#even if that race was a mess
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You know what, I like this Gus Dean guy! You got yourself a new fan with that drive and that interview! Keep driving on for your Grandpa!
#gus dean#arca menards series#sioux chief fast track 200#daytona arca#daytona international speedway#the fact that this after midnight arca daytona race was way less hideous than the truck race is honestly sad#congrats to nick sanchez for his first win btw#even if that race was a mess#and i fell asleep right before overtime#100th post#wish my 100th was more special but hey maybe i'll have something really cool for like post number 104
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I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.
it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"
plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.
anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.
#blazing saddles#finx watches tv#finx rambles#I recognize that I'm saying all this as someone who's not black#but I am also saying it as someone with a basic understanding of race relations in the usa#and a basic understanding of sarcasm#bc it really does not take more than that to recognize what they're doing in this movie#it is NOT subtle#and it is very funny#mel brooks movies are kinda hit or miss for me ngl#men in tights is great if a bit too crass for my taste#spaceballs has great jokes but the central story lacks any real heart so it doesn't grab me#history of the world was just kind of unpleasant and then I switched it off#but blazing saddles? phenomenal#I could not stop laughing the whole way through#and the central story DOES have heart bc it's the friendship between bart and#whassisname#jim#the Kid#plus bart working out how to succeed at an impossible task#also frankly cleavon little just grounds the comedy really well even before gene wilder shows up and we get their chemistry#bc he's cool calm collected and constantly inviting the audience into the joke#but the character's not too cool to ever mess up or ever be silly#he makes bad choices and gets into bad situations and then has to get himself out of them#but it's.....oh wait duh there's a term for this already#he's the straight man#he grounds all the zany nonsense by being in strong contrast to it#and he does a great job of it!#anyway#point is I deeply enjoyed this movie and I'm glad I finally watched it
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Next year in Monza they better have Charles and Lewis look GOOD. Nothing like the special race suit they have for this upcoming weekend
#didn't even know it was possible to mess up a black race suit#f1#formula 1#lewis hamilton#charles leclerc
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I cannot explain how much I DON'T want a live action Ninjago movie
#Lego is part of the appeal#and we all know how the internet#there will be wars foight over the race of the actors#it scares me#i cant trust it not to suck#going to be cgi mess or something if theu do spinjitsu and ill be mad if they dont cuz its such a big part of ninjago#even just the plot worries me#cant trust it#apparently its the writers for the first 10 seasons which is good#but again going from a lego cartoon show to a live action movie will be a disaster#im calling it now istg#ninjago#ninjago news#ninjago movie#ninjago live action
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Of course post-canon odysseus and penelope love each other (they are a little bit insane about the other. Neither is allowed to leave the others side for months after odysseus gets back. They cycle between sobbing on one and another and aggressively making out. ) but it's true that they have both changed. It's been twenty hard years after all. So
Odypen courting each other again just for the fun of it. Odypen deciding to act like teenagers again and make elaborate plans pretending to sneak into the others room.
Odysseus sending penelopes 90 year old dad a letter challenging him to a race for penelopes hand in marriage. (This does not go over well but penelope though it was hilarious)
Odysseus begging Athena to help him win penelopes heart/hand again. (Athena: What no why you're already married I don't understand you ) (she helps anyways)
Penelope weaving all of odysseus's clothes. Penelope hauling out every tapestry she made of telemachus's childhood (she made one for every year. To gift odysseus on his birthday when he returned.)
Odypen leaving telemachus incharge while they go off on dates (to harssass, cause problems, and badger other people into giving them things). It should be fine Athena has been sticking close to the house lately. And it's only for an afternoon anyways (at first. Headcanon that penelope came with odysseus when he had to go plant the oar and call it a windmill quest.)
