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the thing about eliot spencer as a character, right. the thing about him.
(and as always your mileage may vary on my analyses so if we disagree that's cool actually)
is that he is in fact a somewhat emotionally constipated idiot who is occasionally sensitive about his perceived masculinity and gets defensive about emotional intimacy around other men (largely hardison, who's much more comfortable expressing affection and embracing a softer kind of masculinity), but eliot displays enough emotional awareness and sensitivity and respect for women etc etc that anyone who's been subjected to that era of television will put on rose-tinted glasses without even looking twice.
(and he is, don't get me wrong, incredibly emotionally aware for a professionally punchy guy with enough trauma to sink the titanic. it still startles me to see.)
on top of which we have the layers and the accessories and the excellent hair with the secret braids and the way he barely has an ego and he's good with kids and protective of his team without taking it too far, and some of us never stood a fucking chance.
#eliot#eliot spencer#orig#further discussion in further tags#I'm being perhaps a little critical and there are other ways to read eg the fragile masculinity moments#but I Do think they were intended this way and largely come across this way#I'm quite happy playing with a fanon eliot who's better at this shit is the thing? it feels faithful enough to the original.#but this is something I'm chewing over in a rewatch and it's interesting so far#the fact that he pretty consistently respects women doesn't stop him from treating men and women differently y'know?#the fact that his bantering with hardison expresses affection and gets quite soft over time#doesn't stop him from pushing hardison away on a semi-regular basis. often physically.#the fact that the fandom unanimously decided he's an utter gentleman in matters of dating#doesn't quite negate the time he physically stopped aimee from getting away when he wanted to talk to her#though that's one I might disregard because it's so early and I think they hadn't quite figured out the characters then#and it was admittedly a brief moment followed by very consensual happenings#perhaps. honestly. eliot may be reflecting the attitudes of the show here.#which were very progressive for the time and are still startling on several fronts now but also showing definite signs of age#arguably fanon eliot (as I understand him) is eliot adjusted for inflation. as it were.#there's a lot going on here I'm having a normal amount of thoughts about it I'm. stopping now
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i fucking adore how he says ""where am I" instead of "where are WE", this mf is always aware of his selfish ass and i love him for that
#have been think of what jakei said back then#about decanonzing this comic because she felt they were too out of character#idk what y'all think but i feel they are actually accurate to their canon selves o o#especially ink#error hasn't changed too much from then to now#he actually acted pretty mature y'know it doesn't fit him😛#not really he used to act more sassy than anything else#and i liked it#undertale#undertale au#utmv#ink sans#error sans#fluffy trash#fluffy rambles#rambles for the tags
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#they may not have loved each other... they may not even have particularly liked each other... but they could always agree on one thing#and that is how incredibly irritating they both found jorge lorenzo#//#brr brr#morale tag#like the context for that sepang 2010 photo is that jorge is celebrating his title five metres away#and at least they were able to slightly spoil his day by finishing ahead of him. obviously valentino's even more thrilled because he WON#but y'know. important moment for spite lovers everywhere. that race isn't quite as funny as motegi but it's right up there#by far their funniest interaction is still when dovi clarified to valentino in a presser that him and jorge were NOT in fact friends
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God damn it all. I want to like Arcane. I really enjoyed everything up to like. The final two episodes. But then they had to go and make. The disabled guy who was trying to make the world a better place. Into a eugenicist.
And the stuff Jayce said to Viktor about how Viktor always saw his disability and sickness as flaws to be fixed/cured/perfected or whatever. Was like really gross. Yeah. Viktor didn't want to fucking Die. That doesn't mean that he wanted to? Remove disabilities in general from the world. He wanted to make the world a better place for everyone. He grew up in the undercity, and because of that he got a terminal illness that was slowly killing him. He wanted to make life better for people in the undercity so they weren't Suffering.
That doesn't mean eugenicssssssss.
And making it so that Viktor has actually been the big villain/antagonist all along? And that apparently?? In Every Single Universe? He becomes a eugenicist? Unless Jayce saves him from that???
Dude what the actual fuck. What the actual literal fuck.
