#a dirlie experience

[howdyricciardo]

Quali time

[onakomiyaki]

me crying to my hairdresser about daniel, and him being supportive through it. thank you lo, u're the best. 🫶🥺🥺

[slutforpringles]

Hey Jaimie, I just wanted to come on here and say thank you for all your contributions to the DR3 fandom. Whether it’s fighting for Daniel’s rights on Reddit or posting all the latest news, you’ve become somewhat of a lifeline for me. Your highlighted articles are my favourite to read, because it keeps me up to date with everything that’s happening. I truly hope you know how appreciated you are here, and I hope that the community that you’ve built here stays around for a long time, despite the recent news. Thank you for your dedication and positivity. Take care!

Hey, I know you sent this earlier today and I'm sorry it's taken me a while to reply, but I wanted to sit down and write a proper response. Getting this message was genuinely so lovely and I can't tell you how much it meant to me to hear that my tumblr has been able to be a positive place for someone 💞

I know I've very rarely been super personal on here, but this sport and this fandom has come to mean a lot to me, so I wanted to use this moment to express my gratitude to the dirlies (gn) and this community.

I was first introduced to F1 through friends while I was living in Europe in 2019 through DtS. I knew from the first moment I saw Daniel he was my favourite. I was immediately enamoured by his vivaciousness and that unabashed joy for life that exudes from every fibre of his being. But I was busy studying overseas and just didn't have the time to be fully bitten by the F1 bug.

I came home at the beginning of 2020 and between the pandemic, lockdowns and my personal life going toooootally to shit I was in a pretty bad place. And it was after a few months of struggle and wallowing that somehow my youtube algorithm landed me on a video of Daniel. I was hooked and very quickly worked my way through highlights, interviews, social media clips, all the funny videos, then each race highlight video as it came out in 2020, which led into every single WTF1 podcast (🙃😂) from 2020. The amount of google searches I did trying to learn all these racing and engineering terms and technical phrases I hadn't come across before (I distinctly remember googling what "box, box" meant because I had no effing clue what it meant 😂). I read every article I could about the upcoming season and the insane hype of Daniel going to McLaren (🙃🙃🙃) and can remember that first FP1 session in Bahrain I ever watched live.

I kind of stumbled onto tumblr via reddit. As I'd been learning about and becoming obsessed with F1 and Daniel I'd made my way onto the F1 sub, and for a long time I could be found on there first learning, and then discussing (and then later arguing for and defending Daniel lol). And I think it was as reddit started becoming more and more anti-Daniel that I started spending more time on tumblr.

For a long time before I joined tumblr I lurked, reading so many of all of your wonderful posts and opinions and seeing all the beautiful and creative fics and art. The mclaren hate blogging era was some of the best (and worst) times and some of the masterpieces on here in defence of Daniel and his career are so iconic and I have referenced their points/stats/quotes so many times in defence of Daniel.

I was a bit scared to fully join tumblr and start posting but I felt really quickly welcomed into this community on here. None of my friends IRL are remotely interested in F1, and so getting to talk about it here with all of you has been such a blessing (and I think my family are probably incredibly grateful that they don't have to listen to me talk about F1/Daniel quite as much as before 😅).

I just wanted to say how incredibly grateful I am to have gotten to experience the last few years with all of you on here. It hasn't always been easy and it's been a rollercoaster - that's for fucking sure - but the highs have been SO incredible. Daniel brought so much happiness and joy and laughter into my life at a time when I really, really needed it and seeing the outpouring of love for him on here the last few days has been beautiful, despite the heartbreaking circumstances.

