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26 // australian // asshole

[artemis-the-sinister]

Don’t fucking piss me off with this Hayden Pike bashing that’s been slowly increasing in presence on ao3 lately. He’s not perfect but he’s fucking trying ok? Fuck all the way off if you think he’s a bad friend. And tag your shit correctly if you have to omg.

[backyardbarf]

Why do people interpret this line from My Dinner with Hayden so negatively.

“I thought you hated him,” Hayden said. “We talked about how much we hated him all the time. For years! And then I find out not only that you don’t hate him, but you… I mean, you must love him so fucking much, right? Like, you’d have to, to go through all of this.”

Like, I get it? Hayden has been basically told by Shane for YEARS 'we fucking hate this guy' and Hayden, like a great friend, took that a ran with it. He was given bountiful evidence over the years, how hard Ilya hits Shane, how much Ilya focuses on, narrows in on, Shane in every game, talks shit in the media. Hayden plays right beside him. He's got a front row view to all this bullshit. Hayden doesn't know they're flirting.

To Hayden, Ilya Rozanov is basically a big bad fucking Russian bully and now Shane's asking Hayden to actually re-write everything, everything you've learned this past 10 years, it's bullshit, I swear. He's good now. If someone turned around and told me my friends ex-boyfriend we've all openly hated 'is good now istg' I'd punch them in the fucking teeth.

And I've heard people read the second part, 'You must love him so fucking much, right? Like, you'd have to, to go through all of this.' as snarky or sarcastic. It feels more, desperate? Like Hayden's scrambling to put together why Ilya, why this, why for so fucking long, why torture himself over all of this when in Hayden's mind, Shane could find a nice guy, any other guy, why does it have to be the guy Shane has openly, loudly, hated for years. The guy who Hayden has seen hurt Shane, over and over.

Yeah, in this moment Hayden's making it about himself, and he recognises that literally the a paragraph later. He says 'I'm sorry'. I just think people forgot that we know Ilya and Shane aren't mortal enemies but Hayden's basically been sitting in the centre of the propaganda machine and everyone expects him to just switch tracks immediately.

aNYWay I'll always have sympathy for Hayden, dude's trying his best, whole world got turned upside down and people are mad at him for stumbling a little

[backyardbarf]

all my heated rivalry fics are hayden centric even if it's a lot of hollanov because i WILL NOT suffer the fuckers who don't like hayden pike, you don't get to read anything of mine, shoo, loser

[nikogonelubly]

behind every aussie person there is an aussier, more evil aussie person

[whewchilly]

ElkannOut for sureee but it is so funny seeing the same people that blamed Sebastian and Carlos for floprrari only now getting outraged really a full circle moment for #me #personally

[carletes]

Why are people surprised Carlos is talking about women’s representation when his whole thing has been reducing the money barrier for motorsports, becoming a union leader because he’s concerned about the long term impact of unsafe racing on racers, attending a dinner party where he listened very seriously and intently about the experience of a gay Pakistani Muslim man, and has generally shown he is a VERY thoughtful individual…

[piastri]

Can you remember how long you had to wait after receiving the news, signing the contract and being able to tell people?

[yutamayo]

[chxrryclem]

remember when hide died in the anime and they played unravel acoustic version

[backyardbarf]

I have the same impulse control that I did as a 15 year old. At 25 I really expected that to improve.

[chuuzus]

the white lotus s3e1 (2025)

[flowersintheimpala69]

someone on tiktok was talking abt white lotus and saying the incest was out of no where and added for no reason ??? Girl from the BEGINNING those siblings been weird abt eachother it definitely wasn’t a sudden thing the writers decided to add last second

[notenderhands]

With white lotus now over, I have to say that Lochlan is not a predator nor a manipulative person. He is very much someone who lacks self-esteem and a strong sense of self. He latched onto the nearest person he thinks will have him and while that does lead him down a particularly dark path, I think he is an 18 year old kid trying to understand himself and who he is. He’s not evil nor a manipulative younger brother who took advantage of his older one, he is a literal people pleaser to his core and all the awful things that come with it.

[backyardbarf]

Sometimes i reread that one reigisa fanfic where rei died in the storm and comes back as a ghost and waits in the afterlife for nagisa and i bawl my eyes out

[redfacedpalindrome]

the only person who had a worse race than ferrari was oscar piastri – and when the leaderboard listed him as 'out', he reversed out of the grass and got back on track. he was not going to DNF at his home race without the stewards physically wrenching a front axle from his hands.

oscar piastri is a goddamn phoenix, and he will rise again and again and again. i love charles, and he is il predestinato - but oscar being a champion is not even predestined. it's literally inevitable.

[shipping2survive]

I still cannot get over the fact that Oscar kept going. Like this man. he was fully stuck in the grass after his team had prevented him from going for the win before with fucking papaya rules, and yet he grit his teeth reversed out and actually scored two points. I cannot imagine what he was feeling that moment in the grass. they had literally marked him as out of the grand prix and he said actually no, fuck that. he is my driver of the day cause he should've won that.

[jennarations]

oscar piastri the man that you are… could have dnf’ed like 5 others this race but was the only one to fight back, get his ass back on track, UNLAP HIMSELF and get points. unbelievable drive.