#topnotchquark!

[comradejoanmir]

Guess what I found!

Omg???????

[anitalianfrie]

They are posting you on Twitter

How the fuck did *I* breach containment 😭😭😭 at least it's one of my tamest post I guess??

[batsplat]

Wait batsplat wdym Casey messaging Vale about his daughter.......

(follow up on this) yeah! I don't really have massively more to add to this except that valentino definitely said it. I was lazy and just pulled up one of the few (poor quality) english websites that posted it but the quotes were widely reported in italian sources and are originally from here (whole interview from early 2022 is worth a read)

"often sends me messages"... often...

while we're at it, casey obviously said a bunch of stuff around the time of valentino's retirement (and in the years since), some fairly nice some rather less so. but one of the things he said was this:

now, personally I doubt this dinner is something that has happened or indeed would happen, not least because I'm not sure valentino would be particularly interested in relitigating past events with casey. "at peace with himself" is the right way to put it, and at the end of the day that's always been a rivalry that has considerably more emotional baggage for casey than it does for valentino. but, I mean, maybe he'd be curious what casey would have to say! can someone ask casey about this again? can someone ask valentino? are they still messaging each other? do they want to schedule the dinner date? can somebody let me sneak into the dinner date so I can listen into what they discuss? why are no journalists or indeed podcast hosts asking them about any of this? why do they refuse to do their jobs properly? the people need to know

[dickinfectionbez]

"poor Kimi, Parents divorced and now he's forced to live with his war-crazy grandad Toto"

Kimi is honorary south east asian he could be an amritsari/Lahori/Dhakaiya

Kimi my child he is SUFFERING. He's bouncing around Karachi like it's no one's business. One day in Clifton, seaside with his abbu (Nico), the next he's in Defense visiting his ammi (Lewis) but he's for most of the time trapped with his ex-army nana abbu (Toto) in Malir Cantt watching ARY News.

GET MY BOY A TUTOR AND GIVE HIM SOME O-LEVEL EXAMS.

He should be playing cricket in the street and racing rickshaws 😔

[celestinovietti]

Why'd bulega leave the academy?

Bulega left in 2019, they made out it was a mutual understanding and that he needed to move on and away from the academy to develop his career. When he said he was leaving, he did make his parents his managers instead of Vale - I think there's probably a monetary element there, as the academy members have to pay a certain amount of their earnings (10%) to Vale and to the academy.

He also left the vr46 team around the same time, and his results weren't great. And sometimes when they're not performing, they disappear from the academy (for example Nelli disappearing from any academy events). He got replaced by Bezz (one of Vales fave children) so I guess it works out in the end - I think the current academy members still have some form of camaraderie with the ex members but they just don't come to all the academy events.

[indiangp]

Pecco/Luca? (Ship ask game)

THEY'RE SO INTERESTING... makes sense and compels me slightly but again I don't know much about them. I see people's tags and fics and go 'hmm makes sense. nothing more to be said' but it's cute... They both have a certain pretty loser boy energy... In my head they're like if a chill hawk and an annoying mouse were in love w each other I don't know how to explain any further 😭

[whoregaylorenzo]

13 for the airport gif prompt :) (have a nice flight!)

Franco Morbidelli! (Franky)

(sadly the hair is now gone....) listen franky is just the chillest Italian I've ever seen.....like I've never seen an italian have stoner vibes but he does....just so chill I like it

[oscar-piastri]

Hi Cassy. Is your pfp Charles in a bunny cap? Just curious!!

Hi! It is 🥰

[comradejoanmir]

I'm about to gather my courage, take a deep breath, and check if there is any gill x kishan fic out there. And if there's any a/b/o. But if you had to assign, who'd be alpha and who'd be omega.

I know there's cricket rpf and I felt quite proud when some of the more popular works were like. The sri lankan team <3 but yeah I don't watch cricket throwing this out to those who do

(to ME gill alpha kishan omega except Gasp they're actually omega x omega he was pretending to be an alpha :o)

[anitalianfrie]

Never took you to be a lestappen girl?!

Uhm I honestly don't know if to take this as a positive or a negative thing?

[dickinfectionbez]

How would Bezz fare in Islamabad?

Okay prefacing this by saying I lived in Islamabad, but am not Islamabadi. I am a Karachi girlie, so I may come off as super fucking bias.

Following this post by the lovely Cate as a slight guide, we know that Bezz needs to be near the sea (or any body of water) or he will perish /j.

Islamabad only has one large body of water and you can't swim in Rawal Dam (you can go on a speed boat and go karting [edit: on the circuit nearby] or on any of the rides otherwise I don't recommend Rawal as a spot to visit). He would be crossing the toll bridge out of Islamabad and to Taxila area to go to Khanpur dam (where you can swim, go on jet skis and its a good vibe).

Also Islamabad has its inner divisions. The capital is divided into square box areas named sectors and they are numbered from 6-15.

