Cars are Love, Cars are Life

Lover of all things Pixar (especially the Cars movies), Disney, and Animation

[torturedpoetskywalker]

pls send me some for any fandom !! :)

(made by @versegm)

[twistedsailor]

Send me some for the Cars fandom c:

[pixarjem]

Me too.

Though I’ll probably also list why or fill in certain blanks.

[ri4nett]

:З

[pixarjem]

Lovely

[lightningstorm115]

HAPPY 20 YEARS CARS (2006) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉💥💥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

alt ver. under cut !!

[pixarjem]

This is gorgeous!

[piny1234]

🤎Tow Mater x Holley Shiftwell 💜

I've never drawn this pairing before. It's probably the first time I've drawn Cars characters in human form 😳

[twistedsailor]

Aww, this is cute! My OTP has been done justice. o7

[pixarjem]

Wow this is actually really cute.

I don't even mind this ship this is just great artwork.

[raesource]

ship headcanon questions

make sure to include the pairing(s) you are wanting these questions to be answered for . these should work for poly ships as well as monogamous . feel free to edit these as you see fit .

💕 How did they both realize “oh wait, this is actually love”?

🌹 Who fell harder & who fell first?

🫂 What’s their favorite way to hold each other when words aren’t enough?

🔥 What’s the pettiest thing they’ve ever argued about?

💋 Who says “I love you” first & how?

🌙 Who’s the little spoon & who pretends they hate it but secretly loves it?

💍 Would they ever get married? What would the proposal look like?

🧸 Who still has the very first gift the other ever gave them?

😈 Who is more likely to start chaos “for the vine” & who films it?

🎶 What’s their song - the one that makes them both tear up / grin like idiots?

☕ Who’s the morning person & how do they lure the night owl out of bed?

🛡️ Who jumps in front of danger for the other without thinking?

😳 What’s the most embarrassing thing they’ve walked in on the other doing?

💔 What’s the one fight that almost ended them?

🩹 How do they comfort each other after nightmares?

👀 Who gets jealous more easily & how obvious are they about it?

🍳 Who cooks & who sets off the smoke alarm trying to help?

🧳 If they had to run away together tomorrow, where would they go?

😏 Who is bolder in public (hand-holding, kisses, etc.)?

🌧️ Who steals whose hoodies when it rains?

🎂 How do they celebrate each other’s birthdays?

🖤 What’s the darkest “we’ll never tell anyone” thing they’ve done together?

💌 Who leaves little love notes & where do they hide them?

🛌 Who hogs the blanket & who ends up freezing dramatically?

😴 Who falls asleep first & who watches them with heart-eyes?

🚪 Who’s more likely to say “we’re not leaving this room today”?

🌸 What nickname do they have for each other that would mortify them if others heard?

🎤 Who sings in the shower & who secretly records it for blackmail?

💞 How do they act when one of them is sick?

🩸 Who would literally kill for the other & who would help hide the body?

🌅 Do they go on sunrise / stargazing dates? Which one do they love more?

😤 Who apologizes first after a fight, even if they weren’t wrong?

🧩 What tiny habit of the other do they find unbearably adorable?

🎪 Who plans elaborate surprise dates & who just wants to stay in?

👑 In their relationship, who’s the king / queen & who’s the knight / advisor?

🌪️ What’s the most chaotic thing they’ve done together on pure impulse?

💤 Who has the weirdest sleep-talking lines that the other quotes constantly?

🧡 What color reminds each of them of the other?

🕰️ If they could go back in time, what moment would they relive together?

😶 Who’s terrified of saying “meet my parents” & why?

🍷 Who gets tipsy first & starts spilling embarrassing love confessions?

🌿 Do they want kids/pets/plants together? What do they name them?

🪞 Who takes longer getting ready & who hypes the other up in the mirror?

💥 What’s the biggest risk one of them took for the other that the partner didn’t find out about until much later?

🧣 Who steals the other’s scarf / gloves “on accident” every winter?

🌌 What’s their “we made it through hell” memory they’ll tell their grandkids?

😘 Who kisses the other first thing in the morning, morning breath & all?

🩰 Slow dancing in the kitchen at 3 a.m. - who starts it?