#The odyssey#Post-canon my beloved#An important part of the heros journey is that even though you've changed irrevocably the home still loves you#Odysseus#Penelope#Telemachus#Athena#Odypen#Odysseus and penelope being 🥰🤝 rational bastards in love#Odypen mutually obsessed and possessive and insane about the other#Odypen age 50 deciding to act like teenagers for fun#Yes penelopes father did show up to the challenge odysseus set and then promptly beat his ass in a foot race#Yes this did cause a major diplomatic incident when he demanded penelope come back with him#(Hes never ever warmed up to odysseus and every day he mutters about his sweet penelope could have been athenas priestess instead)#(It took telemachus weeping at his grandpa about how he just got both parents for him to change his mind)#Odysseus: athenaaaa I've met the girl of my dreams and I need her to be mineeee#Athena: having flashbacks to odysseus at 17 and the complete distracted mess he was: what the fuck is happening#Athena: like obviously I'm going to help but I am also going to lay on telemachus's floor#And mutter about how this is just like last time? How could it be just like last time when they're already married#Not quite falling back in love but something close to it#Relearning perhaps#As always I'm having post odypen reunion thoughts#Odypen showing of diomedes doorstep in Italy and he just closes the door immediately he's not dealing with two odysseus not today
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cancel the whole weekend im so tired
#brazilian gp 2024#now the fia is saying they don't want to push the gp back meaning less than the mandated 4 hours between end of quali and race#this is genuinely demoralizing ferrari has to build a car from scratch in under 4h verstappen is being strangled to death on live television#only good thing about this whole mess would be albon qualifying p2 and we're not even gonna get that#f1
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Like that patent seems broad enough that they could use it against the fucking Persona series. And I mean it wouldn't be infringement since it's Nintendo but you could argue Echoes of Wisdom violates it by having Zelda use her staff to collect creatures she can summon in battle. Nintendo is way outta line on this one. They could have had something of a stance on the design front if they could actually prove the models or other assets were taken from their games and only edited slightly but trying to say they own the concept of a creature collection game where you use an object to collect and battle with creatures is like SquareEnix saying because they made Final Fantasy the own the rights to the concept of a fantasy JRPG, like this is an insane president to set that will have lasting negative impacts on the gaming industry. I can think of like five hugely popular games where you collect and battle with creatures, like are you gonna go after Dragon Quest and Digimon now??
Like I am iffy on Palworld and the company behind it for the AI shit and I will admit the designs are uncomfortably close to Pokemon, like they are def dancing pretty close to the copyright line visually and it's on purpose, but Nintendo/Game Freak choosing to ignore all that and instead say they own the rights to creature collection as a concept and claiming Palworld made them lose money when Pokemon is one of the most profitable IPs in history and there is NO WAY Palworld could come even remotely close to pulling in the kind of money even one single generation of Pokemon games could is genuinely concerning.
I'm not trying to defend Palworld, but I am saying Nintendo is going way too far and pulling some legal tomfuckery here and you shouldn't excuse it just because it's against a game/studio that you already don't like. This is very quickly going to stop being about Palworld and I do not like most of the directions it could possibly go down.
#honestly I don't think Palworld was hurting Nintendo in any meaningful way at all#but we can argue about that for days#Nintendo just has so much fucking money and people will pay for Pokemon everything no matter how much it sucks#ScarVi made so much money it's insane and those games were complete messes from the top down#Palworld cannot compete at all they aren't even in the same race
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Hiccstrid really gave me whiplash when I was younger
Like, I watched httyd 1 and was like “Hiccup and Astrid are definitely dating now”
Then came RoB/DoB and they WEREN’T dating?
Then httyd 2 and “now they are in a deeply committed relationship?!?!” Okay okay good that is what I wanted all along
Rtte… “THEY’RE NOT DATING!?”
