#pod lore

[problematicsashawaybright]

Can you imagine witnessing your dad's biblically horrific violent death as a child with your brother and everyone thinks it's a tragic accident and your mother, who you were never really that close to before his death, gets irrationally angry at you whenever you try to talk about your father or the impossible circumstances around his death and tells you you're crazy and a pathological liar who can't be trusted, and your brother is so traumatized from also witnessing his death that he sides with your mother and lies to your face and also calls you crazy and a liar and turns a blind eye to your mother's increasingly severe paranoia induced abuse and manipulation, so you run away from home with your girlfriend who's a lot older than you when you're 15 and have no contact with your mom or brother, and then years later you find out your girlfriend, who's been a jerk this whole time, is leaving you for someone else and is taking the cat you adopted together, and while you're trying to get your fucking cat back, your brother breaks years of no contact to tell you that he's married, him and his wife are expecting a baby, and also now your mom just fucking died so you need to come back to your small town to help plan her funeral and sell her giant house full of secrets you frankly don't care about at all, and you are guilted into the entire thing because your brother is making her death due to an illness "worsened by stress" your fault because you ran away from home and ruined her reputation, and you're already in an insane post toxic breakup/mid feline custody battle bender, so you curse him out and break down about it but agree to go back to your hometown with the secret intention of trying to get your sister in law to leave your brother before their baby is born and to also maybe process some of your extensive childhood trauma you've been repressing with horrific attachment issues and untreated mental health issues, but it turns out things are even more fucked up in your hometown except for this lesbian with problems who adopts you as her pet freak because she's obsessed with how insane and dysfunctional you are who you sort of fall in love with and start being able to value yourself and others amidst The Genuine Horrors? Happened to my good friend Augustine Cruyssen

[wizard-scribble]

Hang on, are you telling me THIS is the ship that came to pick up Suvi at Port Talon too??!????? And Suvi still managed to stand up to Steel?!

Suvi, my beloved, you’re so brave, I’m sorry for ever doubting you

Seriously, though, never have I EVER clenched my butt so hard at a lore dump.

Plus, the Citadel has me in a chokehold right now, so I’m only allowed to make propaganda art 😶😶

[wisteriagoesvroom]

interesting soundbites you might've missed from the op81 & howie games podcast in melb

(did this while procrastinating at work... we are so back i guess.)

disclaimers: (i) i'm paraphrasing here so can't vouch for 100% accuracy, but as much as possible have tried to capture the meaning (ii) the word association game and the carcar soundbite have already made the rounds, but, i feel like, there was a lot more in this interview.

let's go!

on the topic of personal chefs and nutrition etc: host mark howard asks if the menu changes or there's anything special that oscar requests that reminds him of home -- apparently race week thursdays for a while were "chicken parm thursdays" and they might bring this back

oscar's lunch on press day was barramundi and "the big grained couscous with no spices" (oscar... the 1/16th is crying out for help)

one of the reasons he renewed with mclaren is because he felt the infrastructure and people needed to get to the championship in the new set of regs was there, so he was confident

on the reported $22mn bonus last year: oscar denies that it was this high (lol ok sir)

on longevity of career and responsibility: oscar talks about the estimated career in f1 usually being up to 35, maybe into your 40s but "it isn't like a typical career where you've got until your 60s" so financial investing and doing something with your salary to prolong the usability of it is important (wow 20something multimillionaire thinks of his pension. mature)

on the early RC cars: "i drove one around the school [cricket] oval a few times and that got me in trouble" pLeaSe !!!

recounting his first race at oakleigh (he was about... 9? 10?): "i went to a friend's birthday at the bmx track and did the last jump of the day before we went for the race. and i skidded down the down ramp on my face, so i actually missed it" HE REALLY WAS JUST SOME KID

so his real first race was a state race (with a P/provisional drivers' plate) HAHAHAH. he fought his way about half way up the pack in this one

"my first win... i won a club race at oakleigh and it felt like a world championship at the time. and then i quickly realised no one cared" <- once again devastated by his deadpan humour

on aus footie: "i was good in the under 9s cus i was pretty big as a kid up till that point and then everyone else grew and i didn't, then quickly realised i wouldn't become a footballer no matter how much i wanted it. i was playing footie a lot before i started racing and [the demands of racing then] really took up a whole season"

he also fielded in cricket at state level (?) a couple of times here and there. [i don't understand cricket terminology fully so i might be wrong here]

he was starstruck when meeting jackie stewart and alain prost because it was "pretty special, pretty cool. to meet legends of the sport like that."

he downplays the question about whether it was hard to move to boarding school, because he wanted to become a professional racing driver so badly and was always really motivated by this.

but does say formula renault was hard because of everything he felt he had to balance that year, and when things were not going well it feels very pressurised especially when you have only a year to prove yourself

on sponsorship and racing: "i'm fortunate to have a family that are pretty well off and it didn't become apparent until i entered f2 [that it was a big financial strain]. it costs about three million AUD a year [to fund a year in that series]"

credits both his parents for the sacrifices they made to support his racing career and shouts out his mum for making sure his sisters had the same opportunities to pursue their dreams as well

about the alpine purgatory years: "that was a tough thing because not everyone knows the full story and we weren't able to tell it. it was not an easy thing to go through but once i cemented my future and signed with mclaren, it was a relief to know i was going to be on the grid for at least a little bit"

to put the current margins on the cars into perspective: "the amount of difference between me and the car in front is the time it takes to blink".