#arcane spoilers#arcane critical#I don't wanna put this in the main tags b/c it is y'know negative#ramblings of an arrow#like i know that that's Viktor's canon lore or whatever#but stilllllll#the disabled person becomes evil because of their disabilities trope is disgusting#the disabled person promotes eugenics and curing all disabilities ever b/c they're disabled trope is gross!#it's an ablest trope and it needs to fucking die#the writing in this show is most of the time absolutely phenomenal#and then they went and pulled that at the very end#and it's like massively upsetting#WANTING TO MAKE POOR PEOPLE'S LIVES BETTER DOESN'T EQUAL EUGENICS IM GONNA SCREAM#like retroactively making Jayce the amazing hero of the story when he was like the catalyst for most of the bad things#and making Viktor into a villain#when the entire time he was encouraging Jayce against all of those bad decisions#begging him not to use hextech for weapons#like you could've done something beautiful there with Viktor#and then you didn't#and it's just. really upsetting#arcane season 2 spoilers#arcane season two spoilers#aughghghghahasdfh hghgads hadfs klads fn
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I've been thinking about him all day to be honest.
#unlabelled drawing tag#vocaloid#kaito#if the pose looks familiar it's because i copied the one from his pjd 2nd/ex render#as much as i love this new design it gave me a lot of grief guess that's what i get for never drawing kaito v3#asking you nicely to ignore the shoes i gave up on them#anyway him + some coelacanth friends because. well y'know#id in alt text
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Ok I do actually need to work on assignments, but here's a short little thing I wrote about aro Jon. Hopefully later I can come back to it and add a few more scenes and give it a good polish (it's a tad rough lol) but for now enjoy. Fic under the cut.
Warnings for: descriptions of burning (about on par with what happens in episode 67 in terms of severity (w/ Jack and Agnes))
“Oh are you working on- er, is that the statement with Agnes?”
Jon leveled a cold, flat stare at Martin. The kind which, in a better world, would be capable of wiping people from existence. Martin failed to dematerialize. Jon rubbed their forehead.
“Case #0071803, yes. What about it.” It should’ve been more of a question, really, but they just couldn’t be bothered with the inflection. They were too exhausted, and quite frankly Martin wasn’t worth the effort.
“Nothing! Nothing! Just…” Martin trailed off for a moment. Jon briefly entertained fantasies of him turning around and leaving. As per usual, Martin failed to meet expectations. “It seems sort of romantic, doesn’t it?”
What? “What?”
“Well… you know… I mean it was horrible, obviously. But… at the same time it was sort of- was sort of sweet? I mean, he must’ve really loved her.”
Jon took a brief moment to compose themselves, “Martin, that’s-” then another one, for good measure. “She-” The memory of scalding heat, of liquid flesh flowing between their teeth, a searing agony they had never experienced and yet knew intimately-
A deep breath. “Forgive me if I don’t see what’s so ‘romantic’ about receiving third degree burns just for a kiss.”
Martin looks hurt, maybe. Or somehow upset. And like maybe his hurt or upset or whatever else is somehow Jon’s fault.
“But… haven’t you ever-”
And wherever Martin was going with that particular line of inquiry, Jon didn’t need to hear it.
“No, I have not. Now if you are quite finished, I need to get back to work.”
They stared him down with as much ice as they could muster, and at least this time, it had the desired effect of encouraging Martin to remove himself from their office.
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Somewhere in Jon’s flat, tucked away in some crevasse or fallen behind the sofa, there is a flag. On it, there is purple, fading to white, fading to green. A reckless purchase made upon the news of their promotion, when they thought it might just be them and Sasha and Tim, and perhaps it would be alright, if a few other people knew.
It had arrived in a small package on the first day of their new position, when Jon had learned that it would be Sasha and Tim and Martin. They had considered putting it there anyway, in the little clay pencil-holder shaped like a cat (apparently it had been Gertrude’s, and it was quite possibly the only useful thing she had left behind).
They thought about unknown eyes measuring it. Measuring them. They thought about questions, and unwanted comments, and all the opinions people liked to have about love and sex and abstention from either.
The flag never made it out of their flat.