#this ship was what I lived for back then#i was obsessed#even more so than now#Which says a lot#and mind you I was 9- Early teenage years during this#I was a mess#thank goodness when they started dating in Rtte#I was this 👌close to losing my mind#don’t get me wrong though#as an adult I am very happy with the pace of their relationship#httyd#how to train your dragon#hiccup#rtte#race to the edge#astrid#hiccstrid#rob#dob#riders of berk#defenders of berk#text post#funny
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Assen 2016: Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi talk about the race the year before and the final chicane, as well as resurfacing of the chicane and the track familiarisation laps they both completed. Later, Marquez, Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo and Alex Rins are asked about the Euros game the coming Monday between Spain and Italy. (See also Marquez cutting the final chicane in the warm-up session.)
#rosquez#brr brr#alex rins#//#4693#ar42#2016 assen#again. race right after catalunya#marc really is incredibly funny. one handshake and he's like!! we could all watch the football together!! stay an extra day!!#valentino develops a bit of a habit after 2015 of hiding his face behind his cap/collar/hands or visibly swallowing up smiles#DEVASTATING emotionally when you start noticing it#marc's understanding of 'reconciliation' might be repeatedly messing with valentino (now just in a slightly friendlier manner)#but apparently valentino's understanding involves reluctantly finding this behaviour endearing. which is possibly even wilder#idol tag
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concept for one of the main/central characters of a possible webcomic I wanna start soon :)
#myart#She's a cutie!#I've been wanting to do this comic idea for YEARS now but i've always hesitated lol#partly bc... i've always imagined this character as biracial and I'm le very white and so... i'm at a crossroads atm LOL#like do I change the race of the character so I don't put myself (accidentally) in a situation where i'm canceled bc I might#mess up writing a black character??#OR do i risk having a black character as my main character. This is what i'm wrestling with atm lol#for clarification the story isn't ABOUT being black or the black american experience#but more she just.. happens to be a black character and I've always imagined her as black so 🫤 i'd rather NOT change her design/background#anyway. Maybe i should just choose a different story idea where the main character just... isn't a poc :/#but that feels like a cop out lol#but anyways. I'm enjoying working on this comic even if i'll probably chicken out doing it the way i want to :')#lol anyway feel free to ignore me i'm just rambling lol
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character creator is the hardest boss battle there is tbh
#It's been two hours and I haven't even settled on a class yet let alone ancestry#help I'll never play the actual game at this rate#I also didn't realize the appearance was so heavily tied to the race and class so now even that's a mess
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#genuinely instead of messing around in a u23 classification issue with no easy solution#maybe the uci should do something about the junior-directly-to-worldtour pipeline that is becoming increasingly common#truly i believe that all riders would benefit from a year or two on a conti/devo team before moving up to the worldtour#even just physically the difference in racing difference from juniors to wt is so huge and these are really just kids#honestly maybe there shouldn’t be teenagers on the worldtour at all - not bc the level isn’t there but they need more time to develop#the sport just skews younger and younger each year and that’s not a good thing#similar but less safety related: tighter regulations on contracts for young riders#isaac del toro having a contract through 2029 makes me physically cringe
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Hana Yori Dango spy x family!AU where Tsukasa is a spy and Tsukushi is an assassin (so she is still poor) and they adopt Damian Desmond who isn't a telepath or anything he is just normal Damian. And he looks at Tsukushi and is like "She is not going to be my mother she is poor!" and she scolds him and he starts accepting her. Don't ask me how he gets adopted. You know what? Let's cut the spy and assassin stuff, just keep the adopting Damian part and see how it plays out. Follow me for more cringe crossover concepts 👍
#and everybody believes he is their biological child somehow despite not even being the same race#because how could this thing not be tsukasa's child#the F4 is in the secret and they think its very funny#they give them child raising tips (none of them have children)#it could be the kid from their zoo date instead of Damian but its not as fun#i didn't want this post to go in the tags but its gonna end up in the searches anyway bc i used the names so hello people reading this mess#how are you?#boys over flowers#hana yori dango
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I thought today was a good one..
