#unless i take the bus

[maryse127]

Hoping to do a summer school in Japan and while looking into specifics I found that by taking part in the program I must pledge not to purchase or drive a vehicle including bicycles. So then I looked into it further and found out that they have a strict policy that students need a registration before they are allowed to cycle on campus. And as a Dutch person this whole concept is Wild to me. When I was 14 my class had an exchange program with German students and they made us take our German exchange students on an unsupervised bike ride to the next town over for an activity. A lot of those kids had very little experience cycling. Also we are Dutch. Only little kids and sports cyclists wear helmets. I do realise that this was kinda irresponsible from my school but it does illustrate the cultural difference very well. Like I will respect the rules and sign the pledge and not ride a bike if I go there but pledging not to cycle for 5 weeks really feels like denying part of my identity

[stinkypeanutbutter]

Mike banner . Again . Pls help me

[pilotstreets]

it just hit me really hard that since we're getting music videos for every song and not an official audio we're going to get it in one drop when clancy is released. this is a category 5 clikkie event.

[normalbeast-downformaintenance]

sometimes I see queer discourse that is so fucking stupid and reductive and bad faith that it makes me want to study queer theory so that I'll have the credibility needed to get a word in against these suckers and to point them in the direction of writing discussing the topic and historical accounts and most of all TO GET TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT QUEERNESS THAT ISN'T PEOPLE TRYING TO BITE EACH OTHERS' DICKS OFF BECAUSE THEY DISAGREE but if I were to go into queer studies I'd have to dedicate all of my time to it because that's how academia is formatted and I'd have no time for all the other things I live for like art and writing and cooking food and hanging out with friends and hanging out in nature and learning about science and the natural world and climbing rocks and rollerskating and having really freaknasty gay sex with friends

[chenziee]

Me: *is tired, overwhelmed, with like 10 things I need to write, including 5 lawlus*

Also me: I want to write some lawlu...

[beneaththegildedmoon]

God why do people insist on explaining repeatedly at the same volume and tone when you say you can't hear/understand them?? It didn't work last time why would doing it multiple times help?

[tansu-bomb]

Naksu’s “goddammit! even my unmarried sister got laid before I did” angry, sulky face

[cobraonthecob]

i'm just. going to sneeze out some thoughts regarding junior drivers being arrogant enough to publicly like tweets regarding lance. the tl;dr is that everyone should get off of lance's back for being a pay driver and that every single celebrity should reduce the time they spend on social media interacting with fans and fan content, because as we have just seen with bianca, it turns into a very, very ugly situation and a reputation set on fire and thrown away

drugovich makes sense since he is aston martin's reserve driver would be called up to drive for the team should anything happen to fernando or lance. this is not to excuse him, and he should not be taking out his frustration on any driver (if i'm going to be spicy, maybe turn your ire to the driver who retired a few years ago and then came back), especially when said driver is in the same team as him and technically higher in rank. if anything, if he really wants to play his cards right, then he should wait until fernando finally retires, get the seat, and try to prove why he thinks he's better than lance (and then he makes rookie mistakes and the fans turn on him. that's just how it all goes for most rookies. do really well in feeder series and f1 throws lemons at you. george russell was a victim of this, as was mick. yes, horrendous cars, but fans are quick in changing their opinions on young drivers)

bianca however, makes no sense on why she would be frustrated about lance's presence in f1 unless there was a valid point to make about how financially inaccessible this sport is becoming (which none of the tweets from what i heard, did not talk about and only insulted lance). if we are to ignore everything else for a minute and put it in a vacuum, then bianca's frustration at lance having a seat at aston martin makes zero sense. bianca is currently in an f4 equivalent series and a midfield driver who should be focusing on becoming a better driver and a contender for top three, not liking tweets talking shit about a driver in a series way above her and in a team she is not backed by. like, let's say bianca does well next year, gets into an f4 series, does well there, rinse, repeat, and rise to the top, 2027 rolls around, she would be up against whether or not lando or oscar are still with mclaren or if they've moved to other teams or left f1 (let's just assume both of them are still there). she, as a rookie, would be going up against the talents of two drivers who have been with mclaren since 2019 and 2023, respectively. her concern should not be to a driver who is in a completely different team, but to proving that she is a capable driver

