#I HADNT READ THE BOOKS

[aquariusshadow]

so i finished lockwood and co (tv) and...........uh.......apparently....thanks to a friend of mine who promised to tell me what was behind the door after finishing the show........I CORRECTLY GUESSED WHAT'S BEHIND THE DOOR LIKE WTF

[beinspiredbyroses]

the cgi was awful & thats when I checked out. also junior high schl is 12 to 15 yo. which is why I only watched the first movie.

TWILIGHT (2008)

[kimodraw]

more watchmen (and patrician) stuff :) lines r from jungo which im currently reading

[sleepsucks]

[moonshynecybin]

what would you consider essential marc and rosquez watching? i don’t mean races but the stuff happening around it, there seems to be so much and idk where to start 😭

BIG ass question. i think it depends what you want outta this and how you best interact with content slash consume information. for me (not to brag but. winner of multiple historical essay writing competitions in high school. for context on the kind of freak i am bringing to the table here.) the research is kind of the fun part ! like i just started googling shit! i would go to inactive blogs and just search 'marquez' on them to see what would happen ! a lot of the times that works ! but it also takes a lotttt of time lol so i'll chuck some good resources your way, why not...

okay im not sure how basic we're talkin here but um. background. so the documentaries are, i think. the best place to start. theyre entertaining and offer a good amalgamation of clips to provide context for the actual racing. and like i know you de-emphasized racing (which is fine lol who cares) but it really is like the most important thing in the world to these fools and its a pretty visual sport so i think its at least helpful. like yes sepang IS about the press conference, but its also about the conversation they have ON the race track using their motorcycles. which is also somewhat a conversation that they HAVE been having all year long...

i'd start with hitting the apex (2013), its a GREAT introduction to the "characters" that does a lot of legwork to contextualize everything. lays the scene for where vale is at coming into his relationship with marc (both personally, wrt to marco simoncelli, and career-wise concerning his flop at ducati), and also how insane marc's whole deal is in general. the second half is. materially a study on what him entering the premiere class did to the sport as a whole. the introductory chapter in many respects

marc marquez: all in. MY introduction and blissfully free online. marc comma in his own words, with all the implications of that. a self-produced documentary where he is giving feedback about the edit of said documentary straight to camera and no less vulnerable because of it which is very marc imo. revealing both intentionally AND unintentionally about his whole deal with injury, vale, and his image.

motogp unlimited. im gonna be real kind of boring. like i would still watch it ! but do it kind of later, once you know the major players so youre automatically more invested. it doesnt really give you more than marc says himself in all in tbh, and i get the sense him and vale were NAWWWT interested in doing more than the bare minimum for it.

marc's rookie doc. free and subtitled on the youtubes. the first half of this is deadass just him wanting to fuck vale so bad while every comment from vale has me saying GIRL. out loud because the foreshadowing would be genuinely shocking if this was fiction. anyways the laguna seca of it all....

next i would hit up PODCASTS ! i think it makes sense after the documentaries, because these are all podcasts that arent strictly about rosquez (even if they are in many ways the main characters lmao) and personally it helps to put faces to lesser known names that might pop up before i listen to a purely audio product and get lost in the soup of sounds. the paddock pass podcast has two retrospective episodes about the 2015 season that are really good at context, oxley bom pod has a fun recent episode on valentino that i love, again just poke around a lil

videos. these guys have never filmed a lot of content together tragically. what i wouldnt give for someone to make them do an escape room. anyways ranch visit HERE (post explaining the ranch visit here). sepang presscon (sowwy) here. vale unhinged podcast interview the month after marc's documentary came out here. vale retirement interview where he gets asked about marc here. vale talking about asking marc to the ranch here. vale postrace at argentina 2018 here. UCCIO postrace at argentina 2018 here. theres a lot moreeeee just go on my blog archive and filter for rosquez and vids its easier lol

journalism. hello. okay so you should genuinely spend some time reading through mat oxley's stuff he can write (theres a paywall but you can run that shit through wayback machine). he also loves an insane comparison which i do enjoy.... again this is one that can be solved by googling his name and tacking on 'marquez' or 'rossi' or a specific time period or race it will probably reap some dividends. in terms of specific ass articles this one is kind of load bearing in terms of sepang and some of the interpersonal competitive tensions at play. that being said there are manyyyyyy crazy interviews and snippents of articles from other journos floating around motogp tumblr (like literally too many to link) adn its fun to dig around to find them, but mat oxley gets a shoutout because i was reading this article TODAY !

