#christian/toto lore

[mediumtires]

I'm still not over this. How in the world Christian is sharing this and expect us to be okay ? HOW??

I'm also living for Fed to be there as their chaperon 😂 he cannot let these menaces free or chaos will prevail.

It got me thinking now, is Fred going to tease the hell out of Toto at each TP meetings now?

i would like to formally apologise i don’t understand how no one else is losing their mind about this? i am so about to lose my mind?

you’re telling me christian horner and toto wolff shared a flight to melbourne (loooooong flight from the uk) and christian just causally drops that bomb on us like it’s something they do all the time?

i swear the most compelling thing about them is that THEY LIKE EACH OTHER. all the yelling and the one upping and the creating fake scenarios for netflix, the comments, the quotes they feed the press, the mind games, "i don't have to kiss his arse" etc etc etc but at the end of the day they’ve been around the paddock together for over a decade. in 2014/15/16/17/18 they hung around each other ALL THE TIME.

and then 2021 happened and gLoVeS wErE oFf but even after that— may i remind everyone of preseason testing 2022?

this was literally only A FEW WEEKS after that commission meeting where masi got fired relocated. weeks after toto wore a black turtleneck like he’d just buried the w12. and they were acting like giggling schoolgirls twirling their hair and having a laff? are you joking? are you telling me these two whiny conceited big headed team bosses can just forgive and forget?

YES AND ITS BECAUSE THEY LIKE EACH OTHER. toto probably acknowledged what happened in ad wasn’t christian’s fault and christian’s crush on toto is big enough that he could move past merc protesting max's win and getting his bestie michael fired relocated.

and now you’re telling me they’re sharing flights. sure sure. probably because they’re really environmentally conscious. maybe even an accidental booking on a commercial flight. two personal assistants going “whoopsie didn’t check the passenger list sorry”. three if you count in fred but he and toto probably booked that flight together. surely they weren’t plane pooling a private chartered flight. cough cough surely not. these three old rich men (billionaire toto wolff) would totally sit first class on a commercial flight, 17 hours among commoners, before one of the hardest races of the season, one of them with a broken back, one of them blind, and one of them with a tummy ache. these three very rich men would totally suck it up and bite the bullet to make sure their carbon footprints stay as low as possible.

HELL no i don’t believe it for a second. they plane pooled. BECAUSE THEYRE FRIENDS.

christian is the longest serving tp along with franz tost but toto has been around since 2011ish when he first started at williams. they've known each other for A LONG TIME. no other team principals have been around as consistently and continuously as these two. sure some of the current tps have been around the paddock in other roles. and yet with the exception of toto and fred, none of them are "friends".

i am convinced they started hanging out. they must have because they were the two youngest tps around and everyone else was boring (except for maurizio my beloved). they build a rapport. some kind of undefinable bond, not friends, not colleagues, rivals maybe, but there's respect. even if christian won't ever admit to it ever. maybe they don't go to dinner together but I'm convinced they text occasionally, anything between "happy birthday" and "fuck you for buying out my engineer i actually needed that one". also. christian is ceo of a top level performing technology business (lmao) and if there's one thing toto knows it's management and finance. like I cannot imagine they have never had conversations about that. they're both passionate about racing. sure they probably have like hugeeee differences in opinions about certain things but it's because they're both willing to do whatever it takes for their team to win. they must respect that in the other. (their opinions are probably not even that different if we think about it. probably scarily similar actually. this is the problem, they are very much two sides of the same coin. they want their team to win and they’re willing to do pretty much anything to get there. they look at each other and don’t like what they see because they’re literally mirror images.) (THEYRE TOO SIMILAR)

IN CONCLUSION. they like each other. they may not be friends by common definition but THEY ARE SOMETHING. they share flights I rest my case.

(also yes obviously fred makes fun of them all the time it’s how he’s coded)

[princemick]

wait hold the fuck up maurizio/toto lore???

like marcus rashford once said 'no no no, no no no'

[inlap]

referencing your toto/christian post, are you aware of toto's "enemy building" strategy? peak deranged behavior.

now he says he doesn't have a picture of anyone from f1...but i'm inclined to think otherwise

like clearly he got caught with a photo of christian on his desk and had to make something up

this is so wild bc i first read it thinking 'notebook' meant 'journal' as in 'toto wolff puts pictures of christian horner in his diary' 😕

even having photos of your enemies up on your computer is wild too though. i'm ALSO inclined to think otherwise. like let's be real here horner is def his main competitor, toto def semi-admitted to staring at photos of horner in his free time

[nothingelsematterswrites]

Will you please bless us with the titles and pairings and general vibes of the now expanded regency verse please i am begging you 🙏🙏

Or is it a surprise 👀👀

I knew that would get some questions!

Full caveat: I have no timeline for writing/posting these, which are largely concepts, and the order may yet change depending on whose story I'm vibing with the most (except two of them are going to be in exactly that order).

Part 1: this is your life, don't play hard to get (Oscar & Logan's story)

Part 2: rest your weary head and let your heart decide (George & Lewis' story)

Part 3: open up your mind and let me step inside (Mick & Jack's story) - arranged marriage setting, family trauma, infertility

Part 4: when you're feeling down and your resistance is low (Christian & Toto's story) - arranged marriage setting, enemies to enemies to enemies to reluctant friends to lovers, inheritance requirements

Part 5: my game of love has just begun (Daniel & Max's story) - forbidden love, hidden identity, prince/pauper, age gap

Part 6: all you have to do is fall in love (Lando & Carlos' story) - love at first sight, overcoming obstacles

Part 7: it's so easy when you know the rules (Mark & David's story) - forbidden love, same-sex relationship, hidden relationship

Notes:

3 & 4 are the only stories that will open with the wedding, as the focus will largely be on what happens after

4 will include a large time skip (for reasons that will be obvious later)

obviously, 4 & 5 will be the only two that are in exact order because 5 will contain spoilers for 4

3 is going to be the big angst story of the series

7 is going to link back to 1 (obviously)

6's whole existence is...nebulous and its writing is likely to be most affected by RL

There may be an 8th story, which would be more of a collection of lore and short insights into other pairings (like Piarles)

[shovson]

vampire au stuff about bites, vampirism, and also turning in the little f1 coven sorry i want to ramble and i don't feel like drawing what im trying to convey so u get this....

(incoherent, includes ferlando (im sorry.....))

i did an old halloween drawing about my vampire au because there are some different ways of how vampires can become vampires in my lore

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vampires were originally aliens from another planet, very similar to earth. not much is known about that planet due to the first vampires not really saying much about it, wanting to simply settle into their new homes. idk how to transition from older vampires to newer ones yet...... many of the first vampires have disappeared due to hunting but few remain alive, but they stay hidden. because of this, to newer vampires, they have a legendary status with some myths and stories tied into their origin and power.

the modern vampire is far from the original aliens, most of them were bitten and turned.

humans can be turned via a bite. bites on the neck and bites on the wrist are the most common and other bites are seen as odd.

bites via the neck indicate an extemely close bond among two people. romantic or queerplatonic. the mark is out there, uncovered, a representation of the devotion a pair may (or previously may) have). bites like these can be a source of happiness and loyalty for the person or often a bitter scar and reminder of the past relationships that have gone. the people on the grid with this bite are: lance (bitten by prev lover), george (bitten by current lover), esteban (by current lover), there's gotta be more but it's not coming to me right now

bites on the wrist are either by friends or strangers. sometimes they represent someone who was turned by force. they're more hidden (some drivers choose to hide it via a watch or jewellery) and usually don't mean much to people, though not always.

covens (usually larger ones) may have a person designated to turn new members once they join. these people are called guides.

the f1 coven (name tba....) demands all drivers who come into the sport be turned within a year. they're willing to make exceptions for extensions but the harassment of christian horner and toto gets so fucking annoying most drivers will turn to be left alone. the current guide is lando norris, given to him by fernando who was the guide until his retirement. fernando also turned lando and they share a complicated but fun bond.

some vampires are born, usually by two vampire parents and very rarely by vampire/human relations. vampire/human vampires are extremely rare as their children (dhampirs) are closer to human than vampire. for a vampire to be born of that bond is practically a miracle.