#i'm being VERY brave and maintagging my lil ficlet but that means: no j//mart please and thank you#i'm not fond of the ship generally but this especially is about a jon who isn't interested in dating at all#(also kiss-averse but we'll get there lol)#i know the episode was in s2 but i'm too tired rn to take into account jon's paranoia so we're pretending this is s1 okay?#also i just. wanted to focus on the aromantic stuff lol#tbh i'm not sure jon would ever actually put up a pride flag at their desk but. that little snippet Struck Me and i had to write it y'know?#sorry for clunkiness this is unedited and like i said. a bitch is tired.#anyway this is sort of intended as a sequel to my first aro jon fic#too lazy to find it but it's on ao3. 'Proving a Negative' if you want more aro jon#anyway tags time#aromantic jonathan sims#jonathan sims#jon sims#tma#the magnus archives#decided not to tag for martin because he's basically a prop for jon to react to#and also i don't like him lmao#also also the fic is just kinda. mean to him? and not about him really? so i don't want to clog up their tags i guess#they're also agender here but this fic isn't about that either#also in case it wasn't clear yes jon is describing the aroace flag.#sparkwrites#ok i really. REALLY have to work on those papers now. toodles ~
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Outfits of the Guard from an older fic of mine, Tangerine and Roc. Supposed to be a bit of a mix of styles from Central Asia in the late 15th century as they go about their travels, with a little battle-ready touch.
#siggy draws#the old guard#tog#tog fanart#yusuf al kaysani#nicolo di genova#quynh#andromache of scythia#kaysanova#andromaquynh#*director's commentary in the tags wee woo:#none of these fits are exactly what i envisioned when i wrote the fic but they're generally what they should have been wearing#y'know like some layers come off and some come on throughout the fic ofc#does joe look battle-ready? absolutely not.#he wants to be fashionable! <3#this was the first time i've really attempted to draw embroidery and patterns by hand and it shows lol...#anyway. joe gets the snazzy main-character colours and nicky gets all the brown because he's nicky#also he looks so tired because he is lol. let him rest. or not. let him not rest idk.#i should have put more effort in and drawn different version of their outfits with weapons too but alas#quynh should have a nicely embroidered quiver and a bit of armour. they should all be more armed up --#-- after meeting the kazakh settlement in the first chapter. but can anyone blame me for not wanting to draw all the weapons...#anyway i miss them and i miss this fic and i miss writing like this ;_; <3
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Little Burning Spice Cookie rant thing.
So, I've seen a bit about people thinking that Burning Spice Cookie's reason for going rouge was kind of... Not it, really? Which is fine and dandy, their opinion an all.
But to me, I think it's a pretty solid reason for Burning Spice Cookie and like... Characters like him, I suppose?
Okay so, Burning Spice Cookie held the Light of Change before it was taken from him and he was imprisoned and, like the other 4 Beasts before their fall, they represented and were practically the physical embodiments of those concepts (I think.)
To be honest, out of each of the Beasts I genuinely think that Burning Spice Cookie's concept was the most ironic, and the one most prone to, well, 'failure' for a lack of a better word.
(Though if I'm wrong, lemme know.)
Knowledge, Volition, Happiness, and Solidarity are all concepts that are prone to change.
Knowledge. Pretty self-explanatory, with anything new that is discovered, or prior knowledge viewed from a different angle, then that knowledge in itself would change.
Volition. Kind of difficult for me to explain but like, one's willpower could either crumble and fade or hardened and become stronger than ever. You could remain true to your own will, or submit to another's. Thus, change.
Happiness. Anything can make it happen, across various individuals the same or something different can make them happy. Or, the opposite, what once made them happy no longer does, thus changing.
Solidarity. People can no long believe in the same thing, what once brought them together in unity could no longer be enough to uphold it. A common interest that they no longer support, thus changing their views on the subject and no longer being in solidarity with others.
To me, all of the other Beasts before the fall where capable of changing, as the concepts they were meant to embody were all given the range to.
Except, Burning Spice Cookie.
He was the only one, the only Beast, that was supposed to be unchanging. Despite his very concept being that of change. Ironically, Burning Spice Cookie would have been the only one who was to remain steadfast, unchanging throughout history entirely despite everything else changing around him.
Stagnant.
The pure opposite of what he meant, made to embody.
So, of course, he got bored.
Burning Spice Cookie, despite representing change, was stagnant. Meant to always be stagnant if the Light of Change was always to remain true, to shine its light upon him and the entire world.
I do believe his boredom ran a bit deeper than surface level. As he did say in Episode 6:
"All this Change, and yet it's never changing."
Which, really, just supports my point that Burning Spice Cookie, the representation of Change itself. Was stagnant and unchanging despite change happening all around him.
So, when he was given the opportunity to Change. To no longer remain stagnant. I think it would have been expected that he would take it.
