#Ask rfm

[radiant-fanon-maker]

Can I ask for Lee!Jax? I love this purple rabbit! :3

This became a comic...

Gloink Queen: You DARE insult the Gloink Queen?

Q: You shall be punished!

Jax: Oh, you gonna turn me into a stupid little zoink? Try me!

Kinger: Jax... You should not mess with royalty, I feel.

J: ...what's this?

J: AH!

Gangle: eep!!

J: HA HA HA

G: Huh?

J: SNORT HAHAHA

G: Hmm I didn't think the punishment would be so lighthearted.

K: JAX!! You okay?

J: YEAHAH!! TOHOTALLY!!

Q: Alllllright get over here

J: NOT MY EHEARS!!! HA SNORT HA HA HA HA SNORT

[Afterwards]

K: I didn't know you were so ticklish.

G: It was cute

#rfm art #rfm post #ask rfm #rfm comic #just a bunch of tickling #tadc tickles #tadc jax #lee!jax #tadc gangle #tadc kinger #tadc gloink queen

[treeba-rk]

Maybe if i manifest my perfect mcc team (Ren, False, Martyn and Pete) for an entire month it will actaully happen

it will happen... it will happen... pls

Anyways re: MC/C, I really hope we return to more "conventional" team compositions like the one you said. Like sometimes we just need classics. Regardless of coins or stats or whatever. LET THEM VIBEEEE

#rfm team pls. rfm pls #ask box #answered

[mecachrome]

pre-mclaren oscar piastri primer (ft. maxf, landoscar)

0. introduction

for a few months now i've been wanting to make both an oscar primer and a timeline of pre-mclaren landoscar moments, but i couldn't figure out which one to prioritize… then after some deliberation i finally realized i could just combine the two things together! so. here is an oscar-centric timeline that is mainly about his racing background, moving to the uk, and how he became acquainted with other members of the rfm pack—aka lando, maxf, and logan. i don't know whether any of this information is useful or even vaguely interesting, but i mostly just wrote it for myself and thought i'd share what i had in case anyone else wanted to check it out. please feel free to comment or shoot me an ask if anything here is egregiously incorrect; i've checked and linked as many sources as i could but it's of course possible that some errors remain :)

1. background, rc racing, early karting days (2007-2015)

oscar piastri was born on april 6, 2001 in brighton east, a suburb of melbourne not far from albert park circuit, as the son of chris and nicole and to-be oldest brother to 3 younger sisters. a love for all things automotive ran deep in the piastri family: both of his grandfathers were mechanics and his father had also co-founded his own vehicle diagnostics software company, hp tuners, aka oscar's sponsor throughout his racing career. thanks to his father's business, oscar's family was objectively well-off and managed to contribute a fairly substantial amount of support toward his junior career, but they also weren't swimming in cash by multi-millionaire motorsport standards either.

(L-R) mae, edie, hattie, and oscar, from nicole's twitter — each sibling is ~2 years apart (source)

while most drivers on the current grid were introduced to motorsport through go-karting, usually at or before the age of 7, oscar's path to single-seaters differed slightly. he first developed an interest in racing via remote-controlled cars at the age of 6, when his father brought him a monster truck as a souvenir back from a business trip in america. oscar began racing them that same year, eventually moving to safer electric track vehicles and even winning the second class of the national titles in 2010, at the age of 9. he was so small then that he often needed to stand on a milk crate to see the cars on track, and the next-youngest competitor at the time was twice his age. (source)

oscar on the podium at age 8 (nov 16, 2009)

oscar with his father chris, who often competed alongside him in a separate class (dec 21, 2010)

by 2011, oscar and his father were seriously considering his potential of pursuing rc racing as a viable career path, but things changed when he was introduced to karting via a friend's daughter in the rc community and his aspirations slowly shifted toward racing from inside a car. oscar was an unsurprisingly sporty and competitive child growing up; he'd played some cricket and aussie rules football and knew that all he wanted to do was race professionally, full-stop, at the time thinking along the lines of australian racing categories like v8 supercars. he was still competing in remote car racing as late as 2013, but he began karting seriously within australia in 2014, placing respectably in the junior categories of several regional karting series against relatively senior and more-experienced racers, and even going to france for a one-off event where he finished on the podium of the iame international junior x30 final. this outing affirmed his potential to his father and motivated the two of them to split time between australia and europe in 2015 as they juggled his karting future; plans for two more european events that year fell through, including the cik-fia world championship at the kfj level (which logan sargeant would go on to win), but at this point they were officially looking to take his career to the next level and commit fully to european karting in 2016.

this is when ricky flynn (and the hypothetical idea of lando norris!!!) comes in. before we get into rfm and karting professionally in europe, it's important to note that the defining aspect of landoscar's junior careers is that their pathways never once intersected. in fact, they don't even seem to have met properly before oscar entered the f1 grid as alpine reserve, although they'd spoken over social media and oscar was familiar with several people around lando's life—for example, maxf, logan, guanyu, and even lando's older brother oliver, who had also raced for rfm.

in short, you could say that landoscar's biggest hindrance was their parallel excellence. oscar was good enough to catch up and even surpass everyone else at lando's level, but lando remained untouchable throughout the years. oscar is only 1.5 years younger than him, but their f1 careers are offset by 4 years (2019 vs. 2023 debut) because of exactly two things: oscar's 2022 gap year in alpine and his two attempts at formula renault eurocup. on the other hand, lando sped through all of his junior categories in blistering fashion, falling short of the championship only once: the year he placed 2nd in f2 behind george russell. this is significant because many talk about the clinical nature of oscar's rapid single-seater ascension and three b2b2b victories (still very impressive, especially given his limited karting career!), but all of that speaks equally to the illustrious nature of lando's junior success and the sheer magnitude of faith placed in him as mclaren's "golden boy" coming up the ranks. to put things into further perspective, lando was teammates with maxf and jehan daruvala at rfm until 2014, jehan competing in the same class and max one below, yet by the time oscar was racing max and jehan—in f3 in 2020 and f2 in 2021, respectively—lando was already into his 2nd and 3rd years of f1. here's a chart that hopefully makes a bit more sense:

majorly simplified timeline showing lando, guanyu, maxf, logan, and oscar's junior careers + the karting classes they primarily competed in each calendar year. maxf did not complete his 2nd f3 season and many of them contested multiple/different formula renault series, but this is just a rough overview of their feeder series experience. 

2. moving to europe, rfm, regional formulae (2016-2019)

back in australia, oscar was a member of the oakleigh go-kart racing club and being actively mentored by james sera, a multi-time australian karting champion and fa kart dealer who worked with young karting talents alongside his cousin david. in late-2015, he presumably helped oscar and his father reach out to ricky flynn, who ran ricky flynn motorsport (rfm) and whose team was at the time enjoying exorbitant success in the karting scene; lando had won the world championship at the kf level the year prior, and logan would soon clinch the kfj title in 2015, results which further drew oscar's interest toward the team. ricky flynn agreed to take oscar on and have him and his dad move out to europe, and by november 2015 oscar announced on social media that he would be joining rfm the next year. in january of 2016, he and his father moved to hertford, uk, so that oscar could begin a 100-day karting program and travel extensively around europe to attend races. this is where he met logan sargeant, who was in his final year on the team but competing a class above, now at the ok (previously kf) level. oscar himself was only competing in the okj class.

not oscar-related, but as you can see guanyu, logan, and maxf were already acquainted before oscar and logan met, since the three of them and lando had been in rfm together as of 2014 — (may 11, 2014) & (feb 6, 2015)

oscar and logan in 2016

in an interview published on june 7, 2023, oscar reflected on leaving australia and committing to his racing dream, saying:

