griftersbone

hockey and f1 reblogs

[ofkyberandwhills-deactivated202]

“I think Mace [Windu] is a well thought-out character who has the trust of a lot of people throughout the universe.

It’s important to have characters that people can look at and see that they’ve made a decision to be right. Now we have a lot of antiheroes, and I’ve played a lot of them, but there’s something to be said for the pure, unadulterated good guy.”

— Samuel L. Jackson on his character Mace Windu

[wmnylander]

there is no woke nhl team you’re all under spells

[lexloveslawblad]

pierre and esteban are the only driver duo that comes anywhere close to being the next brocedes but yall aren't ready for that conversation.

[bloodtroth]

I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship

[djinnhatescold]

Gamechanger

[downtroddendeity]

Here’s a cheatsheet of all the available hidden search functions. “-creators:[whatever]” is another exclusion that can be particularly useful.

[huntersoftheapocalypsis]

rt, to make my life easier

[thatrandomsarahchick]

Holy shit. Rt to save time

[cowboyhamilton]

sums up my thoughts on last races for Lewis perfectly

[undetaqted]

the instant unfollow when I see hogwarts stuff in the year 2026

[sylvermidnight]

Toto saying he’s prepared to basically fire one of his drivers if a true “fierce” rivalry emerges is just. Honestly my final fucking straw with this team.

I’ve never been a fan but I’ve also never been a hater but to me this just stinks. I’m not even a George Russell fan. But you’d HAVE to be stupid not to read this as him threatening George. We all know Kimi Antonelli isn’t going to have a fierce rivalry with anybody I dare say nothing about him exactly reads fierce.

It all but screams admittance of favoritism, and if George does anything about it or says anything or seems unhappy or fights Kimi too fiercely on track or frankly even breathes wrong he’s getting dropped.

I know I’m batting at a hornets nest when I say this so please heed my tags. I don’t care enough about this to not use the block button liberally if I need to. But I’m so over Mercedes, Toto, and Kimi Antonelli. I think they’re probably cheating in a loose sense of the word, and sabotaging their second driver and their constructors chances by pure neglect if nothing else. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ferrari wins the constructors just out of their pure refusal to play the team game at all and I’ll laugh when it happens.

It’s getting so fucking bad that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn there’s money exchanging hands at this point. Genuinely making this sport feel weird and grimy and this is NOT the opinion I had of this team, these drivers, or Toto at the beginning of this year. I’ve TRIED to be optimistic but omfg I can’t do this anymore.

Anyway. Just needed to get that off my chest. I’m normal.

[scuderiamarlboro]

i do think part of why stefano domenicali and his lot feel so confident in the massive viewership and fanbase f1 has been enjoying particularly in the last couple of years is an inherent lack of respect for the young female audience they’ve amassed i believe they believe it’s an ecosystem sustained entirely on wanting to fuck charles leclerc and so we get quotes like ‘the naysayers are thinking too much like engineers’

[scuderia-hamilton]

hot take: Antonelli fans will turn into what Norris fans are rn

[scuderia-hamilton]

to be honest, it’s less about him as a driver and more about the system around him. we’ve seen this pattern before, specifically with Lando and the way his fanbase was built.

both joined the sport with top teams, even if McLaren wasn’t at the front when Norris arrived, it was still McLaren, one of the most successful teams in F1. Antonelli walked straight into Mercedes, even skipping most of the steps junior drivers go through to reach F1. both were immediately framed as part of a “new era”. both were hyped (Antonelli more than Norris), both young, both likeable, both very clearly positioned as the new golden boy of their respective teams. the one the team is investing in long-term, the one fans are supposed to believe in. the one the team will prioritize over experienced established drivers (hasn't quite happened with Antonelli yet, but it most definitely will).

