#explaining sepang to my mom was like defending my thesis i was gassed

[moonshynecybin]

yeah sorry i did not mean to be a party pooper or anything 😭 my bad… i also think it’s fun to make jokes about marc being an evil master manipulator who ruined vale’s life and i definitely agree that he might have been more inclined to risk something had vale not said what he said, but like i don’t think he went into that race gunning to ruin it all for vale if that makes sense… also agree that you could notttt get me to admit to that under threat of violence but that’s what makes All In such in interesting doc cause you really see this almost desperate attempt to get people to understand him after years of isolating himself from his peers it’s so heart wrenchingly human.. it’s about the injury and the pain but it’s also like. hey i’m sad my childhood hero didn’t call me to wish me well

NO youre good i had just thought about sepang for six straight hours at that point and i was tired lmao. i actually think that a lot of the bones of the conflict is pretty straightforward between them, but they muddy the waters as time goes on bc they are always sort. dancing with the press in many regards. like it can be a tool it can be an annoyance it can be a lion whose teeth youve put your head in between and managing it takes some effort. and they BOTH know post sepang that whatever they say is gonna get printed>become a story>smth they get asked about, so they should be careful with how and when they talk about it. BUT. theyre still hurt and theyre still human, so occasionally they drop these messy little revealing statements about each other that are s interesting... idk i think its valuable (especially for marc but maybe thats just me) to look at where their statements CHANGE over time and maybe suss out why and why NOW... so marc leverages his documentary as his opportunity to sort of. rise from the ashes of the doldrums of his injury and express to everyone that A. hes back and B. he does this because he loves it and C. the whole thing sucked a lot and was maybe the hardest thing he's ever done. he really wants people to like him and to sympathize with him and to understanddddd him.... and as a result it is also p much the only time hes come back at vale and told his side of the 2015 story in the years since.