Burning Spice Cookie was baked to be a hero, a God-Like virtue that would be a beacon among Cookie Kind along with four others. To protect and allow them change, civilizations to rise and fall and yet, he, himself, would remain unchanging, should remain unchanging if his purpose was to be realized.
That, is why, I believe that Burning Spice Cookie, or any other Cookie baked to hold the Light of Change, was and would be doomed to fall. To fail.
#burning spice cookie#crk kingdom#crk#beast cookies#Maybe a bit of a theory idk#But it's just kind of the problem with Burning Spice Cookie's entire purpose y'know?#Since he was baked to be a hero for all right off the bat#It was the single starting point that would doom him#Giving the representation of Change a purpose without letting them find such themselves would lead to their doom in my opinion#Because then that would limit them#Leave them unable to change because this was their purpose and they can't#Shouldn't#Stray from it#I know the other Beasts and their backstories aren't out yet but#I believe Burning Spice Cookie to be the Beast that was done the most dirty by the Witches despite their good intentions#The other four Beasts could have twisted and fallen from their Virtues because of Cookies#But Burning Spice Cookie?#Yea#He was set on the path of failure and doomed to fail from the very start as soon as the Witches gave him the purpose of being a hero#Instead of letting him find his own himself#No matter their good intentions#Oh damn I'm ranting in the tags now#GoODBYE
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okay maybe a hot take but like. people going "spirk is canon now omg!!!" after that short film that just dropped - you do realize that like. it's not any more canon than it has been for like, forever, right?
they held hands and watched the sunset together. big whoop.
yes vulcans have a whole hand-holding thing, but like. kirk and spock have held hands before, this is not? any different? than any of that???
like people are out here screaming "OMG SPIRK IS CANON AFTER 57 YEARS" guys if holding hands and staring into each other eyes while the music swells is good enough to call it "canon" then spirk has been canon since the motion picture came out in 1979.
#to be clear: it was fine!#but like. this didn't 'make spirk canon'#either it's already been canon for like FORTY YEARS#or it's not actually canon#either way this short film didn't change anything?#so i don't know why people are freaking out#spirk#star trek#not tagging the hate rn#the thing with 'canon' is that it has to be UNDENIABLE#gene roddenberry literally invented a word so that spock could call kirk his lover without actually saying 'lover'#KIRK LITERALLY ONCE SAID THAT TO NOT SAVE SPOCK WOULD COST HIM HIS *SOUL*#and that wasn't fucking canon enough for some people#so y'know.#this isn't gonna change the minds of anyone who will claim that kirk and spock aren't gay and gene never intended it#and the people who already think it was there and intentional ALREADY HAVE MOUNTAINS OF EVIDENCE#quite frankly they need to either physically kiss on the lips in a way that no one can construe as pressured/mind controlled#or literally say out loud 'we're in gay romantic love with each other'#and EVEN THEN there will be people who don't believe it or insist it doesn't count because gene's dead!!!
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The best thing that came out from the latest interview is everyone agreeing that there's only one person who can Give Akutagawa's Life A Meaning and that person is Nakajima Atsushi
#I've taken on this habit to go through the sskk tag on Tuesday evenings–#and it was so cute to see like ten different people come to the same conclusion#I wouldn't even know if I agree tbh.#Like I needed to think about it for a while‚ but the thing is that I've always seen Atsushi's existence as a death penalty for Akutagawa.#Atsushi doesn't give Akutagawa's life a meaning in the way Atsushi is the reason Akutagawa is going to die in the end.#But it's because he loves him all the same y'know?#Akutagawa being a creature that is just so incompatible with the concept of love‚ loving someone will have him die‚ and die he did–#but he could have never not loved Atsushi#That being said Atsushi giving Akutagawa's life a meaning is still a super cute take 10000/10#and it was so heartwarming to see everyone agree (╥﹏╥)#ryūnosuke akutagawa#atsushi nakajima#sskk#shin soukoku#bsd#bungou stray dogs#mine
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I'm just thinking that Uraume is a great cook, but the real masterpieces are made up of people. I understand that Sukuna will be a little uncomfortable eating people's kebabs (that usually scares teenagers, you know). BUT. The moral mobility of His Evil Majesty's mentality simply says to me: Find the enemy, and the big guy will finally get a nice meal. He worked so hard, he deserves dinner. ("Fu_k, Marry, Eat" game. Start). SO. ONE DAY. People tempura — yes or no? How much Curse is in our King?
