#gcses 2019

[cheriladycl01]

When at work - Lando Norris x UniStudent! Reader

Plot: Lando has known you since you were born, literally childhood friends. You went to every karting weekend with him until he started to travel more. As childhood lovers who have been dating for 8 years what happens when the general public find out about you?

You'd known Lando since you were born just two years after him, and so until Year 4 when you excelled in your academics you were a school year behind him, you were moved up a year to his year. You followed him to the karting tracks when you were little being his biggest supporter and if you go back and look at interviews you'll always be spotted talking animatedly to his family about the race.

You had very strict parents about schooling and they wouldn't let you miss any days off, you could go to karting with Lando, after school or on the weekends but you couldn't take days off school for his races.

"Mum please! I want to go support him!" you cried when she told you that you couldn't have the day off to go watch Lando kart in one of his first proper championship races.

"No Y/N, Lando has found something he is good at... you are a smart girl and school is where you should be!" you mum had refused, smiling at you sadly.

"Dad?" you cried looking over at your dad, who would normally say yes to any request you had, especially if it involved Lando and his dad Adam, as they were friends.

"Sweetheart, I'm sorry but I'll have to agree with your mum on this one" he sighs pulling you into a hug. Those days at school that Lando wasn't there were lonely to say the least, Lando's friends wouldn't hang out with you if it was only you and you didn't have any of friends.

Eventually Lando quit school when he got to British Formula three, there he made lots of new friends including Max, who he introduced to you. You would miss Lando in school, and tried to branch out to make new friends but nothing felt as close as the bond you shared with Lando.

"Y/N, this is my friend Max I met him in karting" he smiles pulling you closer to Max.

"Erm, hi" you had smiled shyly at Max, who smiled back at you. With Max it felt like he was genuinely interested in getting to know you unlike Lando's school friends who just sort of acknowledged your existence because of Lando.

You and Max of course made fast friends after this.

This was 2015, and he asked you there and then to be his girlfriend. At first you laughed and said no, because you thought he was joking and one of the boys from karting had dared him as a cruel joke. But after lots of groveling on his behalf you said yes.

In 2016, you managed to exceed in your GCSE'S getting 6 A* to B grades. Lando had come just to celebrate with you. The next year you did the last of your GCSE's getting 7 more A* - B grades making you come out with 13 GCSE's in total. Lando had come to celebrate with you, while you had gone to celebrate with him that he had won the Formula 3 championship.

He of course, was promoted to Formula 2 for the 2018 season and became a test and reserve driver for Mclaren, which made you so proud because this was his way of being able to get into Formula One. You went on to do your Alevel-s, which were Maths, Physics, Design and Technology and Law. You were now just turned 17 and looking at universities you could go to, and looking at what degree you wanted to go into.

He came second in Formula 2, just behind the other British Racing Driver George Russell. And was promoted to F1 for the 2019 Season and would be in his rookie season.

Halfway through his first season which had gone pretty well with only 2 DNF's and him coming 6th highest, you'd finished your exams and had got offers back from all 5 universities you'd applied to. It was sad really, you'd applied to the University of Surry and University of Royal Holloway just to be near the Mclaren Technology Centre so you could be closer to Lando in the off season.

You'd ended up choosing Cambridge University in the end and spend the rest of your summer until the end of September travelling to races with Lando, you went with his Dad, having his other spare pass. You saw him in Monaco, Canada, France, Austria, Silverstone, Germany and Hungry before you spent the summer break in Greece together along with Max. Then you came with him to Belgium, Italy and Singapore before you had to go home to move into student accommodation.

As a rookie there wasn't too much focus on Lando, but when a girl was spotted with him in the paddock for 10 races, people had questions. After they did some digging they worked out that you were childhood friends with Lando and you were in his older and definitely cringier Instagram pictures, and they checked his tagged photos which led them to your account that he was following.

Luckily it was private but you were shocked at the influx of follow requests.

Rumors spread and people deducted that you must be his girlfriend. It made you nervous but Lando promised to go at your pace.

Your first year of university was cut short, everything went into lockdown, and you were alone in your little dorm room with 5 other housemates. It was a month until you finished all your exams online, and made the decision to travel to Lando's to live with him.

You ended up staying with him for the whole lockdown, and then travelling around with him for the whole of the 2020 season. You managed to do this while studying as your campus was shut for the whole of 2020 and most of 2021. You had an amazing second year grade passing with a 92 overall school having a 1st in your second year. So when 2021 came around you'd applied for Formula One internships so you could keep travelling around with Lando and almost all of them as they already knew you accepted you, you had a difficult time deciding who to go with.

Eventually you went with Red Bull, of course Lando had made jokes about how betrayed he felt, but was happy for you being in a top constructor. You joined them for the 2021 Azerbaijan GP, on the 6th of June you were there for 17 races in 2021 and learnt so much from the team.

You spent until September 2022 with them having major input on the build of the 2022 Red Bull to the point Christian Horner ask for you to be shown on the Instagram. 14 races you spend with them and it was a wild ride before you had to go back to University for your final year.

At this point you and Lando had been together for 7 years strong now. People worked out how long you'd been together a while ago and it had really shocked them. They expected you to be engaged and ... well they weren't far off.

He proposed to you in the winter break of 2022 on a ski holiday he'd taken you on. All of your's and his family were there too see and it was beyond magical. You were going into the 2023 season with a Fiancé and your soulmate.

You let your Instagram go public during this time, the fans had been asking for more content from you. You appeared on streams, and Lando always posted you on his accounts. Now it was time for them to go and stalk you account, instantly people went back through your photos finding old pictures from when you and Lando were younger and then the more recent pictures that everyone thought were cute.

Now Lando had gone back to racing and you were starting revision for exams that would happen in May.

However, you didn't tell Lando, that money was getting a bit tight. You'd always been funny when it came to how much Lando earned and how he always insisted that you lived rent free with him and to not worry about it. So at the start of 2023, towards the end of your degree you got a little side job as a barista in an independent coffee shop.

Lando of course being busy now that it was the start of the 2023 season and he had a new rookie team mate to meet, he was none the wiser.

It was just a typical day at the coffee shop when you were with your colleague, making yourself a drink when a girl and her friend came in.

"Oh my gosh, your Y/N!" a voice says making you look up, you smile happily not thinking much off it because you were wearing a name badge so you assumed she got it from there.

"Yes, hello how can I help you today!" you ask politely stopping making your drink and walking over to the till.

"You're Y/N Lando Norris Fiancé right?" she asks and your mouth drops open in shock. You had been noticed around the paddock, of course you had... but this was the first time someone had come to you in public.

"Ah yes I am!" you smile shyly. The interaction was relatively normal, you served them their drinks and made conversation with them before having to go back and serve more customers.

You didn't notice them take pictures and videos of you interacting and serving customers, which of course made their way onto social media. Suddenly and influx of customers came, which was strange for a Tuesday afternoon.

As well as the influx of customers you had people come in with cameras, starting to take pictures.

"Y/N what is happening all of these people are asking for you" Rhianne your co-worker asks and that's when the blender turns off and you can hear people calling your name.

They were fans of F1.

"Hey Y/N Lando deserves better than you"

"Y/N why are you working minimum wage when you have a boyfriend with a net worth of over 10 mil"

"Y/N break up with Lando"

"Oh my god, how did they all know this is where I work" you say asking your colleague not sure what to even do.

"Okay, let's get you out the back. Call the police and I'll try keep up with orders" She says pushing you towards the exit, the staff room was on the other side of the shop so you were going to have to tackle your way through the mound of people.

Eventually after people shoving phones in your face and grabbing at your wrist. You manage to get into the staff area and lock the door. You were crying as you called the police, who said they'd send bodies to you immediately.

After you hung up, your phone started to ring and Lando's face popped up.

"Hi baby" you say trying to sound like your not crying. Your camera was facing up so he couldn't see you.

