#Suzuka sympathy
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Imagine this….
You have a great life and you rule over a large kingdom where everyone must obey you. After a long day of ruling, you lay down for a long ahh, delicious nap. You drift deeper into sleep and it feels like you’ve been dozing for like a thousand years, until you feel something. Someone is fcking eating your fingers. Just absolutely chomping on them wily wrigglers. Gobbling them like a complete Goober, just biting them off at the knuckle and slurping up your flesh sticks like Garfield eviscerating a pan of Lasagna.
So you wake up. You become angry at the person eating your fingers. And then you realize-you have BECOME that person. You now live inside their head.
So you decide to go outside of their head. And what happens? The first fcking thing you see is this circus looking twink with hair like Einstein and his emo son, Jakeathan.
Would you…
A: destroy the world
B: be a kind, reasonable and well-balanced person.
For those of you who read this without realizing this was a Sukuna Sympathypost, I apologize. In this essay I will
#POV ( 🤡) your sukuna#Sukuna Ryomen#JJK#jujutsu Kaisen#Jjk 2#Cut him some SLACK#I would be pissed asf too if I immediately saw Gojo 💀 I’d wanna go back to sleep#Suzuka sympathy#Sorry yikes#Gojo slander#But also Gojo appreciation#Choose your own adventure#he woke up and chose violence (rightfully)#Also how tf does Sukuna find any good snacks (other than humans) in the modern age? “Yo Sukuna you want some Cheetos?”#Deranged jjk things
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I have to way I'm a bit surprised by all the hate charles gets and all the support carlos gets
I used to think charles was more popular
I guess when it comes to Fandom he does have a bigger one, but I think general audiences seems to support carlos more
Maybe it's underdog narrative idk. Like charles is constantly called spoiled, brat, whiny etc whenever he says ANYTHING that isn't super nice, while carlos can bitch as much as he want and barely gets called out
Fandom is always a bubble. I'd say the top two drivers in fandom are probably Charles, Max, and Lando because they're the ones that are popular with younger audiences. It's certainly not true outside. Sure, there's an RPF to fandom, but I think it's also worth noting as well if you're in F1 fandom, you're probably a more avid viewer of the sport than most casual fans, so things like Max's current domination are made more interesting by knowing the ins and outs of his journey, and it's easier to reject anti-Charles viewpoints because when you watch a drive like Suzuka in real time and look at the data afterwards, you understand why the past four WDCs think him generational, and why Carlos is a GOOD driver, indisputably, but has a deficit of skill in comparison to Charles which is masked with luck.
Also ultimately, it's a difference in what type of PR sells to different generations as well. Charles has carefully cultivated quite a strong parasocial relationship with a very loyal fanbase mainly comprising of the countries of Italy and Monaco and younger fans–he does this through playing into inside jokes online with his fans, making us feel like we have a 'special' understanding with him by liking certain tweets, or using certain emojis, or using pictures for his instagram that sneakily reflect a piece of online discourse that happened on a race weekend. Carlos has gone for the more traditional media approach of an underdog narrative to gain sympathy, but he doesn't have the same legion of loyal fans as Charles and makes no effort to build the same fan backchannels that Charles does, which is why I think that Charles, ultimately, will win the PR game. The support of traditional media is fickle, but the lecfosi would follow Charles into hell if asked. It's why Charles knows ventures like LEC or his music will succeed, wheras can the same be said for Carlos outside of Spain?
#i am always super wary of those who seek to build parasocial fanbases but i think charles has managed it in a taylor swift way ie quite well#lando also has a parasocial relationship with his fans but i think he manages that one worse#max in a weird way does not want anything to do with parasocial relationships at all but him basically being a child star helped build one#also i think he piggybacks off of lando's and charles' a fair bit#carlos also piggybacks off of lando's but in a weird way the positive effect from that one is balanced out by the negative from charles'#anyway thoughts!#f1 journalism discourse#f1 parasocial PR#charles leclerc#anon#asks
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I love that charles loves the team so much and is such a team player, but it annoys me to no end that the person on the other side of the garage is the exact opposite to this. Everytime charles qualified behind and they end up in similar positions on track charles will be willing to be the team player, he'll say he understands carlos gets preference cause he's ahead, "it's up to me to do a better job on Saturday" etc, etc, he never asks for it to be made easier for him. If carlos qualifies behind, we get situations like Austria where he'll go against the teams strategy and demand he be let through because he's faster despite that not being true. Not to mention the blocking in qualy and the dodgy moves on track à la monza last year. Yet somehow carlos has this reputation of being a team player despite there being more instances of him hindering the team/his teammate than helping. The only time he actually acts as a team player is when it's the most obvious thing in the world and he sees the opportunity to milk it (like when he had a grid penalty in France 22 and gave the tow) and even then he managed to mess it up and still made a big deal about "teamwork" in the press to boost his PR. I can't wait for him to be someone elses problem.
