Good afternoon everypony!! Last night my partner and I got a little silly and rewatched the episode of PPG where Utonium and Ms. Keane start dating and ugghh....why he so FUCKING cute 😭😭💖💖
And tbhhh the reason they sorta didn't work out is cause they weren't able to balance the lives they had with their infatuation with each other (tbh if the cat argument hadn't happened when it did any ol thing would have caused them to break up methinks) and y'know...I think that's why he'd work so well with my s/i 🥺👉👈
Theyre allowed to still be their own people and have their own things even if they do become a couple! Even if they get married! They're still individuals who support their own passions as well as each other's. And they certainly don't need/want to change themselves for each other 💖💖💖
Today was pretty good. Survived my stressful phone call, got to do some good reading whilst curled up on the sofa with my dog, unboxing a late Christmas present, an extra long bath featuring a super pretty bath bomb, and lots of notebook work.
among the criticism i dish out at f1 journalism, what also needs to be pointed out is the general lack of nuance in the writing; with a contained bubble of journos who get to write the 'big pieces' and have the most access, the lack of diversity amongst them dilutes, or even entirely neglects, the multifaceted dimensions and important opinions that drivers (most particularly lewis) have to offer; these journos have their favourites and allegiances; it is no secret that partisanism exists in f1 media, but it is important to highlight just how severely this undermines the integrity of 'the messenger' that a journalist is supposed to be; the perspective of the same old white dude giving me a 'first-hand experience' of what lewis said to the written press, is not one i am particularly interested in reading; i was reminded of this in relation to lewis' recent interview and the article mark hughes wrote, in which he effectively questioned lewis' authenticity and honesty; that is not to say that it was not altogether a worthwile read (it was also helpful that there were other articles written by different journalists about the interview and i could gather other perspectives and to some extent confirm a journo's veracity via comparison), but i was generally disappointed with the standard; i know these journos, i know more or less with which drivers/teams they sympathise with, and i also know the limitations they have...i am not enthralled when one of them almost disdainfully undermines lewis' integrity, tries to spin a narrative or provide an opinion on a matter on which an old white man really shouldn't have much to say on; the f1 bubble is small, very small, when you compare it to a sport like football, you can see why it is so slow with change and modernisation; when it's all in the hands of a few people in the business who have been writing for the past few decades, no wonder it is just so hard to get new, young, diverse voices in; but through even the most recent examples, change is so desperately needed