#Pre-Season 2017

[umseb]

📷 @.tomkristensen_com / instagram

[umlewis]

lewis hamilton with his niece, 2017

[ummick]

a new fia f3 season: in our sights, in their minds, but it's just mick - april 11, 2017

[press-f1-to-grieve]

mama's boy <3

[ilovejevsjeans]

2017- Pre Season - Preperations. I had the thought “oh we’ll surely get pics of him preparing for the new season soon”...... then remembered! 😭

[umgeorge]

“Baku 2017. My first race with @.MercedesAMGF1 as the new boy and first time properly getting to know Niki. Saturday night after qualifying, we’re chatting away and he asks if I fancy going to the concert that evening, which took me by surprise to say the least. Next thing I know I’m on the back of a golf buggy with Toto to meet Niki at the hotel before setting off to boogie to the Black Eyed Peas & Nicole Scherzinger all evening - something I would never have expected to be doing in my life, let alone my 1st weekend with the team. That was Niki. I’ll remember that evening forever. ❤” - may 20, 2020 📷 @.georgerussell63 / twitter

[sebtember5]

Sebastian Vettel - Preseason Testing in Barcelona 2017 -

[trash-bats]

They haven't played it on tour yet, but I would do anything for AFI to play Dulcería at the NJ show in 10 days.

(Begging for Trouble and/or Still a Stranger are acceptable alternatives to this)

[formulaheaders]

daniel ricciardo

◦ pre season testing 2017 ◦ like/reblog if you save or use and please don't repost ◦ © chicagoricc

[yesloulou]

Things in Max and Daniel's goodie bags for each other Pre-season 2017

1. Flowers 🌷

2. Australian Cork Hat:

3. Rejection letter from the Sebastian Vettel Fan Club:

4. Tim Tams 🍫

5. CD:

6. Comb:

Full video

[maybe-boys-do-love]

It's wild that the whole global trend of gay-focused happy ending romance shows and movies has only been going on for *looks at calendar* a measly ten years!

Just ten years ago. 2014. That's when you get the discovery of a market for queer romance series and films with happy endings. That year the OG Love Sick in Thailand came out. Brazil puts out The Way He Looks, which deserves so much more credit than it receives for influencing the aeshtetics of the genre. Looking premieres on HBO, and despite low ratings, it's an important touchstone. South Korea has the darker Night Flight. And, despite Nickelodeon’s censorship and shifting the program from tv to its website, the Legend of Korra confirms Korrasami in its season finale.

The next year, in 2015, we get Love Sick season 2, and China, pre-censorship laws has a few options: Happy Together (not the Wong Kar Wai one lol), Mr. X and I, and Falling In Love with a Rival. Canada, premieres Schitt's Creek. In the US, Steven Universe reveals Garnet as a romantic fusion between two female characters, and will proceed to just be so sapphic. Norwegian web series Skam premieres and sets up a gay protagonist for its third season, which will drop in 2016 and entirely change the global media landscape.

Then, 2016! This is the MOMENT. That aforementioned Skam season happens. Japan puts out the film version of Ossan's Love and anime series Yuri!!! on Ice. China has the impactful Addicted Heroine, which directly leads to increased censorship. The US has Moonlight come out and take home the Oscar. In Thailand, GMMTV enters the BL game and Thai BL explodes: Puppy Honey, SOTUS, Water Boyy, Make It Right, plus, the Thai Gay OK Bangkok, which, like its influence, Looking, is more in the queer tradition but introduces two dramatically important directors to the Thai BL industry, Aof and Jojo.

By 2017, Taiwan enters the game with its History series. Korea’s BL industry actually kicks off with Method and Long Time No See. Thailand’s got too many BLs to mention. Call Me By Your Name, though not a happy ending, makes a big splash that will send ripples through the whole genre, and God's Own Country offers a gruff counter-argument to problematic age differences and twink obsessions. This is also the year of Netflix reboot of One Day At a Time bringing some wlw to the screen, and the Disney Channel has a main character come out as ‘gay’ on Andi Mack ( I’m am ready to throw fists with anyone who thinks the Disney Channel aesthetic isn’t a part of current queer culture). And I'd be remiss not to mention the influential cult-following of chaotic web-series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo: "Sometimes things that are expensive...are worse."