So true 🫱🏻🫲🏻
Coming back to this ask because I just watched the Channel 4 Suzuka coverage and no joke they had a full puff piece on Carlos in the context of his current form, results, and especially what's been touted as a "feel good story" with his appendicitis -> winning Australia two weeks later. They tried to push the idea of "did Ferrari fire the wrong driver, are they regretting their decision" so hard while saying Charles has had a "meh" season so far (hasn't finished any lower than fourth so far despite his brake issues in Bahrain but I digress) and even put the question directly to Fred (who thankfully didn't rise to the bait and just neutrally talked about focusing on this season.)
So he's definitely got momentum and public opinion on his side with the whole sympathy narrative combined with the results (aided by a hefty dose of luck) raising his stock considerably. If you just look at things from the public/media's perspective... sure it's going to look like Ferrari shot themselves in the foot, like they underestimated Carlos, etc. On paper he's the perfect driver—across articles and in broadcast commentary he's been described as a consummate professional, hard worker, team player and so on. But if you've been following Ferrari closely for a number of years and have been invested in what's going on in that team specifically and aren't just taking a broad view then the cracks start to show. Like you said, we've seen him impede Charles before, we've seen him disobey team orders for his own benefit. These incidents might not be brought up and dissected by the media (or if they are discussed it's usually to paint CS in a positive light, like with the whole "strategy genius" narrative) but it doesn't change the fact that they've happened.
Like say, Max, Carlos is one of these drivers where, when you hire him, you're not just getting him but also his familial entourage as well. It's no secret that Sainz Senior is closely involved with his son's career in a capacity that goes far beyond occasionally attending races to cheer on and support him. Most recently he's been seen hustling, attending meetings with various team principals, and I doubt they met up for tea and biscuits. He's very obviously there for business, lobbying on Carlos's behalf. The access he's granted is far beyond anything a "normal" parent is privy to—because why was he privy to classified information regarding Ferrari's 2023 car and why did he feel the need to tell the media about it with this kind of assurance that next year the car will suit Carlos better. 🤨 He wants to be involved and steer the ship in a direction that best suits Carlos. And that's something you're going to have to contend with and deal with as Carlos's prospective employer.
We know from what Marko and to a lesser degree Horner have said that the Toro Rosso years were far from easy when they had to deal with two highly involved dads prone to politicking within the team—so much so that they had to split them up sooner rather than later, and Max's promotion to Red Bull kind of solved that issue for them. We've seen the impact of this politicking on Ferrari.
Bottom line: if it was only down to Carlos's results then yeah, I'm sure it would be a nonsensical call from Ferrari. But they know far more than we do, they're the ones having to manage both of these drivers and their whole entourage and keep the peace within. Carlos is also the only non-Red Bull driver to win a race in 2023, so it's not like they weren't aware he could bring in these results—and they still elected to let him go for next year, so clearly there must be other factors at play that contributed to this decision. So yeah, ditto to your last sentence 🫱🏻🫲🏻
#replies#anonymous#discussions and predictions#and like if they do regret it........... well it'll be on them. time will tell#it's just annoying to constantly deal with people's bafflement at like WHY did ferrari let him go when he's been PERFECT for them#like no he hasn't the issues are very much there you're just choosing to be ignorant
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Hey, I read the rest of the article first before reblogging from OP and it's bad. Furthermore Daniel would've been on the podium even if the accident between Max and Lewis didn't happened.
There are multiple ways of praising his and the team's performance but saying that today's race was more deserved than Monza after talking on multiple interviews about how deserved it was and how anybody who questioned their win is wrong it's simply distasteful.
You can read it however you want but this isn't the first time that Lando has took a dig at Daniel and everyone chug it as "British humour"
Hoi, it's quite ridiculous how bad Lando is at disguising how he feels/thinks ("He got driver of the day? What the hell?" with the driver in question right next to him ☠ or "Who are you??" to a reporter being a dick to another reporter). While he's proven his immaturity and cockiness plenty of times (driving off the track in the rain in Russia must still haunt him lol), Lando doesn't come across to me as malicious. Even when he said he had "no sympathy" for Daniel being forced out of Mclaren (that shit got my blood boiling big time at first), he was referring to a rule he and plenty of drivers apply to everyone including himself (you fail to perform/ live up to expectation, you're out), not a personal dig directed at Daniel.
