hello, I might be wrong for asking you this because I do not know if you're a lewis fan yourself but I'm pretty new here and this is one of the only charles blogs i know, can you suggest some other charles blogs that do not actively support lewis during race weekends?
never wrong for asking anything <3 a lot of ferrari fans are willing to root for both drivers and i of course respect the sportsmanship! i, however, am not one of them and it feels good to be recognized as such (◡ ω ◡)
(i'm always saying my ideal race starts with 21 engine failures followed by charles doing hot laps for the next 90 minutes)
let me give you a list of (some of) my fave chirlies who- to my knowledge -do not bat for 44 during race weekends:
@lecmonica - roots for charles first, max and oscar a distant second. lewis sits in her firing zone for the same reasons he sits in mine (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
@lecharliefying - "Charles Leclerc fan first, everyone else hater second" if i wasn't already committed to my tagline, i'd borrow this one. if you like my stuff you'll like hers!
@emilialikescars - a lestappen lover with a clear first driver (and therefore a girl after my own heart)
@countingstars-17 - a charles blog doing charles things (◕ᴗ◕✿) lewis pops up occasionally but it's typically in reference to something charles is getting up to
@florrings - one of the three posts at the top of her page is the beautiful "i just won't bring myself to be even the slightest bit happy for lewis lol" so i think you will enjoy
@shizukastark - the only tag they've got in their "posts a lot about" is charles leclerc. 'nuff said. also a swiftie if you're into that
@sixteensecrets - charles fan with the most unhinged, incredible lestappen thoughts out there. i love her writing and i love how she loves charles
@yukiitsunoda - "pro charles anti ferrari" brother i am with you 100% here!
if anyone would like to be removed from (or added to!) this list just lemme know :) all of these blogs are top-tier to me & i love every one of them!! & if anyone would like to speak up in the comments as pro-charles minus-other drivers, feel free to join in ( ╹▽╹ )
“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.”
there are a NUMBER of folktale Woman-Creatures like selkies who exist to make the inherently coercive nature of heterosexual marriage explicit and to externalize male anxiety about how if your wife had actual autonomy she very well might disappear and you might never fucking hear from her again
which is a FASCINATING category of Woman-Creature imo
someone said it's also a cautionary tale about mistreating your wife and I think that's spot on especially for other related types of stories e.g. the crane wife. like I think these stories are very much Husband Anxiety Stories. the Woman-Creatures are black boxes whose interior experience it is impossible to know and who have strange and often seemingly arbitrary rules that you must follow or else they will disappear. idk. like. that's why I think that any empowering-to-women-ness qualities of these stories is incidental. I think they're externalized anxiety about coercive societal heterosexuality and the inability to truly Know one's wife in such circumstances.
you also see a variant of this formula a lot (generally at the more literary end of the fairy tale space) where it's not a creature you capture, but a magical lady who picks you for seemingly arbitrary reasons, bettering your fortune enormously with her magic and wealth and second-hand status.
and then, for reasons usually at least slightly less arbitrary, fucks off again.
the husbandly anxiety here is more about not having access to coercion as an option.
was just talking to Story about this and he told me about one folktale where a guy meets a beautiful woman at a lake and she brings a bountiful dowry of like one million fat cows and such and she is of course a fairy so she's like "my one requirement in our bargain is that if you strike me three times I will leave" and in many versions of the story the husband doesn't ""actually"" strike her -- each time it's something like, one 'strike' involves her forgetting her gloves inside and he walks out and taps her on the shoulder with her gloves, but she tells him that counts as striking her. this sort of thing. which is TRANSPARENTLY like "whoa wouldn't it be fucked up if your wife could enforce consequences for behavior she said was harmful, even if according to your cultural norms it was fine, and you didn't see it as a big deal?" like... lol. what if women could actually be the ones who decided whether or not any given action their husbands took against them was harmful? IMAGINE... PREDEY SCARY....
