I will never forgive Ferrari for what they’ve done to him this season.

Charles Leclerc | post-race (P3) | 2022 Dutch Grand Prix

📸: Mark Thompson

https://www.planetf1.com/news/carlos-sainz-wont-whine-ferrari-development/ I just find it weird that Carlos gave this interview recently, before testing, which directly contradicts some of the stuff he himself said last year. and also the way he says he's not gonna complain if the style of the car doesn't suit him and he's hoping this year it will suit him better from the start. almost like he already knew

Yeah, it's all very 🤔 Like not only is he openly contradicting himself but he's also making high profile team members look like fools.

"In terms of the way that perhaps we tweak some of the developments" and "with everybody back in Maranello" implies it was more than just a case of finding the right setup for him or making minor adjustments on site in the garage, but more of an alteration of the characteristics of the car itself.

And sure, if they decided Carlos is brilliant at giving technical feedback and that this engineering philosophy allowed them to create an objectively more competitive race car, then great. The issue is that...that's not what happened? For whatever reason, whatever they did with that car, even if they thought they were taking steps in the right direction in the development race, made it increasingly more difficult to adjust in terms of balance, exacerbated the degradation problem, and may have been a contributing factor in making the car less competitive overall (we don't know at which point they definitively decided to turn down the engine due to reliability concerns, which also put them at a disadvantage against the upgraded RB).

The truth is... we don't know what the truth is, lmao. When the car was still going by the project name 675 the initial belief was that it will be an "evolution" of the F1-75: essentially, retaining the core design philosophy while hopefully eliminating its existing weaknesses. Now we're hearing that actually, hang on, this SF-23 that they've turned up with has different characteristics and maybe doesn't actually resemble its predecessor all that much. The big question is whether that's by design... or not so much 🤔On one hand we're hearing that the RB18's earliest version behaved much like the SF-23 and that maybe they're hoping to use this as a base design and build on that and tweak things accordingly going forward. But on the other... it sounds like the car isn't actually behaving or performing as expected. So honestly... who knows at this point 🥴🥴Either way, be it by mistake or design, it looks like there's still room for improvement and Ferrari aren't 110% happy with what they've got so far.

how i would have changed s2 of hsmtmts

obvious disclaimer but im not a screenwriter or anyth so im not claiming what i want is best, this is just for fun lololol

okay so first of all nini would still have dropped out of yac but she wouldn’t have gone back to east, she would have transferred to north bc she was too ashamed to tell anyone she left at first and maybe she still wants to explore who she is away from ricky and the others

nini could join north’s batb and this way maybe we could have some playful rivalry with lily and nini and more scenes with antoine shdhdjdj also it could have been a great opportunity to flesh out lily’s character so those scenes where she reaches out to ricky and her confession at the end of the season actually make sense lol

speaking of ricky ,,, i think he should have left the play at some point hear me out. he only joined in the first place because of nini and barely wanted to do it at all once he realized he wasn’t gonna be able to perform with her. he could have joined crew and been a manager with natalie or smth considering he rlly does see the theater gang as a second family. also this would leave so much room for ej and ricky development and bants since ej joined the av club and began to pursue film. they could have some convos where idk ricky asks ej how he figured out what he wanted to do after duke didn’t work out and ricky could actually develop some interests that arent the play or nini ,,, maybe fucking art club i mean he did p good on that centerpiece for carlos’ quinceañera.

with ricky not being the beast anymore i think seb should take his place that would be soooo good. and since seb isn’t chip anymore carlos won’t make those snide comments about chip being a small unimportant role and we can just cut that whole fight bc it was dumb and bad. we could still have seb being insecure that carlos is only dating him bc there aren’t really any other gay guys at school. in a heartbeat is great and i did like ricky being supportive in the background it was kinda funny too idk dhdjdjfj

ooh i almost forgot abt rini ahshdj okay so i still think they should break up. but in my version there’s no ricky pulling an ej 1.0 and deleting comments off of nini’s insta, cause with ricky in art club and nini at north trying to figure out what she wants i think one of them would realize that they’re going in different directions and only got back tgt because they made each other feel safe cause what they had was familiar. this could be triggered by ricky mentioning smth abt nini at yac and then nini breaks down and tells him that she dropped out and is at north and doesn’t know where she’s going. and then they can both realize they aren’t good for each other rn and have a less tragic mutual break up.