To me, both can be true: Lando being super proud of the Monza P1 and P2 and saying Dan and him deserved it, as well as recognising that with the current car and fewer mistakes on his part due to being a more experienced driver, his P2 today came about less due to chance (rival crash etc.) and more to having reliable equipment. I found the article and:
Again, this can be read differently according to personal interpretation. To me, he's pointing out how satisfied he is about the effort that's been put into the car (pace) and how today's result was meaningful for the whole team as a sign of their progress. He doesn't mention Daniels efforts in Monza being less meaningful and, maybe more crucially, he doesn't say anything about the Monza podium being less rewarding or even deserving on a personal level. Both Dan and Lando drove their asses off to keep the rest of the pack behind them. And Lando isn't saying anything that suggest to me that Daniel is undeserving of praise.
Lastly, my best guess is that if Daniel (god fucking forbid) had driven the second Mclaren car today and had been asked if the Monza or Suzuka podiums were more deserved, he would have recognised that while Monza was personally gratifying, excruciating and well deserved given the circumstances, chance did play a role in him being on the top step. Making a P2 and P3 without any uncontrollable incidents in Mclarens favour (at least at the top of the grid) a more deserving experience from the perspective of the team as a whole (read: no credit to the team for Monza, that was all Daniel and his f.e.a. attitude). It's not about how Monza doesn't feel as fucking awesome as it felt before, it's about how the team can look at the data now and be like: We're seriously making progress after investing so much time and money into this bloody shitbox (I have to be very careful cause I'm using up all the empathy I have for this team in a year on a single post).
That's how I chose to look at it. I might be completely wrong. It does give me peace though to think that the little men on my screen are not all blatant cunts who'd throw each other under the bus first chance they get. Except of course for Alonso 🤝🏻
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unless i have a sudden bout of insomnia i will not be watching this race live, so i just want to take this opportunity to beg the universe to please, please let yuki finish this race 🙏🏿. i do not think i can take a third dnf in a row, and definitely not a third first lap dnf. yuki has done nothing wrong, ever, in his life. i know this and i love him. yes, he has terrible taste in men, but who amongst us has not had a poorly thought out flirtation with an inappropriately aged european? must he be punished for that? is it not enough that he is forced to drive a tin can on wheels with a racist corpse as his boss? do you feel no sympathy for him, forced to sell alpha tauri's mediocre clothes? why is his heart not enough? he is beautiful and delightful and hopefully slowly poisoning helmut marko over a long period of time so that it can't be traced back to him. is this not the hero that suzuka deserves?
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so…. what are your thoughts on logan? the good, the bad, the everything. i’m so fascinated by his career and the potential he has/ had
I mean, it can be summed up in three words.
Got to go.
Harsh I know but from a purely meritocratic perspective, you can’t really argue otherwise. He’s had his shot. And people will say it’s not a fair shot because the Williams is such a crap car but no one was expecting him to perform miracles. James Vowles was the one who wanted to stop taking Merc juniors and really develop a Williams driver, and he admitted they threw Logan in with very little testing and he defended Logan all of last year. He has a great teammate in Alex, who can lead on the development side. All anyone was asking was for him to keep the car out of wall and Jesus really took the wheel because some of those crashes seemed celestially stupid.
There is a real bottleneck in terms of getting into F1 and it may sound ruthless but it seems like it’s Come time to make like RB and start cycling through the rookies a bit quicker. Because you can’t tell me there’s not a kid in f1 or stuck in Indy right now that could do better than Logan. And they deserve that chance, in a way. Logan got that chance, he hasn’t done enough with it.
Now, do I think he’s being hung out to dry this year? Hell yes. They took his car, then gave him back the old one, and when he crashed in Suzuka James Vowles just straight up said “no idea how he crashed he just didn’t know where was on the track and didn’t know where he was going”. Like o_O. My guy really said I will not go down defending this kid. And for a guy who seems to be a bit of a retreating character in the first place, it’s got to be hit after hit to his confidence. But a big part of F1 is being unflappable.
It’s a shame because his situation does illicit a lot of sympathy. He seems like a really nice guy who’s just not managed to find his footing. It’s unfair. But he is kind of taking up a seat, and also costing Williams a chunk of money that could hinder their development budget. He shouldn’t have been given the second year, I think Vowles just didn’t have any other options and was too stubborn to take another team’s junior. JV really is handling it with all the sensitivity of a war doctor with a rusty saw though.
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No love for foxes here.
I can tolerate little Violet at the very least. But both Tamamo and Suzuka will get no sympathy from me. No matter how petty it may make me look."
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And there’s that haircut again. I think it’s time to have a discussion about this recurring character design.
Photo source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BT7uFi7Fcbu/?taken-by=sanrioboysofficial
Previously, I had written about the same female character design that keeps reappearing in anime. (http://mysticdragon3md3.tumblr.com/post/157269524832/whitening-manga-figures)
Long, straight, black hair with bangs. The "traditional Japanese beauty" that almost always gets included in a group of anime girls, even if the series establishes a norm of crazy-colored, gravity-defying hair. And her personality is almost always reserved, demure, or that archetypal cute that evokes protectiveness. As per "How a melancholy egg yolk conquered Japan" by Vox at https://youtu.be/CTAnJTB9roI defines "kawaii" as "vulnerable" and "child-like", basically evoking parental protective feelings. This "traditionally idealized Asian beauty" character design often also has traditional Asian values in her personality.
But it makes sense for Japanese authors/artists to insert Japanese ideals, values, and representations in their work. It's what they know. In fact, all authors are supposed to "write what they know". And in relatively insular cultures, as in Asia, which often values “the group” (over individuality and outsiders), including a character similar to the audience is a sure way to elicit sympathy from the audience, draw unconscious attachment to characters, and help ensure the success of a story.
In the same way, anime with in-story non-Japanese main characters will try to evoke affinity with Japanese audiences by giving even foreign characters a backstory connected to Japan.
Robin (Witch Hunter Robin): born in Japan, raised in Italy.
Yasutora "Chad" Sado (Bleach): Mexican-Japanese born in Japan.
Or, in series set in worlds that seem highly coincidental for someone specifically Japanese to be in the main cast, someone will always happen to be Japanese.
Ryo McClean (Fake)
Kotetsu Kaburagi (Tiger & Bunny)
Tomoe (Queen’s Blade)
Twilight Suzuka (Outlaw Star)
Mikasa Ackerman (Attack on Titan. Come on, don’t tell me she’s Asian in an anime and expect me to assume other than Japanese.)
So is there a male version of this "traditional Asian beauty" character design? Yes, there is. I didn't realize it before, but some industrious fangirls began to recognize a recurring pattern. And he too, often has a personality that epitomizes the Japanese ideal of emotional reservation. But since the Japanese ideal of “manly” includes more stoicism, he is often of very few words and even when goofy, tries so hard to remain “dignified”.
Not that any of this is a bad thing. Frankly, as an Asian-American who does not often see Asian representation in American media, seeing that distinctly Asian character design frequently represented is nice. ^_^
#character design#traditional asian beauty#japanese ideal#anime characters#character types#archetypes
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Romain Grosjean needs a reset - Jolyon Palmer column
Romain Grosjean needs a reset - Jolyon Palmer column
Romain Grosjean needs a reset – Jolyon Palmer column
F1 driver Jolyon Palmer, who left Renault at the end of 2017, joins the BBC team this season to offer insight and analysis from the point of view of the competitors.
Romain Grosjean is going through tough times in Formula 1 and he hit a real low point with his crash on the first lap at the Spanish Grand Prix.
The Haas driver lost his car mid-pack at Turn Three, span back across the track in a cloud of tyre smoke and collected the cars of Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly.
I don’t remember an incident like it and I don’t think the stewards did either – which is why they have given him a three-place penalty at the Monaco Grand Prix.
It is the latest – and worst – in a series of difficult moments for Grosjean this year.
Magnussen showing Grosjean up
The Frenchman has no points after five races and that is made worse by the fact Haas have been very competitive, and team-mate Kevin Magnussen has been getting the most out of the car more often than not.
The Dane’s sixth place in Barcelona puts him on 19 points for the year.
It hasn’t been a lack of pace that’s hurt Grosjean – Barcelona was the third time in five races that he’s qualified in the top 10.
The Haas car has often been best of the rest behind the big three this year, and races without incident surely would have seen Grosjean bag some good points by now.
The problems have not all been of his own doing, either.
In Melbourne in the first race of the season, he was running in a fantastic fifth place when his wheel didn’t go on at his pit stop, a problem that ended the race of both Haas cars.
