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"I need to insult Lewis cause this Lewis fan said this"

"I need to insult Charles cause this Charles fan said this"

You all know shutting the fuck up is an option here right? Like yea you're getting likes and reposts but you're getting a lot more people looking at your post and thinking "Well this person is dumb" cause yes saying that "Lewis' legacy is getting destroyed" when we're talking about a man with 7 world championships no one is taking from him is stupid and yes saying that "Charles is not a talented driver" which leads to questions of how he's beating Lewis and then to conspiracy theories does make you look stupid

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After days of everyone questioning Charles' talent and why his stats "look like that", I don't think there could have been a better race to explain exactly why.

Charles pulls off an absolute miracle with that pole, keeps pulling off miracles in the race by staying ahead of the Mclarens for as long as he did, does everything right (I'm not counting the penalty, at that point it was a different race) and it's not enough. And it feels like nothing would have been enough, no only one pitstop, no other strategy. Maybe not even addressing the issues with the car differently or having a car without whatever issue it is they're dealing with would have been enough. Because at the end of the day there's a practically inexplicably faster car.

Charles will continue to pull off Monza 24s and Austin 24s, he will continue to get poles like Mexico 23 and Hungary 25. He has the talent to dominate this sport, it's moments like these that prove it, but he won't until he has a car that can at least minimally match that dominance. And we've seen the start of the 22 season and what he can do when he has one of those on his hands.

"Why doesn't Charles have more wins?" "Why does his pole to win ratio look like that?" Because Charles has never had the privilege of being a mediocre driver carried by the best car on the grid. He's never had the privilege of having the best car on the grid for more than a few races, much less a whole season. The only privilege here is the privilege to watch the seemingly impossible ability Charles Leclerc has to outperform his cars, but on days like today it hardly feels like a privilege.

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I hate hearing Lewis speak like that. I definitely can't speak for all tifosi, cause unfortunately I witnessed the environment around Seb, but I know I'm one of many who has always known that this might not be easy for Lewis and yet will support him no matter what. Lewis has already been able to do great things this season, it's not this weekend or the last who'll make me wish Ferrari hadn't signed him. I'm happy he's here and I want him to stay here

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Charles Leclerc taking an unexpected pole position on a weekend his talent and his contributions to Ferrari are being questioned. I hope the lesson has been learned

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DUCATI DROP A BLACK RACE SUIT FOR ONE SEASON FOR NO REASON AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!

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"Oh so just because Charles won 2 Monza races that cements him in Ferrari history? 🙄✋️"

YES. YES IT DOES. How are you trying to have an argument about the importance of Charles Leclerc in the eyes of the tifosi and you don't understand how they value Monza????

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Sorry I'm doing one of those things where I lock in on a topic and have to make 5 posts about it but again on the matter of "Charles hasn't been important to Ferrari" or whatever, another thing I don't get is that if Charles sucks so badly and hasn't made a single important contribution to Ferrari, how come he's still around? Why did the team renew him twice? Why did they keep him instead of his former teammate? Is Charles paying Ferrari? Is Charles holding the horse hostage and won't let him go until Ferrari has helped him win a wdc? Seriously, what's the theory here?

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This discourse of non tifosi insisting that Charles isn't loved by the tifosi and that we don't already consider him one of the Ferrari greats is a bit like becoming roommates with someone who's lived in that apartment for ages and while they're showing you around they tell you "This is my favorite chair" and you go "Well I don't understand why that is your favorite chair and it's not my favorite chair, so it can't possibly be your favorite chair."

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partway thru reading ur post about charles and the tifosi and as a chirlie i love all of it, just wanted to point out bahrain 2019 was race 2 of the season. but ofc still super impressive and in a way i feel like the emotional rollercoaster of it contributed to people's feelings for him... that hope he sparked and the fortitude he displayed in the face of disappointment

You're absolutely right, thank you so much for pointing it out, I'm gonna go correct it!

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If you are not part of the tifosi, you don't get to dictate how the tifosi feel about Charles

There's a podcast clip doing the rounds on social media from someone who only started caring about the team this year who is basically trying to tell the tifosi how to feel about Charles, his contributions to the team and his place in its history. I wanna give my two cents on this as someone who 1. is not pretending to care about the legacy of this team and 2. has been paying attention to Ferrari for longer than 7 months.

First of all, let's start with the claim I'm seeing so attached to people praising this clip that "Charles' stats aren't even significant for Ferrari". Charles Leclerc is the second driver with most Ferrari poles, he's 5th in podiums, only 8 behind 2nd place, and although in number of wins he's a little further down the list, there are a lot more names behind him than ahead of him. Plus, with the state Ferrari has been in the past few years, 8 wins, and so many more he missed out on for things completely out of his control, is not a number to frown upon.

