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??? saph what happened on sky sports?? i’m ALWAYS missing out on the nico rosberg lore drops smh

SO

during the insanely long rain delay in spa into martin brundle and croftys commentary box wanders one (1) nico rosberg (he was aparently there commentating at sky italy this race and i guess got bored during the delay and looked for other people to bother? idk they never really addressed Why he was there). and he sasses them a little and says some classically nico rosberg things BUT THEN they start talking about the departure of horner because you know that was a Thing that Happened Recently and nico says, i shit you not:

nico: "do we know if zak brown and toto wolff are also missing christian horner?"

and i am sitting on my couch and suddenly my jaw drops to the floor because Nico Rosberg has brought up a Rivalry to none other than David Croft Live On Air. the Same David Croft who said the infamous "everything but a lover" line. and this is only ending in One Way.

so crofty speaks.

crofty: "i think they probably are. because every rivalry needs two parts to it and lets face it. christian and toto were head to head rivals for many years and zak this year, last year, has kind of replaced toto in the rivalry....your yin needs a yang nico i would say on that one. so in most respects i think they probably are."

and i am still sitting with my mouth hanging open because now it is only a matter of Time before lewis gets mentioned.

nico: "its like senna and prost."

YOU MEAN THE OTHER INFAMOUS RIVALRY OTHER THAN THE ONE THAT YOU WERE A PART OF, NICO???? THIS IS GETTING INTO DANGEROUS TERRITORY

nico: "who suddenly when prost retired senna went damn, i hate that guy but i actually want him to be here. and they became best friends afterwards."

and didnt....prost....tell you nico that you need to talk it out with lewis......wasnt this a conversation that was had.........And Also Youre Still Saying All Of This To David Croft, King Brocedes Pot Stirrer. and remember the last time nico was in the commentary box, crofty made fun of him for eating cauliflower for breakfast. so. anything was possible here.

crofty: "your world championship win in 2016."

me, sitting on the very edge of my seat, mouth open, eyes wide

crofty: "would you look back on that so fondly now if it hadn't been lewis hamilton that you had beaten? your teammate? and your main rival at the time?" nico, very softly and realizing he has backed himself into a corner: "no of course not....that was a big part of it for sure and uh you are right in that sense. " crofty: "so do you miss lewis now"

DAVID CROFT. YOU INSANE MAN, i think as there is a slight pause.

nico *laughing and stuttering incoherently like he somehow didnt expect this* crofty: "well you just asked the question!" nico: "im okay. im okay."

which, was not the question. at all.

but thankfully david croft, as i said earlier, is an insane man and also a shit stirrer and were in the middle of a rain delay so i can only imagine that that is what possessed him to say this:

crofty: "are you still next door neighbors?"

very long pause. i begin to wonder and not for the first time if david croft is writing brocedes fanfic himself.

nico, sounding like he has been caught taking cookies out of a cookie jar: "we...we uh still live in the same building yeah.....we catch up from time to time. but we have a very nice, uh, neutral relationship."

???????? what in the Hell is that supposed to mean?????????

which was a question that martin brundle aparently also had because:

martin, laughing: "a very nice neutral relationship??" nico: "um, uh, moving on...?"

but rest assured, shit stirrer david croft was not done yet. he needed to keep his viewers entertained as we were nearly an hour into a rain delay where the only thing keeping people watching were the glamor shots of charles leclerc and the red bull garage drinking tea.

crofty: "has he still got your safe? was it....wasnt it when you first moved in you put your safe in his apartment?"

there is an old story that i think it was lewis had nicos watch for awhile because he had his safe box or something and nico somehow managed to get it back after he won the championship, but i have no source for that story so you will just have to take my word for it.

nico: "no. other way around. he put his safe in our apartment." crofty: "yeah. you looked after it for a bit." nico: "yeah yeah. i was considering whether i should kind of forget where i had put it when he next asked for it but then i did give it back."

which. wild things to admit to live on air.

then! in case you were worried that crofty didnt have anything else. martin jumped in.

martin: "when i was driving for mclaren and you two kids, you were karting, you came in and terrorized the motorhome. you were so annoying as kids you and lewis, running around the place. causing havoc. ive always wanted to tell you that actually." crofty, laughing maniacally: "and there you were trying to have nice quiet moment." martin, evilly: "well me and nico have a neutral relationship." crofty: *laughing even harder* martin: "as of now anyway." nico, somehow missing the point entirely but also sounding very excited to recount this story: "the worst was the hotel rooms we left behind."