⚓ If one of them had to leave forever, what would they leave behind for the other?

💫 Ten years from now, what random Tuesday are they spending together?

[pixarjem]

Cars fandom send something to me!

[pixarjem]

For the ship ask game,

Mater/Holley

Lightning/Holley

Miles/Holley

Mater/Holley

They're a canon ship and so I'm obligated to just be okay with it. Granted, after recalling the Cars 2 audio commentary with director, John Lasseter, I'm more incline to think this pairing is part of a wish fulfillment fantasy.

Lasseter claims that a mother at a test screening really wanted Mater and Holley to be a couple, but I feel like he's lying through his teeth. He was also really weird in talking about Holley's voice actress, Emily Mortimer, that just feels more uncomfortable in hindsight. Holley is probably half Mater's age and is probably the most responsible person in the room.

It's "basically canon to me" because it is the canon ship. I can imagine how it could work, but I'm just more accepting them as a couple like how I am towards Aang and Katara. I don't hate it, but I am always reminded of how it's weird in hindsight (Holley and Mater, not Aang and Katara).

Lightning/Holley

Well they're barely on-screen but I can imagine the aesthetic appeal by the just their colors. Holley being purple and Lightning being red, in some lighting Holley is kind of a dark pink.

I can imagine how it could work out in fanfics, Holley saving Lightning and Lightning saving Holley. It sounds like a fun pairing for fun scenarios.

Miles/Holley

I LOVE villain/hero pairings. The toxic relationship aspect, manipulation, the different sort of kinks and creative scenarios, non-con. I love villain/hero pairings for the uncomfortable nature of it, the danger, the hopelessness.

For Holley and Axlerod specifically I like GT3pipedream's fics because of that level of uncomfortableness. How Holley, someone who knows how to fight being broken down and humiliated by this bastard, I feel bad for her.

For me personally, I kind of see Holley being as somewhat more able to fight back because she is a spy and would have some combat training and expectations of deaths and threats. She is comparatively stronger than Sally and Cruz who are canonically fast, but not physical fighters. They could still fight back, but the threat of death or financial ruination (because Miles Axlerod is a BILLIONAIRE) is enough to keep them in line to some degree.

I don't toxic ship it the same way I do Sally/Axlerod, but I do find it fun to read about.

[gaymcmissile]

Ramone headcanons because i felt like it

- He does not have a favourite paint job, his favourite paint job is always the latest one he did

- Ramone is good at reading people because he can see someones personal choices and preferences back in the artstyle of their paint jobs very well. Thats also why he really hates it when cars get bullied for their paint jobs.

- Everyone thinks Ramone gets inspiration from things, but hes very imaginative, creative and has great conceptualization when it comes to his art. He will take a painting as an inspo and come up with literally everything else himself.

- as soon as he has a good art idea he draws or paints it because hes scared hes gonna forget it later

- He would get along with Finn very well PROVE ME WRONG

- Lightning has become his canvas over the years and Lightning does not mind at all because everything Ramone does looks cool to him

- Everyone thinks hes just a street artist but Lightning has alot of connections in the racing industry and got Ramone a few jobs for a bunch of sponsors and companies. Ramone has designed logos and racing paint layers, and he LOVES IT

- He did start as a street artist. He began at 15, classic vandalism, graffiti paintings on walls except he actually tried and made pretty paintings on random walls in his hometown

- He has a favourite song in almost every genre

- He is NOT QUIET about art he is a YAPPER when it comes to art

- He really really really really really likes Pinterest Ramone is the biggest Pinterest girlie in all of Radiator Springs, he has boards for EVERY SINGLE paint art style known to carkind. He doesnt save it for inspo, because as i said he doesnt really need it, he just likes seeing people do what they love and make cool things.

- Ramone loves seeing people thrive in their favourite lines of work. He has done a lot of things he didnt want to do, and when he was able to make art his job he became happier. He knows when someone does something they truly love, they feel the same as him, knowing they can make a living out of their number one passion. Ramone loves seeing Lightning race, because he knows how much Lightning loves racing and is able to do it for a job. Seeing Lightning thrive on the racetrack and go home with a smile makes Ramone happy. He gets happy from the happiness of others because he knows how important it is to do something you love <3

[cheriboms]

thats frank 🤷

[drop-of-a-pigeon]

We all know the residents of Radiator Springs and that they are genuinely good people, but from an complete outsider's perspective? They seem like the absolut worst?

