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It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.

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rewatching s1 and in ep2 w*ndigo, dean makes a joke about not bringing provisions into the woods just to pull out a bag of peanut butter m&m’s and stick with me here, it’s why the later seasons’ “goofy dean” loses me

this moment is clearly a joke but if you think about it too much, it also makes some sense; a family size bag of peanut m&m’s is calorie dense and even the high sugar is good to keep you moving which they need on an overnight hunt. it also shows how due to their upbringing, they’ve had to eat lower quality food, things they always had access to that was cheap and also in bulk

what does dean eating ghost pepper jerky then tipping water on himself exist for other than to be a cringy joke? what does smelling old chinese food, testing to see if it's still good then shaking his head with cabbage hanging out his mouth when it isn't serve? it's just to make him look stupid and contrast sam's healthy/clean diet (and superiority but that’s another conversation) which has always existed but it used to be nuanced and natural

we see dean as a child give up the food he wanted to eat so sam could eat it. (“i’m sick of spaghetti-os,” “you’re the one who wanted them,” … “i want lucky charms!” “… there’s only enough for one bowl and i haven’t had any yet!” proceeds to give them to sam, 1x18) we know he hustled and stole food to ensure sam ate. (“so, what’d he take?” “get this- peanut butter and bread.” 9x07)

we also see throughout the early seasons dean teasing sam about his salad or healthy choice while he eats some form of burger or other fast food (or notably, cheerfully eating prison food that sam won’t touch, 2x19). it's typical sibling teasing but it also shows that it isn't new for sam to eat like that and for dean to know he eats like that

sam being picky isn't just a character trait they chose for him, it's a result of how dean raised him; he raised him to like and want healthy food and be food secure enough to reject food he didn't want

but dean eats anything he is given and seeks out unhealthy - cheap, plentiful, filling - food

he is the opposite of picky to the point of it being a consistent bit; they show him multiple times eating when it's socially frowned upon to do so eg. questioning a grieving victim when they're trying to be discreet (1x14, 2x15, 2x18)

a similar moment to the chinese food is in 4x19; dean wakes up in the car while sam brushes his teeth outside and is hungry. sam says there's a sandwich in the backseat, dean smells it and recoils bc it's an old tuna sandwich. the moment is funny on its own but it also exists as a comparison of their lives to adam's; he has a loving mother, goes to school and importantly, a steady stable childhood

it’s a joke with a purpose

it also supports dean's food insecurity; he wakes up and is immediately hungry, enough to complain about it and seek out food before anything else

dean is always hungry bc he never has access to nutritionally rich foods bc he got used to using the money he earned to buy sam's more expensive food. he got used to his cheaper, denser foods and grew up with (and continues to live with) intermittent access to said foods. think of how long it takes to drive from one state to another; how many hours it can take to see another town that offers food, if you arrive at a reasonable enough time for anything to be open. also think how they can’t keep any food beyond what fits in an esky; nothing that needs defrosting, nothing can be heated up. it’s bags and jars and take out for as long as they can trust it

then they get the bunker which has its own kitchen

dean even describes himself as "nesting" when he decorates his room, something he hasn't had since he was four years old, and he uses said kitchen to cook a burger from scratch that he is proud of. he is food secure for the first time in his life and it shows in how often he cooks for both himself and sam

so these moments where they have him acting goofy regarding food are no longer character driven and only exist as a joke which is why they come across as cringy and out of character compared to similar earlier moments

a lot of my issues with dean's characterisation started when they introduced the bunker. the argument can and is made that the reason these jokes happen is bc he feels safe in the bunker, that bc he now has a home he can relax and unmask but that still doesn't feel sufficient. they crank up these sillier moments for both of them, giving them a sort of playing house comedy vibe of two roommates with completely different personalities but it doesn't feel like an authentic progression. it feels forced; an attempt at humour for humour's sake

food stopped being an informed part of their characters and their trauma and instead became flanderised; sam is the judgy vegetarian health nut and dean is his borderline slovenly carnivore counterpart

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lie down. sit still.

