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Why Oscar Piastri Has Not Made a Mistake
Bear with me on this one because I feel that the minute discussions start about Oscar and how he got into F1, Daniel Ricciardo stans (not all of you just the very few in a minority which is making the rest of you look bad) say he’s a traitor and doesn’t deserve his seat. People are also saying he “should’ve gone to Alpine” like he had a choice.
Let’s look at this clearly. Oscar got his seat because of his stellar junior results. Winning F2 and F3 back to back in his rookie years (and Formula Renault in his second year in 2019) is no easy feat. That is why he got his seat. He’s good. Really good. That is why so many teams were fighting over him.
Now, I feel like a fool for saying this because it has been said so many times before but, Alpine didn’t want Oscar. They weren’t going to give him a seat. If Sebastian did not retire Alonso would still be at Alpine. (And then Seb would be getting podiums, but I try not to think about that) But essentially, Alpine liked Oscar as decoration never someone they actually wanted to put in the car. They didn’t even give the man a practice session (pre-drama). Only when Alonso dropped them did they want Oscar.
I saw an article (I don’t know how true it was) that said that he didn’t even have a proper contract for his reserve driver role. They just submitted a terms sheet to the FIA, which, I’m not sure how much people know about contractual law, but a terms sheet is not legally binding. This happened because Alpine’s legal department was understaffed and they just never sent Oscar or Mark Webber (ex-F1 driver and his manager) the official contract which stipulated his role as a reserve driver and then what he would do from 2023 and beyond. This was supposed to be THREE years at Williams and only then would he go to a MIDFIELD team in Alpine. (It was different for George because he was promised a Mercedes seat. A seat at a team that has been dominating the sport for years is different from one at a team that hasn’t even been top of the midfield.)
Now lets look at this from Oscars point of view. You have already skipped out a year during your best years because your team couldn’t secure you a seat in time. Then you’ve been offered a seat at the worst team on the grid for multiple years or a seat at a team who has been comfortably in the top 5 for the past 3 years. Lets remember, ALPINE WAS NEVER AN OPTION FOR OSCAR. IT WAS WILLIAMS OR MCLAREN.
Looking at the grid now, it is clear that maybe McLaren isn’t the best team. But I don’t think anybody could expect how monumentally shit they were going to be this year. Of all the predictions I have seen, everybody was saying that Williams would be the worst team, and honestly scoring a total of 8 points last year, I wouldn’t go there either if I had the option of a midfield team.
After this he signed with McLaren in early July, he cant just go to Alpine after signing with another team. Maybe we can blame Oscar for not communicating this but I assume sans the whole drama with Alonso it was supposed to come out a bit more naturally because Daniel was still contracted until the end of 2023.
Anyway what I’m trying to say is, everybody hating on Oscar for “choosing the wrong team” must just shut up because you look stupid. It was McLaren or Williams, Alpine was never an option and we know McLaren can and will improve while Williams is not given. Also by going to McLaren, even if the car is awful, the comparison between him and Lando (who is talked as though he’s the next WDC, which is fair, I mean he’s great) is enough. Like Lando is ridiculously good and if Oscar is anywhere near that then he’s seen as doing a fantastic job.
Anyways all I have to say is please stop hating on Oscar, he deserves to be there and is doing a fantastic job.
#I’m just sick of the haters#the man is good treat him like such#he spent 49 laps on the same set of hard tyres#and the media is silent about it#if it were max or alonso then everyone would be dining their praises#but because it’s just some silly little aussi nobody cares#f1#formula 1#oscar piastri#f1br#saudi arabian gp 2023#also I’m sorry if I offended anyone
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Steve, accidentally interrupting Eddie’s interview: Hey, can I tell you something and you not be dramatic about it?
Eddie: Seems unlikely
Steve: Can you be dramatic quietly? I’m getting a headache
Eddie: *thinks about it. nods*
Steve: No summer school
Eddie, whispering: Really?!
Steve: Yep, fully staffed. Didn’t need me this year
Eddie, whisper shouting: DO YOU WANT TO GO TO THE GRAND CANYON???!!!
