#faire of champions

[easternwoods]

OSHA approved can opener

[justgarb]

Soon

I'm so freakin excited. I only work one faire a year for a reason - staff, cast, owners, and regulars are wonderful people and the afterparties are always lit!

It's been three soft openings but now it's time!

[championsandheroes]

No, no, it's fine Meredith. Your tactic is *clearly* working. You do you...

You know what works better than the Kirkwall strategy of dealing with mages? Patreon and society6.

[littletulsajesusfreak]

[applegreenrunnerbean]

Look, as a Max fan, do I think that move was borderline, opportunistic, dodgy even? Yes. Do I still think it was brilliant? Yes. Are these two things connected? Yes!

Here's off the top of my head some ways things could have gone after Max committed to going so wide:

- Lando doesn't react quickly enough. They crash. 0pts for everyone. We get a protracted discussion over who was at fault, but it is declared a racing incident.

- The above, but Max is found at fault and incurs a penalty for the next race.

- Lando doesn't go for the bait and doesn't overtake there, but gets Max on the next corner.

- Lando doesn't go for the bait and instead bides his time and gets Max a couple of laps later. By this point Max's tires are so worn and they've used so much time that Oscar is also able to catch and overtake Max.

- Lando overtakes, but immediately gives the position back. Max manages to somehow miraculously defend until the end of the race.

- Lando overtakes, but immediately gives the position back, and gets Max a couple of corners later.

- Lando overtakes, but immediately gives the position back. He bides his time and gets Max a couple of laps later.

- The same, plus Oscar overtakes Max too.

- The same, plus McLaren gets on to the stewards about Max forcing Lando off. Max gets a penalty so Oscar doesn't even need to overtake.

- Lando overtakes, and, anticipating the penalty, McLaren tells Lando to push. Lando puts 5 seconds between him and Max, negating the penalty.

- Lando overtakes, but the stewards say that although Lando overtook outside the limits, Max forced him off. It's declared a racing incident. Red Bull are infuriated.

- etc, etc

There's no point thinking about the what-ifs, but my point is: that move was a big risk on Max's part. Did he think through all these possible consequences and their likelihoods when he made the move? No, but he was still probably aware that what he was about to do would be controversial at the least.

And he could have easily not made the move! Lando had more pace and better tires - the chances are he would have been able to overtake at some point before the end of the race. Max could have, after having had his fun for a few laps, let Lando past and then concentrated on maintaining his tires so as to not let Oscar past too. It would have only been a 1pt gain for Lando, after all.

But of course he was never going to do that, because he's Max fucking Verstappen - and this is the first time in months he's felt like he's had the car to actually be able to put up something of a fight. Of course he's going to force the issue. Of course he's going to pull out his bag of tricks and make use of the grey areas in the rules. Of course he's going to use the fact that Lando's attack has been primarily reactive rather than aggressive.

And yes, it was questionable; yes, it was outside the spirit of the rules if not the letter. That's why I loved it, and that's why I love Max.

[maranello]

listen y’all need to have more trust in lewis and also more trust in charles. granted, ferrari is the variable we are all scared of here, but I do trust vassuer more than binotto and I don’t think either of these drivers would sign these deals with ferrari if they, or any of their trustworthy team, thought it was going to be bad for them.

[creatively-cosmic]

i completely forgot to ever put anything abt him up here please enjoy the dragon master (as seen in missing numbers). weve been struggling to work out his design so bad but we did the last two sketches tonight so ig that's the most up to date for his hair and scars. the first one is the current colors tho

[vijayasena]

this team this emotions it was hard to express everything yesterday. but still its unbelievable that our team won the worldcup we are the world champions and with that our ro-ko had said good bye to t20 internationals.

it feels like just yesterday when i saw a very young boyish rohit sharma celebrating the 2007 win. a very young virat Kohli carrying sachin on his shoulders. and here we are in 2024.

with our heart and heartbeat saying goodbye to t20 internationals. i swear the happiness of worldcup couldn't even take over as soon as they both made the announcement.

it was hard to digest hard to imagine hard to just take in. imagining our cricket team without our Ro - Ko . how ?

the thought scared the hell out of me. i kept crying all night sobbing hard hoping its a dream. because i couldn't imagine not able to see these two not play in indian jersey anymore. just couldn't stop crying all night to my pillow.

its hard to take in a tight blow on my stomach to be honest. i love this sport like my religion and watch it like everything depends on this, my mental health, my happiness everything is always been dependent on this team on this game.

and its getting to the end of an era. and i am not ready for it. I really am not because i love these two like my last breath.

its hard its really hard.

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

"that sense of kindness, decency, and tolerance, that has always been the british way" not sure i agree with you there rishi

[easternwoods]

Tonight we're eating Gnome Stew

(Tostin and his Fairy Cage)

[justgarb]

My lords Tostin von Leder and Maximus out at Faire of Champions weekend 1

[nervous-bee]

and now newey is leaving redbull they really couldn’t let us have a calm week off huh??

anyways if that bitch doesn’t get his ass to ferrari i’m gonna cry. give my tifosi heart some hope

[legend-of-fall-damage]

THEY WERE TETHERED THE TWINS' FATES WERE TETHERED AND SHE UNDID IT AND TIED HIM TO HER AHHHHHHH

[desertsportshipping]

thinking abt this ship again . and i am rotating them around in my mind like a microwave . their are so golden retriever x black cat energy to me but the black cat is also wildly self destructive

No you're correct, Leon is the therapy golden retriever to Wes's feral street cat.

Like Leon's love is pretty unconditional, he is ride or die, til death does them part, in sickness and in health. Meanwhile Wes is repairing the broken pieces of his self esteem with the glue of Leon's unconditional love and support, with additional help from a support network. At the same time, this means they are vulnerable together, and Leon's champion facade starts to drop little by little, until the real Leon and Wes are shining through together.

They hold each other accountable to heal together, but when it comes to common sense otherwise, they're pretty stupid. Often there needs to be a third party there to make sure they don't make a terrible decision.

Anyways have a Hisui!AU meme that I've just been holding onto.

[bellcza]

To be fair Bayern is in their fail era this year

okay so true bestie. but against the franquistas why 😭