"Y/N show me where you are right now. I swear to god, if what I'm seeing on twitter is true" he huffs out making you pan down the camera to show the back room you were in. He was in Australia right now and had heard from Oscar that you were trending on twitter and looked scared.

"Are you safe?" he asks worried, making you burst into tears. You could suddenly feel everyone's hands back on you and your breathing goes shallow.

"Mmm, I had to call the police there was so many people" you cry, wiping your tears.

"Baby, I'm so sorry. Look after Australia, I'm coming to you okay! Why the fuck didn't you ask me if you needed money" he asks looking at you with that disappointed look you hated.

"Lando, you know how i feel about that" you say.

"Baby, your still in Uni. You shouldn't have to work. Do you parents know?" he asks, and you shake you head.

"Hey Y/N! How are you?" Oscar asks coming into view of the camera.

"I'm okay Oscar, I cant wait to meet you next week!" You smile at him, blinking away the tears that were still trying to come out.

"Oh, I think the police are here, but I'll call you when I'm home!" you say hearing a knock at the door.

"Ask them to take you home. You shouldn't walk round the streets alone! I love you darling" Lando sighs.

"I love you too Lando, thank you!"

A/N: I feel like this isn't very good, I'm sorry this feels like its so info dumpy and not much fluff!!

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[emma-watson-blog]

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. The same year, she was diagnosed with ADHD and was put on Ritalin as she struggled to sit still. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years, she trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing and acting. By the age of ten, she had performed and taken the lead in various Stagecoach productions and school plays.

In 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (2001), the film adaptation of British author J.K. Rowling's bestselling novel. Casting agents found Emma through her Oxford theatre teacher. After eight consistent auditions, producer David Heyman told Emma and fellow applicants, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, that they had been cast for the roles of the three leads, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. The release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) was Emma's cinematic screen debut. The film broke records for opening-day sales and opening-weekend takings and was the highest-grossing film of 2001. Critics praised the film and the performances of the three leading young actors. The highly distributed British newspaper, 'The Daily Telegraph', called her performance "admirable". Later, Emma was nominated for five awards for her performance in the film, winning the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film.

When Watson was five years old, her parents divorced and she moved to Oxfordshire, England with her mother and younger brother. Both of Watson's parents have remarried, and she has three half-siblings and two step-siblings

Watson attended the Dragon School, an independent preparatory school, until June 2003. She then transferred to Headington School, an independent girls' school.

Watson was diagnosed with hyperactive-impulsive type ADHD at the age of 5 and has been taking medication for the condition ever since.

An avid sports player, Watson enjoys playing hockey, tennis and rounders. She is also said to be a gifted singer

Emma graduated from Brown University in May 2014.

Has kept a painstakingly detailed log of her everyday life since her film career took off, as many as 30 journals in total.

Favorite Harry Potter book is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Best friends with Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint after practically growing up with them on the Harry Potter set. She calls them her 'brothers'.

Was offered the titled lead in Cinderella (2015) but turned it down.

Her parents are both British, and were living in Paris at the time of Emma's birth. Emma lived in France until the age of five, when her family returned to the United Kingdom.

Auditioned eight times (at age 9) for the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, playing opposite five prospective sets of Harry's before landing the part.

She achieved eight A* and two A passes in her GCSEs (exams British school pupils take in their last compulsory year of secondary school).

Prefers to sign autographs for fans rather than taking pictures with them.

Was offered the role of Mia in La La Land (2016) but turned it down to play Belle in Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast (2017). The role then went to Emma Stone, who won an Academy award for her performance. Ironically, she replaced Stone for the role of Meg March in Greta Gerwig's Little Women (2019) after Stone was unable to take the part due to her scheduling conflicts in promoting The Favourite (2018).

Both of her parents are lawyers.

Entering Brown University, Rhode Island, U.S.A. after completion of the Harry Potter Movies (July 21, 2009).to study literature.

Has said that she'd like to work with directors Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro.

Enjoys playing field hockey, netball and tennis (for school and local teams), skiing, painting, cooking, singing, and dancing (has twice competed with her school in Rock Challenge 2006 and 2007).

Her parents divorced in 1995; each parent has since remarried. On her father's side, she has a younger half-brother, Toby, born 2003, and half-sisters (identical twins) Lucy and Nina, born in 2004. Lucy and Nina played the younger version of her character Pauline in Ballet Shoes (2007). She also has two stepbrothers through her mother's remarriage.

Is a certified yoga and meditation instructor.

Is the former roommate and current best friend of America's Next Top Model (2003) Cycle 18 winner, Sophie Sumner.

(May 25, 2014) Graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in English literature.

She enrolled in a Shakespeare course at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts during the summer of 2008.

Attended The Dragon School, a renowned preparatory school in Oxford, between September 1995 and July 2001. She then went on to attend Headington School, a private all-girls school, between September 2001 and July 2006.

Emma Watson has stated that, since her audition at age 9 through the completion of 8 Harry Potter features by age 22, the hectic, educational experience consumed over half her life.

Used to have two cats, one named Bubbles and the other is named Domino when she was younger.

Was in a relationship with Will Adamowicz from 2012-2013. The couple met while studying at Oxford University in 2011.

She was named after her paternal grandmother, born Freda Emma Duerre who, after marriage, became Freda Emma Duerre Watson.

Took AS levels in English, Geography, Art, and History of Art in May 2007, and has now dropped History of Art to pursue the three A levels.

When she made a promotional appearance on a Dutch TV talk show for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), the interview ended with her joining the Dutch illusion act Magic Unlimited, who sawed her in half.

Has the same birthday as her Beauty and the Beast co-stars: Luke Evans and her Harry Potter collaborator Emma Thompson.

Is taking legal action after private photos of her trying on various outfits were stolen and posted online.

In 2008, BoyDestiny wrote and sang the song "You Got Me Going", also known as The Emma Watson Song.

Passed her driving test in the U.S. in 2008 and drives a Toyota Prius.

Watson passed her driving test on her first attempt on 28 January 2008.

Was named the face of the 2009 Fall/Winter Burberry Campaign.

In March 2010, Watson performed in Anton Chekov's Three Sisters, playing the youngest sister, Irina. The play was a student-directed play at Brown University, where she was a freshman at the time

In June 2010, Watson was featured in the music video of the song 'Say You Don't Want It' by One Night Only.

In July 2010, it was confirmed that Watson has an official twitter account. In August 2010 Watson confirmed that she had got a hair cut, photos were also released.

Watson launched a gin, called Renais, with her brother Alex Watson.

Emma Watson has combined/hyperactive type ADHD, for which she has been medicated ever since she was 5.

(April 24, 2011) Her publicist, Vanessa Davies, said that Emma will transfer from Brown University to another school in the Fall of 2011.

Was born at 6:00pm (GMT + 1 hour) on a Sunday.

Once accidentally mistook Jimmy Fallon for Jimmy Kimmel.

Lives in London, UK.

She was considered to voice Coraline Jones in "Coraline", which later went to Dakota Fanning.

Watson broke her wrist while filming Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Watson also used to have a pet hamster named Millie who Watson enjoyed taking to the Harry Potter set often, she recalled that Millie would squirm around in her lap while getting her make up done. Shortly after production began for Chamber of Secrets, Millie sadly passed away. Watson was left devastated and word of Millie's passing quickly ran through the studio. Then the set department made a special hamster-sized coffin for Millie and Watson said 'I don't think a hamster has ever had a better send-off'.

She doesn't drink tea or coffee. She says she doesn't like the taste

Watson has a younger brother, Alex who accompanied her to many premieres. He is also one of the models of Burberry

Though Watson's natural hair colour is brown, she dyed her hair blonde for Ballet Shoes and to avoid being typecast as 'the girl from Harry Potter'.

Watson's favourite line of which she said in the Harry Potter films was "I'm going to bed, before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed, or worse, expelled." She admitted she liked saying this line because it seemed like the wittiest thing to say at the young age of eleven or twelve.

