#otoh

[sainz5516]

the amount of people I have blocked over social medias for the shitposts about Carlos. They are so sure that a surgery doesn't affect a driver unless it's on their hands or legs.

I mean.. this level of stupidity should stay on the mind, not on cringe twitter or yt replies. Lot of you have no idea what it means to go through a surgery. The mental pressure, especially when you're a sportsperson, be it racing, cricket, football or any other sport. Plus of course the physical stress and fatigue. You don't get to tell others on social medias how it feels while sitting on a couch when u haven't even experienced the pain. Or the mental stress.

Or Physics laws.

So just stfu. If you can't stand people fighting and winning, unlike u morons, don't bother whining ab it on bs tweets.

[junewongapologia]

The fact that Lucy didn't know Hazel and Daisy would be on the Orient Express despite the fact that Felix, who sent her, must have been aware Daisy was spending the holiday with Mr Wong suggests that he managed to buy the train tickets in such a way as to fly completely under the radar of the security services who were watching the train for a spy.

(I choose to believe that Felix would have said hey m8 maybe get the next one, yea? if he knew)

[pastafossa]

Right. Sneezing, coughing, congestion, mild throat pain.

TIME TO PLAY A GAME.

[kkglinka]

It was cute that (Stuart) Little grew into Reepicheep.

[destinationtoast]

getting ready to travel to the opposite coast for the first time in several years. this is bringing on such a mix of emotions, including:

planning to meet a fantastic fandom friend I've never seen in person before -- 🎉🎉🎉 🥹🥹🥹

realizing I can't see dear fandom friend (and their dear cat!!) on this trip -- 😭😭😭😿😿😿

knowing that travel's likely to exacerbate my current chronic pain flare-up and trying to be prepared for mega self care -- 🤕🤕🤕🧘💆💊

prepping to attend a close friend's super glam wedding -- 💕🪩🤵🕺💕

(receiving my first three-person wedding invitation, addressed to me AND my gf AND her gf, rather than giving any of us plus ones for our other partners (we all live separately from each other, with other partners and/or co-parents) -- 3️⃣🤔👨‍👧‍👧⁉️😆)

having a strong suspicion I will finally catch covid at the indoor wedding events -- 💀💀💀🫣🫣🫣

[pameluke]

was tagged by the immer lovely @cannellaeluce to share my top 10 comfort movies. I'm not actually sure I have 10, but I'll try!

In the random order that I thought of them, except for the first one because that's my absolute favorite movie.

Silverado (1986) Favorite movie when I was a kid, a classic in my family, stellar cast, fun shoot-outs, hot people in leather pants on horses. Amazing score that lingers in my head and cheers me up.

King Arthur (2004) Great score, great cast, lots of pretty greenery, SARMATHIANS OF MY HEART, great fight sequences, hot people being bloodied on horses

PS, I LOVE YOU (2007) For when I need to cry but can't. (I once watched this three times in a row because I really needed to get it out of my system)

The Mummy (1999) I like to reawaken my bisexuality occasionally. It's fun, it's pretty, it's romantic, it's FUN, and there would have been hot people on horses if they hadn't been on Beni's side of the river.

Transformers (2007) Mostly it's the score, but also the cars transforming into robots and fighting other robots is just fucking cool. Best at getting me out of the couch when I'm struggling with my mental health.

Fast Five (2011) In a way all the Fast and Furious movies are comforting. There is something incredibly relaxing about hot people in hotter cars and lots of explosions. Fast Five is my favorite though because FUN HEIST and Han and Gisele <3 <3

White Fang (1991) Big Nostalgia factor. Young Ethan Hawke and a wolfdog struggle to survive in Alaska. The Gold Rush! THE NATURE. The drama and evil bad guys. The love between the wolf and the boy... Love the book as well, but the movie, argh, my heart.

9. and 10. Should probably go together to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Two Towers is probably my favorite of the three, but Fellowship the most comforting, but then Return of the King has 'DEATH DEATH DEATH' but also all of the healing and 'you bow for no one' and honestly, I never just watch one. I'll watch Two Towers first, cry when Haldir dies (my favorite moment of the trilogy is when the elves arrive, the whole battle of helms deep runs me through the whole scala of human emotion which is comforting in how cathartic that is), then start the whole trilogy. Perfect blanket and hot chocolate in the couch weekend comfort.

Tagging @vrabia, @soleil-moon-bye, @antiquecompass if you're in the mood, no obligation of course. I always feel awkward about tagging, so everyone who wants to is welcome to list their fav comfort movies. (I added a lot of thoughts because I was in a talking mood, but that's just extra!)

[mortifiedandawesome]

I've had 24 hours to think of it and although I'm not a perfect person by any means, I have a range of morals that I'm not going to allow myself to undermine just because I need something.

Fuck you again, Universe. I win.

I guess I don't need to live deliciously!

[fremedon]

It is the kind of beautiful fall day where riding the metro makes me feel abruptly sad about Finrod Felagund.

[momochanners]

So much respect to Larian for ending BG3 and charting their next course on their own terms, but I’d be lying if I said that I’m not a little heartbroken that we have to say goodbye to the wonderful world and cast of characters they cultivated ;w;

[jjwwmmbbii]

i think "otoh" has gotta be one of the best shorthand acronyms out there. just looks satisfying. otoh. strange little word

[island-delver-go]

My activity level has increased a lot and am finding I need to take pain medication more often. Gotta say I'm not a fan of that. I'm even less a fan of today's wordle

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[italwayshadtobeyou]

I’m hearing that Misha called SPN a “shitshow,” which sounds both plausible for Misha and farfetched for any TV actor. Does anybody know if this actually happened?

[tinsil]

tatsuya's red outfit is very thriller

[turbo-tsundere]

Drawings, old and new sketches, doodles, scribbles, style experiments, and snippets of things to hopefully finish one day...

All the best for the new year, everyone.

[coquelicoq]

if you're wondering what the big deal is about the louis-philippe sentence in les misérables, it is, in the original french, 760 words long. the subject of the sentence doesn't appear until 95% of the way through, at word #711; the main verb is word #712. the sentence contains 91 commas and 49 semicolons and is almost entirely a list of laudatory adjectival phrases describing the erstwhile king of france. this is perhaps especially notable because les mis is, shall we say, not known for being particularly gung-ho about the monarchy.

this sentence copied and pasted into Word takes up more than one page single-spaced. in the 1800-page folio classique edition, it is fully two and a half of those 1800 pages. that means that les mis is 0.14% this single sentence. more of les mis is made up of this sentence than earth's atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide (0.04%). if the page count of les mis stayed the same but every sentence was the length of this one, les mis would consist of only 720 sentences total.

incidentally, guess who named hugo a peer of france 17 years before the publication of les mis?

[qqchurch]

something morbid about seeing in real time a franchise get a huge injection of money that will inevitably have its creator use that same money to fund hate groups over and over again sure cools down any interest i'd have in a fandom or any discussion of it

big "you cant even boycott chik fil a" energy there, tbh