#check out the posts with all the links

[hayaku14]

btw last week on jp twitter they were goncharov-ing a detective conan movie into existence lmao

it all started because of this twitter user pointing out that the Osaka Expo 2025 venue looks like a setting out of a detco movie (x)

then someone fixed the color, added "original work by gosho aoyama", and voila (x)

and then people just kept adding on to it, here's a few more:

they got teaser art posters (1) (2) (3)

a movie logo (x)

and a movie poster ofc (x)

btw if you were wondering wtf that weird blob creature is, it's Osaka Expo 2025's mascot:

oh yeah someone also made a whole ass movie trailer (x)

and end credits too but i can't upload 2 videos so here's the link (x)

someone even made an agasa quiz lmao (x)

someone also brainrotted so hard they managed to gather hattori, kaitou kid, amuro, and akai all in one movie (x)

anyway, we've cracked the code. we can explode any place just by adding "original work by gosho aoyama" (x) (x)

[starthecozy]

Kinktober prompt 16: aftercare / tattoos

After getting way too enthusiastic about Steve's new tattoo, Eddie is taking care of him with slow devotion (inprnt)

bonus: front view

[imogenkol]

MON MOTHMA — Mother of the Bride

"With Mon Mothma, there's always that wonderful balance between what's going on behind the public face. To hint that in her costumes, we always had mini layers going on so that she can reveal and conceal."

[yuviur]

Summer vacation, 4am.

Tons of easter eggs in this one! Click the image to find them (and for better quality ofc)

Close ups and process shots under the cut, description in alt text

[starsandnoodles]

Getting over my fear of posting this was CRAZY but here we go

MARX RPG

I’ve been working on this for days, made an accidental (The nova itself) and purposeful reference (the background) to Birth of a Wish by itsquakey (you should go check em out their art is SICK /pos)

- More ramblings below -

I wanted to make an RPG type thing with Marx for a while. Originally I was going to make an actually playable one but then realized I don’t have the time or knowledge to actually do that so I turned around and made it a video. Marx actually wasn’t the first idea I have for who the video would be about.

The first character I’d considered was actually Taranza but then… I’d have to draw Taranza and I was not in the mood. So I went with Marx.

The reference to Birth of a Wish (via the Nova specifically) wasn’t intended but someone I’d shown the video to pointed it out and I couldn’t leave it out in mention. The actually intended reference (the background) was specifically placed there because original all the video was going to be was some sample text and audio and then I got carried away and by that point I was over 200 images in on CapCut and unwilling to turn around.)

Where the plot was gonna go from here included the Nova having something to do with the rain in dreamland and being a small part of one of popstar’s larger moon’s or something of the sort meaning Kirby and Marx would have to find all the pieces to this “planet”. At least that’s what I imagined LMAO 😅

Note: Itsquakey if you ask me to take this down because of the references to your work I will without questions!

Last thing! I wanted to mention two posts I’ve seen that have done something similar that I think you should also check out!

Marx’s Fun Shop: while working on this I found that video and thought “wow! We even used the same music! That’s super freaking awesome!” The art here is amazing, the way Marx is written is also cool! You should go check this out!!!

Magolor’s Item Shop: A series of images in an RPG style that feature Magolor specifically! These are really cool and also what kinda struck the idea! They’re definitely worth checking out!

[majchic]

[tobethemselves]

April 2025

(page 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10)

01.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA [find a detailed daily recap here]

02.04.2025 Pap pics of Harry in London / Louis is MIA [L likes (and unlikes) Brian San Martin’s Instagram post, Daily Mail Article (H in London) gets published, more here]

03.04.2025 Pap pics of Harry in London / Louis is MIA [L tweets and chats with fans, more here]

04.04.2025 Harry is in New York / Louis is MIA

05.04.2025 Harry is in New York / Louis is MIA

06.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

07.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA [Rumor that the pap pics of H in London from the 11th are from today]

08.04.2025 Pap pics of Harry in London / Louis is in LA [find a detailed daily recap here]

09.04.2025 Harry is in London / Louis is MIA [Daily Mail Article (H in London) gets published, LTHQ posts pictures of L's show in India, more here]