Like, imagine Lightning had like one (1) friend who cared about him, but for some reason couldn't stay with him. And Lightning calls them right after his race and tells them all about about these wonderful people and that he thinks that he might finally have found a family to stay with.

And this friend is just soo happy for him because they know Lightning was lonely and that he desperatly wished for company, but then Lightning is like "He yeah, but you know, what they did at the beginning could hardly had been legal"

And the friend is like "???"

And then Lightning tells them about being held against his will, being convicted without a real judge ("oh yeah, their vet kinda did everything") and with someone, who hadn't ever even looked at a law book in his whole life, but wanted to be payed by him for literally doing nothing, as his lawyer, to having to do manual labour.

Not even beginning with Lightning telling them repeatedly that his carear is in danger by his stay, them not even letting him contact anyone and Lightning probably being able to just pay for the repairing of the road, without having to do it alone, on his own, in the heat.

Like, Lightning could sue them to oblivion and completly ruin their reputation. Radiator Springs would be history if Lightning wanted them to.

On the other hand, they get back their reputation by Lightning staying with them.

Adding to that, Lightning is soo desperate for affection at this point, making him easier to manipulate and and in the town also lives his childhood hero, who not only approved of everything that happend, but was a mayor factor in it happening.

Lightning's friend would probably be more than a little worried for him and more then a little suspicious of the residents Radiator Springs.

[pixarjem]

Yeah sounds like Stockholm Syndrome

[swaggerstudiosnova]

hello world i like to update you here every so often about what i’ve fixated on this time and now it’s. cars 2006. yeah. i mean it could be worse it could be. boss baby or something idk

also i’ve lowk had a crush on sally since i was a kid but i realize now i was onto something damn!!!! anyway here she is + my human cars yumeship oc im sorry im sorry im sorry im sorry im sorry im sor

[incorrect-favourites]

lightning, sally, & mater: *screaming*

sheriff, running into the room: What's wrong, Sally?!

lightning: Wait, why are you asking Sally that when Mater and I are also here?

sheriff: Because Sally wouldn't scream unless it's an emergency. You two scream whenever you have the chance.

[incorrect-favourites]

mater: That shirt looks great.

lightning: Thanks.

mater: But I bet it would look even better on Miss Sally’s floor.

sally: Are you hitting on my boyfriend… for me?

[mylordshesacactus]

Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.

Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.

Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.

This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.

In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.

At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.

I think the least we can do is remember them for it.

[mylordshesacactus]

I can’t begin to describe how happy and flattered and a little teary I am that this just broke 100k.

I may be the actual only human being on Tumblr with a post this popular that I not only don’t regret making, but am actually HAPPY whenever I notice a surge in its circulation. 

I never intended this to gain any traction at all (you’ll notice there’s no sources or anything–this was a personal ramble, prompted in good humor by a friend after I jokingly said that I wished someone would give me an excuse to cry about Carpathia on Tumblr so I could get it out of my system.) I literally expected to get, like, maybe 20 likes and a reblog, from friends, indulging me in my nonsense.

It just….means a lot to me that it’s touched so many people. I see a lot of tags to the effect of “HOW DARE YOU HURT ME LIKE THIS AND MAKE ME CRY ABOUT A BOAT” that are often really funny, but overwhelmingly the tags on this post are from people saving it for a rainy day, or remarking in a sort of quiet awe that they never even really thought about her role in the story–and God knows I never did, I learned it by complete accident much as most of the people who’ve found this post. 

And so many of you guys are taking strength and reassurance from the reminder not only that people are capable of amazing things together, but simply that kindness matters and that a simple, tiny act of compassion is never wasted. I’m just really glad to have been able to do that for some folks.

If I can just add one personal note. I need to emphasize something I only touched on in the original post.

I need to emphasize that Carpathia failed.