#just some vent art idk#vent#vent art#...........................................................................................................................................#............................................................................................................................................#the initial start was unclear#i got ready for my class like usual and my dad's mood was entirely unreadable#usually in these situations i have an internal debate thats goes something like#“is he in a good mood? is he in a bad one? is his eye irritated again? maybe he's still waking up?”#its a 50/50 kinda deal#sometimes he's emotionless until right when im dropped off and he says “have a good day! love you!” in his nice way#today there was nothing#i just got out of the truck and just as i was closing the door i barely heard a “love you” in a monotone voice#i thought nothing of it bc i did some work before class and my mood lightened#afterwards i went to the lounge and they were doing another event thing that offered free food if you did it#the food was greek food so i figured it wouldnt hurt. i got the food#it was awesome ngl and it really made my day better#then dad picked me up....#he was still unreadable but i could tell his patience was low just by the way he was driving#its crazy and kinda sad that i can immediately tell what mood he's in even through the most mundane change#but about 5 minutes into the ride my mind was a racing mess. i kept asking questions#trying to gauge what mood he's in. he wasn't projecting or groaning like he usually does so o figured maybe he's just wanting to get home#to my surprise we didn't immediately gi home: we went to his old work (family owned business)#when we got there I can't describe the relief i felt to be with other people. especially my grandmother#i did some refund stuff while we were there. dad also seemed to lighten up and things seemed fine#but when we got back in the truck it was back to being tense. we still didn't go home- we went to the bank so he could cash a check#but otw there he mentioned his birthday is this Saturday. i said i knew and that I'd be happy to spend the day with him if he had something#planned. bc id loke to spend time with him on his bday instead of my Granny's Halloween party (which i still enjoy but yknow.. dad)#there's an awkward silence and then he just goes “i guess based off your silence you're not interested in what i have planned for my birth-#day?“ perplexed i said ”i am- im just waiting for you to tell me“
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I FEEL DIZZY I AM NAUSEOUS AHH!!!!!! ten's reaction to hearing "bad wolf" makes me SICK!!! literally a nothing reaction literally so unimportant literally maybe 10 seconds long. but also. I am so fucked up that hour long special took me like two with how many times I just paused it to get up and pace around my house LOL
#just in case the hour long special was the day of the doctor. FOLKS I FINALLY GOT THERE!!!#I'm grinning so hard#ROSE TYLER BUT NOT BUT BUT BUT#AHHHHHHHHHHHH#it's only 11am and I have screamed. so much#do you understand how many times I rewinded... rewound? just to hear her talk#BILLIE PIPER I LOVE YOU!!!!#I am a MESS in the best way possible#my heart is racing I was so excited#HE DIDN'T EVEN GET TO SEE HER GRAHH#what a meaningless post my brain is truly rotted#does anyone have fics I don't even know what I'm looking for just give me fics of this episode HAHAHA#I just I just oughhh I miss them soooo muchhhh#timepetals#tenrose#doctor who
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gonna be so honest marcille’s Thing About Death is infinitely more interesting to me than her dynamic with falin
#like don’t get me wrong I do like them. but they’re fairly normal all things considered#marcille’s quest to make everyone live an equal amount of time is FASCINATING.#bc like. I don’t even think that she’s Wrong per se#sure living a thousand years is a crazy burden to put on someone#but also she’s right about the deep systemic inequality of the lands stemming in part from long lived races (but especially elves who have#2x the lifespan of even gnomes) being able to construct/enforce dynasties in a way short lived races simply aren’t#but what the fuck are you gonna do to combat that that isn’t infinitely worse. messing with someone’s lifespan is. bad#n obviously so is segregation that’s a part of how dunmeshi’s world got so messed up in the first place#especially in regards to demihumans (canonically a pseudoscientific category created to oppress The Other)#there is a deep deep sociopolitical rift that lifespans cause in dunmeshi’s world#n that IN COMBINATION with the simple fact that marcille will outlive everyone she’s ever loved????#I can completely understand why she was driven to go for something so extreme#she was definitely Wrong yk. but what even is right here#well. I guess she’ll have a long time. to think about all that#sanders bullshit
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