I don't know what the next few months will look like without Daniel in F1, but I'll be sticking around for sure. I know I'm not always the best at replying to messages or inboxes (I blame my ADHD) but I'm always here for a chat and my messages are always open💞

[piastri]

the dirlie experience has been a fuckin wild ride this weekend and it’s only FRIDAY

[blamemma]

it really is such a weird experience feeling this way about daniel's sudden retirement. this is my first season of f1 and i imprinted on daniel immediately because he was someone i knew of way before i got into the sport and it's crazy how i feel so sad, like i'm grieving almost? but i think it's grief about what could have been and sadness that daniel who deserved his full circle moment, never got it. like today, seeing w*ll post about daniel's not without a fight helmet sent me over the edge and i couldn't understand why. but i just want to say that everything we're all feeling is so so valid and i hope no one listens to the nasty people putting the dirlies (gn) down. anyways, hope you're well emma, going through your blog has been a source of comfort for me <3

oh anonstie the internal laughter i have been having with myself over just how attached i am to daniel. this really all pushed it to the forefront. it is grief. it truly feels like grief. it truly feels like i held him so tightly in my hands and he was ripped away and i'm just left with the stinging ache. it was so wholly daniel's dream and daniel's fairytale to go back to red bull, but it also felt like ours. i so wanted that for him also. so yes, the grief of what could have been is so paramount at the moment!! sending lots of love ur way <3 <3

[flawlessassholes]

i'm devastated on your behalf 💔 sending love 💙💙💙

Ty 😭😭😭 im sure there will be other opportunities and truly it was a neat experience it’s just the feeling of coming so close which truly. is that not the universal dirlie experience.

[yesloulou]

x the music and the everything is so singapore dirlie experience 😔

[katy-133]

Rick: *Says that time travel is stupid and that he won't invent time travel.*

The times Rick messed with time:

-The "Time travel stuff" box that's shelved in his garage.

-"Doing an Inception" and going into a dream within a dream to slow down time.

-Freezing time to clean the house after a party before Morty's parents arrived home, Cat in the Hat style.

-Communicating with versions of himself from different timestreams and causing more split timestreams to occur.

-Rick exploiting a wormhole to keep an enemy distacted and to get his synaptic dampener to wear off sooner (Whirly Dirly episode).

-Rick creating a stable time traveller's paradox to meet himself (and Morty) to help stop snakes from taking over. This leads to Rick punching Morty, giving him the black eye future!Morty has.

-The Narnia portal used to rapidly age crates of wine.

-Rick creating a save/reload remote for Morty to re-place him into different timelines. This leads to Morty having to experience the deaths of every version of Morty that died upon a reload.

-Rick and Diane's house has a lever that controls a time loop the neighbourhood is contained inside.

The Vat of Acid moment is given particular aversion in canon (Morty: "What is this, Vat of Acid again?!" with RoboRick visibly grimacing). It's not just cruel, it's so cruel that Morty brings it up in a later episode.

The interpretation that Rick is so adamantly against time travel because it reminds him of Rick Prime--plus Rick, in his lowest moment using time travel to cruelly hurt Morty as a form of punishment--could be because Morty reminds Rick of Prime.

And while that doesn't excuse Rick from his actions, it does give us context on how much Rick thinks about time.

[danthropologie]

what do you mean comeback within a comeback???? the delulu theories are going mainstream and marcus mumford is one of the girlies too

p.s. and happy belated birthday your wild theories and tags have made this season bearable for me you are certainly one of the ppl that make the dirlie experience so fun for me. hope you have a wonderful year ahead <3333

i think there's a way to read it (and probably the way it was meant) that's not TOTALLY delusional: he's in the midst of making his comeback to the sport after six months off, and now that's being compounded with the comeback from this injury. comeback within a comeback.

but as a delusional girlie, obviously there's a third level of comeback that all of this is happening within: the red bull redux prodigal son narrative. so really it should be more like comeback within a comeback within a comeback 😈

[girlsdads]

the dirlie experience 😔

[courtingevil]

Re-watching The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy episode of Rick and Morty and thinking about all the possibilities for attractions you could have under an immortality field. If the proprietor was smart, he'd milk every sin and indulgence.