"i think if there was a turning point, it was probably when i started finishing towards the front in australia, and i started winning a couple of races here and there and finishing in the top three of championships and stuff, and then went to europe and fully committed to going down that route. [...] there's obviously a very big commitment at that point when you move halfway across the world without family and stuff. so i knew at that point that i really wanted to become a professional because, firstly, that's what i want to do anyway, but, secondly, now i'm sacrificing seeing my family, and stuff like that to be able to do this — which was a sacrifice i was more than willing to make."

like the majority of oscar's karting career, his time with ricky flynn can primarily be summarized as decent. none of his performances were particularly stellar, and in november 2016 he placed 6th in the fia world championship final behind the likes of victor martins and théo pourchaire (he mainly competed against guys like them, dennis hauger, caio collet, etc… once again logan was a class above and lando/maxf had already graduated to single-seaters), but he showed promising racing foundations and a great capacity for improvement, especially given that he'd moved to europe the same year and was still adjusting to life and racing on the opposite hemisphere. about 6 months into his new karting venture, oscar had settled in reasonably well and his father decided he would return to australia to continue on with his life, so they made the joint decision that oscar was to begin boarding at haileybury's uk campus and continue racing in europe entirely on his own. uk and australian school years are misaligned, so my personal understanding is he moved to europe after finishing year 9 in australia, attempted online school/took a few months off (he says he did online coursework here, but mentioned here that he was out of school, so it sounds like it must have been a very half-hearted effort…), came back to australia over the uk summer to do some more karting, then began boarding in september 2016 as a year 10 student. he spent ~4 years there and eventually received his a-levels in 2020, except his final year was disrupted by covid and he never sat his exams. (blog post mentioning his a-levels + btg transcript excerpt about his exams; his website says he attended haileybury from 2016-19, but i think this mainly encapsulates his boarding period, as he was still doing remote work in april 2020.)

oscar in f4 with his gcse revision guide, 📸 sebastiaan rozendaal (may 20, 2018)

2016 is also when oscar began his well-documented super-liking of several of lando's social media profiles. i think understanding oscar's time in rfm and his extremely british single-seater origins helps better paint his history with lando and maxf; my personal understanding of pre-mclaren landoscar is that while oscar never formally met lando or maxf during his karting days, he knew of them quite well through rfm and thus followed them on instagram/twitter after moving to the uk. of course, oscar has a fairly active social media presence in general, so young oscar quietly liked instagram posts and tweets from many different people, but i do feel compelled to note that in the early days he liked lando, maxf, and logan's posts with seriously impressive frequency compared to anyone else on the grid (or anyone in general, really); after creating his twitter account in may 2016, some of the very first tweets oscar liked were from maxf, and he also liked a multitude of mundane lando tweets from 2016 until… today, while on the other hand he didn't start liking george's tweets—another similarly-aged young british talent—until late 2017. (he does have some fun george-admiring moments though, but that can wait for another time!) outside of rfm, other people oscar was familiar with during his early racing years were british f4 teammate ayrton simmons, to-be series champion jamie caroline, and old australian karting friend christian pancione, who appears to still be one of his best mates (if not his best) as of today. fun fact is that christian raced for the carrera cup as a support event to the australian gp in 2023; here's oscar allegedly checking the quali live timing at lunch during his own media day. 

so, to conclude, oscar's early lando focus basically traces back to the motorsport path he took at the behest and guidance of his early rfm connections in the uk. the thing is that despite growing up in australia and vaguely admiring several aussie drivers in f1 as a child (read: mark webber and eventually daniel ricciardo), oscar has never had a specific driver he consistently mentions when pressed for his racing "idol," likely since his personality inherently resists idolatry and he instead views successful people more as actionable benchmarks or reference points for self-improvement rather than as unattainable paragons of accomplishment. as a kid forced to grow up almost entirely on his own, the majority of his racing aspirations were molded independently in the uk—he completed his karting career in the uk, boarded at haileybury for 4 years (fun fact: other drivers to attend include jehan, callum ilott, and clément novalak; callum was a few years above oscar and finished school in 2017, but the two would later become quite talkative over social media anyway), raced in british f4, became a brdc member, contested eurocup under a british license and therefore had the british flag raised and british national anthem played during his wins, stayed in the uk even at alpine since the factory is based in enstone, etc. oscar basically moved to the uk from australia without having really met anyone significant in the racing scene (other than jack doohan, or more importantly jack's father mick, but jack is younger and did an extra year of karting) and pretty much didn't have anyone specific to "look up to" at the time. oscar's first acknowledgement of lando's online existence was in december 2015, when he liked one of lando's instagram posts prior to moving to england, so it can be assumed that lando basically functioned as his most accessible reference point in the junior ladder as a 14 year old dipping his toes into the european racing scene for the first time. that is my highly subjective analysis of the situation!

select quotes re: oscar's inconsistent responses to his motorsport "hero" (or his favorite driver / a driver he looks up to in general):

(f1fs; mar 9, 2022) "i started watching f1 in… 2009 was the first season i properly watched. so when brawn came in, obviously mark was the only aussie on the grid at that point, so i was kind of naturally going for him. then joined by daniel, so obviously going to support the aussies, but i think watching lewis has been nothing short of spectacular, and a very good role model. [...] i think when i was first watching, i supported mark, but, you know, and i hope he takes no offense to this—vettel was winning everything at that point. so i was supporting mark, but vettel was doing most of the winning. i think now that i understand more about racing though, i would say [the driver i look up to the most is] lewis, mainly. the way he goes about things on and off the track is quite exceptional."

(mcl youtube; mar 29, 2023) sporting idols mentioned: ayrton senna, alain prost, michael jordan (see also ultimate athletes list)

(p1; aug 10, 2023) "i would say i never had like one specific idol. when i was growing up watching mark webber was at red bull, and obviously being australian, red bull being very quick at the time, i kind of naturally followed him. i mean—even like some of the guys in the junior ranks above me. like lando was always kind of two, three years above me, winning… most things on his way up. so i guess kind of him in some ways?"

(eff won; dec 4, 2023) "i don’t really have like one specific [idol]. i think what lewis has been able to do in terms of getting to seven world championships was incredibly impressive. i think what max is doing now is also very impressive…" 

the first lando post oscar liked on instagram (dec 21, 2015)

the first maxf posts oscar liked; instagram (feb 26, 2016) & twitter (may 9, 2016)

anyway, back to british f4! despite his initially unconventional foray into motorsport, oscar's journey progressed in a much more orderly fashion once he stepped up to single-seaters. his actual debut was in f4 uae, which he ran 3 rounds of between 2016 and 2017 (another fun fact: this is where he briefly acquainted himself with mclaren indycar driver david malukas, who would later recall him being very intelligent and whom zak brown allegedly spoke to oscar about before appointing to their indy team). after cutting his teeth on actual car-racing for the first time, oscar decided against moving up to the ok class as he felt confident in his ability to be competitive in single-seaters. his first full season was therefore the 2017 british f4 championship, during which oscar signed with arden while logan went to reigning champions carlin (lando had won with them in 2015, then maxf in 2016). oscar made his way to the top step 6 times in the season and placed just barely above logan for 2nd in the championship, finishing behind the considerably more experienced jamie caroline. arden was also founded and is currently owned by red bull team principal christian horner, so it was during oscar's time there that christian took note of and interest in his talent; oscar reportedly did a few runs in the red bull simulator but was passed over for joining the academy, which christian later voiced regret on. (source)

maxf, logan (center), and oscar (to max's right) on a day maxf was visiting the 2017 british f4 grid (april 11, 2017)

linus lundqvist, oscar, and logan on the podium at snetterton (jul 30, 2017)

jamie and oscar, who were… er, mathematically in the main championship fight. for some reason they made them take these photos (sep 30, 2017)

after a successful f4 outing with arden, oscar returned to the team for his first season of formula renault eurocup in 2018, a renault series that ran in its specific configuration until 2020 before merging with the parallel regional series frec to become what is today known as freca. this season proved to be less competitive for oscar, as arden was relatively inexperienced in this series and oscar's three teammates were afflicted with what can colloquially be referred to as a "skill issue," making it difficult to collectively develop the car throughout the season. (blog interview) the series was thus returning driver maxf's to lose, who at the time was racing for reigning champs r-ace with teammates that included oscar's fellow rookies logan and victor martins.

