scorpiobleue - Life's Chronicle

I love all the love you guys are giving me, but I need you to listen to this part. Because this is for all of you [in the audience] and this is for all of you [watching at home]. Sometimes the comeback is even better than the dream.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

Edit: Yes, this also works on mobile!

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Generally - I will just never know how Lewis does it. So many yeaes of this. I've not seen a history and resistance like this ever in another sportsman (nor a great so loathed by the government of their own sport), it must be so exhausting. It's tiring enough to just watch, hurts all the more after 2021. I really hope for the very best tomorrow! This weekend should be his, he's been the fastest, and if anyone in this sport deserves some justice it's Lewis Hamilton. 🙏

i do think 2021 was the turning point for him, and for his fans too in a way. he's been quick to blame himself for so much since then, and it seemed it was at its worst in his last year in merc and first year in ferrari. it's been hard to watch. i do think it's a combination of things: 2021 was hard and undeniable proof the fia does not want him to win. in the light of that, every unfair and inconsistently applied penalty seems much more sinister. derek warwick's words add an extra dimension of cruelty to it.

add that to the lack of support from his team that he began feeling, especially in 2023. i think brazil 2022 was the turning point for merc, in that toto seemed to have chosen george firmly as his "favorite" so to speak. or at least decided he and lewis are on the same level. i've spoken at length on the false hope brazil 2022 gave merc and mike elliot with regards to the technical direction merc was taking with the car in spite of everything lewis and loic serra had said that they'd disregarded (very foolishly). but it also changed things when it came to driver management and dynamics within merc. quite a few people have spoken on how lewis is sensitive and struggles to do well when he feels unsupported - we saw that play out in front of us starting in 2023 when it seemed merc was slowly pulling support, drawing out contract negotiations and then giving him a 1+1 instead of the longer contract he'd asked for, the social media admin visibly celebrating george more while treating lewis as an afterthought, etc. we saw it get worse in 2024 with even more merc drama. and we saw it at its worst in 2025, with lewis adjusting to a new team and culture, a new type of car that he had no hand in developing and did not gel with, and his worst season ever. we've had fred speak on how bad things were with lewis in 2024 in merc and we've seen it with our own eyes too, so it's not surprising to me at least that all of this culminated in lewis feeling so low in 2025, the year that was supposed to be a fresh start.

here's the important thing though. he did pick himself up. last year in hungary he called himself useless. this year we saw him upset at missing out on pole. last year we'd have given anything for a podium. this year we're upset at missing out on wins. a p3 no longer seems enough when last year it felt so out of reach. this is progress! i don't know what he's done to find himself again, but it seems to be working and i'm glad for it. sure it's been a tough three weekends, but in the bigger picture of the season he's still the most consistent point-getter on the grid. everyone had so much to say about his shelf life in 2024, and about him being washed and beaten by teammates in 2025. he has silenced all the critics decisively, and we're not even at summer break yet! he's developed a car he trusts, he has people around him that take his feedback on board, and we can see the difference. this year's ferrari feels so completely different from last year's. yeah there are still blunders. no team is perfect and ferrari seems to blunder more than most, but i do wonder if we attribute stupidity to them out of habit at this point. again, not saying they're perfect. but we've got teams being far worse on the grid! if there's one thing ferrari has that its competitors are struggling with, it is consistency and reliability. and of its two drivers, the one showing it the most, proving himself the most even though there is nothing left to prove, is the one they all said would never do it again. he never stopped making history. each race he drives in is history in a new way. he's come so far ahead and the road ahead of him is STILL an unwalked one. he is the first. he continues to be the first. nothing can take that away.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

✨ CHEMISTRY ✨

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