me and the rest of the world watching this probably sitting in the exact same place of shock wondering how theyre still talking about this and also wondering what other insane lore nico is about to drop because we Know that he and lewis shared hotels when they were karting and left them a disaster and also one time wrestled under a sink.

nico: "cause we shared a hotel room for two years. and we would have, like, wrestling, wrestling competitions *laughs* in the hotel rooms. they would not look good...they would not be on their best afterwards." crofty: "bit of rock and roll on tour *pauses* sometimes i love a rain delay. because you get the sort of information you never actually expected to get when you came into work that day. more of this to come."

which, first of all, understatement of the year thank you crofty. second What The Holy Ever Loving Fuck. and third: THEY STILL WERENT DONE

some five minutes later martin i think it was interrupts and is like oh look we've been sent a photo! and the photo in question was. this:

and nico says:

nico: "i just got that yesterday." crofty, in slight disbelief probably that his diabolical brocedes plan is working: "someone just sent you that?" nico, very excited to tell the story: "we were always on holiday together. you know, we were best friends at the time. but here was us actually at my parents house quadding. flat out quadding. always with an engine, full speed on everything. and lewis was. Proper Nuts. like he was nuts. completely" crofty, spurring him on: "really?" *laughing* nico: "i remember once we were jet skiing together i was on the back of him on the same jet ski. oh my god, i made, i had such a big shunt. i flew off in the biggest way. and then we went with two stand up jet skis, and i was watching him go off this giant wave from the ferry and he did not lift. he was- i'd never seen someone go so high airborne, and then he came crashing down and he knocked open his chin when he smacked down onto the jet ski as he landed. *laughs* just completely!" crofty: "oh!" nico, gleefully: "so hes lying there like half unconscious and i had to go and like check that hes okay, his chin was cut open. complete nut case." crofty: "honestly you two, it a wonder you ever made it to formula one and settled down and concentrated."

and then crofty started immediately talking about the race restart leaving all of us viewers with A Whole Lot Of Questions. because. what the hell. what had possessed nico rosberg other than the usual insanity.

then nico also revealed that he has recurring nightmares still about not getting into the car in time for race starts in f1. and then he was back off to the sky italy box:

crofty: "nico rosberg we must let you go. thank you for coming to join us, this has been a fascinating hour, we've gone into territories i never thought we would. before you go though, little prediction ahead of the race. who do you think now, in these conditions, is looking the best placed?"

understatement of the year, thank you crofty.

nico: "umm...lando norris. he has the best car, hes on a high mentally also coming off the win in silverstone, great qualifying yesterday so, uh, the favorite is 100% lando norris but he has some amazing wet weather drivers right behind him. so anything can happen. thank you very much it was a pleasure. i am off to speak some italian now."

which of course cursed lando because as we all know, anyone who nico says is going to do well (aside from lewis) get somehow utterly fucked over in a race because he just has that power. and lando of course got passed by oscar on the opening lap then locked up and went off three times in the late stages so he couldnt close the gap enough to get oscar back. and lewis, who started form the pit lane ended up p7. nico rosberg strikes again.

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the fact that they aren’t twins still shocks me. that’s the same face copy and pasted

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everybody say "thank you superman 2025 for bringing truly irredeemable villains back with lex luther!"

he is a cold blooded killer. he has pathetic tantrums and throws pens on the floor. he only wears black. he delivers a fantasically evil villain monologue. he cries pathetically when beaten. his motivation is not related to some tragic backstory, but is simply jealousy twisted into something so deplorably evil. he is bald.

this movie really is All That™️ and then some.

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One of the best parts of the Superman’s Supergirl Scene is that more people are aware that Supergirl isn’t Gender Swapped Superman, she’s Hulk in a 5’1 Blonde Woman with an early 2000s Tony Stark alcohol problem

She saw her homeworld die when she was a young adult and had to grow up in a world where no one could understand her or her trauma… with the exception of her Baby Cousin she was ordered to protect. Except 1, he was a baby when krypton exploded and doesn’t carry that trauma the same way Kara does and 2, he’s a 30 year old man while she’s still a teenager/young adult. The only guarantee she has (“Protect baby Kal-El”) is out the window and all she has is her Dog and her Pain

Lowkey insane to me that her being a Red Lantern isnt just the Cannonical Constant. She’s a perfect fit

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just fell to my knees

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Please, consider: Eve Teschmacher, not Jimmy Olsen, should be this Clark Kent's best friend. It would be SO good.

