#2010 Europeans

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

(Sources: 1, 2 and 3)

[celluloidrainbow]

PRIDE (2014) dir. Matthew Warchus In 1984, after realizing that they share common foes in Margaret Thatcher, the police and the conservative press, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their help. Based on the real life Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign. (link in title)

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: In the dying days of WWII, a battalion of Russian soldiers is lured into the secret lab of a deranged scientist and forced to face off against an army of horrific flesh-and-metal war machines.

Mod Sus HAD to watch this movie after it was requested and they saw the monster designs, they are so sick and cool and awesome. The movie could benefit from having any likable characters, though.

[ujustwaitsunshine]

Mark Webber on Sebastian Vettel, Valencia and his 2010 season so far - F1 Racing, August 2010

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Ukrainian folk hero Cossack Mamay on a 2014 stamp. X

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[brawngp2009]

Pole sitter Sebastian Vettel (GER) Red Bull Racing celebrates in parc ferme. European Grand Prix, Qualifying Day, Valencia Spain, Saturday 26 June 2010. Ph.: Daniel Kalisz.

[gregor-samsung]

Les Deux Amis [Two Friends] (Louis Garrel, 2015)

[solariene]

Mercutio & Tybalt (John Eyzen & Tom Ross)

"Les poupées" Roméo et Juliette 2010 Fancam 04-04-2010 Src: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1SW411g7eA/?p=9

[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

[umseb]

via seb's ig story - april 29, 2024

[figureskatingcostumes]

Ramona Elsener and Florian Roost skating the Tango Romantica at the 2010 European Championships

(Source: Kimas)

[celluloidrainbow]

TELL IT TO THE BEES (2018) dir. Annabel Jankel Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father’s medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the beekeeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean’s world. (link in title)

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: Returning home from a business trip to discover his wife missing, a man delves deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder. Does anyone in the building know something?

[bellezzamortale]

"#...rafans who for the most part had. ahem #some strong opinions on juan carlos ferrero" oooh can you say more pls im curious

oh it's really just exactly what you think it would be, lmao.

idk if you were on tennis twitter during the peak big 4 era, but if you weren't the one thing you've got to know is that it's nothing like the cute little tennis tumblr community. on here we all love out faves and if we have players we don't like, we mostly keep it to ourselves.

meanwhile 2010s tennis twitter? was insanely tribal. it was a battle field where most fans of the big 3 thought of themselves as footsoldiers in the war effort of establishing their fave as the GOAT.

rafans, fedfans and nolefam have been on the warpath since forever. in the 2010s when roger was still at the peak of his powers some fedfans hated rafa so much i once saw one of them refer to him as "sewer slime". lots of fans are completely convinced all the other big players are dopers and only their personal favourite is clean, and that the other players are faking their injuries and only their personal favourite is really hurt, etc etc.

so of course when juanki took little jabs at rafa every once in a blue moon in interviews, how many hardcore rafans were saying "aw he's had a rough go at it with injuries for years, and rafa is a young upstart who came in and totally stole his spotlight, i can see how that could be upsetting, lets give the man a bit of grace"? uh. not a lot 😭😂

so my introduction to the man was basically only rafans making snide comments about him being jealous and a bad sport, because he was already retired for a couple of years when i joined twitter so i never got to saw him play live.

the strangest part of it all was that i distinctly remember a couple of rafa fans (i could probably count them on one hand though) who just... distrusted ferru by association? because if ferru was so close with someone who clearly didn't like rafa, then surely ferru himself had to bear a grudge against rafa and was just hiding it really well!!! they were constantly on the lookout for the most minor infraction, i got unfollowed by like 5 people over a completely harmless joke ferru made after the 2015 rio open final that people adamantly took out of context.

good times! everyone was completely off their rocker and i wouldn't have missed it for the world 😌

[umlewis]

lewis hamilton fulfills one of his dreams by driving ayrton senna's mp4/4, on an episode of top gear - 2010