“Sorry I'm Late.”

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You see

Growing Up in this …

They see u struggling ,falling and slipping

They do see u ,they do know,they do understand

But one thing they would never do is helping u

They would back up and stay still

Thinking , time will do you good by passing

U will grow up and will get it together later

By your own

They don’t know what will happen but they are sure they won’t have to see u struggling with the same thing anymore

The one’s who want to help would say “life goes on ”

Yeah life do goes on

But I want it to fucking goes good

Goes while I’m happy , healthy and fixed

And u know whats fucked up even more

It’s when THEY are your own parents

It's just so absolutely crazy how close Max and Daniel got despite the things that happened when they were teammates. Max is essentially the reason Daniel left and his career went spiralling. Max is the one who came in and became the golden child when Daniel was the WDC hope after Vettel. Max who watched Daniel with heart eyes from day 1. Daniel who taught Max they can be teammates and friends at the same time. And he left and they missed each other, went on vacations, and introduced each other to their friends circle, who watched one rise and rise, and the other struggle. And it all, ALL, comes down to "if it's not me, I'm glad it's him" and "thank you, Daniel" ALWAYS

The other day I was reading Hymiskviða (the story of Thor fetching a cauldron and fishing up Jörmungandr), and there was a kenning for "boat" in it that translates to "floating-goat" and that's when I realized the phrase "whatever floats your goat" is probably not new.

“It’s literally impossible to be a woman.

You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow, we're always doing it wrong?

You have to be thin, but not too thin, and you can never say you wanna be thin. You have to say you wanna be healthy, but also, you have to BE THIN.

You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.

You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean.

You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.

You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.

You have to be a career woman, but also, always be looking out for other people.

You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is INSANE, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining!

You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood, but ALWAYS STAND OUT and ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. But never forget that the system is rigged, so find a way to acknowledge that but ALSO, always be grateful!

You have to never get old. Never be rude. Never show off. Never be selfish. Never fall down. Never fail. Never show fear. Never get OUT OF LINE. It's too hard! It's too contradictory, and nobody gives you a medal or says 'thank you!' And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also, everything is your fault.

I'm just so tired of watching myself, and every single other woman tie herself into knots, so that people will like us.

And if all of that, is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know." -Gloria the barbie movie

this is it. this is exactly it oh my god.

how tf isnt the menendez boys or daniel ricciardo trending??

Review of A Thousand Ships

I was going to wait a read a collection of greek mythology book adaptations and make another post with multiple books, but I just felt so strongly about this one I'm making it's own post.

My review under the cut:

I was really looking forward to reading this book and to say I was disappointed is an understatement. I loved Circe and Ariadne so I thought this would be similar. I couldn't have been more wrong.

This book covers so many characters in a desire to give a voice to all the women in the Trojan War that you can only meet them shallowly. And because this book covers more of the Trojan War than even the Iliad does, it spend A LOT of time retelling/summarizing the surrounding myth. Like 80-90 of this book is just retelling what happened in the Trojan war. It's not even a good retelling, where you get a sense of the feelings of the characters, it's boringly factual, as entertaining and emotionally moving as reading a summary off wikipedia. It might be interesting if you don't know the story, but I know the Trojan war like the back of my hand. The same goes for most greek mythology. Yet I love myth adaptations, but a good adaptation depends on the skills of prose. And Hayes just doesn't have that.

So even with a "feminist retelling" a lot of time is spent going over the actions of the men in the war. Even Penelope's chapters are 90% her retelling the Odyssey with a few sassy remarks thrown in. How is that fair to Penelope? It's still the equivalent of saying she did nothing but sit back and have shit happen to her. It would have been smarter to focus on one character, so you could spend time looking at their contributions specifically. Because of the framing Hayes choose, we are still only seeing the women superficially. And it doesn't feel like they do anything, but are simply having things done to them. Like is it really feminist if your characters have no agency?

For a feminist retelling I'm really disappointed by how this book handles Helen. The characters all distinctly her and she isn't included in this book. The Iliad explicitly shows over and over that the war wasn't her or anyone's fault, everyone is a pawn in the god's game of chess. And yet her perspective isn't included because the author wants to take the easy route and blame the war on Helen and make her out to be a selfish bitch? Ok 🙄

The men almost are all depicted as selfish and evil, which gets rid of any nuance. They all either outright hate or disrespect women. Like, Hayes, buddy, I'm reading this bc I like the characters of the Iliad. If I'm the target audience, shitting on all the characters I like may not be the way to go. Also "all men treat women poorly" is so derivative and weak of a take for feminism. It's just not true. It's also the kind of thing that is a Terf red flag, and considering the author is a white woman from TERF island...

1/5 I hated it. I personally think if you are interested you should save your money, there are plenty of other good greek myth adaptations (and actual good feminist ones) that are more worthy of your time.

Lance's impressive spin recovery in FP2; Jeddah '25

love castiel as a character because he feels no emotions for the first kajilion years of his existence and all of a sudden he can feel things now and his first two emotions are queer longing and catholic guilt. literally who else is doing it like him

I'll hate you forever ♥️