They'd bond over their hatred of Lex. Clark is such a sweet guy who doesn't want to hate anyone but she's so pure and Lex treated her so badly that he's listen to her talk shit about him all day, he'd hype her up, encourage her as she shares stories about Lex's cringe ass. She'd come into the Daily Planet to visit Jimmy or something and peole would put on their headphones to work in peace because they KNOW otherwise all they'll be able to hear is Kent's laughter.

They probably don't have much in common, though I do think it would be nice if she was also from a small town much like Smallville and they could bond over that, but mostly I think they'd be each other's emotional support, instantly clocking when the other one is going through something and becoming their impromptu ice-cream-sharing therapist (Clark being more of a 'chill, you're panicking too much' and Eve being more of a "get your shit together, you got this, Smallvile")

And it would be so funny that they are both so clearly NOT romantically into each other and can't even conceive of the notion but at the same time they'd be constantly hyping the other up because they are both pathetic down-bad losers for Lois and Jimmy (or whoever she's into at the time, you can do better baby) who need to be reminded they can absolutely get it, actually?

Eve smiling brightly at Lois while she says in a singsong voice 'if you hurt him again, I'll kill you' through her teeth, not knowing that Clark can absolutely hear her.

Guys suddenly looking over Eve's shoulder and noticing how the least threatening guy in existence suddenly kinda looks like he's going to bite their head off if they even THINK about it.

Please Mr. Gunn sir it would be so fucking funny and cute at the same time.

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By the way, I've seen some of the discourse surrounding Eve and so I just need to put this out there and make sure we're all on the same page about her. Massive ending spoilers here.

Y'all do realize that Eve is the one who took down Lex Luthor, right?

I've seen people saying that, like. She was a funny bit for Jimmy, or she was an annoying character who didn't do much. And in both cases, I need y'all to understand that Eve vanquished Lex Luthor. She is the reason this movie ended as well as it did.

Eve was the source on the inside that Jimmy learned about the interdimensional prison from. If not for her, Lois and Mister Terrific wouldn't have been there to save Superman. His prison break would have ended with him and the baby going into the black hole.

But more than that, Eve's "selfies" were evidence she's been gathering on Lex as insurance this whole time she's been with him. Prancing about under his nose because he's too misogynistic to care about what emptyheaded arm candy like her is doing, she's been taking photographic evidence of all of his illegal dealings.

We watch her do it at the start of the film when she selfies the fight with the "Hammer of Boravia".

She knows what he's done to his ex-girlfriends. She says as much. So all of this evidence is a gun pointed right at the back of Lex's neck that she can fire if he ever comes for her like that.

And when he does, she destroys his career. Like Lex says at the end of the movie, it doesn't matter that Superman beat Ultraman. It doesn't matter that the rift was un-rifted. Lex has a contract from the government to neutralize a dangerous migrant. Lex is the law and the fact that Superman won a physical altercation with him means less than nothing.

Superman could grab Lex by the neck and fly him to a police station, and the cops inside will come right out and try to arrest Superman for assaulting him. That is the political situation.

It's Eve's gigantic stockpile of incriminating evidence delivered straight into Lois's hands that brings everything Lex has built crashing to the ground. Superman wins the fight, but it's the women of this movie who bury Lex Luthor.

And I need y'all to appreciate that.

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the snyderverse genuinely ruined dc because what do you mean there are people who think david corenswet's hope-inducing, man-doing-his-best-to-do-good superman is inaccurate? what do you mean there are people who think the butchered, broody mess that is cavill's superman is what superman should be? superman has always been a man of the people who will stop at nothing to do the right thing and save as many people as he possibly can. snyder turned the symbol of hope into a symbol of despair, and it has done irreparable damage to the character. superman is meant to represent humanity at our best and not our worst.

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This Superman is such a sweetie. He’s kind to the robots. He makes his girlfriend breakfast for dinner. He pretends he doesn’t care what social media thinks of him but gets genuinely upset over juvenile name calling. He tortured a despot with a cactus but the spines “weren’t that big.” He tries to capture the giant monster alive. He loves people and does his best to help them and he’s not an idiot he knows people are complicated, but he’s genuinely heartbroken when they turn on him. The idea of him having a harem is utterly ridiculous. He loses it over a pain-in-the-ass dog. He makes fun of the despot for pissing his pants. He wept at seeing an innocent man murdered. His open devastation over Mali’s murder is part of what brings Metamorpho to take the risk of helping him. He saves that weird baby. He saves a squirrel. He not only would not fuck his clone, he killed him. He makes that shithead Lex cry. His flirting with Lois is so swagless and unsubtle that her boss immediately clocks that they’re together. He loves his parents. He’s good all the way down, not because he was born that way but because he chooses to be.

