#european 2010

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via seb's ig story - april 29, 2024

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lewis hamilton, p2, celebrates on the podium, valencia, spain - june 27, 2010

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Mark Webber on Sebastian Vettel, Valencia and his 2010 season so far - F1 Racing, August 2010

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SUMMARY: In the dying days of WWII, a battalion of Russian soldiers is lured into the secret lab of a deranged scientist and forced to face off against an army of horrific flesh-and-metal war machines.

Mod Sus HAD to watch this movie after it was requested and they saw the monster designs, they are so sick and cool and awesome. The movie could benefit from having any likable characters, though.

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PRIDE (2014) dir. Matthew Warchus In 1984, after realizing that they share common foes in Margaret Thatcher, the police and the conservative press, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their help. Based on the real life Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign. (link in title)

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Les Deux Amis [Two Friends] (Louis Garrel, 2015)

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OT3: casey stoner/his neuroses/the concept of valentino rossi that mostly exists in casey’s head

y'know I have this casey stoner... idk what it is. thematic mind map (literal), let's say, that I like fiddling with and adding things to when the mood hits me. and it does always strike me just how many of his struggles during his careers and issues with the sport can in some way be linked back to the valentino rivalry

casey's sense of isolation? super valentino related. casey's feelings of cultural alienation in a paddock dominated by europeans? even when it's not really related to valentino, casey is the one linking those two things together. casey's issues with other riders not being respectful enough on track? very obviously repeatedly about valentino. casey's discomfort with the performance and entertainment-related aspects of the sport? more valentino. casey feeling treated unfairly by the manufacturers, the media, the marshals, the fans.... keeps coming back to valentino. casey's mystery illness really shouldn't be as relevant to the rivalry as it is, but somehow through this combination of public discourse and whatever comparisons casey's brain is cooking up at any moment in time... there valentino is again

one of the most charming things about valentino's feuds is that in each and every single one, both participants end up being deeply weird about each other? just keep knocking off these banger quotes about the other where you read them and go. hm. what's going on there then. I don't want to make it sound like I think casey is the worst offender with this (not when marc and valentino have their whole thing going on, bidirectionally)... but I do think he's the most susceptible to conflating his valentino issues with like... everything else that was going on in his career. to the extent where his alienation with the sport as a whole, his extreme disillusionment from everything related to motogp, really cannot be meaningfully disentangled from the valentino rivalry. at times it feels like, to casey, valentino literally is the sport. and that's the thing casey dedicated his whole life to!! which means you do inevitably end up regularly going 'wow there's a lot to unpack'. add in a dash of neuroticism...

and yeah you're so right anon!! the neuroses are what end up creating the version of valentino that mostly exists in casey's head, a version that casey is just a touch obsessed with. I always think it's interesting how aware casey is that he doesn't know valentino as a person - and to the extent casey does know him, he gets on pretty well with him... but valentino the person isn't all that relevant to him. it's valentino the character who matters - and can you even really know a character? in the end, all casey can do is rely on his own understanding of that character, as imperfect as it is. and, well, in a way casey is trapped with that character forevermore. if one man comes to embody a sport to such an extent and if that sport has been your life's work, how can you not be a little bit trapped? as he tries to make his peace with the sport and his experiences within it, so too has casey settled on a narrative of valentino that helps him make sense of it all... a very specific understanding of his rival that casey has shaped in his mind and still trots out now when he sells his own version of events to the media. casey learned from valentino, casey learned to be a little more like valentino, casey learned to fight valentino with his own tools, casey tells himself a story of that fight. he still continues to do so - and in the end he will never be entirely free of valentino

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Murderous Tales (Smrtelné historky) 2016, dir. Jan Bubeníček IMDB

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race winner sebastian vettel in the cool down area, valencia, spain - june 27, 2010

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sebastian vettel, p1, and lewis hamilton, p2, chat in the cool down area after the race, valencia, spain - june 27, 2010

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Seb & Jense after the European GP 2010

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Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski's Russian folk costumes at the 2010 Olympics and 2010 European Championships.

(Sources: 1, 2 and 3)

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BENJAMIN (2018) dir. Simon Amstell Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film 'No Self' at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician called Noah. (link in title)

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Олык марий пылвомыш вате-влак [Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari] (Aleksei Fedorchenko, 2012)