#a change of scenery

[hannahssimblr]

“Come on! Come on! What are you doing, Christ sake!” 

I stop running and bend over my knees, wheezing, lungs tasting of blood. I spit onto the frosty grass and wipe my mouth, “Sorry sir…” I pant, “Tired.”

“Get yourself together, Turner,” Doherty roars, “your fitness has gone to shit. You hear me? Absolute shit.”

“I know, sir.” 

“What’ve you been up to over the Christmas? Eating sweets I’d say. Drinking pints and eating a load of chocolates, was it?”

“I’m seventeen, I can’t have pints,” I point out, “legally.”

“Ah shurrup you,” he comes closer to berate me more while the other boys run circuits of the pitch, “You need to go on a proper diet, start hitting the gym.” 

I wheeze out a thin laugh, “you calling me fat, sir?”

“I’m not calling you fat, I’m calling you unfit. If anything you’re too skinny.”

“Nah, I’m all lean, functioning muscle.” 

“Well in that case I want to see ten more laps of the pitch. Prove it.”

It’s freezing. Light rain glitters under the floodlights and frost glazes every blade of grass on the field. I watch the other boys round the corner at the back of the pitch in a puff of their collective warm breath and sweat. I’m sweaty too, but still somehow cold, my hands like bricks of ice frozen to my wrists. Parents of the others line up behind the wire fence waiting to collect them.

“Respectfully, sir,” I say to Doherty, “There isn’t time left tonight.”

“Why do you have something smart to say about everything? You can stay until you’re done, it doesn’t matter how long it takes you because I can wait.”

“I have plans.”

Plans, Turner?” He says, as though I’ve admitted to having head lice, “What kind of plans would you have on a Tuesday night in January?”

“Very important ones,” I say vaguely, to which he purses his lips and hums with discontent, “This is more of it now, excuses, excuses, as always, isn’t that right?”

It’s painful to straighten up. I puff out a lungful of air, “Sir, I’m just so unfit. I think I’ll have to call it a night.”

The laugh he coughs out is lost in the sound of the team as they pass us in a thundering herd, “chancer,” he says, “you better have yourself together next week, Hit the showers.”

“Thanks sir.”

“Yeah, lay off the sweets this week!” He bellows after me.

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[lilybug-02]

Eimmet High...temmiE high. OMG!

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Next update may take...much longer! I have finals and an internship and not to mention I have to draw- A LOT :')

[tastytofusoup]

Final Fantasy VIII (1999) ↠ Timber

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts - End of the World

[pianokantzart]

If Mario or Luigi lost their sibling, I can easily see them moving into a bedroom in Peach's castle and living there permanently.

There is no way either one of them would do well in an empty house when they've had each other their entire lives, and there is absolutely no chance they are going to be able to navigate a home where everything is color coded to emphasize the empty spaces where their sibling used to be without it tearing them apart.

[cutiesigh]

「Demo WIP」 Can y'all watch my plant real quick? 🍈

[madpatti]

Finished this yesterday 👀

Inspired by a ghost shirt design :)

[cinematicjourney]

Happy Together (1997) | dir. Wong Kar-wai

[sweetest-honeybee]

The smallest of wee dark doodles

[glittermutt]

[charles-leclerc-official]

remembered you pulling random ferrari quotes, and i just have to ask, do you have any favorite quotes from past ferrari drivers on par or even more poetic/unhinged than charles' "If Ferrari was a cage, I would gladly live in it my whole life."

(Or just anything about the drivers showing their clinical devotion to Ferrari!)

Literally every single Ferrari driver has had their moment of insane devotion to the team. Every. Single. One.

I do want to point out that while his quote about Ferrari being a cage is great, in context it's really not that unhinged.

"If being in a cage equals being in Ferrari then I would like to be in a cage my entire life."

He said this in response to Damon Hill's(I believe it was Damon) comments about Charles being "caged" and "trapped" in Ferrari and almost lamenting the loss of talent there because the team isn't good enough for him.

This quote is Charles saying that idea is ridiculous, that he doesn't see Ferrari that way at all, and he's poking fun at people who believe that about the team and his commitment to them.

People who lament Charles being at Ferrari really do not understand him or the team. He wants to be there. He's never been "caged".

Now, this isn't a quote, but the most unhinged thing a Ferrari driver has done in devotion to the team was Niki Lauda who requested to be buried in his Ferrari race suit. This was DECADES after racing for the team, he raced for several teams and won titles with a few, but he wanted to take Ferrari with him forever.

Honestly I think the Schumacher quote sums up Ferrari drivers quite poetically.

"A part of my heart will always be red." - Michael Schumacher

I really don't think there's more, he said it, that's it, that's what the team does to you.

[aelisinsims]

torneskär resort

[valtsv]

making friends with the coffee shop employees really pays off. my favorite barista at my favorite cafe told me they'll have job openings soon and he'll let me know when they open up and put in a good word for me if i apply :D

[strangemagic27]

After the July Storm. Roanoke, Virginia, USA. July 2023

( Used by permission. Copyright Protected. All rights Reserved by the Original Photographer)

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - The World Within

[purpleleafsyt]

{What will it be? It's your choice.}

Inspired from this fic, this scene would be in chapter 13, below the cut is some of the writing that inspired this :D