born vampires age like humans and can choose when they stop aging (i guess slow down...havent decided). when vampires feel that moment, they must go to a religious figure (most vampires choose the devil but not all) to ask and confirm their decision. a lot of vampires choose to be young (and a lot regret that) but not always (like toto). some born vampires may have powers that their turned counterparts may not have. not always though.

the end

[mediumtires]

oh man i've had more thoughts about this and they warrant written text i fear. but like. first of all. eye contact. the way they're looking at each other is fucking intimate. the way toto keeps looking at christian when he talks? the way they're smiling at each other behind their masks as they're talking? look at this point i'm just gonna assume the worst of the pandemic was kind of over (i have no idea when this interview was and i'm too lazy to look it up. assuming this was start of 21 or something. you know what i mean when i say the worst of it was over yes i'm not here for semantics lads i'm here for the gay lore). so assuming this was feb 21 or whatever. at this point these two had an entire year at home together, literally with nowhere else to go and because they werent out at that point no one really knew about them aside from close family and friends. which in a situation like a pandemic isolates you even more no because no one knows about your partner and you automatically protect your little secret and you're used to isolating and hiding away. so it was really just the two of them in their own little bubble cut off from the rest of the world when they were home and i KNOW i keep repeating myself but man. just them and their weird accumulation of animals, no racing, no drivers, no colleagues, no travelling. sure they'd be working from home but let's forget about that for a sec, like they can be in their separate offices or whatever idc because at the end of the day when they hop off their zoom calls it will still be just them at home, no commutes to or from work; they could literally have breakfast with each other until 8:59 before they both have their first meeting of the day at 9 or whatever do you SEE THE VISION. and in the evenings they'd be done around 5 (prolly not realistic lmao but just walk with me ok) and then it's just them for the rest of the day! and also entire weekends with no work whatsoever! little lunches in between calls! bringing each other coffee and a snack and a dog to deal with throughout the day (iykyk)! they've never spent so much time together guys do you get it!!!!! it's kind of like they're working together 🥲

got distracted there for a sec. what i actually wanted to say is i know the last time i had a meltdown over this i emphasised how annoyed i think they would get with each other. and that still rings true cause they're together 24/7 now no? like they would fully be at each other's throats teehee. however. i think the intimacy and their bond grew sooooo much more, like it outweighed the annoyance by miles. maybe they had time to fall in love with each other all over again! going on walks! trying out new recipes baking cakes getting daydrunk! going on bike rides! playing cards facetiming each other's families renovating the barns setting up a home gym in the basement! [redacted]! lots of redacted probably. like they would've had so much time to just BE and that's what gets me every timeeeeee because they gave up so much for the sport and their teams and their jobs and they did it willingly and they never really complained about their circumstances but maybe they were getting a little tired and worn down by all of it and suddenly this happens and they get this chance to just reconnect in the most gentle way! like excuse me for losing my head over this.

also. you know how toto said the last time his mental health deteriorated was during the pandemic when he was suddenly forced to slow down. i think them dealing with this together would've made their bond a lot stronger too. and i think christian was probably the only person in the world who could've related to it because they're doing the same job, they have the same pressures and responsibilities and similar schedules and suddenly all of that fell away. and maybe this was the first time christian got to see it happening up close and intimately and maybe it made him understand toto a little bit more, another puzzle piece he learns about him, and maybe he would realise some things about himself too. and maybe they would navigate all of that together, just keeping busy and enjoying their time with each other and not letting the house collapse on them. and i think a huge misconception about depression is that you won't get depressed if you're loved and if you have support and a loving family. like the circumstances of their relationship would not have stopped this from happening. but all of it makes it better and bearable and in turn maybe it makes toto fall the fuck in love with his husband all over again because he knows himself and he knows his mind and he knows it will always get better again and he doesn't ever have any expectations for anyone but himself to fix him. and suddenly christian Sees him, like that, and he doesn't run away but comes closer and they don't fall apart but instead christian balances them in a way toto has never experienced before. just. willing to fill in for toto until he feels a little better about the world and his place in it. willing to give more of himself until toto feels like himself again. and like. yeah. jesus man.

(bonus: christian saying "giving him a harder time this year" while looking straight at toto with a smirk, toto literally having to break eye contact BLUSHING....... yeah man alright.)

nuggets? I don't know, but different moments in which Toto pined for Christian in an interview

They flirted with their eyes

@silvereds

[jeannereames]

I just finished ‘Becoming’ and I absolutely loved it! I just wondered if you believe that AtG and Hephaistion continued their romantic relationship throughout their lives or if you think they let that side of their friendship go as they got older as was more common at the time? Anyway! I absolutely loved ‘Becoming’ and I can’t wait to read ‘Rise’!

I’m guessing you’re asking about the historical people, as opposed to the fictional characters? I do hope/plan to continue the Dancing with the Lion series, and in it, yes, they will remain romantically involved. Whether or not future novels are bought, however, rests on how well Becoming and Rise do. (So if you want more, get the word out and post reviews. *grin*)

Yet, with regard to the historical men, I think it’s very hard to know whether they remained sexual partners as adults. And the reason it’s hard to know involves the difficulty of our surviving sources.

As soon as historians start talking SOURCES, a lot of folks tune out. It’s BORING. *grin* But in order to give an honest answer, I kinda have to Go There.

First, let me give the TL;DR version. If they were still sexually involved as adults, I suspect it was quite occasional. And the fact it was quite occasional (if at all), may be why we don’t hear anything about it in the sources (discussion to follow). After all, they were both extremely busy men with duties and responsibilities that sometimes kept them apart for months. If they were still sexually/romantically involved, they had what we’d today call a long-distance relationship at points…and without the benefit of cell phones.

It may have been a gradual “weaning” from each other, rather than anything sharp. So they may have been lovers as teens, then over time, each took younger beloveds, and finally, wives—all while remaining emotionally very, very close. (Although I suspect that, like any friendship OR love affair, they had ups-and-downs, fights and reconciliations.)

Now, here’s why the TL;DR summary above gets a big fat label: “SPECULATION.”

The sources are the only way we know anything about the past, and if they can’t be trusted, or at least not trusted in toto, we have a Really Big Problem. So let me lay it out.

Before I do, however, I want to remind readers that I DO think Alexander and Hephaistion were lovers, at least in their youth. But no, it’s not “obvious.” Theirs wasn’t a world especially reticent about same-sex affairs (*cough* see below), even if post-Christian, modern historians had trouble with it until the last 40 years or so. So if the (surviving) ancient authors don’t talk about them as lovers, even while discussing other same-sex pairs in the same damn text, we have to ask…why? One very real possibility is that they didn’t talk about them as lovers because they weren’t. Full stop. There could have been other reasons (I think there were), but let’s not flinch from being honest, here.

(This could have been a lot more graphic, but then I’d have to post a warning on my blog.)

So…back to our Persnickety Sources.

First, nothing has survived that Alexander wrote himself. We have a couple public inscriptions, but not one piece of writing, even a letter, from Alexander. (Any surviving letters are quoted in later sources, and probably aren’t real.*)

Second, nothing has survived written by anyone who actually knew Alexander, or even lived when he did, except forensic speeches from Athenian demagogues who mostly hated him (and weren’t writing histories anyway). One may as well trust Demosthenes on Philip.

The sources we do still have used histories written by those who knew Alexander, such as Ptolemy, Aristobulos, Nearchos, Marsyas, and even the court historian, Kallisthenes. They also used other texts of dubious worth, such as Onesikritos, who was made fun of even in his own day for writing “historical fiction.” And sometimes our later authors were using texts who, themselves, were using earlier texts. So we’ve got three (or more) layers, not just two!

Third, we have not just layers of sources, but layers in the CULTURE behind those sources.

The first layer is, of course, Macedonian. How did the Macedonians themselves view Alexander? We don’t know—not truly. Nothing survives from a Macedonian source, such as Marsyas or Ptolemy. (Some of you “in the know” might be thinking, But Polyaenus! No. Polyaenus lived 500 years after ATG; that was a very different Macedonia. [Yes, I used the Latin spelling, as he was Roman. ;p])

The second layer is Greek, but we have to qualify this. Layer 2.0 is Greece of the 4th century, especially Athenian reactionism, writing about the emerging Macedonian kingdom. There could be huge cultural differences even among Greek city-states. Case in point: Athens vs. Sparta. Greeks didn’t always understand Macedonians (sometimes, I swear, on purpose).