At the age of just 10, Watson said that she would keep the money she earnt in a bank until she was 21.

Watson was nicknamed 'giggles' on the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, for laughing so much

Watson performed the background vocals in the second chorus of the song Pantomime by Ben Hammersley, alongside Ólafur Arnalds

Watson penned the foreword to Tom Felton's memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

Rumours claimed that Watson nearly did not return for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 filming, but ultimately decided to because she 'couldn't bear seeing anyone else playing Hermione'. However, she has on her official website denied this and explained that she was only trying to make it clear to Warner Bros. that she needed them to cooperate with her education for filming. She later attended Brown University in Rhode Island.

Even though Hermione doesn't have freckles in the books, Watson has freckles around her nose which are usually hidden by makeup in the films.

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

A Bastard's Carol: a work of fanfiction by scumbaganarchy 💣

Season's greetings, scumbags! I hope you're all having a pleasant day. I come bearing a gift (of a sort):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1we8qEVul2PTWFCtaVqyyXccVg8-xZBte/view?usp=sharing

A huge thank you to @viviangreeneart for the awesome art! ❤️ It turns out we should all definitely be making fake novel docs out of our fanfic. It's good for the soul.

Some pretentiousness about ABC below the cut.

Just over five years ago, a naiver version of me had the idea of writing a Young Ones/Rivyan parody of A Christmas Carol. She started actually writing for this idea in December 2019... and promptly discovered it was going to be a whole lot bigger than she'd anticipated. With one chapter posted before the big day, she decided to kick the rest into the new year.

That new year was 2020.

Yes, that 2020. Although, to be fair, what other one could I be talking about?

We'll skip all of that. None of us need to relive it.

One year, two or three lockdowns, and four indefensibly long chapters later, ABC was finally done and dusted in December 2020. It stood at around 60K words, making it by far the longest thing I'd ever written. I guess we all had to spend that empty time doing something, right?

Followers of this blog will have noticed, I'm sure, that I've never shut up about ABC since. Maybe you even rolled your eyes when you saw the title of this notification? Uh oh, she's going on about that old thing again...

Yep.

Look, I'm incredibly bad at hyping up my own work - self-deprecation is a bad habit, but a common one - and the more time that passes between who you were when you wrote something and who you are today, the harder being positive about it can get.

I was 18 when I wrote ABC. I had only gotten back into writing properly at 17. The whole work went through one major copy edit a year or so ago, when I knew a little more about writing - but I still didn't know as much then as I do now, and I suspect (and hope) the same will be true for a future version of myself when she looks back on my writing from this time.

All of this is to say, sometimes ABC reads to me as something written by somebody else. 18 year old me didn't write exactly the way I do now; she hadn't gotten the Bachelor of Arts cheat code boost that I have. But she was extremely passionate. She did love the bastards Rik and the gang created with all her heart. She'd also studied A Christmas Carol for her GCSEs only a couple of years previously, so she did at least understand the text she was taking a chainsaw to. I think all of this mattered. I think this gave ABC heart.

But what's my point in saying all of this (again)?

For a very long time, I've wanted but held back on commissioning an artist to draw me a cover. Well, no more. Truly, thank you ever so much to @viviangreeneart for indulging me and creating something fabulous for this old fic of mine. Thank you too to everyone who has ever commented on or kudos'ed ABC on ao3 over the years. It really does mean more to me than I can say.

Having dropped a new and flashy PDF decked out like an actual novel, here's the link to ABC on ao3, which will always be its home:

Merry Christmas, scumbags. Cliff bless us, Everyone!

[pink-grapefruit-cafe]

hi!

it’s been a while!

when i was at my most active here it was my GCSE year, which incase anyone is counting was 2019. we’re about to start 2025 and i’m in my first year of a PhD, time really does fly.

im really grateful for the friends this blog gave me, and the person it let me become, i’m proud of her. i’m in the best relationship of my life, im getting paid to do a phd in a subject i love (molecular virology), and i have amazing friends who actually know me.

happy new year lads, thank you for knowing me.

[carl3tes]

i haven't made a cover, or any edit or similar, like this ever since i was doing my media studies gcse in 2019. so, it is very...ugly and not great. i would improve the fonts, add dimension possibly to the title? choose more dynamic colour for the sides. and possibly try and add some more light to lance's face. maybe i would try and make my own logo? unsure how i actually feel about this... (also yes, i had to put dorianne in here somewhere, my queen) made on photopea, as i have no money for photoshop atm! au? married current strollonso (so, it's basically canon apart from different relationship to irl OBV)

[tragicassi]

studyblr intro <3

hi! i'm cass, she/her. i'm not new to tumblr, but i'm completely new to studyblr. exams are coming up in less than a year, which is honestly terrifying, so i made this sideblog mostly to motivate me to study.

about me!

she/her

chinese, lives in the uk

intp

studying for gcse

interests!

music - i have pretty broad tastes! i love everything from musical theatre (les mis!!), to classical, to indie rock, and to jazz

manga and webnovels - current favourites are nana, bungou stray dogs, and omniscient reader's viewpoint

books - huge fan of classic lit, especially dostoevsky, but i also love sci fi and murder mysteries. right now, i'm reading narcissus and goldmund

random tv shows/movies - i'm slightly obsessed with doctor who, and taskmaster. little women (2019) and dead poets society have my heart

academics!

my favourite subjects are chemistry, geography, biology, and classical greek

i started taking classical greek just last year, and it's been amazing! pretty difficult though

as much as i love books and reading as a hobby, i've somehow never really enjoyed english literature classes

goals!

my plan for this blog is to do a 100 days of productivity! i think that'll take me right up until mocks begin

i'm not a very organised person, and i'm very prone to procrastination, so this is mainly to hold me accountable

even though this sideblog is largely for me to keep a log of what i'm doing, study-wise, i'd love to make some new friends!

btw, i follow from my main account, @drowning-in-procrastination

[dognonsense]

ive also been stuck at home bored and painting lol so heres an ask to keep us both entertained. whats ur favourite painting or patch youve ever made?

On the contrary, have the best oil pastel piece I've ever done. Was for my highschool gcse final art exams all the way in march 2019. I learned how to use oil pastels just to make it. Spent weeks working on learning it with drafts and made the final in the exam in 5 hours.

I didn't really know how to do realism in highschool since I was just a cartoonist at that point. I only started painting this year. But i was pretty good with my realisms of objects in charcoal so I branched to oil pastel. Was the best way I figured to "fancy" up my art was to go realism.

I finally got good at realism this year though, and learned to paint, so to new growth this year. Havent been painting long enough to have any piece im especially proud of yet. I hope that the ones I'm working on will achieve that :)

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“Only 16 per cent of adult women in the UK have numeracy at or above the level of a GCSE minimum pass (grade 4). This compares with 33 per cent of adult men, according to new research from National Numeracy.

There is no big mystery here. The evidence all points to confidence as the single best predictor of numeracy skills. Women are twice as anxious as men about using maths and numbers, even when they are highly skilled. And they are nearly twice as likely as men to say they are “not a numbers person”. These trends are even more pronounced among young women.

The “number confidence gap” has far-reaching effects from home finances and supporting children’s learning to social mobility and careers. Women are 60 per cent more likely than men to be put off applying to a job if the description lists numbers and data as a requirement. Of people without a level 2 maths qualification (equivalent to a GCSE pass), twice as many women as men believe that their earnings, career progression, performance, job applications success and general career choices have been affected.”

The prime minister says the UK has an anti-maths mindset. But could part of it be that the UK has an anti-women-in-maths mindset?

New research provides concerning evidence that women are being left behind when it comes to the most essential component of numeracy: confidence.

As the PM’s advisers start to flesh out plans for his “maths to 18” policy, they might want to take stock of how to engage girls.

