#am i right in thinking this same thing has been in place in Australia for a while already?

[michaelgovehateblog]

I actually think the smoking ban is a good thing, it obviously won't entirely stop smoking or underage smoking, at least not for many many years, but making cigarettes less accessible will surely prevent lots of people from even starting smoking in the first place. I dislike giving Tories credit as much as the next person but I don't see anything bad about this or banning disposable vapes

[rae-and-mezo]

Life After Hogwarts: Ominis Gaunt

Summary: Headcanons for Yours and Ominis's life after Hogwarts!

Warnings:

A/N: I AM DOWN BAD FOR HIM MAN! I am thinking about making this a series with other characters. Let me know who you would like to see next!

First of all, I feel like you guys have been together since the end of seventh year ish? You really fell for each other the summer after sixth year when you both spent it with Sebastian and Anne. Either at your place or Feldcroft.

And he knew you were the one for him.

He flat out asks you one day in seventh year if you would ever like to be married (way in the future though,) and respects your answer either way. Of course, he would love to be called your husband, but he doesn't need a ring to know you love him.

He gets his training to become a ministry worker, taking up a desk job in magical Law Enforcement. It pays fairly well actually, and he enjoys it even if it comes with more paperwork than his liking.

Whatever your job is, he very much is supportive. He dislikes the traveling part if you chose a job that requires it and worries himself sick if you chose something like an Auror or Cursebreaker. But he would never hold you back from what you would like to do.

It doesn't take him long at all to break off from his family after graduation.

All it took was one meeting where he grudgingly took you to meet his parents for dinner.

It doesn't matter if your blood status or views, chances are his family will hate you. And if that's the case, it's the driving factor between Ominis and the rest of the Gaunts. After all, he will stand by you to the very end.

He actually asks you about marriage again, just to see if you are sure about your answer.

If it's no, that's okay! Just expect him to ask again a few years down the road.

If it's a yes, he plans his proposal right away! The man is Ecstatic to marry you.

He is a romantic soul, sure, but he isn't one for giant acts of love. So it's a quiet, sweet proposal in the back garden of your families home. After all, he asked your father for permission only moments before.

It's the same thing with the wedding actually. You both wear wedding attire, but not overly expensive or extravagant clothes. After all, he just broke off from his family and is trying to get his feet underneath him. The wedding is in Feldcroft, and Anne is one of his groomsmen. Sebastian is his Man of Honor of course, and he only invites his cousins that is more like family than his own parents. You only invite your closest family as well.

Instead of a honeymoon, you guys work on a run down cottage not too far from Hogwarts. This also counts for if you aren't married.

If you aren't married, he doesn't care for social rules. He doesn't mind the judgement from living with you out of wedlock! Not at all.

Sebastian is over at your cottage like all the time. He never overstays his welcome, but he might as well live there!

Ominis has always had such a cold and uninviting home, so he tries his best to make your house inviting! He does a good job too. Guests love visiting you two.

Now, you would think I would dive into the children part of this story. Not now.

No, instead, Ominis wants to experience things he never has before. He asks you to take him to muggle pubs, muggle concerts, etc. Even if he can't see, he adores experiencing a world so different from his own. Anything you wanna do, he does as well.

The two of you take a trip to Australia. With how much he loves magical creatures, he wants to see some muggle animals as well. And he thinks Australian accents are funny.

He wants a cat SO BADLY. Of course he would never ask if you don't like cats or are allergic. But if not? Oh boy, you're in for it.

That cat would be his best friend. You are not getting cuddles if the cat is there first, and he talks to it like it's a child.

Honestly the cat prefers you but loves the two of you so much!!

It's basically your first kid.

A circus comes to the small town closest to your cottage and you guys go see it just because you can. Why not? Ominis likes peanuts and finds the music and cheering amusing. Also enjoys a play by play by you!

There was a vendor selling exotic pets...and well one of them was a snake.

Normally Ominis wouldn't bat an eye but the snake started begging him for help because the vendor was abusing his animals.

How are you supposed to say no when your partner is almost in tears over a little snake?

So yeah, you get a new pet.

NOW I TALK ABOUT THE CHILDREN PART OF THIS STORY

I feel like Ominis is indifferent.

He really likes kids actually and would like to have some of his own. But it's not a deep desire. The two of you had talked about it before moving in together and so he already knows your preference.

If you wouldn't like to have children, he is A-OK with that! Just...don't let him turn into a crazy cat man. Because he will. He just can't say no to their fluffy little faces.

If you would like children, he is so happy! Of course, he would love you either way, but he just cannot wait to be a father once he gets the idea in his head.

Though, because of his genes, I am not sure he would want biological children. After all, he isn't proud of being a Slytherin descendant or the fact that his parents were cousins.

If you would like biological children, he could make an exception after some convincing.

If not, he is so excited to adopt! I feel like he would rather adopt an older kid rather than a baby but you know. Your opinion weighs heavily on his too.

Either way, he cries when he finds out you're expecting/adoption went through.

That night he cries himself to sleep on your shoulder and wakes up still crying and smiling so hard it hurts.

He lowkey wants to shove it in his parents' face that he's going to be a father with the most amazing person he has ever met and they won't get to witness any of it!

Of course he apparates to Sebastian's and cries again, to him, for what feels like hours.

He breaks once he meets his child. You've never seen him cry hard before, only silent tears and little sobs. But he's crying like a baby because he just is so happy and can't believe he is at this point with somebody he loves.

If you don't want children, he asks if you can raise Nifflers in the back garden, or maybe get a Unicorn? He would build the stable with Sebastians help. Boy loves his animals SO MUCH

Mornings with him where he makes breakfast and you set the table, both of you listening to his favorite record on the Gramaphone.

Ominis can be rather playful, so expect him to tickly your hips while passing through, or to jump out and scare you when you least expect it.

And after YEARS of living in the same house, he smacks his head on the doorframe of your kitchen. Because, like, he's tall and the cottage is not.

Yes, the bed is perfectly comfortable, but like naps on the floor or in the garden hit different.

You start a little flower garden in the back yard, and he really loves to sit in it. The smells are just so nice! But he would rather gouge out his eyes than ruin your garden so he never stays out there for long. No matter how many times you tell him he won't step on anything.

[b0r3dtod3ath]

maybe list C 1 and 4 / list B 3 for oscar piastri? i am such a fiend for cute love confessions i would literally die for this

thank you sm

(kinda european!reader, i hope you don't mind)

"Love confessions in the snow" + "Getting tipsy on mulled wine"

tw: mention of (social) anxiety (?), alcohol

Christmas Event Masterlist

It was Oscar's first Christmas in Europe. Due to work, he wasn't able to visit his family back in Australia. He didn't really have any plans as he didn't have any close friends around him besides you. That's the thing, he's not really talkative and it takes a while for him to feel comfortable around new people. He loved his job and was grateful for a F1 seat but he deeply hated the social aspect of it. He was always anxious that he would come off as rude but he definitely has faked an illness a few times just to skip events.

You noticed that something was off. He took more and more time to respond to your texts and after a while, it turned into just leaving you on read. You knew he wasn't doing it on purpose, his thoughts would just get to him sometimes and you knew he was not happy about leaving his family for Christmas. You decided to give him a call. After a few beeps, he finally answered "Hello?" "Hi, Oscar! I just wanted to ask how you're doing" "Hi, I'm alright. Nothing to worry about. And you?" you knew him for long enough to know the tone he was using "Good, good. I have been a bit busy with work, you know? I wanted to ask you if you are maybe free tomorrow and would like to go see the Christmas market?" you hear him exhale slowly "Please?" you add hoping he would open up a bit more. "Fine, I will pick you up at five".

When he showed up you saw the state he was in. Pale skin, bags under eyes and picked skin on his fingers concerned you but you didn't want to talk about it right away, you needed him to feel more comfortable. Small talk didn't bother you, it was still better than nothing. "You know, you can stay at our place for Christmas. My family loves you, I'm sure they will be more than happy" you offered hoping he would agree. "No need to do that, but I will think about it" That was a statement that led you a bit closer to finding out what caused him to close up. You two walked around the market filled with ornaments and lights. Uncouncioulsy, your bodies were not too far from each other as if to feel a bit more warmer. You were in the middle of telling a story when Oscar finally spoke up "Wanna get some mulled wine?" he pointed at a small cafe. "Sure" you said.

Two of you sat there, quietly giggling in a corner of a cosy cafe. "Y/N, you know what? Thank you for getting me out of the house" his cheeks and ears were red, eyes scanned everything but you "I love you, and, and, and I was so scared to talk to you because I thought it would ruin our friendship. But I hope for a Christmas miracle to happen". He dropped his head and fidgeted with his fingers as if waiting for rejection "Osc, I have loved you ever since I met you but I didn't want to distract you from your career. You should have told me earlier. You know, it doesn't matter now. I'm glad we are on the same page." you took his hands in his. "Merry Christmas" he said finally looking you in the eyes for the first time in however long. They were dark and full of love "Merry Christmas".

15/12/23

[in-death-we-fall]

A New Beginning

A year ago when Terrorizer spoke to Joey Jordison, the drummer was a man of (sic) the edge. Now the Slipknot founder is in a different headspace and facing the future with heady determination.