I don't see him in Meerabadi (land that was established as a settlement before it was incorporated into G-12) or any of the sectors 15-9. F-7, yeah its a good open food court so it's a maybe but Bezz might be spotted in an E-sector, in the blue-zone/in Safa Gold Mall (F-7) or Centaurus Mall (F-8).

But lets not lie to ourselves, he's a Karachi guy. Put him in Defense or Clifton. He'd be biking down Sharah-e-faisal coming from Malir back to Seaview. He's at French Beach on the weekends, YoYo Honey Singh playing from the coaster the academy guys rented. He has a red sting in hand and life is good.

He is not a mountains guy, Islamabad would drive him back down to Karachi.

[moonshynecybin]

https://www.tumblr.com/moonshynecybin/744318694337970176/the-spectrum-of-vr46-riders-opinion-on-marc-is

Please break it down 🙏🏼🙏🏼

scholars in the replies to my original post @topnotchquark and @xoxogossipzoe... we were actually communicating telepathically here

like. its incredibly revealing in terms of their sense of self and what they think is important wrt vale and the interplay of their own identity… it’s about how they individually— as people who idolize, know, and owe humongous amounts of their success to valentino rossi— conceptualize themselves as separate entities from him. do they want to be their own person (luca). will they take his vendettas unto themselves (bez). is it worth it bc they owe him. is it worth it bc they want him to be proud of them. is it not worth it at all. do you think it’s normal to hate marc bc he wronged vale eight years ago. when you were a child.

the other biggest part is like. marc is fucking annoying. he pisses people off all of the time. and they’re vr46 riders, so everything that they do concerning marc will be seen as a message from vale’s camp. they are all looped in together under the vr46 brand. a united front. they are his legacy, and in many ways his proxy within the sport whether they want to be or not. so they also have to weigh if its worth it to get into that grade A 100% high quality premium BEEF. do they want that smoke from a pr standpoint (pecco does not). and do they want to make an enemy of a CRAZY MAN who is the only one to permanently get under valentino rossi’s skin. all of the academy’s members in the premiere class have individual answers to these questions and i think they’re VERY revealing in terms of their character…

[indiangp]

I didn't want to suffer through the pornstache alone 🙂‍↕️

We are in this suffering together 🫂

[highspeedhighcarbon]

@topnotchquark THIS ONE

[keepthedelta]

everybody read @topnotchquark's addition to my post because it's literally perfect.

f1 is a sport where the drivers so rarely have any agency in their exits. they chase the dream so hard for so long, even after they've been successful that almost none of them get to leave because they genuinely want to. for so many of them, chasing the dream of f1 glory ends up being a slow, brutal, painful, often humiliating slog in midfield or backmarker teams until they finally cannot take the losses anymore.

michael schumacher was the greatest of all time by a literally ridiculous margin when he first left f1, and he left it as a genuine competitor who fought to the end. when he came back for his second try, he got beaten by a teammate for the first time ever, and achieved a single podium in three years. he was eventually manoeuvred out by mercedes management who left him no way or time to get another seat if he wanted one, and discarded him for the next great talent, lewis hamilton.

sebastian vettel left a team that adored him and prioritised him to fulfil a childhood dream, and when ferrari decided that he wasn't worth it anymore, they prioritised his teammate and then fired him for a driver who had never even won a race. the highlight of his final years in f1 was a single podium, and winning grill the grid. i'm not sure that that particular trophy will be of great comfort to him.

fernando alonso left formula 1 after trying and failing to recapture the glory of victory so many times. even now, he is racing in a sport where he hasn't won a single race for more than a decade. now, as he faces retirement for a second time, he has to consider making it to the podium a great achievement, where once it would have been a sub-par weekend.

daniel ricciardo was once considered a genuine contender for a world championship, but he got beaten by a younger, stronger talent, made a series of career mistakes that ultimately resulted in him being fired, and has come limping back to the junior team, knowing that he will never be considered a championship contender again, and at best he can hope to be max verstappen's second driver.

even lewis hamilton is not immune to this. he is statistically the most successful driver of all time, and yet the team with which he won six titles did not want to give an indefinite extension to his contract because they lacked faith in him and the car and would rather set themselves up for the next generation of talent than spend money on an aging driver potentially past his prime.

no driver, no matter how great, is exempt from this. and nico, who grew up in this world more than almost anyone else, knew exactly what could happen, and decided that he didn't want that life. he married vivian because he loved her, and had a child with her because he wanted a family with her. and once he had his championship, he decided that what he wanted was away from the track, and to this day i don't believe he has a single regret over it. i don't know that you can say that about everyone else

[comradejoanmir]

A Marc edit with one of those fun mildly sleazy girly songs from late nineties early 2000s would go so hard. Imagine Kaanta laga or Kabhi Aar kabhi Paar, or Leke Pehla Pehla pyaar, or ek Pardesi Mera Dil le gaya lol

Unfortunately I don’t know a lot of bollywood pre 2000s But listening and learning! Item song (reclaimed) edits would go hard