The UK has one of the biggest gender gaps in maths skills, according to a March OECD report on the gender gap in skills across the region. The study concludes that gender stereotypes feed into girls’ lack of confidence and fear of failure. This results in an “under-utilisation and misallocation of talent, which limits economic growth”.

Belinda , a Londoner, is a case in point. At school, she was “scared” and “terrified” of maths.

Her anxiety about numbers led to a variety of mishaps from wrong-sized clothing to having her hair chopped instead of trimmed. But some mistakes were more serious than others: she hid her unopened bills in a drawer and ran up huge debts rather than face the numbers in the envelopes.

Later in life she found the motivation to face these fears and study for GCSE maths, with support from the charity National Numeracy and the motivation to fulfil her ambition to become a teacher. She found that when the teaching was more tailored to confidence-building and different learning styles, she was able to do really well.

Belinda is not alone. Only 16 per cent of adult women in the UK have numeracy at or above the level of a GCSE minimum pass (grade 4). This compares with 33 per cent of adult men, according to new research from National Numeracy.

There is no big mystery here. The evidence all points to confidence as the single best predictor of numeracy skills. Women are twice as anxious as men about using maths and numbers, even when they are highly skilled. And they are nearly twice as likely as men to say they are “not a numbers person”. These trends are even more pronounced among young women.

The “number confidence gap” has far-reaching effects from home finances and supporting children’s learning to social mobility and careers. Women are 60 per cent more likely than men to be put off applying to a job if the description lists numbers and data as a requirement. Of people without a level 2 maths qualification (equivalent to a GCSE pass), twice as many women as men believe that their earnings, career progression, performance, job applications success and general career choices have been affected.

The skills gap has been an ongoing priority for policymakers for decades. In 2019 an annual government survey found the lowest participation in adult learning in its 23-year history. Ten years ago, the last OECD-wide skills survey showed that England was storing up a skills deficit, as the only country in the OECD where the older generation had higher basic skills than 16 to 24-year-olds. The next study will be published in 2024.

But there has been little focus so far on the gender gap.

Lower number confidence is holding back millions of people, costing the economy up to £25 billion a year. With National Numeracy Day today, if Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, wants to supercharge the UK’s maths skills and improve productivity, he could do worse than focus on supporting women and girls at every step of the lifelong learning journey.

Perdita Fraser is chairwoman of National Numeracy

[witchofthemidlands]

day 1: lesbian

🎭 Erin “Chess” Chesterton 🎭

i have never done an oc pride month challenge before so thank you so, so much @dream-beyond-the-fantasy for thinking of me & tagging me in this, it really means a lot 🥹 this is several days late but i was away for the weekend & only saw the notification about this when i logged back onto tumblr earlier today 😩

there are no posted fics featuring her yet (& with how slow i am at writing these days might not be for ✨quite✨ sometime could be a year 😩😭😩) but she has been in the works since 2019 & will eventually feature first properly in For Years & Years I Roamed (the 12 arc of my canon rewrite AU) as the adopted daughter of barbara & ian before coming further into her own as she turns 15 & joins the bunghole squad, she’s so creative & loves musicals, the theatre, dressing up & makeup, chose to do drama as her creative gcse. barbara, ian, her brothers john & danny along with clara, the doctor & rose (& whoever's travelling with them at the time) go to ALL of her performances.

her love interest will be tanya adeola 🥰

tagging: @queenclaudiabrown @thedragonemperess

[littlewomenunit3]

these all showcase many different forms of hand embroidery and the video and top image shows using free machines as another form of embroidery.

the first image was created by free machine, i first drew out my flower image that originated from my pattern, once i was happy with the sketch i then picked out the thread colours i wanted to use i chose a plum purple ,an orange, a yellow and a light baby pink, i started with the darkest colour and then just moving it around in random directions till i was happy and then switched the colour. overall i really liked how this came out it adds nice texture to a piece and gives great addition to a final garment.

the first one is chain stitch and in my opinion it was quite easy to achieve however it became a little wonky at times I found it difficult to keep it straight if I were to use this in my final design I would maybe draw a line as a guide to help me.

the next one is couching and this isn't showcased in the practical sample however it is an easy think to achieve I have had some past experience in couching from GCSE and I found it difficult sometimes and it came out wonky sometimes and didn't look even. however it gives a good range for texture for a sample and could look effective if I decide to use it in my final design.

the next one is French knots and overall I didn't like this , I asked for assistance multiple times as I couldn't get it to look the way I wanted it to and became similar to a seed stitch if not done correctly, I don't think this is something I would be using in my final design as I never could get it how I wanted it.

the next one is a fly stitch and I likes this one it was pretty simple to achieve and could be quite effective if u wanted add leaves to a flower or even just create leaves I think I would use this one in my final design if I decide to add a flower or something relating to cannon halls patterns.

the next one is seeding, this is the easiest on to achieve and looks very effective as it could look messy and still turn out well, using different sized threads to give big and small seeds, I likes how these came out as there is no wrong it all looks great and gives good texture to a sample.

the last one is backstitch wheel, and I think this looks the most difficult however once you start it becomes easier I loved how this came out and it gives amazing texture to a piece and a beautiful 3D effect I will definitely be using these in my final piece as it looks very effective.

little women. (2019). [Film]. United States: Columbia Pictures.

[auggietopia]

i started this blog in december 2019. it was the first tumblr i was ever truly active on, and i had no idea how tags or anything worked. i was freshly 16 and at the age where i was just starting to discover who and what i was, and a lot of it came through in the poetry i posted here. i had very rigid ideas of what literature and poetry was, as i had stopped doing it for a very long time. i wanted attention. i was eager, although i didnt know it then. i was hopeful.

covid hit three months later, in march 2020. i was in the year group whose gcses were cancelled. i posted one poem right as covid hit, in march, and then my last poem i posted in september of 2020 around when i started sixth form, after the longest summer i will ever have in my life. it was also the best summer i have had in my life. i spent 5 months calling with my best friends so constantly to the point i woke up at 6pm and went to bed at 9am just to talk to them. i realised my identity and tried to come out to a mother i would quickly find out was transphobic. i made a lot of friends. i started to gain some real footing on who i was.

i blinked and i am in march 2024. it is four years and a few days since i posted my second to last poem, which is a number that feels truly shocking to type out as it feels like it has been a year at most. in 2019 i turned 16, but in 2024 i will turn 21. this fact upsets me as the absolute formative amount of ageing i went through between the ages of 13-16 feels like it was my entire life and that there isnt room for anything else worthwhile to occur. on my 18th birthday, i held the frog teddy i bought for myself and listened to lord huron at full volume to block out the fear blurring its way into the edges like a migraine. on my 19th birthday, i was alone and terrified in my university dorm. i can't even remember my 20th birthday because of how insignificant it was. ageing, past the age of 18, went from being something exciting to something terrifying in a way i told myself it never would. and yet i am still here, and yet i still age. in a few months, it will be my 21st, and it will likely be at home, and it will likely be alone.

in the space between 16 and now, a lot happened. there were some pretty good things. they sit tiny next to the fact i lost my best friend in 2021 because they turned out to be quite literally the worst person i have ever known on this planet. i will never forgive them for what they did. realistically, every problem i hold against them is so small in the scale of the universe that maybe it isn’t worth holding onto at all, but i have not learned that lesson. i am aggressively refusing that lesson, in fact. at least for right now.

my mental health also took the biggest nosedive it has ever taken. sixth form shut down all sense of self discovery i had once i begin to nosedive in my academics and lose all of my friends. i still havent regained my footing. it has been 2 years since i left sixth form, and i still havent regained my footing.

but it is nice to look back over this blog and not regret a single thing i wrote.

all of this is to say i am going to start posting here again. and, in the most cliche way possible, i am going to do it for me this time. and i am going to post whatever i want without caring whether or not it is refined enough, because life is scarily fleeting and i can do whatever i want.

i was first allergictodrowning, and when i thought that was stupid i became autumndrowns, and now i will be something else that i havent decided yet but it will definitely be equally as stupid. :)

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

Xmas Fanfic Plug Alert 🚨

Ho ho ho! 🎅 With it once again being the season of long, cold nights and shopping stress (and a bit of festive cheer, too, for the kids), I thought I'd take the opportunity to shamelessly plug this little old fanfic I once wrote and have since never shut up about:

After the deaths of his parents, Rick certainly isn't looking forward to Christmas this year. Nothing and no one can put him off his misery - not even Vyvyan, whose relationship with Rick has changed monumentally since the near-fatal bus crash. The house's only chance at a happy Christmas has somehow fallen into the hands of a certain imaginary friend. Hopefully, Fred knows what he's doing...

