#so never mind

[bugpip]

Ok So i read a fic in which flowey goes to the deltarune world and i got so excited that i sketched out my own version of a dark world flowey and then i got carried away

[awaywegofg]

“Driving style” this, “oversteer” that, blah blah blah. I’m sick of people insinuating that the only reason Max is the one doing well in the Red Bull is because he has a “unique driving style” that Red Bull cater to because he has a “preference for a car with a lot of oversteer.”

I have a theory that Max doesn’t have a unique driving style, not really. The real reason Max can handle a car with a lot of oversteer isn’t preference, it’s talent. My theory is that Max’s number one skill, the one that makes him the best driver on the grid at the moment, is his car control. Every driver has a certain amount of car control, but Max has such an innate feel for what’s going on with a race car that he’s practically at one with it. This means that he can handle a car with more oversteer because he can feel exactly what limits he can push the car up to before he loses control of it.

Think about it. People say Max “likes a pointy front end.” Surely, everyone would like a car like that if they could control it. A car like that is going to be the faster one, because of how it will enable the driver to maximise corner entry and exit. It’s why Alex’s mouse sensitivity analogy is the best one to understand this: any gamer play a shooter game on the highest mouse sensitivity if they could control it, because then they’d be able to move with exacting precision, maximising their damage because their reflexes and control can match the sensitivity of the mouse movement. This is Max with the car. But the average gamer would turn their sensitivity down, not because they prefer that, but because that’s the level they’re capable of controlling. Same again with the average driver. They can only handle so much oversteer before they lose control. In a very pointy-ended car, they’ll either drive too slow because they’re not confident they can handle the car, or they’ll try to attack a corner but crash out because they’re not capable of sensing in time that they’re about to lose the car.

It isn’t “preference” that makes a driving style, its capability. Max is the driver with the highest capability for car control, and that’s the reason he can handle it when Red Bull design a “fast” car, aka, a car with a lot of oversteer. Max doesn’t have a unique driving style, he has a unique amount of skill and talent. That’s all.

[daily-rayless]

Aerith.

[inheritancetrain]

I keep thinking that I'll chill out and get bored of it, but no, I'm still rooting around for new IC content like a dog underneath a dinner table.

I might even start writing...

*dramatic pause*

fanfiction.

[mellindi]

If you happen to follow my @mellocakes account where I reblog all the writing advice I find around here, don’t worry about the most recent posts. I’m not confused or anything, I just like reading over all the resources I can get my hand on 😂

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

🎫

[hithelleth]

Plague Update (11/?)

This year and everything can fuck right off, TBH. 

As you may have gathered from other posts, the whole pandemic + darkness + life circumstances exacerbated my depression and anxiety even more this year than usually in autumn/winter, and finally being December, which usually alleviates it, doesn’t help, actually it’d made it worse because it’s not a December the way it should be (plus we have particularly nasty consistently cloudy & dark weather this year.)

Also, my kitchen faucet decided the middle of the pandemic is the best time to start leaking, so I’ll have to have a plumber come in (he promised next week, but not without me having to hassle him - I hate when people refuse to give straight answers, say yes or now, I understand if it’s not possible but saying yes and then not calling back is frustrating. Anyway, I hope he keeps his word.)

However, all that fades into insignificance, because today my uncle died. 

So. Yeah. I’ve cried through most of the afternoon. (But hey, at least I’m not holding it inside, which is a progress for me in these situations.)

I’m also mad as fuck at people who had to start going vacationing right in the beginning of June, aka as soon as we’ve had Covid infections in single digits for two weeks, which made the numbers rise right away and keep rising without ever turning down throughout the summer and then on and I was too afraid of going to visit him and now I’ll never see him again. 

Not that now it’s any better, because we’ve been stagnating on at capacity level for weeks, but our government decided despite it that this is the time to start reopening. The health minister resigned, superficially due to party policy change, but truly because he had been threatening to do so for a fortnight if they don’t listen to him and close everything including the industry (I swear, he was the only competent man on this team.)

I’m afraid he’s right and there will be a lot more death in January. Both from Covid and other issues like undiagnosed or untreated/undertreated conditions.

All that so the rich get richer - my cousin’s boss got from the 12th to the 7th richest in the country this year alone. 

It’s just all so unfair and I don’t understand why don’t we all just revolt. They are the 1%, what could they do if the rest of 99% stood together? But no, because people I guess are deluded that they will once be in the 1% and are thus willing to continue to be exploited. 

Oh well. 

We’re all gonna die, I guess we should hope for sooner better than later, anyway.

[theredheadinquestion]

The Mystrade fandom has got some seriously excellent writers, and there’s exceptional porn going around.  I feel like we should have some sort of Mystrade award/recognition thing for our favorite erotic scenes. You know, the ones that inspire self-gratification.

Don’t look at me like that. Lots of us do it.

We can call it The Wankies.