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casmybelovedass · 4 years
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The Destiel Folder: Season 5
[Season 4 here]
Episode 1:
Dean is visibly upset about Cas' death, especially at (6:07), and Zachariah notices. From here on, we have a progressive worse reaction from Dean to each of Castiel's deaths
Dean calls Cas a 'friend', again sounding very upset (8:20)
We also get a parallel between Dean and Sam: "I learned that from my friend Cas, you son of a bitch!" and "I learned that from Ruby." (9:10) ICWAW, this parallel would implicate romantic subtext
Cas comes back, bringing top energy onto Zachariah, and Dean just... checks him out (32:43) [this is a frequent thing by the way, I'm on S10 right now, it is]
Episode 2:
I'm so fuckin sorry but I'm laughing too hard at this: D"God" C"Yes" D"God" C"Yes!" (4:09) guys, don't sex-talk in front of Sam and Bobby
"I rebelled, and I did it, all of it, for you." (4:54)
Dean gives in to Cas' top energy "Dean, give it to me." (5:53) shit, guys, enough sex-talk
Episode 3:
The 'personal space scene'. Dean, love, if someone is in your personal bubble, and you don't want them there, you don't stand there for 10 seconds while flicking your gaze from their eyes to their lips TWICE (6:04) ICWAW, these scene would be read as full of sexual tension
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Dean here compares himself and Cas to Thelma & Louise, from a movie with HELLA lesbian subtext. And the way he looks at Cas for 7 seconds, tongue between his teeth and just... this fucking look (7:37)
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You don't look at friends that way. You don't.
"I need your help, because you're the only one who'll help me. Please". (7:58) Cas trusts Dean will help him while no other would, and he is right... also Dean keeps glancing at his lips
The way Dean fixs Cas' tie and collar, so domestic. (10:34) [This will parallel in 10x05 when Dean messes up musical!Castiel's tie for it to be a legit costume.] Also, the whole police station scene is full of Old married couple moments
"There are two things that I know for certain. One, Bert and Ernie are gay." And then they were voted best chemestry couple like Bert and Ernie. Just saying. (16:23) "Two, you are not gonna die a virgin. Not on my watch... let's go."... and Cas just follows Dean like nothing, but later on...
... Cas is beyond terrified at the idea of being intimate with a woman (11:24),
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tho he followed Dean with no problem. ... Did... did he think Dean was making an offer?
He chugs down a beer in fear, poor baby
And he is so jumpy I'm dying
Dean admits Cas is the only one who has made him laugh for real in years (20:58), also, shoulder hug, and Cas, who was on the verge of tears a moment earlier, is smiling and comfortable now.
"Don't look at me, it was his idea." (26:57) the look Cas gives Dean, they're so fucking #MARRIED
"Today you're my little bitch." "... What he said!" Dean is impressed and amused by Cas' smugness (and top energy) (31:55) Basically "Well, mark me down as scared and horny!"
Dean understands how Cas feels, and wants to help. He says he feels good with him "I've had more fun with you in the past 24h that I've had with Sam in years... and you're not that much fun." (36:06) Dean doesn't want to be alone, didn't want Cas to leave.
Episode 4:
Dean sounds and looks like a teenager on the phone with their crush, teasing Cas while smiling softly (1:22). Also "I'll just... wait here then." (2:15)
Even as a mortal, Cas stuck with Dean through the apocalypse, living in pain, chugging down drugs, but never leaving Dean's side. Being his second during hunts. Having only each other
And this Cas can recognize this Dean is not his own only by glancing at him for a moment (... by looking at his dick?!) (18:37)
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Dean is stunned and concerned about apocalypse!Cas and how his life turned out
Apocalypse!Cas sits like Dean. Aww, they've been rubbing off on each other [yeah, I bet] (22:27)
"I like past you!" and that smile. So sweet and nostalgic (25:35)
This whole scene (23:48). They are so #MARRIED
Dean is concerned about Cas doing drugs, being basically depressed and living like shit (28:03)
Cas saves Dean again. "We had an appointment." "...Don't ever change." and the way they stare at each other (38:49) look at those smiles and how longingly Cas looks at Dean
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Episode 8:
Not a destiel moment, but Dean is totally BI: (12:04); "Sure" (12:42); "What makes Dr Sexy, SEXY, is that he wears cowboy boots!" (12:57); and Dean loves cowboys, just saying
Is... is Dean thinking about Cas being pretty? And about the fact that a creepy guy just called his angel 'pretty'? (20:26)
First thing Dean requests Gabe does is to bring Cas back, threatening him
Episode 9:
Dean reacting to Damien and Barnes being a couple is... LOL (36:27) and after that (38:40), he is on his own, fiddling with his keys, smiling to himself. And when Sam asks if he is okay, he responds "Yeah, you know? I think I'm good." while still smiling to himself. Is he happy about an queer man portraying him, about seeing himself in a confident, openly queer man in a relationship? What else could it be?
Episode 13:
Dean gets more and more worried when Cas gets/is hurt (9:45)(38:02). Also, he got Cas a honeymoon suite. Wow. How sweet.
Episode 14:
The phone call scene. The stares, the tension... look at this shit (10:00)
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Dean, stop checking out Cas. You're working. But seriously, look at him. He likes his roughness. AND AGAIN WITH THE LIPS STARING (11:02)
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Dean and Cas, after being touched by a cherub, stand shoulder-to-shoulder close to each other, in front of a bi-coloured window (13:26-13:33) I MEAN- Also, Dean, you're staring at a naked man's dong... just saying (13:33-13:36)... stop that, be a professional
Is this the first wink Dean gives at Cas? (14:37) for real? With a cherub in the room? Wow.
(16:16) "Where did he go?" "I belive you upset him." Look at Cas during this scene. #MARRIED
Cas asks Dean where his Famine-induced-hunger is, why he seems unaffected by it... and Dean stares at Cas, then the burger he is holding, then back at him, like he has everything he could want right there, in his Baby (29:22)
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Episode 16:
... I'm sorry, but... did Cas really have to MOAN Dean's name to get his attention? (5:24)
I believe this is the first time we ever hear Dean say the words "I love you" (14:38-28:09), and he is saying them to Sam. The only other time we hear him say it is to his mother in 12x22. And the only other person he was supposed to say those words to was, in fact, Cas in 8x17. Let that sink in.
