMATRONICS LIKE HOLY SHIT ? the kids had NIGHTMARES bc of the t-rex car scene. cuz like . holy shit that's a VERY REAL LOOKING REX PUSHING INTO THEIR CAR)