#the sic and bez thing. my mom saw a flash of him in the opening of the movie and asked me if it was bez :(

[moonshynecybin]

u rly have put a lot of things in context for me regarding marco simoncelli & the honest trauma vale was (and like probably still is) reckoning with & it’s made me totally reevaluate my take overall. I think I was maybe overlooking it a little bc like…the idea of not only watching one of your close friends die but right in front of you but also having to reckon with the fact you were directly involved is unfathomably horrific. I also wonder if he ever looks at Bezz & sees Simo bc I do a lot :(

the thing about vale is he very clearly wants people to remember sic and know that he misses/grieves for sic but he never wants (very understandably !!!!) to show publicly exactly how bad this whole deal hurt him, so he’s often not gonna get into the nitty-gritty sort of. this changed the way he interacts with his peers and the sport as a whole kind of thing, even though it absolutely did. undeniably so. so i can’t blame you for not realizing it bc i don’t really think he wants you to