"You son of a bitch." Dean's been rubbing off on Cas, and this is not the only line he has picked up from Dean (38:29)
Episode 17:
This is such a sweet scene. Cas is showing himself weak once again, and Dean sympathises with him, reassures him, confides in him. How sweet. (30:17) ICWAW, this would be seen as a romantic bonding moment
Episode 18:
Cas legit looks like an angry wife. Look how pissed he is at Dean (6:19) #MARRIED
This is such a #MARRIED scene, with Cas being pissy at Dean "being a coward". Also "Yeah, you know what? Blow me, Cas!" and his look after that, like "Does... does he actually want me to?" (13:22)
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and this is not the last 'sexual invitation' Dean makes Cas. In fact, minutes later...
"Cas, not for nothing, but, the last person who looked at me like that... I got laid. *wink*" ... just... that (17:53). ICWAW, people would believe this was flirtatious, SHAMELESS, teasing
Look at that FULL TOP MODE tho
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"I gave everything for you, and this is what you give to me?" (25:28) Cas is not just angry at Dean for giving up on the plan, but for giving up on life, on them. "So you could surrender to them?" (25:17) not "So you can let them win". It could've been phrased that way, but this is not about the angels winning. It's about Dean giving up on them. Cas is 'cause Dean would be selfishly leaving them
Cas starts taking off his tie and... Dean just stares (31:46). Moments later, we find out Cas totally took his shirt off in front of the boys to make the banishing simbol on his chest, and by the way Dean was STARING when it was only a tie, I bet he either gawked or averted his eyes. Either way, GAY
Cas prefers to die rather than watch Dean fail and die himself (31:55) Also, Sam still thinks of Dean as a hero who can do no wrong, while Cas recognizes his flaws and weaknesses. He knows Dean
Zachariah grabs Dean by the collar and gets in his face. Dean does nothing but flinch a little, mantaining his strong appearance. He only submits and looks overwhelmed when Cas does it (37:50)
Episode 19:
Cas is priority to Dean over Adam. He's more family to him than his actual blood (5:29)
Episode 21:
Cas is basically human, bloody, hurt, powerless and weak. First thing he does? Reach out for Dean (3:16)
Cas is still weak and powerless, and took a bus for miles, just to get back to Dean (12:35)
Episode 22:
Moments before basically going and kill himself, Dean focuses on Cas instead of Bobby, his father figure (24:35)
Cas is on the verge of tears at the thought of Dean dying (25:20)
We know Cas can heal without having to touch the body, but we always see him reach for contact with Dean (35:52) [That's why in S15, it hurts to see Cas not touching Dean while healing him. It feels unnatural]
Dean loves cowboys, and associates Cas to a sheriff. Cas, knowing that, smiles softly at the idea(37:30). Also, Dean obviously doesn't want Cas to leave, and tears up when he does
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feralmunson · 5 years
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Soooo, I just watched It Chapter 2 and I decided to come back to my It blog 🎈🎈
FIRST OF ALL IM GONNA TALK ‘BOUT REDDIE BECAUSE, BOY HOW I LOVE THOSE TWO, OK
I liked how, after they put on the shower caps, Richie starts talking shit bout them and Eddie quickly takes off his lmao
I loved the hammock scene, how Eddie demands Richie to move the fuck out of it and Richie, being the gay little shit he is, doesn’t move forcing Eddie to climb on pushing him and shoving his glasses with his foot while ranting lmao I loved it, and that hammock was a perfectly good excuse for them to be close to each other so yeah, if I were Richie I would’ve done the same to be close to my crush
Richie’s pep talk to Eddie after he said he was too scared,,,, I need a Richie in my life :(
“next time we’re picking “scary””
“next time!!!?!!?”
And, thanks to @buckley-robln, I realized the meaning of the “very scary” door, it being a closet and simbolizing our boys’ fear of coming out, wow I’m sad 
And then how Eddie stabs Pennywise and proudly goes to tell Richie, and then suddenly Pennybitch stabs Eddie,,,, I knew he was gonna die and still I was surprised and cried like a baby :((
Then when Eddie says he has to tell him something, and Richie looks at him hoping he would say something important... then Eddie making a “your mom” joke and Richie just laugh, his laugh being one of the last sounds Eddie hears...
But what made it worse was Richie’s denial and the other loser’s trying to console him oh my god it really had me crying
AND, IF THAT WASNT ENOUGH, THAT SCENE AT THE QUARRY WHERE THEYRE ALL HOLDING RICHIE AND HES CRYING AND IM CRYING OH WOW MY HEART :(
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RICHIE
MY POOR BABY THAT SCENE AT THE ARCADE BROKE MY HEART 💔
It was just too real, I mean, like that small touch of hands that causes you lots of emotions that somehow scare you because you don’t know what the hell is going on with you, that fear that comes with the uncertainty of what will happen if anyone knew, bitch I felt that
When they show him carving the “R” a small part of me hoped it was an “E” next to the “+” but I didn’t wanna get my hopes up cause you know how we gays rarely get any representation on the big screen, so at the end when they show him re-carving the E I completely lost it and cried, plus Stan’s letter, it was just to much for me :((
Richie’s character has me speechless, like I feel I kind of empathize a lot with him and I just want to hold him tight and tell him everything’s gonna be alright :(
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EDDIE
That scene when Bowers stabs my homeboy Eddie I wasn’t sure if it was real or what the f u c k was going on, and then how Eddie, like the badass he is, takes out the knife and stabs him back lol and how he slowly walks out of the bathroom 😂
How he was paralyzed by fear when the Stan/spider thing was attacking Richie and how Bill yells at him and how he tells him to don’t be mad, that he got really scared, my poor baby
Also, the scene at the basement of the pharmacy was v important I mean, my poor Eds was desperately trying to save his mom while being surrounded by thing that scared him, and then how he manages to weaken the leper, finding the answer to how to end Pennywise, yes Eddie! 👏🏼👏🏼
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HANBROUGH
I loved their relationship I mean I didn’t ship them before but now w o w they’re so cute with each other I’m,,,
I liked how, even after everyone had gone, Bill stayed there with Mike and listened to him and everything
And when they pressed their foreheads together after ending that 🤡 bitch !! c u t e
And at the end omg when they’re talking on the phone and Mike makes a pause and says “I love you”, and then Bill says “I love you too”... I know it was like in a platonic way but I just- 💖❤️💞😘👏🏼
(I couldn’t find a gif of them both, sorry 😔)
BILL
The guilt he feels for Georgie’s death 😭
That moment where adult Bill sees his younger self telling him everything was his fault, and that his little brother’s death was his fault just because he pretended to be sick just cause didn’t want to go out and play with him... I can only imagine the amount of guilt he was experiencing
But then when he faces him and finally realizes it wasn’t his fault and “kills” his young version, putting an end to that feeling of guilt... Good for him 👏🏼
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MIKE
A KING
It must’ve been really difficult to get the courage to call everyone and ask them to go to Derry, knowing that it meant danger
And all the research he did, all the effort he put on the investigation to end Pennywise, all for the greater good, wow, he deserves everything good in the world 💖
Even though I didn’t like how he kept some information from the others >:(
But it’s ok, I love him, it was for the greater good
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BENVERLY
I really liked how Ben recognized her immediately, so sweet
When they’re talking at the hotel and Bev says she thinks it was Bill who wrote the poem and everything and I was just like “Girl, no!! Open you’re eyes, boo!!! He’s literally sitting there next to you!!!!”