despite the unideal environment, oscar managed to prove his worth by placing a respectable 8th in the series, scoring 110 points as a rookie driver and capping the season off with 3 podiums and a top-finish of 2nd place—a jarring contrast to his teammates' joint total of 12 points. this result attracted the attention of r-ace and granted him a seat with them for the 2019 season, at which point maxf and logan both graduated to f3. thankfully that wasn't too much of a concern for oscar since he'd always intended to do two seasons of eurocup, and now he finally had a chance to win the first serious championship of his racing career with an established racing outfit.

oscar, max, and yifei ye on the hockenheim r2 podium (sep 23, 2018) [full gifset]

oscar's second season of eurocup is when he truly started proving himself as a driver, or at least to the people whose names, money, and opinions mattered around the paddock. his main competition in 2019 was again victor, who was now racing for mp and had been made a member of the renault sport academy back in 2018 after a strong performance in french f4. despite a close title fight, oscar managed to hold him off for the championship in the final race of the season, kicking off what would soon become an impressive string of consecutive single-seater series titles. even sweeter was the fact that all eurocup champions were awarded a renault sport academy spot that could be left or taken as they pleased, and of course—while the finances weren't nearly as impressive as alpine would later proclaim in their baseless smear campaign—oscar's connections in the racing world were limited as an australian driver almost exclusively managed by his father, so he gladly accepted the offer for the many venues of support renault presented to him.

see also: bby oscar briefly mentioning lando after winning eurocup in 2019 (@ 1:10)

oscar being lifted by his team (r-ace) after placing 4th in the abu dhabi finale and winning the title by 7.5 points

3. renault sport academy, lockdown, f3 (2020)

many things happened in 2020. one: oscar became an official member of the renault sport academy, joining the likes of max (who'd been picked up on merit after winning british f4 in 2017), guanyu, christian lundgaard, caio collett, and fellow new recruit hadrien david (victor had been strategically demoted after oscar's win because renault is a notoriously unserious organization, but again this is not the post). two: by the time oscar was ready for f3, moving up the ladder proved to be exorbitantly expensive, and he realized he needed better funds and managerial support to sort his career out. he'd been offered a spot in prema's f3 team by team-owner rené rosin at the end of his eurocup season, who'd named him for the post-season test before the championship was over and stressed that the spot was his no matter where he finished. (source) prema is unquestionably one of the top—if not frequently the top—teams one can drive for in most junior series (though there is also somewhat of a self-selection bias; if you ask oscar he is not a significant beneficiary of prematax!), having absolutely demolished the f3 competition that same year and achieved a clean sweep of the drivers' standings with rob shwartzman, marcus armstrong, and jehan at 1-2-3 consecutively. oscar completed post-season testing with them in spain alongside to-be teammates logan and fred vesti in october (source), before confirming on jan 26, 2020 that he would be joining them for the f3 season as a renault junior.

so, where does mark webber come in here? apparently mark's trainer from red bull and wec had also been oscar's trainer since 2016 (i'm pretty sure this is australian physiologist simon sostaric), and it was through their joint connection that oscar was introduced to mark. according to mclaren's 2023 season preview, "the pair hit it off, and webber took his countryman under his wing," signing oscar to jam sports management, aka the management agency he runs with his wife ann. mark's support would become a major factor in helping oscar progress through the feeder ranks and establish himself in f1, mainly because he had actual connections and could help oscar network with sponsors and negotiate his way during future signings. of course, more on this later.

as an aside, here are a few things mark has said about oscar:

"he’s got that white line fever when he puts his helmet on and turns into a different character, which is sensational." (mar 1, 2020)

"one of oscar’s biggest strengths by a mile, compared to everyone he is competing against — and this will be a huge string to his bow when he makes it to f1 — is his composure. he has immense levels of composure. [...] if you are weak mentally you won’t make it. he was on his own from an early age. he did brilliantly with his studies. but the racing disease would not go away, he wants it very much." (sydney morning herald; dec 11, 2021)

"he’s a prost, mate. he’s such a thinker and so calm. at first i thought i needed to inject a bit of urgency in him, but actually no, he’s got his own frequency. that’s just where he is." (the race; oct 7, 2023)

estimates provided by chris piastri on the cost of oscar's junior career, stressing the million-dollar commitments of running a single season of f3 or f2 (source)

anyway, back to the chaotic events of 2020. i think something that's good to keep in mind when discussing oscar's time in the renault sport academy is that he was actually a relatively new recruit, as in he only participated in a single training camp with the other juniors in 2020 and most of them (max, christian, guanyu, the temporary ghost of victor) already knew each other before. oscar essentially met with renault's factory team in early 2020, filmed promotional material with other juniors in january before attending the season opener together in february and then heading to winter training camp later that month, after which he and max left early for f3 pre-season testing in bahrain on march 1—a blessing in disguise, seeing as caio, hadrien, and christian remained behind and would soon be stuck quaranting in a hotel in tenerife—then briefly spent a week at school before returning home for what was meant to be a quick pit stop at the australian gp, which at the time had yet to be canceled.

then, of course, lockdown happened.

simplified breakdown of renault junior stints, notably showcasing the academy's struggles to meaningfully promote any of its juniors

oscar at the 2020 renault season opener alongside then-academy director mia sharizman, then-tp cyril abiteboul, alain prost, f1 drivers esteban ocon and daniel ricciardo, and the other academy juniors: fewtrell, lundgaard, zhou, david (feb 12, 2020)

oscar and maxf behind the scenes of the same event (feb 12, 2020)

stuck in australia for three months, oscar would end up participating in two fia virtual races, one for f2 and another for f1 (jun 7, 2020). a fun landoscar tidbit is that he finished 5th in the virtual gp right behind lando, so they technically had raced each other before 2023, depending on... well, whether you count a 2020 sim race wherein george russell and alex albon lead the pack as a real race. nevertheless, this was a time when drivers were becoming much more active online, seeing as streaming was the best way to keep their images relevant and connect with fans, and despite oscar expressing little interest in streaming on twitch he would still experience a considerable uptick in his online activity and twitter reach that year.

racing resumed on july 4 at the red bull ring in austria; oscar had been granted an exemption to travel to the uk and complete a 2-week quarantine back on may 27, a reassuring indicator to the motorsport world that the f3 season would run after all. now that he no longer had to attend school, having received 2 b's and 1 c for his maths, physics, and computer science a-levels, oscar relocated from hertford to oxford in june to be near the renault facilities, which he visited nearly every day to train at, and began living independently (as in in a flat) for the first time since 2016, rooming with fellow renault junior caio collet.