10.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Louis is in LA (via Zara's Instagram story) [Riccardo J. and Zak Craner show via Instagram story that they are with L in LA more here]

11.04.2025 Harry is in Silchester, UK / Louis is at Coachella in LA [Pap pics of H might be from April 7th, more here (2/3/4)]

12.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Louis is in LA [find a detailed daily recap here]

13.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Louis is in LA [fan pic of L in LA gets posted, Daily Mail article (L at Coachella), Aotv replies to a post on twitter that implies that something could happen after the 28th part of AOTV is posted and likes a post talking about lt3, more here (2)]

14.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA [Clash Magazine article (L in Coachella) gets published]

15.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Louis is MIA

16.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Pap pics of Louis in LA [find a detailed daily recap here]

17.04.2025 Harry is allegedly in Berlin / Louis is MIA [Daily Mail article (L & Zara bodyclanguage) & Daily Mail article (L & Zara at odds?) dropped]

18.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Pap pics of Louis in LA (stunt mention) [find a detailed daily recap here]

19.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

20.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Pap pics of Louis in London [Fan story (H paying for a taxi), H following Peggy Gou on Instagram, more here]

21.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Louis is MIA [L likes Charles Leclerc’s post on Instagram, more here]

22.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Louis is MIA [Fan story (H noticing fan's Liam tattoo) Daily Mail & The Sun article (L and Zara in London on April 20th) & The Sun article (HS4 Rumors) dropped, more here (2)]

23.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

24.04.2025 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

25.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Louis is MIA [LTHQ celebrates 1 year anniversary of LT live album via Twitter]

26.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Louis is MIA

27.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Louis is in Essex

28.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Louis is MIA [Louis likes Doncaster Rovers Instagram post]

29.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Louis is in Dallas [Louis likes one of Ed Sheeran's posts of 1D unseens from his old phone, AOTV posts on Instagram, more here]

30.04.2025 Harry is in Berlin / Louis is in Costa Rica [Louis follows the account clint419 on Instagram, more here]

[fistfuloflightning]

When Ming Fan finally fought his way through the underbrush to where the Rift had appeared, it was already too late. Shizun and Luo Binghe stood at the edge of the yawning chasm, swords unsheathed and pointed at each other. He hadn’t thought much of it when Shen Qingqiu had flown past him so soon after the earthquake that had torn open the Rift, but he could now see there was something very wrong. Shen Qingqiu’s back was turned to Ming Fan and his face hidden, but he could see plainly the fear and confusion on Luo Binghe’s face. Along with the glowing, damning mark on his forehead. Something demonic.

Ming Fan gripped the foliage, forcing himself not to run out. Not yet. He’d end up dead or wishing he was. He had mocked Luo Binghe early in the Conference, yes, but he knew the younger boy had done nothing to merit this kind of punishment—!

In a matter of seconds, Xiu Ya had stabbed forward, Zheng Yang had shattered, and Luo Binghe had staggered back into the Rift.

Everything seemed to still.

Ming Fan sucked in an breath and darted out of the foliage—but it was too late. Luo Binghe’s arm vanished over the edge just as Ming Fan ran past their shizun. He lunged forward the last few feet, fingers clawing at Luo Binghe’s forearm just in time. Caught, held. The sudden weight had him crashing again against the ground and the wind was knocked out of him. The taste of charred earth mixed with that of fresh blood where he’d nearly bitten his tongue in half.

But that was inconsequential. Not when he could feel the weight at the end of his arm that told him he didn’t fail. Even when the only person he needed to acknowledge that fact was someone he couldn’t stand. No one deserves to die like this, Ming Fan thought viciously. Not even him.

Dangling below him, Luo Binghe’s eyes were wide with terror and confusion, at odds with the damning, demonic seal glowing on his forehead. But there was something like gratitude there as well, out of place and so painfully frail.

For a fragile second, it felt like they were breathing the same

“Shixiong—”

With a cry, he was wrenched from Ming Fan’s grip and into the Abyss below. Ming Fan’s cry was strangled in his throat.

He didn’t know how long he remained there, clenching the burned grass with white-knuckled fingers and straining his eyes to see through the acrid smoke that rose from the chasm for even the barest glimpse of Luo Binghe. But time moved on and the Rift sealed shut and when Ming Fan blinked and once more became aware of his surroundings, he realized he was not alone.

