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God I would love for O'Brien to see Thomas again and the make eye contact seeing each other as comfortable despite their scheming and then give each other a genuine smile and maybe shake hands and wish each other happiness

thomas barrow and sarah o’brien are perfect because they’ll literally stick their necks out for each other and then decide to ruin each other’s lives when they get even slightly patronized by the other and then after nearly destroying each other’s lives they’ll just be like “game recognizes game—respect 🫡” and still be rooting for each other to succeed.

like sarah who has one of the most prestigious jobs among servants, is trying to get Thomas promoted at every turn even if they screw over bates (who is he, anyway? lord grantham’s friend? who gives a fuck?) like she just seeks out his company to share gossip and banter with this estranged and looked down upon gay man, and then uses her scheming to get him out of the war and beams like a summer sun when she sees him come back home.

then Thomas tries to sabotage her ambitions for her nephew and disrespects her and she’s like “bet” and literally exploits Thomas’ sexuality to the point that he’s looking at being basically jobless AND unemployable and possibly arrested. like he’s so DESPERATE that BATES his SWORN ENEMY is like “dude please just give me ammo I can use against sarah to get her to back off you.” like bates is begging Thomas to give him a reason to let him get off easy bc Thomas is all “wow she outplayed me and my life is over I can’t believe it but props where props are due.”

but then bates manages to neutralize the threat after Thomas realizes he actually still has some ammo and then sarah is off to another house of employment where she gets to live her dream of traveling and escape the scandal that could happen if word of what she did to lady grantham got discovered. but I’m almost certain it was because she could not stand Thomas lording it over her for the rest of her career. and you just know at the bottom of his heart Thomas is smirking to himself thinking “good for her.”

they hate each other, they love each other. they’ll start a phony business together and be there when the disappointment is too much to bear. they’ll stick out their necks for each other and then try to sink each other’s boat. they’ll encourage each other’s ambitions. they’re cynics and idealists. desperate for a better more exciting life. they understand each other. they’ll give each other good advice and then try to sabotage everything the other has worked for.

no one is doing it like them I fear

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You cannot tell me Hans is not canonically in love with Henry regardless of if you romance him because helLOOOOO??????? "They're bros" you squish your bros like this???

TAKING FRENCH LEAVE        ↳ Hug.

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"f1 is a serious sport" yeah okay

what f1 really is:

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I’m crying I feel like I’ve had this exact scene play out

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#why does seb look photoshopped in

what is going on in here and why do i love it

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Danica Patrick is campaigning for Trump, absolutely fucking disgusting. I never want to see her on the paddock.

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Little something to note which is actually really important. There are *metric ton* of trackers on the Tumblr app which are tracking your info. I started using the DuckDuckGo app tracking blocker and it's blocked vastly more tracking attempts from Tumblr that ANY other app I use. It's shocking considering how vulnerable we often are here, we have interests we engage in that we wouldn't dream of telling people about. And yet these giant companies are harvesting our information to sell us things. Boy I love capitalism.

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lando’s new baby 😭

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"no comment"

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I just met Max Fewtrell

Well met is a strong word. He got a coffee at the kiosk I work in at a major London train station. I said his name before I thought about how to follow up, only managing a feeble "hi ✋🙂". He said "hi" very much looking like he didn't want to be recognised, I don't blame him. He left quickly with someone else I couldn't get a good look of, likely after a train. That's all, I just wish I said "how are you" instead.

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#why is this shot like a gay student film

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If I had to see this picture again so do you

Unpopular opinion: lando fans are giving cult LH a run for their money 👀

Send us your unpopular F1 opinions!

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I honestly don't give a fuck if you hate lando norris but where the fuck is you fandom etiquette and whole tumblr usage? keep your fucking hate bullshit OUT of his tags it's getting really annoying.

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my thoughts after the statements provided by mclaren, lando, and oscar about team orders (azerbaijan gp media day)

folks, it's happening.

everyone and their mother is losing their freaking head over the confirmation we've been waiting to hear for weeks: oscar has been asked by mclaren to help lando's wdc chances.

couple of things, in no particular order:

1. the key word is asked. for weeks oscar has been adamant in his interviews about the fact that the team hadn't asked him to help lando. take monza as an example where he was basically told the complete opposite. am i glad they asked? not really. did i know they would? of course.

2. where did the hesitancy come from, you may ask, why did they wait so long? there's a few possible reasons, all of them purely speculative. i for one believe they needed more data to move on with the plan. it wouldn't make much sense to go all the way with the lando wdc agenda if they were unsure about the ratio between lando's performance, the car's performance, annnnnd red bull's shitshow. monza confirmed all three (i would argue we've known for a little longer than that, but i am no strategist). max's performance going down consistently was most likely the final push they needed to make the call.

3. what does this mean for oscar? we'll know for sure on sunday, i think, but i'm pretty positive we'll see same old osc trying to score as many points as possible (think wcc). he will not slow down or make any significant changes to how he approaches the race. there's an a-z list of scenarios at play here, but things will most likely boil down to him helping lando out mid race (think pit order, covering, helping him find cleaner air) and in the last few laps, if he finds himself in a better position, he'll most likely slow down and let lando pass. i don't think this is necessarily a situation that will be recurrent for the rest of the season, realistically. oscar's only ever been in front of lando a handful of times.

4. what does lando say? what you'd expect from an experienced driver like him. he understands that oscar has a right to race him, and he doesn't want him to simply roll over and let him pass every race. plans seem to have been discussed, so in good theory things should work out. as lando said, people on the outside think it's as easy as just telling oscar to help him and bam, wdc achieved. a lot of things are going to play a part here, and even with oscar's help lando's wdc is still a stretch (think race strat mistakes they've made in the past, risky corners, and ferrari's rising performance with charles in 3rd place in the standings.)

5. why are team orders so controversial? they've been around forever. i think most of us just like to romanticize the situation because we like both drivers so much, and thus we want them to succeed equally. that's just not possible in this sport. both drivers know this, and we as fans have to make peace with it.

6. sigh. mclaren, mclaren, mclaren. i've been guilty of cursing them many, many times, but to offer some perspective: i think newer fans might not realize that there are three elements in F1 that guarantee a team's success. There's having a good driver lineup, a competitive car, and an effective team strategy. most teams have been trying to get all three for decades. some have the strat and the car, but not the drivers. some have the drivers and the strat, but not the car. mclaren very recently checked off the car box, and the lineup box, and they've been struggling with the last one. they've only been in this position for months, and they've had a lot of movement within the team. hopefully they figure it out for the upcoming season.

anyways, enough rambling. let's hope for the best, y'all 🧡