Second, let's cover Charles' history with Ferrari. Charles Leclerc is the first and currently only driver from the Ferrari Driver Academy to make it as a permanent driver of the team. The "Il Predestinato" nickname and the hope that Charles will be the one to bring the glory back to Maranello aren't just some funny little things that the tifosi and some italian journalists came up with. Ferrari has been working with Charles for practically 15 years at this point with these exact same thoughts in mind.

But while Charles has a long history with the team, that wasn't enough to immediately earn him the love of the tifosi. This is very rarely covered when talking about Charles' journey with Ferrari but his signing was very controversial. Ferrari doesn't tend to sign young and inexperienced drivers. Charles was only 20 years old when he got announced as the next driver of the Scuderia and despite his impressive career in the feeder series, at the time he was not even done with his first year in F1. He was also Kimi's replacement, the last Ferrari world champion.

Charles needed to work to get the tifosi to understand and support the bet Ferrari had made on him. Fortunately, his natural talent made it an easy task for him. A mechanical issue was the only thing that prevented him from winning his SECOND Ferrari race. And the win might not have come then, but it came eventually and it wasn't just one but two of them. Charles impressively won in Spa after having just lost a childhood friend, in a display of strength that left no one indifferent. Then, he wins Monza. Let's talk about Monza.

Monza is the most special race for the tifosi. It's the Ferrari home race. While football fans get to watch their favorite team play at home every 2 weeks or so, F1 fans get 1 race, the tifosi luckily get 2. But still, Monza is different. Monza is the place where the tifosi get to come together with the team to celebrate it, to celebrate its history. It's when they get to showcase just how massive Ferrari is and how there's truly no other team like it. Charles has gotten this feeling from the very beginning. He treats Monza as his own home race, because it is, he's been in Ferrari since he was a teen and he's loved and dreamed of this team for longer. Charles is one of those drivers who always goes above and beyond for his fans, who seems to have endless time for them even if his own fans are being disrespectful to him, not respecting the fact he's a person with a right to privacy. He somehow seems to go even more above and beyond in Monza, always taking so much time to be with the fans while entering the hotel, while leaving it and while at the track. Because of the significance of Monza for the tifosi, winning Monza cements you in Ferrari history. You might not understand why, but that doesn't make it false. Charles has won it twice, both times showing he understands the weight of a win like that as a Ferrari driver, proving he's more than earned the status that winning Monza has given him.

Even more importantly than stats and wins and history with the team, what in my opinion has truly made Charles earn the respect and admiration of the tifosi has been his personality. Every tifosi gets to see how he treats every team member and how they all seem to genuinely adore him. Every tifosi has gotten to see Charles apologize every time he makes a mistake, even taking the blame several times for things that weren't his fault. Every tifosi has gotten to see how Charles explores every little detail to try extract everything he can from the cars he's driving. Every tifosi has gotten to see how dedicated he is to win with Ferrari, not just because it's his dream, but because he loves this team and he wants it to succeed. And we have all watched this happen while Ferrari has, at times, humiliated him, failed to defend him and his family from attacks from journalists, sometimes from people close to the team, and even destroyed his championship fight and what was our best chance at winning a trophy in years. And he's gone through all this and he's still here, still believing in the project more than most of us sometimes do, and while barely badmouthing Ferrari and holding any kind of resentment when he had every right to.

You might not get it, you might look at the numbers, compare them to better numbers of other drivers and not understand why Charles is such a special driver for the tifosi. That's ok, you can dislike him, you can think other Ferrari drivers are better and that they deserve the love of the tifosi more than Charles. But you're not gonna change reality, you're not gonna change the respect the tifosi feel for Charles, that he's poured blood, sweat and tears into gaining. You don't have to be one of us but in that case you don't get to come to the people who have witnessed so many highs and lows of this team, and for the time a lot of us have been alive for it's mostly just been lows, and tell us how we should feel about the driver who's been with us, either as just another tifoso or as the one behind the wheel, through all those moments, understanding better than anyone how we feel.

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The whole world keeps screaming in Pecco's face telling him he's washed and meanwhile he's just like "Guys I love my puppy, look at him :)"

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Some of you really need to accept that Lewis likes being in Ferrari, likes the tifosi and likes his current teammate

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Bad Barbara Gordon writing isn't exclusive to her relationships and ship wars

I think whether or not you like Dickbabs, you can admit that Barbara Gordon has, at times, been written terribly when she's in a relationship with Nightwing. Despite this criticism being correct, when I see it brought up in ship wars I often also see people indirectly, even directly, say that "Barbara would be written so much better if she wasn't in a relationship with Dick" which, in my opinion, completely waters down the problem with how she has been written in recent years and I'd go as far as saying ignores the root of it. Not to mention, she has been written terribly while not in a relationship with Dick and simply while not being in a relationship at all.