Uraume is indeed a great cook, ridiculously even lol
- I mean afaik it's canon that, whilst human meat is supposedly difficult to prepare well, they managed to do it; which is one of the main reasons why Sukuna kept them around aside from the fact that they're a powerful sorcerer lol
(he most probably liked the unaltered taste by itself too (he did in my Series Canon for sure), but Uraume made it additionally enjoyable - so for Mr. I Do What I Want it was definitely a unique plus lol)
As for SIkuna eating people, hmm
Although he's pretty deeply in denial about it, he doesn't actually directly feel anything negative at the prospect
(as showed in Part 4, he actually found the little taste of Yuji's blood he got by accident ridiculously enjoyable, if in terms of Identity Issues and 'Ah Shit That's The Kid's Blood' extremely distressing as well. What a fun combination)
- it's Everything Else around it that makes him uneasy; like the fact that he Knows It's Wrong, The Kids Would Most Freaking Likely Not Like it, and just overall the Character Dissonance he feels about it all
because how the fuck can he be a protective inner marshmallow that would just like to hug the kids, and give them headpats, and heal their wounds, and just overall take care of them as best as he can 🥺
and someone that gets absolutely freaking giddy at the idea and acts of violence and bloodshed (as long as it doesn't involve Some People but especially if it involves Other Ones) at the same time y'know?
(sorry bro, you're not gonna get any less contradictory anytime soon if ever - have fun being yourself, whatever that means, lol
Complex characterisation and all that ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ)
But returning to the topic; I won't say anything about further down the timeline
(he might, he might not, who knows, probably not in a way that would upset the kids too much if anything but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
but there is this one particular, hm, person that would fit all boxes in terms of being a mostly guiltless but still tasty snack, though not as tasty as possible, who miight be meeting him relatively soon (how??)
- and SIkuna wouldn't even need to break any promises with Yuji (oop spoiler 👀) to indeed have a spooky snack!
So, before anything as sophisticated as tempura - there may be moreso sashimi :] *HeeHee HoHo's a bit as lighting strikes in the background and I comically jump in surprise because wtf the sky's clear-????*
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#idk how long I'll keep dancing around who I mean by that 'gets sashimi'd' but tbf I've given a lot of clues already lol#Also note that I used the word 'promise' not 'Vow' lol - only Yuji would find that in any way binding at this point 😂#(ofc so does SIkuna but not because he Has To - rather because he Wants To 🥺)#What exactly I'm talking about in the Tags here will be revealed in Part 9 lol ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ#(The 'promise' thing not the 'sashimi' thing)#Thinkings™#Ask#jjk#jjk fic#jjk fix it#jjk fix it fic#jujutsu kaisen#SIkuna#(deliberate misspell)#syuuya#jjk sukuna#ryomen sukuna#ryoumen sukuna#jjk yuji#itadori yuuji#yuji itadori#(the ask is not exactly about him but he's decidedly related to how all that is gonna pan out y'know)#jjk uraume#uraume#(they're definitely gonna be a bit surprised at the human flesh 'abstinence' of sorts Sukuna seems to be on but it's not like they're about#to question it too much lol - it's most likely just a temporary side-effect of 'adopting' all those humans or something in their mind#(and they can cook other things amazingly too; so it's not like they're gonna be out of a job in that sense 😂))#tw cannibalism#cw cannibalism#Bro's a Sukuna variant in a fix-it story but with an author that loves me some Eldritch Horror flavour to the Fluff; pray for his soul lmfa
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queerplatonic johnlock is so important to me i don't think you understand
#like#it's what they have don't deny it#sure i like when they're romantic/sexual a lot#but i have issues and i just need them to be happy and let holmes be aroace#idk man i'm tired#sorry this doesn't make sense#but do you get it?#i want you to get it#i need to have more connection to sherlock holmes than i already do as well y'know#because i don't understand romantic/sexual relationships at all and i want him to be like that as well#idk i should just write fanfic instead of ranting in the tags#they're my boys okay#will protect them until the end of time#sherlock holmes#john watson#johnlock#acd holmes#queerplatonic
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☕️ on marc/dani as teammates? bc so many ppl on here especially have such a simplified and maybe even rose-tinted view of their dynamic imo…..