Shen Qingqiu loomed over him like a stone Buddha, face cold as jade. His spiritual sword was once more sheathed, his robes neat and not one hair out of place. As though he hadn’t had a hand in what had happened here.

“You… you killed him,” Ming Fan breathed, still unable to fully process what had just taken place. But that’s what it was, a death sentence fed to the hungry maw of the Endless Abyss.

Shen Qingqiu. “He was a stain upon our sect.”

Ming Fan could feel the rage slowly rise. “He was a disciple of Qing Jing Peak. He was your disciple.” Acknowledging it was like vinegar on his tongue but a boy was dead because of him. He stared at Shen Qingqiu as if seeing him for the first time. Stripped of his elegance and his masks…

“He was a demon.” Shen Qingqiu sneered down at him. “There is no need to explain to you why he needed to be eradicated.”

Ming Fan tore burning eyes away from that frigid, impassive mask. He couldn’t bear looking at the man he had so long idolized. Instead he stared at the ground, in fear he would do or say something he could not undo. And beside his knee he saw slivers of metal.

The shards of Zheng Yang, tangled in the burned grass. Ming Fan’s vision blurred and his breath grew sharp and ragged, anger slamming into him full force. He wrapped his fingers around the pieces, the razor pain of their edges grounding him as the rest of his world unraveled like poorly woven cloth. His shizun had failed him.

And he had failed his shidi.

[alcettogo]

Changing House

Chapter 11 of A Clustered Garage is now up! FIRST | PREV | NEXT

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61937218/chapters/162830080

[troubldteenz]

i've seen people asking for the turbo shmeji and turbotime game so i'm here to drop them!!!!!

first here is the link to the shmeji, thank yuu Nuka Corgi for sharing the link [shimeji made by Cytic-Acid]

If you have java you should be able to simply extract the file and click on the exe inside to get him going

NEXT!!!!!

The turbotime game! I would like to HEAVILY thank TurboTheTurbotastic on deviantart for dropping the link to the game!

Same with the shimeji, you just have to extract and then run the exe. you might need gamemaker, maybe

FNF mod with Turbo aka ARCADE ARCHIVES [the songs are all bangers the pacman and otto one are my favorite if you exclude the turbo one lol]

LINK TO DOWNLOAD!!

There is also a fanmade[i think] turbotime cabinet by Turbotastique [check out their art its really cool!! :D ]

clicky for the og post

oof,, I think thats it. lemme know if theirs anything I'm missing :3

[starthecozy]

Kinktober prompt 22: costume

Steve and Eddie going as Morticia and Gomez for Halloween! The lack of hair similarities they make up with a lot of attitude (inprnt)

[shellibocs]

gone off with the sunrise, reno never felt so slow / a wednesday child with a rented ride and a head that's full of woe

template by @unholymilf

heavily inspired by this edit owo

tag list (opt in/out): @thedeadthree @imogenkol @cloudofbutterflies92 @dickytwister @shadowglens @derelictheretic @viktorgf @risingsh0t @statichvm @lee-by-thy-side @auricfog @socially-awkward-skeleton @loriane-elmuerto @strangefable @d-esmond

[tisslesu]

Actor Izuna and his co-star (husband)

(Izuna Week Day 7: Actor AU)

Inspired by the Naruto Live Action Stage Play, beemosketches' TobiIzu Actor AU art, and phlebasphoenician's "Acting Myself (For You)" fic series on Ao3🩷

The uppermost illustration is also inspired by these cosplayers on twitter

[onesnoopyaday]

I AM AT MY LIMIT

Snoopy #90

30/12/2024

description under the cut

[description: a cartoon-style drawing of Snoopy's head. Snoopy is a white dog with black ears. His eyes are shut and his mouth is a horizontal line. There are two large blue teardrops, one under each eye. The text "I am at my limit" is handwritten across the top of the image.]

[fleabottom]

Rhaenyra Targaryen by AliceBlakeArt | check their tumblr for other amazing art!