Then when they put their totems inside the thingy, Ben’s words broke my heart, my poor baby :(
And how Bev says she should’ve held on to that memory (talking bout the letter) 
Then when they’re both fighting their fears and suddenly Ben starts calling her and then she hears him and they both yell each other’s names and she finally kicks the door open and saves him, wow, powerful 🔥👏🏼
And when she finally realizes it was Ben the whole time ajsnjkadhs it was a short, beautiful moment <3
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BEN
He was Just. So. Sweet. I mean, one could’ve thought he would’ve change because of how his life changed and how successful he was now, but he was still the sweet lovely boy with the biggest crush in Beverly Marsh 😭💖
He was just so pure and good
I love his relationship with Beverly
That scene when he was being practically buried alive gave me a n x i e t y, and how Pennywise told him he was gonna die alone and all that shit I was so ANGRY at that bitchass clown
Also when he tricks him into believing that Bev was calling him ugly stuff and being mean to him absolutely broke my heart but he was smart enough to know she would never say anything like that to him, but still, I hate seeing him sad cause he deserves the world 😤
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BEV
She was such a badass wow I love her
She could punch me and I’d thank her
That scene when her father blames her for what her mother did and yells at her and all of that was v scary, my poor girl how could she live with him 😖
Also the scene at the bathroom with the blood, it surely was incredibly overwhelming listening to everyone who ever hurt her saying all that shit, but then I loved how when she hears Ben she gets enough strength to get the fuck out of there and save her boy!! we love a queen!!!!!
I’m so glad she finally found someone who loves her and treats her as she d e s e r v e s.
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STAN THE MAN
Oh boy, how I missed him :((((
Even if we just saw him for little bits, I liked how happy he seemed at the beginning, with his puzzle of birds and all
Then the ~scene~ was absolutely heartbreaking I mean how he gets in the tub, and then they showed us a memory and then... :(
Then his speech at his bar mitzvah!!!! so powerful!!! (And Richie clapping lol) 👏🏼👏🏼
And the letter!!!! Patty sending the letter to the losers meant to much! I cried the whole time while they read the letter, it was a beautiful way to end the movie
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Also, all of the scenes where they showed us happy Losers being a bunch of kids with nothing to worry about, bitch I cherished each one of those. Like when they were at the club house, and at the photo booth... good times, man ❤️
It was a good movie, I laughed, I cried, I got scared on several ocassions, and I can’t wait to go and see it again 
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kaobaab · 4 years
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𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 "𝙈𝙞𝙠𝙚'𝙨 𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨" #15:
Yes, you can join to my crying corner :(.
𝘼𝙧𝙚 '𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨' 𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘?
𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁'𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲
𝗜𝗻 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘁, 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘁, 𝘀𝗺𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲
Will's the main character of this song. We can situate in s4. Will has declarated his love to Mike, when he is still "discovering" himself or hasn't noticed yet his sexuality. So, Mike has left him so he can stay away of his feels (If Will says he's gay, Mike will have more difficulties to "stay straight").
𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜'𝗺 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂
"And just for a second I thought I remembered you"
Then, Mike really accepts himself and goes to apologize Will (Like he did after their fight in s3). But Will didn't open. He heard, but he didn't open. He was hurted. He left Mike in again, and he hurted him again.
Now, when Robin (Yes, we need a friendship between both) visit him, he has a déjà vu about it.
𝗦𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗜'𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲
𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱
𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁
𝗢𝗿 𝗮 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀
𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂
We have Will talking about everything whar happened to Robin. He's thinking and remembering, about everything they used to share, every glance, every movement (We see the example that they talk codified when they mention D&D, they say D&D but the simbolic meaning it has is completely different). He misses it, but to Mike that's just kids things, and they aren't kids now.
𝗦𝗼 𝗜 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿
𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 '𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱' 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆
𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻
𝗔 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗱
𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘀𝗸
𝗕𝘂𝘁, 𝗮𝗿𝗲 '𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀' 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰?
𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗲'𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲
𝗦𝗼 𝗜 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻
𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘀
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜'𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘆
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁
𝗦𝗼 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲
𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲
"So I find out your reason
For the phone calls and smiles"
Well, now that Will and El live together, why would Mike call?
"And I should never tried"
Will had never tried to make Mike understand what was happening. If he had never do that, he had never been hurted.
The whole song:
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I FINALLY FINISH THIS SHIT. It's small, tiny, and I neither know why I have been writing sooo many time.
And this is more a "headcanon" than an analisis.
Meh
Bye!
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GoT 08x05
Game of Thrones 08x05
The battle was better than ep 3. Visually speaking it was amazing episode. I was feeling the people’s despair, it was terrifying. Miguel did a really good job here.