When Barbara has been written as Batgirl in recent years, she tends to be very immature and childish. I think the problem here has come from the fact that lately when she's shown as Batgirl it's either in flashbacks or when she's in her first years being a "hero on her own" so is either a teen or a very young adult. Instead of thinking about how they can write a version of Barbara that people will still recognize as the character they know and love but that needs the room to grow and that needs to go through life and learn and change, her recent writers have taken the lazier and easier route of just writing her as what in their brains is a stereotypical 16 to 20 year old. And I know here the fact she was deaged years ago can be brought up, but to be completely honest, I think the deaging is another thing that is made a bigger deal in ship wars than it actually is. Yes, the reasoning was not good, but Barbara wasn't a much better character pre the deaging. Stuff like her being a congresswoman never really captivated me and honestly I know many Barbara fans and I have never heard any of them say they prefer that over her being a librarian. I know anecdotal evidence isn't the best kind of evidence but that take is not even something I've seen being said by a single Barbara fan online and I've been in comics spaces for 10 years now, I've seen almost every take possible. If Barbara were to go back to her original age, while it would likely solve the issues with how she's portrayed as Batgirl, I guarantee you it would create new ones. She would be written as a boring woman, who has no hobbies, who does nothing outside of work and being a vigilante, who has no ambitions besides wanting to start a family, because these same writers who have been in charge of writing Barbara lately don't know how to write young women or older women, because the problem is, and what Barbara has really suffered from the past few years, her writers don't know how to write female characters well. Also, we'd have her and Bruce together in a matter of months and I don't know how I'm ever picking up a DC comic if that happens again.

Now onto Oracle. It's true that in this case, DC more than specific individual writers has been the problem. DC is afraid to have a disabled character as a main member of the Batfamily, going from ignoring Oracle to now allowing Oracle to exist if her disability is hidden, using plotlines that sound like they are straight out of a CW show, probably because they are, to avoid her using a wheelchair. And yes not everyone's disabilities are visible but that's not the case with Barbara nor does her disability tend to ever be addressed again after its explained that she can now walk. But I also think DC's fear has made writers themselves afraid of exploring any deeper and more complex emotions when writing Barbara and quite frankly I do not know if this would change if DC did a 180 on where they stand on Barbara's disability, particularly when talking about writers who have not had any interest in questioning DC's Oracle decisions. I doubt they would do a good job writing a disabled character.

In summary, yes let's absolutely acknowledge that Barbara has been written badly while in a relationship with Nightwing. However, let's not reduce the issue to the specific relationship she's in and act like if the relationship is undone so are the issues that have been terrorizing Barbara's character as of late, because they go much further than a, at times, badly written relationship. And keep in mind, a writer that can't manage to do a good job with Barbara when she's dating Dick, won't do a good job with Barbara when she's dating any other man and won't do a job with any other woman dating Dick Grayson or any other woman with any other man, because, I'll say it once again, these writers are terrible with female characters. I also think it should be possible for Barbara to be in a relationship, be it with Dick or someone else, and still be written as smart, strong, independent, determined, brave and all the things that have defined her character. A writer who's able to write good female characters should know how to do that.

As one last thing, if you're reading this and getting offended thinking I'm making a generalization about certain people in the fanbase and including you in it, not only am I simply trying to have a discussion about some takes I've seen at times, not always and not coming from everyone who likes a specific ship or character, but also if the shoe doesn't fit you, don't walk in here wearing it.

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I got congratulated at work today for Charles' race yesterday like I birthed the man myself

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My fellow Charles fans, it's ok to compliment your driver when he has a great performance in a race. Talking specifically about the fact Max didn't manage to overtake Charles, you don't need to say "Oh well but the Ferrari is a better car rn", "Max was unlucky with the conditions of the race"... Max didn't overtake Charles because Charles defended phenomenally, it's that simple, you can say it, you can even brag about it, trust me nothing bad is gonna happen just because you are rightfully praising your driver :)

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Why have some people convinced themselves that we won't get a sequel to Superman just because there's gonna be a Supergirl movie and James Gunn confirmed Superman will appear in more movies from the DC universe?

You really think DC is looking at their most successful movie in years and thinking "Yea we'll never give this character another 2 hour movie, we'll just film 5 minute cameos of him for the next 15 years."?

Also I'm pretty sure David Corenswet, in at least one interview, confirmed he's signed on for a sequel and I don't think he was talking about Supergirl or any other DC project where Superman is not the main character, although I imagine he's probably signed on for multiple appearances.

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David Corenswet mentioning Juilliard in every interview he does is so funny to me because the only thing I knew about it before this press tour was that it's the school Troy Bolton got into in High School Musical 3