Words: Tobyn Dorcian  Pics: Kane Hibberd Terrorizer #224, July 2012 (google docs link)

**self harm warning for questions 4 and 5 and image 4**

When Joey Jordison was in Australia in March 2011, he was a wreck. Ten months afterPaul (sic) Gray, Joey’s best friend and fellow Slipknot originator/bassist had died from a drugs (sic) overdose, and the drummer was psychologically frail. To distract from his grief, Jordison had over-committed to Soundwave festival as both guitarist in the Murderdolls and drummer for Rob Zombie – exhaustion led to him cancel (sic) a Sydney show.

A year on, Jordison is the antithesis of that vision. Once again in Australia, this time with Slipknot for their 7pm slot at Soundwave festival, he is chipper and energetic. Near unrecognisable with a bush ranger-like beard and moustache, the 37-year-old is in such a great mood he insists on doing two interviews: one at 6.30pm prior to Slipknot’s Melbourne arena sideshow, and another at 11.40pm at its conclusion.

How has the past 12 months been for you? “Very positive. I’m happier than I’ve been for a long time.”

The death of best friend and Slipknot bassist Paul Gray had put you in a bad place. What’s helped you to move forward? “I went right into the studio. I’ve been working non-stop, pouring all my energy into writing music, and nothing but good results have come from it. I am happy being (sic) the studio and am working on music because that’s my life-blood. We all have deaths in our family but you have to move on. [Pauses] It’s really hard for me to talk about Paul’s death…”

Do you ever feel Paul’s presence? “Oh yeah. I’ve been writing stuff since his death and he’s with me at all times. I will be sitting writing a riff, and I know the exact part where he is coming in. I almost talk to him, in a weird way.”

** As a tribute to Paul, Corey [Taylor, vocalist] got a tattoo of him on his leg. “I don’t have any tattoos but I have this. [Rolls up his left shirtsleeve to reveal two several inch-long scars on his shoulder]. After he died, I cut two lines [Paul Gray was Slipknot number 2] into my arm. He remains on my snare hand.”

** What do the lines represent? “That he’s with me at all times. I will never have tattoos, ever. I don’t put ink in my body. I am the only one in the band that doesn’t have them. I don’t want anyone putting my memory into my body but me. This will never go away. When I did it it cut pretty deep. Now, he is playing with me at all times.”

You have spoken about your life in Iowa, that you live in isolation. In your house there are no clocks, the windows are blacked out and you rarely answer the phone. To what extent has that changed? “I now have three cats: Mokey, Melvin and Murray [previously, Joey had Mokey], but nothing has changed. That part of me will always remain the same. It [that feeling] is even happening right now. When I walk out of this room [backstage at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena], I can’t stand it until I get behind my drums; that’s my safe zone. That’s where I feel at home, besides in my house with a guitar. I didn’t pick isolation – this is not a story piece, that’s fucking bullshit – It’s the way I am. I like things that I like and I stick to them. I’ve been like this since I was a kid.”

What do you think that’s about? “I don’t necessarily know. I guess I was so interested in music when I was a kid and was so engulfed by it that it was all I could think about. I was like, ‘This is what I want to do and this is my calling’. I knew what I wanted to do at a very, very young age, so I am very lucky in that respect. On tour, I have done the sightseeing and it is beautiful and I love that but if I want to see something I’ll got (sic) and see it. If I want to stay in my [hotel] room and listen to music… that is what I usually do. It just depends on my mood, which is a little different every day.”

You feel comfortable at home and behind the kit, but not so much in the places in between. “I can’t relate to too many people. When I was very young my grandma told me that if you have just one really close friend you should consider yourself lucky, and I still live to that rule, because honestly, you cannot hardly trust anyone. That’s why I termed the song ‘People = Shit’. I had that term on a t-shirt when we were a club band, way before we got signed.”

It seems like you don’t fit in. “I don’t. I have never been that person who goes out to try to make friends intentionally. I like to have a drink here [at the venue] and hang out with good people but I don’t go out anymore. I like hanging out with my family and my cats and my guitar. I am probably one of the only people who has a guitar in their bathroom. It’s there just in case when I have to go shit [Laughs], I have a cool idea. I always wake up with a riff, so when I have to go and do the morning thing, I play guitar while I’m doing it.”

Something might come of it… “A lot has come of it. [Laughs] I like taking baths. I’m not a shower guy too much. I love soaking in the bath and I get really good ideas there too. I like coming out and grabbing my guitar. Even if I write some of the craziest, fastest shit of the Slipknot catalogue, I am always at peace. I have to be at peace. I can never write anything unless I am at peace. That’s what’s good about having this sort of [musical] gift.

“I watch a lot of shows on the Discovery Channel about how things are made: it intrigues my brain. Some of the science stuff makes me feel a little stupid, but then I’m like, wait, what they (sic) hell are you talking about? They can’t do what I’m doing.”

Surely, you are in the wrong business [music] if you are looking for trust? “I can’t bitch about anything because I am very lucky, but luck has nothing to do with where I am right now. That luck shit can fuck right off. I work my fucking ass off to be like this. I did this to be true to myself and to my friends. Then you have all these assholes come in and they are like, ‘We can’t play a goddamn note but we learnt how to market a bunch of shit and collect off you’. I cannot stand one of them. Slipknot is a product of the shit we hate, and when we go out onstage it is vengeance.

“On the other hand, the maggots who come to our shows, I have something in common with each one of them: that’s how much they understand my music. Our music becomes their music. They give it right back to us and it gives us energy. I can see in kids’ eyes what we have done, what a movement we’ve created. Not many bands have done what we have.”

Last year Clown [Shawn Crahan, percussionist] told Terrorizer he wasn’t sure if he wanted to do Slipknot anymore. “I don’t believe that at all. Plus, there isn’t any shit that needs to be ‘repaired’, like there’s a rift between band members. We all do other stuff. There are no fights. We are getting along so well right now. The feeling is like it was in 1999, when we first came out. Corey and I understand each other more than we ever have. The thing is that we have never not gotten along; it’s the fucking press that turned us against each other. In fact, I brought Corey into Slipknot. Back then, no one even wanted him in the band.”

Why not? “At that time we were like an eccentric death metal circus act. It was great, but something was missing. I said to Clown that we needed to get Corey to sing for us. Shawn [Clown] is hardcore, he is the dad of our band and we respect his opinion. He was like, ‘Fuck no’, but said he liked Corey’s vocals. So myself, Mick [Thompson (sic), guitar] and Shawn went to the porn store where Corey used to work. When we arrived Corey was really nervous, like we were going to beat him up or something. Shawn went up to Corey and asked him if he wanted to try out and he freaked out.

“The next day he parked his car around the back of the studio – because we didn’t want anyone to know – and it was just me and Shawn. The first song he demoed was ‘Me Inside’. I sat next to Shawn and said, ‘Watch this shit, I know what’s going to happen’. Corey got to the chorus and Shawn looked at me and was like, ‘You were right’. Corey’s relationship with me has come full circle. We love each other very much.”

Right now, what binds Slipknot together? “We started to think, what if it [Slipknot] did go away, and realised how much the band meant to us. The songs mean more to me now than they ever have… remembering the crap we went through, all the stupid bickering and crap that never needed to happen. All of that has been weeded out and now it’s like we’ve been rebuilt, stronger than ever. Slipknot is a machine right.

“Our band is nine fucking extraordinary personalities, extreme, intense personalities, who live all over the place and yet we are still together, so fuck you. I would die for these guys. If I died onstage, I wouldn’t care. This is going to sound stupid, but it would be from my heart. It’s a fucking war onstage, it isn’t safe.”

Your temporary bass player [Donnie Steele] is out of view. Why? “The other guy [Donnie] is not allowed onstage, no fucking way. He is behind the stage and does a great job. We are nine people and we unfortunately lost one. But it doesn’t matter; we are still nine. We can never replace Paul, but that’s why I bought (sic) Donnie into the band. He was the first guitar who played before I came into the picture, when we were The Pale Ones. He is a really cool guy and very mellow.

“We haven’t decided on another bassist yet. We don’t want any marquee names or anything like that. It doesn’t make sense to bring anyone in from another band that’s huge. We want to keep it in the family, and he’s part of our family and it’s been great ever since.”

Will the next Slipknot album still be “the darkest one ever?” “It’s going to be dark no matter what. There ain’t no changing that fucking statement.”

How much darker than ‘Iowa’ can you go? “That’s up to us. So far, I’ve written and recorded 40 songs.”

Is there a song about Paul? “Yes, my working title is ‘Gray’.”

Have you been working with the other guys or by yourself? “To tell you the truth, it’s just been me. Everyone is writing stuff, but people want to do other projects [Corey Taylor and Jim Root and (sic) working on a new Stone Sour album. Clown has released a photography book], and so I’m writing alone until we can all come together. Then we can start playing and go from there. That’s how we wrote, ‘Prelude’, ‘The Blister Exists’, it’s how we start a lot of songs.”

With the next album, what is the journey you wish to take the listener on? “This will be our deepest, most celebrated record. The journey is that we are trying to live our lives, just like everyone else is trying to live theirs’. We all have weird shit in our lives and a lot of our songs reflect that. On the next record we will be exorcising, getting out a lot of the crap out that I think personally, we have held in too much, against each other.”

What sort of emotions will come out? “Both positive and negative. Jealousy? That doesn’t exist in this band. That is the worst emotion; it kills people. You know who fucking does that? It’s the press, and it just pisses us off. People [journalists] keep putting words in our mouth. If they want to keep doing it, keep doing it, because it’s pissing us off right now. Everyone on the outside – journalists, business manager, accountant – this album will be the worst in terms of ‘fuck you’. ‘Iowa’ was kind of playful. This one, as far as emotions go, is going to connect with everyone way more than any of our others.”