A Bastard's Carol is, unsurprisingly, a Young Ones parody of A Christmas Carol. Well, I say a Young Ones parody - there are characters from across the Rik 'n' Ade 'verse running amok in this. I wrote it in 2019/2020, a time period now an almost scary number of years away from us.

Don't get me wrong, ABC is by no means worthy of comparison with the work of the great Charles Dickens (or the work of the great Rik Mayall and the great Ade Edmondson, either). Yes, it is overwritten (why'd you think it ended up double the size of A Christmas Carol?); yes, it features too much interiority (Rick is one of my darlings okay); and, yes, maybe sticking to the five stave format, thus ensuring some of the chapters hit 15K, when I was writing for people whose attention spans meant they'd ditched traditional novels for fanfiction was a bit of a mistake (love you guys).

But that all being said...

It was written with love, and passion, and a quite large dollop of staying-up-'til-the-sun-rises-to-get-this-next-bit-finished-damnit. Despite its imperfections - and there are many - I am still proud of it. I wrote it for me, but I also wrote it for this fandom as it existed at the time. As I said above, 2019 was a while ago, especially in fandom terms (back in the B.C. years), and I'm sure most Young Ones fans on Tumblr now have new and vastly superior fanfic to get stuck into. I'm just offering ABC up to you this December as a ghost of scumbags past, if you like.

I know I've slagged it off a bit, but seriously: there's at least one person who read it and had their GCSE-fuelled hatred for A Christmas Carol somewhat overturned by it.

And it's got Rick and Vyv being gay. I probably should've started with that...

Happy Holidays! ❤️

[emily21morgan]

My answers 🖼️ 🎨 🖌️

1. I find digital easier

2. I started keeping sketchbooks in 2016 but started to take art more seriously in 2019/20

3. Not sure. I took art for GCSE and I’m about to go into my 3rd year of university (for comics). But besides that I haven’t been to any classes

4.Instagram: EmilyyMorganArt

Twitter: EmilyyMorganArt

emily.morgan.art : Is an old account instagram won’t give me access to

Portfolio :The portfolio I made to get into uni (that I need to update)

5. Faces, women, wavy hair, character design

6. Environments and perspective (since I don’t have a lot of experience with them

7. Very often, they are extremely useful

8. I’m working towards professional, but I need to start putting my art out there (I suck at posting)

9. I don’t draw everyday. I just have periods where I draw and don’t draw (burnout hits hard sometimes)

10. Not really, but once I get more comfortable with drawing a variety of things, then I will be

11. A good few but barely any compared to the amount I follow elsewhere (like instagram)

12. Yes but I wouldn’t be able to explain a lot

13. Personal but that is going to change when I hopefully start working in the industry

14. Not yet but I think it will be fun

15. For illustrations, it depends (a few hours to a few days) but for comic pages I can do a page of line art within 3 days based on a project I did in uni). I would like to decrease the time it takes

16. For fun I draw waay less than when I started. I get burnt out with uni and don’t draw for ages

17. I could give a suggestion, but I would say to look elsewhere to people with more experience

18. Environments and movements

19. Perspective and fluid movement (like posing but trying to make it look natural)

20. Hair and faces

21. Not really. I should, to be able to improve but I get stuck in the comfort zone

22. No, I take big breaks from when I draw to the next and I rarely try to work on improvements

23. Original art. I would love to draw fan art but I haven’t quite figured out drawing peoples features to resemble them.

24. A bit of both but I try not to let it get to me. “Ooh I like the way they did …” or “they draw … so well, I wish I was able to draw … better”

25. Music makes it more fun

26. Procreate but I’m going to learn how to use clip studio paint

27. It depends. There will be a minimum of 4 (sketch, line art, flat colour and shading) for something simple. But if it’s something I find difficult or there are a lot of different parts, then there will be multiple redraws on different layers

28. I’ve barely experimented with traditional stuff, so I can’t comment on it

29. (Not traditional) but thumbnails, rough sketches (which could include character designs or environments), more refined sketches, line art then colouring

30. Seeing art in general. I’m just in awe of what I see and appreciate it. Real life people, places and other work or ideas people have made inspire me

If anyone took time to read this: I love you, please marry me. I’m kidding… or am I 👀

Artist Asks!

Do you prefer traditional drawing, or digital?

How long have you been drawing?

How many classes have you taken?

Do you have a DeviantArt, personal website, or art blog?

What’s your favorite thing to draw?

What’s your least favorite thing to draw?

How often do you use references?

Do you draw professionally, or just for fun?

How much time do you spend drawing on an average day?

Are you confident about your art?

How many art-related blogs do you follow?

Is it okay for people to ask you about your process?

Do you prefer to keep your art personal, or do you like drawing things for other people?

Do you ever collaborate with others?

How long does an average piece take you to complete?

Do you draw more today than you did in the past, or do you draw less?

Do you think you’re justified in giving other people art advice?

What are you currently trying to improve on?

What is the most difficult thing for you to draw?

What is the easiest thing for you to draw?

Do you like to challenge yourself?

Are you confident that you’re improving steadily?

Do you draw more fanart, or more original art?

Do you feel jealous when you see other people’s art, or inspired? (Be honest!)

Do you like to draw in silence, or with music?

For digital artists: what program(s) do you use?

For digital artists: how many layers does a typical piece require?

For traditional artists: what medium do you like most? (Pencil, charcoals, etc)

For traditional artists: How do you usually start on a big piece? (Light sketch, colored lead, sketchpaper, etc)

What inspires you to not just make art, but to be a better artist?

[arcade-project-wr]

Arcade Project an Overall look back at this Project the Past projects and what the Future may have to Entail

53 blog posts for this project all leading up to this. Over the past 3 weeks ish I worked on my Arcade project. This project was to Design and Develop an Arcade style game where we try to make as much money as possible with a simple but fun gameplay loop that will make players want to come back for more. If you want to see how my Project works look at the previous Blog Post. Today was both stressful and scary but not because of the Project but because what its state represented to me of how I am doing in the Course as a whole, and whether or not I actually belong or even want to be here.

Strap yourself in its Lore time.

The first time I ever played a video game at my house and it being my property was an Xbox 360

it was a shared present for my sisters and I, however it was only me that really played it hence it went into my room. Maybe they didn't want to play it because it was in my room, honestly that's probably what it was. I played Lego Marvel Superheroes and Skylander Giants and Sonic Riders mainly.

One day my Xbox 360 Red Ringed in an Autumn

It didn't work until one windy Spring day when I moved my whole counter with my TV and Xbox to my window in order for it to cooldown and then it started working again, displaying my problem solving skills I guess. I was really happy as not being able to play video games for months felt off.

Then for my 11th Birthday in 2019 I got and Xbox One S

The game I got for this was Fortnite (trust me I'm not happy saying that out loud either)

I played it for years and it was the Game I watched several YouTubers play and was the reason my first dream was to become a Fortnite YouTuber. But my more Left Wing tendencies came up and I thought to myself that this isn't fair. How does someone just PLAY A GAME and get so much Money and Fame but the ones working several hours every single day to produce the game, that most of the time doesn't even get recognized and even when it does make money, majority of it goes to Shareholders and CEO's. (I'm getting of my soap box now).