and on car development being so advanced now: "there being something like a second between first car and last on the grid in qualifying is pretty unprecedented"

does he watch drive to survive seasons? "to be honest not really. i just skim through and see my parts to see if they've painted me as a supervillain. [this year's] is pretty balanced i would say. the mclaren episode is a pretty fair reflection of two competitive guys wanting to win races and it being a difficult situation for the team. it's entertaining but that one is for the most part pretty accurate. i found it quite entertaining."

during the drivers' word association part: "i don't have much for Stroll" FLKJKFJSDKLJSDK he really went *mariah carey voice* i don't know her

race weeks are scheduled down the minute, and on off weeks it's usually training every day at least once or twice a day; they get maybe 2-3 days at home. last year he reckons he spent 100 days at home in monaco last year, and was on at least 48-60 flights for work depending if you count the ones going to and from the MTC

howie told him to share his airline points (ha) and oscar said "qantas is the one airline i don't have platinum status at the moment [though] i used to when i lived in aus"

oscar does not own a boat in monaco (YET)

finds life in monaco a little bit of an adjustment due to the smaller spaces, but he's been in apartments even since boarding school so it's not a big deal to him. "i'm going to sound like a complete wanker if i complain about living in monaco"

on communication style on the radio, it's kind of about personal preference and he doesn't cast judgment on that – "some people need to be fired up, some people need to be calm and for me it's staying calm. in baku you can see from the onboard and my helmet i got pretty excited but i don't always open the radio for that"

howie closes with any advice for kids. oscar says: "enjoy it. for me, even – we've spoken about how difficult it is being in f1 and how cutthroat – [it's] always taking a conscious moment to reflect that you're doing a thing you love. doing it because you love it is the first thing. that's an important one for me even though there's so much more pressure now than when i started my first race at oakleigh. the second part is always be trying to learn, and improving. it's often easy when you have success early on, you think you're at that [certain] level now. but on my journey i've learned what's good 12 months ago isn't going to be good enough in 12 months time. that's in the car too. if we raced last year's car this year we'd probably be last. continuing to learn and improve is a part i enjoy as well."

[wizard-loving-wizard]

forgive me this is kind of parasocial but i'm just having so many emotions now that i'm getting into worlds beyond number after watching mismag2. because 'family on six' didn't happen for evan kelmp in the years between season 1 and season 2, but it DID happen for brennan and lou and aabria and erika! the first mismag is how the four of them became a group and created WBN, and they've been doing it ever since. listening to WBN you can tell that aabria is not exaggerating when she says they're her favorite people in the world. and mismag2 is this total full-circle moment because in-game, evan's dearest wish is literally just to be able see his friends on a regular basis for the rest of their lives, which is also exactly how brennan describes why they wanted to do WBN. and in the end, they get to reward evan with the very thing that HE gave to THEM which is lifelong friendship and community 🥹

[realbigpodcastslut]

I fear people don't know lovecraft lore, which might help for pt 52. Kayne is a version of nyarlathotep.... aka the crawling chaos and son of azathoth. Nyral's whole thing in a lot lovecraft stories is he interacts with humans (which most gods don't) and is sort of Azathoth's method of interacting with the world. Aka kayne's a servant of azathoth (and other outer gods but mostly azathoth).

In essence, kayne has daddy issues

[mambadou]

If you kill my boi Silver Mr Mulligan, Suvi will hunt you down personally and kill you. And I feel the need to specify that it's not Aabria, it will be actual Suvi obliterating the 4th wall to come find you

[borealiszero]

To think that before, he would question why would anyone go on vengeance when there's family here .........

[askoliverbanks]

Hey Oliver? So I have a question? What is your opinion on gay people. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Hello, I think people can and should love whoever they want to love

I know that's not my opinion on gay people, but I think that's the right answer to give since I can't judge a group of people solely based on their sexual orientation

Sorry if I took it too seriously, it's a touchy topic

[crazycatmilo]

Guys holy shit. I just watched the first two LOTR movies for the first time. I see how Martin was inspired by Sam. Frodo and Sam are so Jon and Martin coded I’m losing it I should’ve watched these a long ass time ago.

ALSO “It’s your Sam” like oh my GODDDD.

Also Legolas is so cool I love that guy.

[pooptrongnee]

Asaba 🌰🌰

[maxmemer]

[sh4rkfinn]

hey guys i’m putting together a tma Notebook (which is just when i fill a notebook/notebooks with just information about my special interests)

as of right now i plan on doing these categories:

a recap of each episode and the fear associated with the statement

a profile of each entity

a profile of all of the major characters

a timeline of all of the major events/ plot points

the significance of said major events/ plot point

interpretations for said major events/ plot points

am i missing anything ? is there anything i can add to go more in depth ?

[peapodsinspace]

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Sorry for the long post! I just wanted to clarify some things since I’ve been getting questions recently! :]

[brainrockets]

Brennan 1000% knows how Emily and Murph are about cats. So this Aelwyn cat thing is extra violence visited upon his besties.

But as I always say, what is friendship but giving your worsties to your besties?

[dragonborn-druid]

nevermind canon, suvi and ame are toxic yuri TO ME

[petrovna-zamo]

Katya & Sapphira’s tweets about each other before drag race 😭