Where do you see Slipknot evolving from here? “Slipknot can do two things: either leave the legacy where it is now or cut everything that’s been before and take it even further. That’s where my mindset is at. I can only see it getting even bigger.”

In the early 2000s, Clown had stage props of cow heads on spikes. What is the most shocking thing Slipknot has done? “We never look to shock anyone. If it’s shocking to some people, then I guess you can call it shock but that was never the intent. That’s just Shawn being Shawn. We used to go down to the meat packing plant [in Des Moines] and were really intrigued by the smell of dead animals. We’d just sit there and gawk at them. We just liked the fucking smell of it. No matter how pungent or grotesque.

“Bringing that type of stuff out was part of the ‘Iowa’ cycle and it made sense then. I don’t think it makes sense now. The thing about that is you never know what we are going to do tonight. I don’t know what the rest of them are doing (sic) to do; they don’t have to know what I am going to do. We don’t have structure. Ours is no choreographed shit.”

You’ve been doing Slipknot for almost 20 years. To what extent have you mellowed? “Not at all. I’m still punk rock. I will travel in a van; I don’t care. It doesn’t matter to me: trains, buses, planes, whatever, I’ll get there. As long as I have my leather jacket and maybe a toothbrush, throw me in a fucking corner and I’ll sleep there. I don’t give a fuck.”

Slipknot must have made a lot of money. Looking at you, you’d never know it, as you are in no way ostentatious. “To tell you the truth, I have no fucking clue about it. [Laughs] It’s there, but money and all that shit doesn’t register with me. I don’t calculate it. Maybe it’s stupid but I don’t give a fuck about money, which is maybe why I’ve been ripped off in the past, but I just don’t care. Money is bullshit to me. I hate it. It’s an evil fucking thing. It controls the world and that’s why I don’t like it. With our band, it was never about that and it still isn’t. The last thing we think about is that. But if there is money to be made, of course we want to make it and not get ripped off.

“When we were starting we thought maybe we’d sell 30,000 records. Even getting signed was weird. When someone says, ‘You need to get business smart’, I’m like, fuck all that. I am still that little punk rock kid. That little kid that was in his basement playing drums, blast-beating and learning all this shit from the bands I grew up listening to.”

What does your number [1] mean to you? “Now it doesn’t really mean much. When we started it was an idea and I am number one for a reason. I was that number because I am the base of the band, the rhythm section, its glue. I don’t really look it at (sic) much anyone (sic), I try to think of us by our names, but I’m glad to still have that number.”

In 2000 you let my 15-year-old socially awkward nephew watch Slipknot from the side of the stage [in Melbourne, Australia]. 12 years later as his mother was dying of cancer, he recalled how much that meant to him. And how you looked after him. “That means a lot to me. [Pauses] I’m glad he had that outlet [Slipknot] because that’s what I needed when I was young. I needed it because I was an outcast. I don’t have many friends and I don’t want them: that is my sickness. The ones that I have are the guys in my band; they are my brothers. They would do anything for me.

“When I was young… that’s why I was so attracted to music. Everyone else was into sport and extra curricular activities and so I was the misfit. Music just felt safe. It spoke to me so loudly that it made everything seem clear – nothing else at that time did. In a weird way, it almost chose me. The demon grabbed me by the throat and put me on a mantle and said, ‘This is what you are going to do’. I have been stuck there ever since. [Laughs] It’s not a bad place to be. It makes me comfortable and keeps me warm.”

‘Antennas To Hell’ is out on July 16 on Roadrunner www.Slipknot1.com

Joey on:

Watain “They are the real deal, man. I think [frontman] Erik Danielsson is in the top 3 black metal singers of all time. That guy’s voice is pure. Watching them, people want to do the whole pit thing, but I am the opposite, I find it relaxing. It’s weird. The blood they put on, that’s real. They are coming to Iowa, so I will probably be in the front row, being a fan boy.”

Burzum “I loved ‘From The Depths Of Darkness’ [2011]. A lot of people focus on the murder [of Euronymous], but I look beyond that, to his music. I don’t condone murder, but I’m like, ‘Get over that and listen to this shit’. The Count is about as dark as you get and I totally love everything he has done. I haven’t met him, but he’s definitely one of the people I’d love to meet.”

Marilyn Manson “I met him a long time ago and we became friends after that. What I like about him more than anything is that you never know what’s coming. He is unpredictable and that is punk rock. That to me is true fucking art. I think that’s why him and me really connected. He gets me and I get him too. I haven’t talked to him for a while, but he’s always been nice to me.”

[alarajrogers]

This is long. I've been percolating on it a while.

As usual, when I see a discussion going on that has no nuance, where two sides have been staked out and any suggestion that one side has a point is taken as full support for the other side and everything they do... I feel compelled to try to point out the nuances. This is likely to get me a lot of nastygrams in response, possibly from both sides, but I can't take the lack of nuance any longer.

First, let's begin with this. The government of Israel is committing atrocities. Full stop. There is no way to minimize this. Nothing the civilian population of Palestine has done or could ever do would justify the Israeli government's response here. Israel, as a state, are unmitigated bad guys in this situation. Just like my country, the USA, were unmitigated bad guys for invading Iraq on flimsy pretenses and committing atrocities in the process. A nation doing terrible things doesn't mean the people of that nation are terrible. I pointed this out when the government of Russia chose to invade Ukraine. In democracies, like the US and Israel, the people bear more responsibility than in dictatorships, but as a person who protested the Iraq War and tried to vote out the president responsible for it, I am deeply, deeply uncomfortable with the idea that all the citizens of a democracy are responsible for the actions of its government.

And I am flat out appalled by the notion that non-citizens with no vote should be held responsible; treating Jews as synonymous with the current Israeli government and its awful decisions is like the US rounding up Japanese-Americans and putting them in camps because the Japanese government attacked the US. It was wrong then, it's wrong now, and if you come from an English-speaking country and you're white, 90% chance you come from a country that committed similar atrocities in the course of expanding an empire or colonizing land that didn't belong to it. (I think the Irish, Scottish and Welsh are exceptions; I do not know of any others.)

If you blame Jews worldwide for the actions of Israel, you are a shithead, and if you come from the US, England, Canada, Australia or New Zealand, you are also a hypocritical shithead. France and Germany and Spain, yes, still a hypocritical shithead. Was your nation ever a colonial power? Then if you blame Jews worldwide for Israel's actions, you are a hypocritical shithead.

More to say, possibly more inflammatory, under the cut.

I have seen people I follow saying things like "We should treat Zionists in leftist spaces the way we treat TERFs, they should have no place with us." A lot of "denounce Zionism." A lot of "Zionism is evil."

I have also seen, on the flip side, the disgusting behavior of governments and institutions punishing people for making the argument that Israel should not be murdering Palestinian civilians. This is awful, and inhumane. The people of Palestine have done nothing to deserve this; the existence of terrorists committing atrocities in their name does not justify a civilian population being murdered. As an American, I feel very strongly that I would like to not be murdered for what the CIA did in South America, okay? And frankly, all Americans and anyone from any kind of colonial power should feel the same way, so this behavior where our governments and institutions give Israel free reign to murder civilians is despicable.

But Zionism does not mean "supporting every horrible thing Israel ever did." It means the belief that Jews need and deserve a homeland of their own, that the best place for that homeland is Israel, and as a result Israel has the right to self defense. (Self defense, y'all, is not a euphemism for "murder civilians." In fact murdering civilians usually is antithetical to self defense, because it radicalizes the civilian population against you. You don't fight terrorists with bombs unless your goal is to make more terrorists. Which I actually think Netanyahu's goal is, because he is a right wing war hawk who wants an excuse to commit atrocities against Palestine. That's not good for Israel, but it's good for a right wing war hawk who wants to stay in power.)

I've seen a lot of arguments that Israel are colonizers. Technically it's true but that word has certain baggage due to the motives and behavior of 90% of the world's colonizers. Specifically, when white imperialists marched in to territories occupied by other people, took them over, and killed, enslaved, drove off or ruled over the people who were already there:

The motive was greed, folks. Want, take, have. We're allowed to have everything because we're white. Nothing about "we need this or people will keep killing us."

It wasn't territory they had ever held. Territory associated with them in the lore of the world's biggest religions? Nope. It wasn't territory they'd ever had at all.

They did the colonizing themselves. A third party didn't colonize and then hand it over to them.

Israel's situation is different for multiple reasons.

For 2000 years, Jews have not been treated as full and equal citizens of anywhere they tried to live; those 2000 years have contained so many instances of Jews being murdered en masse, or driven out and all their stuff stolen, I don't think we have an accurate count of how many times it happened.

Anywhere that Jews were treated as full and equal citizens for any period of time, a change in government or in the circumstances of their neighbors could reverse this. Most Jewish citizens of Germany thought of themselves as Germans first, and thrived in Germany, until Hitler stirred up the currents of anti-semitism that apparantly always are present under the surface of a European or European-based society.

It is very easy to argue that the reason for this is that Jews were driven out of their own homeland, and their efforts to keep their own culture during the diaspora made them mistrusted strangers everywhere. Therefore, it's also very easy to argue that the solution is for them to have a homeland again.

This was why Zionists in the 40's were successfully able to get Britain to cede them Palestine. There are very good arguments from the evidence of history that Jews do in fact need a homeland of their own, because anywhere else they live may spontaneously decide to murder them for no reason, because it has been happening for 2000 years and has no evidence of stopping.

