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masks that cover the face but leave the eyes visible give someone a deeply personal character - they present someone as a thinking, feeling person first and foremost, and anonymise them physically.

on the other hand, masks that cover the face but leave the mouth visible do the opposite - they present someone as a body, a visceral and physical being. where the eyes subjectify, the mouth objectifies them.

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Yes, diva. The FIA has nothing on you, mr director. 💅

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Eventually I'll post here again

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get ween hallowed fuckers

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*puts a tiny frog in your hand* *runs away*

forg shall be newest addition to my family, that is my son now thank you very much.

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itafushi based on my beloveds evak

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Hungary 2024. Well, what a race that was.

To put this as an eventful race would be putting it mildly, frankly. 2024 really seems to be leaving us spoiled with exciting races, but I feel – as a Lando fan (and Oscar enjoyer) – this one just might take the cake for me. Seems like Nico’s curse has taken a new method of execution, because that was Lando’s race to win in the 3rd stint.

Now, I am not a huge fan of McLaren as a team, I will state. I didn’t like how they treat their drivers even before this (see Arrow McLaren in Indycar, and Danny Ric in 2022) but it seems to have finally hit the 2024 F1 grid. Silverstone feels more like a forewarning now, with their poor pit timing, alongside the poor tire strategy and imbalanced reliance on their drivers for strategy calls. Now in Hungary they’re really made this obvious with fucking their own strategy and pushing a team order they themselves destroyed.

In hindsight on a second watch, it becomes very obvious that the plan all along had been for Oscar to win. We can see this as far back as when Lando was told his race was with Max and not Oscar, and then further along in Lap 39 with the permission to race between the McLarens only lasting until the mid 40s. Now of course, this is F1. Team orders do happen. Personally, I would rather see the drivers actually compete with each other for the win, as I find that it’s a more satisfying race to watch (and I’d assume to win as well) and therefore I’m not big on team orders. Despite this, I can understand a team orders with strategic purposes, such as securing points for a driver in contention for the Championship title, eg: Lando. One would think this would be priority, especially seeing as we’re very close to summer break already.

What I don’t like is a team order that seemingly came down from upper management solely to give a driver his first win.

Personally, the only thing I can think of for reasoning besides simply getting Oscar his first win (whether to make McLaren look good, to please people or keep them happy, etc.) is just little, like how Oscar would be the 6th maiden win at the Hungaroring. I don’t see any reason why this was a call made outside of that, especially so early. If this were made just before their 1st pits I’d be more understanding, as it’d be a judge of race pace at the time and then holding that 1-2 from there. Unlike this though, the order was already established before that, in the morning before the race if you’re to infer from certain radio clips between Joseph and Lando later in the race.

This is where McLaren’s strategy comes more heavily into play, and by that I mean that they once again botched the pit stops. It’s obvious that the team order came from higher up, but the pit stops was all on them. This will be the 2nd race in a row they’ve butchered Oscar with a bad pitting strategy, and it’s really disappointing to see. They were overly conservative at the cost of the driver they were trying to give the win. As F1TV had put it, it was messy. They should’ve pitted Oscar earlier, a lap or two before would have been fine. They threw him under the bus directly against their own plans. Lando has an attitude to him at times, and I understand some people hate it, but he’s not wrong. They should’ve put Oscar first if they wanted these team orders to go through nicely. They were not in danger in the way McLaren acted their were.

With that butchering, I’d almost be delusional enough to think that the team orders took enough of a hit that they should’ve been allowed to race properly. The strategists should be taking that fall from the higher ups, as it was in fact their fault. But this was not the case.

I would argue that it should have been handled much like it was originally told to Lando on the radio, after Oscar’s botched pit: If you can get to him, you can swap. As much as the pit stop is what fucked over Oscar, I thought he should be bringing himself to a spot where he’s proven he is worthy of that win, which would be done by working on closing that gap to Lando. This is not to say he’s unworthy of wins, that’s not at all true. He’s a very talented driver and I do believe will be a World Championship within his career, possibly multiple times. The fact is that Lando had the pace over Oscar in the 3rd stint, making as wide as a 5 second gap at one point. Judging by the progress Lando had been making on Oscar as well as Lando’s talent for pulling in fastest laps where it counts, I believe he would have won the race even if they had pitted in a sensible way and put Oscar first.

All-in all – biases aside – I do think that was Lando’s race to win after McLaren fucked up the pit stops. I’d say before was a decent balance between being Oscar’s and Lando’s, seeing as Lando was around equal in pace to Oscar into the 30s, but those team orders shouldn’t have been used, or at least not have been so absolute. It’s cruel to Lando, and gives Oscar such a dirty race for a first win. Simply boxing Oscar first would have made this simpler, cleaner, and a much nicer race to watch.

While I don’t think there will be any animosity between Oscar and Lando, there’s definitely already some awkwardness. The cooldown room can show that, as where Lando usually turns into a pretzel in his chair with worst posture then I have, he stood opposite to the chairs in the room with eyes mostly on the screen. The same can be said at the champagne, and at Park Fermé.

I can only imagine a world where we truly had a Multi 21 scenario, and Lando disobeyed the team orders. What the retaliation from team management would be, the consequences for Lando, and the effect on the McLaren drivers’ relationship as teammates.

This was just handled horribly, and sadly, that tracks with McLaren. Lets hope they can learn from this mess and do better, because they need to, and soon.

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I got that chronic yap syndrome but I can't casually post the yapping. If I'm not rambling in DMs to friend I need to write it like a paper or a damn news article or I'll simply just Die.

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Me staring at the local indoor karting rink calculating out if i could afford adding this much to my monthly reoccuring purchases: "i could do something very crazy right now"

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do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

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F1 fans spotted at anime convention? More likely than you think.

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Oh and the person doing the matching cosplay with me is just radio silent.

We're meeting tommorow. I'm helping set up today because if I volunteered I'd get a free pass. It's four hours round trip from my house. If they can't make it suddenly I need to know to finish MY WIG before theirs. Like. Fml.

I am never makong 2 cosplays at once ever again. I'm geuinely at my wits end. I'm never promising a cosplsy to someone else again.

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I am never makong 2 cosplays at once ever again. I'm geuinely at my wits end. I'm never promising a cosplsy to someone else again.

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The McLaren Senna liveries for Monaco has me going INSANE but the racing suits LMFAO. LORD.

( Chatter about it below the cut!! )

The sprite cans looking down at me from the top shelf of the fridge:

Whoever chose to put the stripe that low WHO ARE YOU? 😭 it brings the leading line too low and makes the bottom half of the suit look lowhanging LOL. Love the placement of their numbers though.

NOW THE BACK OF THE SUIT ON THE OTHER HAND! OHHHH MY GOD IT LOOKS SO GOOD.

Whoever did this is genius. Collar and back matching, plus more leading lines accentuating the shoulders???? AAAARARARA.

The colour choice was not at all what I was expecting to be honest, but to be fair when I think Senna I think Red, Yellow? White. But the Brazilian flag's colours make a lot of sense (OBVIOUSLY LMFAO.)

And man I love the helmets, ESPECIALLY Lando's. I'll always love his fucking helmets tho, they're just so fucking good, I'm obsessed. And biased a bit but sue me.

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A chronic problem of mine

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Why does hot topic have what is basically satosugu couples shirts. They're even a suprisingly half-decent design like what.