Binge eating (gluttony)? Check.

Violence (wrath)? Check.

Dangerous rides (vanity/pride)? Check.

But what about...

Drugs: Hell yes. Or wait, can you still develop a chemical addiction in the immortality field?

Animals: If the owner wanted to make even more money, he could run a zoo or aquarium and sell so many more experiences. Eating an endangered animal, selling endangered animals, allowing customers to hunt endangered animals, allowing customers to experience being eaten by an endangered animal.

Death Scenarios: Indulging in various death scenarios just to know what it would feel like? It wasn't clear to me whether it hurt when Rick was stabbed through the chest in this episode, so this one might not be as viable.

Other uses of the immortality field could include:

Hunting or being hunted for fun?

Open a for-profit hospital slash hospice?

Lease out some extra space for government interrogations?

The possibilities are unlimited! It might be cool for the comics to explore this place a little bit more. Maybe Rick purposely told the immortality resort proprietor that the field could only be built so big so that Rick could make enough money to fund his personal entertainment while not having to worry about dealing with any liability or responsibility associated with maintaining a larger field.

[madomkasak]

Could you talk more about the mistakes Daniel and his team made? Is it going silent? I have no idea about PR but am curious about your thoughts!

You know I love to talk because so few of you hear me <333

These are less of business case thoughts though I love talking about branding from experience and more personal gripes and opinions! (Jk it turned out to be about marketing gripes only sorry)

Imo it boils down to:

- timeline of his retirement was obviously fucked and that influenced enchanté for good and bad i.e Austin popped off but the rest will so far keep very much into the dirlies sphere, rather than a global athlete brand.

- not going into the RedBull slander but anyway. Yeah

- we can talk about it forever but IMO his silence on F1 has lasted too long. Maybe there are legal issues, maybe not. But even though the F1 media circus loves a Daniel speculation, he is not keeping himself in the know of new fans, and that'll hurt a comeback/legacy moment (which sucks because damn, that max tribute could've been the it moment despite everything). You have to keep yourself relevant, and he isn't. As easy as this TBF. Even if he doesn't want to come back to the sport

- the social media deletion. The mental breaky d. Who knows what it is about, but damn. Brands (and athletes of his caliber ARE brands, especially one with a clothing brand and shop) should not be doing this lmao unless they have a comeback planned and for now....it is either a straight no never thanks or who knows we keep it secret for now and that isn't helping sponsorship and relevance problems

- imo and that is my own parasocial gripe with Daniel lmao, his American football bender and association with the Bills is hurting him. Could go further on that, but another nail is that beats deletion™ like I could so webweave about that lmao and once again: not a positive sign marketing wise. Like good for his relationship with the guy, and sure some people wanted FEA stuff but not BECAUSE OF DANIEL and that is the big thing!!

He could have chosen to be public more about other things but wasn't, and yet was purposefully keeping himself in the media's eyes. Like oh look, ofc the next sighting of F1 superstar Daniel ricciardo is linked to the bills and josh. He had one (1) (1.5) Motorsport related thing and could've banked more on it imo. Keep yourself in your marketttttt you cannot branch out yet Danny ric

Anywayyyyyy thank you

[cecoeur]

Hi! Just a question because I’m so curious: when you said in your tags that the vibes are off with Liam, could you elaborate? Not trying to start discourse, but just truly curious! I didn’t notice anything off myself so I’d love to know what your perspective is 🤔

Listen. I don’t want to yuck anyone else’s yum, so if you like Liam then I support you in that. Because at the end of the day this is all supposed to be a fun fandom experience and that’s the way I want it to stay for me, you, and everyone else involved in this corner of the internet. That being said my tag about the vibes being off with Liam is in reference to:

- The high likelihood that he/his team were behind the NZ herald source that DR was being replaced after Miami (he publicly calls out Daniel as needing to be better and a few days later THAT story drops from an NZ publication…not suspicious at all.).