But the story here was WTF?
Cersei’s death was not a dignified one, I hoped for Jaime to kill her (I am a big fan of the novel, so yes I was hoping) or for her to kill herself (kinf of a Cleopatra style).
Arya went there and just give up? Like that, it was a bit crazy, don’t get me wrong, her scenes in the town were good in the sense of showing the view the massacre happening. But whats the point?
And what it’s up with Jon ? His scene with Dany, when he says that loves her, its  so weird, can’t put my finger on it. And then in the battle ones it’s where I felt the most of him, confusing, betray, horror. But If he’s gonna seat in the throne they better give him a POV, because I don’t know what going on with him. If he it’s in love with Dany, if he’s pretending, if he just wanna to go somewhere warm (lol).
And then they don’t give him no space in the script And Drogon  dodging arrows so easily make Rhaegal’s death FUCKING RIDICULOUS.
And Dany, poor Dany, I don’t think it’s terrible that she goes mad and dark, in the novels it’s not something impossible. But they really didn’t work that enough, and now it’s just feels rush it. It’s was a cheap plot twist that everyone saw it coming because everyone was talking about. This need for love that Dany has, could be work so much better since Meeren’s arc, so she choosing fear over love felt rush it somehow because it’s only adress in ep 4. SoMad Dany, Dark Dany, it’s not impossible or out of nowhere, but this was so badly done that when she star to attacked a city that surrendered, I was just shocked because it didn't make sense at all.  WTF? She didn’t attacked the Red Keep, but the city and she didn’t stop! It was shocking and disturbing. I went to whatch the inside episode to understand and D&D just says that the Red Keep it’s the symbol of everything that she lost, that her family lost, but now that justified burning the entire city?
An example of bad writing but incredible direction :
Arya’s ending scene was quite simbolic, because it remind of azor ahai’s prophecy with the ashes and the salt from Arya’s tears. I belived for a long time that Dany it’s azor ahai (after all, it’s azor ahai that it’s gonna bring the dragons), so this scene for me it’s like a call back to that. Only that the hero it’s now the vilan, the white horse bathed in blood, and the horse it’s Dany, alright? She’s the stallion who mounts the world. So this all make sense if they are in the novels context not in the show’s context.
So it’s visually stunning, but the realityl of the writing it’s ?????
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💤❄️Happy Birthday❄️💤
*looks around*
*sees nobody*
*goes into the free and empty kitchen*
*puts the things I brought with me on the kitchen counter*
*pulls the backing cookbook out*
*looks at the chosen recipe*
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*goes after this recipe*
*starts baking the cake*
*sings softly with it*
*after the cake is baked I take it out of the oven*
*the whole kitchen smells after Matcha Tee because it's a Matcha Tea Cake*
*feels a hand on my shoulder*
~🍀~My princess do you need help?!~🍀~
Cecil?!
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~🍀~Are you baking a cake for Reiji-Senpai?!~🍀~
Yes I do, so you do want to help me?! If you do could you mix that emerald green sugar icing?!
~🍀~I will gladly do that, my princess.~🍀~
*we both finish the cake together*
~🍀~Princess, did you gave him the new chapter of your Utapri Fanfic to read?!~🍀~
*I laugh*
How do you know?!
~🍀~Somehow I find the Paaring Satsuki and Reiji-senpai, besides me and Ranmaru-senpai, interesting. Also you gave Satsuki his own body, history, soul and more.*¹~🍀~
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Thank for that positive feedback, I will write further. I love those Paarings and writing to/about them. I'm a bit of a fan of unused Paarings 😚😅
*Cecil gets Reiji-senpai*
>🦊>My girl, what is the problem?! Cesshi sounded like that you are in trouble!<🦊<
*I sigh and grab the hand of the brown haired and brown eyed idol*
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*pulls him into the empty kitchen*
*but he hugs me before that*
>🦊>I was so worried something bad happend to you...<🦊<
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>🦊>Cesshi... you played with me... I will get you back for that...<🦊<
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*i hear him growling behind me*
You Baka, I'm not in trouble...
Happy Birthday to you Reiji-tan*²
>🦊>Aww thank you my girl!<🦊<
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*he hugs me*
>🦊>The new Utapri Fanfic Chapter of yours is really goo written even if it is your first English Smut chapter<🦊<
*he blushes*
>🦊>Before you write the next chapter you have to stay with me and celebrate with me<🦊<
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*Reiji smiles suggestively at me*
/Ehh where the hell did Cecil disappear to?! Damn it what did I just trigger?!/
Okay.... I will stay with you and celebrate...
*Reiji closes the door behind us*
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*also I could feel him getting that back*
*for shocking him, that I are in trouble*
/I only hope he will be gentle to Cecil.../
*the rest is open to your imagination*
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A/N:
[SPOILER]~🍀~~🍀~ = means Cecil is talking
>🦊><🦊<= this is Reiji talking
{sorry I did got a bit creative with the thing above that⬆️} /*¹ You can find that Fanfic I talk about is on AO3 Account with the Name ZorokoRoronoa and with the link {{dann I hope it worked}} https://archiveofourown.org/works/15138449/chapters/35436321*² this is the kind of Nickname Satsuki is using in my Utapri FF but a short form of the surname plus the ending tan on the short form and Cesshi is the nickname from Reiji for Cecil ;D And also I really had a problem to made that post it took me ages to format it. But I found a Documenttype on my Laptop, I use a Linux Laptop and also the Libre Office Pack better known as Open Office, so I could post it like I wrote it. Yes this is one of the few Birthday Posts which will come from my laptop because of that my tablet is loading. And I also made the mistake that I didnt save the first one which I had with my style posted…. *ehehehehe* but i wasnt working so I gave up and post it like that, I wanted to have it up today ;P  Mura should simbolize me[/SPOILER]
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Spoiler Warning!