[batsplat]

hi bat! haven’t talked about vale & casey with you in a while. do you think every time casey brings up 2015 or the whole vale vs marc thing, he’s really just talking about the events themselves with no personal agenda? or is there a bit of projection going on, like maybe he’s actually talking about how he was treated by vale, or maybe he just wants to call vale out…

this popped back into my head cuz i saw last year’s ducati diaries on my dash today: https://www.tumblr.com/kingofthering/781610034120491008/casey-stoner-and-neil-hodgson-talking-about-how

ducati diaries episode!! icl did have my first proper #moment with this website when the only thing i saw shared from that podcast was the ninety seconds he talks about sepang 2015 and not him low-key gunning for his parents for twenty minutes in a pretty marked change to his past rhetoric, but nevertheless. we persevere. go listen to the whole thing

anyway yeah lol obviously idt his motivations are pure here, people treat him like a sort of neutral arbiter for agenda purposes and because he gives them nice valentino-bashing quotes. also because they don't care enough about casey or his career to really assess what he's saying on merit. i find his actual opinions on sep '15 not all that interesting but i DO find the REASONING behind them compelling. i'm not going to rehash my 'casey is a competent media operator who is pushing his own narrative' schtick here, but as ever i just find it really strange when people treat him as a reliable narrator. 'blunt' does not equal 'truthful', a veneer of authenticity does not equal openness

so. here's what i think is going on when casey talks about that rivalry. first off, yes, he does dislike what valentino did at sepang, both in the press conference and on the track. i feel like this bit should be obvious but just so we're all on the same page here: this stance was definitely born out of enmity towards valentino more than it was from any real affection for marc - after all, this takes place during the exact period of time in which casey is also (according to him) being pushed out of honda by marc's team. in early 2016, casey quite directly accuses marc of feeling intimidated by him - which given the media climate of early 2016, to me would suggest he wasn't feeling too concerned with marc's personal well being. but casey didn't like what valentino did, he doesn't like that kind of aggressive riding anyway, i can't imagine he likes how either party conducted themselves in that race (cf casey in 2013 saying he felt marc was trying to 'humiliate' his rivals, to me humiliation is one of like. the key emotions to understanding casey so u gotta pay attention when it comes up) but he especially didn't like it from valentino

then, there's the fact that at this stage he just generically dislikes valentino. sepang 2015 is basically a free hit because. you know. valentino loses that championship. not a fun time for him. it's like casey is being presented with a knife on a table in front of a chained up valentino wearing a sign that says 'stab me', like man he's only human what's he going to do. not stab him???? i feel this one's straightforward enough, casey is right up there with valentino as 'aliens most prone to gross displays of schadenfreude' and it was basically casey's whole thing in 2011-12, to the point where it did get a wee bit obsessive. i think casey in retrospect tries to frame this period as a lighter 'whoo boy did i have fun laughing at that idiot!!' vibe, but u probably shouldn't downplay how bitter and dark it became... casey talking in 2012 how he'd stopped enjoying winning in 2008-09 and basically the only way he could still motivate himself was the idea that winning pissed people off, casey talking WAY more about valentino than any of his actual title rivals, casey finding himself so thoroughly disillusioned with the sport and using valentino as a lightning rod for all that resentment... sure, most of it's funny, but when valentino said in 2012 casey was winning and doing great and needed to Get Over It... i mean, yes, look who's talking, but was he WRONG? eh! idk! with a little distance + no longer being able to talk to the press about valentino every week, casey had cooled down a bit by 2015, but i reckon sepang did bring some things back for him. especially how he feels valentino should have been black-flagged and the suggestion of inconsistent stewarding - casey's all about unfairness, including in officiating, so it's another broad theme he's linked to valentino in his mind. so then, that incident becomes another expression of a more general grievance

okay so everything up until now in this post i think is pretty straightforward, hard to argue with. the other reasons i will provide are a little more conjecture, though i still very much believe i am correct here. first off, i think there's another slightly more complicated source of schadenfreude here: seeing valentino and marc's relationship fall apart. this is mostly based on a holistic assessment of casey's character and being so familiar with casey's output i trust myself to read his tone quite well, but i'll try to explain my reasoning here

casey obviously has a Massive Persecution Complex, which may very well be justified but nevertheless manifests itself in quite striking and/or ugly ways. pay attention to how he stresses in his autobiography that he had a worse bike than dani in 2005 - and the suggestion that this hardship taught him about riding shitty bikes (something that dani didn't learn). how he'd have a tantrum when losing to dani in 2006, how the internal hierarchy within honda really bothered him, how he never forgot being used as a guinea pig by michelin while the factory riders got the very best. how post-2006 he'd slip in all these patronising comments about dani ...

... how he consistently talked down jorge in early 2008 and then had a bit of a case of headloss over jorge engaging in fairly mild trash talk, the way his autobiography descriptions of jorge's rookie season kinda make it sound like he thinks all the injuries were karmic punishment ?? and (allegedly) accused jorge of faking his need for a wheelchair. we could go on here but..... the point is, casey has a bit of a golden child problem. dani and jorge both entered motogp with considerably more hype than casey did, and it bothered casey, and he didn't always handle himself with huge amounts of grace

hey, you know who else was hyped coming into motogp? that's right, marc! now, look, to the extent that casey is aware of this trait within himself, i don't think he likes it because it kinda jars with his self-perception in a quite unflattering way. he wants to be gracious, he really prides himself on the idea that he can recognise his rivals' good performance and can be happy for them in a way those filthy europeans can't. sometimes it just... slips out of him, sometimes his compliments have a few too many caveats attached, but he wants to believe he is a person who doesn't resent the good fortune of others. but...

well, idk man! casey watching 2013 motogp - you really think he never not ONCE thought 'well i would've beaten him if i were there' or 'well that sure is a bike i developed very well' or 'well dani and jorge had championship winning machinery in their first seasons (literally, since their teammates won the title in both cases) but EYE didn't so maybe i could have done what marc did'? casey thinking about how marc is being celebrated for his brilliance when 'everyone' was deeply unenthusiastic about his own dominance in 2007 (mainly because it coincided with the racing becoming worse for non-casey-related reasons but that doesn't make it better !!) and it's just... marc winning the first ten races in 2014 and shouldn't people constantly be talking about how boring it is, after all the things they said about casey ?? again, i freely admit there's some conjecture going on here - post-2012, casey hasn't had a microphone stuck in front of him often enough for him to really let these thoughts slip but. idk. it's kinda there in how he says at the end of 2012 he won't be paying attention to what marc does in the test because he Did Not Care. i think some part of him would have found it frustrating

and then!! of course, there's valentino. now, look, i think casey's recollections of 2007 valentino are a bit... idk. not quite correct. but the truth doesn't matter so much here - as far as casey's concerned, he became valentino's rival and valentino immediately switched up towards him. and we know from that ducati diaries podcast that casey was very much aware of valentino and marc being friendly with each other pre sepang 2015. and now, again, i do think casey is maybe exaggerating the difference to valentino's treatment of him in his head, but i also reckon a part of him looked at 2013-14 marc and valentino and went ...? casey's Valentino Thing as ever acts as an extension of his Thing With The Whole Sport, so valentino being nice to marc IN MY OPINION kinda maybe acts as symbol for how the sport as a whole was way nicer to marc than it had been to CASEY. and obviously casey in general very adept at projection,,,,, but imo he did also provide some circumstantial evidence that this might be the TYPE of projection he engages in with his post-ranch visit interview, where he was talking about how he would have liked to ride with valentino like that when he was young in the same breath as talking about what a great job valentino had done teaching all his little brats... idk i do think there's some part of his heart going.... why couldn't it have been like that for me... bittersweet yearning. what if CASEY wanted valentino to be super nice to him and give him head pats whenever he needed them, has anyone ever thought about that ??

plus you've got like. the laguna situation. idk man call me #crazy but i don't think casey vibed with that... really doesn't like feeling like he's being made fun of... and the distinction between that vibe in 2013 and how he felt like his hero worship of valentino had been the butt of the joke (cf the 2007 championship shirt with valentino's name on it that valentino made a gag about). now again none of this is 100% rational from casey, obviously the main reason why the marc rivalry was initially nicer was because it wasn't really a rivalry at all, everyone thought valentino was washed, valentino had just gone through a hellish stretch and needed to get his head back in the game. completely different vibe from 2007 valentino wounded but not out of it having to *for the first time* deal with a young super talented rival snatching his chain. like in 2013 valentino is asked about marc dethroning him and valentino kinda goes ?? what throne ?? idk if u've noticed but it's not been going great !!

