Some quotes from the commentators that made me burst into tears:
"That was wonderful stuff from Fernando Alonso, and you thought, once Perez gets by, "Goodnight." Perez waited, deployed it well. The problem was you're talking about one of the Greats in Formula 1 history. "Two-time champion" doesn't begin to tell you how good Fernando Alonso is...Brilliant stuff, really great work from Fernando Alonso, holding on in what definitely, undoubtedly, is the inferior car.
"It [DOTD] should've been Alonso, shouldn't it?"
"Fernando Alonso, it doesn't matter how many days old, years old, he is, the amount of Grand Prix he's run, he is so crafty, he is so wily. He is such a good wheel-to-wheel racer. To hold out with the inferior car against that kind of pressure for so long? Absolutely incredible.
"You might get past Fernando Alonso, but you might not stay ahead."
"Fernando Alonso fought like a lion out there!
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Okay, here's what really gets me about As You Are. Like, obviously there are a lot of things that I'm moved or fascinated by. There's a lot there to think over. I could talk for a truly unreasonable amount of time about it--I am, of course, holding most of it back in a heroic effort of restraint. (You're welcome.)
But, anyway, this is the one fucking me up right now: Mark, who in many other movies would be kind of a tough guy but really just isn't, spends the whole movie offering or providing comfort. Not protection, necessarily--just comfort, just love. He's trying to help people. He wants them to feel better when they're down. He lets Jack and Sarah lie all over him, rest their head on him, draw comfort from him. When Jack is distraught over Kurt Cobain, Mark holds him and hugs him close. When he's touching Jack's face, a lot of that is indulging his own fascination, just because he wants to, because he's high, because Jack is there--but he's also clearly offering something to Jack, even in that moment. When he offers to teach Jack how to kiss, obviously he's not just doing that for Jack, but it's for Jack, you know? He wants it, but he wouldn't have suggested it just because it was something he wanted. When Jack kisses him later, Mark wants it, but that's something that Jack initiates and something during which Mark gives as much as he takes.
He spends the whole movie offering but not really receiving comfort. (I'm not counting the handjob or the hug at the gas station. I think those are 1: a handjob and 2: a greeting.) I'm not saying his friends did wrong by him or weren't loving with him. Just that there was an established dynamic, established habits, and Mark is just... like that.
When Jack checks on him after his head injury, and he asks if he can rest his head in Jack's lap? That's, like... that's the first time he's asked for comfort. The first time he hasn't been the one providing that body to lean on, those arms in which to be held and those hands stroking tenderly. Because who the fuck has ever comforted this kid? Who has ever made him feel entitled to protection and comfort and love focused anywhere near him, let alone right at him?
And it leads directly to what happens next. One soft moment in which all he has to do is let himself take--where he's allowed to take. And then... you know. And afterward, by that point, he's curled inward, locked down, and can no longer allow himself to accept comfort when it's finally offered to him. When he doesn't have to ask for it. Jack tries to comfort him, and it hurts. Because like... that comfort, before--that should have been easy, that felt easy and good--wasn't free. He paid a price for it. And he'll keep paying for it, and it hurts too much, and Jack is young and lives a very different life so he can't see it, and Mark can't explain that. He can't articulate this thing inside of him, his world surrounding and suffocating him. He just knows what he wants and can't have and why he can't have it. All he can really try to get across is to please stop trying to help him, please stop dangling this comfort in front of him that will never be his unless he's willing to suffer for it. And he is so, so tired of suffering.
Having that taste of comfort yanked away is worse than none at all.
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i'm at my horror movie class thing right now and it's the last day (there were only 4) and so i decided to go full self-indulgent and bring my copia plushie with me ehehe
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Hiya! I love your writing and ive been following your blog for a couple of years now (2-3 I think) and I just wanted to say how much I appreciate and adore your writing! Thank you so much for all you’ve written! Ive not been on tumblr much the past few months, and I’ve found that many of my favourite writers are leaving and deactivating their accounts, which is such a pity although completely understandable! Tumblr can be a pretty sucky platform for writers unfortunately :/ anyways I just wanted to thank you for your writing, it’s absolutely gorgeous and your style inspirational! I hope you keep writing, on or off tumblr, as you truly have a gorgeous and unique style! Thank you so much for all your contributions and I hope you’re having a lovely day!!
NONNIEEEEE oh my god oh my god hi hello I am going to sob first and foremost so im gonna get all snotty all over this ask wozooqjzlaozo but thank you so much? genuinely genuinely this means more than u can imagine and I aaAAAAA (being off tumblr and on and off writing ((mostly off oop)) really shows via my decline of the eng language clearly HAHAHA I can’t even articulate properly)
THANK U FOR BEING HERE FOR SO LONG?? AND REMEMBERING ME?? AND JUST. IT FEELS LIKE COMING HOME AND THEN SEEING ALL MY OLD FRIENDS AND THE NOSTALGIA IS A LIL NUCLEAR AND IM JUST SO EMOTIONAAAAAAL AAAAAA
Thank YOUUU for being on here and reading and being so so so lovely to me AND ALSO. im gonna go hide in the tags actually but I owe u my life I am kissing all ur fingers nd toes and maybe lips I’m infinitely happy that ur still here after all this time on this platform, I hope u are having the best day (and the best past few years whilst I’ve been mia <333)
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