as i said before, this season is when oscar's online presence and "memeability" began to really conceptualize, enabled primarily by the fact that he was a) finally living outside of a school dormitory, and b) now, of course, signed at prema, a team notorious for its social media visibility, literal family atmosphere, and frequent youtube pandering. according to this f3 article, his twitter followers jumped from 795 at the start of the season to 11.6k by the time he won the championship, an audience built significantly off the self-deprecating string of jokes he used to tweet regarding drs and general reliability issues faced throughout the season.

what i guess i want to touch on here is how oscar's online presence has always been concentrated around the bare fundamentals of his personality: dry humor, candid words, sparing emojis, a few humorous photos detailing the mundane reality of his everyday routines, and at most the occasional inopportune meme or reaction gif (#thepiastri 🤷‍♂️, f2 in baku, jetpack guy, so on). he's bantered frequently with callum on twitter and near-obsessively liked memes, videos, and other updates lando shares with his audience, but he also has seemingly little interest in building up his own "brand" the way lando so smartly has with ln4 and quadrant, and quite frankly seems viscerally incapable of wanting to engage one-to-one with fans or otherwise leveraging the popularity of his material image. basically what i like to say is that oscar enjoys being adjacent to "lad humor" and will happily enable it, but he really has no interest in being the one to initiate it himself!

"there's some things you want to share, some things you don’t. in today's age and sort of having the profile that us drivers do, we kind of just have everything shared,” piastri said. “but (social media) can be used for good, certainly within the profiles that we have. but in some ways, it can be negative, and there's always going to be people out there that don't like you for being you.” piastri tries to write as many of his posts as possible, and he checks those written by his team to be sure they sound authentically him. (the athletic; jun 29, 2023)

along these lines, oscar does enjoy the spotlight, only he seems to prefer it concentrated in a specific lens toward a specific productive end. he's endlessly capable of seeing the objective upside of a situation, joking after he was made a meme in baku following his f2 sr1 collision that he was all for it if it got him popularity. after his eurocup championship he also said: "i think everyone loves a bit of spotlight on them. i think that's just human nature, so a bit of attention's always nice." which is interesting to me!

but back to racing. this season would unexpectedly become two things: maxf's last competitive season in motorsport—especially disappointing considering that he'd gone into the championship expecting to put on a second-season title charge, instead failing to gel with the hitech team to the point that each increasingly poor weekend made him spiral mentally—as well as oscar and logan's last season racing against each other before f1, since logan would later encounter financial difficulties that left him stranded in f3 as oscar catapulted himself to f2 victory. 2020 was obviously a weird season in general because of covid and the gap from pre-season testing, so it also meant that oscar had gone into the season fairly rusty; he managed to win the first race of the season, but on top of his drs rollercoaster he did struggle with middling results in qualifying and was met step-by-step throughout the championship by logan.

maxf's last race in f3 was the barcelona sprint race on august 16, with three rounds left to the end of the season. he dnfed in an unfortunate first-lap incident mere moments after oscar charged his way up from 5th on the grid to the front of the pack, where he would eventually breeze his way to victory and pull himself near-level with logan for the championship lead. i recognize that this is an oscar post and not a maxf post, but i think their time in f3 during an extremely isolated and covid-affected period speaks to both an interesting dynamic between them (the little kid who always lagged a series behind you suddenly beating you on merit) and their respective temperaments toward racing. while at renault, max reportedly lived with jack aitken during the week but would return to his family home on weekends, so it makes sense that he struggled to adapt when covid hit and drivers were collectively forced into very regimented sporting bubbles. mark webber, who worked for channel 4 as a commentator and had access to the f1 paddock, basically couldn't see oscar in person and instead spoke to him over the phone every day on race weekends. maxf said of his decision to quit:

"normally [...] i’m able to stay calm under pressure and i don’t let many things get to me but when you have a bad qualifying result and you see guys up there that you know you’re capable of beating, it definitely takes a dig at you inside and it’s been a lot to process throughout the year." (source)

while then-academy director mia sharizman, who worked closely with the renault juniors, spoke of oscar's inherent propensity for independence and how he adapted well to the pressures of living on his own:

"if you look at oscar piastri, he has been living on his own, [away] from his family who are in melbourne for the past five to six years. because he has been living on his own in boarding school, he learns how to live on his own, and he thrives in that. we have to force him... 'have you spoken to your father?!' it's just things like that, but he thrives in that. that's why he thrived in those weekends racing. he loves being on his own without anybody. on the other hand, we had max fewtrell, for example, who can't – he couldn't survive the 11 weekends racing, because he always needed his family to be around him. so those are the things that suddenly you see and, i think that that we see now, after a few years a driver who is quick, a driver who has the talent, and then the driver who is stable." (source)

2020 is also when lando and oscar spoke to each other on twitter for the first time. yay! after lando went semi-viral for having a meltdown over a hornet on three separate social media platforms, oscar first joked with him about it on august 24 (this was incidentally also the day maxf announced his functional retirement, which oscar liked as well 😭), before referencing the incident again a few weeks later in september.

(aug 24, 2020) / (sep 10, 2020)

outside of drs tweets and trying desperately to banter with lando norris, oscar's popular tweets at the time included several food-related mishaps and home appliance tragedies. while this isn't actually a lando moment, he was also slandered by the LN4 twitter account a month later on october 17 for reasons that remain a mystery, resulting in this set of interactions:

(oct 17, 2020) / (oct 19, 2020)

bonus: maxf's tweets @ oscar (when you aren't close enough to just text him.......)

but back to f3. similarly to his second season of eurocup, oscar would go on to clinch the title in only the final race of the year, this time even more stressfully—he never got pole that season and won arguably off of consistency, benefiting from errors and unfortunate collisions involving his primary competitors. after a hectic qualifying and string of contentious grid penalties set for the before-last round in monza, he began the feature race 15th on the grid but put on an impressive performance to finish on the podium, buffing his points lead after logan was tapped by clément and put out of the points. he, logan, and fred all dnfed in race 2 (read: the novalak pendulum swung away from oscar's favor to maintain stringent cosmic equilibrium, while logan and fred threw away a points opportunity with a teammate4teammate love tap), and oscar went into mugello with only an 8-point lead over logan and a 24-point lead over pourchaire. this weekend proved equally hectic, as is frequently the case with f3 racing standards, but in short oscar and logan entered the final sprint race level on points, with théo approaching terrifyingly near in their rearview mirrors. logan was unceremoniously taken out of contention on the first lap after contact with zendeli, and oscar managed to squeak his way to 164 points in the championship by placing 7th in the race; théo finished 3rd, with 161 points, two positions away from claiming both the race and the championship title.

a succinct summary of an eventful season! (posted jun 30, 2021)

despite winning the f3 championship in far-from-dominant fashion, oscar's career was now steadily on an upward trend. on october 30 he was rewarded with a private test in the r.s.18 at bahrain alongside christian and guanyu, and a month later confirmed that he would be racing for prema again in f2 (december 1, 2020). as a rookie f3 champion there was a moderate amount of interest in him, but no one really expected him to carry home the f2 title on his first try and so one of the main favorites going into the next season was his second-year teammate and 2019 f3 champion rob shwartzman.

