hiiiii I just wanted to say thank god I'm not the only one wallowing in dando angst right now ;_; i totally agree, if i was lando and secretly in love with daniel and had to bear witness to barrage of maxiel and the "daniel coming home" narrative i too would make questionable personal grooming decisions or like you said: walk off the monaco pier.
srsly tho, i imagine Lando secretly hating the daniel “coming home" to rbr narrative. He is happy for Daniel, he really is. He's happy to see that Daniel's starting to fill out his clothes. That he’s starting to laugh like himself again. That he's lighter, unburdened. That he's home.
But it says something doesn’t it? The fact that the only home Lando has ever known nearly destroyed Daniel?
It's a selfish and shitty to focus on that because it was never about Lando. It's about Daniel finding himself again.
But he's making it quite clear that in order to do that he has to go far away (from Lando) because that's where he lost himself in the first place (next to Lando). When Daniel says that he couldn’t work things out with the team, why shouldn't Lando include himself in that? After all, they're one and the same at this point. Mclaren implies Lando the same way RedBull implies Max.
...and then there’s Max. Max isn’t involved in this, but he also is. In the way Max is always implicated when it comes to Daniel. The way his presence implicit when it comes to Daniel. The way Lando found himself being compared to Max simply for stepping into the place he once occupied (as if standing next to Daniel is Max’s god given right). The way it fucking stings that Daniel is happier at RedBull because of what it implied–he’s happier with Max.
anyway, the tragedy and right-person at the wrong time of it all is what rly haunts me abt dando.
-f1 anon <3
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And now there’s an unbearable distance between them that stops Daniel from saying the obvious. (I told you so. Just leave. Or worse, you deserve better than this) He just teases Lando about his beard, and it makes Lando want to cry.
i too would make questionable personal grooming decisions I am obsessed with the implication here... . . about his quarter-life crisis beard..... . .
F1 ANON THIS ENTIRE POST ENCAPSULATES HOW I FEEL ABOUT THEM AND HOW INSANE THIS CURRENT ARC OF DANNY BEING HOME HAS MADE ME. Especiallyyyyyyyyy since RB Socmed teams KNOW that we're ravenous for Maxiel content and that maxiel content is what sells to people. 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
And just idk. Lando thinking to himself. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be around me either, if the roles were reversed. I wouldn't want to be associated anymore with any reminders of what ultimately stripped me of my confidence in something i once was so sure of.
So he keeps his distance because what's the point? Daniel isn't mandated to spend time with him anymore. They're very different people anyway. They've got very different interests. Daniel loves his wine and his farm and lando loves golf and kind of i guess enjoys twitch streaming...
Lando cant let himself think about all the ways that they used to be the same because if he does he'll fall apart.
He also cant bring himself to approach danny much because like. He cant stand the thought of pity in danny's eyes. It's just so fucking LAYERED. How many times did daniel get blamed for his performance. How many times did lando see his smile not quite reach his eyes. How many times did lando ignore it.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes today as the jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to an adult film actress who said the two had sex.
However, we must refrain from perpetuating the “historic conviction no one is above the law in the greatest country on earth” narrative.
Let’s remember that he has become the first convicted felon among a lineup of war criminals, mass murderers, rapists, and slavers. Their crimes have included enabling genocide, setting up torture sites, invading other countries, exploiting the global south, ethnically cleansing indigenous people etc. Of course, Trump is also guilty of several of these crimes.
A glaringly obvious recent example is Dick Cheney - and his team - not being prosecuted for lying about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. We were all expected to just move on from that lie.
The fact that the first ever Presidential conviction is over hush money to cover a sex scandal is not at all surprising however, it is revealing.
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Saw a reddit post today about a girl who was upset that her childhood best friend replaced a photo of the two of them in his wallet with one of him and his girlfriend. And while yeah, she was being unreasonable with a lot of what she was saying, I totally understand the sadness of a friend "replacing" you with someone they have romantic feelings for. Makes it worse when the top comment is this
Every single comment on this post is about how family and romantic relationships always take precedence over friendships. I don't have anything more to say to this aside from the fact that... this is why it's hard for aroaces to imagine futures for themselves. Society drills it into your head that you're going to live in a world where you are no one's priority if you don't have romantic relationships and it fucking sucks
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“You’re going to teach me how to be fascinating.”
This line made me fucking feral. This show has been such an elevation of the source material.
Armand will do anything to be loved. He will do whatever it takes. He’s so beautiful and so lethal and so tragic. “You’re going to teach me how to be fascinating” is such a succinct window into who he is as a character. It’s both a threat and a desperate plea for help. Fine! Perhaps I’m boring. I’ll learn to be fascinating. Louis will love me if I’m fascinating. And you’re going to make that happen for me. Or else.
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