hm yeah it's a tricky one because I do think there's a lot of genuine interpersonal fondness there that was forged in the aftermath of some equally genuine animosity. for me, it's that development that's particularly interesting... what I personally have always found the most appealing about this rivalry is just how ruthless marc as to someone he genuinely admired and considered one of his heroes or 'references'. like, I think it's a bit different from the dynamic with valentino because it's kind of... vale's the childhood hero vs dani as a rider who's ahead of you who you want to directly emulate in rising through the ranks. with valentino, marc didn't really think they'd ever be competing at the top of the sport because of how big the age gap was, but with dani? different story
which does affect the emotional approach, I reckon - you can admire them and still dream of beating them, you know? like, say you're fourteen years old in 2007 and are getting out your customised casey stoner voodoo doll while he's bitch slapping your two guys, what fantasies are you cooking up in your little brain about meeting your heroes? with valentino, it's probably him grinning at you while handing you your tenth consecutive motogp trophy and telling you how amazing you are... how you're his successor, the one carrying on his legacy... lots of daydreaming of him like, hyping you up after he's retired and calling you god's gift to motorcycle racing, etc etc. who knows, maybe marc was also fantasising about beating valentino in epic duels, but he wasn't really expecting to be fighting valentino, right? whereas with dani? oh yeah, marc might have thought he was great... but in an ideal world, he's ripping the crown off dani's head when dani's a three time defending motogp champion! so crucially marc wasn't blindsided by actually fighting him on-track, and was kinda more prepared for that to get ugly? dani acts as a 'direct' reference, where he's just a few years ahead and marc can see how it's done, basically. but what this still means... he'd admired this guy for years, he had posters of him and all that shit, but the moment they're direct competitors and teammates? all that is just... locked away. no interest no mercy, all he cares about is beating the guy. and marc did still talk about using dani as a reference point, about how much he'd learned from him... but of course that scary fast learning of his was all about beating dani
from dani's side... I'm glad he's gotten to a stage where he's at peace with his career, but. god, it must have been tough. at the end of 2012, he's the in-form rider - more so than jorge. he won six of the last eight races that year. incidentally, this is how jorge is talking before the 2013 season:
obviously, jorge is trying to fuck with dani here, but he's also not really wrong. all four of the aliens have got a lot going on early 2013, but if you had to point at the guy who is dealing with the most pressure? well, it's got to be dani, doesn't it. he was the one who still had something to prove in the premier class, who was now being thrown together with the super hyped rookie. this is how dani spoke about marc at the start of the year:
and here:
and then of course marc beat dani at qatar and then won at cota... granted, dani does a good job of keeping his head and regrouping for the next few races - but it was still an auspicious start, provoking a lot of discourse that wasn't particularly kind to dani. so in that first year, you've got all these different elements - you've got how marc is competing on-track, dani's injury, how marc is already attempting to assert himself within the team, how you've got the behind the scenes warfare between their two teams (again, see this article)... and then dani's issues with marc's actual riding (x, x). now, I think it's worth saying that aragon 2013 is not a case where marc has clearly fucked up. he makes a mistake, yes, but he couldn't have known the slight contact he made with dani would lead to that wire breaking and dani's highside. here's what dani said:
this is a case where different racing philosophies clash, right? what dani's saying is that what happened was a direct consequence of how marc approaches riding - that he's always flirting with contact and this time it finally went wrong. it's the kind of riding dani has consistently disliked, and it's something marc is the poster boy for. in this case, this crash essentially ends dani's title bid. he couldn't walk for three days afterwards. dani criticised race direction for choosing not to give marc a penalty (apart from the penalty points) - this was not something he just brushed off
and, look, you do have to bring it up... dani's experiences with sic will inevitably have influenced how he approached the marc rivalry. I mean, it kind of did for all of them - there's elements of that tragedy that will have bled into how valentino, jorge, dovi and dani reacted to marc. with casey, it's one of the reasons why marc never even had an on-track rivalry with him. now, obviously, dani had big, big issues with sic, a lot of tension including harsh comments in the press and refused handshakes and all of that, as a result of sic's very aggressive approaching to racing. dani was also the one who suffered the most as a direct result, in particular after the broken collarbone at le mans. he's spoken after sic's passing about his regret about how he handled that relationship... how it changed his approach to rivalries, that reminder that there might be things he'd never have the chance to fix