And then I decided I wanted to become a Game Developer. I researched and played other games like Apex Legends, Sonic Generations, Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, CD, 3K, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, Skylanders Swap Force and Trap Team and Overwatch

These games built up my dream game. An incredible Story with multiple different Campaigns where we see all the characters perspectives that was based of the Sonic Adventure games.

And a PvP Battle Royale inspired by Apex that later evolved into an Objective Based Hero Shooter similar to Overwatch. (If you ever want to hear about my Game I would like to tell you in person alone because I don't trust the internet or other people).

After I completed my GCSEs I was an above average student for every subject except for Art which I failed getting a 2. This made me wonder if I might have been denied this College Course completely due to the only Creative Course work subject being the one I failed. But I was excepted with no issue (at least to my knowledge). But when I was doing Art I didn't enjoy it but I had multiple times the option to leave the Course and do something else like Citizenship. However I kept telling my self "ohh its going to get Better" spoiler it didn't. So I made a mental note in my head to not make the same mistake and if I thought this Course wasn't for me that I would leave and do something else.

The Course began, for the First Project there was never a moment I thought to myself I didn't belong here or that I didn't want to be here, the idea was constantly in the back of my mind but it never really came to the fore front as it's a brand New Course so we aren't expected to make anything amazing. And at the time I would have said I had a good project. Now that thought has disappeared.

The Second Project, was when I started to think "I don't belong here" as I kept looking at others Models and Games and their Projects were all much better than mine, and by the end I didn't have a Game at all. I wanted to email Chris about it but I couldn't so I suppressed the thought. It did go away over Christmas and the New Year and even when I came back and I was exited for the Arcade Project this changed unfortunately.

This was the Project I struggled with. I needed a Tutorial to make my game which in comparison to other's games mine was boring, lack of skills necessary to make and barely required any work. The Project does work there are Questions and Answers and a Score. But there isn't a High Score, Attract Mode, Good Art Work, Music (but that was more a personal choice as none of the music really fit even the ones I liked), or a Win Screen. I hear and see my fellow Student's Games and Art work and I look back at mine and see it as what it truly is A FAILURE. I hate saying that but its the truth my Project was so simple and I had the instructions right in front of me and it's still the most broken boring and worst game here. That's like being asked what's 1+1 and having a number line and a Math Teacher whispering the whole time telling me the Answer's 2 and I still put down 3. Again I don't like saying this but if I shy away from the truth there is no way I will never improve.

I mentioned this on the other Blog, during this time I went to College, then went home and just played Video Games and didn't do my work. And yes there were Reasons for it but honestly I bet I'm just gaslighting myself and they were actually just Excuses. Because even now I have Unreal Engine and Tumblr at Home yet I don't do work at home still. I don't have Maya even though I asked about it and I don't have the Courage to ask how to install it at home because one I doubt I would even do the work, but secondly also because the fact I need to ask twice doesn't strike me as someone who can be independent because everyone else has it probably installed.

All of this has made me think about leaving the Course if that's even allowed. Simply put I want to stay in this Course, I gain nothing from leaving this Course other than a lot of free time and probably the Government breathing down my neck about "Education till 18". I do really want to become a Game Designer, Developer or whatever, I said to myself if you could magically give me the ability to Code , make good art or have brilliant ideas for games I would love to do that as my job. The question though I should be asking is am I willing to work for those skills. And this is when the word laziness comes into my head as an Adjective for myself, thinking I'm lazy and that's why I'm failing and why I can't stop playing games at home. The truth is probably half of that but I can't be the judge of that. But one example I wasn't lazy was my GCSEs I was failing History GCSE getting a Grade 2 in the Mock in April but only 2 months later ish I got a 9 top 5% in the country. This shows that a Comeback Story is definitely possible. And that is partly why I'm doing this Blog Post to show how far I might go, going from a considered Failure close to giving up, sticking it through and Succeeding in the End. That would be Awesome and Inspirational but overly Optimistic.

How I see it is like a Basic Table

Realistically I gain nothing from Leaving but Staying has the Potential for Happiness and Greatness. But for this to happen I'm going to have to make some Sacrifices, but am I actually willing to make it happen, banning gaming, practicing my skills on these apps, and never giving up.

But a line I think that applies here that I will never forget from my first main on Overwatch Zenyatta is

"Failure is Acceptable Giving Up is Not"

No matter how many time you make the same mistake no matter how bad you think your game is, that is okay but if you give up, there is no forgiveness with that.

I think all I need is a form of guidance to tell me what to do about my Home life and how to improve these skills as quickly as possible to make myself more confident and to catch up to speed with everyone else. I really want to succeed and do great things but as it stands right now I think Chris saying I'll get a Merit is too much even Pass right now is a bit of a blurry prediction. For me to Succeed I need to make tough choices now and really reflect over the half term how to improve and how to get myself back up, because if I keep the same attitude up any longer it will end in disaster for me and then I will never succeed. If I become a Game Designer I'll be happy, if I become a Game Developer I'll be happy, if I become the Game Director of my Dream game I'll be happy, if I become a Random 9 to 5 employee that gets to go Home and play video games and gets by I'll be Happy.

This course whether I Succeed or Fail isn't the end of My Story, it's just the Beginning. Thank You for this Chance and Hearing me out.

[d2kvirus]

Dickheads of the Month: September 2024

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of September 2024 to make sure that they are never forgotten.  

It looks like the Israeli Defence Force is starting to get creative in blowing up civilians, given they turned numerous Lebanese into unwitting suicide bombers by planting explosive devices in a shipment of pagers and detonating all of them at once, of course claiming every single one person hit in this act of international terrorism was a member of Hezbollah which was plainly horseshit - and that's before the question of collateral damage

Mr Mileikowsky's baby boy Benjamin Netanyahu created a new euphemism for genocide: "de-escalation by escalation" for Lebanon, which definitely doesn't sound a lot like depopulation that happens after saturation bombing of civilian areas before moving in the troops - which is exactly what the Israel Defence Force is doing

...and when genocidal maniac Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN he came up with the blatant genocide-enabling lie that every single home in Lebanon has Hezbollah rockets hidden in them so all homes are legitimate military targets - and if that wasn't enough of a red flag, he also showed a map of the Middle East with a conspicuous lack of Palestine or the West Bank on it. Hmm, maybe that's a few more reasons for Joe Biden to stop arming the genocidal maniac with more munitions than the average war uses?

Brilliant optics in the first Keir Starmer's Labour Party conference when in government, when a heckler is bundled out of the hall in a chokehold while Rachel Reeves robotically repeats the "not a party of protest" line onstage as she apparently cannot do anything other than repeat pre-installed inputs, then Wes Streeting lost his shit during an interview when asked about the amount of Labour MPs taking backhanders, a proposed vote on keeping the Winter Fuel Allowance was blocked right out of the gate, and attendees were told the words "apartheid" and "genocide" were verboten when they walked in the doors

...meanwhile, somebody should tell Oliver Ryan that when he's in a marginal seat, and that marginal seat being Burnley, maybe don't yuk it up on Twitter when somebody is being manhandled out of the conference hall in a chokehold for heckling Rachel Reeves, especially not in a way that is practically guaranteed to come back to bite him at the next election

...and then the great leader Keir Starmer decided he wanted in on that action by sneering that somebody getting manhandled out for heckling him about children being murdered in Gaza during his speech must have had a ticket for the 2019 conference, which is pretty cocky for somebody who can't tell the difference between "hostages" and "sausages"2" when reading the autocue with those £2600 pair of glasses he was gifted...

