My son is spending the night at his grandparents' house for the first time in 3? 4? months? And I honestly have no idea what to do with the unbroken span of free time that stretches out before me.
but wait there’s more:
According to Red Bull consultant Helmut Marko, Perez makes too many mistakes. A driver change within the season is no longer excluded. One week before the home Grand Prix in Spielberg (2. July, 3 p.m., live on ORF1), the 33-year-old gets internal pressure from the Australian test driver Daniel Ricciardo.
“We will have Ricciardo in the car for three days at Silverstone during the tire test and then you can evaluate where Ricciardo really stands," Marko explained to ORF.
How to Be a Poet
by Wendell Berry
(to remind myself) I Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their judgment. II Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensioned life; stay away from screens. Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in. There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. III Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.
It's amazing how much willpower I have to exercise not to reblog every prompt thing that comes across my dash even though I haven't finished writing anything in 349 years and I have 39802341 prompts in my inbox.
one thing i need to start living by is “become the thing that you want” if i want friends who throw themed parties maybe i should start throwing those parties. if i want someone who writes me love letters maybe i should start writing letters for the people i love. if i want to hang out at museums and pretty cafes maybe i should invite my friends to these places. and maybe even then i won’t find the kind of people i want to be around. but then i would have become the exact person i want to be around. and maybe that’s good enough.
Here's what I'll tell you, if I can give some inside scoop on Ricciardo that you would never really know. He's insanely sincere, he has impeccable manners, when he comes over he always brings a gift. When he enters any situation he starts with whoever the lowest status person in the room is, goes to them first, connects with them, then works his way back up to--that was a little confusing thing for me, like, I ran into him in England, I was with Monica, I immediately wanted to start telling him some story I heard about Lewis, and he just beelined past me, went straight to Monica, took a good fifteen, talked to her, connected, then came back to me and was like "okay so what's the story you heard"?...he's that dude. He's like a fucking good--he was raised well clearly, he has great manners, and he's a sweetie pie.
[Dax Shepard on The Red Flags podcast 6/12/23]
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fun game! mutuals what would you do with $250 000 that wasn’t paying a ticket to get in a giant tin can to see an underwater mass grave?
Pedro Pascal & Steven Yeun | Actors on Actors
wild to me that in y/n fics it’s never the fantasy of dating the boyfriend it’s the fantasy of being seen dating the boyfriend it’s not going to the Maldives w him it’s the Instagram post of y/n going to the Maldives with him and even then it’s not the Instagram post, it’s the COMMENTS on the Instagram post of y/n with y/n’s, the comments from his employer and his coworker’s and his fired coworker’s mom. its not the material reality or even the reproduction of that reality, itself reproduced in fantasy, it’s the fictional approval of a corporation, of a fantasy of a fantasy of a different man, of the fictional approval of fictional women who represent y/n in real life and who in real life heap misogynistic abuse on the real living y/n. It’s the fantasy of not experiencing misogyny while perfectly recreating the cesspool where misogyny is perpetrated.
For real you are not y/n, you are y/n with a man inside your head y/n is y/n’s own voyeur bestie!!!!!!!!
Margret Atwood said it best:
Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.
I am in the stratosphere of delusions at the moment
Daniel you are NOT HELPING the delusions
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hiii I was wondering if you might be inspired to write a little of jealous Max due to Scotty’s new post
if not that’s okay but like I feel like you match all my jealous possessive max psycho vibes
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1.3k max/daniel w/ mentioned daniel/scotty, max/kelly cw: infidelity, rancid vibes
There was a time when Max would call Daniel up with nothing to say. Back at Red Bull the first time around. It was a fucking weird and unsocialized move. He’d say, “Hi Daniel,” and, like, expect Daniel to entertain him. Daniel could say whatever. He could read Max the mattress tag or talk about his nutsack and Max would laugh like Daniel was the funniest person alive.
Daniel would let the calls go to voicemail a lot. Roll his eyes, flip the screen upside-down and feel the rumbles peter out like Max’s unguarded hope. It made him feel powerful.
Sometimes he’d answer.
One time it got weird.
Have we considered that Max just thinks he is an out bisexual man? Because as far as he is concerned, he has been fully not subtle. He has talked very openly about how beautiful he thinks Daniel is. He has mentioned using Grindr. Sharing that ‘from what he can remember, his first kiss was a girl’. Checking that the ‘how old is too old?’ question was about meeting ‘a girl or a guy’. Like, of course he’s OUT!
And then he saw Seb’s interview in Attitude and was like, “Seb is so silly. We, of course, already have LGBT people in F1! He must have forgotten about me, just because I have a girlfriend. So silly!” and then he moved on. He knows that Seb KNOWS really, he just forgot. No big deal, mate. He saw Lewis in his rainbow helmet and was like “It’s so good that even in this difficult title battle, he is showing his support for my community.” But he was focused on the racing, so never mentioned it.
max playing among us and giving his avatar an orange suit, gas mask, little dog, and rainbow flag background really says it all...
stop you have to buy it ("buy" it whatever)...
honestly idk how this works like would this be something he had to buy or would it just be available if it was his friend's version of the game and they bought it? tbh EITHER way.
max is like i always have a scoop of vanilla on the bottom and one scoop of strawberry on top and i always have a gin and tonic and i always want to go home and get on the sim and i will always love daniel.
updated version of this video with more max/daniel and a little #red bull redux inspired by em posting about this song and these tags from alyssa :)
16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?
34. What aspects of your writing are inspired by/taken from your real life?
16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?
I sort of answered this for the last one, so to pick something different, I actually really love AUs that are based off of other movies/books/tv shows. I enjoy the experience of imagining the characters I love inside of other universes I already love. Star Trek AUs, for example. Or AUs that are just a recreation of [insert popular romcom here]. Like, give me a Notting Hill AU! Give me a Pretty Woman AU! I know we have a few Hunger Games AUs in F1 fandom that are on my list to read. Yeah, that stuff is my jam.
34. What aspects of your writing are inspired by/taken from your real life?
I guess the major one I draw from a lot is experiences surrounding figuring out your sexuality. I didn't realize I was bi until I was almost out of college, mainly because I grew up in a very Christian home and sort of didn't even know bisexuality was a thing for most of my childhood. But I had a lot of....more-intense-than-normal friendships in my preteen and teen years that made a lot more sense in hindsight. I guess that's part of why I'm drawn to writing friends-to-lovers and why I usually focus on what it is that makes people realize they have feelings for each other and want to be together, because those are the things I really struggled with for a long time.
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17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?
As a certified horse girl(tm), I'm always here for hyper-specific cowboy, horse racing, any kind of equestrian AUs.
Also, the other day I was playing Oregon Trail on my phone and I was thinking about how great an Oregon Trail AU would be. The peril! The forced proximity! I don't know if I could write it, because it would require a paralyzing amount of research probably, but it'd be so fun to read.