4. f2, alpine reserve duties, #piastrigate (2021-2022)

at the start of 2021, fernando officially took daniel's place at renault and the team rebranded itself as alpine, parting ways with team principal cyril abiteboul and functionally replacing him with new ceo laurent rossi—part of a no-tp management structure, frankly a self-evident infrastructural faux-pas from a million miles away. the renault sport academy was then also renamed to alpine academy; again i know that this is an oscar post so i won't get too into the details of Alpine Being Alpine, but understanding how the academy functioned does help better contextualize the inevitable unfurling of piastrigate.

the main issue, really, would always be laurent rossi, or at least the values laurent rossi had been hired to represent and which he willingly peddled during his controversial tenure at alpine. after rossi's appointment it was reported that "the renamed alpine academy was now being tugged in two directions between director mia sharizman's ideal as a creator of future f1 drivers and alpine's chief executive officer laurent rossi's commercially-led preferences." (source) mia directed the academy from january 2016 until may 2022, and had been the one to restructure its recruitment process by demanding better funding and robust testing programs to cyril:

"when we first restarted the team in 2016, it was, we didn't even have a two-year-old car program at that time. we had to use a 2012 program using the [lotus] e20. [...] then in 2018, i went through it, and i said to cyril abiteboul, "look, let's try and do this." we needed financial resources. i needed a head start with financial resources to kick start the program whereby you entice drivers, and you offer [a place] to the academy drivers. it was more to see how they are... it was more of an evaluation process... that was what the first idea was. then we developed the program to develop the drivers to suit their formual 2 program." (source)

(note: mia also believed that 2020 was a disappointing year for all of his juniors save for oscar's performance in f3, which is a whole other thing. but rossi's greatest shortcoming was that he had singular, insulated vision, and he resisted any external input to the detriment of reactionary business decisions, a fact that alienated alain prost and soon led to his exit from the outfit in 2022. not a good look!!! prost would later call rossi "the best example of the dunning-kruger effect, that of an incapable leader who thinks himself able to overcome his incompetence with his arrogance and lack of humanity toward his troops." 🤌)

so basically, the cracks of mind-boggling incompetence within the team's leadership structure were long evident. on a brighter note, oscar's 2021 f2 season would quickly become his strongest single-seater contest ever (f1 youtube has a good summarizing video of his season, if interested); because of covid, f2 was experimenting with a three-race format this year in which quali set the reverse grid for sr1 and sr1 results then set the reverse grid for sr2, which essentially meant high qualifiers were rewarded for simply maintaining composure in the first sprint and running cleanly in the top 10 in order to secure a favorable grid spot in sr2. oscar adapted well to this format, building off his reputation of smooth, consistent driving on top of slowly improving his qualifying results over the course of the season, finally breaking through with his first feature-race win in monza. 

oscar with mia sharizman

this is also around the time when lando mentioned oscar in official f1 media for the first time, reading off a question about him to daniel in an interview posted in october:

"this one's not even about formula one. it's about oscar piastri. oscar pias-tree! [...] he's been on it this year." — (full video) (oct 1, 2021)

of his own f2 campaign, oscar said:

"i thought that i could challenge for race wins, but i probably wasn't expecting to be so consistently at the front. consistency is something that i’ve had as a trait throughout my career, and i was expecting to be consistent in my results this year — but maybe a bit lower down!" (source)

not only did he end up being consistently at the front, he became virtually unstoppable in the second half of the season. on december 11, oscar clinched the title in abu dhabi with two races to spare, ending the season with 5 consecutive poles and 4 consecutive feature wins, 60.5 points above his previously-favored teammate in the standings. #notbadforashitqualifier!

by now oscar was a hot commodity in the paddock; the only problem was that alpine didn't really care, mainly because rossi had enthusiastically re-signed ocon to a three-year deal in 2021 and held zero intention of actually promoting any of its juniors to one of the race seats, plus the one open spot at alfa romeo had instead gone to guanyu and his considerable financial package (though oscar has always been vocally defensive of guanyu's appointment to his detractors). instead of moving to another series, such as indycar or super formula, oscar recognized that he'd proven everything he needed to prove within the feeder system and opted to remain on the grid as alpine's reserve driver, mainly so that he could embed himself in an f1 team environment and—most crucially—avoid being left "out of sight, out of mind," because once you go to america you usually don't come back.

i'll keep the rest of this post brief since i feel like everyone already knows What Went Down, but a quick highlight for fellow landoscar enjoyers was the 2022 australian gp on april 10, during which oscar accompanied rosanna tennant for the post-race show and awkwardly participated in a chaotic lando & alex interview. as far as i know, this was landoscar's first time interacting on-camera!

o: "i haven't raced either of them, no." l: "not yet!" o: "not yet. hopefully soon." — (full video) (apr 10, 2022)

then silly season started, and everything was thrown into disarray when sebastian vettel announced his imminent retirement and fernando subsequently took his place at aston martin; alpine scrambled to recover from this blindsided move and prematurely promoted oscar to an f1 seat, to which oscar eventually posted The Tweet—claiming he'd never signed a contract with alpine and would not be racing for them in 2023, thus kicking off #piastrigate. or the piasco, or whatever you prefer to call it.

here's a good article that properly summarizes the crb ruling, but tl;dr: mclaren and alpine had come to an agreement back in march to loan oscar to mclaren's stable of reserve drivers after daniel contracted covid; mark webber, who was close to andreas seidl from their time at porsche in wec, quietly negotiated a contract with mclaren for 2023 that oscar would then sign on july 4, which was reportedly initially a reserve deal with an upgrade clause to a full-time drive given a dr buyout; alpine's legal team turned out to be essentially one overworked legal director who mishandled the situation thanks to a lack of organizational support, while a concrete williams deal never actually existed no matter what people continuously allege, and any proprietary right to oscar's services that alpine purported to have for the 2023 season would soon be voided by crb rule on september 2. in other words, they dun goofed.

because tumblr dies when i try to include it in this post, here's a link to a condensed chronological timeline version of this post.

that's it for now. i'm sure you know how the rest goes!!!

#oscar piastri #*m #quite possibly the dumbest thing i've ever written and most likely of no use to anyone at all. but i had fun so no flames pls 🥲☝️ #there's so much more i could have said this is quite frankly the condensed version... scrapped a whole separate section on just his psyche #i need 2 be normal.........

[copperbadge]

Hey, Anon who just sent me the asks about the indy press -- I'm happy to share the info but it's definitely something more on the Radio Free Monday side of things. If you'd like to fill out the form here, I'm happy to include it in RFM, but otherwise I have to decline to post.

As a general note (ie, this isn't to you specifically and is definitely not meant to scold!) while Radio Free Monday is primarily for sharing fundraising, it's also the place to recommend small businesses or ebay sales or similar, which I can't really publicize in individual posts because -- as with the fundraisers -- if I did, I'd rarely do anything else. And unfortunately I can't really make exceptions, because any time I make an exception for one post or ask, I get three more in response.

The form is fully anonymized (I get no user data) and ensures that I have all the info I need to share the information properly. I know it's not always ideal to be one blurb out of many in a once-weekly post, but unfortunately it's the only way to keep these things manageable. Thanks for understanding!

#radio free monday

[fwacchi]

i wanted to talk a little about the last ask u answered, if that’s ok (in advance, i'm so sorry for the lengthy message!!) 