...and when bacon of hope Keir Starmer was found to have been gifted use of Lord Alli's townhouse his immediate response was to throw his own son under the bus by saying it was to help him study for his GCSEs without having to wade through a phalanx journalists - in spite this taking place after the GCSE period, and several of Starmer's neighbours stating they've never seen Starmer's house doorstopped like Jeremy Corbyn's was for four years

Brilliant idea by billionaire manchild Elon Musk after losing the entire Brazilian userbase after not complying with a government request (which he doesn't have issues with in India or Turkey) to go on the quote-unquote offensive against Alexandre de Moraes by setting up a Twitter account called Alexandre Files...which doxxed numerous Twitter users in its very first post

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk had another brilliant idea when he posted an AI generated image of Kamala Harris supposedly made up to look like a communist dictator (but actually looked more like Mario), something which definitely wouldn't age like milk at any point if the scale of Russian interference in US politics gets blown wide open

...and of course billionaire manchild Elon Musk was all over JD Vance's patently racist fearmongering about Haitians eating people's pets faster than you can say "торопиться!"

...and because billionaire manchild Elon Musk just cannot help but demonstrate that Glass Onion didn't go in harshly enough, he then started tweeting about how he'd be glad to make Taylor Swift happy. By impregnating her. Fucking hell...

...but just when billionaire manchild Elon Musk couldn't sound unhinged enough, he's asking why nobody is trying to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk had another one of his brilliant ideas: oh hey, why not remove the block function entirely? Of course, this definitely was not inspired by the fuckwit learning that he is the most-blocked user on Twitter

...soon followed by billionaire manchild Elon Musk throwing one hell of a temper tantrum at not being invited to an investor summit in the UK due to his habitually acting like a spiteful cunt on Twitter, so of course he responded to his lack of invite by acting like a spiteful cunt on Twitter that only justifies not inviting him, doesn't it?

...and next up billionaire manchild Elon Musk showed his commitment to Freeze Peach by suspending Ken Klippenstein's account for posting the JD Vance dossier, which only demonstrates that he has no idea how the Streisand Effect works as all that did was increase interest in the JD Vance dossier

Such change from Keir Starmer's Labour Party when they used the party whips to bully their MPs into submission like the depths of Theresa May's premiership in order to pass their bill to scrap winter fuel allowance, which wasn't mentioned in the election manifesto

...and how did unifying force Keir Starmer defend the move? By claiming that scrapping winter fuel allowance will help the NHS. Because if one thing is going to help the NHS, it's dumping a lot of elderly people suffering from hypothermia who otherwise wouldn't be on their doorstep in the middle of winter

...which would be the same unifying force Keir Starmer who accepted countless gifts from Lord Waheem Alli of not just regular financial donations, but also £16,000 worth of clothes for his wife which Starmer neglected to declare on the Register of Interests. Luckily for Starmer, he could send out David Lammy to argue that it's okay to receive bribe after bribe gift after gift while also saying MPs deserve a clothing allowance (said days after Starmer whipped his MPs to say people don't deserve a heating allowance...) and there isn't any way that Lammy could look like a hypocrite in saying this

It took El Hijo del Austerity Bob Lucy Powell a while to try and find some utterly horseshit defence for Rachel Reeves pulling the winter fuel allowance, but she finally hit on one: it would have caused a run on the pound to maintain it, which suggests that Reeves' handling of the economy is so bad that being in charge for less than two months sees existing benefits tank the economy

Slumlord Jas Athwal thought that he would get ahead of the story of him owning multiple flats caked in black mould by saying that he had sacked the managing agent, which only served to make it look like he never paid attention to his properties

Militant TERF JK Rowling decided that she was going to be wholly inclusive and also screech like the brainrotted harridan she is during the Paralympics, habitually tweeting abuse in Valentina Petrillo's direction - while somehow missing that Petrillo did not even qualify for the 400m final, which rendered the vast majority of Bobby Galbraith's ranting null and void

Such compassion from Eric Pickles at the Grenfell enquiry where he was far more concerned about the lunches he had to cancel to attend than he was in maintaining existing safety regulations when he was Housing Secretary that set in motion the events that allowed the Grenfell Tower fire to take place thanks to the regulations he was only too happy to remove

I'm sure that beanie-wearing testicle Tim Pool doing a sudden pivot to say Ukraine is the US's greatest ally is unrelated to the unsealing of DoJ documents which stated that Tenet Media has been on the Kremlin payroll for years and handing highly scripted talking points to their podcasters...

...and because Tim Pool is not noted for his intellectual prowess, he thought it was a brilliant idea to go on record claiming that the $100k per podcast episode isn't abnormal at all and is the going rate for a podcast which gets between 100-200k views...which was rapidly exposed as bullshit as podcasts don't make $1 per view, instead they make around $9 per 1000 views so Beanie's take-home would be $7,200 per podcast, which wouldn't be revealed if Pool had the sense to shut the fuck up about the subject especially as it is part of an ongoing investigation

So when noted couchfucker JD Vance isn't responding to school shootings by saying "That's life" he's spreading some utter batshittery about Haitians eating people's pets, as if the rampaging cokehead more likely to kill, stumpfuck then eat somebody's pet RFK Jr isn't on the Trump ticket

...which registered sex offender Donald Trump brought up in the first Presidential debate, apparently under the impression that he would look sane when he blurted it out

...and to prove how it wasn't racist in any way Rich Lowery literally blurted out the n-word when talking about the dogwhistling bullshit on The Megyn Kelly Show, which Megyn Kelly failed to call out

...but then Roseanne Barr did us the discourtesy of reminding us she's still alive by saying that Haitians don't eat just cats and dogs but they also eat babies, all to nodding approval from noted Russian asset that dense motherTucker Carlson who somehow convinced himself that Barr was an authority on the subject and not a babbling, racist fuckwit

Noted sociologist Kemi Badenoch showed her firm understanding of social mobility when she said she was born and raised in a middle class family - but as soon as she got a job at McDonalds she immediately became working class, because apparently she didn't go home to that same middle class family at the end of every shift

...sadly that was not the last we heard from Kemi Badenoch this month, as in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg she outlined an immigration policy straight out of the Middle Ages and that some cultures are not "equally valid" which is a phrase which should have been pushed back on immediately (so, of course, Kuenssberg did jack shit), saying that anti-Israel sentiment is entirely from migrants of "non-specific backgrounds" (and yes, dogs started howling when she said that) and that migrants should see the Star of David at point of entry into the UK because apparently that represents either the UK's main religions and/or flag

...so of course Liz Truss was all for what Badenoch was offering, as that was about the only thing she said all month that wasn't her repeating for the umpteenth time that she shouldn't be blamed for her budget from the Chancellor of her choosing crashing the UK economy just prior to her killing the Queen

TERF headbanger Rosie Duffield couldn't flounce out of Keir Starmer's Labour Party fast enough one they were in government, because after Starmer & Friends bent over backwards to accommodate her and the rest of the Gender Critical cult with policies towards the trans community that looked uncannily like a JK Rowling tweet instead of removing the whip for her transphobia, homophobia and Holocaust revisionism while spouting some utter gibberish about Starmer not respecting women - which is ironic, given Duffield said jack shit about Starmer's abysmal treatment of female MPs who don't suckle on the teat of centrism such as Diane Abbott, Zarah Sultana, Apsana Begum et al

...and isn't it funny that militant TERF JK Rowling had far more to say about Duffield's flounce than she did about the death of Dame Maggie Smith. But I guess Harry Potter isn't paying the bills anymore, is it?

Sex trafficking rapists Andrew & Tristan Tate had a novel idea to prove their innocence: just when they were being led out of court while being filmed by their usual cameraman somebody completely out of the blue walks out of the nearby bushes and says she was paid by Romania's DIICOT agency into identifying as a victim so the phoney charges could go ahead - and this completely independent woman who volunteered this information at the perfect time for the Tates and their cameraman to be there and film everything was known Tate associate Ivona Ray who was presumably coerced into this obviously staged incident not by DIICOT but by the Tate brothers in a desperate attempt to convince their fanbase to rise up and fight for them, because a gang of 12 year old incels are so going to worry the Romanian authorities

Isn't it funny how proven liar Boris Johnson suddenly remembered so many details that he told the Covid enquiry that he couldn't remember just in time for his book to come out...?

