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welcome!

i'm suzie! ♡

big into f1 (my driver's seb, but on the current grid i support oscar and charles)

i also really like motogp (i love marc márquez!!), one piece, & good omens

hit me up folks! i love talking to people <33

completed fics:

poetry and prose (rosquez bookshop au, 10k)

current wip:

mostly my f1 longfic fantasy au (working title: quest in five acts). logging my progress & ideas for this is probably what i’ll mostly be using this blog for for now.

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sources: l.e.s. by donald glover // this year by the mountain goats // maya hornbacher, madness // watchisjawdrop on tumblr // wuntrum on tumblr // kim kardashian // unknown // godblessryankent on tiktok // nayyirah waheed // unknown // lev st. valentine

on hope, finally

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Michael: ??

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what really counts

Text: Michael Schumacher: Driven to Extremes by James Allen, p.235 Images: 1+2 are screenshots from the race; [3] ; [4]

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I constantly think about what would happen if there was a reunion that became public in some way and Marc and Vale both say things like "it's better for our sport if we are speaking" and "allora it was a long time ago" and refuse to answer any questions about specifics including who apologized to whom (because normal people could not conceive of a world with no apology of any kind) and now all the the tangentially involved parties (Alex, Luca, Pecco, Bez) get pressed for details instead and they want to die. Every time a journalist sticks a microphone in their face it is a new potential minefield.

press interactions of affiliated rosquez parties in a post reunion world ranked on who hates it the least to who hates it the most:

tardozzi. poppin bottles big style. big ass smile to camera. planning joint marketing opportunities. if i were him you wouldnt be able to tell me SHIT

vale. not in the paddock so he can avoid it almost entirely if he wishes. gets asked about it by sky italia 3 months after it happens and segues immediately and effortlessly into talking about bez's chances at this track. flawless dismount

luca. cannot be bothered will not be bothered. he's like why do any of you care. anyways the crank shaft,

franky. says valentino rossi is the greatest sportsman of all time and he is glad that they have buried the hatchet. subtext that he will also not forget the previous 10 years but it is mild

bez. gets that consternated crease between his eyebrows like he is genuinely a lil confused or angry and then says that has nothing to do with me. marc and i have a good relationship. goes silent. 30 second bit about it on the paddock pass podcast later that day

marc. WILL stick his foot in his mouth and overexplain it in a way that will haunt him for 10 years before he comes up with a rote PR answer to parrot every time he talks about it from then on

alex. repeats marc's answer, is more mad about it

pecco: I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2014--

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omg i saw your repost of my great gatsby x rosquez web weave and the tags… i would loveee to hear your thoughts on Marc being like Nick!!

Okay, so I've talked about this once before but I'm always excited to talk about it even more

(also sorry in advance, this kinda turned into a general rant about rosquez and the great gatsby lol)

Basically I think the journey Nick goes through with his feelings and perceptions of Gatsby is like a condensed verison of what Marc went through with Valentino

He meets Vale at his own glamorous party (the motogp paddock, where Vale is back with yamaha) and is instantly enamored by Vale, but also meeting him on a weird level where Vale is both above and equal to Marc in status as premier class riders

I think this is like how Gatsby is the host and center of the party, thus above Nick in status just by the nature of his wealth, but crucially, when Nick first meets him he doesn't even realize it's Gatsby

And this whole quote from Jordan that I absolutely love:

The intimacy of being in sports, especially in motorsports where the pool is so small and the only ones who can really understand you are your direct competitors, but you're also on such a grand stage all the time and that's where the glory of it all comes from

AND THEN, Nick's feelings when he first meets Gatsby (to me) are a reflection of Gatsby's feelings about Daisy: romanticizing a vision of a person that ultimately doesn't exist, or is at least greatly exaggerated and polished

Nick slowly falls out of love with Gatsby as he sees how pathetic he is, but Gatsby cannot let go of his dreams of Daisy, which by the time we meet him are so overly romanticized that he's dreaming of a women that doesn't exist, and never did

I personally think Marc knew what Valentino was like with his other rivals, but didn't think that would happen to him (at least not that year) because well, those were rivals, and Marc and Valentino were crucially never title rivals. Obviously no one could have expected what would boil over in Sepang lol

So anyways, Marc falls out of love with Vale and what is left is pity, maybe sympathy as well, which is exactly how Nick talks about Gatsby

The book literally opens with the quote from his father:

And I think you can really see a similar mindset in Marc, who always shies away from criticism or anything too harsh that might be taken as a headline for the media, like seriously he's almost always giving other riders' the benefit of the doubt (or uh. not addressing safety concerns lmao)

Meanwhile, Valentino is the complete opposite, always twisting the media to his advantage and saying things he knows will fan the flames, which eventually blows up in his face

And yet Marc still refuses to play the game! Because that's not the kind of games Marc likes to play, but crucially, he now also has a sort of pity for Valentino

Quoted from this post (in which they asked about him being fed up with being asked Valentino):

"I think living with resentment is very hard. I mean the people who live with a grudge, it’s hard. So, my fans, I don't want them to hold a grudge, just save their energy to cheer for me. So… it’s just that. So I always ask for.. for example, when I got injured, [Bezzecchi] bumped into me and he took me out. But it’s not that "he took me out". I mean, he made a mistake, he bumped into me, and we crashed. But nobody does that on purpose, the thing is that we are riding at the limit, which is something that people sometimes don’t understand."