A lot of the tags and comments have a tinge of…despair, or guilt, or wistfulness about things like this happening so rarely. Or inadequacy, or just being overwhelmed or unhappy about not being in a position to step up in a comparable way. And I want to gently bring up the fact that this is still the sinking of the Titanic. 

They did not get there in time. They did not save the ship. It can be argued that they may not even have saved a single life; we have no way of knowing. This was still a horrific maritime disaster mired in arrogance and incompetence and a lack of care.

If the response to this story shows anything, it shows this: It matters that they tried. 

Even though they got there too late, even though the ship still sank. It matters that they tried. The difference between making the best reasonable speed after confirming the seriousness of the situation, and the miracle they pulled off–it matters. It makes all the difference. Even if it made no difference at all. Not one of you read this and concluded that I was stupid for caring so much when the Titanic still sank and all those people still died.

You don’t have to fix the world. You’ll likely be cold and sick and miserable and testy and scared, and unprepared, and in over your head, and entirely too small to be of any real use. It feels stupid, passing out blankets and coffee in the middle of an ice field knowing what just happened. It’s hard to feel anything but useless when all you can do is tap a wireless transmitter and promise help that you know will come too late.

It matters that they fought for those people. It matters that they cared, and it matters that they tried. It matters that they didn’t stop. If it didn’t matter, you wouldn’t have read this far.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Look, here's the sad truth about trying to recommend different books to "replace" Harry Potter- You can't.

Don't get me wrong- everyone should read new books. There's so many incredible pieces of fiction in the world, and I'll recommend my favorites day and night.

But Percy Jackson and Discworld and Earthsea and Broken Earth and Singing Hills and Murderbot and Teixcalaan and Wayfarers simply will not make you feel the way Harry Potter made you feel when you were 13.

Because you aren't 13 any more.

You will not find the Fandom community that wraps around you and helps mold you into the person you will become like Harry Potter did when you were 13.

Because you aren't 13 any more, and you never will be again.

And it sucks that Harry Potter is irreparably tainted. It sucks that all the things Harry Potter meant to you has been taken from you, and you cannot get them back. It sucks. Be angry about it. Be sad. Be disappointed and betrayed.

And, honestly if you really go back to HP, you'll find it isn't actually all that good. Youll find that it carries a lot of assumed bias and mean spirited callousness and British classism. Plot holes and lazy status quo reinforcement and haphazard world building.

Not even Harry Potter NOW can be to you what Harry Potter was to you THEN.

And if you spend the rest of your life reading new books because you want to find the book that will be what Harry Potter was to you when you were 13, you will spend your life being disappointed.

So.

Read new books. Read new books to find new experiences, new thoughts, new feelings. You won't find a replacement. You won't find a book to be what Harry Potter used to be to you.

But you could find Discworld, and Murderbot, and Singing Hills, and Wayfarers , and Broken Earth, and Teixcalaan, and Earthsea *right now.*

And honestly, it's worth it.

[huntress1013]

Yesterday, Disney asked users on Threads to use Disney quotes to show how they are currently feeling. To say that this did not go according to Disney's plan would be an understatement 😂

They deleted the thread, but they should know that this doesn't help because now the videos are making their rounds 🤣😂

[bisexualmcqueen]

reminder of Lightning's feelings on the "Monty" name:

"original name"

"Lightning suits you much better" "I always thought so."

"this story is only for you guys" "yer secret is safe with me"

"new name"

"Can I call you Monty?" "That's not my name anymore."

(Struck By Lightning. Dave Keane, 2017)

"I am Lightning!"

(Cars 00:01:15. Pixar, 2006)

[pixarjem]

Monty is Lightning’s dead name!

[champmorado]

i love you mater i love you for being the kindest vehicle in all of the world

i love you for showing mcqueen kindness when the other radiator springs residents already wrote him off as a criminal

i love you for still choosing to help bubba when he got trapped in a ditch even after he's show you nothing but disdain

i love you for seeing the humanity (they're not humans but y'know what i mean) in the lemons despite all the bullshit they did because you know firsthand how horrible ostracization feels

i love you for being so compassionate that half of the mater's tall tales stories start with you helping someone

I LOVE YOU MATER!!!!