Of course, there's a huge problem. Britain didn't hand over part of Britain. Nobody handed over Rome, which forced the Jews out of their homeland originally, or Germany, which had just committed the Holocaust. (These would not have gone well either.) They handed over a territory full of people who had done nothing to the Jews, had nothing to do with the Holocaust, and were not consulted or asked for permission.

Jews sought an ethno-state where Jewish people would be treated as more equal than non-Jews because they're an extreme minority worldwide, and anywhere where they allowed non-Jewish people to become full citizens anytime they wanted, would eventually fill up with enough gentiles that it would again become dangerous to be Jews there. Palestinians were, rightfully, pissed off that they were being forced off their land. So they fought back, and Israel retaliated, and that is how this whole poisonous dynamic began.

Does Israel have a right to the land they were ceded? That is unfortunately the wrong question. After Europe and other places randomly murdered Jews for being Jewish for 2000 years, it becomes really hard to argue against the necessity of a Jewish homeland, somewhere, if you have any empathy for Jewish people at all. Where should that be? Well, there is no uninhabited land on Earth that's suitable for habitation; anywhere would have required throwing people off their land.

This may be colonizing, but it's different colonizing than what white people did. It was done for survival, in the face of 2000 years of threats, and it was done by giving them back land they'd lost 2000 years ago.

There are very few cultures that still exist after being thrown off their land that long ago. Romani still exist, but we really aren't sure exactly where they came from... last I heard the best theory was somewhere in India. Native Americans and other indigenous people displaced by colonization were forced off between 100-500 years ago and a lot of their culture has been lost. This makes it kind of difficult to compare the Jewish situation to anything else. But if there was a movement to give the Native Americans back Montana, and fuck all the white people currently living in Montana, they can move or they can live in the new Native American nation... honestly I do not think the left would object to this. (The right would, they'd screech about it, but a lot of leftists would either be "good for them! fuck those white Montanans!" or "well, I dont think it's right to force people out of their homes, but Native Americans were forced off that land in the first place, so...") The Native Americans lost that territory like 150 years ago or so, not 2000. It's not the same thing. But it is, unfortunately, the closest analogy we have, because no one else managed to hang onto their culture and their memory of having a homeland and the world's memory of it too, for 2000 years.

So. Can you criticize Israel? How can you not? You have to criticize Israel to be a good person because they are murdering civilians. They received a horrible provocation from professional provocateurs who knew that they would react harshly, and that that reaction would fuel their movement, and they did exactly what Hamas knew they would, which is incredibly stupid from the perspective of protecting Israel (but Netanyahu wants to protect his own power, not Israeli citizens) and also morally bankrupt on every level. Arguing that Hamas didn't actually do anything all that terrible is simultaneously untrue and besides the point, because Palestinian civilians aren't Hamas and you can't fight a terrorist group with bombs.

But can you argue, with a straight face, that a homeland for Jewish people shouldn't exist? When Israel's behavior has just caused worldwide antisemitism to spike, and once again, random Jews are being subjected to violence for nothing they did? When we have 2000 years of history of the world attacking Jewish people for no good reason? (I do have some theories as to the reasons, but none of them were good ones.) How do you think Jewish people should protect themselves from antisemitic violence, then? What other options are on the table?

And if you're blaming random Jewish people on the Internet who are not Israeli for the actions of Israel, you are doing the same thing the state of Israel is doing when they blame all Palestinians for the actions of Hamas. Justifying their behavior. Plus, if you come from a colonial power, and if you're on the Internet odds are you do, you're being a sickening hypocrite, because I bet you don't want to be murdered for the atrocities your country has committed. I sure don't! I don't want people blaming me for the Iraq War! I was against it. I don't want people blaming me for Trump! I voted against him. I'm American and my country has done horrible, horrible things that I don't want people to treat me badly for because I also think they're horrible and never supported them... but that doesn't mean I'd be okay with America ceasing to exist.

Jews who support Israel's existence, whether they are Israeli or not, are still not personally responsible for Binyamin Netanyahu being a monster. Israelis aren't entirely responsible for the fucker, given that it is human nature to vote conservative when you live in fear, which is why conservatives fearmonger so hard. Their press probably makes it fairly hard to learn about the atrocities they are committing, just like the American press makes it hard to know what evil things America has done lately. But especially, Jews who aren't Israeli citizens can still support Israel's existence while believing that Israel's current behavior is an atrocity, because Israel was founded to protect Jews from worldwide antisemitism, which if you are blaming Jews for Israel's behavior, you're participating in.

I'm not Jewish. But I find the behavior of gentiles who are demanding that Jews not only reject what Israel is doing (that's fair, it's monstrous) but reject Israel having a right to exist, in a world where America, which took over a continent because we felt like it and slaughtered most of the people who lived here, is never told it doesn't have a right to exist... I mean if you're so out there that yes, you believe America and Canada and Australia have no right to exist, I suppose you're being consistent, but if that is not your position, you don't get to argue against Israel existing. Israel displaced people who didn't deserve it and has treated them like shit ever since, just like every other colonizing power, but Israel, at least, is doing it because Jewish people keep getting murdered for no reason and this has been happening for two millennia. The US has no such justification for existence.

This entire situation is more complicated and nuanced than you think. Not the part where Israel's committing atrocities, that's beyond question. That's horrifying and the world really needs to force them to stop. But everything else -- Zionism, the existence of Israel and its right to self defense, blaming Jews for Israel, yadda yadda -- all that. That is more complicated than you think it is.

[everything-is-crab]

See this is why even though I respect and listen to woc from all over the world I have most solidarity with ones specifically from the global south.

I didn't believe in American privilege either because I thought countries with most white people are all the same.

But when you educate yourself more about how the US maintains it's global position compared to any other country you just can't look at Americans and their ignorance the same way.

Even tho I am Indian and my ancestors were colonized by the Brits I have more bitter feelings towards USA because 90% of my problems caused due to imperialism is because of USA's global position and whatever effects UK introduced was in the past. The US dollar is literally the standard currency everywhere especially in the oil industry even though US dollar is not the most valuable currency.

American people don't realize how powerful media is because they're the center of international media and politics .Your country is anti-socialist and will do anything to use its economic and military power to turn people against Marxism.

And American citizens do nothing but learn this US propaganda and pass it on. It doesn't matter if you're from a rich country with free education and better health care. So much of Russia's history and accomplishments has been wiped out by the US and manipulated despite it being one of the most powerful countries in the world and invading another country from the global north.

Lots of countries in the global south have those things. Countries like Japan are technically more developed than America and yet everybody understands how USA has more power it.

If you're using those arguments to prove American privilege doesn't exist then you also do not understand how greatly different countries in the global south are and not all of us come from poor underdeveloped places. Seriously if you think people from global south are oppressed only because we're poorer you don't understand our oppression enough.

Privilege on an individual level goes beyond money and your personal quality of life.

White people use the same arguments of poverty and other stuff to show how there is apparently no privilege. If people understand how deeply wrong it is then why is it so hard for people to grasp what I am talking about?

Even when it comes to people of color, although there is huge effort from conservatives to stop leftists from talking about racism, the racism American people of color face still receives most attention compared to aboriginals of Australia or native people of Canada.

And speech is very important in activism. I shouldn't have to explain that.

I am not saying your life as an American under your mostly right wing government is great. You have talked enough to let us know the American dream isn't real. But privilege is more complicated than that. You're doing the same thing white people do.

"I'm gay and poor so how am I more privileged than the rich straight black woman?"

That's not how it works. Sorry

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

I've been getting into baseball recently, and it's got me thinking about the weird push for Americans to get into soccer. (I'm not imagining that, am I? The weird disdain you see for people who prefer football?)

A lot of people in college would tell me that soccer was the only sport worth caring about, because it's so popular worldwide. I always thought that was a funny argument. Like, why should it matter to me that I'm watching the same game as someone on a different continent? Isn't it kinda cooler if there's a wide variety of games worldwide?

Baseball is the biggest in the US, I'm sure, but it's also huge in countries like Japan, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba... and that's really cool, I think! The fact that baseball resonates so much with the people there says something small, but interesting about both the sport and the culture and history of the area. And cricket is a big deal in India and Australia - it's not a sport I care about much, but I love how there are places where people do care. I just find stuff like that so cool, and it would really depress me to think that the only metric for how much a sport should matter is how many countries agree that it matters.

Not sure if this is anything you'd care about, sorry - just, booooo to globalism, I guess! Regional quirks are good for humanity!

So, first off, if you're just getting into baseball I'd enthusiastically recommend the PBS documentary Baseball by Ken Burns. I just started getting into baseball this year too (went to my first MLB game even) and it's a really great way to learn the history of the sport and why certain players and plays and teams and games are still talked about today.

Second, in America, soccer is the little known hipster Euro indie band of sports. It doesn't matter if it's good or not, it's just unpopular enough to be cool and it's foreign, so people who want to look down on American culture latch onto it. I don't really know why soccer never caught on in the US. It can't be because it's boring or slow, because baseball can also be boring and slow, at least before they implemented the pitch clock (which I think is the greatest change the game has even seen and I probably just made a lot of people very mad lol) and that's the third most popular sport in the country. It can't be because it isn't violent like football or hockey, because, again, baseball, and also basketball because basketball players are the literal softest athletes in the world when it comes to fouls and basketball is more popular than soccer. It can't be because there's too many white people--hockey--or too many non white people--basketball.