Marc has always been transparent about his idolization of Valentino and how it continued even after Sepang

And Nick still like Gatsby after everything! Literally mentions in the first chapter how Gatsby, despite being everything he hated and judged, is his one exception. And he's the only one besides Jay's dad to attend his funeral, while everyone else is moves on without any consequences

Well, at least move on from Jay, because word of his parties still gets around!

And then this line from Nick about how Gatsby's dream must have seemed so close, so within reach:

The blue lawn... like yamaha blue...... shaking the bars of my cageee

Also your post mentioning how Valentino has been the "bad driver" all his life and then finally met another "bad driver" in Marc and it takes two to make an accident AUGHHHHHHH

ALSO during the confrontation between Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby, Nick has the realization at the end that it's his 30th birthday. I've always interpreted this as him feeling like an adult finally and somewhat figuring out who he is and where his morals lie, also he's mentioned that before moving to West Egg he was fresh out of the war and wanting to get out of the midwest and see the world.

In my mind I've loosely connected this to Marc in 2015 being the first time in 3 years he'd not won the championship and being 22 years old, like 2015 was also him properly coming to learn what grand prix racing really was idk lol this one's more of a vague idea than the others

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rats of motorsport

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poetry and prose

marc márquez/valentino rossi, bookshop au, 10k

There’s still wine left and Marc is sipping it straight from the bottle in long, slow gulps. Vale watches his hands and his mouth and his Adam’s apple. “You’re staring again.” Vale averts his gaze. “Whoops.” “I like it,” Marc says, without even looking at him.

or, Valentino owns a bookshop. He meets Marc. They fall in love.

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tg: dean045ae

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John Gardener, Grendel Sepang, 2015

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Crowley’s hairstyles/looks - down through the ages

See also: The 2019 [ Season One ] version The 2023 [ Season Two ] version

Bonus: Professor Anthony J. Crowley, Physicist

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ten people i'd like to know better ♡

tagged by @go-go-gecko !! hi! thank you!

last song: Wanted Dead or Alive from the one piece live action soundtrack

last song you sang out loud: Fair-Weather Friend by Bruno Major

favourite colour: dark red, decided just now

last book: Life to the Limit by Jenson Button

last movie: Project Hail Mary

last TV show: Broadchurch. SO good.

sweet/spicy/savoury: savoury i think!

last thing I searched for online: "how to determine favourite colour" :)

tea or coffee: coffeeeeeee

current craving: vanilla ice cream

current obsession: big into sociolinguistics right now

earbuds/headphones: earbuds, i want to easily have one on and one off so I can talk to people

last place you went to other than home: art market

favourite crisp flavour: not a frequent chip eater, but hey i'd go for a bag of barbecue chips

color that looks good on you: blue or red i think!

working on: personal spreadsheet tracking my favourite fics, like bookmarks on ao3 but I can filter/add more notes/organise them however i'd like!

looking forward to: grabbing brunch with some friends soon :)

if you see this post i'm tagging YOU!!

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little alec

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I love Carl's introduction. It's such a great establishing moment.

Ryland Grace has made it all the way to his bike with Eva Stratt at his heels, so her trusted security team has correctly assessed it's time to move in the cars, and Carl is approaching off-screen.

Grace comes out of the little "I don't know why that makes me such a nut!" rant, and there Carl is, stepping up into frame exactly next to Stratt. Tall, broad, unimpressed, unmistakably a force to be reckoned with, unmistakably a trusted professional.

But also a nameless goon at this point. An extension of the threat Stratt seems to represent to Grace. A depersonalized tool.

Grace clocks the cars, his presence, the unfolding situation, instantly and incredulously. And he does something clever, something he always does, which is to call attention to the absurdity of the unspoken threat by trying to force the situation into a normal mold.

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name."

Turning Eva's nameless goon into a person with agency. Trying to force a relationship that hinders coercion.

Ideally, this would force them all to acknowledge how abnormal they are acting and retreat a little to keep up the appearance of normality. Or admit to what they are doing by refusing. Either way, the ball shifts out of Ryland's court into theirs.

Neither happens, though.

Carl sees exactly what he's trying to do with that and interrupts him mid-question. "Carl." And then keeps staring at him the same way as before. One word, and we already know so much about him.

He is not a nameless goon. He is an individual named Carl.

And he fully supports what is happening there. Because nothing is normal and it's stupid to pretend that what is happening isn't happening.

So yes, while he bonds with Grace over silliness and is the astrophage-coparent and instigator of Carl's Hypothesis... he is also entirely introduced to us as the man who will wish Grace the best of success on the mission while he's being sedated on the ground. Because Carl has a personal opinion about what is at stake.

"Sun's really dying, isn't it?"

"Yeah."

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the horrors

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