- His general attitude about deserving an F1 seat based on 5 races (where he did well but Yuki was hella unlucky during so isn’t a great comparison). And the way he does not stop talking about how he deserves an F1 seat (I get it, he’s gotta be his own best advocate but it rubs me the wrong way).

- I just generally find him to be overhyped and it makes me tired of hearing about him. 🤷🏻‍♀️

- The questionable things his gf has posted on the internet which ultimately gives me the ick about him.

This is by no means an exhaustive list but at the same time you should take this all with a grain of salt. My vibes aren’t your vibes and I’m an unreliable narrator (viewing all of this through the Dirlie lens)!

[hebby-arts]

Retrieval Units

Decided I’d put some basic info about how to make a Repo Rick or a Repo Morty, in case you want to make your own. My Rick isn’t the only one in existence, and they don’t all look like him.

Repos can look like any kind of Rick or Morty, but once they’re arrested and transformed into retrieval units, they lose:

-universe codes. Repos don’t get their own, their codes lead back to the Citadel only.

-memories. all retrieval units are given Average Rick and Morty memories and are stripped of their individuality or what makes them unique, other than superficial things like appearance. their original memories are stored in the REPO-Unit head office storage and numbered with their original universe codes.

-mortality. retrieval units are mandatory* injected with an immortality serum because they aren’t given access to cloning. it’s cheaper to just inject the serum into them. the serum causes their bodies to rebuild themselves up to the point of when they were injected, so any bruises or broken bones received BEFORE the injection will remain. Depending on the damage, Repo Units may experience delays in how fast they return. A missing limb may take several minutes, whereas their entire body being blown up may take several hours to days. And they feel all of it. This also makes any severe damage to organs reversible. (Immortality is a lot like the one in the Whirly Dirly episode)

*= Mortys and Ricks can miss injections for whatever reason, usually without their knowledge.

-Ricks are intellectually castrated, meaning they know they should be able to invent things and be massively intelligent, but instead find themselves unable to do more than basic math, leading to panic attacks, breakdowns and bouts of absolute chaotic meltdowns. Mortys are emotionally castrated, they can still feel fear and want to self-preserve, but they aren’t brought down by their PTSD and don’t experience as much hesitation when it comes to gunning down civilians or capturing targets. The Citadel did this also because they knew it meant that the Mortys and Ricks would make better teams, be more malleable, but also because they knew the partnership would fight more often. They were turned into tools to be used.

-rights! they don’t have basic rights that Ricks and Mortys are often given anywhere. Also they tend to get beaten into submission and have their spirits broken severely, so there’s that.

Repo units do not have access to portal guns--instead they get wrist-teleporters, aka vortex manipulators like jack harkness in DW. they feel disgusting to use and after being teleported, you often feel like you’re gonna be carsick or bloated or both. They sometimes singe their user upon teleporting. Advised not to touch metal until 10 minutes after ‘porting.

The collars around their necks contain atomized black holes which upon being removed, without express Council or President permission, suck their wearer inside of themselves until they are marble-ized inside of their own self-contained black hole. They must be retrieved if they aren’t automatically sent back to the Citadel, or whoever owns the Repo Unit. (Yes, sometimes Repo Units are sold off to other Ricks, usually extremely rich ones.)

They do have a uniform, but it’s not mandatory. Ricks often choose to wear whatever they want as long as they wear the Citadel badge and their wrist-teleporters. They can’t remove the collar, so it comes too. (The collar operates under cartoon logic, so they can wear pretty much anything but the collar will always appear over the neck portion.)

REPOs are not respected by Ricks, seen as the lowest of the low. It’s common knowledge that they did something to earn being turned into a retrieval unit rather than just killed or imprisoned, and that alone makes them disgusting. Most REPOs will never find out what it is they did, so go nuts with backstories.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!