honestly i really liked the scene of nini taking charge after miss jenn freaked out cause with the character detail of nini giving every person in the cast of productions she’s in a thank you note she just seems really like someone who is suited to lifting others up. this could still be explored at north, maybe she could help lily through her issues that were briefly implied in ep 11 and nini realizes she wants to be a drama teacher and encourage kids to go off book and put themselves into their acting, something she couldn’t have at yac.

okay now ej ,,, so like i said in ricky’s section, more bants between them cause i feel like friendships kinda fell by the wayside due to all the relationships so more friendship !!!! also the scene where ej tells his dad he’s not going to duke shouldn’t have been an ending scene, it should have been fleshed out with his dad pushing back saying how he pulled all these strings to get him in and ej saying he doesn’t wanna go if his own hard work couldn’t get him there. and also more scenes of ej doing av club things !!! and realizing he rlly likes film and wants to do it OMG IT WOULD BE SO COOL IF HE BROKE THE FOURTH WALL AND ASKED THE DOCUMENTARY CREW ABT THE FILM INDUSTRY god i would love that. the only scene we rlly got of ej doing film things was at the quinceañera which made me kinda sad. uhhh also i just wanted to specifically mention how ej got mr mazzara that job at cal tech bc it really showed how he wanted to be there for people not just for gina, who he had a crush on, but for mr mazzara who supported him outside of romance, so i wanna keep that for sure.

gina !!! okay so i mostly liked her arc in this season, the only changes i would make would be to flesh it out a teeny bit (god this hypothetical s2 would have to be like 22 eps at least shdjdjdjfj) anyways besides ashlyn singing home to get gina to stay i think there should be a scene where they actually talk in her room abt how gina feels safer when shes on the run (second chance reference ilysm) hhhh and also a scene of her and carlos actually working out compromises for their choreo cause i liked that bit of development too and fleshing that out would make gina an even better foil for lily, who felt a need to hog the spotlight like gina used to. with gina’s own arc fleshed out her character would feel more whole independently from romance and portwell would be even more rewarding than it is in the current s2. the only thing i would really change abt portwell is that they would kiss !!! in the finale but thats bc im biased.

ashlyn should have gotten a more fleshed out storyline about being insecure about not being a good enough belle or the typical belle. there were some throwaway lines when north did their typical dramatics but the only two real scenes that showed it were when ash talked to big red about it and when she was telling nini she wanted to do a run in “home” bc lily did it. ashlyn should get more screen time where she has to grapple with the reasons she doesn’t feel good enough and big red can still support her but also gina too bc i would like more roommate besties interaction.

kourtney could still date howie, that harry potter shit was cute but there needs to be smth else for kourtney’s arc. idk she’s still into fashion so maybe she could be out here trying to create her own line or smth? this doesn’t have to be resolved in s2 like making a wholeass line takes time and she could work on it into a potential s3. kourtney just didnt get much outside of howie and the stuff at the beginning of the season where she said nini inspired her to be independent and that's why she got a job was just dropped?? so i think that fashion could fill that for her if she’s still dating howie cause like having her whole arc just be the pizza place kinda overlaps w big red’s mini arc abt how he wasn’t settling for hospitality, its what he wants to do with his life.

ik what ur thinking. anna, even if you added more episodes, where would u find the room to add all these plotlines?? well first we cut (most of) the seblos fight, so thats some time saved. honestly most of the time that we r going to gain is going to be from cutting ms jenn’s time. things like ms jenn’s and nini’s car ride would get cut, but mostly all of ms jenn’s romances would get cut down. considering she’s the teacher and isn’t actually a character with an arc how does she have THREE love interests this season?? like all of the weird tension between her and zack can be cut, like just some short scenes of them being competitive can stay. all of the stuff with ricky’s dad can go bye bye we don’t need it. i did like her w mr mazzara so most of that can stay i just didn’t like how he said he would give up cal tech for her, ew no that would be gone.

the MENKIES !!!! this is the last thing im gonna address cause in a perfect world every character would get a long fleshed out arc but then the season would be waaay too long and also im mostly trying to work within material the show gave so this is mostly made up of “realistic” deviations from what actually happened. lol idk what that even means it just makes sense to me. but anyways!! uhhh bro idk i thought them dropping the menkies was funny but it also made the finale really BAD lmao. in this finale, seb is the beast, east still had to deal w the fact that they’re underfunded compared to north but no one is injured, lily is less of a poorly written character and maybe ppl are even rooting for her, and wow i just realized i never actually said what role i think nini should have in north’s show. OOH she could be student director instead of lily cause lily both being in the play while also directing was weird considering omg i just checked and according to her wiki page shes a FRESHMAN?? and they let her be student director? lol hell nah. okay so with all that in mind ,,, the menkies should have been the season cliffhanger instead of portwell. east and north should both be nominated, both schools perform at the menkies, and then the award winner is about to be announced and THATS when it cuts to natalie and the end of the season.

