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Is anyone else going to the Undertale 10th anniversary concerts in London and planning to come in cosplay? Taking kiddo and she wants to make sure she’s not the only one in cosplay although I’m about ten thousand percent sure she won’t be.

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every single person saying we should be kinder to the second red bull driver(s) and we should actually watch races before making sweeping judgments, every single one of those persons spent two years harassing daniel ricciardo until they forced him to have a breakdown in the media pen and run away from the sport he gave his life and spark to, they were gleeful in calling him washed and old and useless and sent him to the glue factory while their favourite drivers used him as a blueprint for media personality and marketability -- i have no sympathy for any of the floppers flopping in that car. may it flop harder. may it scream and protest and fight its driver every single turn, may the curse be everlasting.

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Maybe that is also a sign. Of what? You can fill that in yourself ✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼

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The only driver that can replace daniel, is daniel.

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You know who’s not have gone out in Q1 at Barcelona in a Red Bull? Yeah.

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take me back to god's country 💔

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if you showed me these stats after I woke up from a two year coma I would just think we were back in 2023..

welcome back never seen on screen because he’s so far ahead max verstappen… I missed you deeply.

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The duality of being a Max fan and frothing at the mouth at his moves and competency versus being a Daniel fan and hating anything that helps Red Bull and makes Red Bull happy and/or win

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What did he say about kimi?

(Paraphrased, will check for exact wording after the race, but…) Kimi’s dad being there is a distraction and the reason he didn’t perform in qualifying yesterday.

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I mean this in the most compassionate possible way but Jacques Villeneuve I am begging you to go to fucking therapy. I know that losing your dad in such a traumatic way must have been awful and life-destroying but taking it out on an eighteen year old with a supportive dad who’s come to his first home race is not healthy or helpful for anybody.

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formula 1 warrior cats au.

that no one was expecting, but we deserved it. some kittens to start.

and silly sketches.

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"williams v ferrari" have we returned to formula one circa 1992 what the fuck???

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You know, I’m not at all trying to bring down Carlos, Lewis or Yuki when I say this: but it’s very interesting to me that they’ve all somewhat struggled to adapt to their new team…and instead of being lambasted for it, the prevailing narrative from f1 fandom and the media at large is “let’s just give them time ☺️”

Yet when it was Daniel, fresh into VCARB and driving the first few races of the season with a damaged chassis, every bad result was held against him and people were calling for him to lose his seat three races into the season??

When he was in a LITERAL tractor (as in P10 in the WCC in 2023!), it was held against him. When he broke his hand trying to avoid hitting another driver, it was held against him. When he routinely had to drive around failed upgrades and piss-poor strategy, it was held against him.

I feel like I’m living in the Twilight Zone, where everyone knows what happened last year was fucked up, but no one actually wants to admit fault. Instead, they’ll talk around it and bring up how Daniel was Max’s last competitive teammate, how every ballsy overtake on the field is ‘classic Ricciardo’, Mekkies will credit him for his technical contribution’s to VCARB and how it’s given them the huge leap forward we’re seeing now.

As someone who watched everything unfold last year, I can’t help but be so angry at the sudden switch up - from both fans and pundits alike. Daniel deserved much more kindness from this sport than what he got, and everyone telling his fans to ‘just get over it’, I hope your own driver never has to face what Daniel faced last year.

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"came back wrong" what about Came Back Afraid. You used to be brave. Too brave maybe, defying the odds at every turn, a fighter, cocky, playing with fire, first to throw yourself at the enemy. Until one day it all caught up to you. You came back, somehow, but now you know all too intimately how it feels to lose, to die, to be destroyed. Now you flinch and freeze and cower at the slightest provocation. Who even are you now if you can't be brave? The grave may have let you go, but the mortal fear still grips you tighter than ever.

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anyway daniel ricciardo should still be in formula 1 over half of these guys.

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The historical revisionism after this bit made me quite bloody cross - yes, Max started having the upper hand in the later half of their last season together, but how much of that was due to the reliability issues Karun Chandhok conveniently forgot about?

"Since Daniel Ricciardo left Red Bull, I don't think they've had a teammate to Max Verstappen that has had the potential, ability, whatever you want to call it, to get as close to Max as Daniel Ricciardo ever got."

David Croft during FP3 Commentary, Bahrain GP 2025 | via

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Max talking about Dan at the Belgian GP post race interview.