the other sic-related element is that of course, there were easy parallels to be drawn between him and marc, and his shadow did at times loom uncomfortably over debates over hard racing during that period. I think you can feel it most strongly in jorge's response to marc... the echoes of when jorge had gotten in a verbal clash with sic at one of the 2011 pressers and his frustration when his complaints were just laughed off by journalists:
this press conference was from the race before le mans, where sic was responsible for dani's broken collarbone. so if two years later, you've got marc publicly shrugging off jorge's complaints in an only slightly more respectful manner, how can you not be at least a little concerned? yes, marc did have a better feeling of where the limit was, he didn't really push things too far, but... this was still a very recent trauma for everyone and nobody knew how far marc would or wouldn't push it at the time. especially not after the kind of reputation he'd gotten himself in his 125cc/moto2 days. (though of course it's important to note that sic's death wasn't caused by his style of racing, and if anything he'd gotten more sensible in the latter stages of 2011). so the influence goes both ways, right? on the one hand, it all feels a bit too familiar, on the other... well, that's actually a reason why you probably don't want to be too harsh on this kid. because you never know
in the end, the tensest year of their teammate partnership was 2013 - because after that title was sealed marc had won. by the end of the year, it wasn't really dani's team any more. his internal position had already been de facto undermined by casey, but not to the same extent because casey wasn't really interested in playing these games - plus the end stretch of 2012 had definitely cemented dani's role in the team. I've already given most of my thoughts here about how marc takes control of that team, which inevitably touches on some of his nastier behaviour. lying about what parts suited him is the obvious example... he's a ruthless teammate, he openly admits to it. and obviously, dani wasn't always just fine with that. who would be? he's accepted that's part of who marc is as a competitor, and at the end of the day he also had to accept losing. sometimes you just gotta make your peace with a status quo, yeah? it's tricky to strike the balance between not losing the competitive edge and not letting losing to your young teammate year after year drive you insane... dani's always been quite good at focusing on himself, even if a lot of the time 'focusing on himself' involved 'recovering from some horrid injury'
so you know, it's nice that their relationship has gotten warmer since they've no longer been teammates, and for the most part they did keep things civil while they were directly working with each other. also, you do just get over things when you're no longer competing with someone... I've said this before, but there's really only a relatively small number of truly burnt bridges in the paddock ecosystem. thing is, it's quite impressive of dani to seemingly not hold any grudges over what marc did to him... but he easily could have, and it kinda would've been justifiable? it's also primarily down to dani that this teammate dynamic didn't get worse than it was... which, y'know, you can argue if that was the right or the wrong approach, but it also meant he increasingly had to accept a subordinate role within that team - become a non-problematic teammate that honda was happy to sign again. and then you've got marc, who spent years looking up to dani and then spent years being pretty vicious to him and never saw the slightest contradiction between those two things, because of course he didn't! and of course he still has some historical fondness for him as a result of once being his fan... which is an element that has gradually snuck to the foreground again after marc increasingly managed to dismiss dani as a competitive threat. overall, then, as teammates they had their early tensions, then they were 'reasonably friendly coworkers', now they get on quite well. over the course of his career, dani's hardly been immune to drama with other riders, but at the end of the day he's pretty feud-proof on the whole. what kind of a nutter would you have to be to start a feud with dani pedrosa, eh
#what you have to admire about jorge is that he didn't just have beef with guys it's notoriously easy to have beef with (marc/vale)#he also had beef with guys you don't really think are particularly beef-happy characters (dani/dovi). that's what you call RANGE#i think i fundamentally don't understand how long a 'hot take' is supposed to be. my drafts are an Absolute State#really need to clear my inbox at least a little bit so i just quickly finished this off. cut a whole sepang 2015 tangent#not everything needs a sepang 2015 tangent#//#brr brr#alien tag#batsplat responds#what i'll say is that idm if people want to read that dynamic in a certain way... like it's not that serious y'know#think the most serious moment of culture shock i got when i realised this motogp tumblr thing was a thing was seeing the words 'team tiny'#not least because the last time i'd seriously thought about their dynamic was when the prime docu was released#and over on reddit they had the PITCHFORKS out for marc over the whole corporate sabotage thing. they were gunning for my boy!!#so i'd spent the better part of the year going 'he might be an asshole but he's MY asshole :( let him terrorise his teammates omg'#and then i saw *gestures* on tumblr and went..? can't remember them ever being all THAT friendly?#but y'know it's just a different way of consuming the sport. whatever's fun for people is fun for people. i have no problem with it
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Taliesin for the sake of sanity I'm gonna have to ask you to NEVER LET ASHTON DO THAT AGAIN
Except the kissing Fearne part, more of that!