and also i think casey misinterprets some stuff about 2007, like he's sort of simplified that time period in his memory, his emotions towards valentino at the time were super all over the place, at a certain point valentino maybe was just kinda in a bad mood about losing all the time and worried about not going to prison and not trying to DESTROY casey or be actively cruel but whatever!! the point is, in my opinion casey did not vibe with valentino being nice to marc. and then in 2015, he got his most significant post-retirement jitters, really really REALLY wanted to replace dani at cota and got mad he couldn't do it to the extent that he shadily tweeted about it aND cut off contact FOREVER with one of the most significant allies he'd had in his career aka livio suppo. and casey blamed marc for that, and then he watched valentino revert to type and torch that particular relationship and prove definitively that marc was in no way different, that valentino was always going to do the same thing to him when marc presented an active threat. and i think !! casey found that extremely fucking satisfying

the last motivation underlying casey's sepang 2015 rhetoric is what it helps him do with his own career narrative. this one's actually quite fun for fans of propaganda, i think casey genuinely has done a superb job with this and it's the sort of sleight of hand i'm very much into. but if you properly go through his oeuvre, close read it like a freak, you notice something kinda interesting about how his rhetoric regarding valentino changes post 2015. in his autobiography, casey expresses frustration that people thought valentino had 'broken' him at laguna 2008, this persistent perception that a) valentino was capable of using mind games to break rivals, and b) casey was particularly susceptible and 'mentally weak'. casey argues, obviously, that this isn't true - and goes one step further by saying he didn't pay attention to what his rivals were doing at all. which is a dubious claim if you're being generous, pretty hilarious if you aren't, but nvm that...

what's interesting is that post 2015, he's made a small but significant alteration: not only did valentino's mind games not work on casey, but they backfired. the DD podcast is quite a good succinct summation of the case he makes: valentino might have had rivals early in his career he could intimidate, but then dani jorge and casey showed up and were tougher and better and didn't fall for that. and if you look at sepang 2015, you can see how that cost valentino a championship. so, as casey says in the slur name podcast, valentino's worst ever mistake was making enemies of marc and casey. in a separate interview, casey says after laguna he wasn't going to be valentino's friend or help him out when he was trying to fight for championships (yeah, no shit) - in another, he doesn't name valentino but talks more generally about how mind games can backfire because they expose the rivals' weaknesses. so then: not only were valentino's mind games morally wrong, not only did they not work on casey, but they actually backfired. valentino hurt himself by making an enemy out of casey

now, you can critique this argument on several grounds. you can query whether valentino really lost himself the 2015 title through his mind games - especially since casey has directly contradicted himself on this and said elsewhere valentino would have lost anyway. you can poke holes in the idea that valentino set out to make an enemy out of casey... when by all accounts the most significant turning point according to casey himself was laguna 2008. a race from valentino that you can disagree with on moral grounds, say didn't decide that year's title..... but would struggle to argue was driven by a pathological need on valentino's part to chat shit about casey for no good reason, given that it was an on-track escalation of the rivalry. you can start getting into arguments about what a 'mind game' even constitutes and whether it makes sense to treat this as a part of valentino's game he could have simply done away with. but there's another more fundamental problem with casey's argument here: it's bullshit. even if valentino deliberately antagonised casey, it did not competitively cost him. look, for the sake of the argument, for this post alone, let's concede the point that all of this behaviour didn't help valentino. but at worst, it was a complete net neutral. maybe it cost valentino in that casey was extra rude to him 2011-12, maybe it just damaged his soul or something, but that's not what casey is asserting. the assertion is that it competitively cost him. which. again. hm

