ALIEN Franchise (1979-2024)

Sooner or later, he sees you. Not just who you are, but who you wish to be.

motorsport moments: Ciao Jules!

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER (2022 - ) Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor & Charlie Vickers as Sauron 2.07 - Doomed to Die

You must know it pains me, treating you like… Like you've treated countless others? Like Morgoth treated me. Do you know what it is to be tortured at the hands of a god? I cannot imagine. I see the end, Celebrimbor. So clearly. I have seen it from the moment I awoke. But his end, it was different from mine. For what he wished to destroy, I wished… to perfect. Sometimes, the pain almost became a reward. Became a game. A contest, to see whose will was the mightier.

Most iconic moment of the Japanese GP 2018

Some Niki Lauda gifs. The true Formula 1 legend. Stars’ Speed The Computer. 🙏🏻

The last gif is him and Alain Prost.

Rest easy old friend. Thank you for the memories, always and forever.

Without you, our childhoods, would have been less fun.

Alas, you're now with the rest of those who formed us. Theres a racing shoe stuck in my throat as I write this so bear with me.

Give Beco, Julio, and Hervé, Alain, and James, our love.

Ciao Niki. Thank you,

Forever. 🏎🏎🏎🏁🏁🏁

The track is all yours now, dear friend, and guess what?

This one doesn't go in circles! 🙏🏻😭

Niki Lauda

Formula 1 Racing Legend

Born Andreas Nikolaus Lauda

in Vienna on February 22, 1949

three-time F1 World Champion

The only driver in history to have driven and won for both Ferrari and McLaren.

May 20th, 2019, when death couldn't meet him on the tracks, so, it decided to meet Niki Lauda on his sleep and take him because to quote Niki:

“You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality...

A race isn’t won until it’s over.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.”

~ Niki Lauda

Chemo and Bio in one day and LV-110 (infusion 110) accomplished. On to LV-111.🙏🏻😄 #fucklupus #cml #leukemia #anywhereanytime On a side note, the pain is getting worse with every infusion. I was in tears to the point of losing consciousness.😔 I don't even remember coming home or getting in bed. The pain gets exacerbated so harshly that from now on I’ll take Tylenol pre/infusions. I’ve got so much road to cover. Still, every twist and turn can only encourage me because change is intrinsic and pain demands to be felt. I’m not doing this alone albeit sometimes it feels as if but I am just as strong as my support system. Adapt and grow as we go. Idk how much time this meds will keep me herefore or if it's written in the stars that I should live long enough to make a difference. I know that I’ll keep trying, though. F*ck Lupus
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Transcript of a video of Grete Thunberg:

“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school, on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you?

You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, yet I am one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

How dare you?”

THE MAGICIANS 3.01 "The Tales of the Seven Keys"

#Issa and Lawrence aren’t like this with anyone else #fight me

That's the most beautiful about this show. It isn't about the magic for us, well, maybe a little but mostly the fact that the writers are writing about real people, and that I think is more intoxicating in a good way because they screw up, they learn, get up and keep going. Although some of their stories carry heavy burdens, that doesn't deter them from trying to do good. One can relate with them. I love that about the show mostly.

So let’s talk about how The Magicians as a show about for with depression and/or trauma. Nearly everyone has a weight that’s constantly pushing them down, and they have to keep going and fighting anyway.

Quentin has literal, diagnosed depression, keeps losing people, is unable to fix things, and kind of had to pull the plug on his father in order to bring magic back - and it still didn’t fix things. Eliot is an abuse survivor who grew up in a toxic environment, doesn’t let himself be happy, is an addict and lives inside walls he’s built because of it. Alice’s family never allowed her power to grow, were selfish and sex-obsessed, and she’s so powerful it’s a burden, and was once pure magic, brought back, and now she has to remember, and now has to figure out to be a person. Penny’s abilities are a constant curse, both in never getting a silent day as long as there’s magic, and in either being in constant danger or tied down because of his travelling, and now he has to make sense out of a life after his life. Julia is a rape survivor who lost her soul for a while after her demon baby abortion and was tormented by her rapist nearly constantly, and then lost her god powers after working so hard to heal and find a way towards the light. Kady’s upringing was toxic, she didn’t let herself love anyone for the longest time - and once she did, he died and now she has to watch her love’s dopple ganger love someone else. Margo’s all armor, hard and glossy and so very angry because the world is undercutting her at every turn, trying to diminish her power, and even the one man she learned all that from, her dad, couldn’t handle it.

And then, there are the fights. They never cease, the bad guys are always upping their game, it’s from monsters to gods to uber-gods.

Which is not to say that there’s not joy. Or love. Or laughter. Or silliness. Or sex. Or bland old boredom. But there’s always something there with you in the room, or in your head, or in your arms, you don’t get to check out.

And magic comes from pain, right? And also, magic is a part of you. You don’t get to choose it. So maybe them being at the centre of all of these stories is really about them being cursed, cursed with power and rage and suffering. But they also need their respective curses to have a shot at fighting back. 

And I guess I’m writing this to remind myself how much everyone carries at all times in this show, and how that’s informing their actions. It’s not about doing the perfect, the perfectly right, or the perfectly moral thing. Usually, it’s about making it through, surviving to fight for another day. And I find that really complelling, true to reality and actually kind of beautiful.