#critical role#bells hells#ashton greymoore#fearne calloway#taliesin jaffe#ashley johnson#sometimes warnings are there for a reason!#visibly shaking#frothing panicking unable to think#but yay Callowmoore#callowmoore#y'know after Fearne forgives him for almost dying#you regret what you don't take remember Ashley?#but now Ash is both Emperor and Empress so I need some magmatic power buffs going now since the gambit (somehow) paid off#rockwild#Taliesin you LITERAL PUNK#seeing discourse in the tag though I don't get; Fearne didn't want it so Ash took it that's all there is#the Hells are gonna be so mad but Ashton was not gonna let anyone die for them because they are what they're fighting for#hoof in the face is deserved though 'I love you so much but I hate you right now' style#3 weeks and several mental scenarios did not prepare me for that#ashton x fearne#fearne x ashton#cr spoilers#now commence a full week of more mental scenarios that won't prepare me but will at least keep me somewhat composed
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You know what? I'm intrigued by you. [ENA'ifies your Peppino Spaghetti]
I think a funny equivalent to Ena's total mental breakdown where she goes grey would be him getting so stressed he's neither horrified and panicked, nor violent and unhinged. He just. Goes blank. Not even in an angsty hollowed way, but just in an "Eh. Whatever." way, lmao.
And there are some other doodles under the cut! Expand! IF YOU DARE...... >:-)
Not gonna tag Mellow, because. Holy shit what have I done to him. I do, however, like the idea of him, Ena, and Peppino being some sort of a trio. Two surreal fellas and A Normal Man (who is more unhinged than the other two combined). Oh, also The Very Much Real Peppino is there too!
What hyperfixation? What new hand-therapy character? I don't know what you're talking about! /j
And these are just a reference to this video! ... I can explain.
Not tagging Noise either, because I did not do him justice there.
And a final assortment of floating heads and torsos, since I am. Still figuring him out. I do like the guy! He's very silly. (The one in the middle is miserable because every time I try adapting him to my usual style it goes as poorly as here.)
#ena#ena joel g#pizza tower#peppino spaghetti#fake peppino#it hurts to call him that because in my heart he is Also ''peppino''. or y'know just go with ''goopino''#do i tag the toppins? do they have a tag? is there a thriving toppin fandom i have yet to discover? so many questions!!
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ok... so Lambert x Eve...
Eve and the two Blaiddyds
Lambert and the two Fierenes
The step-siblings
@blaiddydbrokeit and I were talking, and they have now sent me down the wonderful rabbit hole that is Eve and Lambert getting married and looking after their children.
#Dimi desperately needs a good mother figure (y'know rather than his idealised image of Patricia who never really loved him and didn't pay#attention to him no matter what he says to himself (you know only having that one memory of her where she was looking out the window and ig#ring him) and then tried to murder him adn his whole family) anyway#Eve would be good for Dimi#and Lambert and Alfred and Celine would get up to all sorts of shenanigans#but also Lambert might be able to help Celine understand and overcome her fear of other's deaths#Dimitri in particular would be able to understand that fear and sympathise with her#and alfred is just having a great time with a new brother and dad because everything is awesome all the time and his old dad would have lov#d his new dad and he tells alear all about it and she's like ooh!#anyway an adorable meet the step-dad step-brother situation for the couple (you know my alflear loving heart can never resist an opportunit#anyway#other tags were originally messaged to a pal when we discussed the idea but I thought they would work under the picutres too:#crack ship or not Lambert and eve are adorable in my brain#lambert egitte blaiddyd#queen Eve#fire emblem engage#fire emblem three houses#anyway maybe in a heroes universe or something; or dimi revives Lambert using some sort of magic and then Lambert and eve meet up in a Fodl#an and Elyos meet and greet sort of ball and they become friends and then they discuss being widowed and through a long series of meet ups#realise a political marriage between them both would be good for Fodlan and Fahrgus and good for Fierene and Elyos and they're also in love#anyway they both visit each other's spouses graves on the anniversary of death#like they would both really respect their partner's deceased spouses and not be jealous at all when the other gets upset and is like#I really miss them. Because they both get it
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