If you have not seen Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 yet, scroll past because I have absolutely no idea how to cut it off from public eye with a "read more" thing. . . . . . . . All the ones who haven't seen the movie gone? Good. As I said in my last post, there is a theory that the Guardians of the Galaxy are really just the Avengers playing d&d. Keep in mind that I only know what I've read in fanfics, and seen in the Avengers movies and TV show. Now, here's where the spoiler warning comes in. 1) We get to see Peter Quill's father... and why would Tony Stark create a character who's father seems so cool at first if he completely based the character on himself? Easy. He didn't make Quill exactly like him, but he kept what he thought were the best parts of himself and a few challenges he might still be facing (if CA:CW has anything to show for it). In the first movie, it is shown that Quill loves his mother dearly, and he still grieves over her as an adult after she died. Stark also loves his mother dearly, and is shown to still be in grieving in CA:CW when he shows the anger stage of grief. Heck, Quill even has a similar line to Stark after finding out who was the cause of his mother's death. "You killed my mother." As for the father thing, Tony is shown to not like his father that much. It seems like they had a rather sour relationship, but he still feels bad when the man dies. Tony would think about this when he finally starts developing his character's backstory (most likely because Bucky or Steve said everyone had too). He'd probably make it where his character's father is supposedly either dead of just up and left him and his mother before he knew the guy. Afterwards, he'd probably regret it and create a character who raised Quill after his mother died. A man who had a similar relationship to what Stark had with his father, except not as wealthy as Howard Stark. A man who still loved him and wanted what's best for the child, even when he didn't fully understand at the time. This character would be Yandu. Stark would then ask Vision to join them and play as the character, since he used to be Jarvis and Jarvis was like family to Stark. Vision wouldn't understand the game at first, so he'd make choices deemed foolish of the kind of bandits Yondu was a part of, which would lead to Yondu being captured in Vol. 2 along with two other characters. The battle Quill has with his father would simbolize the struggle Stark has dealing with his parents' death. Yondu's sacrifice would be Stark's way to make Quill just a little more like him by killing off the father-figure. I cannot think of any other rebuttals to the theory, only more proof of the theory. 1) Steve's true personality shines through at times. Yes, Rocket is a thief. But he still has a softer side similar to Steve's. Rocket cares about his teammates even though he's revealed to be afraid to see them as friends or family after the experimentation he went through when he was younger. He especially cares about Groot. He doesn't want the child to be hurt and goes against sending Groot into the core of Ego with a bomb at first. The guy even cries during Yondu's funeral. If Steve had been at Howard and Maria's funeral instead of trapped in ice, he'd have most likely cried just like he did at Peggy's. Also, Steve normally argues with Tony alot. Rocket argues with Peter Quill alot as well, although Steve plays it off as his character wanting to prove he's better than Tony's character, which would piss off both Clint (Gamora) and Bucky(DM) while just annoying Nat (Drax), who deals with their usual bickering on almost a daily basis. I can't think of any more. The only part of this theory that I don't like is that it unintentionally ships Stark and Clint since Quill and Gamora have this "unspoken thing" during the second movie.
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Transportation Weekly: Amazon’s secret acquisition and all the AV feels
Welcome to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. I cover all the ways people and goods move from Point A to Point B — today and in the future — whether it’s by bike, bus, scooter, car, train, truck, robotaxi or rocket. Sure, let’s include hyperloop and eVTOLs, or air taxis, too.
Yup, another transportation newsletter. But I promise this one will be different. Here’s how.
Newsletters can be great mediums for curated news — a place that rounds up all the important articles a reader might have missed in any given week. We want to do a bit more.
We’re doubling down on the analysis and adding a heaping scoop of original reporting and well, scoops. You can expect Q&As with the most interesting people in transportation, insider tips, and data from that white paper you didn’t have time to read. This isn’t a lone effort either. TechCrunch senior reporter Megan Rose Dickey, who has been writing about micro mobility since before the scooter boom times of 2017, will be weighing in each week in our “Tiny But Mighty Mobility” section below. Follow her @meganrosedickey.
Consider this a soft launch. There might be content you like or something you hate. Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] to share those thoughts, opinions, or tips.
Eventually, we’ll have a way for readers to sign up and have Transportation Weekly delivered each week via email. For now, follow me on Twitter @kirstenkorosec to ensure you see it each week.
Now, let’s get to the good stuff.
ONM …
There are OEMs in the automotive world. And here, (wait for it) there are ONMs — original news manufacturers.
This is where investigative reporting, enterprise pieces and analysis on transportation will live.
We promised scoops in Transportation Weekly and here is one. If you don’t know journalist Mark Harris, you should. He’s an intrepid gumshoeing reporter who TechCrunch has been lucky enough to hire as a freelancer. Follow him @meharris.
Amazon quietly acquired robotics company Dispatch to build Scout
Remember way back in January when Amazon introduced Scout, their autonomous delivery bot? There was speculation at the time that Amazon had bought the Estonian-based company Starship Technologies. Harris did some investigating and discovered some of the intellectual property and technology behind Scout likely came from a small San Francisco startup called Dispatch that Amazon stealthily acquired in 2017.
It’s time to stop thinking about Amazon as just an e-commerce company. It’s a gigantic logistics company, probably the biggest on the planet, with a keen interest — and the cash to pursue those interests — in automation. Think beyond Scout. In fact, wander on down this post to the deal of the week.
Dig In
Each week, transportation weekly will spend a little extra time on an approach, policy, tech or the people behind it in our ‘Dig In” section. We’ll run the occasional column here, too.
This week features a conversation with Dmitri Dolgov, the CTO and VP of engineering at Waymo, the former Google self-driving project that spun out to become a business under Alphabet.
Ten years ago, right around now, about a dozen engineers started working on Project Chauffeur, which would turn into the Google self-driving project and eventually become an official company called Waymo. Along the way, the project would give rise to a number of high-profile engineers who would go on to create their own companies. It’s a list that includes Aurora co-founder Chris Urmson, Argo AI co-founder Bryan Salesky and Anthony Levandowski, who helped launch Otto and more recently Pronto.ai.
What might be less known is that many of those in the original dozen are still at Waymo, including Dolgov, Andrew Chatham, Dirk Haehnel, Nathaniel Fairfield and Mike Montemerlo.
Dolgov and I talked about the early days, challenges and what’s next. A couple of things that stood out during our chat.
There is a huge difference between having a prototype that can do something once or twice or four times versus building a product that people can start using in their daily lives. And it is, especially in this field, very easy to make progress on these kinds of one-off challenges.
