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landscape with several small fires, richard siken

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When he told friends he was writing a book, most of them quickly asked if they could come to the party. But one, Drew, asked why. Why was he writing about himself? Why was it important? Grimshaw […] chuckled, awkwardly. I’ll tell you why, Drew sighed, eventually. It’s important, he said, “because you, as a queer, weird kid hanging around with your elderly neighbours, obsessed with music, had laser-sharp vision of what you wanted to do with your life. And then… you actually did it.”

Down from Oldham for a football match with his dad one day, little Nick persuaded him to detour so he could look through the windows of the Radio 1 offices, because when he grew up that was where he wanted to present the breakfast show. “For all the little queer kids feeling left out in suburbia, feeling not at the centre of the party, they can make their own party. They need to know that life is what you make it. And you made it what you wanted.” Grimshaw, for once, was speechless.

– ‘Excerpt from “‘It’s quite scary to achieve your dream’: Nick Grimshaw on life after Radio 1” in The Observer

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also i wish all media a very Leave Charles And Pierre Alone

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🎙️| Carlos Sainz:

“The real problem came when I stopped in the middle of the track and the other cars were coming. I knew they couldn’t see me. I was in God's hands.”

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How well do you know [Esteban]?

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questi occhi lucidi non li supererò mai

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Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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The Good Place 3.04 | Abbott Elementary 2.01

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) / Succession (2018-)

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i love it actually when nonnative speakers make mistakes that reveal how their native languages work.

lots of koreans online say they "eat" drinks which would assume they only have one word which covers the concept of consumption.

arabic immigrants in sweden (my mother included) have a hard time differentiating between "i think/i believe/my opinion is" which suggests that in arabic these different modalities of speaker agency is treated as one or at least interchangeable.

swedish speakers in english will use should/shall/have to/must with much higher nuance precision than native english speakers, to the point where they sound well awkward, because the distinction between these commands in swedish is much clearer than in english. i make mistakes between is/am/are and has/have constantly because swedish only has one pronoun covering all grammatical persons.

i've heard speakers of languages without gendered pronouns (finnish, the chinese dialects, and a tonne more) make he/she mistakes because it's hard(!!) to learn two or more gendered pronouns and when to use them correctly.

how neat is that?! it add a charm to international english usage in particular and make our appreciation of both our native languages and our learnt ones stronger...!!

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Carlos Sainz Jr. | Ferrari Style Fashion Show, Milan Fashion Week, 2022

bwcharlos

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Harry liked Nick's Breakfast Show ten year anniversary post on insta (via HSD)

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#love me a ship that gets a break up scene without actually dating

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CAMILA MENDES & MAYA HAWKE in DO REVENGE (2022)

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2022 Italian GP // post quali

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via charles leclerc's instagram stories