daveena

she/her || ‘09 kid || @/d.artshwini on insta || writer, reader, artist || multifandom || 🇲🇾

[dartshwini]

seeing as the first half of the 2026 f1 season is over (felt super long ngl), i wanna talk about kimi and arvid and how media/commentator seems to portray them. obviously, this isn’t hate on kimi or super glazing on arvid, just some observations and opinions i have acquired.

kimi has had a good season so far, whether it’s attributed to:

the new car being better suited to his driving style

him not having much experience with the older car thus making it easier to adapt

merc potentially prioritising him over george

kimi definitely deserves the flowers he is getting, congratulations to him. BUT, we really shouldn’t be glazing him to this extent. the whole “just 19 years old” gimmick is getting super annoying.

like yes, he is doing awesome in his 2nd season, wdc leader and relatively consistent races (when the car isn’t misbehaving). but i also would prefer to hear about literally anyone else for at least 1/4 of the time the commentators spend on kimi. in my case, i barely hear anything from the commentators about arvid, his consistency and keeping up in the points for the past 5 races. for example, in belgium, we only ever got the bare minimum acknowledgment of his starting position. slight acknowledgment during the race but we hear about kimi who is 12s in front of everyone, basically just keeping up the gap.

the baby-fication (?) of kimi is actually quite absurd. i’ve seen others say that kimi and arvid a treated WAY differently due to their ethnicity. i can see what they mean, arvid having to prove himself twice as hard to get the recognition kimi gets. again, i’m not dismissing that kimi has definitely worked to receive the praise, but him being italian/white also definitely plays a part when it comes to fans who have unconscious “racist” tendencies, if that’s the right word? obviously, it’s not his fault, the world is unfortunately built this way but as fans of an ‘elite’ sport, we really need to be more inclusive.

my friends and i noticed that new fans, at least those in school with us, tend to stan kimi. it’s really not a problem, but i kind of see that as part of the glazing he gets. i can’t really comment too much on how people support their drivers seeing as i only joined f1 fandom (?) last year, but my friend said that the newer kimi stans are going all out in their support, and i trust her judgment since she’s been a fan since childhood.

to close off my ramble/thoughts/essay, by the end of the 2025 season, kimi was p7 in wdc. currently, after the hungarian gp 2026, arvid is p11. i’m saying this honestly, but i can see arvid ending up around the same place as kimi was at the end of this season, if everything goes well after summer break. so, i hope arvid gets the flowers he deserves and kimi doesn’t get too air-headed from all the glazing around him.

[dartshwini]

i watched descendants: wicked wonderland with my descendants bestie, so here's the review:

‼️descendants spoilers‼️

right off the bat, we start with a song! "perfect princess" has grown considerably on me, especially the 'perfect princess nepo baby' line. it's fun, it's camp, it's cringe, all of which belong in a DCOM. pink is giving major FOMO energy throughout the first song. the songs overall have really great lyrics, nicely worded puns and catches.

since we're technically in a new timeline, world building or exposition makes sense, but saying that the mad hatter is the biggest villain of all time when maleficent and hades literally still exist (?!). and if he really was the bvoat, why is he not permanently sentenced to the isle of the lost?

out of the new characters, hazel and luis have got to be my faves. i don't really see the point of felix (dr facilier's son) and robbie (robin hood's son) seeing as they fell into some sort of predicament and weren't in the song half the time (dancing with the enemy and have you heard about them). they seemed to just be comic relief. the smee twins barely had any purpose other than being hazel's lapdogs basically. like chad to audrey.

the costume department must have had an upgrade because wigs were ON POINT. no more randomly voluminous wigs on chloe and the putfits looked really good. the outfits definitely ate 🤏🏻🤏🏻

[dartshwini]

DESCENDANTS: WICKED WONDERLAND song rankings!!

Dancing with the Enemy

Did You Hear About Them

For Once in My Life

Perfect Princess

Heartless

Mad

Who I Am

True to Your Heart

Go Live It

The Girl I Used to Be

[sunnytastic]

goodbye mclaren mastercard formula 1 team

[dartshwini]

oscar hopium was so high for the first half of the race. then the gearbox wasn’t working… please, i was cheesing so bad

at least arvid protects his points streak, 5 in a row!!

[winblads]

ARVID POINTS FOR THE 5TH RACE IN A ROW!!! after only pitting once btw like that's some crazy tire management yet again 👀 or, as the commentators would say if it were kimi, the EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD ROOKIE TEENAGER has done it again!

[dartshwini]

OSCARRRRRR

[dartshwini]

ah shit kimi is in p1...

[dartshwini]

arvid, catch upppp baeeee!!

[dartshwini]

NOT SAYING A SINGLE THING (THIS IS BEAUTIFUL)

[dartshwini]

i’m gonna keep my mouth shut before and during the race as to not jinx arvid or oscar

[holymoly63]

CAN OSCAR CATCH A BREAK? WHY DO FERRARI BOYS HATE HIM SO MUCH?

[dartshwini]

let there be sepang gp paid by bahrain 🙏🏻🧎‍♀️🕯️ knowing there's a chance i can spot oscar and arvid if they come to malaysia!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[dartshwini]

YESSS LFGGGG. yk what, im just gonna get my whole family to park outside and we wait for the drivers to come and go. there's a mcd somewhere nearby. that's lunch.

[dartshwini]

let there be sepang gp paid by bahrain 🙏🏻🧎‍♀️🕯️ knowing there's a chance i can spot oscar and arvid if they come to malaysia!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

[dartshwini]

i watched descendants: wicked wonderland with my descendants bestie, so here's the review:

‼️descendants spoilers‼️

right off the bat, we start with a song! "perfect princess" has grown considerably on me, especially the 'perfect princess nepo baby' line. it's fun, it's camp, it's cringe, all of which belong in a DCOM. pink is giving major FOMO energy throughout the first song. the songs overall have really great lyrics, nicely worded puns and catches.

since we're technically in a new timeline, world building or exposition makes sense, but saying that the mad hatter is the biggest villain of all time when maleficent and hades literally still exist (?!). and if he really was the bvoat, why is he not permanently sentenced to the isle of the lost?

out of the new characters, hazel and luis have got to be my faves. i don't really see the point of felix (dr facilier's son) and robbie (robin hood's son) seeing as they fell into some sort of predicament and weren't in the song half the time (dancing with the enemy and have you heard about them). they seemed to just be comic relief. the smee twins barely had any purpose other than being hazel's lapdogs basically. like chad to audrey.

the costume department must have had an upgrade because wigs were ON POINT. no more randomly voluminous wigs on chloe and the putfits looked really good. the outfits definitely ate 🤏🏻🤏🏻

[f1daily11]

Replay shows Lewis blocked Oscar - Piastri wasn't happy and showed it. The stewards are now looking into it.

[dartshwini]

OSCAR P3, KIMI P7... dreams are coming true

[f1daily11]

Replay shows Lewis blocked Oscar - Piastri wasn't happy and showed it. The stewards are now looking into it.