I dunno, I'm going off on a side quest here.

You're right, "the rest of the world likes this" is one of the stupidest reasons to like something. Hell, I vastly prefer the XFL over the NFL, and me and my husband are watching Slamball later on tonight. I've watched all kinds of combat sports, and things like Wipeout and American Ninja Warrior. I've watched pro wrestling and amateur wrestling. I've watched grappling fights. I've watched figure skating. Snowboarding. Sure, many of these I've only watched once or twice, but the sheer variety of sports that are out there, some regional, some not, is a great thing. You can always find something that appeals to you. Even if it's only you and a few other people watching. One of the great things about sports is its ability to connect a room full of complete strangers for a few hours. Whether that "room" is your living room, or a sports bar, or a backyard, or a stadium filled to capacity doesn't matter at all. As long as you're enjoying something and getting something out of it, that's all that matters. The "best" sport is impossible to determine with any objectivity. The most popular sport is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what's fun to watch or play.

Besides, we all know the best sport is Blitzball anyway.

[pitstopreality-f1]

So it’s obsessive if we don’t like kelly because she is a racist? Or xenophobic? Or a fascist? She shared those stories. She liked those posts. She made fun of the Chinese for covid and the lockdown. She did that. Nobody forced her to post any of those things.

Also i don’t think her daughter agreed to have her naked pictures shared on the internet. Shared with over 1.4 million followers her mother has with even more people that have access to them. And its not just one pictures Penelope is naked on. There are multiple pictures posted by Kelly of her less than 1 year old daughter. I don’t think Penelope consented to those.

Yes she could have wanted to go to a race but there are races way closer she could have attended without dragging her through so many time zones in such a short time. Her dark circles and eye bags are worrying for a 4 year old. And I mean if Kelly as an adult is complaining about the travel she does in a week and complaining about struggling with time zone changes, why would anyone think to drag a child through the exact same thing would be healthy? Kelly posted those stories complaining about her travel and “work” last year more than once.

First off all, surely you read 'Kind words only' when you pressed the ask button, right?

So where are those? 😂

Second of all, using those fascists and racists stuff, it's getting old. I don't know what you want me to do about it? Hate her now?

Based on what you just wrote, it seems like you do know everything about her? And yes, that makes me think it's unhealthy how you all have her actions under a loop.

Let me guess? You don't like Max either because he is racist and used slurs? Just because he fell in love with a women you don't know personally?

That's the thing with this generation? You can't really seem to say anything without getting canceled or being called a racist or whatever there is more of.

You can't place someone in the same category just because their parent is shit. They're their own person. Yes, we do get influenced by them still at some point, realizing later on what we did wasn't something we ourselves actually didn't want but we learn from those and that's how you grow, yes even when you're 35, 46 or 60. We will always learn.

Besides, they flew from Australia to Japan straight after and have been their for 2 weeks? I don't think there is much of a time difference between those two countries.

What I am saying is that don't judge and firstly, look at your own behavior. You don't know her. You only see and read about her from other people that also don't know her.

If you don't like her? Why are you even wasting your time? Do something you like. Scroll through the bunnies tag or flowers tag.

Be nice. Be kind. It's not that hard to do.

[semperama]

i love ur fic!! maybe for a prompt, maxiel as parents!! ❤️❤️

Anon, I confess that I am not a kidfic person, but I wanted to give this a shot anyway! Not sure this counts as a fic so much as an extended headcanon. When I think of Max and Daniel as parents, this is what I think about.

It takes a long time, an agonizingly long time, for them to get on the same page about this.

“What?” Daniel says, laughing, the first time Max brings it up, an offhand comment about their future family. Daniel thinks it’s a joke—he wouldn’t be laughing if he didn’t, he’s not cruel—and it takes a handful of seconds before he sees the hurt on Max’s face and the grin drops off of his own. “Oh. Max, I thought—”

“You love kids,” Max blurts. His skin is hot and itchy, his chest tightening with embarrassment.

“I love being an uncle,” Daniel says. He’s searching Max’s face, looking nervous now. Worried. “I like playing with them and then giving them back.” He chews on the corner of his lip, then looks away. “I’m not sure I’m cut out for more than that.”

“That’s fine,” Max says automatically. It’s instinct, to reassure Daniel, to make this okay. “It doesn’t matter. I wasn’t, I didn’t really mean—”

They drop it. They’re both happy to let it drop. Max takes it in stride, buries the desire deep, because he doesn’t want anything in this world as much as he wants to be with Daniel. The only thing in this world he can’t live without is Daniel.

It doesn’t come up again until the year after Max retires, when he’s forgotten all about it, when he’s enjoying being in one place for a while, being at Daniel’s side for a while. Daniel says, “I’ve been thinking…” and this time Max is the one who laughs.

“We’re too old,” he says, though this is, of course, ridiculous. He’s thirty-six, but he feels old. Daniel’s hair is streaked with silver. People older than them have had kids, he knows, but…still. He’s already resigned himself to a life with just the two of them, and he doesn’t want to look back now.

“You’re probably right,” Daniel says, shaking his head as if at his own silliness. “It was just a thought. Don’t worry about it.”

It takes two more years for them to look at each other one day and realize they’re ready. It takes months more on a waiting list, and then suddenly she’s here, a baby girl. A year later, a baby boy. And then they’re a family. They were a family before, too, but now they’re a family.

They still aren’t always on the same page. There are nights Daniel gets frustrated, when they’ve sat down on the back deck with their glasses of wine, and suddenly the baby monitor crackles to life, a cry for more milk or another cuddle. There are days when Max has to get in the car and drive, spend an hour walking up and down grocery store aisles alone. It’s a miracle any of them survive the first flight to Australia, to spend Christmas with the grandparents.

But then there are the days when Max sees Daniel chasing the kids around the yard, pretending to be a monster and making them shriek with fake fear. And there are times—report cards, football matches, conversations about the way the world works—when Max can’t believe that he and Daniel managed to pull this off, not only keep two people alive but raise them to be cool and interesting in ways Max knows he wasn’t at their age.

It’s a miracle crazier than anything he could have dreamed up. He and Daniel made something better than the sum of both of them.

[mcl38]

lando's written another column after montreal! and, as promised, i am providing the article in its entirety here on tumblr so you don't give ad money to the telegraph; article under the cut, enjoy

Why McLaren can bounce back from our weekend of hell - and my view on porpoising row

Montreal was a disaster but 2022 rules mean we can bounce back at Silverstone - and at least I got to play a round of golf with Ian Poulter

One of the wildest things about the 2022 season has been the way in which performance has fluctuated so dramatically from track to track. To an extent, that is to be expected, with the teams all getting used to these new technical regulations. But I have certainly never known anything like it in my career.

The good news is that it means things can change quickly. Montreal was, truth be told, a bit of a weekend from hell for us at McLaren. But there is no reason to believe we cannot turn things around and be a lot more competitive at our home race at Silverstone next week. After all, we went from 15th at the first race of this season at Bahrain, where we were miles off the pace, to fifth in Australia two races later, and then a podium finish at Imola.

Yes, we have been less competitive at the last two races in Azerbaijan and Canada. But we know the reasons why, and we are working hard to put things right.

It felt a bit like everything that could have gone wrong in Montreal did go wrong. In qualifying we had an issue with the power unit which ruled me out of Q2. That was a blow because those changeable conditions were just what we would have wanted, offering opportunities to make up places.

Given the lack of overtaking in the race the following day, every place on the grid was invaluable.

The race itself was frustrating, with the Virtual Safety Car coming out a few laps after we pitted and then getting double-stacked and having a few hiccoughs with the tyre change.

[pic of lando in his car with seb and a very menacing charles behind him]

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. I think a points finish might just have been on the cards had everything gone perfectly in qualifying and on race day, but any number of drivers could say the same. The truth is we did not have enough pace in Canada. And I have to hold my hand up to mistakes.

It was a tough weekend for the team, with my team-mate Daniel Ricciardo also out of the points in 11th. But we will learn from it.

'I cannot wait to get out there at Silverstone'

We have a few things in the pipeline for Silverstone and I cannot wait to get out there, in front of our home fans. Just the drive into Silverstone is like nothing else, all that positive energy, from the marshals on the gates when you first arrive in the morning, to the fans waving union flags or wearing McLaren colours. You feed off the support. It makes a massive difference.

We will do our utmost to turn around our Canada form. We have a few bits and bobs in the pipeline, the track surface is completely different to Montreal and it will be interesting to see whether the new FIA technical directive regarding porpoising has come into effect by then. Obviously, that was the major talking point over the Canada weekend and I must admit to being a bit conflicted on it.

[lando in silverstone last year - pretty orange mcl35m and a bunch of british flags]

The truth is we are not massively affected by porpoising, so we were not pushing for change. But safety has to come first.

If there is a real danger that drivers could have long-term health consequences from the bouncing, or that they could lose focus and crash, then something has to be done. I can see both sides.

The front two teams have clearly done a much better job than anyone else of interpreting the rules, so I can see why they would be against change mid-season.

At the same time, without having experienced the severity of porpoising that others have, I do not want to criticise anyone. Safety has to come first, and while it might not be affecting me now, these regulations are long term.

'I would want my fellow drivers to have my back'

If I had a problem in a year or two which I felt was endangering my health, I know I would want my fellow drivers to have my back.

My main concern is that it is fair for everyone – ideally you would implement any changes post-season – but inevitably it is going to affect some more than others.