BUT we also have the increasingly homogenized Hellenistic world of the Successors, which was sorta like when you throw in a bunch of different colored shirts and wash them in hot water. You get a color-bleeding mess. Your red shirt (Attic-Ionic) might have a big blue streak (Doric) on it now. That’s sort of what happened to Greek culture as the Hellenistic era progressed. Lots of bleed. This had begun prior to Alexander, but he accelerated it like kerosene on a trash fire. We can call that Greek Layer 2.1, or something.

Then we have the Romans, and their culture, which, if similar to Greek, definitively wasn’t Greek in key ways. All our surviving sources were written as the Republic was collapsing and the Empire emerging, and by that point, Greece was a Roman province.

Again, we’ve got two groups here: Greeks living under Roman rule, such as Plutarch, Diodorus, and Arrian—who wrote in Greek—and then Roman authors such as Curtius, and later Justin, who wrote in Latin. But the Greeks under Rome shouldn’t be conflated with Athenians in ATG’s own day, or even under the Successors. The culture evolved and took on Roman shadings.

So that’s not just layers of sources, but layers of cultures trying to understand what people who lived a hundred or two hundred or three hundred years before them thought/believed.

Ergo, are we hearing what Alexander (or anybody else around him) really thought or intended? Or just what writers of the Second Sophistic (such as Plutarch) wanted him to model? Or how even later authors, such as Arrian, wanted to use him to flatter his patron, Hadrian?

What’s Roman, what’s Greek, and what’s Macedonian? Can we tease that out? I’d say it’s damn tricky, and often, flat impossible—although unlike some of my colleagues, I don’t believe it’s all Roman overlay. That goes too far in the other direction, IMO.

Last, we have several authors who weren’t writing about Alexander specifically, but have bits of Alexander lore embedded in their texts: Athenaeus’s “Supper Party,” or Polyaenus’s “Strategems,” or even Plutarch’s “Moralia,” just to name three.

Among these, especially later, we have authors writing material they (or later readers) tried to pass off as written by earlier authors. We often refer to these authors with the preface ��Pseudo-” as in “Pseudo-Kallisthenes.” It was NOT written by Kallisthenes, but was later attributed to him.

So, now you have some idea of why Alexander historians want to pull our hair out!

But I detail that to explain why it’s so hard for me to give you any clear answer about whether Alexander and Hephaistion remained lovers as adults. Or even if they were lovers at all.

In none of our five primary histories of Alexander, nor in Plutarch’s other stuff, nor Athenaeus, etc. is Hephaistion ever called Alexander’s lover. This includes sources that do mention with apparent unconcern other pairs of male lovers. So this isn’t “the love that dared not speak it’s name.” The Greeks were pretty okay with talking about their boyfriends.

There could be OTHER reasons for deep-sixing mention of Hephaistion and Alexander as lovers, mostly having to do with status (some of which I touched on in the novels), yet the lack of clear affirmation is a problem. The only mentions we do have come from late sources, one of which belongs to that category of “pseudo-” authors I mentioned: Pseudo-Diogenes (in Aelian), as well as Arrian recording the Stoic Epiktatos. The philosophers are trying to make a point about the dangers of giving in to physical desire, so it’s hard to know how much credit to give these references.

Thus, we’re left with little besides the indirect (e.g., the Achilles-Patroklos allusions, etc.). Those have their own problems, which I’ll not go into now, as I’ve already written a small essay.

One potential reason for a lack of mention in our surviving sources is that any sexual love affair had been a product of their youth. What remained was a fiercely deep and passionate devotion. Before you pooh-pooh that—Of course they were still having sex!—consider modern marriages that have lasted for decades but no longer include sexual activity, at least between the married partners. Don’t be sucked in by Romance novel tropes.

When I was doing bereavement counseling (et al.), I ran into all sorts of arrangements that married couples made across time. Some marriages break up when the partners stop being sexually attracted to each other, and “cheat.” But others don’t, because it’s not “cheating” if it’s mutually agreed to. Or in some cases, the partners simply lost interest in sex as they aged…but didn’t fall out of love with each other. So they might have sex once a year? Maybe? That was enough. Or they had sex on the side, with permission. People don’t fit into boxes well, IME. Honesty was the hallmark of marriages that lasted even when they weren’t still having sex. I’ve known of marriages where the couples had stopped having sex years ago, but when one of them died, the other was completely devastated because of the enormous EMOTIONAL investment. I think that’s what hit Alexander when Hephaistion died. Maybe they were still having sex, at least once in a blue moon. Maybe they weren’t. That didn’t matter.

LOVE is deeper than sex, by a long shot. Which is why the Greeks counted PHILIA (true friendship) as the superior love to eros (desire).

So whether Alexander and Hephaistion were still sexually involved—or had ever had sex—doesn’t reflect the depth of their love for each other. We might not be told by the sources that they were lovers, physically, either as youths or continuing into adulthood. But the sources are abundantly clear that they loved each other best of all. When Hephaistion died, Alexander followed him about 10 months later.

(Final note: what I intend to do in the series, going forward, is a bit different from what I described here, but that’s why I specified this involves the historical men, not necessarily my fictional characters.)

*My reference to quoted material, such as letters—or speeches—not being real: it was a common practice in the ancient world for the author of histories, especially starting with Thucydides, to just MAKE SHIT UP. It was all about showing off one’s own rhetorical skills. I think, in a lot of cases, we are probably getting at least the gist of what was said. But NEVER, EVER, EVER trust the “transcription” of an ancient speech…unless it was actually recorded later by the author. So, say, Demosthenes’ Philippics are probably a cleaned up version of the speeches he delivered. But Alexander’s “Speech at Opis” is NOT what Alexander actually said.

[mediumtires]

[detroit-grand-prix]

People can feel about the Wolffs however they want, and I don't mean to go to bat for a literal billionaire but anon's claim that Toto cheated on his wife with Susie is literal fake news, and I've got receipts.

I don't know exactly when Toto and Stephanie got divorced, but it was likely around 2005 or 2006. They had been together ten years and had two children, and all I have read is that the divorce happened when both of his kids were pretty young.

In 2006, he was linked in the Austrian press with a woman named Patricia Kaiser, an Austrian model/track and field athlete.

Then, in 2009, he dated a woman named Christine Reiler, another Austrian model/pageant queen.

He met Susie in 2009, after his accident at the Nurburgring. He was her boss, in a way, but by the sound of it, they didn't directly work together on the daily (certainly not in a situation similar to Christian Horner victimizing his employee, as you seem to be insinuating) he was just the part owner of her DTM team:

At the time of the record attempt, Wolff owned 49 percent of HWA, which ran Mercedes' DTM programme, and news of his condition soon reached the team while it was testing in Spain. On hearing the news, the DTM drivers felt they should get in touch with their boss to wish him well and it fell to Wolff's future wife, Susie Stoddart, to pick up the phone and check he was OK. "Paul di Resta, Gary Paffett and the whole gang were there, and when they heard I'd had a pretty bad accident on the Nordschleife they decided Susie should call me," Wolff says. "So Susie called me and said, 'are you all right? Have you had an accident?' And that was the start of our romance." Just over two years later, Susie and Toto were married, seemingly ruling out any chance of a competitive return to the Nordschleife.

He even addressed his dating history in this 2017 interview for F1.

Q: Before you married Susie you were portrayed as a ‘model man’ in the Austrian media. What made you abandon this previous pattern? TW: I was married for ten years, then we separated and guess what? I was on the market again. And I told myself, ‘Better pretty than not pretty!’ The very simple equation of a single man. Q: Now you are the father of three children. How do you manage that? TW: I am in the very lucky situation that we are a true ‘patchwork family’. Susie is the centre of pulling that all together – and my former wife Stephanie. Both put the wellbeing of the kids above their own. I’ve been together with Susie now for eight years and my kids have always been a very important part of that relationship. And Stephanie, the mum of my kids, handled it in the same way. Now we spend Christmas and holidays together. And as tough as a divorce is, we all grew.