I GET ITTTT!! I SERIOUSLY RELATE. how u feel about ibrahim and how u kinda selfishly want him to continue streaming is something i feel so, so often for my oshis. but i wanted to thank you for that response to the ask (and the person who asked the ask too!! i feel like that helped me too), i already felt a little less alone in what i felt and also--- i kind of more properly understood my feelings about grads (?) 

like yeah, graduation is inevitable but we cant do any more than live in the moment and enjoy our oshi's (or other members u enjoy!) content as much as possible and feel happy while they're still here. (even if the pain is going to stick with us till our graves OTL gripping my blanket as i type) let's enjoy watching our fav vtubers' content for as long as possible and--- i'm not really sure how to properly express this thought but "turn your experience of watching them into something that can benefit you in the future"? like all the things you've learned from them and how they've helped u grow as a person, lets not forget it even after they leave (sorry for getting ahead of myself and saying things that don't make sense)

well that's all that i wish to say!! i'm sorry to trouble you

P.S. THIS IS TOTALLY UNRELATED BUT I JUST FELT LIKE TALKING ABOUT IT BC IM THINKING AB IT A LOT- consider it smth more lighthearted to distract from the heavy vibes ^^?  BRO I FOUND IT SO FUCKING FUNNY WHEN ROFMAO HAD THE WHOLE CONCERT, THEN AN INTERVIEW THEN THEY WERE LITERALLY DRAGGED AWAY BY THE ROFMAO (juku? Not sure) STAFF. LITERALLY BLINDFOLDED AND KIDNAPPED THEM, THOSE PEOPLE WERE ON A SCHEDULE !! (looking forward to tmrs rfm juku ig kwjdfksd) and on a completely different note, i found a clip of when kaida sang magnet in a guitar-karaoke (?) stream and let’s just say i was FLOORED- bro, custom ringtones don't seem to work on my phone but im setting it to this anyway. I want that clip injected directly into my veins, i- okok but all im saying is i love when he sang that with all my heart- 

I'M SO SORRY FOR THE LENGTHY MESSAGE!!!!! MAY YOUR NEXT MEALS BE DELICIOUS!! 

-🍰

this!!! exactly the things i couldn't put into words, especially about them helping us grow into a better person! thank you for saying this <3

Rofmao and their staffs are so chaotic and I'm here for it😭 KAIDA SINGING > ANYTHING ELSE. Period.

#asks for fwacchi #— from 🍰 anon

[the-firebird69]

Watch "Don McLean - American Pie (Live in Austin)" on YouTube

Rumor has it that some of them saw some trees and we were using wings and we can explain that but there were witnesses and there's some of these clones and they may have seen more than others although our clan and his clan they researched it and grabbed clothes and said they knew and so it went back the other way but then it's back to Tommy f.

Hera

And she has to be eating potatoes but this is Tommy I've seen this and he knows about the story and he thought that when Levi the head of the clan which is rfm b passed away and the Levi clan was defeated that people would no longer hear the music and that's not true it's a Time and this is the time when the clan is mostly gone and out and Levi himself is out unnecessarily forever but pretty much out. And there's a few other indicators but mostly it's going to stop a lot of the music I think because of the leathery wings of theirs below and the feathery wings of some of us above they also had feathering wings.

Zues

This is what we've been talking about secretly and some of it came out today now a whole bunch of it and we're going to lay it at Tommy F feet and say that he was doing stone work at 10:00 because it's all over Rome and that's mainly where he did it well yes and Greece

Thor Freya

There's a few of the things he says he asked if you know about the stone and he says you're the marble guy who did the Bellagio and you know a lot about Stone and stone work and a lot of people say it's incredible it's fairly decent let me know who you are and what you're up to he also know about the legend and a lot of studies were done by his clan and hers way too many for us to overlook you now if you want us to

Nuada Ariana

We have dreams too and this sounds very sweet and we're going to go after them

Bja

You mean that these people might know about us yes these clones they have a ton of information it's falling out of them I'm going to go after it and our people in there are giving up information like this and it's incredible this is a massive story and it's between their clans and him and they're the other people too and most people didn't know about it and we're stuck in this war and it is a war over Paradise and if you understand it you'll probably get into it if you don't you're going to be a lost person although he's providing jobs and he's providing three square a day and bonus checks and healthcare but there's really no place to be but understanding what it is

Mac daddy

This is pretty I can't believe it's being talked about who the hell is doing it but these two now I realize why some of this is out and it's going on now but holy crap this is huge they use those wings down below they found on giant birds not on reptiles and they attend them somehow we know how to do that and they'd fly around how's the winds are great sometimes and use them as a gliders above and they were instigating people and started worse and kept them rolling and this is how they were stealing it's an amazing story and his people might be doing it too and we don't know it and what an incredible singer what a girl just amazing the color girls she's not as big as us but she's right there and I do take it back our women are the same height and now I understand something he was spying on us too I'm going to tell you something they were all they're pretty much the best at it and along came him and he wasn't telling them stuff and she was finding the crap out of him and so is he but she was right on all the time like a shadow and she was she couldn't stand him after it no she fell in love and say another song and it's coming around again and he says I don't think so that was at the concert and it's true there's another song though she's a different artist and that's what I said anyways

Bill

I'm up there too but really this is an amazing story we got to get it out

Preston

I want to talk and I hear he heard me and here I am this is amazing tale and it's about Giants and some of the real giants you can't say we're not true we got bigger than our father and Joe did and Preston and others and it's really not magic it was what we were doing and we don't recall it and some people do it's a combination and he got hit with all of it it's way too big and it would be embarrassed and it would be humiliated and mostly shunned and feared you'd be the secret mob boss or something he's getting ready for it and I don't believe it he's got tons of money and tons of companies and you have to be a wreckless recluse

Preston

Not that big so stop saying that stuff why you say 10 ft is twice as big as everybody here so it's true I'm walking around the mall and I'm absolutely huge I'm pushing the cart and I'm leaving forwards and I did that cuz you said to and it worked a lot better afraid then I said we're all fairies here and we're from fairy tales and you guys a little fairies can I sit here and I help you out with advice and they loved it and that's what I'm doing tonight I gave him advice and we'll see if they listen I see what you're saying about the matrix and they have to go look at it that's the underworld that's hell that's where they have been ruling from and ruining people especially these warlock

Big joe

We have there's a program going now to try and get people better and I want to join up with it and I want to try and get it done and I'm going to have to go in the hospital I hope people visit me like they're visiting Preston is out of the hospital

We did not get covid-19 thank you very much Ken

Justin

I remember this too Carmen used to say that oh your stuff is cutting edge why don't you stop doing that

Hera

Haha lol it is cutting edge why don't you come home and she says you're crazy and he says you're crazy I know it's stupid this is dumb I hate this place

Ken

Olympus so hearing all the stuff we can't believe it and we're saying it's okay to put out and we are going to have to change it down that's for sure

#Youtube

[limonsoftaid]

Edite Domingos -A Professional Afrostyle And Pop Singer

Edite Domingos, is a Munich born singer who harnesses her Angolan roots to produce a unique sound to the Afro Beats genre. Furthermore, her music aims to empower women. She combines elements of European popular music, while grounding the listener to the beat of the motherland. Performing self-written songs, alongside her dancers. Edite has found praise amongst audiences worldwide, as well as recognition by winning first place at the “Jugend musiziert Munich” and being a guest on Focus, Radio Lora, Radio RFM 94.00 Senegal, Radio Despertar Angola and Continental Radiostation London, etc. After humble beginnings and assembling her team of producers and management, Edite released her official music video for her second single ‚” Play with me”. Edite is currently working on new projects

Edite Domingos became the brand ambassador for the campaign „Freiwillige Messe Munich“ in 2020 and 2021. The well-known singer from Munich, who is already very active in giving girls with refugee or poor background free hip hop dance lessons, feels honored to have been asked for this position. „In my years of voluntary social work, I have learned that strengthening self-confidence is usually the biggest issue for young women “, she said. She is happy to move forward with this project. The Freiwillige Messe is a voluntary fair encouraging people to do any volunteer social work.