#And then Eddie is radio silent for three weeks#there’s articles written about how Eddie Munson disappeared off the face of social media#meanwhile Steve and Eddie are in an RV driving around the country#eddie munson tiktok saga#eddie munson#steve harrington
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i yearn for the mines
#arcane spoilers#arcane season 2 spoilers#arcane#arcane Silco#arcane Vander#Vander arcane#Silco arcane#silco#vander#young silco#young vander#digital sketch#planetvries art#my art#♈️ art#screaming silently bc I’m so normal about them#can be read as#vanco#zaundads#or not idc#and before anyone comments it— they’re not brothers#my ass is grown I ain’t got time for that#let’s get some media literacy going#anyway I’m so gay for Vander it’s actually unbelievable#please call someone I need an exorcism asap#I need Vander to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] bc I’m p sure that’d heal me#gimli voice: and they call it a mine. A MINE!#random but for some reason bc of how spindly silco is#my brain imagines him being sent into small spaces#get ur own personal tunnel twink— wait. hold up. ignore that sounds uhhhhhhhhh something
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seriously considering just giving up on instagram as a place to post art. i used to get some engagement on there back in the day - not much, but some - and over the past year it's dwindled to almost nothing... i post regularly, tag everything, interact with other creators, comment on posts, etc, but even with all that i get maybe 10 likes max and i'm pretty sure half the people who follow me don't even see what i post because the algorithm pushes the more popular creators to the top of the feed. it's just depressing man
#i have about the same number of followers on my art tumblr as i do on my art instagram#and when i post stuff on here it can get hundreds or even thousands of notes#but insta is just radio silent.#obviously engagement and social media is not the be all end all but it sucks to work on something for days and get 2 likes#one of which is usually my mum lol#be shh now
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crozier being kidnapped and telling goodsir not to worry because edward will be there on the morrow, completely sure of it, like it's inevitable. edward in fact immediately going to rally the men to get crozier back and finding they held a vote without him and it's been decided they'll leave without crozier (and without the sick). edward having the choice between being left alone with no chance at crozier's rescue or his own survival, or taking up his duty and leading the men onward. crozier in hickey's camp believing in edward's sense of loyalty and edward not showing up, not knowing how edward fought for him. crozier showing up at the final camp seeing edward mutilated but alive like he told him to, only to die. thinking about edward's absolute sense of loyalty to his captain and duty towards the men tearing him apart and it never saves anyone
#crozier thinking edward left him behind kills me#out there with jopson dying thinking crozier left him behind. things that will haunt me forever#the terror#was having lunch with colleagues (media scholars) who were discussing oscar nominated films#but i was silent for the whole of it bc i was sitting there like *autism creature* <- full of terror thoughts#imagine watching anything else. lmao. not me for the coming three months at the very least#im about to write another post abt edward's loyalty to crozier and how that's both a strength and a flaw in fact#also thinking abt le vesconte holding that vote bc like... w/o crozier edward is ranking#like the hierarchy is in shambles but the vestiges of it are still there#something so insidious abt making sure the men are united in their decision against edward bc dundy Knows what edward would want#and it isn't to leave. so he takes away the option entirely#im not saying this is completely evil. dundy is also acting in a way that he thinks will save the most men (i.e. cutting out the weak links#and not embarking on some desperate rescue mission#but it is so underhanded still#edward little
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So I watched A Silent Voice with some but minor knowledge of the story going in. And right at the beginning when Shoko's bullying started I had the nagging worry that while Ishida would be redeemed they'd leave Ueno and Kawai as one-dimensional bullies. Painting the girls as the "real villains" while the male protagonist got to have depth. Anyway I just finished the movie and I would like to formally apologize to Oima Yoshitoki and Yoshida Reiko I should never have doubted you.
#i was unfamiliar with your game madams. i hope you can forgive me#never seen a film with a male mc become SO dedicated to complex relationships between its flawed female side characters#a silent voice#Ishida shoya#ueno naoka#kawai miki#the scene where yaeko slapped naoka was the peak of the movie to me#seems like she needed it too she'd spent the whole film up to this point basically BEGGING shoko to punch her#but shoko's too nice and it bothers her sooooo much. she's like HATE ME. and shoko's like 'i don't' and she's like WHY NOT???? FIX THAT#naola and miki are very interesting parallels because miki NEEDS to be liked by everyone and naoka wants so badly to be disliked instead.#which leads to both of them being pretty shitty but in essentially opposite ways IT'S GREAT#koe no katachi#i have no doubt that the fandom is still going to be INCREDIBLY weird about both of these girls but what's new#oh a flawed woman exists in a media property? yeah it's a real mystery what the internet's gonna say about that lmao
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sometimes in the fandom you see some art that is SO beautifully made but goes SO against the grain of how you perceive the drawn character(s) like I want to reblog it so much because it's so visually gorgeous and the artist is amazing and deserves to know this but I'll fucking die before letting that particular interpretation of the character(s) anywhere near my blog
#personal#don't take it as vagueposting#it's about A LOT of art I've seen over the years and I just got reminded of some of it#fandoms in general tend to take the characterization of nuanced characters in certain very specific direction#that irritates me to an absolutely unreasonable degree#and I don't want to rain on anyone's parades#it's fandom and it's for fun there is no way to enjoy your fictional guys wrong#so I mostly keep silent about it#but given sufficient time pretty much every fandom drifts into the state where I can't engage with it#without seeing red like three posts into the tag#even the art tag#and I feel so weird sitting there with my different perception#pretty isolated#which is self-imposed and not exactly bad but still weird#luckily I have some close friends that I can still have in-depth discussions abt the media and characters with#but online fandoming eventually gets blood-boiling rather than fulfilling#which is especially idk weird?#given that I'm mostly drawing fandom stuff#and I kinda SHOULD be interacting with the fandom#and I'd love to have talks of those fictional guys#they are great guys and I love to talk about them#but then I poke my nose into the fandom and my blood gets boiling#it's weird being a fandom artist outside of the fandom is what I'm saying xD#especially once you get used to the boost of motivation and productivity that comes from being in the fandom#and I kinda miss that but also well nothing to be done about that#don't mind me and sorry for the rant
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for strange and unknowable reasons i have spent the past seven and a half hours making this emotional catharsis amv instead of sleeping. my personal love letter to the art that has changed me over the years.
homestuck / avatar: the last airbender / everything everywhere all at once / soul / homestuck / infinity train / koe no katachi / gravity falls / up / frozen / blue planet / the prince of egypt / night in the woods / the good place / everything everywhere all at once / blue planet / wonders of the universe / night in the woods / monument valley / monument valley / homestuck / journey / the good place / infinity train / homestuck / koe no katachi / gravity falls / infinity train / omori / avatar: the last airbender / everything everywhere all at once / blue planet / the prince of egypt / homestuck / spider-verse / monument valley / journey / homestuck / frozen / moana / mulan / avatar: the last airbender / kung fu panda / frozen / avatar: the last airbender / omori / everything everywhere all at once / gravity falls / kung fu panda / my little pony / infinity train / omori / how to train your dragon / soul / frozen / up / journey / koe no katachi / omori / undertale / infinity train / gravity falls / monument valley / àiqíng gōngyù / soul / the good place
#🌃#almost all my favorite scenes from almost all my favorite media#and then some because they can't all be gut punches. only most of them...#anyway this is basically the extended version of my webweave but without words#and once more specifically catered to what i find emotional and meaningful in art. an about me of sorts#homestuck#avatar: the last airbender#everything everywhere all at once#soul#infinity train#a silent voice#gravity falls#up#frozen#blue planet#the prince of egypt#night in the woods#the good place#wonders of the universe#monument valley#journey#omori#spiderverse#moana#mulan#kung fu panda#my little pony#how to train your dragon#undertale#ipartment
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Just had a middle-of-the-night “ohhhh” moment as I just figured out that Kim Dokja needs the Fourth Wall not because of the scenarios but because it was essentially his survival mechanism for life.
Now I have only read the novel once so I could totally be forgetting stuff & way off-base but this is what I remember. Inane rambling under the cut, major spoilers included.
We know he’s generally antisocial, placing himself outside of society like a reader, and he internally smoothed over Sangah’s rough points even before the scenarios, making her into a ‘character’ (a caricature of herself) that fit into an archetype.
Dissociating from reality & viewing himself as a reader is his coping mechanism & “WoS coming to life” provides a convenient excuse to keep ignoring that fact.
This kind of ties in with an idea I’ve been forming about the Fourth Wall, which is that KDJ is fundamentally incapable of believing that “The Characters” (read: everyone) can experience growth as a result of his actions. He exists outside of the story, he is in the audience beyond the fourth wall, so he cannot affect the characters.
Hence the paradoxical nature of the Fourth Wall. For as long as he is a Reader, the Fourth Wall is maintained. And as long as the Fourth Wall is maintained, he will continue to be a Reader.
(Warning this is where it gets incoherent and messy.)
Kim Dokja fundamentally NEEDS the Fourth Wall to be maintained. Not just because of the OD stuff, but because it’s the way he’s learnt to cope with existing. It’s also why dying is so easy for him—we know he cannot deal with the guilt of making people he cares about suffer, but if he’s just a Reader, that means he can’t really have any meaningful impact on their lives, so it’s fine for him to just… disappear.
Kim Dokja is not actively suicidal, he’s just invested himself so far into the worldview of himself being a Reader that to him, his temporary deaths no longer register as dying. More like… stepping out of the theatre for a bit.
It gets complicated when we hit OD. Because then we realise the KDJ we’ve been accompanying is essentially a self-insert OC. So we can ascribe the way he thinks to OD, including all the coping mechanisms and self-distancing. But where OD manages to escape the narrative along with SP, at the same time the KimCom Crew escape the narrative, KDJ actually kind of… doubles down?
Like, OD does what any Reader does and learns from the book. When KDJ says “I, someone of no redeeming quality, could be loved by the others.” It’s not just him learning this lesson. It’s actually kind of the opposite. OD is Reading this lesson so he learns that he’s allowed to accept the mercy of SP & the 999 crew. So they escape the narrative.
KimCom also manages to escape the narrative but KDJ… can’t. He comes to the conclusion that he was actually backstage all along. But that means he’s still not ON stage. A Character can’t feel for the Script Writer or Director or Stage Manager. So he doubles down on his separation from them, stepping into that role. And then then KimCom comes banging on his door backstage because they’re not just characters, they’re the Actors now, and KDJ disappears because he can’t deal with that, because he fundamentally cannot exist on the same plane as them.
I think that’s why I’m hopeful at a post-epilogue ending. KDJ The Reader exists at essentially a higher tier than the people around him, and so he believes he cannot be loved in a way that has a lasting impact on them. But he DID spend years being affected by WoS, by Yoo Joonghyuk. If he becomes the Character, and them the Readers… maybe, just maybe, he can actually accept that love.
#orv#orv spoilers#this is barely coherent#the first half I know what I’m talking about#(maybe)#when I get into the FW meta it falls apart but if I didn’t write it down I’d never manage to develop it#it’s 5am and I haven’t slept yet I just had a Need to get this out there on my initial realisation#was it reading fanfic at 4am that led me to my ‘oh?’ I reserve the right to remain silent#was it also halfway through a smut scene? you can stop asking questions now#meta stuff produces A Lot Of Thoughts in me#particularly around its paradoxical/self-perpetuating nature#my stuff#omniscient reader's viewpoint#please feel free to debate me (nicely) in notes/responses I love Media Analysis#this is definitely not the only take on his character eg i think he also has zero selfworth#& feels like he needs to be useful maybe bc if he doesn’t have a narrative function why does he exist#something something being a character wow maybe it does all come back to that
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maria
#silent hill#silent hill 2#sh2#maria sh2#mintyfreshart#my art#digital art#making it my mission to draw for media i actually love but never talk about#and yes sh2 is one of them
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The channel MenuSkip found a Silent Hill mod for GTA: Vice City that was considered a myth. They found it after buying a modded xbox off of ebay and they're currently figuring out how to preserve and share it.
More details: reddit post (updated)
Update!
It has been uploaded to Internet Archive
and to mega!
#silent hill#gta#gta vice city#xbox#mods#lost media#i think lost media is really interesting especially when its about video games !#upload
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I don’t look like a ghost, do I?
Hot take, I really like Maria’s outfit in the remake :)
If you like my art, my comms are open!
#silent hill is the perfect game for my former ib/ap ass#bc it’s all about the SYMBOLS#and fuckkkk I love media analysis#art#my art#digital art#fanart#blorbos from my shows#silent hill#silent hill 2#silent hill 2 remake#silent hill fanart#silent hill 2 fanart#maria silent hill#maria silent hill 2#maria sh2#sh2#sh2 remake#sh2 fanart
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lina telling me writers literally get a rb:like ratio of sometimes as bad as 1:6 is destroying my psyche like if you don't rb gifs and you certainly don't rb fics then what the fuck are you doing on this site?
#apple lady words#stealing gifs to repost to twt? silently reading a fic and never telling the writer what a good job they did?#i dont think there's a 'right way' to use a social media but... but being passive is not one of them tbh#gonna bring it back but remember how happy we were to boop each other? like fuck. interaction is what this site is all about#but that's dying w the site ig.
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Silent Hill Symbolism: Mannequins
"The Mannequin is a manifestation of James’ natural urges and inclinations, as frustrated by his wife’s ailment."
-MySilentHill Wordpress blog
Silent Hill 2 is a 23 year old game at the time of the remake being released, introducing a whole new demographic to the game while fundamentally changing the perception and reception of the story overall with its updated graphics. Simply from a technological perspective, much of the game’s design qualities of the monsters in specific were lost in translation. There simply wasn’t the physical capability of rendering the images for the game to faithfully capture the nuanced concepts that were initially in the drafting stages of the designs. Additionally, there was a much different perspective to these games in 2001 than one would expect from our modern day. Internet was far more limited and the types of people online were generally more homogenous. More likely to be white and middle class males between the ages of 14 and 50, the conversations around the symbolism of the game were often very literal and biased to this demographic. And while this quote is taken from a blog post written in 2012, it still adheres to the overarching beliefs of the original analysis simply due to the fact that the world was not nearly as widely accessible even 10 years ago.
All this to say how much I personally despise these grossly superficial takes that will undoubtedly make their rounds again as people insist to strip art from its soul. I seek to temper the inclination to ridicule these theories by acknowledging that, as someone who never had the opportunity to play the original game and the limitations of the era in came out in, both in regards to technology and the communities who would have been in discussion over these ideas, my interpretations will outrightly throw away practically all of this. I will refer back to it as a template to found my differing opinions, but in no way is it a consideration in my interpretation.
(It also helps that the key argument for their symbolism being sexual was debunked by the lead designer.)
Having not completely spoiled myself for this game, I don’t have a template on how Mannequins behaved in the original, but the remake has emphasized different qualities among the basic enemies in the game. While the Lying Figures are viscerally disturbing in how they sound and jerk and crawl around, they are also brutish. They respond to base stimuli like sounds and light, things that could be very overstimulating to a person, especially someone who is already very sick. They are pitiful in their animalistic ways; unreasoning and reactionary. The same cannot be said for the Mannequins.
The first moment they are introduced, the Mannequins are characterized as sneaky. They purposefully skitter away and hide, they seek to blend in with the environment and jump out to catch James off guard. Their attacks are calculated and they can intelligently dodge. They are far removed from the interpretation of “innocent” or “helpless”.
The Mannequins are then a complex metaphor for resentment in relationships and how such resentment makes it appealing to hollow out the other person. They are less real and it’s a justification for treating them less kindly. James is hardly an abusive partner, his love for Mary evident in how quickly he flees from the reality of his actions, as well as his need to find her despite knowing she’s dead. He loved Mary his wife, but that was the Mary from three years ago. There is no black and white delineation between James’ Mary and the Mary he finds in Silent Hill, but she exists as a dynamic scale, which he desperately needs to project the aspects of her that caused him pain into the monsters of Silent Hill. The monsters he faces are not Mary as she was, but the convoluted kaleidoscope of her through his own perceptions. James’ emotions, desires, and personal needs color the way he viewed Mary and how he seeks to preserve “his Mary” as something separate from the reality of what they became.
Additionally, I argue their symbolism is far less to do with the anatomy of their design and more the material of it. They are mannequins, by definition, fake human. They are fake women whose physical forms are used to invoke the idea of femininity, but not its literal manifestation. There is nothing sexual about the mannequins, but rather the embodiment of female rage. Their entire concept is that of objectification without depth, and that is precisely what the original interpretations of the monsters lent itself into. Men analyzing women for what they value in women and not as human is precisely the trap the Mannequin’s employ. The removal of their upper halves removes their humanity, reinforcing their feminine identity above that of “personhood”. Not as a sexuality, but as the so called “fairer sex”, juxtaposed with the conniving and plotting alongside their intelligent and relentless aggression challenges any literal interpretation.
These are monsters reflecting what is monstrous about humans.
The Mannequins are effigies of femininity to embody and endure James’ resentment.
#silent hill 2#silent hill#psychological analysis#media literacy#silent hill mannequin#critical thinking#shower thoughts#metaphors#misogyny#the original interpretations are purely misogynistic#let’s be real#men think anything woman shaped must be about sexuality
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watching cdramas with french subtitles is the best idea i ever had. if the show is in a language i don't speak i'm already going to have to be closely reading the subtitles, so why not also use it as language practice? the subs go by so fast i don't have time to translate them internally into english, i just have to absorb the meaning without doing that (which is how it's supposed to work but i've never been fully able to do that before). AND the best part is that when i'm going about my day i'm finding that some of my internal monologue is just in french now?? i think it's because subs are almost entirely dialogue...i'm getting hours of dialogue practice without actually having to converse. it's also fun with cdramas specifically because i have by now picked up some chinese vocabulary from watching tv and i get to see how that vocabulary is translated into french. idk man i'm just having a great time.
#i used to watch stuff in english with french subtitles but it's just not the same#maybe it would be more interesting now that i'm better at french but idk it didn't really do much for me#because i'd mostly be understanding via the english i was hearing and didn't have to rely on the french for much#but with chinese there are only like. 20 sentences you could say that i wouldn't need a translation for#anything other than that and i have to rely on the subtitles#so i have to comprehend the french or i won't know what's happening at all#the other great thing about this method of improving comprehension is you can rewind!!!#you can pause. you can repeat it if necessary. you can theoretically do that in real conversations but watch out#so like. when i'm just reading a novel i can read at any old pace. and in fact since i always read aloud i can only read at#the speed at which i can speak french. which is faster than it used to be but still not as fast as i can read silently#but reading subs forces you to read pretty fast. which is good practice. and then whenever you miss something you still have#the option to back up#my posts#french#subtitles#f#i always have subtitles on even when it's english subs for oral english#but in that case the subs are an aid and i'm mostly comprehending by listening#auditory processing is easier with hints lol#so it's usually possible for me to say chop vegetables or something while watching english-language media#because i'll just look up when i need help understanding something. but i'm not reading all the subs#not the case for a show in any other language. if i'm going to watch a show in chinese i have to sit down and concentrate#if i'm already concentrating and reading all the subs might as well make some progress
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i think silent hill, bloodborne and evangelion should all hold hands
#rambles#yes this is about the fact that all three of these medias share the theme of birth and womb imagery#silent hill#bloodborne#neon genesis evangelion
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