I'm not sure where the lore came from that Toto cheated on his wife with Susie but it's literally not true - perhaps you were thinking of Christian Horner, anon.

The double standards in stans reactions to the wolffs doing something versus anybody else in this fandom is something else. The stans use everything and anything to discredit their behateds moral character but when it's their beloved wollfs they pretend not to see it. Toto cheated on his wife the mother of his older kids with Susie his employee at the time can this fandom as whole not hold them as the unproblematic power couple. Toto is known to have had as ignorant takes as Marko but because of the gokarts in the rain comment on dts Toto is the Saint that would've saved max in their eyes as if toto isn't buddies with jos irl for years

I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS TOTO LORE?!

Am I shocked? Um no because he’s a good looking billionaire can be real for a sec here 😂 but we clearly don’t talk about this bit of lore enough because…tell me more.

Yeah, like if you look at the people Toto is known to be friendly with…it tells a story. And no shade to him, you don’t have to agree with someone’s every action to be friends with them, and you don’t have to apologise for being friends with someone anyway. But. It’s a little hilarious that you want to get high and mighty about “issues” when you have been friends with vilified personality Jos Verstappen, and (even jokingly) offer to have Helmut Marko on board in the team when you have been preaching about diversity for the last decade. My guy, be so real with me right now. It’s okay to be who you are, you just have to be honest about it.

Side note, people do overcook the rivalries between these people. At the end of the day, these guys are all friends/friendly. They live in a Petri dish and they share passions/interests, why would they not be friends? Also, let’s not forget that crowd favourite Nikki Lauda was besties with Helmut, too. The whole “guilty by association” thing is such a stupid game to play in F1 because they are ALL associated at management level.

Lol Toto is the Francis of Assisi of F1, patron Saint of the downtrodden and dispossessed. His rehab centre for washed up drivers will never not be funny to me. I low-key find his adoption of driver creepy but that’s a topic for a different ask lol.

We all know I get the ick from Toto and Susie, they’re just not a bit of me. There’s a bit of self righteousness there that is just so…not for me.

I am not in the least surprised that her statement has been well received. She is indeed well liked. That being said, I do think that on top of the RB stuff and the Sulayem investigation, any statement of this nature would be well received right now. People are baying for “transparency”, whatever that means. So I don’t think she’s receiving unusual/heightened support for this particularly.

But in general, I agree that those two could get away with murder.

[zeroadult479]

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May 14, What the blazing hell is that? We dedicate this article for the new buyers, the old buyers, for those who love them, for those who cannot stand them, for low tiers and high tiers, in short, for everyone. Because this tank brings out emotions from all of us. Have you ever got the feeling, that something just does not belong? A sale stunt for the biggest market on Earth became an every hour reality on all servers. Forerunner of the pay to win? The Type then stood out among other toned down premium tanks compared to fully teched same tiers.

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Comments Shares There are not many games that can attract 21, visitors to an exhibition centre in Moscow in December. Temperatures drop as low as minus 22 degrees centigrade, fresh snow becomes ice on roads and pavements and strong winds add further to the dominant air of hostility. With million registered users, however, World of Tanks has enough followers to overcome the elements.

In World of Tanks, your crew plays an important role in improving the combat effectiveness of your vehicle. In this guide, you’ll learn all about crew rank, skills, experience, training, and .

First daily victory with the vehicle Coefficient of 2 No Exiting battle during loading screen or countdown No “Joining a battle” bonus. Since your tank is actually present in the battle until it gets destroyed, it can passively earn XP e. No “Joining a battle” bonus. Since your tank is actually present in the battle until it gets destroyed, it can passively earn credits e. Exiting battle after countdown There is a penalty for XP earning, but only if the tank has not yet been destroyed.

Also, if the tank was not destroyed before exiting, further XP can be earned passively while it remains on the battlefield, e. Credits as earned, there is no penalty. If the tank was not destroyed before exiting, further credits can be earned passively while it remains on the battlefield, e. Team Damage inflicted Small penalty, supposedly twice the amount of XP you would receive for causing the same amount of damage to the enemy. Penalty to an amount of four times the repair costs required to fix the damage that was inflicted, limited by the total amount earned during battle.

Team Damage received None. Half the repair costs required to fix the damage or a quarter of the penalty paid by the player s who caused the team damage, whichever is lower. You will NOT get experience for: Damaging an ally’s tank, even if said ally is “blue” i.

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For a WoW veteran, World of Warcraft: It felt strange, walking into rooms filled with memories, where everything felt smaller, older. It was also the house where, on Christmas Eve , I came home with a copy of World of Warcraft , an exciting new game based on the lore of a strategy game I already loved. In Blizzard announced World of Warcraft: Classic , a way to play WoW near-as-dammit as it was when it first came out. Blizzard have made no secret of how they feel about unauthorised versions of the game, but the time has finally arrived for an official one.

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Starting from Update 2. Read below for all the details. Legendary Camouflage In Update 2. A legendary camouflage is a special colour scheme applied to only one vehicle model. Just like universal camouflage, a legendary camouflage can be installed in any slot for winter, summer and desert maps. Tanks were available for purchase before the introduction of this camouflage type will be able to resupply their legendary camouflages for free after each battle. The distinctive feature of legendary camouflage, in addition to its stunning design, is the possibility to temporarily remove it and repaint the tank according to its standard historical pattern.

In such case the name of the tank will also change to the standard one: Type 62 In the future, legendary camouflage will have the standard resupply price in credits, which depends on the vehicle Tier, for all vehicles with the exception of the already given out.

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Battle ratings are calculated by examining how well an aircraft or ground unit fares in different game modes, and they may differ for each game mode for the same vehicle for example, an aircraft or ground unit may perform considerably better in arcade mode than realistic battles mode, and so will have a higher battle rating in the former. This allows for a balanced game at all ranks and using all vehicles, meaning that certain nations having technological advantages at different periods in the game’s timeline is not an issue when playing, and planes that are too powerful do not ruin gameplay for those flying less effective aircraft.

Aviation In Arcade mode Comparison sheet of fighter aircraft’s BR in Arcade For Arcade Air Battles, a formula is in place that calculates your overall Battle Rating, aka the Battle Rating that the Matchmaker will use to match opponents against you, based on the three highest aircraft in your lineup in regards to their individual BR. That said, the important thing for you to know are three short facts:

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Leave a comment Wizard My current spell in Wizard has come to an end. I was part-way through the second Grizzleheim sequence when my time came to an end. All in all it was good fun to play in the Spiral for a bit, and I may very well return on and off. World of Warplanes Very sporadic playing, on the whole. I did manage to achieve my second Ace, which made me smile.

I have also gotten a few games in on my second Tier II aircraft, the Demon.

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First daily victory with the vehicle Coefficient of 2 No Exiting battle during loading screen or countdown No “Joining a battle” bonus. Since your tank is actually present in the battle until it gets destroyed, it can passively earn XP e. No “Joining a battle” bonus. Since your tank is actually present in the battle until it gets destroyed, it can passively earn credits e. Exiting battle after countdown There is a penalty for XP earning, but only if the tank has not yet been destroyed.

Also, if the tank was not destroyed before exiting, further XP can be earned passively while it remains on the battlefield, e. Credits as earned, there is no penalty.

World of Tanks overhauls its matchmaking system

You pay your money, you take your choices (Last Updated January 18 ) There are quite a few premium vehicles in World of Tanks, sprinkled across the various nations, classes, and tiers. As stated above; premium vehicles come in a variety of forms, and there are a few limitations on what they can be. Generally speaking and there are exceptions , premium tanks will be slightly inferior to fully upgraded tanks of the same class and tier. They span tiers 2 to 8 and have a few special quirks; as one example, a premium vehicle can use crew trained on vehicles of the same class at no penalty.

Premium Tank Guide: You pay your money, you take your choices (Last Updated January 18 ) There are quite a few premium vehicles in World of Tanks, sprinkled across the .