#editedomingos #music #pop music #germany #pop singer

[jimilter]

your masseur jimin was so hot!! ahh when i thought it was over it kept going and i’m completely not mad about it! i love long readings 😩 your writing was so so good i’m hooked on it can’t wait for the next jimin fic

Hello, dear anon!!! ��� Thank you so much, I'm so so glad you liked the fic!!! 😭💖

To tell you the fact, the original storyline for RFM was supposed to end right after the first smut scene. But then I added more plot to make it fit the masseuse theme better, so maybe that's why you felt like the fic was gonna end! 😭 So happy to know you're not mad abt the length!!! <333

I'm currently working on a Yoongi and a JK fic, and then we shall get to the next Jimin fic! Might be an angsty one, so be warned! 👀 Loads of love to ya! ❤️❤️❤️

#c: ask #anon #c: feedback #w: rfm #not q

[doomedlvr]

sending this to you via ask rather than making a post myself since i assume you have more followers. but if anyone on pmmmtwt doesn't know, @dailyhomumado is a transmisogynist.

they made this post which is being circulated on what can only be described as "transmisogynistic pmmm tumblr" (i think the user who shared it is rfm@doka, if you wanna block).

Yeah this person is a terrible person. Using a nazi meme? Really? Plus apparently they’ve said some pretty antisemitic stuff.

There’s been red flags with them before, I’m surprised it’s taken this long for pmmmtwt to realize their awful. They’ve been reposting stolen art for as long as their accounts been up and have posted some pretty creepy madohomu art (which they took down fast.)

Anyway yeah. Block this person asap. They don’t deserve a following.

#pmmm #madoka magica #puella magi madoka magica

[capnhanbers]

Baby sib anon update the baby sib barrier is good and natural and I'm not sure i can recommend breaking that particular barrier bc now my sister sends me excerpts from the spicy bits (she's at ch38, got a live review of the ch37 make out scene) and i am both internally screaming and vindicated bc she's reading and enjoying the fic. I also told her abt the first ask and she almost freaked out before she read your tags bc she was afraid you could think she likes sexyman sans despite our discussion being very much prompted by mutual disdain for the concept. So yeah snarfmy joined on both accounts with only mild regrets from me

NOOOO hey anon? if that happened to me? if a little sibling gave me the play by play on some spicy mr. smash the meme man himself fic? buddy! i would simply pass away! like yes sure whatever she's welcome in the sna..rfm..y,, , but frankly, me @ all little siblings who cannot be legal adults sorry I don't make the rules:

#this is horrible (affectionate) #thank you for bringing your sibling into the fold #joat talks #answers #the pain is yours alone i for one welcome this little sibling. means nothing to me.

[radiant-fanon-maker]

HELLO! I really like your drawings and i wanted to ask you i you could make a lee jax and one or more characters ler, if you whant :)

That's all take care of yourself byeee❤❤❤

Idk who would be the ler

#rfm post #rfm art #ask rfm #just a bunch of tickling #Tadc tickles #Lee!jax

[acourseinmiraclesfree]

A Course in Miracles and the Message of The Secret

Over the previous year, many people have approached me asking me about my viewpoint, and the point of view of a course in miracles free, on the prominent publication and movie The Secret. I was additionally recently asked to join an expert panel discussion on The Secret and the legislation of attraction at the Body Soul Spirit Expo in Calgary. As I see it, The Secret offers a couple of powerful and necessary worldwide messages worth valuing. The first message is that our ideas have a powerful impact on our life. Rather, it includes feeling met in all locations of life, including our partnerships, job, and also wellness. An additional message that is discreetly shared in The Secret, as well as one that I think to be true, is that when we have a heartfelt wish and we claim yes to doing our part to materialize the wish, synchronicities develop, and inactive pressures come alive. On the other hand, I really feel the idea that even more "playthings" in the form of autos, homes, jet airplanes, and watercrafts will make us delighted as well as will be the presentation of our capability to show up is potentially harmful as well as debilitating for many individuals who are currently "bankrupt" in the locations of self-love and self-appreciation. The trouble with this image is that the desire to have frequently comes from a feeling of lack instead of a feeling of efficiency. As well as due to this, whatever we gain in hopes of sensation "full," whole, satisfied, or achieved, will unavoidably not work, given that we really feel a space inside. The truth is that we are not empty, yet already complete, as well as when we understand and feel this to be our brand-new truth, after that the external world begins to "echo" our inner recognition. A Course in Miracles advises us that according to we can approve and be genuinely grateful for our inheritance as being a boundless, bountiful, whole, and endless Self, we will bring in to ourselves the perfect exterior expressions of our claimed internal well worth. This recovering of our authentic Self will certainly then unbelievely bring into manifestation any product items that will certainly offer the greater good of both our life as well as of those around us, as well as yet we will certainly feel no reliance upon them for our happiness. If you want to recognize as well as live the Real Secret, locate your Authentic Self, redeem it-and your actual inheritance will adhere to. Moreah Ragusa, RFM, is a therapist, signed up family members marital relationship, moderator and also divorce counselor, corporate train, as well as a prominent speaker and also workshop leader. She is the author of four publications on spiritual change: The New Marriage Paradigm: Inspiring the Transformation and Evolution of Committed Relationships; The New Divorce Paradigm: Transitioning Your Relationship with Integrity; Rediscovering Your Authentic Self: Applying A Course in Miracles to Everyday Life; as well as Our Cosmic Dance, a candid autobiography offered as a teaching model for individual and also relationship development.

[milagresvideosyoutube-blog]

A Training course in Miracles and the Message of The Secret

Over the previous year, many individuals have approached me, asking me regarding my perspective and the perspective of A Course in Miracles, the preferred publication, and the film The Secret. I was also just recently asked to participate in a specialist panel conversation on The Secret and the legislation of attraction at the Body Soul Spirit Expo in Calgary. As I see it, The Secret deals with a couple of practical and necessary global messages worth valuing. The first message is that our thoughts have a significant impact on our life. Instead, it involves sensation met in all locations of life, including our partnerships, occupation, and wellness. One more message that is discreetly conveyed in The Secret, and also one that I believe to be real, is that when we have a heartfelt need and claim yes to doing our part to manifest the need, synchronicities arise, and dormant forces come to life. On the flip side, I feel the suggestion that more "playthings" in the type of cars, homes, jet aircraft, as well as boats, will undoubtedly make us satisfied and also will be the demo of our capability to show up is debilitating and possibly destructive for lots of people that are currently "bankrupt" in the areas of self-love and self-appreciation. The problem with this picture is that the need to have usually originated from a sensation of absence instead of completeness. Due to this, whatever we get in hopes of feeling "complete," whole, delighted, or achieved will certainly not function, given that we feel a space internally. The fact is that we are not vacant, yet already full, and when we recognize as well as feel this to be our brand-new fact, after that, the external world begins to "resemble" our inner recognition. A Course in Miracles advises us that according to we can approve as well as be grateful for our inheritance as being an unbounded, abundant, entire, as well as unrestricted Self; we will bring in to ourselves the best outside expressions of our declared inner worth. This reclaiming of our genuine Self will then miraculously bring right into manifestation any kind of producing products that will serve the higher good of both our life and also of those around us. Yet, we will undoubtedly feel no reliance upon them for our joy. So, if you wish to know and also live the Real Secret, discover your Authentic Self, recover it-and your genuine inheritance will follow. Moriah Ragusa, RFM, is a therapist, registered family divorce, conciliator as well as marital relationship counselor, business trainer, and also a popular speaker and also a seminar leader. She is the writer of 4 books on spiritual makeover: The New Marriage Paradigm: Inspiring the Transformation and also Evolution of Committed Relationships; The New Divorce Paradigm: Transitioning Your Relationship with Integrity; Rediscovering Your Authentic Self: Applying for A Course in Miracles to Everyday Life; and also Our Cosmic Dance, an honest memoir provided as a mentor model for personal and also connection growth.

