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With the F1 Movie release lingering closer and closer, it’s time to have an uncomfortable conversation.

Forgive me for going all feminist on you (I’m not sorry), but have a seat and let’s chat, yeah?

Let’s discuss the negative impact this movie is going to have on women in motorsport as well as female fans, shall we?

Of course the obvious conversation is about the women working in motorsport. Imagine how poorly the plot is going to reflect on them. Why? Oh, well let’s see. You’ve got an entire plot that revolves around the main character (who’s played by a misogynistic wife beater, by the way, great casting choice!) sleeping with his fucking female engineer.

Now bear in mind how that’s going to negatively affect the PR of women working in motorsport. Especially Laura Mueller, who is the sport’s first ever female race engineer in its entire 75 year history. Who literally already has incels on the internet saying the only way she got her job is because she slept with someone.

And of course, consider the female fans.

There are so many of us out here every day fighting with male fans who think we “don’t know anything” and “only watch F1 because the drivers are hot.” We are constantly ostracized in this fucking sport and feeling like we have to prove that we’re even allowed to like it.

Can you imagine how poorly the F1 Movie will reflect on us?

All this movie is going to do is push the harmful, negative stereotype that F1 is a “man’s world.” It’s just going to make women feel like they don’t belong in a sport where they already feel shoved aside.

So, and maybe I’m being a little dramatic here, but if you happen to know a female F1 fan, please be kind to her. Please check on her.

And to all my ladies, we do belong in this sport. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. 💜💜

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I think I did it. I think I wrote a full prologue/chapter 1

Still want to write a couple more so I have a buffer but holy hell I've done it

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thought of a fantastic start to my story while half-asleep through massive stomach pain Come the following morning I forgot it entirely. I think I'll break something

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I hardly ever use tumblr, ngl - but I sometimes just log on to get bombarded by @gffa and @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning among others with star wars stuff until it prompts me to actually WRITE SOMETHING (I tried last night and then ended up making a flowchart trying to decide on an antagonist. I still haven't decided. Death.)

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I have about a trillion great ideas to write but it's so hard to actually... Write. Start from scratch, not just the story but writing in ao3 altogether. Especially because I know I have some very specific Ideas that sometimes feel just self indulgent

The only reason I haven't scrapped the whole thing is that I remember @blue-sunshine-mauve-morning and Desert Storm and I see a golden standard of what I want to do (in a larger scope) and I know it Can Work

But then I know even if I get it off the floor I'd then struggle keeping on if nobody or their dog reads it in what's such a CROWDED fandom (I'd rather blow up than share with people who Know Me)

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(I don't think this post has made it here yet but if it has, I'll happily take it down)

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I feel like people miss the point of the "war is bad" message

What it's supposed to mean is that war is terrible, it's destructive, it ruins lives, it leaves scars, and you should only partake in it when there are no other options, because even if you win, even if you survive, you will not be the same, which is why the phrase used to be more commonly known as "war is hell"

But "war is bad" seems to have been construed by people in fandom (and more worryingly in real life too) into "any fighting is bad, if you fight you're morally terrible and impure, you should not fight at all, no matter what"

And that's almost never the point of "War is Bad" works

Works like lotr, atla, transformers, the clone wars, etc all have themes on how horrible war is, but they categorically do not say it is wrong to fight, what they say is usually along the lines of "war is terrible, and what makes it so terrible is that we have no choice but to fight, it would be ideal if we didn't have to fight at all, but we must fight, because not fighting is not an option, because not fighting, not opposing tyranny, conquest, and evil only allows those things to exist unimpeded"

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I'm hungry for some bleach fanfic recs but from what I've been seeing (in the little things I do see) the only way to get what I want is writing it myself

Now that's an idea...

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i’ve never understood the idea that the jedi arrogantly refused to believe the dark side was rising in the prequels/clone wars. that is just… so blatantly not what we see

when qui-gon first brings it up in the phantom menace they don’t really believe it, sure, mostly because to their knowledge they haven’t seen a sith lord in a millennia, so it is a wild idea. this initial denial has consequences, sure, but it’s hardly the all-encompassing arrogance that people accuse them of.

and then at the end of the very same movie the question is literally posed OUT LOUD if they killed the master or apprentice- they know there’s another out there!!! the problem is they just don’t have the slightest idea on where to look first, especially with palpatine clouding their vision with the dark side.

then they also have a hard time believing initially that dooku is a sith- not because they don’t think there’s a sith around, but because they KNOW dooku, loved and trusted him even, and are having a hard time believing he’d do such terrible things. but once they see it for themselves, they do fully acknowledge that dooku is a sith and has fallen to the dark side.

the jedi KNOW by the end of tpm that the dark side is rising in power. they KNOW that there are sith around. they’re not denying anything, and are actively even working against it, but their vision is being intentionally clouded by a bad faith actor.

they are just struggling to put the pieces together and figure out the best way to handle it (while also dealing with every other problem the galaxy has that gets put on their shoulders and eventually a whole ass WAR), and unfortunately, once they figure it all out it’s too late.

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i do always find it very funny when people point to anakin as evidence that the jedi attachment rule is wrong. like bro, anakin proves them RIGHT. everything anakin did is exactly why the jedi warned against attachments

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like i do get why the OT having characters describe the jedi as an 'ancient religion' when they were an active and significant political presence within living memory annoys people. but honestly i think making the fall of the jedi so recent just ramps up how idk. sinister the whole thing is to me?

like the Jedi weren't just wiped out physically; their memory has been flat out obliterated. let's not forget Palpatine didn't just have the Jedi order destroyed, he got the senate to cheer for him while he did it.

we live in an age of alternative facts - it's not difficult to imagine. oh you remember seeing the Jedi using the force live on space TV? no you didn't. the Jedi order is ancient history, they fell a really long time ago. 50 years? a hundred? something like that. we don't believe in that kind of superstition anymore. kinda sad that they're gone i guess but it was progress.

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#SOMEONE SHOW THIS LEGO MULTIVERSE GAME TO GEORGE LUCAS #SHOW HIM THE DARTH JAR JAR SCENE #JUST TO WATCH HIS SOUL LEAVE HIS BODY #HE IS SO EXHAUSTED BY THE DARTH JAR JAR THEORY #THAT FAMOUS STORY ABOUT SOMEONE GOING UP TO HIM AT A PARTY TO ASK HIM ABOUT IT #AND GEORGE CUTS HIM OFF BEFORE HE CAN FINISH #AND IS JUST LIKE NO IN A WAY YOU CAN TELL THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME HE'S BEEN ASKED #YOU KNOW HE HATES IT BY THIS POINT #I WANT SOMEONE TO FILM IT AND I WANT TO SEE HIM JUST DEFLATE LIKE A WEEK OLD BIRTHDAY BALLOON #PLEASE DO IT IT'D BE SO FUNNY

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That's been just about every summer for me for most of my life

It's annoying but mostly depends on humidity more than sheer temp

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The most humane product invented by vault tec being a banana flavoured cyanide pill is very on brand.

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The Spanish dub of Grim Fandango has an ample variety of accents from all across the Hispanic world, which is rare in an industry that tries to be as neutral as possible to the point where "dub speech" is a meme because nobody talks like that

Anyways, in that cacophony of accents, two have a Rioplatense accent. Both smarmy bastards that think they're smarter than they are, whose arrogance is their undoing, who are horrible people altogether

All stereotypes of people of the region. Which is fun

if you give “stupid” characters rural/southern accents i don’t like you and if you give “smart” characters rural/southern accents but it’s a punchline i don’t like you even more