one, this actually gives more tension for a summer s3 as we would be waiting to see the consequences of whichever school won. also i bet people would be wondering if nini’s gonna be transferring back to east or staying at north. people would also prob wonder if ej would be getting the scholarship if east won and what that would mean for his interest in film.

lmao that got longggg and idk if anyone’s even gonna read this but it was fun to do :D

answering a bunch of asks

SORRY I JUST KINDA LET EM PILE UP, there’s a few anons and then asks from @brokenklefki, @drunkjumpy, and @dox-the-moon. talkin about aoi, shipping, which zero escape characters would be better presidents than trump, music, how ztd was bad, and videogames

Anonymous said:I headcanon that at some point in the VLR timeline, Aoi dies from Radical-6. It would add to Akane's urgency to prevent the outbreak when she could have focused her efforts on lessening the impact, and it'd add a personal reason like how in the first game she wanted to save her past self while also getting revenge on the people who endangered her and others.

tbh i never really think about what happens to aoi in the VLR timeline-- my headcanon was that akane ditched him for his own safety... and i didn’t like thinkin about it beyond that because I MEAN, HE PROBABLY DIED, BUT I DON’T WANT MY BOY TO DIE!! ztd made it sound like they stuck together at least, though. when i considered this hc before i did definitely think it’d give akane more personal motive to save the world... but aoi dying is messed up, man. i wish my boy could live

brokenklefki said:toridyne: Good, Bad, or Neutral?

oh man undertale shipping?? i’d lean for nah though because i kinda see undyne havin a father-daughter type relationship with asgore so that’d be weird, yknow. plus toriel is way older than her, and alphyne

Anonymous said:Delta would probably do a bunch of cryptic enigmatic shit and say how his motives are complex and blame snails every time anything bad happens, a year into his term and the kind of people who support trump have decided to declare war on snails

I WAS REALLY CONFUSED FOR A SEC BC I FORGOT I MADE THAT POST LMAO but jesus christ. a terrifying alternate reality.

Anonymous said:carlos, hes such a good boy,he would be the best

carlos would give us the presidency we deserve

drunkjumpy said:Realistically, Aoi would be a great president, but honestly I think even Delta would be better.

idk if aoi would WANT to be president, tbh. he’s not real good at being a figurehead of any sort, or a symbol of power-- he’d be more suited to working behind the scenes... so, basically, exactly what his role was in the nonary game as zero’s secretary. aoi wouldn’t be BAD, though, by any means

Anonymous said:What kind of music do you think Akane would like? Any headcanons in general?

tbfh i always have a really good idea of what kinda music characters would listen to, but i don’t know NEARLY enough music myself to put any actual songs to it. that being said, my friend jack has an aesthetic mix on 8tracks for akane that i think would fit her nicely

Anonymous said:Personally, I don't think ZTD's Zero should have been Brother at all. He could still be Delta if they're really attached to that weird plot twist, but these's nothing about Delta that makes me think he could be Brother, especially considering everything we learnt about Brother in Virtue's Last Reward.

personally, i had been expecting ztd’s zero to be brother ever since vlr-- it just made sense to me, it was what i already assumed rather than a theory yknow. i was kinda confused when people implied they might Not Be zero because i thought it was a given they would be. but in hindsight i think it does kinda... have its pros and cons. brother being zero lets us have one Big Bad rather than having to develop two characters for zero-- that gives more focus on the villain instead of us being divided between two people, which i think is helpful. but... it kind of doesn’t showcase free the soul at All. delta didn’t feel like a powerful cult leader. aside from how much i hated him, he gives off the air of a powerful dude at best-- with regards to personal powers, like mind hacking. but we never see anything of free the soul, which is what MADE him intimidating before ztd! so yeah, i kinda see what you’re sayin

dox-the-moon said:snooooooow you should totally check out night in the woods if you haven't already, it's like one of the best games i've ever played. the characters, writing, and storyline are all fantastic and it's got a super fascinating theme about existentialism and mortality. it's just Really Good basically

I HAVEN’T HEARD OF THAT AT ALL... i have a lotta games i need to check out still but i’ll put it on my ever-growing mental list