other content. honestly one of the best resources I'VE found for plotting out the arc of their relationship is @kingofthering's everyrosquezpodium series. you can REALLY see it play out lol. also her tagging system rules she very neatly lays out years and races... so if something jumps out at you, CLICK ITTTT ! also all of @ricciardoes fave presscon moments series. insane.

all this to say a small little rpf fandom like this rewards some digging! i would just recommend following narrative threads that interest you ! its also a small fanbase that is pretty research oriented, so if youre ever confused about somethin, just shoot an ask or run a search on someone's blog (@kwisatzworld has endless vale resources and @batsplat is one of the most thorough researchers ive ever seen, for example) like for real theres so much... i also have a primer that i made forever ago that has some links on it so you can peruse that if you so wish. but frankly a lot of it is just using those research muscles and being sufficiently deranged enough to be screenshotting reddit threads at one am so you can post them to tumblr because they mentioned marc and vale in the same sentence and that lit up some of the neurons in your brain

(and i know you said outside of races but i think theyre good benchmarks as turning points soooo you should do some diggin on laguna seca 2013, jerez 2015, argentina 2015, ASSEN 2015, sepang 2015 obvi, argentina 2018, and misano 2019. those are the big tentpoles of insane rosquez relationship drama imo. i mean theres many more but. im limiting myself.)

[the-holy-ghosted]

how do you think things started. Did Bridgens or Peglar make the first move? Was it before or after John began tutoring him?

Brought up in the book, actually! He taught Peglar how to read while they were on their Beagle voyage and when they came home, he sought Bridgens out again for more lessons. At some point after finding him again, Peglar made the first move on him.

From chapter 28, the first of a handful of Peglar POV chapters. Despite the book being... the way it is, I do like how it does these two. If you were to read any part of it, read chapters 28 and 50. My suggestion to you heehee

[freakinflipflop]

Thinking about how people in my high school English class hated on A Tale For The Time Being for Nao being "too pretentious" bc of the black coffee scene and for the depiction of Nao being passively encouraged to do sex work. Like sorry that you can't enjoy a moving story about cultural disconnect and isolation just bc the main character is a depressed teenager with very few social connections. As if that isn't one of the driving forces of the story. As if that characterization of her apathy after going through a lot of shit isn't core to the idea of disconnect and reaching across worlds for connection. Sorry that you're too caught up in "haha edgy teen ew she's not relatable" to dive wholeheartedly into a fascinating and deeply moving story. Whatever I'll just have to cherish the book forever instead.

Anyways Ruth Ozeki if you're reading this your writing is awesome and mind-opening and I think about it a lot

[pickled-flowers]

Saw some of the grossest parenting today in the bus

[m00ngbin]

I used to get really unreasonably angry with the Erin hunters because before I read a vision of shadows I came up with a warriors self insert named ambermoon and I thought they stole the idea of her from me

[thedarkspiresofkredikshaw]

warbreaker spoilers

holy crap, well. nightblood isnt a fucking shardblade, its an awakened fucking sword. Holy fuck? DESTROY EVIL?

[solaceinfandoms]

Luke Castellan is such a sweetheart, that is going to hurt so baddddddd

The first person, in like all the schools Percy has attended yet, making him feel welcome (excluding grover) Him telling Sally how he finally has friends. ouch

[islesofblest]

I saw a comment on tiktok that Percy's blond hair suits him bc of his golden retriever personality...

[gaypiratesandangels]

Am I a clown for hoping more gay shit will happen in season 2 of sas rogue heroes?

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

between "i dont know if i knew i was gay when i was alive" and the anglerfish cult always using girls as sacrifices and the "dont kill him, hes a poet! or her, shes got such a beautiful voice. or that one, shes just too pretty to ruin", carmilla must have had a hell of time coming out to herself

[mostlikelyshutup]

watched a video essay about the hunger games and am now struck by the power of human empathy and kindness

[faunandfloraas]

I've read Before The Coffee Gets Cold and I absolutely adore it! I've read the second one too, which develops the lore further and I'm hoping to get the third one sometime soon. I can understand why someone may be iffy about it though

Ooooh, okay! Yeah I'm not super far in so I'll keep reading and see if it grabs me a little more :]