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So it’s officially been 13 years.

13 years since Finn got a transmission from Leland Turbo and went out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean to try and save him.

13 years since he went back home without him.

13 years since McQueen spontaneously agreed to race in the World Grand Prix so he could one up Francisco

13 years since Mater got mistaken for an American spy and spent the next week in the ensuing chaos

13 years since Rod Torque Redline gave his life trying to protect an innocent civilian and uncover a deadly plot

13 years since the most iconic scenes of Finn McMissile kicking ass

13 years since “DO NOT EAT THE FREE PISTACHIO ICE CREAM!”

13 years since “your mother. Oh no I’m sorry it was your sister. Y’know I can’t tell ‘em apart these days.”

13 years since “I never properly introduced myself. Finn McMissile, British Intelligence.”

13 years since “friendships can be dangerous in our line of work, Mater.”

13 years since “we get it, you both know each other, you’re both old.”

Cheers to the cars fandom! the family I never knew I had. I feel like I’ve finally come home after too long away. I’m glad I’m not the only one who absolutely fell in love with this movie and is still out here making art, writing fic, and incredibly long metas about it XD

Cars 2 renaissance, baby!!! Let’s keep it going!

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That’s it, I’m dropping a new side blog.

Listen, I’ve had some really intense fandom obsessions, but NOTHING can compare to sweet summer 2011 when Cars 2 dropped and I saw the fragging oil rig chase scene for the first time. That was it. It was all over for me.

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Don’t look at the ugly reference lines!! I was struggling y’all XD

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The ending of Cars 2 is bullshit because Luigi and Guido would have been on Finns ass about getting white wall tires. It would not have taken much convincing either.

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I was rewatching a scene from cars 2 so I could plot my fic better and I paused it and

WHY IS HE SO ADORABLE AKHDJAKSHHSKA

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Honestly it’s so sad to me that this is our only official image of Finn and Leland together. Finn is smiling like I’ve never seen him smile before but they’ve only got that one official picture of Leland that they’ve slapped on here so of course he doesn’t look very happy.

Idk. Maybe Finn’s done something to piss Leland off so he’s refusing to smile for the photo. Maybe he just doesn’t smile for photos. But I still wish there was a nice photo of them together where they both looked happy.

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Fixed it

Ill post a full screen in a sec

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I have backed up commissions and this just happened instead. *sobbing* why am I like this

First time using color pencil in… a while. Now I want to use it more.

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So a while back, @little-red-irish-jaguar reblogged one of my posts with this devastating theory. The theory was that Leland sent Finn the transmission from Tony Trihull instead of the oil rigs. My first thought was to reject this theory because it went against my preconceptions that were so firmly rooted that my brain immediately sought to preserve them. However after rewatching the movie and studying the evidence, I can safely say that I was wrong. This theory tracks. And I will now write another essay to assess the evidence.

Firstly, the transmission itself: now it’s EXTREMELY hard to see shit in this video. The quality is god-awful and Leland never won any awards for videography. However this glorious angel on deviantart cleaned up some frames. (I’m not going to repost their art though since they don’t seem to be active in the fandom anymore and I don’t want to repost without permission. :/ ) but definitely go check it out!

So I’ll post the same shitty screenshots from the movie. Shoutout to veggieboy ultimate for uploading the opening scene on YouTube.

So there’s crates and metal reinforcements on the walls behind him. It does look like it could be on the oil rig.

Then he angles the camera to show this (port window?) like babygirl we can’t tell what that is… anyway it looks like a window of some sort and there fire. Now. That looks an awful lot like a round ship’s window.

Finally we get this weirdass shot of the ceiling? Again it’s very hard to tell what this is but it’s some sort of mechanical bay door that is closing.

Like it could be that? Tony does have cargo bay doors and that could be what we’re seeing.

Now the icing on top are these pieces of concept art from the Pixar website. That window porthole is drawn without all the overexposure and it looks just like the flair stacks from the oil rigs. And that’s why Leland is trying to get it in frame to show Finn. He’s seen the oil rigs from the ship. But that’s the last we see of him.

Next, we see Finn hightailing it out there to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Here’s the kicker, the coordinates Leland gives Finn do not take him to the oil rigs.

(And for my even shittier stills) Crabby takes him to the coordinates and is like lol okay here we are! There’s lot of water!!

Now this always confused me as a kid. Was Crabby off with the coordinates? Did he stop too soon? But then if Leland sent the coordinates from Tony Trihull, it makes sense why those coordinates would lead to open water and not the oil rigs. The oil rigs may not be at those coordinates…

but he sure is: the ship Leland sent the coordinates from.

Next we see Finn by the loading dock and he comms Leland to let him know he’s there. Now this threw me off. Finn tells him he’s at the rally point but he’s not at the coordinates Leland sent him. I guess he figured this is where Leland ended up? (I mean he wasn’t wrong, unfortunately.)