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god this movie was so amazing

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can we have the reading list on romani people please <3

to preface, roma are the largest minority group in europe. some europeans don't believe that romani people are a marginalised group of people subject to horrible socio-economic conditions. every report about roma communities written by the european commission will immediately dispell these misconceptions, as they all literally start by highlighting the degree of prejudice and discrimination romani people experience.

also, many europeans still deny the roma genocide, despite the fact that 500k people were killed, while others were tortured for labor and experimentation.

books:

Inward Looking: The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective by Aleksandar G. Marinov

History of the G*psies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma by Shakir M. Pashov.

We are the Romani People by Ian F. Hancock

archives:

https://romasintigenocide.eu/en/a-f

https://www.coe.int/en/web/roma-and-travellers/roma-history-factsheets

https://www.romarchive.eu/en/

the devouring (roma genocide):

https://romasintigenocide.eu/en/a-f

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/genocide-of-european-roma-gypsies-1939-1945

The Genocide and Persecution of Roma and Sinti. Bibliography and Historiographical Review by the IHRA

https://time.com/5719540/roma-holocaust-remembrance/

articles:

https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/decade-roma-inclusion-addressing-racial-discrimination-through-development#:~:text=The%20initiative%20was%20launched%20on,with%20the%20commitment%20to%20%22work

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/4/10/for-roma-justice-truly-is-blind

(a few things;;; i have read like 200 books since i went on this endeavor, so finding my resources has been hectic and this isn't the most conclusive list but its a good list i think. these are the ones i found in my bookmarks :p. also general disclaimer that i am Not romani and a resource list created by roma would be more credible, but the majority of these resources are created by roma, so inshaallah they are accurate. i had a few others bookmarked but the authors/webpages/whatever have come out as zionist entities, and i refuse to platform genocidal maniacs, so those are omitted)

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Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive

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hey do you remember the boycott qatar thing last year,,, what was that about?

Yeah I do !! It was because the track and the overall atmosphere was really really hot. Like so hot the logan couldn't finish the race, estie was puking in his helmet and multiple drivers passed out and needed to get iv after the race

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I keep seeing the take that authors on AO3 need to stop deleting their fics and instead to orphan them without any explanation of the consequences of orphaning a fic and as an author I really need to say something to this.

Stop telling people to just orphan their fics.

Orphaning a fic means giving up any and all ownership over it. No way to claim it back, edit it or delete it. Yes it's an archive but an author should still have the right to delete their work if they feel like they don't want it to be up anymore.

Readers always scream for authors to orphan their fics instead of deleting because they feel like they have a right to the fanworks that is shared with them for free. If it's so important to you to not lose a fic, download it. Also comment and encourage the authors, instead of telling them to give up all ownership to their work.

To authors, if you think about deleting your fics, there are other options you should employ first. If you don't want it connected to your name, put it into an anonymous collection. As long as it's in there, noone can see you wrote it, you still can edit ot or delete it and moderate comments on it. You can even move it to anther account, just create another one, add it as co author and then take your main account off. Then you can still edit it from your second account but it's no longer connected to your account.

If you don't want it to show anymore put it in a unrevealed collection, that way, the fic won't show up but it's still there, you can still see it, read comments and make it public again.

If you feel the urge to delete your fic, try one of these options first and see how you feel about it after a while, you can still delete or orphan afterwards, but this hopefully makes your decision easier.

Only orphan a fic if you're 100% sure. This is permanent, there is no way back from that, AO3 support will NOT help you if you did it on accident or change your mind. Don't listen to people telling you to just orphan it, make very sure, this is what you want.

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i’ve never considered or respected lance stroll a single day in my life and i never intend to do so but y’all need to stop being antisemitic against him, they are way better reasons to hate on him you do not need to sound like a german in the 40s, i promise

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everytime there's a motogp race my dash looks something like this:

person 1: wow how did he pull that off he almost gave me a heart attack

person 2: pecco oh no...

person 3: is his dick okay

person 4: pecco :(

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hey do you remember the boycott qatar thing last year,,, what was that about?

Yeah I do !! It was because the track and the overall atmosphere was really really hot. Like so hot the logan couldn't finish the race, estie was puking in his helmet and multiple drivers passed out and needed to get iv after the race