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Soldier, Poet, King

Tag list: @st-leclerc @rubywingsracing @saviour-of-lord @three-days-time @the-wall-is-my-goal @albonoooo @ch3rubd0lls @brawngp2009

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listen, i’m not at all a lando norris fan, but sometimes he genuinely concerns me

hope he’s doing okay after this awful weekend for him

Max Fewtrell being a good friend post-QatarGP part 1/3 (Max_Fewtrell on Twitch)

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heavy is the head that wears the crown FOR YOU. i’m fine though

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one of my favorite things about f1 is observing how all of the drivers speak english, especially if it’s their second language and one of my favorites is charles. you can always tell when he just learned a new favorite word or phrase lmfao

charles saying multiple times he's doing some crazy shit 🤪 during his experience as a fighter pilot

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for centuries, men have frequently used the pronoun "she" to refer to inanimate objects such as boats, cars, and houses, which is likely a result of an unconscious instinct stemming from the objectification of women and is a display of heterosexual masculinity.

in an interview, max said "everybody names the car a girl. i'm like no, it’s a guy. why should it be a girl?". this contrasts his fellow drivers who often address their cars as "she" and the f1 sport as we know it, which is a heterosexual and male-dominated sport. in this essay i will

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so im asian and queer, and this is a topic that i’ve been thinking about ever since i saw people getting upset about tommy being welcomed back.

in my eyes, the racism plot doesn’t not need to be discussed further. it’s been shown that tommy was merely following the crowd, and while that is definitely still wrong and cowardly, it likely was not a result of him being super racist. he has likely grown as a person since then.

additionally, we do not have eyes on his interactions all the time and have all of the facts about how he is affecting others, so we need to rely on the other characters’ behavior to know where we stand with tommy. thus, hen and chim.

hen and chim clearly think he is a good guy now, enough to call him up for favors, be chill with him showing up to a wedding, and more. please trust them, as POC to tell you if tommy is a bad guy. if hen and chim are these great people, then they would not be friendly with a racist asshole. if you think that they are ok with tommy being racist, then you should be complaining about them too!

i have and will drop peers immediately if they are racist, homophobic, etc, and i hope hen and chim would too.

not everything should be obviously spelled out, or else that would just be bad writing. please read the atmosphere and use the characters and their interactions for context to guide you.

hey im a white queer so maybe im calling a spade a spade but bucktommy feels like such a white gay ship. like we made the attractive white guys kiss so lets pretend the racism plot was resolved offscreen.

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this. and we saw this in the austen GP too, where Lando should have given the position back to Max so he wouldn’t get penalized, and overtake later since he has the superior car and has the luxury to.

Lando is just so focused on Max and fighting him, that he keeps making these errors because he gets too impatient. but Max knows how to play the long game, which is why more things keep going right for him than for Lando.

Max deserved to be penalized in the Mexico GP (idk if 20 seconds was the right choice, but it is what it is), but he alone cannot be blamed for Lando’s impatience and tunnel vision

the thing I haven’t seen anyone talking about - because the focus is all on max and his fault in this - is that lando chose to go for an overtake on the outside of a tight corner of a chicane when sainz was right in front of them and the guy he’s overtaking has proven he doesn’t give a shit about playing nice. Lando is in a title battle. Maybe he’s not the one with more to lose, but a DNF for him is so much more devastating than it is for Max. A DNF for him pretty much destroys any hopes for a WDC and also puts Charles ahead of him if Charles scores well enough.

When Max was making up places after his penalty, he didn’t go for any moves like that one, even though he could have, because the car is so much faster than the back markers that he can follow behind them through the corners and stay close, then get them on the DRS straight. If Lando had waited, he would have been able to pass Max on the pit straight and Max would’ve had absolutely zero defense. No one can pretend the pace delta between those two cars wasn’t enough that that wouldn’t have worked.

I don’t think Lando played it smart, unless he’s playing 4d chess and knew Max would force him off and incur a penalty… I doubt it very much. In this case, it’s not very strategic for his WDC fight to be trying to pull such moves on a guy who will just drive him off the track. Lando got away with it but what if he hadn’t? Max would’ve gotten a penalty for causing a collision but Lando would’ve gotten 0 points.

no hate to the guy, I’m just looking at the move from a neutral perspective and wondering why he felt the need to go for the dive then.

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Translation: Sorry you all had to see that but if my car wasn’t SLOW then maybe I wouldn’t have had to take matters into my own hands anyway je ne regrette rien see you snowflakes next week

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maxiel x 2014-2024 - “I want you to see how you look to me”

(please don't repost anywhere)

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i’m not a chestappen or whatever the ship name is, but sometimes i feel like checo is only on the red bull team because max likes him enough and they just don’t want to deal with the bullshit of the curse of the second red bull seat.

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this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks