#max's corner

[florals-cardigan]

As an autistic, we don't claim Neil Gaiman

[meme-ment0-mor1]

Psa

Recently, I've received an anon hate by @/jirai-kei-wakin-chan a pr0shipper that ships 1ncest

My closest moot, @thenightjillcamehome dm me that I've been recently doxxed and stalked and she told me to go to look at their post that sabotaging me but can't bc I blocked them few months back and told me go to a discord server to see their

I created a discord account and went into the Discord server and went to the link and shocked that kid made an worse post that they stalked, doxxing, and talk shit about me.

I have to take a break from social media bc I've been dealing mental health recently

I beg you y'all please report their post and their account

(pr0shippers dni)

[zorangezest]

humanformers au where these two get to bond because they’re both tech savvy programmer nerds or somethibg

more of this au!

[polite--cat]

esteban thank u for providing the seating plan 🙏

[inchidentalmeowmeow]

cat got the cream 🤍

Continuation of this post cuz someone said Charles wasn’t sticking his finger in far enough so… Well here you go… 🫣

Guess we’re desecrating apm monaco jewelry on main now 🤷🏻‍♀️

[thegikitiki]

The Un-Beer...

Vintage 7-Up Sign, Late 1960s to Early 1970s

[lynsstrange]

my favorite thing has been scrolling through a good girl’s guide to murder reviews by large publications bc they all describe it as “light” “fun” and “classic” and it’s like. They really won’t know what hit them by season 3

[januscorner]

Hatchetfield Textposts Pt 1

Update: Finished the image descriptions

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[softiedingo]

ah yes the gods looked at the las vegas gp and saw that there was no 1-2 lestappen podium and then they looked at the qatar gp and said "hold my beer here real quick" and simply handed us a 1-2 lestappen podium + their prodigy son as a gift

[usernyoom]

08/03/24, Jeddah. Max Verstappen prepares in the garage for qualifying for the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024. Photos by Giuseppe Cacace, edited.

[florals-cardigan]

Me @ people switch on Joseph Quinn by thinking he's hot after hating him in 2022

[overtake]

fp2 | spa 2024

[sharl16leclerc]

Austria 2019 vs. 2022.

[leclercskiesahead]

Get a room

[il-predestinato]

Jolyon Palmer: "So some drivers would prefer to fight the car a little bit more on the front end; some drivers would prefer to fight the car a little more on the rear end. [...] Your Max Verstappens, your Charles Leclercs - they like the car a little bit more on the nose. And you can see that when we hit the brakes here. The pitch comes down, and this is what we call 'on the nose." It's a bit more oversteery. And they prefer to fight that level of balance.

"Everyone is shooting for this neutral zone. And this is where most of the other drivers are - somewhere in this bracket towards neutral."

Meanwhile, Max and Charles:

🎥: Racing ID on F1TV

[artigas]

I’m really happy that Black Sails is experiencing a bit of a renaissance, but (predictably) some of the takes I’m seeing online are so busted. It’s wild to me that anyone would complain about the fact that Anne Bonny kisses Jack after she’s developed this life-changing relationship with Max. It’s absolutely wild to see anyone roll their eyes or feel uncomfortable about the fact that Flint has sex with Miranda when he returns to her in season one or that Max is most likely a lesbian but actively has sex with men for pay and knows how to make that pleasurable. It’s crazy to me that some of the very audiences who claim to want queer representation feel so discomforted when they actually see the mess and seeming inconsistencies of queerness that they asked for.

The reality is that there are lesbians who have had (and will have!) meaningful, mutually-gratifying, and deeply sexual relationships with men. There are gay men who’ve enjoyed having sex with women, who are gay as the day is long and nevertheless feel sexually attracted to a woman or two and are nevertheless gay men, full stop. There are gay cis men who are happily married to trans women. There are femme dom tops and butch bottoms and there are mascs afab people who like femme boys. There are non-binary people and trans men who actively identify as lesbians. There are ace and aro people who enjoy thinking about and engaging with sex — sometimes in fiction and sometimes in real life. Queerness, in fiction and in reality, defies neat categorization. That is the beauty, power, and (perceived) unorthodoxy of queerness.

Now, I’ll say this — do I think the straight men behind Black Sails were actively thinking deeply and insightfully about the paradoxes and fuckery of queer identity when they wrote Black Sails? No! By their own admission, Steinberg and Levine have owned up to the fact that some of the writing of the show was really hinged on their own blind spots as people who are not (to my knowledge) members of the queer community. If I want to be generous, I think that the beautiful mess of Black Sails is that, in not feeling like experts enough to designate specific identity labels to any of their characters, the writers stumbled their way into more authentic representation of lived queer experience, which is to say that the notion that James Flint was actively thinking of himself as a gay man was anachronistic. As many lesbian archivists and theories have noted, the notion of a queer identity — as in, queerness is who you are, not what you do — was patently unthinkable for most cultures in the past. In other words, the idea that Anne Bonny operates in the eighteenth century as a lesbian and thus would not willingly engage in relationships with men is not only untrue of the series, but untrue of most recorded lesbian experiences in the real world. The notion that a lesbian would operate her entire life without engaging sexually or romantically with men, for instance, is a very new privilege that some of us are very lucky to enjoy, but it is not true for the vast majority of human history — hell, it’s not even true of our present world.

This is all to say that think that there’s something really funny about how we want queer characters to fit into neatly organized boxes. This isn’t a new problem, either. When the show was still airing, the BS fandom would get itself into tizzies about wether or not Flint is gay or bisexual, wether or not Anne Bonny is a lesbian, wether or not Silver is queer when his only canonical relationship is with Madi, etc etc. We’ve been having these discourses for years and I don’t know. I get that much of it is fueled by how badly some people want to see themselves represented in media, but . . . well. The siloing of queer characters and queer narratives into neat little boxes has never felt very authentic to me and nine times out of ten, it’s also just so damn boring.