[thebibliosphere]

I hate myself right now for having to do this, but this is your reminder that I am not a community blog, I am a singular (disabled, chronically ill) person who runs their own editing business, trying to keep their own head above water, and who also just happens to have a popular blog and uses their blog to talk about things on occasion that are neither related to health issues nor vampires, and I am also not a fundraiser blog.

I know I reblog those kind of posts, but it’s usually cause I personally know the person, or they are the friend of a friend, because otherwise I would go insane trying to reblog and vetting them all. I am going insane. I get anywhere in the region of 200 asks a week from people begging for help, and while I try to help, I really do, it’s breaking me.

My tumblr was supposed to be my fun space, it hasn’t been that way for quite some time. It has in fact infringed upon my real life and ruined rather large substantial chunks of it, along with my mental health. The added guilt of not being able to help everyone who needs it is just one more nail in the coffin towards not wanting to do this anymore. Which is a problem, cause my blog is how I make most of my income to pay for all my vital medical shit.

But I do want to make you aware of something that you can do, which is submit your fundraiser to Radio Free Monday, which @copperbadge set up, gosh I forget when, but I remember it back in ye olden livejournal days, for the purpose of fandom folk being able to support other fandom folk during hard times, and has been going ever since.

Which absolutely does not mean you should go flood Sam’s inbox with requests. Please do not do that.

What it does mean is you should look at his profile page, and look at these links:

It’s a simple google doc form you can fill in, which is located here.

He even helpfully provides advice and info on how to write your fundraising posts, which will help you avoid the mistakes a lot of people make when attempting to raise funds. Which you can find here. And I highly recommend you read it.

Sam has a much wider audience than me as well, and god knows his readers are some of the kindest people I’ve ever known. When I first started dying we kept having one emergency after another, whether it was urgent surgery or the furnace breaking in the dead of the Minnesota winter, and it was the folk from RFM who kept me alive. That’s not even an exaggeration. I’d be dead, or at the very least about 100 times sicker than I am now without the people who found me through Sam’s blog and decided to help a stranger on the Internet. So I get it, I know. I know all too well what it’s like to need help and have the Internet be your last resort.

And I hope this can be helpful to those of you who need it, like it was for me.

And again, I’m sorry if it seems like I’m not doing enough or like I’m ignoring you, it’s just gotten to such a point where it’s making me physically ill with exhaustion trying to keep up. And I’m no good to anyone if I let this fucking blog kill me. So this is my line in the sand, for now at least.

Take care out there, take care of yourselves and each other. Gods know all we have in this life is each other.

#in which I feel like the worst human being to have ever lived #but dear god help me I can't go on like this #links #fundraising #resources

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Hey, i hope you can feel better soon charlotte💓 what are you working on if i may ask?:o

Awww thank you, it means a lot 💜💜💜 I'm just trying to take things one step at a time lol. As for what I'm working on I've got 3 things (other than RFM of course) that I've been brainstorming lately have been these:

Since may the 4th is coming up I'm going to work on finishing up a darth vader interrogation prompt that's been in my ask box for a bit and also I'm going to insert tarkin in it somehow because of course I am agsgsghsj but it's going to be super dark and angsty and depraved so hehe

I've been still semi struggling/brainstorming on this thanos three way prompt with the reader and another marvel villain (the requester gave me the choice between two and let's just say I of course went with the one that would let my bi ass be super gay so agdjdj) the problem I keep running into tho is in what scenario would thanos share because that man is a straight up ho and also I dont see the other character sharing that well either so egshjsjsu I dont kNOW but I will figure out something eventually lol

And lastly I'm actually working on a 5ish chap Dark!Steve Rogers fic which I never imagined in a million years I would write for him but the idea was too good and also he is just perfect for this scenario au I came up with yet and hopefully people will like it but dont expect that one for a hot sec just cause I want to make sure its plotted and written out fully before posting.

Again thanks for asking and being so nice 💜💜

#asks #dqial

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Pharmacy Owner’s Guide To Find High Paying Customers

India, just like the rest of the world, saw a very high number of Pharma Businesses coming up after the onset of the Covid pandemic. This was a result of the abnormal surge in the demand for pharmaceutical goods.

Although the large number of Pharmacies coming up can be seen as beneficial from the Healthcare point of view, it has also led to the rise of intense competition among Medical Stores, each one trying very hard to attract as many customers as humanly possible. The friendly neighborhood Pharmacies were thrown into competition with the much larger retail chains such as Apollo, Medplus, etc.

With the increased number of options, customers today are expecting a lot more from their pharmacy buying experience besides a wider selection of products and attractive discounts on offer. What they look forward to the most is the ability of a pharma business to provide them with a ‘Personalized Service’.

As high as 76% of customers have agreed to buying more from businesses offering a personalized service

A Pharmacy requires you to do much more than what one can accomplish in a day. So, engaging with each one of your customers is not possible. Hence, the best strategy is to focus on who matters the most. Now you may ask me, how do I make out such customers from the rest of the crowd?

Acute or Chronic Disease Patient

Acute diseases are the ones that come and go away rapidly and last for a shorter period of time such as Stomach Ache, Common Cold, etc. On the other hand, Chronic Diseases are the ones that remain for a longer period of time or have long-lasting health impacts such as Diabetes, Hypertension, etc.

Chronic Disease Patients have a much higher probability of coming back as repeat customers and hence, higher should be their importance

While most Pharmacists are already skilled enough to make out the Chronic Disease Patients by looking at their medications, you can also take the help of technology if you don’t wish to lose any customers

Recency, Frequency, Monetary Analysis

To measure a customer’s potential, you can run a ‘Recency, Frequency, Monetary (RFM)’ Analysis on him.

First, check his recency by finding out the number of days since his last transaction. Lesser number of days means a higher ‘Recency’ Score.

Second, count his total number of purchases and the average number of days between his two subsequent purchases. Higher the count and lesser the number of days mean a higher ‘Frequency’ Score for the Customer.

Third, calculate the Total Purchase and the Average Purchase Value. Assign a Higher ‘Monetary’ Score to the customers with the higher values

Lastly, take an average of each customer’s Recency, Frequency, and Monetary scores to find their actual ‘Importance’ Score.

A Chronic Disease Patient usually scores very high on Importance in the Recency, Frequency, Monetary Analysis

Customer Referrals

Customer Referrals are a great indicator for identifying your best customers.

Not only do Customer Referrals help reduce the Customer Acquisition Costs but customers who are referred to your business are 4 times more likely to make a purchase with you.

It is a widely accepted fact that a satisfied customer will only make 4 Referrals on average in his lifetime whereas a disgruntled customer will share his experience with at least 10 of your potential customers

So, the number of successful referrals a customer makes is a strong indicator of how valuable they are to your business.

Now that I have told you my 3 secrets to identifying your best customers, you would be wondering how frequently you would have to carry out this exercise. The answer is simple. It is an ongoing process and the earlier you start, the better it is for your Pharmacy business. Technology can prove out to be a panacea in this case. Ciao

#pharmacy app development #pharmacybillingsoftware #pharmacyapp #pharmacybilling #ecommerce