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every time someone says cars 3 is the worst cars movie another angel punches me in the stomach and pulls my hair.

this is probably just my intense special interest in the origins of nascar, but that movie feels like such a nice send-off for the main “trilogy”, and yes people can have their own opinions but i NEED to talk about how much this movie means to me

first of all, a major misconception is that lightning quit racing - he DIDNT! this is proven by both the end of the movie (where he says hes obviously going to keep racing) and cars on the road where, in the final episode, cruz and lightning wish each other “goodbye” and say they’ll see each other on the racetrack. he was only cruz’s crew chief for that one season, presumably healing from the trauma of the crash (because lets be real his ass did not mentally recover from that in FOUR MONTHS) and also waiting for a permanent crew chief to take his place.

second.. the sheer amount of detail put into that movie is INSANE. the racing center being shaped like grandstands at a track? fireball beach being both a direct reference to the daytona beach race course and also “fireball roberts”, a 1950s racer (he was actually the reason that firesuits were mandated in the sport), we meet a bunch of 1950s racers as well and just augh.. so good. also, the detail of thomasville being in north carolina is brilliant - N.C is the “racing state”, and thomasville speedway is based off of north wilkesboro, a track that was opened in 1949, and last used in 1996 (aside from the series of races in 2010), and it fell into disrepair. (fun fact, north wilkesboro is reopening in 2024 for the nascar all star race!! they fixed my bbg)

third. cars three brings so much more lore than the first movie did. yes, we knew doc raced in the 50s when the sport was getting its start, but in cars 3? they brought in characters based off of real 1950s racers (doc is based off of herb thomas, smokey is smokey yunick, lou is louise smith, junior is junior johnson, river is wendell scott, and leroy hemming is tim flock) (another reference in the movie is “jocko flockos party supplies” as macks disguise - jocko flocko was tim flocks pet monkey that was the FIRST and only co-driver in the history of the sport. he won a race with his monkey in the car with him :) )

as i was saying, the lore we learn is insane. we learn that lou and river had to fight for their place in the sport, which is similar to what both louise smith and wendell scott experienced in the 50s, they show us accurately how racing worked back then too - they didnt have fancy pits, they had a fence and a pit member with a sign that would tell them to come in the next lap for service. all of these cars are gen 1 nascar, which means that they were strictly stock - they had much more intense pit sessions than any of the other “built for racing” generations have ever needed. i recall watching a race wherein smokey yunick had to change the radiator of one of his racers vehicles mid-race due to a crash.

this isnt everything, but seriously for an animated movie about talking cars, they discuss grief and hardships and handle them so well its insane. i know cruz isnt everyones cup of tea, but (in reference to the flip scene at the end of the movie) watching cruz get shoved into the sport must’ve been insane for lou to watch. she saw herself in that girl. it wasnt some movie about lightning giving up, it was him sharing the torch with another kid who lost their way just like he had.

also i dont cry at movies but i literally bawl my fucking eyes out at the letters scene every time. its PATHETIC (its not im literally tearing up just thinking about it)

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WHICH ONE OF YOU THOUGHT I WAS STRAIGHT BASED ON THE POST I MADE AS A JOKE

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swap force thing npcs. in order u got hikerack (who's name means nothing, i just like how it sounded), they/she, greeble/troll, techguardian boss from the alpha but then just leaves to sell hats avril, she/her, Gnome, she's more important now and also is in the frostfest mountains cause why wasn't she to begin w/ tessa, she/her, vulpid, 15 y/o who plays with sticks and eats dirt and can identify every species of dog. Also next chieftess of woodburrow sharpfin, he/him, dirt shark, business guy who does business and also got kicked out the role as baron rufus, he/him, vulpid, town crier and basically second in charge if anything happens to the chieftess esmeralda, she/her, vulpid, chieftess who is very old and scraggily but she was a sorceress in her prime kalamity, she/her, ???, kaos' mom and no. 1 portal master hater who's son is too loud so she takes matters into her own hands ALSO SHE'S LIFE ELEMENT

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I joke about finding characters hot a lot as an asexual but obviously I'm not truly attracted them (like I've called wildstorm hot before but really I just think he's cool) it's so weird how people only seem to be interested in certain characters because they find them attractive lol, it just seems shallow to me. "Ugly" characters are so fun

most harrowing experience as a pokemon fan was when i realised people don't like my fav champion (diantha) cause she's not attractive

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⭐️SOON⭐️

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, CHARLIE BROWN! (1986), dir. Bill Melendez & Sam Jaimes

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Anyone else just… totally unable to follow the conversations in big discords? I really want to connect with the other people in the fandom/topic discords I’ve joined, but the conversations in each channel seem so disjointed or impossible to get caught up on. It feels like everyone already knows each other but also like lots of strangers are talking past each other. It’s crowded but lonely. I never feel like it’s “the right time” for me to jump in or change the subject with something I want to share. I want to make new friends, but I feel like maybe I just wasn’t built for this modern world.

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happy last same year as it was yesterday 2024 tuesday

todays the only/last day you can reblog this lol

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Happy New Year, Helldivers!

To celebrate, everyone has been provided with 1 minute of additional leisure time to reflect on 2184 and make their Super Resolutions for 2185.

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(original made by nursemikael_ on Instagram and TikTok)

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Team Prime | Season 1

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merry yaoimas

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While I do love the concept of the Mirrorverse in Star Trek being the sexy evil parallel timeline of the normal trek universe. It does have some funny implications, like are the regular non main character people in the Mirrorverse evil and sexy too?

This is our star base cook, but in the Mirrorverse, he's a sexy evil chef that makes cafeteria food (but in an evil and sexy way). James works in sanitation in the normal universe, but in the Mirrorverse, he's also a sanitation worker but sexy and dark and evil (he doesn't restock the toilet paper). The starfleet seamstress/uniform designer is sexy and dark and evil, which is why they only make skimpy clothings because they're skimming the funds for buying fabric (evil). This is Samantha she is an accountant (but evil and sexy)

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Griffin, the invisible man

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(I'm so sorry i lost your ask!! luckily i screenshotted it B)

You asked me THE ask EVER!! I wanted to go all out and draw every merc but.. Chapter 7 is out and i need to draw it-

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nicknames

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learning how to draw mechs just so i can draw megatron (how do mech artists do it man...)

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