All this happened, and we hadn’t even gotten to Love, Simon, Elite, or ITSAY, yet.

Prior to all this there are some major precursors some of which signaled and primed a receptive market, others influenced the people who'd go on to create the QLs. Most significantly you have Glee, and its ending really makes way for the new era that can center gay young people in a world where queerness, due to easy access to digital information, is less novel to the characters. And the QL book and graphic novel landscape was way ahead of the television and film industries, directly creating many of the stories that the latter industries used.

There's plenty of the traditional queer media content (tragic melodramas and independent camp comedies) going on prior to and alongside QL, and there are some outlying queer romance films with happy endings that precede the era but feel very much akin to QL genre tropes and goals (Saving Face, The Wedding Banquet, Big Eden, Maurice, My Beautiful Launderette, and Weekend). I don't mean to suggest that everything I’ve listed ought to be categorized as QL.

Rather, I want to point out how all of these new-era queer romance works are in a big queer global conversation together, in the creation of a new contemporary genre, a genre that has more capacity and thematic interest to include digital technology and normalize cross-cultural relationships than other genres (there's a reason fansubs and web platforms are so easily accepted and integrated to the proliferation genre).

You're not too late to be part of the conversation. Imagine being alive in the 1960s and 70s and participating in the blossoming of the sci-fi genre. That flowering is where gay romance sits now. Join the party.

[umseb]

sebastian vettel in the paddock during pre-season testing, barcelona, spain - february 27, 2017 📷 jens buettner / apimages.com

[ummick]

"Mick Schumacher starts his @.fiaf3europe adventure in #2017 with @.PREMA_Team" - march 22, 2017 📷 @.prema_team / twitter

[mattiassamuelsson]

Quick Sabres roller skate guard lore:

It was all started during pre-season of the 2017-18 season by Ryan O'Reilly and has stuck around ever since. They use them (not just bc they're fun, though they obviously are) largely because the Sabres' training facility where they practice (Harborcenter) is across the street from the arena and connected via a tunnel over Perry St on the second floor. Therefore, the team uses their main locker room and facilities in the arena and travels between the two places for practice. It's not that far since the buildings are connected but far enough that it takes a hot second to walk between the two especially in skates — hence the convenience of the roller guards which cut down the time and effort needed to travel between the two. For anyone wondering about the escalators: per a video from a few years ago, they really just let them go on the escalators with their roller guards and miraculously no one has died yet ⬇️

[ilovejevsjeans]

2017- Bonus- Pre Season- Dan attended a LA Clippers game with some friends while in LA.

[crushpunky]

actress!reader background

i imagine that reader is around 2-3 years younger than drew, approximately 28

started acting in theater at a young age before transitioning to minor tv/movie roles:

oct - dec 2014 - the nice guys filming (portrayed amelia)

may 2016 - the nice guys premieres

aug - oct 2016 - the killing of a sacred deer filming (portrayed kim)

dec 2016 - mar 2017 - suspiria (2018) filming (portrayed sara)

may 2017 - the killing of a sacred deer premieres premieres at cannes film festival

sept 2018 - suspiria (2018) premieres at venice film festival

may - sept 2019 - obx season 1 filming / meets drew

timeline continued in drew starkey x actress!reader timeline

feb 2023 - reader’s final season of obx premieres, but why?

this was a decision made pre-season 3 by reader, who believed that her character had ultimately “ran its course” and that her time came to a natural conclusion

drew was initially sad when he found out, but ultimately supported her decision to do what she thought was best for her, her character, her career, and her future

prior to season three’s premiere, there were whispers online that this was reader’s last season, but it wasn’t confirmed until two weeks after the premiere when reader posted [y/c/n - your character's name]:

may 2024 - reader visits the set of obx season 4

oct 2024 - drew and actress!reader talk about the future

feel free to drop any ideas or suggestions <3