#chuck/casey

[ambear9]

Man i really missed these two.

I haven't given up on this fandom, just had a lack of writing motivation. I hope to write more this year.

I'm also still working on reformatting all my older Chuck/Casey fics.

Shout out to everyone who is still here, i love and appreciate you so much

[unbreakablemouserat]

I don't know if this archetype meme is accurate for all of them please correct me if it isn't.

Made this because Scrubs, Psych and Chuck are very recent hyperfixations.

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Chuck | 2x13 — “Chuck vs. The Suburbs”

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my favorite thing about season two of chuck is actually that, according to John Casey, the worst thing that Chuck and Sarah could ever do is not invite him to commit treason with them

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Started watching Chuck.. my favorite character is Casey’s biceps

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I feel like everyone should see this season 2 deleted scene just in case you haven’t

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Happy Bi Visibility Day 2024!

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hi bat, do you have any thoughts on how this motogp season is unfolding? (i also want to say that after marc's crash i religiously read any of your old posts mentioning qatar isn't as bad of a track for him to calm myself down and thank you for being right<3)

did i say that?? i mean fwiw for my own purposes i'm a big fan of track-specific performance metrics because i just like how pronounced a rider/bike profile there is in motogp, it's such a stats-friendly thing where it's really fun to dig into (if you're a fucking loser). so i do have stuff on how i think each track would lean in a 'all other things being equal, they finish valencia exactly tied in the points' season, and i had qatar soft-leaning pecco. ig we'll never really know what might have been without the quali crash but... incidentally i had jerez as a medium-lean pecco so if that's also a no-go then i think at a certain point you can quite safely call it. marc was never dreadful in qatar because he's not dreadful anywhere, but even controlling for honda qatar performances it's defo not one of his strongest tracks

anyway. i only got this ask after i'd answered the other one after which it sat in my drafts forever, which you can consult for general motogp takes. so i was like. idk what to say. but i realise i DO have a topic i feel ready to get on my soapbox about. i wish to give my pedro acosta rant

i have been doing my best to avoid motogp discourse but sometimes one Hears things. and i have Heard certain quarters wanting a reevaluation of acosta in light of his shaky start of the season. the argument, so it goes, is that he has continued crashing a lot in his sophomore season, that if he were really as good as everyone said he was by now he'd be finishing highly up despite the problems with his equipment, that vinales has shown you can be fast with that bike, that [insert other rider of your choice] wasn't doing this at this stage of their career. that people have overhyped acosta, that he might be good but won't end up as good as [insert rider]. and i wish to say. this is all rubbish. will he be as good as [insert rider]? will he win twenty titles? idk. am i reevaluating him based on ANYTHING i have seen this year? no. we still do not know how good this guy will ultimately prove to be. we have all the signs there to suggest he has the potential to be one of those truly s-tier riders, the doohan/valentino/casey/marc tier, or 'at least' an alien-level talent. we do not know what trajectory he will follow, maybe he will end up being significantly worse than that. maybe he will be That Guy. we don't know

the thing about the aliens is that by year two At The Latest in their premier class careers, they were all on title-winning machinery. four out of five were on machinery capable of winning the championship in year one, with the only exception being casey (and 3/5 were in the team what won the title). i kinda feel like 500cc is holistically different enough from motogp bikes we should maybe exclude valentino from some of this conversation, like you kinda get the vibe a lot of his developmental process was 'learning to trust the bike won't kill him'. with that proviso, acosta's rookie season did just have the vibe of what would happen if you put any of the aliens on non-title winning machinery. he got some remarkable results like for instance a podium in his second race. from the limited evidence of his pre motogp career, i think it's fair to say he's not a single lap specialist, but he's shown plenty of evidence of genuine qualifying pace including that mildly fugazi motegi pole (fwiw mr rossi did not get a pole in his first premier class season At All despite finishing second in the championship). he crashed a lot. which, yes, that'll happen when you're a rookie. to his credit, marc mostly managed to keep that stuff out of races - but he was also on a truly excellent, well-developed, easily rideable bike that he neither had to nor was motivated to override to get good results. when the second half of your season is a defensive title charge, you're less likely to crash that shit than when straining for an unlikely result that feels more important than your overall championship position

i basically think all pedro vs marc comparisons are stupid because you straight up do not know how they would've handled each other's respective situations. i do however think there is a rookie season acosta's does resemble

now acosta's rookie season was better than this, he was considerably more loved by his factory than this particular rider was, but the vibe is similar. casey got pole for his second race, almost secured a win in his third, then did a whole lot of crashing - probably at least in significant part because michelin (shakes fist) was running experiments on him and because he did not have a competent crew chief to guide him. his season kinda semi unravelled post le mans ... he was fighting in the lead group when crashing in mugello, he led from the start (twice, cf the red flag) in catalunya and crashed after losing the lead to valentino, he fought dani in assen and valentino in donington, he fucked up his body at the sachsenring, and after that it was kinda a grind. at estoril, he not only crashed himself out but also injured sete badly enough to rule him out of the last race at valencia. then, casey gets an offer from ducati, a seat he was the second choice for and could've easily gone to someone else. the ducati was very fast but also very capricious - and was paired with the bridgestone tyres that have a considerably better front end feel than the michelins, which had been the primary reason for all those rookie season crashes