In the game, you are fighting with giant, walking robots in 6v6 pvp matches controlling territory by capturing beacons, and, of course, by destroying other robots. Last year was a very good year for War Robots. The number of installations was tripled, and reached 50 million. DAU is about , players. Why does War Robots attract players so much? Judging on its dynamics, War Robots is the only adequate game in the genre niche of slow shooters, which is dominated by World of Tanks WoT.

In a slow shooters game, exchanging of fire lasts longer than in the mainstream shooter games. It looks more realistic when long fights occur between combat vehicles with armor and survivability.

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That’s 6M paying customer, in the same league as WoW, despite much smaller developer budget. The only gameplay is going to the field and battle enemy tanks, head on. PvP games are killed by the “PvP spiral”:

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In Air Realistic mode, matchmaking is performed based on the aircraft selected for the battle. Since the vehicles not selected cannot be used in the battle, there is no need to include them in the calculation. In Ground Forces Arcade mode, matchmaking is performed based on the tank with the highest BR in the set. In Ground Forces Realistic mode, matchmaking is performed based on the tank or aircraft with the highest BR in the entire set depending on which vehicle has the highest BR. Many players have a preference for several modes.

For their convenience, there is a ” vehicle preset ” mechanism, which allows players to save preferred and frequently used vehicle arrangements in their hangar. This allows players to prepare for any type of battle in just a few clicks. Matchmaking by Bracket Air Simulator battles use this matchmaking method. When the player opens the Air SB interface, they will see several identical missions where the only difference is the BR of the permitted aircraft.

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All you have to do is select the desired battle rank and assemble the required aircraft in your set.

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My Thoughts About 1984 Dune

This film is admittedly a pet movie of mine - one I handle with kid gloves because the things it gets right are so great (in my mind) that I'm willing to overlook most of its flaws.  But most people seem to think the movie is awful (and I'm not in a strong position to disagree).  So let's take a second to look at it without the rose-colored lenses.

Right now on Rotten Tomatoes, the 1984 movie by director David Lynch has a 56% rating with a 66% audience score (that's honestly better that I would have thought given how it's talked about).  The movie took in between 27-30 million dollars, but cost 40-45 million to make.  So in this regard, the movie was absolutely a failure.  But why?

What went wrong here?  Well I think a lot of the problems the movie has is in regards to the cast and scripting (which is natural given the large literary text being crammed into a 2 hour and 17 minute movie).  While there are certain casting choices I love - like Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck,  Dean Stockwell as Doctor Yueh and Linda Hunt as Mapes, those are not the main cast and are not given much screen-time (and they're also not really used to their abilities).  Instead we got Kyle MacLachlan as a lifeless Paul (the main character mind you), Everett McGill as a forgettable Stilgar, and Francesca Annis as a Lady Jessica that sometimes blends in with all the other Bene Gesserit sisters (seriously.. before she lets her hair loose and actually acts her role in the desert, her dry demeanor and appearance makes me confuse her for the Reverend Mother).

This is akin to taking Kevin Costner out of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and throwing in some other random person that no-one's ever heard of.  The fact that sort-of-mediocre film succeeds (it took in $165 million and cost the same as Dune) at all is due to the star-power - the main star's charisma (I mean Christian Slater as Will Scarlet certainly wasn't helping).  Dune could certainly have used a stronger/better-known lead as the hail-Mary move that made it click with ticket-buying audience.

Of course, story-wise, Dune is a very interesting tale - full of political intrigue, assassins, mysticism/spiritualism, action, etc.  So how did it become a lifeless, cold-toned movie like this?  I think part of that is the director's style and part of it is just the way it was shot (again.. probably the direction).  Despite being in a desert, a lot of the plot happens at night (which makes sense plot-wise).  But because of the number of scenes like this and the drabness of the interior shots, the film comes off as cold (like you’re in outer space the entire movie).  This effect is only bolstered by the cast (outside of maybe Sting and Kenneth McMillan as the Baron) not adding much energy to the story.

So we - the audience - are expected to digest this huge amount of lore while being left in the (literal) dark with an unenthusiastic cast and a desolate setting.  That my friends is exactly why this fails as a movie.  The fact that the movie has a lasting impression at all is mostly the source material itself and the few brilliant moments it has (like the Toto theme on the sands and the battle scenes).  I know I've been rough on the visuals, but there is a weird trippy ambiance to it all that I do honestly love.  That is the saving grace of the film for me.

So Dune failed to capture its audience and failed to make back its budget.  Is Dune the movie culturally significant, though?  I absolutely believe so.  Between the Toto rock riff, all the one-liners, and the iconic appearance by Sting, it made its mark in Sci-Fi (even inspiring other filmmakers like George Lucas).  It's the raw ambition of the project that makes it stand out - even if flawed in execution.  I'd even argue most of the public exposure for Frank Herbert's excellent series came from the film instead of the books themselves (at least for the 20-40 demographic these days).  That said, given how excellent and rich the book's source material was, I can also see how many believe the film squandered the chance it had.

And the 1984 movie was really a trailblazer for later sci-fi epics (Lord of the Rings as another huge book series making it to film, for example) - with directors taking careful notes of what worked and what didn't work in the box-office context. We also eventually got the excellent retry of Dune with the 2000 TV mini-series.  This time the cast was right on the money (despite the entire film being shot in Eastern Europe and the cast sort of showing that).  This - by the way - is the first exposure you should have had with the Dune franchise.  It's not a flawless execution but it certainly gets a lot more right than wrong.  Go watch that version.  The come back to this one to compare.

But even with the TV series being much much better, I can't help but go back to my beloved 1984 flop from time to time.  I love the out-of-place beginning narration.  I adore the film score.  I love the weird artistic take on the spacing guild pilots, the Baron, etc.  It's a 80's sci-fi classic to me in the way that Predator or The Terminator is.  It's clearly defined by the style of its time, but tries to hard to break the mold (pushing new ground in effects and in style).  One could also say the same thing of Star Trek: The Motion Picture - as it fails for many of the same reasons.  I’d still recommend that every sci-fi fan see these films - as they’re at least interesting to see.

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100 Best Free Audio Books and 10 Sites for More

Audio books may not offer the timeless look, feel and smell (oh, the sweet smell of freshly printed leaflets!) of regular books, but they certainly present their own unique set of advantages – They’re lightweight (actually, they’re weightless!), they’re portable, they eliminate dangerous paper cuts, they’re compact, and, best of all, you can typically find a good selection of audio books that are a lot cheaper than their printed counterparts – oftentimes free!

Take a look at this list of the 100 best free audio books – we bet you’ll find some worthy of your attention:

100 Best Must-Hear Audio books That Won’t Cost You a Penny

Something New – P. G. Wodehouse A comical adventure following a competition to retrieve a stolen artifact and claim the reward.

Short Science Fiction Collection – A variety of stories of the sci-fi genre

The 9/11 Commission Report – 9/11 ComVarious Authorsmission The final report of findings from the devastating events of September 11, 2001

Ghost Story Collection – Various authors A compilation of 10 scary stories

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A full reading of the classic novel that began the Sherlock Holmes craze we still enjoy today.

Erewhon – Samuel Butler A satire of Victorian society

Beyond Good and Evil –Friedrich Nietzsche A thought piece on politics and philosophy by a renowned existentialist

Candide – Voltaire A reminder that life doesn’t always provide a happy ending

Beowulf – Unknown The classic English tale of the heroic Beowulf, written more than a millennium ago

The Adventures of Pinnochio – Carlo Collodi The story surrounding America’s most recognized wooden boy

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases – Grenville Kleiser A practical guide to the English language

This Side of Paradise – F Scott Fitzgerald From the author of The Great Gatsby, this stunning work mirrors the experiences of Fitzgerald himself

On the Origin of Species – Charles Darwin One of the most widely criticized books of its time, it follows Darwin’s theory of evolution

The Mystery of the Yellow Room – Gaston Leroux From the author of Phantom of the Opera, this mystery focuses on a crime committed in a locked room

Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English – Henry Stanton A guide to sexual behavior and relationships from a 19th century perspective

The Gods of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs A sci-fi novel of the protagonist’s return to Mars after a 10-year leave

The Colors of Space – Marion Zimmer Bradley An alien-disguised human tried to uncover the mysteries of space travel

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame The classic tale of talking animals and their adventures

The Adventures of Reddy Fox – Thornton W Burgess A series of stories about a grandmother fox teaching her grandson about the world

Short Story Collection – Various Authors A variety of 10 fictional stories

The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux The original tale of the famed Opera Ghost that haunts a Paris theatre

Short Mystery Story Collection – Various authors Ten short mystery tales, including ones from Kate Chopin, P. G. Wodehouse, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A collection of short, scary, mysterious stories by the creator of Sherlock Holmes

The Railway Children – Edith Nesbit This beloved children’s book follows three children on a London railway adventure

Twelve Creepy Tales – Edgar Allan Poe A collection of spooky stories from a true horror master

Night and Day – Virginia Woolf A look at spiritual and moral issues

Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling The creator of The Jungle Book brings this collection of stories that describe how common things might have originated

The Adventures of Sally – P. G. Wodehouse A light romantic comedy following the topsy-turvy escapades of Sally

Spoon River Anthologies – Edgar Lee Masters The fictional epitaphs of 212 residents of Spoon River, as told by their deceased personas

The Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith This comic depiction follow the trials and triumphs of a bumbling middle-aged man

American Indian Fairy Tales – H. R. Schoolcraft A series of Native American legends and lore

The Story of Mankind – Henrik van Loon A simple look at history for a younger audience

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter – Beatrix Potter A beloved collection of the best works of Beatrix Potter

Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving The classic haunted tale of the Headless Horseman

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – F Scott Fitzgerald The original tale of the recent Hollywood blockbuster

The Scarecrow of Oz – L Frank Baum A look at Oz through the Scarecrow’s adventures

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary – M R James A collection of spooky tales guaranteed to leave you with goosebumps

The Art of Public Speaking – Dale Carnegie A must-hear for anyone who needs or is involved in speaking to crowds

Five Sci-Fi Short Stories – H Beam Piper A glimpse in fictional futuristic and alternative realities

The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing – Joseph Trienens More comical than practical, this look of advice from over a century ago might give you a new appreciation for modern society

The Red House Mystery – A A Milne The creator of Winnie the Pooh constructs this whodunnit tale

Lilac Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

Blue Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Power of Concentration – Theron Dumont A self-help guide to perfecting concentration

Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper A fictional look at the French and Indian War

The Problems of Philosophy – Bertrand Russell A connection between philosophy and ordinary people

A Practical Guide to Self Hypnosis – Melvin Powers A guide for ordinary people to engage in self hypnosis

The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling Follow the saga of Mowgli, Baloo, and Bagheerah in this classic telling

Tik Tok of Oz – L Frank Baum Another spin from the wonderful Wizard of Oz series

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Harriet Jacobs A close up look at slavery, as told by a woman born into the practice

The Brown Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Crimson Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Pink Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Grey Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Yellow Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Olive Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll A delightful tales about a young girl’s adventures after she falls through a rabbit hole into a whimsical land

The Emerald City of Oz – L Frank Baum The continuing adventures in the land called Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz – L Frank Baum A look at Oz via the Tin Woodman

The Snow Queen – Hans Christian Andersen The base story that lead to Disney’s Frozen

The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams The beloved children’s tale of a child’s love for a velvet rabbit

Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw A play that details how a phonetics professor can transform a rough-edged girl into a linguistic lady

Poems, Puzzle and Stories by Lewis Carroll – Lewis Carroll The Alice in Wonderful creator also crafted mindful riddles and puzzles

The Game of Logic – Lewis Carroll Another collection of mind-bending thoughts from the creator of Alice in Wonderland

The Art of Money Getting – P T Barnum A bit dated, but some rather helpful advice on how to get money and keep it

Zoo Stories – Various A collection of antics involving fictitious zoo denizens

Katie, the Ordinary Witch – Various A series of stories about a young girl who can do magic

Aesop – Aesop The classic retelling of the famed Aesop’s Fables

Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life and Leadership – Oprah Winfrey A modern audio book choice featuring advice from one of the country’s most influential women

The Secret – Rhonda Byrne One of the best-selling self-help books of the millennium

Dr. Lissa Rankin on Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself – Dr. Lissa Rankin A look at how one doctor believes you can overcome your illnesses without modern medicine practices

The Surprising Science of Motivation – Daniel H Pink A guide to utilizing and improving your motivation

21-Day Meditation Challenge – Deepak Chopra A meditation guide on how to live with passion and abundance

Why Are We Happy? Why Aren’t We Happy? – Daniel Gilbert A TED talk that explains what we think will make us happy can have the opposite effect

The Secret of Dreams – Yacki Raizizun A guide to the meanings behind common dreams

The Patchwork Girl of Oz – L Frank Baum The continuing adventures in the land called Oz

The Marvelous Land of Oz – L Frank Baum A boy named Tip unites with the Oz characters for new adventures

Ozma of Oz – L Frank Baum The continuing saga of Oz, as told from Ozma’s perspective

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz – L Frank Baum The adventures of Dorothy during her trip to the magical land of Oz

Road to Oz – L Frank Baum Dorothy and Toto meet a new cast of Oz characters and come face to face with new adventures

Rinkitink in Oz – L Frank Baum The 10th installment of the magical Oz series

Lost Princess of Oz – L Frank Baum Dorothy and Toto set out to find the kidnapped Princess Ozma and Glinda the Witch’s stolen magic

The Magic of Oz – L Frank Baum A young boy discovers a powerful magic word in Oz

Glinda of Oz – L Frank Baum The final installment in the Oz series

Brave New World – Adolph Huxley The radio drama version of Huxley’s groundbreaking novel

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C S Lewis Four children discover the world of Narnia after wandering into an old wardrobe

Prince Caspian – C S Lewis The second installment of the Narnia series, though some argue it should fall fourth in the lineup

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C S Lewis The third installment of the Narnia series, though many choose to read this one fifth

The Silver Chair – C S Lewis The fourth installment of the Narnia series, although some may argue it should be considered the 6th in the series

The Horse and His Boy – C S Lewis The fifth installment of the Narnia series, though some argue this one should be read third

The Magician’s Nephew – C S Lewis The supposed prequel to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Last Battle – C S Lewis The final installment in the magical Narnia series

1984 – George Orwell An eerie satirical depiction of futuristic society that somewhat mirrors actual life in our current time

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis – Sigmund Freud A glimpse into psychoanalysis prepared for laymen

The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud A closer look at what our dreams could mean, as discovered by renowned scientist Sigmund Freud

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights – U Waldo Cutler A collection of tales centered around one of history’s most legendary, elusive figures

The Faerie Queene – Edmund Spenser Written as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth and the Golden Age she helped to create

My Father’s Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett A young boy befriends a cat before setting off to rescue a dragon

Eve’s Diary – Mark Twain A short, comedic telling of earth’s first woman as depicted from the diary she keeps

Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1 – Hans Christian Andersen A compilation of some of Andersen’s most well-loved stories

Madame Butterfly – John Luther Long A Japanese girl marries an American naval officer and becomes a disgrace to her family

Where to Find the Best Free Audiobooks

Now that you know which audio books to look for, where can you find more like them? There are surprisingly many sites making a killing on handing out free audio books, but we’ve found several gems you should check out first:

Lit2Go

Lit2Go specializes in classic stories and poems that reside within the public domain.

Free Classic Audiobooks

Here you can find most of the familiar classics in mp3 format.

Librivox

From classic works to translations in a slew of other languages, Librivox offers a huge selection of free audio books to download.

Loyal Books

Besides of the most beloved classics, you can also find a large selection of hard-to-find or out-of-print books, along with titles from lesser known writers.

Storynory

Hearing a story is a great way to encourage your child’s love of reading, especially when you aren’t available to read it to them yourself. Storynory has a lot of original titles you can’t find anywhere else.

Learn Out Loud

Dedicated to all things educational, you can find some valuable self-help and other nonfiction resources, free for the listening.

OpenCulture

Currently boasting over 900 free audio books, you can find a good variety of classic literature and poems.

Scribl

Formerly known as Podiobooks, you can find a worldwide variety of novels, short stories, essays, and series.

Kiddie Records

Reminiscent of the books-on-record days, this site is dedicated to providing a look (and sound) back to a classic form of children’s storytelling, but with a modern, digital vibe.

Mind Webs

This old-time radio series from the 1970s through the 90s has been converted to a digital audio format for your enjoyment.

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i can’t get over the intimacy of sharing a 17 hour flight.

have you ever been on a long haul flight? you get comfortable. and i mean. real comfortable. these men live in hotel rooms and cars and airplanes for the better part of the year. they know how to travel comfortably.

it’s sweatpants and slippers and audiobooks. christian and toto probably slept in close proximity of each other. do you know how vulnerable that makes a person? sworn enemy two rows in front to the left and christian nodding off with airpods in and a neck pillow? are you joking?

toto with an eyemask on and christian makes fun of him for it and toto scrambles to explain “i got my eyes lasered last week OK”. christian keeps chuckling for two hours straight as an excuse to keep looking over at his archenemy with the dark tousled hair. literally watches him sleep.

and fred. just literally in the middle of the aisle doing squats and engaging absolutely anyone in conversation because he’s bored. poor stewards have to squeeze past him every time christian calls them over.

meals. they’ll be eating together, at the same time. it’s such a weirdly intimate thing to eat on a flight, you can’t tell me it’s not. toto with a napkin tucked into his collar, christian rolling his eyes at him. fred already stuffing his face because standing up has him starving also he’s bored.

and. according to my main man carlos, the one way to fight australian jet lag is to stay awake the whole flight. we’ve all heard it, we’ve all seen it, he kept us updated. i can’t see these three old men staying awake for the whole thing but there will certainly be awake time. there will be work getting done (everyone but fred let’s be real), there will be books and music, maybe toto watches a movie and christian annoys him until he turns on the subtitles so he can watch along from behind. then he makes fun of toto’s choice of movie (i’m thinking top gun) for the rest of the flight. maybe toto meditates and christian can’t believe his eyes. in between toto will get up to get the blood flowing and he’ll do his squats right next to christian’s seat. i am convinced he has a night time routine and he WILL be doing it on the plane. he’ll offer christian his snacks.

and this is all fun and games ok but ABOVE ALL. they must have been talking.

and this is what has me insane because christian is SUCH a pr guy. like he is such a sucker for having cameras around and playing it up as this big respected team boss when in reality he’s just a big ass softie whenever there’s no one around to judge him. and he had to built this image of himself. he was the youngest tp, no f1 experience when he started and also - may i remind everyone - he’s short. tiny. he had to puff out his chest and bark at everything and everyone but he had to be charming about it too and this is literally how he learned to play the media so well. he is the king of pr. he knows how important image and perception are. BUT. i so very strongly believe he drops the act when he’s sure no cameras are around and that’s why he’s so well liked in the paddock. considering the portrayal of him in the media, i would keep a twenty feet distance to that man at all times but people aren’t are they? he’s well liked.

cameras off, he’s a nice guy. funny. probably very knowledgable about the sport, likes to give advice and help smaller teams. not necessarily merc. but basically everyone else. he can hold a conversation without making stupid comments all the time. and that’s what he and toto do too! the media and everything 2021 has made them into something aggressive and founded in hate and disrespect but actually, they were friendly with each other long before 2021 and they managed to be adults about the whole thing (so surprising tbh). THEY ARE STILL FRIENDS. and so they are okay with things like sharing long haul flights and sleeping in each others proximity etc etc etc even when christian makes a throwaway comment about it after like “oh toto was there too, got his eyes lasered or sumin idk i didn’t really ask”

BRO YOU HAD 17 HOURS ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME YOU DIDNT SPEAK TO TOTO ONCE THE ENTIRE TIME. try again. he asked about his eyes and then went on to complain about his tummy ache and THEN he probably filled toto in on geri’s race horses and they shared stories about having to build lego cars on christmas day with their sons who are literally the same age, all of it over some shitty airplane lasagne.

you can’t fool me christian horner you can’t

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Ok but wtf was Toto doing there??? 7yrs makes sense…….. but real life???? Toto doing a socializing? Toto annoying Christian? Toto awkwardly following Niki around like a lost child? Please enlighten us o Ell, for i am confusioned

niki and bernie knew each other for a long time and they were known to be quite good friends, so i’m assuming toto tagged along for cake and champagne.

plus, back in 2016 mercedes and red bull had a pretty good rapport, as did christian and toto. toto knows bernie as everyone knows bernie so i assume he was very welcome / invited

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So I just read the little snippet you wrote with max and was now wondering if he ever warms up to Toto in Seven years ?

idk these two are strange to me, i don’t think max cares very much about toto, he mostly cares about christian and then so happens to start caring about toto by extension. i think max is the type of guy who is nice to you if you’re nice to him. toto for the longest time was just mercedes to him, meaning lewis, meaning rivalry, so he probably wasn’t too big of a fan (not diving into the toto max red bull lore).

i like the idea of max getting to see a different version of christian outside of red bull. he didn’t know about them until The Outing, christian kept that part of himself hidden and only very few people were allowed in on that so i think he’d be quite surprised by the married husband version of christian. at the beginning it’s just a few little things, he sees christian driving a mercedes occasionally, spies a few suspicious text messages popping up, overhears a phone call or two. and then maybe at one of those horner wolff garden parties he actually sees them together for the first time, in an environment that is entirely removed from racing and their jobs and he’s stunned by how different christian behaves (openly fond, way less sarcastic than usual, a lot less politely distant) and how very different toto is (less annoying, way more casual and suave). i assume he’d still walk up to them ala “but this doesn’t change anything right? i don’t have to get along with lewis?” but that’s neither here nor there

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100 Best Free Audio Books and 10 Sites for More

Audio books may not offer the timeless look, feel and smell (oh, the sweet smell of freshly printed leaflets!) of regular books, but they certainly present their own unique set of advantages – They’re lightweight (actually, they’re weightless!), they’re portable, they eliminate dangerous paper cuts, they’re compact, and, best of all, you can typically find a good selection of audio books that are a lot cheaper than their printed counterparts – oftentimes free!

Take a look at this list of the 100 best free audio books – we bet you’ll find some worthy of your attention:

100 Best Must-Hear Audio books That Won’t Cost You a Penny

Something New – P. G. Wodehouse A comical adventure following a competition to retrieve a stolen artifact and claim the reward.

Short Science Fiction Collection – A variety of stories of the sci-fi genre

The 9/11 Commission Report – 9/11 ComVarious Authorsmission The final report of findings from the devastating events of September 11, 2001

Ghost Story Collection – Various authors A compilation of 10 scary stories

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A full reading of the classic novel that began the Sherlock Holmes craze we still enjoy today.

Erewhon – Samuel Butler A satire of Victorian society

Beyond Good and Evil –Friedrich Nietzsche A thought piece on politics and philosophy by a renowned existentialist

Candide – Voltaire A reminder that life doesn’t always provide a happy ending

Beowulf – Unknown The classic English tale of the heroic Beowulf, written more than a millennium ago

The Adventures of Pinnochio – Carlo Collodi The story surrounding America’s most recognized wooden boy

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases – Grenville Kleiser A practical guide to the English language

This Side of Paradise – F Scott Fitzgerald From the author of The Great Gatsby, this stunning work mirrors the experiences of Fitzgerald himself

On the Origin of Species – Charles Darwin One of the most widely criticized books of its time, it follows Darwin’s theory of evolution

The Mystery of the Yellow Room – Gaston Leroux From the author of Phantom of the Opera, this mystery focuses on a crime committed in a locked room

Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English – Henry Stanton A guide to sexual behavior and relationships from a 19th century perspective

The Gods of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs A sci-fi novel of the protagonist’s return to Mars after a 10-year leave

The Colors of Space – Marion Zimmer Bradley An alien-disguised human tried to uncover the mysteries of space travel

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame The classic tale of talking animals and their adventures

The Adventures of Reddy Fox – Thornton W Burgess A series of stories about a grandmother fox teaching her grandson about the world

Short Story Collection – Various Authors A variety of 10 fictional stories

The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux The original tale of the famed Opera Ghost that haunts a Paris theatre