teams are responsible for the way the drivers are framed and people often overlook that. when a historic team like McLaren or Mercedes stakes their future on a teenager (Lando was 19 when he joined, Kimi was 18), they're investing more than just money; they are investing their reputation as well. if the driver fails, it looks like a lapse in judgment from the team principal and upper management. therefore the way the driver is framed serves to protect the team's decision-making just as much as the driver’s ego and own reputation.

the way the media frames them is where the comparison really shines. with Norris, mistakes were almost always framed as something human. “he’s learning,” “he’s being hard on himself,” “it’s part of growing into a race winner/championship contender/champion.” there was always a layer of understanding that softened the criticism.

with Antonelli, it’s even more specific, because everything gets filtered through his age. mistakes are almost never mistakes: “he’s young,” “he’s still developing,” “this is expected at this stage.” by framing every mistake as a symptom of youth, the media effectively postpones any real accountability. it creates almost like a waiting room for criticism where he can stay for years before people are allowed to say he didn't live up to the expectations.

and it works the other way too. with Norris, good results were hyped, but still somewhat grounded, they were framed as proof that he’s getting there. with Antonelli, every strong result feels more like confirmation of a promise. like “this is the brilliance Mercedes saw”. and Toto set that up by constantly comparing Antonelli to Verstappen or Hamilton, so he forced the media to use those names in the same sentence as Kimi’s. this created an association of greatness before he has even won a race, which the media then parroted because an article titled "Kimi Antonelli: The second coming of Ayrton Senna?" generated more clicks than a headline about just a "promising rookie." the way Wolff reacted to Kimi's first win in China confirmed this.

but at the end of the day we end up with two slightly different narratives doing the same thing: protecting them on the way down and elevating them on the way up. which wouldn't be a bad thing, but most of the other drivers do not get the same treatment.

fans don’t form opinions in a vacuum, they more often than not mirror the framing they’re given or the one that's more popular. if the media keeps contextualizing every mistake and amplifying every success, the fanbase starts doing the exact same thing: defending, justifying and reinforcing the narrative.

their fanbases are a bit different though, because their personalities are different too. Norris is more transparent, outgoing, used to share more of his life with his fans. that's how he built the fandom that he has now. they feel like they know him cause he let them into his everyday life to a certain degree. that creates attachment, fans feel the need to protect him from every criticism because they perceive it as a personal attack.

Antonelli is more reserved, introverted, almost shy, he doesn't share everything about his personal life. but if anything that just changes how the attachment forms. with Antonelli, people project more, fill in the gaps, get more attached to the idea of him and then feel the need to defend that idea when anything challenges it. that made up image is reinforced by the media and is centred around two things: his age and his supposed generational talent.

the danger comes when the promise has to meet the reality of a championship battle or just a more competitive season. we’ve seen with Lando that as soon as the car became a winner, the "he’s just learning" grace period expired for the general public, but his core fanbase (and certain media) stayed in that protective mode.

and with time, as his career progresses, we will see this play out with Antonelli too. because he will make mistakes, he will have bad races, maybe even bad seasons. and when that happens, i genuinely think his fans are going to react just as vehemently as Norris fans have over the past few years. because at that point, they’re not defending just his results and performance, they’re defending the narrative they’ve bought into from the start.

[magnetic-rose]

there is genuinely some really weird shit going on between the antonellis and mercedes. like, kimi's billionaire dad being so involved in the garage he gets a say when kimi gets to change his engine? toto saying kimi can get a special engine for monza while simultaneously saying he has no idea if they can fix george's engine? toto saying in an interview literally not that long ago that he was glad lewis chose to leave mercedes so he wouldn't have to make a choice and then kimi saying this week that toto had chosen him for mercedes months before lewis announced his leave. toto's son karting with marco antonelli's company.

IT'S JUST FUCKING SUSPICIOUS IDK!!!!

[falenalunare]

So this is weird as fuck to me. This is a quote from the article about Kimi knowing he was going to merc before the Lewis announcement:

“This was even before Lewis was announced to [be joining] Ferrari. He said, ‘Look, Lewis is going to Ferrari, and we are thinking of putting you in the car for next year.’

“My eyes were wide open. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’

“I hadn’t even started F2. I still had so much to prove, to prove that I could earn that spot.

“[He asked] if the opportunity comes, will you be ready, and I said, ‘Well, I’ve got to be ready!'”

Not only did Toto offer him the seat before Lewis’ announcement, Toto offered him the seat before he’d even seen Kimi compete in F2.

[crispycathottub]

The thing is, Red Bull is currently regretting the hell out of building everything around Max and letting his camp get so involved with decisions. Because they're sitting around powerless while Max deliberates what to do and they can't get an answer from him until October. So many of their sponsors could pull out, so many (more) of their talent could leave, and they won't know until October.

And that's Max. He has historically had no desire to move anywhere else, and now only wants to because the combination of new shit regulations and Red Bull having internal power struggles and hemorraging talent was too much.

Antonelli is almost certain to leave for Ferrari. Generously, I'd say within the next 10 years. Realistically, I can't see it being more than 7. He's a genuinely stupid choice to build a team around.

I can only see two semi-realistic (somewhat) long term plans:

1. Torger uses the prestige of the level of involvement he's allowing in Mercedes to keep the Antonelli's around for the full 10 years, while also using their involvement in the junior formulas to fast-track Jack to replace Antonelli at the end of those 10 years.

2. Torger *AND* the Antonelli's leave within the next 5 years or so, leaving a heavy gap in management due to both their heavy involvement. They already have a much weakened junior program, which would also potentially leave them without an obvious 1st driver, the combination plunging them into the midfield. Torger gets to be a "legend" the entire mercedes team relied on.

Alternatively, Torger is being played like a fiddle by Jos Verstappen 2.0 because Marco Antonelli knows how to cater to his massive ego, is assuming Kimi will stay at least a decade also because of said massive ego, and is going to have a very rude awakening in a few years.

In any case, it's rich old white men playing rich old white men games, with zero regard to logic or anyone else's dreams/loyalty/livelihood. May it backfire on them all.

[shanebuffys]

“Criston Cole’s death is anticlimactic” THATS THE FUCKING POINT! He thinks that he is this great warrior who is going to die heroically in battle after taking down tons of other soldiers but instead he is killed by a woman and the rest of his men get slaughtered. His misogyny against Rhaenyra is what lead him to the green’s side of the war. For a woman to take him out like it’s nothing is a fitting end. It also shows how pointless this war has become. No one is really fighting for green or black, it’s just fighting to fight and in the end death is meaningless. Media comprehension is in the toilet in this fandom.

[vro0m]

Excuse me?????????

"Our sport is bigger than a war"????

People are dying, Stefano.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[ladystoneshart]

funniest part of the episode was gwayne saving daeron with his gay powers by recognising that the man before them wasn't his hot baratheon fling with chestnut hair and handsome features 😭

[utopiastri]

ah yes. my favourite part of bahrain. the country of malaysia

[frereamour]

lrb people underestimate how much lewis looks down on nico for retiring in the way he did, or worse, think he's in someway jealous which is just laughable. i've seen them say 'nico won because he didn't have to defend his title he has a wife and lovely kids yay he's free from the hamster wheel' ok... but it's not a hamster wheel from where lewis is standing. for him formula one is the greatest thing in the world. it's a privilege afforded to only 20 men at a time in the entire world. and the thought that having a wife and kids, something that all kinds of good for nothing assholes can have, is in any way comparable is taking the piss.

[lesbiannieism]

as healing for the soul as it was to hear oscar call carlos an idiot and (finally) tell tom to shut the fuck up, this was his most import radio from today, because this was oscar taking concentration and energy away from his driving to say “you pitted me into traffic knowing full and well the risks that brings, which means that either you’re fucking stupid or you willingly compromised my race”