Then we see the professor. He’s there because of the camera which they’re loading onto the ship because they’re about to sail to Japan because of the race. But they’re also unloading crates from the ship and it’s one of those crates that Leland’s body is in. He’s being unloaded from the ship which is where he was likely murdered.

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As for my finishing thoughts. There’s a lot to unpack here. Leland never made it to the oil rigs alive which is a tragedy of its own that he died before he got to see what he’d discovered up close.

He had a lot of faith in Finn to be able to find him from coordinates he sent from a boat. And that faith was well founded. Finn did in fact find him albeit too late.

Since he wasn’t on the ship at the time, Professor Z was not the one who killed Leland (though he may have ordered him killed) it was likely Acer and Grem who killed him—which makes sense since they seem to be the more sadistic of the lemons in later scenes—but I still hate Zundapp just because he was involved in it!

And Finn did in fact get his revenge at the end of the movie in London when he blew Tony Trihull to smithereens. (I’d add the screenshot but I’m at my 10 image limit already XD)

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@amethyst257 @mcqueensgayson and @penguinotaku

You’re welcome

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Car show continued again.

I CANT

I

LOVE

THIS

CAR SO MUCH AKJDJAKSJDJKAKSJKAKAKDJ

Like yes it’s the Bond car BUT ITS ALSO FINN!!!!! SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Yeah that was it. I died on the spot. Rip me.

But I had suuuuuch a good time. My dad and I used to go to car shows all the time when I was younger but we were both like yeah this was one of the best.

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THEY HAVE BEEN REUNITED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!

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About to watch Cars 2 again.

You know what that means

✨Note taking time✨

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Some Finnland at sunset

I was at the library again and saw there was a pretty sunset. Couldn’t pass up the photoshoot opportunity.

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Alshfjskahjaf my dad and I went to a car show yesterday

Oh my lord

I missed going to these things so much

Dean Winchesters car except a couple years older and red. 😭😭😭😭

Then I spotted this vision

A Ferrari from 1960. This is one of the cars they took inspiration from for Finn’s design. There’s a real resemblance. It was absolutely stunning.

But that was just the beginning

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So I ended up going down a rabbit hole because of this headcanon about Finn being a huge fan of the Beatles. So now I will inflict my own headcanons about it on all of you >:)

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Finn absolutely loves the Beatles. He will have them playing in the background whenever he can. He finds them soothing and upbeat. Leland absolutely HATES the Beatles. The songs get stuck in his head as soon as he hears one so “it doesn’t matter if you turn it off now, it’s too late!!” Leland is convinced that Finn just knows whenever he finally manages to get a song unstuck from his head because he always plays his damn record again and there goes “Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” stuck in his head for another 48 hours!

The "fuckin hell" audio in Hey Jude at 2:58 is actually Leland wanting to die after having to listen to this damn song again.

Not me forcing myself to listen to a shit ton of Beatles songs so I can come up with a list of Finns favorite songs....

I relate more to Leland every day.

Finn has a portable turntable that he will bring to stake outs. Leland will glare daggers at him as soon as he hears the record come on.

Finn and Leland have had exactly one falling out over the years and it was over the Beatles. Finn played them one too many times and Leland chucked the turntable out the window of a five story hotel. Finn wouldn't talk to him for a week after that.

Finn gets captured by the enemy again: ah well, at least Leland will save me :)

Leland who has had "Love Me Do" stuck in his head for the past five days: maybe I should just let them kill him this time.

Shit, "Love Me Do" is stuck in MY head. Agghhhgghg

Finn knows all their songs by heart and will mouth along the lyrics. He’ll get some old records and put on Hey Jude with this shit eating grin and Leland is like no plz stop. But Finn is already mouthing along the words and parks himself by Leland's front wheel then starts driving slow circles around him and Leland has to dance with him and he's trying so hard to keep glaring at Finn but aghhhhh

One time Finn and Leland got separated for several months and Leland missed him so much that he contemplated putting on some Beatles songs just so it would feel like Finn was there. He didn’t. But he thought about it. He would not admit this to Finn under fear of death.

I’ll add onto this list whenever I think of more headcaons. Tag which Beatles songs you think are Finn’s favorites :))

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This week on, losing sleep to Finnland agony:

He had to make the report.

I think he would've caught up to Crabby after the oil rigs and got back on board to make it back to the harbor. But that time he would've been silent as the grave the whole way.

He would've had to go back to the place he and Leland had been staying. It would've still had the things Leland was traveling with.

He would've had to make the report. He sent the pictures of the camera off to London and he would've reported the oil platforms. Maybe there was a video call on which he gave his report. Then at the end...

"Where's Agent Turbo?"

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"He didn't make it."

"My condolences. Stay where you are. We'll be sending an update soon."

I bet the video transmission Leland sent was still on Finns computer. I wonder if he tried to watch it again at some point. I doubt he made it very far. I know he cried after that. Finn is really good at stuffing his emotions down and carrying on. It's how he stays alive in situations like that. But at the end of the day it has to come back up. What a miserable night that must've been.