(a reminder of how quickly things can change lol - obviously casey did not have a single race crash in 2007 and had his first race crash on a ducati at .... .................... well. you know. anyway the point is i think in retrospect we can all agree casey was a pretty decent rider)

now, let us imagine for a moment a world in which casey does not get that deal and instead stays with lcr honda, where he gets a factory-supported-but-not-quite bike on shitty michelins. what do you think his results look like on that ?? you think he would have stopped crashing?? i'm not saying these situations are completely comparable - acosta's stocks are considerably higher than alt!casey's would've been, acosta knows manufacturers will still want to have him, he's got more job security, he's also a somewhat more sanguine character than casey (who in this timeline probably would've stabbed a michelin engineer) (also i suppose in this timeline maybe you wouldn't get the single tyre rule, or indeed the current ducati situation - single most influential rider market move this century?) and is more of a bratty jorge type than a neurotic headcase casey type. but the general point is, him having very febrile results currently does not in and of itself tell us shit about his ultimate potential. it tells us that the ktm project is a mess

'aha!' you say. 'but what about vinales at qatar! the fact that acosta's being so summarily outperformed by someone in his stable shows he's not that guy!' no i'm sorry. no. vinales does this sometimes. idc if it's a new bike, this can happen, he's extremely talented in his own right and will just randomly receive unholy powers on a random weekend. (i think in retrospect given his super fast adaptation to yamaha and his qatar weekend with ktm, maybe aprilia really wasn't suited to him and that slowed down the adaptation process.) it also tells me less than nothing that acosta hasn't asserted himself against his fellow factory riders early in the season. this can happen to anyone, even the very best. was valentino washed when this happened against a bald rookie (who also got pole in all three of those races mind u)

was casey washed when this happened against hayden, who i think everyone would agree was not that impressive a force anymore post 2006

was marc washed when this happened, at a time where again i think it's fair to say dani was past his best and wasn't really an alien calibre rider anymore

no!! obviously not!! and none of rookie jorge, post 2006 hayden or washed dani are a more frightening prospect than vinales who will occasionally be possessed by a creature from the great beyond! hell, fabio's 2021 title season started with a race vinales won and fabio was fifth in. it happens! everyone gets vinales'd now and again! keeps you humble! that guy could've been a motogp champion if he weren't. y'know. like he's good!

acosta is dealing with three very highly rated riders - nobody on the s tier, sure, but riders who have occasionally flirted with the a tier! acosta is young and annoyed and is having to deal with the kind of significant frustration that, again, it's worth pointing out none of the aliens did in their sophomore season - aka 'the manufacturer you wanted to win a title with being bankrupt' - and his start of the season has been spotty. if we reach valencia and he's trailing vinales in the championship, then please write in and we can collectively clown what i've written in this post. but we are four rounds in

this current situation we've got in motogp where probably elite level riders are locked out of title contending machinery for seasons on end is... kinda unprecedented in the modern era and extremely frustrating ?? but this is partly why you get such reactionary takes about this guy that just do not stack up! idk if he's going to be the next valentino rossi or the next marc marquez, but ik that with the correct machinery he MIGHT be. i hope he gets that machinery so we can see! crucially he showed enough in his rookie season that i have no doubt the potential is there, and this is not a take i will reevaluate after a few crashes. just be happy the aliens were spared so unserious an organisation as 'kay tee em' and move on, my god

[adoralec]

they mean so much to me i’m almost done season 5 of this show and i’m so scared because all i know is that something weird happens between chuck and sarah and that makes me sad because i love them 😓😓😓

i’m glad casey finally got laid though its about time poor guy had no love life for way too long im happy for him i love gertrude

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[ambear9]

The last chapter of my June Sterek fic is coming I promise! My mental health hasn't been great so finding motivation is hard. But it's almost done.

Not sure there will be a July fic, maybe i should take a little break.

Speaking of break, i still love Chuck/Casey soooo much but i feel like after 115+ fics about them I've hit a wall with what to write next. So if you have any ideas LMK. But for now I'm just gonna focus on updating all the old ones with messed up formatting.

Thanks everyone for the continued support. It means more to me than you'll ever know 🫶

[unbreakablemouserat]

Reminder that the first "I love you" Chuck Bartowski gave wasn't to Sarah but to Casey.

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Chuck VS The Rewatch → 2/96 Chuck VS The Intersect

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It’s been a while since I came on here but happy pride month to our one and only Bryce Larkin who 100% had a crush on Chuck Bartowski.

Speaking of Chuck, Happy Pride Month to his bisexual ass too.

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No one:

Casey after Sarah and Chuck do something that will be considered a betrayal, he tells them not to do it, and they literally just tell him that it's important and nothing else: