#2009 Europeans

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: Two crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that they are not alone.

[greendayauthority]

MTV European Music Awards | O2 World | Berlin, Germany | 5 November 2009

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Wedding Songs - 2009 stamp of Ukraine

[celluloidrainbow]

IL RICHIAMO (2009) dir. Stefano Pasetto Two Italian women living in Buenos Aires meet and decide to change their lives. Lucia is a married middle-aged airline stewardess with a mysterious illness, while Lea works at a chicken plant and has a fixation with an antique mirror: moving to Patagonia and leaving their partners behind, they find that escape carries with it a different set of responsibilities. (link in title)

[brawngp2009]

Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story ⤷ Jenson Button, Andrew Shovlin and Ross Brawn | European GP 2009

[batsplat]

OT3: casey stoner/his neuroses/the concept of valentino rossi that mostly exists in casey’s head

y'know I have this casey stoner... idk what it is. thematic mind map (literal), let's say, that I like fiddling with and adding things to when the mood hits me. and it does always strike me just how many of his struggles during his careers and issues with the sport can in some way be linked back to the valentino rivalry

casey's sense of isolation? super valentino related. casey's feelings of cultural alienation in a paddock dominated by europeans? even when it's not really related to valentino, casey is the one linking those two things together. casey's issues with other riders not being respectful enough on track? very obviously repeatedly about valentino. casey's discomfort with the performance and entertainment-related aspects of the sport? more valentino. casey feeling treated unfairly by the manufacturers, the media, the marshals, the fans.... keeps coming back to valentino. casey's mystery illness really shouldn't be as relevant to the rivalry as it is, but somehow through this combination of public discourse and whatever comparisons casey's brain is cooking up at any moment in time... there valentino is again

one of the most charming things about valentino's feuds is that in each and every single one, both participants end up being deeply weird about each other? just keep knocking off these banger quotes about the other where you read them and go. hm. what's going on there then. I don't want to make it sound like I think casey is the worst offender with this (not when marc and valentino have their whole thing going on, bidirectionally)... but I do think he's the most susceptible to conflating his valentino issues with like... everything else that was going on in his career. to the extent where his alienation with the sport as a whole, his extreme disillusionment from everything related to motogp, really cannot be meaningfully disentangled from the valentino rivalry. at times it feels like, to casey, valentino literally is the sport. and that's the thing casey dedicated his whole life to!! which means you do inevitably end up regularly going 'wow there's a lot to unpack'. add in a dash of neuroticism...

and yeah you're so right anon!! the neuroses are what end up creating the version of valentino that mostly exists in casey's head, a version that casey is just a touch obsessed with. I always think it's interesting how aware casey is that he doesn't know valentino as a person - and to the extent casey does know him, he gets on pretty well with him... but valentino the person isn't all that relevant to him. it's valentino the character who matters - and can you even really know a character? in the end, all casey can do is rely on his own understanding of that character, as imperfect as it is. and, well, in a way casey is trapped with that character forevermore. if one man comes to embody a sport to such an extent and if that sport has been your life's work, how can you not be a little bit trapped? as he tries to make his peace with the sport and his experiences within it, so too has casey settled on a narrative of valentino that helps him make sense of it all... a very specific understanding of his rival that casey has shaped in his mind and still trots out now when he sells his own version of events to the media. casey learned from valentino, casey learned to be a little more like valentino, casey learned to fight valentino with his own tools, casey tells himself a story of that fight. he still continues to do so - and in the end he will never be entirely free of valentino

[figureskatingcostumes]

Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski's Russian folk costumes at the 2010 Olympics and 2010 European Championships.

(Sources: 1, 2 and 3)

[umseb]

"Europe GP (10th Race): Not classified (Valencia street circuit) – retired due to a suspected engine failure." - december 22, 2023 📷 @.sebastianvettel / instagram

[skitskatdacat63]

2009 European Grand Prix - Rubens Barrichello(ft. Lewis Hamilton & Kimi Räikönnen)

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

at least they didn't make Dorian and Basil siblings in this one, NETFLIX. - mod L

[zero-zoxx-international]

Ballardsche Wüste (Ballard Desert), 2009 by J.G.Wind

[ntrider]

I say guessing I'm portuguese is "an european ass mistake" because brazilians are literally everywhere. there has never been a single corner of the world or the internet where a brazilian wasn't present. I am constantly jumpscared by this. this country has one of the largest populations in the world. my city has the largest population in the continent of america. and yet someone goes "she speaks portuguese she's portuguese" they have to border with portugal to make such a guess because no one else even knows where portugal is. ask any american where portugal is they won't know. most days I forget it even exists

[maranello]

VALENCIA, 2009 — Ferrari world champion and advisor Michael Schumacher watches the final practice before qualifying from the pitlane. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

[schumipng]

Michael Schumacher shares a joke with Luca Badoer during practice European Grand Prix: Valencia, Spain, August 21 2009 Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images

[brawngp2009]

Valencia Street Circuit, Valencia, Spain 21st August 2009. Jenson Button, Brawn GP BGP001 Mercedes, with Andrew Shovlin, Race Engineer, Brawn GP. Portrait. Ph.: Charles Coates.

[batsplat]

love all the archival work! one question, sometimes (indeed most times) when i google certain quotes to find the source article, google cannot find anything. this quote from vale for example:

"In 2014, I and the others were "bombarded" with questions about Marquez. So I understood even more what my opponents must have felt in the past, because a rider never wants to talk about his rivals. It's also true, However, this is how the world of sport goes: people want to hear about the number one. Marquez now has the same media pressure that I had in the past."

the screenshot you provided is very clear and yet i cannot trace the words to anything whatsoever! and unfortunately this has happened enough times that i kind of have to ask… should i use a different search engine? or are there journal archives your frequent? and no hurries whatsoever i know this is a big ask… but i would appreciate any help!

oh this one's quick to answer haha I didn't even need to consult my notes - the article's here! the reason it doesn't come up immediately in search engines is that the original article was in italian, so I just threw the first sentence into google translate and. voila

I try to stick to the habit of providing sources and if I made that ranch post now, I would have properly put a list of sources at the bottom of the post lol. if you can't find a quote through a search engine, it's going to generally be for one of the following reasons:

the quote is from an article in a different language, typically italian or spanish (the german publication speedweek also gets used semi-regularly)

the quote is from a book, which I DO try to be extra diligent in providing a citation for that reason

the quote is from an article that is no longer available on the internet. it might be in my notes because I copied it there and, if I'm smart, I will have made sure I can still access the article using the wayback machine (which is sometimes what I use to find things in the first place). if I'm not smart, then my doc becomes the last reservoir of lost knowledge I suppose

the quote is transcribed from a video/podcast

I should also say that my notes aren't perfect since... well, most of them have existed a lot longer than me starting to blog on tumblr about motogp. there is just stuff I'll quickly pull from my lil mind maps or whatever when I post, which is where the 'being too lazy to give a source' thing sometimes comes in. when it's english language articles I'm not too bothered because I know people can find it pretty quickly with the use of a search engine if they are thus inclined; with the other stuff I'm trying to be more diligent. but yeah, unfortunately for three of those there's no great fix - the language one is the only one I can recommend. which, btw, if you're looking to do your own motogp research, this one is absolutely invaluable. there is a lot of stuff I've only found because I started searching for stuff using italian and spanish keywords. hope that helps!