#kick contract

[dteamain]

nah im at the point where i hope sapnap just streams on kick out of spite like fuck you all i hope dnf kiss on sapnaps kick stream and all the twt stans have to either act like they didn’t see it or be caught at the devils sacarment

[teaboot]

Ok but isn't a rent-a-cop just a henchman for a mall? Maybe the mall will just ask you to beat up batman and steal a truck. Employers ask some batshit things nowadays.

IMO the difference between a good henchman and a good rent-a-cop is that, when the big guy asks you to do something illegal, Henchman says “you got it, boss” and rent-a-cop says “no can do, boss” so really a rent-a-cop is just a street legal henchman

[licorishh]

double ?? upload ???? yeaaaahh i've gotten FASTERRrr for whatever that's worth so complementary blyla because guess what i miss them too (nobody was surprised by that)

[thimblings]

viago "fashion police" de riva

[floridazcrazy]

I'm so sorry but Gabriel x Nico is literally just alpha/alpha. Gabriel's a freshly presented cocky young alpha and Nico is the "geriatric" alpha who doesn't mind Gabi's peacocking but will put him in place when needed.

sighhh...

[violencelittlething]

For all the differences in characters in this story, I feel like the one thing most of them can agree on is the absolute undying urge to beat Thalia’s ass publicly

Book 5 where everything is fixed and the entire plot is hating Thalia for 66 chapters

[casino-lights]

do we think the room across from Caterina's room is Illario's room or do we think it's Lucanis' room and Illario just yoinked it? because inside it we see a letter from Illario to Lucanis, but we also see a burnt letter from Zara to Illario. and a lute. so either this is Lucanis' room and Illario moved in but hasn't moved the first letter (ouch) or it's always been Illario's room and he found it among Lucanis' belongings and kept it (double ouch). it's also possible that they shared it and Illario just moved the second bed out but that's a big house I doubt they'd share a room.

also whose damn lute is that

[suns-blood]

Wowwwew soo cooool

Now somebody else tell me what it all means

[curiosity-killed]

things I am boomerish about:

ballet etiquette (specifically spacing/where you stand in center)

not everything needs to be an app. in fact, mostly, i would like them not to be apps

sometimes i just want to Talk to A Person instead of having a shitty automated bot tell me "I know you want to talk to a person BUT" and then proceed to completely fail at solving the issue despite the fact a human could solve the issue in approximately 90 seconds

[manhwamuneca]

Flying Chirpie Kick!

Chripie is the best! Protect your papa! (FT angry bae.)

[marleneoftheopera]

I am a bit confused so Joe will have to leave to join Les Mis earlier than Phantom has their cast change right? But then there’s another cast coming in for Les Mis for the anniversary so will he come back to Phantom during that time or just not work?

Tbh I was also confused at first seeing two different sets of casts! Basically,

The new Les Mis cast begins shows July 7th. Joe will begin his run then.

That’s 3 weeks before Phantom’s new cast begins shows, so Michael Colbourne will be filling in as principal during that time. Michael has confirmed he’s leaving on July 26th alongside other Phantom cast members.

For Les Mis’ 40th anniversary, they’re having a different principal cast come into the London production for 8 weeks, beginning September 8th. I would assume that during that time Joe will just be off; if he has any projects during that time I’m sure he’ll share. There wouldn’t be any reason he’d return to Phantom for such a short time, unless they needed an emergency cover. Joe will return after the 8 weeks, which should be November 3rd.

Hope this helps clarify!

[not-poignant]

oh my gosh, so excited that the kadek/efnisien fic is coming up, didn't know it was gonna be so soon!!

Yes it's not far away now! I actually have to make sure I write some more of it soon as I've been languishing on only having one chapter written, and trying to kind of catch up or get ahead in everything else.

I'm looking forward to it though. I need to officially write out Kadek's and Efnisien's BDSM contract, since it was a lengthy negotiation and Efnisien's limits and rules are different with Kadek vs. Arden (which is normal, and I'm looking forward to showing that folks often want different things from different people and don't always have uniform limits across the board).