Dolgov’s take on how engineers viewed the potential of the project 10 years ago …
I also use our cars every day to get around, this is how I got to work today. This is how I run errands around here in Mountain View and Palo Alto.
A little bird …
We hear a lot. But we’re not selfish. Let’s share. An early investor, or investors, in Bird appear to be selling some of their shares in the scooter company, per a tip backed up by data over at secondary trading platform EquityZen. That’s not crazy considering the company is valued at $2 billion-ish. Seed investors should take some money off the table once a company reaches that valuation.
We’ve heard that David Sacks at Craft Ventures hasn’t sold a single Bird share. We hear Tusk Ventures hasn’t sold, either. That leaves a few others, including Goldcrest Capital, which was the lone seed investor, and then Series A participants Lead Edge Capital, M13, and Valor Equity Partners.
Got a tip or overheard something in the world of transportation? Email me or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec.
While you’re over at Twitter, check out this cheeky account @SDElevator. We can’t guarantee how much of the content is actually “overheard” and how much is manufactured for the laughs, but it’s a fun account to peruse from time to time.
“Is this really the state of VC today?” https://t.co/GmPhv3FN6q
— SelfDrivingElevator (@SDElevator) February 7, 2019
Another new entrant to the mobility parody genre is @HeardinMobilty.
Deal of the week
There’s so much to choose from this week, but Aurora’s more than $530 million Series B funding round announced Thursday morning is the winner.
The upshot? It’s not just that Aurora is now valued at more than $2.5 billion. The primary investors in the round — Sequoia as lead and “significant” investments from Amazon and T. Rowe Price — suggests Aurora’s full self-driving stack is headed for other uses beyond shuttling people around in autonomous vehicles. Perhaps delivery is next.
And believe it or not, the type of investor in this round tells me that we can expect another capital raise. Yes, Aurora has lots of runway now as well as three publicly named customers. But investors like Sequoia, which led the round and whose partner Carl Eschenbach is joining Aurora’s board, T. Rowe Price and Amazon along with repeaters like Index Ventures (general partner Mike Volpi is also on the board) have patience, access to cash and long-term strategic thinking. Expect more from them.
Other deals that got our attention this week:
Lime raises $310 million
Self-driving truck startup Ike raises $52 million
Tesla’s acquisition of Maxwell Technologies for $218 million
Online car retail platform BrumBrum raises $23 million led by Accel
Car subscription service Cluno raises $28 million led by Valar Ventures, the firm founded by Peter Thiel
Snapshot
Speaking of deals and Tesla … the automaker’s $218 million acquisition this month of Maxwell Technologies got me thinking about companies it has targeted in the past.
So, we went ahead and built a handy chart to provide a snapshot view of some of Tesla’s noteworthy acquisitions. 
One note: Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted in 2018 that the company had acquired trucking carrier companies to help improve its delivery logistics. We’ve dug in and have yet to land on the company, or companies, Tesla acquired.
The deals that got away are just as interesting. That list includes a reported $325 million offer to buy Simbol Materials, the startup that was extracting small amounts of lithium near the Salton Sea east of San Diego.
Tiny but mighty mobility
Between Lime’s $310 million Series D round and the seemingly never-ending battle to operate electric scooters in San Francisco, it’s clear that micro mobility is not so micro.
Lime, a shared electric scooter and bikeshare startup, has now raised north of $800 million in total funding, surpassing key competitor Bird’s total funding of $415 million. Thanks to this week’s round of funding, Lime’s micromobility business is now worth $2.4 billion.
Lime currently operates its bikes and scooters in more than 100 cities worldwide. Over in San Francisco, however, Lime has yet to deploy any of its modes of transportation. Since last March, there’s been an ongoing battle among scooter operators to deploy their services in the city. The city ultimately selected Skip and Scoot for the pilot programs, leaving the likes of Lime, Uber’s JUMP and Spin to appeal the decision.
A neutral hearing officer has since determined SF’s process for determining scooter operators was fair, but the silver lining for the likes of JUMP, Spin and most likely, Lime, is that the city may open up its pilot program to allow additional operators beginning in April.
Notable reads
Two recent studies got my attention.
The first is from Bike Pittsburgh, an advocacy group and partner of Uber, that published the findings from its latest AV survey based on responses from local residents. The last time they conducted a similar survey was in 2017.
The takeaway: people there, who are among the most exposed to autonomous vehicles due to all the AV testing on public roads, are getting used to it. A bit more than 48 percent of respondents said they approve of public AV testing in Pittsburgh, down slightly from 49 percent approval rating in 2017. 
21.21% somewhat approve
11.62% neutral
10.73% somewhat disapprove
8.73% disapprove
One standout result was surrounding responses about the fatal accident in Tempe, Arizona involving a self-driving Uber that struck and killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in March 2018. Survey participants were asked “As a pedestrian or a bicyclist how did this change event and it’s outcome change your opinion about sharing the road with AVs?”
Some 60 percent of respondents claimed no change in their opinion, with another 37 percent claiming that it negatively changed their opinion. Nearly 3 percent claimed their opinion changed positively toward the technology.
Bike Pittsburgh noted that the survey elicited passionate open-ended responses. 
“The incident did not turn too many people off of AV technology in general,” according to Bike Pittsburgh. “Rather it did lead to a growing distrust of the companies themselves, specifically with Uber and how they handled the fatality.”
The other study, Securing the Modern Vehicle: A Study of Automotive Industry Cybersecurity Practices, was released by Synopsys, Inc.and SAE International.
The results, based on a survey of global automotive manufacturers and suppliers conducted by Ponemon Institute, doesn’t assuage my concerns. If anything, it puts me on alert.
84% of automotive professionals have concerns that their organizations’ cybersecurity practices are not keeping pace with evolving technologies
30% of organizations don’t have an established cybersecurity program or team
63% test less than half of the automotive technology they develop for security vulnerabilities.
Testing and deployments
Pilots, pilots everywhere. A couple of interesting mobility pilots and deployments stand out.
Optimus Ride, the Boston-based MIT spinoff, has made a deal with Brookfield Properties to provide rides in its small self-driving vehicles at Halley Rise – a new $1.4 billion mixed-use development in Virginia. 
