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[auracobaltblue]

Drunk modern au mike:

[auracobaltblue]

Mike moans from only kissing and making out with Will

[aradiabot612]

its soooo funny when I see posts about characters being forcefemmed or transfem headcanons being acceptable in fandom spaces. or even the ones about forcefem happening in real life. like if only. if fucking only girl

[kim-tey]

always get up to the fun filth writing in my fics and then get struck by the need to play video games I don't even enjoy. something something pathological need to include edging spilling over into real life or???

[worrynoodle]

Its really interesting to me that when I read fics from before Cas' confession -- Especially around 2015-2016 -- Dean almost always is the one to confess first or realize his feelings first.

Another reason why I dont believe the whole concept of Dean's feelings being unbelievable.

[fandom-hoarder]

Dean would love this game. He'd bet money he can tell Sam's and Mary's milk apart.

[monacobby]

First off just disclaimer this is NOT anti Lando i actually really Iike him, whatever he's selling I AM buying

But I was just thinking about the whole Oscar social media strategy thing, and I really think Lando/Lando's team is actually one of the most camera savvy of the grid in terms of personal branding as a whole

I'm not addressing the whole Lando clearly has some type of anxiety that makes him blurt out things phenomenon

But I do think there's something clever and calculated about the persona they project of him, and a lot of it in recent times actually is very closely linked with Oscar. like I think Lando repeatedly posting Oscar on his main IS strategic it adds a lot to a narrative that he's the more mature one who is very appreciative of his teammate and has no bad blood (not saying they have bad blood just saying this is a good way of "I keep my side of the streets clean" from Lando, when we have actively seen some blunders from Oscar's side on this specific front)

And while I'd love to just close my eyes and rpf about how Lando mentioned Oscar a few dozen times in his championship interviews, I feel like that too was informed strategy. He just won a championship that a bunch of ppl were crying sabotage about etc and the best strat for that would be to sing praises of Oscar and say how close he came etc etc

I think even the self flagellation is kind of calculated, but that's more I think part of the narrative they wanted to build for the whole "i did it my way" "you don't have to be aggressive to win a championship" (max trex Lando puppies dts), a narrative they built to actively be the counter for whatever the media makes out of Max (aggressive, villain etc etc)

This is not very well articulated but I think Lando's team is just very good at identifying things in other drivers pr strat that is a gap or something they can provide a supposed antithesis for?

And I know a lot of ppl are like no Lando does not play to the cameras or else why would so many ppl have hated him etc etc but honestly? The demographic of the audience he plays up to the camera for was literally never the people who are haters anyway it's people like us and it certainly works on us

lol got scared bc anything that opens with “this is not anti lando” could be a red flag but this isn’t! you make a lot of really excellent points!!

i’ve talked about before how lando’s personal brand is one of, if not THE, strongest on the grid because early on his team understood how to lean into things lando naturally had interest in and establish himself as a figure outside of racing. that doesn’t happen on accident and i agree his team is super savvy, and made very smart, intentional choices. i absolutely think they saw there was marketability in the demographic initially attracted to lando that varied from the typical driver fanbase and they leaned in.

as a result, i believe its a mixture of what you’re saying. they made these decisions BECAUSE of the way lando already was (which is good strategy). so, do i think the self-flagellation is calculated? no, i think that’s genuine as we have seen lando work very hard over last year to correct that. but i think things like lando’s posting on world mental health day are a direct response to something that was naturally happening that his team pitched to solidify a certain image, that yes, is the antithesis to the “born racers” and other drivers weren’t doing. and was lando coached to mention oscar after he won? absolutely, i’m sure both he AND oscar were briefed by the team to make sure to do that if they won. do i think he was told to mention him 20 times? no, i think because of who lando is, he was overflowing with emotion and that was as real response.

also, i’m sure there is an aspect of consideration about why lando posts oscar (and why it stopped for the better part of last year). idk if it’s to make him seem like the more mature teammate, but they inevitably know landoscar drives engagement, so including him in lando’s dumps likely improves post performance.

anyway!!! this was verbose, sorry to the dash but compelling points had to be responded to lol