[ okay to reblog, feel free to design your own REPO RICK or REPO MORTY! ]

[meganjerbicart]

“I took your family? Who do you think had more taken from them when you shot 20 ccs of liquid dreamkiller into my daughter -- she was Rick’s daughter, Jerry, she had options. That all ended because she felt sorry for you.”

Okay fantastic episode, lots of amazing stuff, design, plot, voice acting, but this had to be the best part for me -- this perspective from Rick that I’d never thought about before, and the possibilities of a badass, more rick-like Beth. I started drawing beth in Rick’s labcoat but then towards the end decided this would be better, it’s the outfit of the flashback rick in s3 ep 1.

[katy-133]

Prime's Immortality - Theories

[This post is copy/pasted from a reblog post I wrote for the Rick C-137 & Prime Masterpost on Rick and Morty, and also includes new additional thoughts I had on it.]

Why couldn't Prime be killed by Jerry? Is he immortal or does he have fast healing powers?

In the animation, we can see a cut made by Jerry, some blood, and then the cut heals within seconds. So Prime appears to have regeneration abilities.

Prime not appearing to have aged in 40 years may be part of the time traveller theory, or it may be linked with his healing abilities.

In season 3 and 6 (the same seasons Prime appears in), we have two examples where other characters have temporarily obtained immortality (or at least being unkillable).

Fortune Cookies:

Theory 1, Prime is using the fortune cookies from season 6 (or something from the same dimension the Lockerean fate creature that created them is from) by holding an unfulfilled fortune that is preventing him from dying.

This one in my opinion seems less likely, because immortality achieved through this doesn't appear to give the user healing powers. Examples include: The Rick being bulletproof (but the bullets that hit his forehead still making him bleed), the guard who got his ribs shattered, and Jerry (where bullets just kept improbably missing him).

The Whirly Dirly:

Theory 2, Prime is using some sort of technology similar to immortality field the vacation resort (that the Whirly Dirly ride was located in). But instead of the field being a bubble, Prime has somehow applied it to just himself.

In the season 3 Whirly Dirly episode, Jerry gets shot in the head, but survives because he was within the immortality field. Rick and the episode's antagonist also get their heads injured and then healed. The visual to convey this makes it look like the animation is being played rewound for Jerry's injury, and for Rick and the antagonist, it looks like their heads regenerated. Though there's a gold glow (pictured below) that appears with all three of them when they heal (and that Rick Prime's neck regeneration doesn't have).

So, to link this back to C-137 and Prime's backstory, how can these theories help us? I don't think there's enough info here to get something concrete (yet), but it does raise some conclusions, and a few questions to explore:

Prime and C-137 both know about at least one of these places, being interdimensional travellers. Did they visit these places together or separately?

Did Prime have these regenerating abilities before or after his falling out with C-137?

It also helps give us a picture of why Prime is like This. He believes that he's unkillable, so you can imagine the confidence that's going to give a Rick.

Operation Phoenix:

By season 2 episode 7, Rick has been working on an experiment called Operation Phoenix, a project to help him cheat death. In the Tiny Rick episode, Rick puts his consciousness into a younger clone of himself. The experiment ultimately fails, because the young Rick's personality started taking over our Rick's mind. This leads to Rick rejecting the experiment and going back into his previous body.

But we see Operation Phoenix reappear in later episodes.

In Edge of Tomorty (S4), Rick is able to jump into different consciousnesses of his clones across dimensions. Not only that, but Rick doesn't have the same problem he hand in the Tiny Rick episode (of the body trying to take over his mind/personality). This could possibly be because either keeping the body the same age negates the personality takeover, or other Ricks developed the experiment to remove the side effect by then.

Then in season 5's finale, there is then another development of Operation Phoenix where we see some Mortys using it, not just Ricks. So we can assume the experiment is being continually worked on by Ricks.

This could mean that Rick Prime has perfected Operation Phoenix, and is using it to stay the same age as he was in flashbacks.