Obviously, we have designed our car one way, with a certain philosophy in mind, and it could move things more in our direction or away from it. We shall see. There are people far brainier than me tasked with working it out!

In the meantime, I am just looking forward to getting back to the UK and to our home race. I actually stopped en route for a round of golf with Ian Poulter just outside New York, so the weekend was not all bad. It is no secret I am a bit of a golf nut.

Watching Matt Fitzpatrick win the US Open on Sunday night – for once I was in the right time zone and did not have to stay up to the small hours to watch – was absolutely inspiring.

We will do our best to give the British fans something else to cheer next weekend.

(jsyk, if you want to see lando's monaco article or any of his future columns, i am tagging them all with '#lando's columns' so they are easy to find)

[ladykinrannoch]

Hi LK. Agree that people have the right not to vax. Although the situation with Novak was more complex. Or not actually. At the time he wanted to play there were restrictions on the unvaccinated which meant if they gave Novak an exception to come into the country and play, it would understandably have been taken badly by the public. There were a few situations where the rich and famous were given exemptions when they shouldn’t have. The funny thing is from the situation with Novak and the restrictions placed on him to make it fair for everyone else, we ended up seeing a completely arrogant and entitled side to him. Each country had restrictions in place based on the judgements made by many experts (I’m not discounting that they could have been the wrong decisions). Australia had the advantage of seeing what had already happened with the virus in other countries prior to it hitting Australia so they had more information and forewarning to make the decisions they had to make. Therefore the rules were different.

Early on the vaccine trial, it is was already clear that the vax did not stop the spread, then they said no you misunderstood us, it will only keep you out of hospital, which also appeared not to be true. My aunt-in-law was hospitalised with unspecified septicaemia 4 weeks after her shot and was dead in 30 days. Also early on, myocarditis and pericarditis were anecdotally linked to the vax, and they denied it, now this has turned out to be true and the drug companies have been instructed to surveil for long term heart issues. All this was known last year. Was he arrogant and entitled, or was he rightfully sceptic of all the hypocrisy and infringement on human rights? The amount of illogical thinking that was imposed throughout lockdowns and in forcing people to believe the vax propaganda was ridiculous. I just hope that all these governments and the ministers who imposed all this, get tried and sentenced under Nuremberg. I respect Novak for standing firm and calling out the BS. I don't see it as arrogant and entitled, I did the same things, I held out, I joined an activist group and campaigned to call out the idiocy of it all. I am a nobody. An ordinary citizen protecting my rights. Just because he is a tennis star doing the same, doesn't speak to entitlement, it speaks to integrity and core beliefs, played out on an international stage. Perhaps because of Novak, people really started waking up!? We are indebted to him if anything at all. I wish him the best of luck for the tournament and I for one will be supporting him to go all the way.

[leviiackrman]

For Mineyo x Rin pls!

First impression of each other? Was it love at first sight?

Anything they both dread?

Do they share any interests or hobbies?

How much would they be willing to sacrifice for the other? Any lines they refuse to cross?

4. First impression of each other? Was it love at first sight?

It wasn’t love at first sight. The pair met in middle school and Mineyo was assigned to be Rin’s translator/teacher of English because of the language barrier! They started off as just classmates, but because he could speak freely with her in Japanese, they got a lot closer and she was his one proper friend while he was in Australia! I would say mineyo was a bit annoyed that she was given this role at first because of how focused she is towards her diving, but after getting to know him she quickly got over that and the pair enjoyed each others company a lot! It wasn’t until they reunite in Japan years later that they get together

14. Anything they both dread?

Mineyo dreads overly crowded spaces but that doesn’t resonate with Rin in the same way. I do think part of her apprehension in these situations has carried over to him tho, because if they’re out together, he’ll be thinking ‘right where’s the best place to get her away from everyone? How am I gonna keep her safe/calm?’ So his anxiety has gone up a bit in those situations but for her sake, not his. Being in a similar mindset helps him help her basically! So now he’s not overly fond of crowds too cus he knows how it’ll effect Mineyo ):

21. Do they share any interests or hobbies?

Swimminggggggggg! When they were in middle school, this was a big factor towards them becoming close friends! When Rin said he moved to Aus to train for swimming, she was so excited cus she was doing the same but for diving (except she lived in aus already haha) outside of that, Mineyo introduced him to cliff diving so now that’s a big thing they enjoy doing together, but they also like the odd gaming session (usually at his house with his sister Gou involved too) or the v rare basketball game!

37. How much would they be willing to sacrifice for the other? Any lines they refuse to cross?

The one line neither will cross is expecting the other to give up their dream/career for the other person. Having the relationship alongside their training has been one of the biggest challenges for them as a couple (and sadly the reason they broke up so many times) because they never want to step on the others toes or hold them back.

In a different situation altogether tho, Rin has adapted his way of approaching things/handling things after learning about her trauma/anxiety. He’ll happily change small aspects for her benefit so that she’s comfortable, and really she’ll do the same - she just takes longer to realise it. She’s v standoffish, but the longer she’s with him and learns he/their friendship group want to help her overcome her trauma, the more capable she becomes at sacrificing aspects that aren’t so important (like not being stubborn about small things yknow?) one thing Rin has sacrificed is his headphones/hoodies haha - they really make her feel safe and having the headphones on in public has become the norm for Mineyo, but Rin happily accepts that she can’t hear him while they walk because the music is on and knows it’ll be best for her, so he makes sure to hold her hand at all times and tap her if he wants to talk

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Last song you listened to: Maybe Tomorrow by the Stereophonics. I recently rediscovered this song after probably ten years of forgetting. Filled with pathos.

Currently reading: I just finished First Love by Ivan Turgenev. I think I’ll read Crime and Punishment next (Dostoyevsky) or War and Peace (Tolstoy). They’re both sitting by the bed, demanding my attention in equal measure.

Last movie: 200 Cigarettes! I recently dug out a story I wrote back in ‘99, and vaguely recalled I was trying to emulate this film. So I wanted to watch it to see how I did, but it wasn’t on any of the five streaming services I have access to (password sharing ftw) so I’d given up on finding it only to discover yesterday that the whole movie is up on Youtube. Happiest moment of my life! (I did badly, btw, with the emulation. In my defence, I’d just left high school 😆).

Last show: Umm... Band of Brothers a couple weeks back, I guess. Rewatching for the tenth time.

Craving: Coffee, as always :)

What are wearing right now: Pyjamas and a dressing gown because *finally* it’s cold in the mornings. Love autumn.

How tall are you: Just shy of six foot. 

Piercings: Just my ears. 

Tattoos: I have four. A made-up symbol on my ankle I got when I was 18 - literally the day I was legally allowed to get it 😊 I’d planned it for a year beforehand. The word Bittersweet on my back (’all in life is bitterwseet’ as I wrote in a poem at the time) when I was 23; A series of astrological symbols on my left inner forearm which represent me, my fam, and the people who were closest to me at the time. Got that on my 30th birthday in London. And most recently, at 33, a lucky year for me when a lot of things ended and I took back my power (a long, long journey) I marked it with a tattoo - it’s on the inside of my right arm, a feather quill, and the words, ‘... I meant what I said.’ Love tattoos! Would have so many more if I was rich.

Glasses? Contacts? Glasses. My vision isn’t too bad, just need them for reading. Lil long sighted.

Last thing you ate: I haven’t yet today, it’s still too early. Last night’s dinner was pasta bake with chorizo.

Favourite colour: Green, though I really love any colour that’s bright and clear - I am currently going through a phase of bright purples and pinks.

Current obsession: Two of my OC’s and their relationship development (Arity and Jimmy). Maybe also the temple complex I’m building in Minecraft 😅 I spent all day yesterday working on it and I am thinking I might do the same today.

Any pets: Otto Von Krum the schnauzer (my baby boy); Tiki Taco the chihuahua (Daddy’s girl); and Lady Pablo, aka Tiny Bun, my rescued house rabbit.

Favourite fictional character: Favourite? Like, out of all of them?? I couldn’t possibly choose. 

The last place you travelled: Along the south coast of Western Australia, as far as Esperance. My favourite place we stopped, my favourite place in the world I think, is Denmark. It’s a beautiful town in amongst hills, with a wide green river flowing through it, surrounded by forests. It’s a different world. Oh, and it has the best pie-shop in the world too, which doesn’t hurt. [Meat pies, that is. Very Australian 😊]

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[justaredheadf1fan]

Finally, we're back Down Under again!

Hello there!

I'm excited about Australia! I don't even know why, but I am. I'm watching everything quite late actually, but here we go.

Press conference - Thursday

I honestly don't care about what Piastri has to say. I get that he's an Aussie and that we don't have Danny boy to cheer the pressers up, but it's still a nope for me. Sorry not sorry, kid.

I saw on TikTok that Sharl is wearing the bracelet a fan gave him and it's true! How can this boy be this sweet? Seriously, I can't help but love him more for that.

There's not really been anything else worth mentioning apart from the fact that George can talk for HOURS on end. Jesus kid, sometimes it's too much 🤣

Only thing they said that has some substance to it is what they said about the Free Practice sessions that our friend Domenicalli wants to suppress from the race weekends. It's not the most fun thing to watch, but for them those sessions are crucial to learn and see possible things to fix before a race.

I hope practice is more interesting today at least, although I'm not really expecting it to be.

Free Practice 1 - Friday

Fp1 is starting out with some drivers experiencing bouncing again. God, didn't we get passed this already? Silly me, of course not. Kevin going off track... It's starting off as quite an unstable session.