Honestly I think Kadek is also really looking forward to this fic lmao

[sarsaparilla-star]

playing fallout 3 for the first time means oscillating between "this is a really fun game and is reminding me why i love fallout" and "this is the worst thing anybody has ever written"

[day-mark]

it's actually is crazy to me that more people dont take advantage of multi-streaming

[batsplat]

I know need to know what the fuck was the honda three rider team about. Bc that sounds made up as fuck

historical silly season: 2010 edition!

in early 2010, casey had very much had enough of ducati

rumours are that he'd already been looking to break his contract for the 2010 season after how ducati had handled the whole mystery illness 2009 saga... releasing inaccurate statements about his condition to the press without his consent, implying his diet was to blame - as well as offering jorge a shit ton of money to come ride for them. crucially more than they were paying casey

this was from mid 2009 and the vibes were already BAD back then... it's hard to know how seriously to take retirement rumours from the time given casey just wasn't. really... talking to the press, so a lot of the times the media was relying on other sources from inside his camp or just wildly speculating

anyway, casey did see out the 2010 season with ducati, but at the start of the year he essentially gave them an ultimatum - he wanted them to rip up his proposed contract and have them show him how much he was worth to them. they did not do so

according to casey, he already signed a contract at the second round of the season in jerez, which gives you a sense of how done he was with all things ducati - but it was only announced after the seventh round in july. the move was made smoother by casey's existing close relationship with livio suppo, who had himself recently made the switch from ducati to honda

very much the right time to make the move for sure. at the time, there was speculation that casey's poor results in the first half of the season was due to decreased motivation, which of course he strongly denied. really, it was the fault of the bike and team - and casey would show as much the following year at honda

one little problem. honda already had two factory contracted riders for 2011: dani and dovi. now, dani had been honda's wunderkind since forever, and after their last world champ nicky hayden - who was not on particularly warm terms with dani's camp, it has to be said - departed the team, dovi had been the chosen replacement. dovi was a long time honda loyalist, even when he was riding their underpowered bikes to championship runner up positions against jorge in 250cc, and he'd also had a highly impressive rookie season

2009 had not been a particularly great year for either factory honda rider, partly due to bike performance partly due to injuries partly due to... rider performance. it was a rough year for dovi in particular, despite his win in tricky conditions at donington (all four aliens deliver quite funny performances at that race in different ways. not exactly the finest of hours for any of them)

when casey's signing was announced, honda initially went 'okay three factory blokes but maybe we'll have two in the real team and then one in a fake team'

the problem, right, is that it costs a lot of money to field a three man team - this is why honda was so keen on the red bull option, because then they could pay for the seat

honda confirmed its intention to have four factory honda riders in 2011, those three and sic, in mid-september. but they still needed to figure out where to put them. they didn't manage to get the funds to put casey in a separate team, and then they tried to put dovi on the satellite squad:

now, dovi was on a 2+1 contract, with 2009-10 guaranteed and an option to extend for another year. the contract included a performance clause - and dovi was having a more successful 2010 season, so hrc was having some trouble forcing dovi to accept the move:

so yeah, obviously not exactly great behaviour to sign a third rider when your team is already essentially full... and then immediately spend the next few months trying to get rid of one of your existing riders who is still entitled to that seat

some more details:

for a while, dovi looked like he might be leaning towards accepting it, and was certainly keen to stress that he wasn't rejecting gresini due to his interpersonal issues with some of the team's personnel. this from september:

eventually, repsol agreed to fund the whole thing so that honda could honour their commitments to all three riders:

so, one team for all of them, if still a wee bit of healthy internal separation

and by november the whole thing was sorted

honda did have some internal precedent for this! in 1997, they fielded three factory riders: doohan, criville and okada

also back in the day they did just create shell teams organised around one rider, which is of course where valentino spent his first two years in the premier class

and here's the updated version from 2011!

anyway, it was only something honda was willing to do for one year, and in the end dovi decided to jump ship to yamaha rather than accept internal demotion. the fight for p3 in the championship went right down to the final race in valencia - and it must have been incredibly satisfying for dovi to snatch it from dani there

after this... look, basically they changed the rules to make it two entries at most per team, then they changed it back for like? two years? so that four riders were technically allowed. and then they changed their mind again. now it's just two - obviously teams are allowed wildcards, but they couldn't do this three man team thing anymore nowadays

teams generally wouldn't even want to do this because it's a lot of hassle and, most importantly, money. so yeah, unlikely to make a comeback. very much a quirky curio that won't be replicated... could be funny though. if they want to change the rules again

[sacharowan]

I think it's bullshit that my college has no system for allowing medical absences. I've literally been told by four different doctors that I shouldn't come into college if I'm ill like this but college thinks that's bullshit and it still affects my fucking attendance