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wait whats the story behind max and the suitcase when he was younger?? i want to be be sad too

guys with a Time Machine: idk I'm gonna meet my great grandfather

girl with a Time Machine: I need to catch Sebastian Vettel 🔪

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With the nicest intentions, who do you think would be a better lesbian?

Jannik Sinner or Nico Rosberg?

if I wanted a world no. 2 tennis player lesbian caught in a doping scandal who can breadstick/bagel anyone in her path and just won wimbledon iga swiatek already exists...

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what is the most interesting/most compelling thing about novaryna to you?

the whole thing is compelling. the age gap is compelling, the fact that she's women's number 1 and he's the winningest player of all time, that she's the young player on tour he's the closest to and gives her hours of advice/practices with her/came over to his house and made açai for his daughter (she's her favourite player), the fact he and jelena went on double dates with aryna and her man, that she was the one to break his decades long tiebreak record!!! they both wanna be loved, have big personalities, can come across as too much and have natural chemistry with each other. the AO exho where they flirt the whole time??? radicalizing. the grunts as moaning, complimenting his ass and "focus novak", also shoutout him being in her likes whenever she posts a bikini pic. me too king

but the Most compelling part to me is the ghost of Maria Sharapova haunting the narrative.

there's the obvious physical similarities of 6ft tall, blonde, Russian (adjacent), top wta player famous for her grunt. but it was when novak started recreating things he used to do with maria with saba I was like Oh. from the exaggerated imitations to having her hit balls at his dick to crashing Wimbledon press cons... do you get deja vu

I view masha as a kind of one that got away for novak. and the biggest difference is masha will always see novak as a contemporary while he's the goat for everyone younger. maria won her first slam at 17, years before novak and he was a (relative) nobody begging for a date while she was alr a champion, similarly she dated grigor who could never surpass her career (and there's a whole masha essay for another time). sabalenka is openly deferential, calls him the goat regularly and understands that her friendship with novak is something special because everyone wants a piece of him, in that she's chosen. with novaks looming retirement ever in the horizon, aryna won't be the one walking away from him

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do you think it matters who’s hosting the tournament? like a lot of the middle eastern tournaments are literally funded and organised by the govt. that’s not the case in some other counties (of course they can also be organised by other bad actors even if it’s not a govt - like larry ellison and indian wells). but do you draw a distinction or do you think the existence of a tournament in a country is blanket sportswashing?

it’s something i’m really trying to grapple with. especially with the american tournaments. it feels like everything is tainted

the same saudi blood money (PIF) that sponsors six kings slam also sponsors sunshine doubles, its only because the American PR is much more effective that we draw a distinction that one is Good and the other Is Bad because of the geographical location instead of the money funding it.

the Saudi events are funded by their government, while Indian Wells are funded by American oligarchs such as Larry Ellison who is equally involved in the Trump regime but people don't make fawning videos about how a billionaire saved a failing tournament and bought it out of the goodness of his heart and turned it into the best one that gets thousands of views about KSA - doing the same reputation laundering of sportswashing

if there was a Russian or Saudi tournament held - with no government funding involved - people still reflexively go "why are they playing in the country that's currently invading another/engaged in genocide" and I think the same scrutiny should apply for American and its western euro allies sports events. They're just so much better at the sportswashing that we begin to question if it is at all - that's the most effective propaganda there can be

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The streets are saying that Oscar purposely slowed down on his outlap to impede landos in lap in q3 after t13. He didn't do it in any other lap, just the one where Lando was behind him - which prevented landos tires from heating correctly on his flying lap

good for him. didn't know he had it in him.

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Unearthed Keke and Baby Nico photo... https://x.com/f7lcrm/status/1907106505679065412

he was just his papa's little boy clinging on his arm 🥺

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woah. just thought about max saying 'i told you already many times there will be a day anyway' in the post wdc clip. like they're for real friends. they're getting a little bit deep with it in the club or over brunch. max knows lando wants to prove himself and reassures him that he can do it. and they've had this conversation before. many times. unprompted. insane.

what's fundamental to understanding them is that they've literally been online friends since lando was 17. like that's oomf. lando had the pic of the first time he met max as tweens as his computer background. during covid max would call lando in the middle of stream and send him selfies between iracing and make him laugh. lando would defend max on twitter when he got in iracing drama, max defended lando when he got the mnet evil editing on dts. lando rooted for max to win 2021 while being british which was punishable by death. when lando moved to monaco in 2022 to dodge taxes and was lonely, he spent the entire summer w max and kelly and they didn't just include him but his bestie and then gf were also in the circle. lando introduced max to padel and they still play together now. they partied together after max won his championship in 22, after lando's first win. they got crepes, they fly together like 15 hr flights and even hulkenberg mentioned at the height of the battle last year they'd yap throughout the flight, max's stepkid adores him. max offered him to come join him at redbull if he wanted to win, and always maintained landos a good driver he just needs the car to prove it. and even last year he inadvertently scolded his fans for making up narratives and reaffirmed that lando is a good person. lando has chronic foot in mouth disease but even after austria he woke up first thing in the morning to text max, and max respected that a lot. the only thing that mattered to him was his relationship getting on well with lando. lando said he believes you won't get a better driver than max in formula 1 ever again. lando lost the championship, left the media pen, then came back just to hug max. max told him, many times, that his day is coming.

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Tbh gabico gives me older guy who starts sleeping with someone much younger bc thats what you do when you’re approaching your 40s and bored, thinks he has the upper hand but oh now im listening to 2 hours of him complain about twitch streamer drama (or whatever 20 yr old boys talk about) on the back of a yacht i rented for him wearing designer clothes i paid for… well guess i have no choice but to show him off to the entire world

hmm yummy😋😋. gabi sitting on nico's lap and saying don't get too excited is such a rich characterization text