Lewis' car snapping too... What is this?!

Nothing much going on for a while now, time stamps remaining similar to the 2 previous race weekends for now with a couple exceptions.

Checo going off track too after losing his rear. Now that's a surprise. Aaaand Yuki losing the car too going to the gravel, the grass... All of it. What's going on today? Ouch he almost crashed into Lewis while going back on track. Lewis clearly didn't like it...

Oh shit Kevin... The session was Red Flagged, I guess because all of the gravel on track? Oh no, it's a GPS issue. WTF. And Zhou almost crashed into a RBR and AM. Poor kid, that must've been quite the scare in that corner.

So now there's been an update about the "touching the car" issue during a penalty serving during a pit stop. Now, finally the decision is that any little touch on the car would be considered working on the car, so it'd mean taking an extra penalty. The only thing that should be worked out now is that the FIA need to do their jobs and serve the penalties during the race unless whatever happens takes place right at the end of the race itself.

And now Sid the Sloth spins and complains. Short Yellow Flag and on we go. And now Sargeant goes off too. Session Red Flagged again and now the session is finished. Good thing is that Lewis apparently got P2. I say apparently since I feel like nowadays Lewis is barely on screen lately unless it involves someone "more interesting". Whatever, but good for him.

At this point I'm thinking of semi-overnight it to watch FP3, which in Spanish time happens at 3:30am I believe? And I'll watch Quali when I wake up, otherwise I might die 🤣

Free Practice 2 - Friday

I hadn't noticed until the beginning of FP2 that Alpine are still running the pink cars. I thought that it was just for 2 races. What an ugly color 💀

Lance fucking up Checo's lap is just the light of the session for me. And a Ferrari quite the same. Very nice.

It's raining now, should be interesting. OMG Lance, what are you fighting the wall about? 🤣 Many drivers going into the pits due to the rain, apparently a those menacing clouds are making an appearance.

Darth Toto is the most interesting of the last 20 minutes so far. That says a lot 🤪

Lance almost spinning and going slightly into the grass was a near miss. Lance please, I DO NOT NEED A HEART ATTACK. And he comes knocking again in the gravel. Jesus Lance, stop this 🥲

Lewis and George both slipping in the exact same place. Is this Melbourne drift now? I'm so sorry.

And that's about it for today 🤷🏻‍♀️ Pretty plain session overall, but a little hope's there for the rest of the weekend.

Free Practice 3 - Saturday

So we're really having 4 DRS zones this weekend, which I had missed yesterday. Not sure how that'll go, but it'll be interesting for sure.

I don't get what the fuck is going on here that there's so many problems with traffic again and again and again. It's been way to frequent now.

One of the Spanish DAZN commentators, Toni Cuquerella, who's an engineer and has worked for years in F1, bashing Franz Tost like a pro. And he's right to do so after Tost's comments on not trusting his engineers. Buddy, you're the one who hired them in the first place, so maybe it's them who shouldn't trust you after all the years after TP and not achieving much at all 😗

The session has been Red Flagged and there's a very big chunk of a chasis, maybe from the Haas. Not sure whose is it, but good thing that's been reported quickly and the session stopped. Oh no, it's from De Vries' car.

Zhou almost hitting the wall, good thing he didn't. He's trying to ge the car back on track carefully. Ouf...

So that's it again. Except the traffic/GPS issues and everyone going off track quite a bit, pretty calm. Finally done with Free Practice, I wouldn't dream of waking up to watch Quali on time. Hope I can manage not to cry tomorrow waking up before 7am 🤣 When the fuck did I become this whinny? FFS.

Anyway, I'm finally going to sleep.

Peace out!

[ziskandra]

I posted 3,294 times in 2022

That's 3,140 more posts than 2021!

130 posts created (4%)

3,164 posts reblogged (96%)

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I tagged 3,177 of my posts in 2022

Only 4% of my posts had no tags

#the unreliable q - 2,029 posts

#dragon age - 1,352 posts

#ace attorney - 579 posts

#meredith stannard - 519 posts

#orsino - 225 posts

#mass effect - 171 posts

#about me - 152 posts

#miles edgeworth - 139 posts

#anders - 138 posts

#franziska von karma - 127 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#especially the pro tip about being about differentiating between having empathy for one’s friends and acknowledging that they’re being mean

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Reply to this post for a DRUNKEN EFFUSIVELY COMPLIMENT okay

20 notes - Posted December 3, 2022

#4

you are SO right for autistic Manfred lmao that is also my hc. This dude once screamed at the top of his lungs in the middle of court cause someone interrupted his routine. He's so fucking relatable unfortunately

TRULY. I too want to scream aloud when things don’t go as I’d planned in my head!

Like, there’s the other obvious things: law is clearly his special interest. He’s the kind of person who has a place for everything and everything in its place.

Then there’s the just fucking off-the-wall things, like, he retrained the parrot. Even thinking to ATTEMPT it doesn’t seem like allistic behaviour to me, and by god, Manfred succeeded.

But the biggest thing to me is just how … rigid he can be when things go wrong, and how he really struggles with emotional lability in times of crisis. I know relating villain’s crimes to autistic traits can often be controversial, but I believe in most cases with villains I personally headcanon as autistic, it’s the lack of support in their life and society that contribute to the crimes, not simply being autistic.

Which is why the part about the tragedy of it all — how it hurts more — if Manfred had been trying his best in your meta really hit home to me! I know for myself one of my autistic traits is obsessing over what people tick and what makes them do the things they do. I don’t think anyone’s truly evil, but I do believe that people so often act in the preservation of their own self image and … yeah, it that doesn’t explain Manfred’s actions �� perfectly (ba dum tsch).

OH, and there’s also just like, his sense of humour? It’s so arrogant but dry: “My PIN is 0001 because I’m number one!” “My granddaughter’s dog is named Phoenix, are you saying you’re her fiancé?” “Defense attorneys are like bugs to me, needless things, to be crushed.”

God, I love this man.

21 notes - Posted November 29, 2022

#3

introduction!

BASICS. Asha. Late 20s. they/them. autistic & adhd. brown. biracial. bisexual. shift-worker. Fascinated by fictional villains. FANDOMS. Primary: Ace Attorney & Dragon Age Dabbling in: Mass Effect, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Suits, Schitt's Creek (see fave characters and ships list here) LINKS. ziskandra on Ao3 ziskandra on Twitter ziskandra on Dreamwidth ziskandra#7191 @ Discord

Dragon Age Fanfic Masterlist [Ace Attorney & Mass Effect Masterlists TBA] ABOUT THIS BLOG.

I'm a fanfic writer and occasional art doodler & cosplayer from Australia. This is a personal blog, which contains everything from my own rambles about daily life, to reblogs of content I enjoy, to my own fandom creations.

I enjoy fannish meta but am generally disinterested in discourse. To clarify, I'm always down to read other people's takes and interpretations of media, but dislike being told what to think, or that there's only one valid way to perceive something. I'm more than happy to be friends with people who disagree with me over fandom things, if the same courtesy is extended to me in return. As a general rule, I don't talk about international politics in this space. I do, however, talk about Australian politics (#auspol) Big fan of curating one's own space. To that end, if there's anything I'm not tagging which you would like tagged, please feel free to ask! Caveat: I might not agree to do so, but would not hold any hard feelings for the request and/or if you needed to unfollow or block me as a result! Do what you need to for your best experience, as will I.

21 notes - Posted November 20, 2022

#2

ngl but rewatching the first season of the handmaid's tale after watching season 5 is so funny. one of the first things serena says to june is 'i want to see as little of you as possible'. followed up with basically 'if i'm given trouble i'll give you trouble back'

and now they're going to be raising their babies in exile together and you know what. good for them.

22 notes - Posted November 24, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Fanfic Author Self-Recs!

@haljathefangirlcat tagged me to rec five of my own fanfics with you all — thank you, friend! 💖 I've tried to go with a variety of different fandoms and have mostly focused on older works. I also purposely haven't recommended any of my Dragon Age works as I feel DA has been occupying a lot of my brain space lately, and I wanted to give some of the spotlight to my other fannish interests! I'm gonna tag @mxanigel, @barbex, @joiningthefandomeightyearslate, @chocochipbiscuit and @fandomn00blr to share five of their works with us (if you so desire!) Without any further ado, I present my self-recs: 1. Retrospect - Mass Effect: Andromeda - Alec Ryder/Ellen Ryder (10k, rated M)

They say your life flashes before your eyes before you die and he's about to find out just how right they are.

A series of vignettes exploring Alec Ryder's relationships with his nearest and dearest, and the faltering steps he took to bridge the gaps between them.

Every time any sort of self-recommendation meme comes up, Retrospect is always the first fic that comes to mind. To this day, I still consider it my magnum opus, as I feel it really captures my strengths as an author. Character study of a morally grey, controversial character? Check. Non-linear narrative? Check. Experimental prose? Check. Vignettes? Check. Themes of family and struggling to fit in? Check check. If anyone ever wants to make my entire fucking month, please read this fic and tell me your thoughts on it. You will have my undying gratitude! 💖

2. Grounded - Mass Effect Andromeda - Calvin Kosta/Joelle Kosta (2.2k, rated M)

Calvin remembers the first time he held Liam in his arms. Big baby, nine pounds. His son is an ugly, wrinkly thing and yet also the most beautiful sight in the world. He smooths down the infant’s hair, kisses the soft spot on his head and whispers, “You’re gonna do great things." During the Reaper War, Calvin Kosta reflects on his relationship with his son.