now back to actual context, there is no excuse for either drugovich or bianca liking anti lance tweets. that is extremely disrespectful from both of them, and i hope that this situation becomes a lesson to all junior drivers that the fans' eyes are on you and you have to distance yourself from the fandom. if aston martin or the fia really had a problem with lance, they can deal with it on their own.

[starmist]

Yeah so I wrote 12 pages of smut today and just got to the part I started this fic for and now I have to shut it down for today

[toastsnaffler]

finished for the day 40 mins early but I can't catch an earlier bus so...... 🥱🥱

[mayra-quijotescx]

me planning an outing before work: ok so to get back from [destination] in time to clock in I would theoretically not need to leave until ~7:50, but to account for extenuating circumstances, I'd better give myself a 30-minute cushion, so I should leave by 7:22 to catch the 7:26 back to [transit center] for my bus home, and I should also give myself about a 30-minute window *at* [destination] in case there's a line or something else comes up. This will also allow me to walk to [nearby groceries] for any small item I realize I need to stock back up on. so I should get there by 6:50, which means I should catch the 6:36 to [transit center], which entails 10 minutes to cross the street, and I tend to not want to be awake in the morning so let's set that first alarm for 5:50 with a followup at 5:55 to make sure I actually get up.

me actually going on that outing: ready by 6:15, caught the 6:21, at [destination] before sunrise, ate breakfast outside the place, went to [groceries], caught the 7:13 back, and got back home an hour before clock-in time

[volfoss]

also its very funny bc choosing a misdeeds mission will have mistos going up to you and being like 😒 do you REALLY wanna do this one. like the one im doing rn is about this sibling who was like hey. i dont want my sister to date. kill the guy shes dating. and mistos was like this is mushy relationship stuff and i dont wanna get involved :///// and when i get there, shalvas starts the battle with smth along the lines of i really dont want to do this but here we go. literally what is his deal

[iguessitsjustme]

I mean, Prapai had to coerce Sky each time he wanted to get him alone.

First: “You know what to give me so I can get you out of here safe*”

Second: “Rain doesn’t know about us right?”

And he’s supposedly charming? My guy if you have to blackmail someone into sleeping with you/spending time with you, you’re categorically not charming.

*Safe as I’m not disappeared by big crime boss man. But not safe because he was literally raped so this term is subjective

[terriblelizbians]

i need to go to the supermarket so urgently but it’s so much effort it’s a whole Thing. god i wish there was better public transportation here

[asinglesock]

feeling homesick for a mediocre chain diner. I just want a hot greasy burger and fries and some mozzarella sticks with a 50% employee discount to justify the expense :/

[dianaraven]

*reads all these fics where young nathaniel sacrifices everything to save kevin andor jean*

*thinks about mary teaching nathaniel he must survive at all costs*

*thinks about mary isolating nathaniel and telling him he can't trust anyone*

*thinks about neil hearing that seth dies and he's too jaded to care until andrew tells him it was his fault for pissing off riko that only then he starts feeling this weird clenching in his chest that he doesnt understand (aka GUILT [NOT GRIEF!!!!])*

Like. Conceptually.... i understand a young nathaniel latching onto jean andor kevin who are the closest thing he's ever had to friends and therefore, deciding to protect them but like. Neil is not a martyr. He's just in love with andrew. If Nathaniel has spent any amount of time on the run with mary... like, i get the fandom is big on torture porn and whump, that's fine, you do you, but i honestly find it more likely that even if he did sacrifice his own autonomy for them mary would constantly be in the back of his head telling him to betray them to riko and save his own skin.