During the opener in Australia, Haas were running well in fourth and fifth before the cars failed to have their front left (Magnussen) and rear left (Grosjean) wheels secured properly during the pit stops
But where Magnussen has been able to get his head down and recover from that disappointment, scoring in every other race apart from the chaotic event in Azerbaijan, Grosjean has been on an unfortunate run of incidents which have put him heavily on the back foot.
Bahrain and China were quietly disappointing for Grosjean, but in Baku he had a real chance to step up and score some points.
He was forced to start at the back of the grid after an issue in qualifying, but a brilliant race saw him running up in sixth as a late safety car was called. He then lost control of his car, trying to keep temperature in his tyres under the safety car and hit the wall, ending his race.
When tyre temperatures are low, silly mistakes are much easier than they look in F1, and Grosjean isn’t the first driver in recent times to lose it under the safety car. Indeed, Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo, winner last month in China, had a spin under the virtual safety car in Barcelona.
But it will have been slightly humiliating for Grosjean nevertheless, especially because he was in such a great position beforehand and it ended his race with a big accident.
That was two weeks ago. In Barcelona, he had another chance to set the record straight after qualifying in the top 10 again.
‘Dangerous and foolhardy’
Grosjean kept his foot buried on the throttle after he lost control of his car behind team-mate Magnussen
Grosjean’s lap-one incident really surprised me. Not so much the incident itself – everybody was struggling for grip. Even the frontrunners with clearer air ahead and more downforce were struggling to get the power down out of Turn Two.
The spin Grosjean had was one thing. He was caught out by Magnussen’s slide ahead, spun in sympathy as a result of cold tyres and plenty of dirty air. Not great, but that sort of thing happens from time to time.
What I couldn’t understand was why he kept his foot planted on the throttle for so long afterwards.
The result was the car drifting right back into the middle of a field of oncoming cars, creating a huge smokescreen for them at the same time, and on one of the fastest, most difficult sections of track. It was inevitable he would be collected by someone.
I can only imagine his actions came out of frustration at spinning away a good starting position. But it was pretty dangerous and very foolhardy, as proved by the fact Gasly and Hulkenberg drove into him, unsighted by tyre smoke and with nowhere else to go.
If Grosjean had applied the brakes as he spun on the outside, as is usually the case and the natural instinct when a driver loses control, I’m sure he would have come to a stop harmlessly on the run-off and got going again afterwards.
A personal experience with Grosjean
Game over: Palmer and Grosjean were sent spinning at the first corner in Sochi last year
I had an incident with Grosjean in Sochi last year. He tipped me into a spin and then drove into the front of my spinning car. We ended up in the wall, putting us both out at the start of the race.
The stewards deemed it a racing incident, which seemed fair enough, even though we both disagreed, as is natural for drivers to do.
At the time Romain’s biggest complaint was that I kept the throttle on as I was spinning and didn’t just hit the brakes, which he saw as the reason he was collected and pitched into the wall. I distinctly remember him saying what I did that day was “dangerous”.
In fact, I didn’t keep my foot down. But as he hit me while I was accelerating, I naturally had some throttle still on. As soon as I was spinning I lifted…
But that’s irrelevant now. What it shows is his mindset, and how in the crunch moment he wasn’t able to think the same way he had managed in the stewards’ room before.
Talent behind the errors
Grosjean celebrated a hard-fought podium finish for Lotus at the 2015 Belgium Grand Prix from ninth place on the grid
I know it’s easy for me to say this from the outside now. In the midst of any race incident things happen very quickly and a driver reacts in a split second to try to best deal with it.
But I’ve seen first hand how good Grosjean can be. In his Lotus days alongside Kimi Raikkonen, he scored numerous podiums, nearly won at Suzuka in Japan and was often the closest man to challenge a dominant Sebastian Vettel in the Red Bull in that era.
I joined Grosjean at Lotus as third driver in 2015 and could witness his speed myself. He scored an incredible podium that year at the Belgian Grand Prix for a team so cash-strapped it had the bailiffs coming round immediately after the race.
When he switched to Haas at the end of that year with the hope of a future move to Ferrari, it seemed ambitious but not unrealistic. Now it seems impossible.
Can he get it back on track?
Grosjean has the speed to get brilliant results on his day, and there’s plenty of time for him to turn it around yet.
But first I think he needs to clear his head and reset.
He did that before after receiving a race ban in 2012 for a spate of first-lap incidents.
It appeared to work then, and I think he needs to draw a line under this start to the year and treat it as a 16-race season starting at Monaco in two weeks’ time.
Of course it won’t help having a three-place grid drop on a track almost impossible to overtake on to kick it off. But he has to put that out of his head and move on quickly.
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