This is an example of where we see self-driving vehicles headed — for now. Small deployments that are narrowly focused in geography with a predictable customer base are the emerging trend of 2019. Expect more of them.
And there’s a reason why, these are the kinds of pilots that will deliver the data needed to improve their technology, as well as test out business models —gotta figure out how to money with AVs eventually — hone in fleet operational efficiency, placate existing investors while attracting new ones, and recruit talent.
Another deployment in the more conventional ride-hailing side of mobility is with Beat, the startup that has focused its efforts on Latin America.
Beat was founded by Nikos Drandakis in 2011 initially as Taxibeat. The startup acquired by Daimler’s mytaxi in February 2017 and Drandakis still runs the show. The company was focused on Europe but shifted to Latin America, and it’s made all the difference. (Beat is still available in Athens, Greece.) Beat has launched in Lima, Peru, Santiago, Chile and Bogota, Colombia and now boasts 200,000 registered drivers. 
Now it’s moving into Mexico, where more competitors exist. The company just started registering and screening drivers in Mexico City as it prepares to offer rides for passengers this month. 
TechCrunch spoke at length with Drandakis. Look out for a deeper dive soon.
Until next week, nos vemos.
source https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/08/transportation-weekly-amazons-secret-acquisition-and-all-the-av-feels/
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fmservers · 5 years
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Transportation Weekly: Amazon’s secret acquisition and all the AV feels
Welcome to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. I cover all the ways people and goods move from Point A to Point B — today and in the future — whether it’s by bike, bus, scooter, car, train, truck, robotaxi or rocket. Sure, let’s include hyperloop and eVTOLs, or air taxis, too.
Yup, another transportation newsletter. But I promise this one will be different. Here’s how.
Newsletters can be great mediums for curated news — a place that rounds up all the important articles a reader might have missed in any given week. We want to do a bit more.
We’re doubling down on the analysis and adding a heaping scoop of original reporting and well, scoops. You can expect Q&As with the most interesting people in transportation, insider tips, and data from that white paper you didn’t have time to read. This isn’t a lone effort either. TechCrunch senior reporter Megan Rose Dickey, who has been writing about micro mobility since before the scooter boom times of 2017, will be weighing in each week in our “Tiny But Mighty Mobility” section below. Follow her @meganrosedickey.
Consider this a soft launch. There might be content you like or something you hate. Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] to share those thoughts, opinions, or tips.
Eventually, we’ll have a way for readers to sign up and have Transportation Weekly delivered each week via email. For now, follow me on Twitter @kirstenkorosec to ensure you see it each week.
Now, let’s get to the good stuff.
ONM …
There are OEMs in the automotive world. And here, (wait for it) there are ONMs — original news manufacturers.
This is where investigative reporting, enterprise pieces and analysis on transportation will live.
We promised scoops in Transportation Weekly and here is one. If you don’t know journalist Mark Harris, you should. He’s an intrepid gumshoeing reporter who TechCrunch has been lucky enough to hire as a freelancer. Follow him @meharris.
Amazon quietly acquired robotics company Dispatch to build Scout
Remember way back in January when Amazon introduced Scout, their autonomous delivery bot? There was speculation at the time that Amazon had bought the Estonian-based company Starship Technologies. Harris did some investigating and discovered some of the intellectual property and technology behind Scout likely came from a small San Francisco startup called Dispatch that Amazon stealthily acquired in 2017.
It’s time to stop thinking about Amazon as just an e-commerce company. It’s a gigantic logistics company, probably the biggest on the planet, with a keen interest — and the cash to pursue those interests — in automation. Think beyond Scout. In fact, wander on down this post to the deal of the week.
Dig In
Each week, transportation weekly will spend a little extra time on an approach, policy, tech or the people behind it in our ‘Dig In” section. We’ll run the occasional column here, too.
This week features a conversation with Dmitri Dolgov, the CTO and VP of engineering at Waymo, the former Google self-driving project that spun out to become a business under Alphabet.
Ten years ago, right around now, about a dozen engineers started working on Project Chauffeur, which would turn into the Google self-driving project and eventually become an official company called Waymo. Along the way, the project would give rise to a number of high-profile engineers who would go on to create their own companies. It’s a list that includes Aurora co-founder Chris Urmson, Argo AI co-founder Bryan Salesky and Anthony Levandowski, who helped launch Otto and more recently Pronto.ai.
What might be less known is that many of those in the original dozen are still at Waymo, including Dolgov, Andrew Chatham, Dirk Haehnel, Nathaniel Fairfield and Mike Montemerlo.
Dolgov and I talked about the early days, challenges and what’s next. A couple of things that stood out during our chat.
There is a huge difference between having a prototype that can do something once or twice or four times versus building a product that people can start using in their daily lives. And it is, especially in this field, very easy to make progress on these kinds of one-off challenges.
Dolgov’s take on how engineers viewed the potential of the project 10 years ago …
I also use our cars every day to get around, this is how I got to work today. This is how I run errands around here in Mountain View and Palo Alto.
A little bird …
We hear a lot. But we’re not selfish. Let’s share. An early investor, or investors, in Bird appear to be selling some of their shares in the scooter company, per a tip backed up by data over at secondary trading platform EquityZen. That’s not crazy considering the company is valued at $2 billion-ish. Seed investors should take some money off the table once a company reaches that valuation.
We’ve heard that David Sacks at Craft Ventures hasn’t sold a single Bird share. We hear Tusk Ventures hasn’t sold, either. That leaves a few others, including Goldcrest Capital, which was the lone seed investor, and then Series A participants Lead Edge Capital, M13, and Valor Equity Partners.
Got a tip or overheard something in the world of transportation? Email me or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec.
While you’re over at Twitter, check out this cheeky account @SDElevator. We can’t guarantee how much of the content is actually “overheard” and how much is manufactured for the laughs, but it’s a fun account to peruse from time to time.
“Is this really the state of VC today?” https://t.co/GmPhv3FN6q
— SelfDrivingElevator (@SDElevator) February 7, 2019
Another new entrant to the mobility parody genre is @HeardinMobilty.
Deal of the week
There’s so much to choose from this week, but Aurora’s more than $530 million Series B funding round announced Thursday morning is the winner.
The upshot? It’s not just that Aurora is now valued at more than $2.5 billion. The primary investors in the round — Sequoia as lead and “significant” investments from Amazon and T. Rowe Price — suggests Aurora’s full self-driving stack is headed for other uses beyond shuttling people around in autonomous vehicles. Perhaps delivery is next.
And believe it or not, the type of investor in this round tells me that we can expect another capital raise. Yes, Aurora has lots of runway now as well as three publicly named customers. But investors like Sequoia, which led the round and whose partner Carl Eschenbach is joining Aurora’s board, T. Rowe Price and Amazon along with repeaters like Index Ventures (general partner Mike Volpi is also on the board) have patience, access to cash and long-term strategic thinking. Expect more from them.
Other deals that got our attention this week:
Lime raises $310 million
Self-driving truck startup Ike raises $52 million
Tesla’s acquisition of Maxwell Technologies for $218 million
Online car retail platform BrumBrum raises $23 million led by Accel
Car subscription service Cluno raises $28 million led by Valar Ventures, the firm founded by Peter Thiel
Snapshot
Speaking of deals and Tesla … the automaker’s $218 million acquisition this month of Maxwell Technologies got me thinking about companies it has targeted in the past.
So, we went ahead and built a handy chart to provide a snapshot view of some of Tesla’s noteworthy acquisitions. 
One note: Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted in 2018 that the company had acquired trucking carrier companies to help improve its delivery logistics. We’ve dug in and have yet to land on the company, or companies, Tesla acquired.
The deals that got away are just as interesting. That list includes a reported $325 million offer to buy Simbol Materials, the startup that was extracting small amounts of lithium near the Salton Sea east of San Diego.
Tiny but mighty mobility
Between Lime’s $310 million Series D round and the seemingly never-ending battle to operate electric scooters in San Francisco, it’s clear that micro mobility is not so micro.
Lime, a shared electric scooter and bikeshare startup, has now raised north of $800 million in total funding, surpassing key competitor Bird’s total funding of $415 million. Thanks to this week’s round of funding, Lime’s micromobility business is now worth $2.4 billion.
Lime currently operates its bikes and scooters in more than 100 cities worldwide. Over in San Francisco, however, Lime has yet to deploy any of its modes of transportation. Since last March, there’s been an ongoing battle among scooter operators to deploy their services in the city. The city ultimately selected Skip and Scoot for the pilot programs, leaving the likes of Lime, Uber’s JUMP and Spin to appeal the decision.
A neutral hearing officer has since determined SF’s process for determining scooter operators was fair, but the silver lining for the likes of JUMP, Spin and most likely, Lime, is that the city may open up its pilot program to allow additional operators beginning in April.
Notable reads
Two recent studies got my attention.
The first is from Bike Pittsburgh, an advocacy group and partner of Uber, that published the findings from its latest AV survey based on responses from local residents. The last time they conducted a similar survey was in 2017.
The takeaway: people there, who are among the most exposed to autonomous vehicles due to all the AV testing on public roads, are getting used to it. A bit more than 48 percent of respondents said they approve of public AV testing in Pittsburgh, down slightly from 49 percent approval rating in 2017. 
21.21% somewhat approve
11.62% neutral
10.73% somewhat disapprove
8.73% disapprove
One standout result was surrounding responses about the fatal accident in Tempe, Arizona involving a self-driving Uber that struck and killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in March 2018. Survey participants were asked “As a pedestrian or a bicyclist how did this change event and it’s outcome change your opinion about sharing the road with AVs?”
Some 60 percent of respondents claimed no change in their opinion, with another 37 percent claiming that it negatively changed their opinion. Nearly 3 percent claimed their opinion changed positively toward the technology.
Bike Pittsburgh noted that the survey elicited passionate open-ended responses. 
“The incident did not turn too many people off of AV technology in general,” according to Bike Pittsburgh. “Rather it did lead to a growing distrust of the companies themselves, specifically with Uber and how they handled the fatality.”
The other study, Securing the Modern Vehicle: A Study of Automotive Industry Cybersecurity Practices, was released by Synopsys, Inc.and SAE International.
The results, based on a survey of global automotive manufacturers and suppliers conducted by Ponemon Institute, doesn’t assuage my concerns. If anything, it puts me on alert.
84% of automotive professionals have concerns that their organizations’ cybersecurity practices are not keeping pace with evolving technologies
30% of organizations don’t have an established cybersecurity program or team
63% test less than half of the automotive technology they develop for security vulnerabilities.
Testing and deployments
Pilots, pilots everywhere. A couple of interesting mobility pilots and deployments stand out.
Optimus Ride, the Boston-based MIT spinoff, has made a deal with Brookfield Properties to provide rides in its small self-driving vehicles at Halley Rise – a new $1.4 billion mixed-use development in Virginia. 
This is an example of where we see self-driving vehicles headed — for now. Small deployments that are narrowly focused in geography with a predictable customer base are the emerging trend of 2019. Expect more of them.
And there’s a reason why, these are the kinds of pilots that will deliver the data needed to improve their technology, as well as test out business models —gotta figure out how to money with AVs eventually — hone in fleet operational efficiency, placate existing investors while attracting new ones, and recruit talent.
Another deployment in the more conventional ride-hailing side of mobility is with Beat, the startup that has focused its efforts on Latin America.
Beat was founded by Nikos Drandakis in 2011 initially as Taxibeat. The startup acquired by Daimler’s mytaxi in February 2017 and Drandakis still runs the show. The company was focused on Europe but shifted to Latin America, and it’s made all the difference. (Beat is still available in Athens, Greece.) Beat has launched in Lima, Peru, Santiago, Chile and Bogota, Colombia and now boasts 200,000 registered drivers. 
Now it’s moving into Mexico, where more competitors exist. The company just started registering and screening drivers in Mexico City as it prepares to offer rides for passengers this month. 
TechCrunch spoke at length with Drandakis. Look out for a deeper dive soon.
Until next week, nos vemos.
Via Kirsten Korosec https://techcrunch.com
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