#LICO

[petterwass]

A fun thing about the children's comedy magical girl series Demon Girl Next Door (Machikado Mazoku) is that it is pretty much explicitly stated that the foxgirl character, Lico, who is mostly played for comic relief and works at a café, is a ancient huli-jing and has fought and killed several magical girls previously to the series beginning.

[6edbuge]

Lil lico update, I wanted to give her a jester hat but didn’t want to hide her horns soo; jester hat shaped horns

[alianoralacanta]

i've seen a lot of speculation surrounding charles being told to lico and ferrari's intentions behind it. historically ferrari's PU doesn't perform as well in mexico, i think the whole point of telling charles to lico was so they could prevent a problem. also, carlos had a misfire in the beginning if i am not mistaken.

a lot though are saying that ferrari told charles to lico so they could create that 8s gap and sainz could make a safe stop, since he complained about charles who was gaining on him, so sainz could have an easy win. but this made charles vulnerable to norris. maybe ferrari misjudged the pace of norris otherwise they wouldn't have built that much of a gap to carlos, but then again charles was also in management mode. i would like to know though why sainz wasn't told to lico as much? was charles' PU just more vulnerable or something? i remember for a couple rounds straight in the first half of the season he was always switching back and forth between PUs bc there was always something wrong. i think it was miami where both ferrari drivers changed PUs, then for like three (or four?) weekends in a row after that charles was switching back and forth between PUs.

Firstly, a definition: "lico" in this anon means "lift and coast", which means taking the accelerator off later and starting braking later. This leads to periods of time when the car is running on inertia, changing speed slower than usual. It saves the engine, fuel and in some cases tyres. However, it is not the fastest way to do a lap and can also cause other problems, some of which were apparent in Mexico for Charles Leclerc.

I think Charles was more vulnerable in general because he'd had such a disrupted practise and had made less of the practise he had obtained than Carlos Sainz. From the post-race interviews, I get the impression Ferrari worked out early in the race that P3 was as good as it was going to get for Charles, so there was no point stressing out the engine for no reward. After all, the same engine will be needed for other races that will hopefully be more rewarding.

Charles also has a driving style that uses brake/throttle overlap in an unusual way. It's not clear why it works for him but it seems to help him manage tyres, and when he's not allowed to do it, he's more affected by that than other drivers would be. However, in a car and engine that's being preserved for another race, the tyres might not be generating enough heat for Charles' usual style to work anyway. So Charles was getting more wear and less speed from his tyres than usual, which made the P3 something of a self-fulfilling situation. Even if Charles didn't want to get the memo if his defence against Lando Norris was any sample!

I can believe Ferrari's power unit being less reliable at high altitude than others', it has had unreliability in Mexico before. I only got highlights and Carlos' misfire wasn't mentioned, probably because it was an unusually short slot and it ultimately didn't tell Carlos' race story efficiently. It would, however, make sense if the misfire had occurred and then cleared.

The unreliability from earlier in the season will definitely have been on Ferrari's mind. Charles probably has less margin than Carlos - and he certainly has more motive than Carlos to look at the 5 remaining races as a unit rather than as 5 separate possibilities of individual good results. (Charles' title chances may be poor but Carlos' are non-existent). [Edit: excised "almost" because as @things-methinks indicated, he lost the ability to win the title at Mexico. There are now 118 points on the table and Carlos is 120 points away].

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Dont Think @cupids-gold Ever Posted This, But I Got A Comm From Them! Lovely Little Image Of Lico Watching TV

[livefastdriveyoung]

And by the way, Charles may be PR trained, but he's been cracking more and more recently, and this time will be no different.

This group of drivers bore witness to the nightmare of Mercedes Team Orders as Reserves, F3/2/1, and Karting drivers. They all know the stories. In fact, they know more than we ever will.

It's not going to work anymore. These teams want top drivers, they got them. Don't expect them to play nice after promising them the world.

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Original Artist: Minakata Sunao

[stormxwings]

Dangan sketchies

[heresse-klesz]

🌿Animal Crossing🌿 Mes villageois [part. 2]

[helixtheman]

Notice something on her waist

[aparticularbandit]

love how IF tells us that Mukuro has loved Mystery stories ever since she was little. I can so see her watching True Crime Docs with Junko, but also

Junko: What if we locked them up and force them to kill each other?

Mukuro: Whatever makes you happy, Junko-

Junko: But they also have to solve the murders and find the culprit, or they all die too.

Mukuro: NOW I'm listening

Truly fucked up she killed her off before Mukuro got to see some mysteries 😔

Mukuro needling Kyoko about her detective work when.

Mukuro thinking she's a better detective than Kyoko when.

Mukuro thinking she can solve real crimes from listening to all of those podcasts and demanding Kyoko take her to a case when.

Mukuro wanting a staged crime to prove that she can figure out stuff just like Kyoko when.

Is this the real reason Junko was Lico for a few years?

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[theswordthatstabbedjouno]

THIS WEBTOON BRO HEAR ME OUT LET ME COOK OK 🗣️🗣️

So first to get you hooked it’s made by LICO the people who made return of the blossoming blade need I say more 🤨

I’m not big on the romance genre BUT HOLY SHIT IS THIS FUNNY I CANNOT GO ONE EPISODE WITHOUT LAUGHING ONCE 😭😭

READ IT GIVE IT A SHOT I PROMISE ITS FUNNY 😔😔

it’s called A Martial Arts Wakes Up as a Concubine (weird title ik)

OK BYEEEE 😼😼😼

[ahunkofmanmeat]

Blackstar Theatre Starless Team B opening screen art!

[shamikoyo]

Random festival time

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Original Artist: 反町豆腐