This fic did really well on Tumblr (one of the few times I'd ever gotten over 100 notes on a post), but didn't quite get the same level of traction on AO3, which was quite interesting to me at the time as I'd never had that happen before (or since!) Honestly, it covers a lot of similar themes as Retrospect, but this time focused on Liam's family and how they deal with the Reaper War when they're left behind on Earth. IDK, I'm just obsessed with examining the human drive to live and survive, and what we struggle for, and how both our past experiences and our hopes for the future shape our actions, whether we're willing to admit it to ourselves or not.

3. Best Served Hot - Ace Attorney - Miles Edgeworth/Franziska von Karma (2k, rated E)

Franziska's gloved fingers seized Miles's jaw, digging into the sides of his face. "We were never siblings," she said. "Papa made sure of that. But if I can't best you in any other way, then I will have this."

If Retrospect is my ultimate magnum opus, then Best Served Hot is my franmiles manifesto. It truly is all of my feelings about this complicated and messy relationship dynamic carefully distilled into a fanfic! Anyway, I'm obsessed with the fact that Franziska regularly refers to Miles as her little brother, but Miles never refers to her as his sister.

However, the way that Miles acts with Franziska is SO sibling-like, whereas Franziska's a bit... weirder. She never really had normal familial relationships modeled to her (Miles, on the other hand, at least had something of a normal upbringing before his father's death).

Franziska is also a character who, for lack of a better term, weaponises her femininity. She's so young but she's built this whole aesthetic around tight miniskirts and kitten-heeled boots and carrying and using a fucking bullwhip. So, I 'm particularly fascinated by the cross-section of Franziska's obsession with Miles Edgeworth and her insecurities (and how she over-compensates for them).

Of course, if she stopped to think about it for a minute, she should have realised that Miles Edgeworth is perhaps not the ideal target for her feminine wiles, but Franziska's not exactly known for keeping a cool head in a crisis.

Finally, this fic also explores another point in Franziska's life that I'm fascinated by, which is her reaction to Phoenix Wright's disbarment. Phoenix is the only lawyer who has ever bested her (if she can even admit that much), and I think she would be INFURIATED by the insinuation that he owes his career success to forgery. Franziska von Karma would NOT be bested by a fraud! (And also she would be furious that Klavier Gavin got the chance to do what she's always wanted to do -- that is, defeat Phoenix Wright -- but that's a topic for another fanfic.)

4. Intermission - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Audra Levine/Greg Serrano (2.3k, rated T.)

Recently divorced Audra Levine visits West Covina to provide moral support during her frenemy’s open mic night. Greg has always had a type.

While gregaudra (graudra?) might be something of a random ship, I was really surprised by how well they worked together (although in hindsight, it should have been obvious -- Greg really has a type, huh). I love Audra as a character, and I'm always obsessed with giving her room to grow and move on as a character and determine the shape of her own life, the way she wants, much as Rebecca (and Greg) got to do in the course of the series. (Also, its sequel, Realization, still has one of my favourite lines I think I've ever written: Audra's been busy filing away the parts of her life that don’t spark joy while retaining the parts that do, like she’s Marie Kondo-ing the weight and burden of everyone’s expectations instead of her household possessions.

I so rarely write in contemporary fandoms that it was a fun exercise to write stories where the popculture references actually help ground it in time and place.)

5. Sink or Swim - Harry Potter - Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood (12k, rated T.)

Percy has always struggled to keep his head above water.

(Or: the story of Percy Weasley, from his youth, through to his estrangement with his family, to the end of the war.)

It feels weird to be recommending HP fic in this day and age, but my complicated* feelings towards the fandom aside, I'm still really proud of how this fanfic turned out and how I was able to cram all of my Percy Weasley analysis into a coherent story. I particularly loved delving into how Percy was pushed into positions of responsibility from a young age (and then simultaneously derided for the very same qualities his parents reinforced), and how he struggled with his conflicting desires to fit in but also to succeed and be recognised for his talents and efforts. There's a couple of sentences from the fic which really encapsulate how I see Percy's relationship to his family, which I'll quote here:

In bits and pieces, Percy tells Oliver all about the estrangement to his family: how he’d always gotten along with his dad best growing up, no matter how his mother had doted on him. How when he was younger, he’d wanted nothing more than to be the next Arthur Weasley. How he’d always thought that his dad deserved more.

How it was easier to blame his father’s idiosyncrasies and personality for his family’s struggles with money, than to acknowledge it as a failure of the society he’d been raised in.

How he’d foolishly thought that if he studied enough, worked enough, succeeded enough, he could change it all.

Percy's story really is that of every working-class child who's sought to improve their life (and their family's life) through education and I just... relate to that a lot!!

25 notes - Posted November 27, 2022

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[aeoki]

High and Low: At World’s End - Chapter 11

Location: Australian Land Characters: Tetora & Hinata

Season: Autumn Writer: Akira

Tetora: Oh, I was wondering about the car too, so I asked Kurone…-san about it.

But it looks like ES has been trying to establish a thing where they palm a lot of stuff off to “ES II”.

The same goes for this studio bus as it seems it’s something Japan palmed off to Australia. Looks like the vehicle got passed around and around until it ended up being sold to the rental car shop. 

Apparently, Kurone-san asked for the best vehicle the shop had, so when they brought it out, they were really shocked to see it, seeing as it’s a vehicle we’ve seen before.

Hinata: I see… ES and “ES II” – I mean, Japan and Australia must’ve established some sort of economy together.

Stuff like that doesn’t concern us kids, but there’s nothing mysterious about there being an ES vehicle overseas… right?

Tetora: I guess so… If we are being pranked in the first place, isn’t it a bad move to have left the logo on the bus in plain sight like that?

Hinata: I know, right~? It’s practically announcing to the world that it’s a suspicious object. It’s such a mediocre prank.

Tetora: Hm~ But, just in case, I don’t think it would hurt to be a bit wary of Anzu no Anego and the others.

Once the agency’s part of it or if it’s for ‘certain reasons’, then it doesn't matter what the person who’s been ordered to do it thinks.

It’s not always guaranteed that the “producer” will definitely be on our side, after all.

Hinata: That’s pretty dark, hearing it from “RYUUSEITAI” who look like they’ve been pushed around over and over by those ‘certain reasons’.

Tetora: Well, I have a feeling Anzu no Anego will be on our side no matter what, though.

Hinata: She can’t really take a hint, can she? If only she could get along better in the world~

Tetora: That’s true. Being street smart isn’t always the “correct way” or so I think.

I don’t really know how to explain it, but it feels like you’ll lose out on something important.

Hinata: Well, putting Anzu-san aside, we don’t know much about that Kurone person, so let’s be a bit cautious of them.

Tetora: Hmm~ It looks like Tomoya-kun and the others trust Kurone-san, and since they trust them, I think Kurone-san deserves to be trusted too.

Hinata: You’ve got it the wrong way round: It’s because those guys trust that person, we need to be the ones to be wary of them.

The worst-case scenario will be when everyone falls into the trap.

But if one person was wary and ended up safe, then they can pull everyone up to the surface.

Tetora: …You've actually thought things out, huh, Hinata-kun. 

Hinata: Oh~? Whaddya mean? Did you think I was a dum-dum with no brain?

Tetora: No. You are the leader of “2wink”, after all.

A leader has to think about a lot of things so it must be tough.

Hinata: Don’t say stuff like that. You’re the one who made the old leader of “RYUUSEITAI” give up his position so what am I supposed to say to that?

Should I be comforting you? Laughing at you? Deny what you said? Agree with what you said?

Tetora: No, I didn’t do something like make him give up his position. Everyone in “RYUUSEITAI”, including me, agreed to it, accepted the agency’s intentions and restored the “unit” to it’s old form!

We just went back to the old “RYUUSEITAI” where Morisawa-senpai was the leader. Everything would go smoothly if we did that. 

Hinata: So, is everything going smoothly then?

Tetora: …T-Things are pretty awkward at the moment.

I was arguing a lot with Midori-kun about it before the school trip. 

It’s a weird situation. We should have already accepted how things currently are.

But we’re just not on the same page… In order to make things exciting in the new “RYUUSEITAI”, I’ve been actively taking a lot of jobs under the unit's name.

But, it seems Midori-kun is just not motivated in that aspect.

He’s just been accepting nothing but individual work offers and this time, he even prioritised school events that have supposedly nothing to do with our idol activities.

I’m just so stressed. He was the one that was so eager to agree to the agency’s directions in restoring “RYUUSEITAI” to its old form.

I know we can’t make it so that decision never happened. And I know I’ve gotta acknowledge– I mean, steel myself and move forward.

All I can do is work as hard as I can in order to be closer to a better future. But it looks like Midori-kun doesn’t have any intention of contributing to “RYUUSEITAI” at all.

All he does is complain and sigh all the time. Looking at him just irritates me.

If he doesn’t like our current situation,

Then he should’ve said something in the first place.

Who cares what the agency wants? He should’ve just said that he prefers the way “RYUUSEITAI” is right now.

He should’ve just said he liked the old “RYUUSEITAI” instead of the “RYUUSEITAI N” that we’ve created with the three of us…

Midori-kun was the one who expressed through his attitude and words that he preferred Morisawa-senpai over me.

Things turned out the way he wanted so why doesn’t he look happy? He’s always so cowardly and grumbling all the time…

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