what would it have cost him?? valentino WON the 2008 and 2009 titles, fucked up various body parts in 2010, then moved to a bike he was never going to win on in 2011 and 2012. it sure didn't cost him a title!! even if you want to say that the decision to switch to ducati was in some way prompted by underrating casey (not really and also you're stretching the definition of a 'mind game' here), then that's not even the most important rivalry in motivating that switch - that honour goes to jorge/valentino. so, no championships lost. let's try something else: casey mentions in the slur name podcast he'd always push valentino wide when overtaking because that's all that valentino ever did to him. so did valentino lose any RACES because he'd antagonised casey? well, hm, idk man! his brushes with casey at indy 2008 and motegi 2008 and jerez 2009 and sachsenring 2009 went pretty well!! maybe casey was more motivated to beat valentino at mugello 2009 or estoril 2009, but he finished two positions ahead of valentino in both races during weekends valentino was lacking a lot of confidence for non-casey-related reasons so.... a phillip island duel in 2009 could've gotten dicey - but valentino had a championship to secure and didn't take too many risks, casey had him covered, so that duel didn't even really happen. of the two actual duels valentino and casey had in 2011-12, valentino won le mans 2012 and jerez 2011 just kinda didn't go great for either of them

the only - the only time i feel confident that casey's personal feelings towards valentino deprived valentino of a better result is sachsenring 2010, valentino's comeback race post-leg break where casey after an extended and quite vicious duel denied valentino a podium at the final corner. valentino himself seemed to think this was the result of casey's feelings towards him, ~joking~ after the race that maybe he should wear another rider's colours next time because casey only races him like that. and then of course post motegi 2010 casey inserted himself in the valentino/jorge situation by saying if valentino tried to laguna him again, he'd get it back tenfold. which, speak your truth king, your revenge fantasies are VALID - but it's worth noting that (unfortunately for everyone), valentino nuking his competitiveness for two years meant that casey never really got the chance to try and murder valentino. it didn't happen!! it would've been fun if it had happened, but it didn't!!

so when casey says that valentino made a mistake of antagonising marc and him, it's quite a clever rhetorical trick he's playing. think of how that clip was circulated completely uncritically on this website - like, yeah, totally, valentino made a mistake pissing off marc so then surely he made a mistake pissing off casey too and that really did cost valentino!! idk i guess it's been just about long enough either people haven't watched those seasons or don't remember them? and it is quite a funny experience for me because, again, obviously i listen to that and immediately go 'lol nice try but that's bullshit' and then see it get parroted by pretty much everyone from fans to journalists for months. like, you can just say stuff! whatever man

obviously casey's done a good job by linking his own story to This Thing Nobody Can Shut Up About and nicely played into a few prevalent stereotypes that exist about valentino, making it easier for people to buy into this narrative... but if people thought about this for two seconds you should be able to tell he's not being entirely honest here. you should figure out he's talking more about what he would have LIKED to happen after the horror that was laguna than what actually happened. you should perhaps wonder whether he's not being a teensy bit cynical in his motivations. it's so obviously bullshit! like it genuinely does remind me of the stunt valentino has played with the sete rivalry, casey really did learn from the best here, you can simply make people believe in whatever if they'd already been inclined to believe something kinda similar anyway. you will just get away with it! nobody is ever going to call you up on your inconsistencies! nobody's going to fact check you! lying is fun and free and easy, go forth my friends

anyway. in conclusion. basically valentino gave casey a crash course in media studies. casey said once that valentino was more talented than him in dealing with the media as part of a more sophisticated insult he was cooking up - and yes, obviously he is, but casey's no slouch when he puts his mind to it. sepang 2015 is such a discourse black hole that you kinda know if you say something about it, you can guarantee crash dot net headlines for the next seven months minimum. it's opportunism, plain and simple, it's using this Big Talking Point as a way to conveniently twist the narrative of his own career into something a bit more palatable. kinda like u say in the ask, anon, it's also just a bit of an excuse... if sepang 2015 comes up, casey can talk about valentino hurting HIM and people will care about it !! but he doesn't actually have to say he was hurt because he can go 'well valentino and marc were friends !! so MARC was HURT' yes ofc whereas you mr stoner just thought of valentino as a guy who happened to be your rival oh i'm SURE. casey is obviously invested in the general perception of him, he really wants to be Understood, he wants to have the right narrative about him out there - cf him flirting with the idea of writing another autobiography (many Thoughts on that). so for all that casey genuinely doesn't like what valentino did at sepang 2015, that's obviously not the ONLY thing going on. he can get a free hit in of valentino, he can indulge in a sort of resentful schadenfreude, he can exploit it to edit the narrative of his own career in a more favourable direction. and it works