Short Mystery Story Collection – Various authors Ten short mystery tales, including ones from Kate Chopin, P. G. Wodehouse, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A collection of short, scary, mysterious stories by the creator of Sherlock Holmes

The Railway Children – Edith Nesbit This beloved children’s book follows three children on a London railway adventure

Twelve Creepy Tales – Edgar Allan Poe A collection of spooky stories from a true horror master

Night and Day – Virginia Woolf A look at spiritual and moral issues

Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling The creator of The Jungle Book brings this collection of stories that describe how common things might have originated

The Adventures of Sally – P. G. Wodehouse A light romantic comedy following the topsy-turvy escapades of Sally

Spoon River Anthologies – Edgar Lee Masters The fictional epitaphs of 212 residents of Spoon River, as told by their deceased personas

The Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith This comic depiction follow the trials and triumphs of a bumbling middle-aged man

American Indian Fairy Tales – H. R. Schoolcraft A series of Native American legends and lore

The Story of Mankind – Henrik van Loon A simple look at history for a younger audience

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter – Beatrix Potter A beloved collection of the best works of Beatrix Potter

Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving The classic haunted tale of the Headless Horseman

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – F Scott Fitzgerald The original tale of the recent Hollywood blockbuster

The Scarecrow of Oz – L Frank Baum A look at Oz through the Scarecrow’s adventures

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary – M R James A collection of spooky tales guaranteed to leave you with goosebumps

The Art of Public Speaking – Dale Carnegie A must-hear for anyone who needs or is involved in speaking to crowds

Five Sci-Fi Short Stories – H Beam Piper A glimpse in fictional futuristic and alternative realities

The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing – Joseph Trienens More comical than practical, this look of advice from over a century ago might give you a new appreciation for modern society

The Red House Mystery – A A Milne The creator of Winnie the Pooh constructs this whodunnit tale

Lilac Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

Blue Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Power of Concentration – Theron Dumont A self-help guide to perfecting concentration

Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper A fictional look at the French and Indian War

The Problems of Philosophy – Bertrand Russell A connection between philosophy and ordinary people

A Practical Guide to Self Hypnosis – Melvin Powers A guide for ordinary people to engage in self hypnosis

The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling Follow the saga of Mowgli, Baloo, and Bagheerah in this classic telling

Tik Tok of Oz – L Frank Baum Another spin from the wonderful Wizard of Oz series

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Harriet Jacobs A close up look at slavery, as told by a woman born into the practice

The Brown Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Crimson Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Pink Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Grey Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Yellow Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

The Olive Fairy Book – Unknown Part of a series of colored fairy books detailing folklore of several European countries

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll A delightful tales about a young girl’s adventures after she falls through a rabbit hole into a whimsical land

The Emerald City of Oz – L Frank Baum The continuing adventures in the land called Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz – L Frank Baum A look at Oz via the Tin Woodman

The Snow Queen – Hans Christian Andersen The base story that lead to Disney’s Frozen

The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams The beloved children’s tale of a child’s love for a velvet rabbit

Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw A play that details how a phonetics professor can transform a rough-edged girl into a linguistic lady

Poems, Puzzle and Stories by Lewis Carroll – Lewis Carroll The Alice in Wonderful creator also crafted mindful riddles and puzzles

The Game of Logic – Lewis Carroll Another collection of mind-bending thoughts from the creator of Alice in Wonderland

The Art of Money Getting – P T Barnum A bit dated, but some rather helpful advice on how to get money and keep it

Zoo Stories – Various A collection of antics involving fictitious zoo denizens

Katie, the Ordinary Witch – Various A series of stories about a young girl who can do magic

Aesop – Aesop The classic retelling of the famed Aesop’s Fables

Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life and Leadership – Oprah Winfrey A modern audio book choice featuring advice from one of the country’s most influential women

The Secret – Rhonda Byrne One of the best-selling self-help books of the millennium

Dr. Lissa Rankin on Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself – Dr. Lissa Rankin A look at how one doctor believes you can overcome your illnesses without modern medicine practices

The Surprising Science of Motivation – Daniel H Pink A guide to utilizing and improving your motivation

21-Day Meditation Challenge – Deepak Chopra A meditation guide on how to live with passion and abundance

Why Are We Happy? Why Aren’t We Happy? – Daniel Gilbert A TED talk that explains what we think will make us happy can have the opposite effect

The Secret of Dreams – Yacki Raizizun A guide to the meanings behind common dreams

The Patchwork Girl of Oz – L Frank Baum The continuing adventures in the land called Oz

The Marvelous Land of Oz – L Frank Baum A boy named Tip unites with the Oz characters for new adventures

Ozma of Oz – L Frank Baum The continuing saga of Oz, as told from Ozma’s perspective

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz – L Frank Baum The adventures of Dorothy during her trip to the magical land of Oz

Road to Oz – L Frank Baum Dorothy and Toto meet a new cast of Oz characters and come face to face with new adventures

Rinkitink in Oz – L Frank Baum The 10th installment of the magical Oz series

Lost Princess of Oz – L Frank Baum Dorothy and Toto set out to find the kidnapped Princess Ozma and Glinda the Witch’s stolen magic

The Magic of Oz – L Frank Baum A young boy discovers a powerful magic word in Oz

Glinda of Oz – L Frank Baum The final installment in the Oz series

Brave New World – Adolph Huxley The radio drama version of Huxley’s groundbreaking novel

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C S Lewis Four children discover the world of Narnia after wandering into an old wardrobe

Prince Caspian – C S Lewis The second installment of the Narnia series, though some argue it should fall fourth in the lineup

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C S Lewis The third installment of the Narnia series, though many choose to read this one fifth

The Silver Chair – C S Lewis The fourth installment of the Narnia series, although some may argue it should be considered the 6th in the series

The Horse and His Boy – C S Lewis The fifth installment of the Narnia series, though some argue this one should be read third

The Magician’s Nephew – C S Lewis The supposed prequel to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Last Battle – C S Lewis The final installment in the magical Narnia series

1984 – George Orwell An eerie satirical depiction of futuristic society that somewhat mirrors actual life in our current time

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis – Sigmund Freud A glimpse into psychoanalysis prepared for laymen

The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud A closer look at what our dreams could mean, as discovered by renowned scientist Sigmund Freud

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights – U Waldo Cutler A collection of tales centered around one of history’s most legendary, elusive figures

The Faerie Queene – Edmund Spenser Written as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth and the Golden Age she helped to create

My Father’s Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett A young boy befriends a cat before setting off to rescue a dragon

Eve’s Diary – Mark Twain A short, comedic telling of earth’s first woman as depicted from the diary she keeps

Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1 – Hans Christian Andersen A compilation of some of Andersen’s most well-loved stories

Madame Butterfly – John Luther Long A Japanese girl marries an American naval officer and becomes a disgrace to her family

Where to Find the Best Free Audiobooks

Now that you know which audio books to look for, where can you find more like them? There are surprisingly many sites making a killing on handing out free audio books, but we’ve found several gems you should check out first:

Lit2Go

Lit2Go specializes in classic stories and poems that reside within the public domain.

Free Classic Audiobooks

Here you can find most of the familiar classics in mp3 format.

Librivox

From classic works to translations in a slew of other languages, Librivox offers a huge selection of free audio books to download.

Loyal Books

Besides of the most beloved classics, you can also find a large selection of hard-to-find or out-of-print books, along with titles from lesser known writers.

Storynory

Hearing a story is a great way to encourage your child’s love of reading, especially when you aren’t available to read it to them yourself. Storynory has a lot of original titles you can’t find anywhere else.

Learn Out Loud

Dedicated to all things educational, you can find some valuable self-help and other nonfiction resources, free for the listening.

OpenCulture

Currently boasting over 900 free audio books, you can find a good variety of classic literature and poems.

Scribl

Formerly known as Podiobooks, you can find a worldwide variety of novels, short stories, essays, and series.

Kiddie Records

Reminiscent of the books-on-record days, this site is dedicated to providing a look (and sound) back to a classic form of children’s storytelling, but with a modern, digital vibe.

Mind Webs

This old-time radio series from the 1970s through the 90s has been converted to a digital audio format for your enjoyment.

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