#I keep finding really great f1 blogs and then scrolling through them and finding posts that are just so vile about max

[run2max]

Genuinely don’t understand how there are so many anti max blogs that are constantly posting about their hatred. Max aside, how tf do you maintain a space where you’re constantly upset about someone, writing so much about what’s wrong with them and how you hate them?? Like for your own mental health, how do ppl even do that ☹️ I dislike plenty of celebs but never did it cross my mind to spend more of my energy looking at them and talking about them. Like wtf. I do everything in my power to not see them/interact with their fans, it’s soooo much easier and has gotta be less draining than talking about them all the time??

[losingluckynumbers]

You know how my sidebar says "often posts from likes"? (You probably don't know it, but anyway, that's what it says.) This has always worked well for me, however, now that I spend less time on tumblr cos of the puppy, my very intricate OCD-ish reblogging system is in danger of falling apart.

Let me explain just cos I really want to: reblogging from likes has allowed me to keep my reblogging content in some kind of balance i.e. there won't suddenly be an overflow of posts about just one thing in my extremely multifandom blog. I search for stuff I want to reblog from tags/blogs/dash, and if I find too many great posts I simply like those and reblog them later from likes along with stuff about other topics. No one probably even notices but it makes my brain happy.

Another possible scenario is that I'm mindlessly scrolling through my dash with zero energy to write tags (we do not reblog without tags in this house), so I just like posts and come back to them later. From my likes. It's all neat and tidy, right?

Not anymore. My likes are overflowing and it's annoying me. I've had so little energy to do anything (it's the ridiculous heat + lack of sleep) that I've just been collecting likes. Way too many likes.

As a consequence, I may have to resort to something I rarely do: I'll clean up my likes by semi-spamming my own blog at some point - or that's what it feels like from my pov. I can't properly return to business-as-usual tumblring before my likes make sense to me again. I don't make the rules, this is just who I am as a person. Anyway, you've been warned.

But fret not! As pointed out earlier, I'm an obsessive tagger. Therefore, blacklisting tags will always save my followers. Not into kpop? Blacklist #kpop. F1 is not your thing? Blacklist #formula 1. etc etc etc you know how it works.

[weraceasone]

Happy New Year Elle!

So I was just scrolling on Instagram and all of a sudden I see this picture of a young Alex and Max on the podium in 2010 for the CIK-FIA European Championship - KF3. And in that picture you can see that Alex won the race driving for Red Bull. I couldn’t really see what team Max was driving for but it made me so happy just to know that there was a time Alex actually beat Max haha. Let’s bring that back (hopefully in 2022). They both looked so small and cute. I didn’t know they knew eachother for so long!

Lately I’ve been doing some research on Alex. I was curious about his drivers history since he got a lot of criticsm on his last season in F1. So back in the karting, GP3, F3 en F2 days he was actually really good, I’m suprised! Alex almost always ended up on a podium. The way people talk about him would make you think he's a bad driver and ended up in F1 by accident right? But he was pretty good! I’m shook. This is why I don’t really like the media because they don’t always give us useful or extensive information on a driver except for Max. I know journalists and bloggers do their best to keep us informed about the drivers as much as possible, but it sometimes seems like they are only putting out certain information that makes people perceive something that is actually not quite true. So someone who’s not about that research life will just accept what the media presents to them, it’s quit sad.

Anyway me writing this ask is making me so excited for the next race season! I can’t wait to see all the young drivers win from Alonso (petty I know but he should’ve not come back).

Have a nice day and great year. I’m rooting for you and this blog.

hey Anon!

it’s a weird realization, right? to know that most drivers have known each other for years, even though they sometimes act as if they’ve never even met. I remember I was extremely surprised to find out that Alex and Nicky were teammates in F2 (I believe? I don’t really follow F2) and I haven’t even seem them interact this year. but then again, I can understand the awkwardness, when I run into an old co-worker I avoid them too, lol.

this reminded me of George saying “he’s won in everything he’s done, I don’t know what’s happening but he’s been made to look like an idiot” (or something along the lines of that, I don’t know the exact quote). and I love social media, but on social media we are exposed solely to subjective posts. even when we watch tv, the commentators and journalists aren’t completely objective, a little opinion or judgement always seems to make its way through (which is fine, we’re all human and we all have our own opinions and ideas). I’m all about that research life, but I can also understand that some fans don’t feel like doing that nor have the time to do that. I just think as fans it’s important to realize this, to know that not everything you read is necessarily true, and 99.9% of the things we read online are based on biases. I have my own opinions and biases too and that’s why I always encourage everyone to look into things themselves and form their own opinion. 

aaah I can’t wait for the new season either, Anon! I’m so excited because there’s 23 whole race weekends ahead of us and I just miss F1 so so so much. if you would’ve told me that I would love this sport so much now, I would have said you were crazy, but here we are!!

I hope you’re having a good day and I wish you all the best for 2021, Anon! thank you for your kind words🧡