Absolutely no reason to ask why The Jerusalem Post ran an article outright stating Israel has a divine right to Lebanese land as if sovereignty is for other countries - only to swiftly delete the article when it drew comment, specifically comments about the very different geography which Benjamin Netanyahu outlined to the UN

Pet shop arsonist Wes Streeting probably thought he looked really clever when he responded to being reminded that Jeremy Corbyn wanted to retain the winter fuel allowance by saying, live on TV, "We dealt with him, didn't we?" - when in actual fact he sounded like a lickspittle cunt moonlighting as a professional hitman

Noted sex criminal Vince McMahon finally broke his silence that he has maintained ever since his sex crimes became public knowledge, and that silence-breaking was to act huffy about his own participation in Netflix's Mr McMahon documentary and try to claim that he was playing a character...in real life, while being a sex criminal with a laundry list of charges stacked up against him already

Funny how a podcast named Two Nice Jewish Boys is hosted by two nice boys who happily joke about being able to press a button that would nicely exterminate all Palestinians in one go, and to show just how nice they are they issued a nice statement saying their nice comments were taken out of context and they were actually advocating for a Nice Solution to the Palestinian problem

We're not supposed to know that Nicholas Lissack is actually the PA of Isabel Oakeshott whenever he describes himself as an "independent journalist" - though it's pretty bloody obvious he's not a journalist if he doesn't realise that tweeting about a super injunction is a surefire way to land yourself in court PDQ even if you did delete the tweet, and in cases where it's patently obvious that you made up a super injunction you're likely to end up in court twice, which would make for good material for Darren Grimes' podcast which Lissack also happens to work on as an "independent journalist"

Somehow the NYPD turned somebody skipping on paying a $2.90 subway fare into a mass shooting that left the perpetrator, two bystanders and one of their own officers hospitalised with gunshot wounds. So at least that IDF training is showing results...

Grifting bore Mark Kern sure seems to be unhappy about McDizzle Gaming giving his Kickstarter project Em-8er the most coverage it has had in years...mainly because it revealed that the game he's worked on for five years looks uncannily like any other asset flip you find on Steam, which would surely be welcome news to the people who have been funding the project while Kern spends his time fighting one-man culture wars against anything that breathes

The certifiable Laura Loomer being involved in the Trump campaign is already paying off, as after Trump got soundly spanked in the first presidential debate and offered nothing but the bizarre ramblings of a crazy person, Loomer was quick to come up with the surefire strategy of...saying that Harris' earrings were in fact discreet headphones so she could be fed lines, before settling for posting outright racism

...outright racism that JD Vance saw and decided "Hey, I want to get a piece of that action too!"

There's normal responses and then there's what Nicki Minaj did when she heard that Sean Coombs had been charged with sex trafficking, which was use it as an excuse to go on the offensive against the four women accusing her husband Kenneth Petty of rape, which is a totally normal reaction to have...

When Naomi Campbell set up Fashion for Relief she should have been a tad more specific about who the charity was helping, considering it turns out it was mainly funding her smoking habit and shopping binges

Not only did Star Wars Theory demonstrate what a lazy chode they are by stealing Paul Tassi's content and XQCing over it occasionally and when called on it tried to pass it off as giving Tassi "exposure" as if that made up for stealing Tassi's content and monetising it, but strangely Tassi soon started receiving abusive text messages from SWT fans which begs the question how they got his number

Those free speech lovers at Reform Ltd showed just how much they care about free speech by cancelling the tickets of Josiah Mortimer and Carole Cadwalladr for their "party" conference to guarantee they would be unable to gain entry

Classy move by WWE when they saw the fan-made bracelet that CM Punk and Drew McIntyre have been feuding over like it's the world title and decided to sell replicas of it on their store - without asking the creator of the original bracelet as a courtesy whether they could, let alone consider the idea of royalties. But fret not! After the initial backlash they...changed the design, while still giving no credit, let alone royalties

Is it time for the annual Adam Blampied apology video already? It's almost as if there's a pattern of behaviour...

Narcissistic orange liar Hulk Hogan really cannot stop himself from giving one dogshit take after another if he thinks it will benefit him in some way, can he? Oh, you want specifics? Okay, how about him making an appearance on Logan Paul's podcast to say that wrestling fans have forgiven Chris Benoit for murdering his wife and son (they haven't) so why can't they forgive Hogan (for being a racist cunt who consistently lies to the point that it wouldn't surprise me if a Savile-like discovery was made when he pops his clogs)?

Fucking hell, one draw and Arsenal fans have fixed the tinfoil hats to their heads with rivets and the conspiracy theory shrieking has gotten ridiculous even for them. Hey, maybe don't play nine men behind the ball and timewaste like it's going out of fashion for every single game and you won't concede 98th minute equalisers?

It's been seven years since Kyle Walker was tapped-up by Manchester City, and yet again he uses an interview to spin the demonstrably untrue theory that he "had" to leave Tottenham in 2017 entirely because Kieran Tripper was chosen ahead of him to play in an FA Cup semi final and nobody should do the slightest bit of digging to see who was the preferred right back for the twenty or so matches prior to that one match which took place after his head was turned

What happened to registered sex offender Donald Trump saying he would debate Kamala Harris "Anytime, Anywhere"? Because after one debate where he got spanked so hard he started calling Harris "Mummy" he waddled away from having another as fast as his lifter-filled shoes would let him and instead started asking the pertinent questions like why Johnny Carson isn't hosting The Tonight Show anymore - which may have something to do with Johnny Carson dying in 2005

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Fromage De Moon What?

Some of you may be wondering what is Fromage De Moon?

Why have I been only been talking about the prequals when there isn't any actual Fromage De Moon?

Who are these characters and what are their end goals?

Why are they British?

Well ito answer most of these questions; Fromage De Moon is a film script that I (The Writer and Head Director of the Studio) have been writing since 2019.

After constant rewrites and constant problems in life (including the fiasco of creating Cardiff Bay Bank Holiday Television,) I realnised that these characters might never get to see the light of day.

So i decided to write a small side story to be added in to the 2nd part of CBBHT, which got shelved due to more complications with production so i decided to release it as a stand alone.

The Short worked out so good and took less time and fuss to make than CBBHT 1 (which took 2 and a Half years), we at HFS decided to make more of FDM and slowly introduce everyone to the world of these characters.

So what is FDM?

FDM is a story about some youths (teenagers) that set up their own space agency "The Chorleywood Aerospace Society" (CWAS) with their end goal of getting a person into space and then to the moon.

Members of the CWAS include:

Jebadiah (Jeb) Lowne, Ace Pilot, Scored Top Notch in flight Simulator and Kerbal Space Program, a man with high grades in Physics, Maths and Science. Jeb is a leader character, even thought there isn't a boss or a manager position of the CWAS, Jeb has always seemed to be a role model leader of the group, despite some of his quirks and mishaps.

Owen Sinclair, Ground Control Flight Director and Chief Engineer of the CWAS with degrees in Aerospace and Electronics, designer of most of the CWAS's Space Craft and computers, with a little help from his friends. He's very serious is matters but he is very light hearted one you get to know him.

Kevin Pipe, Test Pilot, whist not being so igh up in all of the academics apart from GCSE in Math, English and Science, Kevin tries is best to help in any way he can. After a raffel draw of who should be the first into space, once they have figured out how to stop them from blowing up, Kevin's name came up, despite Jeb being a better pilot in Flight Simulator 98 and Kerbal Space Program. Kevin was excited and couldn't wait to get up there into the stars, this he thought was his destiny...

...until he witnessed the 1st unmanned test flight.

There are other members of the CWAS, but revealing them here would lead to Spoilers!

As for why their British, well...

...I live in Great Britain so there. ¦-|

Anyways see you next time with better updates.