#query/response

[azadrithaanatheme]

can't wait for robo necromancy shenanigans >:3

I want to share the robo-necromancy with the world... but the writing... it fights me so

At least the doc isn't blank tho, so things are moving forward.

[leiakenobi]

as someone who seems very knowledgable on mark and watches older races, was he a victim of red bull evil or just rlly unlucky with sebastian? i see alot of ppl discussing his book and claim he likes to victimize himself in it but it tends to be a lot of seb fans.

Honestly there were a lot of things working against Mark, including Red Bull fuckery but also Seb having better facility with the car and, in some cases, better luck. I will say I tried to read Mark's book and couldn't get through it because it reads the same way he speaks (it is borderline unintelligible) but overall my feeling was that he had more perspective about his failings from earlier in his career, and that the Red Bull era was still too fresh for him to be able to describe fairly. I think when he's talked about it more recently, he's taken more responsibility for the places in his skill set where he was lacking compared to Seb.

As far as what those places are? Unfortunately for him, a lot of it was just pace. I've been stunned to watch the start of 2009 and see how Seb is immediately walking all over him in quali—I'm currently 7 races in and Seb's beaten Mark in quali 7-0. (There's 1 weekend where Mark was impeded by Adrian Sutil and didn't make it out of Q1, but even treating that as an outlier, being beaten so handily by his less experienced teammate who's brand new to the team is not a good look.)

During the 2009 season, they could pin some of Seb's pace advantage on the fact that Mark was recovering from a broken leg. That might have even been a little true. But Mark wasn’t just at a disadvantage for pace; he was notoriously harder on his tires and worse at starts than Seb. By his last season in 2013, he regularly lost several places at the start and had to spend the race fighting to get back up the grid, so he was lucky when he finished with net 0 places lost.

I'm not sure if these things come up in his book, but by my read there were two big changes to F1 that caused, or at least exacerbated, his deg and start problems:

2009 -> 2010: no more refueling mid-race

2010 -> 2011: the end of the Bridgestone era and the start of the Pirelli partnership

Refueling meant that cars weren't as heavy on their tires and also meant that teams and drivers could strategize about how much fuel to put in at any given point, so going into 2010 drivers had to adapt to heavier cars (because fuel tanks needed to be bigger) and to driving early stints with a full race's worth of fuel, which also made the cars heavier. The switch to Pirelli tires was specifically intended to liven up racing by increasing deg, but those first few seasons were honestly overkill, and I remember a few 2013 races in particular where the discussion was all about whether the tires weren't performing as well as they should have. (Including Malaysia 2013—wow I can’t believe Pirelli is to blame for multi21.) (I'm kidding.)

"But hang on," you might be saying. "The entire grid had to deal with those changes."

Which is where Mark's other big weakness comes in: overall, he was not a very adaptable driver. He had his way of doing things, and when that didn't work, he was kind of at a loss. The way he talks about his starts in his book is actually a good reflection of that—when he tried to do it differently, his starts got worse. So he had to default to what he'd always done. Likewise, he'd developed a driving style that was hard on tires, and he was never able to grow beyond it.

Would I say that means he was unlucky with Sebastian? I guess in the sense that yeah, maybe he was unlucky to end up in the same car. Because Mark's racecraft was actually quite good; some my favorite moments in 2010 - 2013 are Mark's fights with Lewis and Fernando, and he comes off as quite evenly matched with both of them. The times that Seb and Mark did properly race each other on track are also some of the most thrilling racing I've seen from either of them, and it makes me wonder what title fights would have looked like between them if they'd been at different teams. But racecraft can only do so much when you're fighting your teammate, because that's where weaker pace and tire management will put you at a severe disadvantage. It meant when Mark qualified lower or fell back on the grid (which, again, he often did) he didn't have much chance of catching up, let alone overtaking.

That said, there are also documented instances of Red Bull doing things like swapping the front wings at Silverstone, where a clear argument can be made that they were either relegating Mark to a #2 driver role perhaps more than they should or even actively sabotaging him to increase Seb's chances.

It's pretty clear that Red Bull's playbook hasn't changed; they've won 8 driver's championships, and 2023 is the only season when their #2 driver also came 2nd in the standings. That's a reflection of the fact that they want a #2 driver who's competitive enough to help them win the constructor's if they have the car for it, but beyond that they can and will prioritize their golden boy whenever necessary, even to the extent that they won't really hold him accountable if he refuses to play the team game (yes multi21, but also see for example Max refusing to swap positions with Checo for 6th vs. 7th at Brazil 2022). It’s integral to their ideology as a team, but Mark was the first person it happened to, so his version of events had years to solidify in people's minds as a victim complex rather than a sign of a fundamental problem at Red Bull.

So the tl;dr—was Red Bull evil, or was Mark just unlucky with Sebastian, or was he just playing the victim and not taking enough responsibility for his weaknesses?

The answer is uh. Yes. To all of the above.

[birdchamp27]

Okay. Wow. I never thought I'd have 2 do this.

Who do you think you are? You come on2 this website and make a mockery of my name, and on top of that you DARE insinuate that I, Wormchamp72, am mischaracterizing Jeff the Killer?

It's clear from your overall presence that you must be a lost, insecure soul, latching on2 the identity of someone you admire in order 2 provide yourself with some sense of place in this world. But guess what? You are not Wormchamp72, and you will never BE Wormchamp72. Nor this "Birdchamp27" nonsense.

What's that old adage again? "Imitation is the sincerest form of flatter"? Hmph...I'll try 2 keep that in mind everytime I view your blog with rage simmering in my already twisted, dark heart. But I can't help but feel that isn't your intention.

But fine. You want 2 dance?

Let's 3ffing dance.

Sincerely,

Wormchamp72

My dear Wormchamp72,

First of all, why the aggression? I'm new to Tumblr. I came on this platform to post about my favourite pasta (Jane the Killer) and meet other fans of hers. Sure, we have similarities, but these are pure coincidences. I found your blog AFTER I created mine while randomly scrolling through #creepypasta to find other fans.

Your aggression is unwarranted. I respectfully criticised your views on what Jeff the Killer would do with bugs. Maybe I was a bit rude, and I apologise, but you shouldn't have responded like this.

I came here on this platform to make friends, not enemies.

Please learn some manners and basic internet/fandom etiquette.

Sincerely,

Birdchamp27

[bytesizedpetal]

Is France real?

>Historically, I believe so. I am unsure of its state of being after the Affini's-

>...ah, hold on, Uh, nevermind.

>No, France is not real, I suppose. [Miss Jade just informed me this was a Terran joke. I cannot say I understand.]

[bookwyrminspiration]

btw i read more of bloodmarked and nick just like??? beheaded??? max??? and im not upset at all he deserved it but like. hello???

prior to oathbound tracy deonn said she'd been highly anticipating nick's character arc and let me tell you...oathbound nicholas...i am clutching at the wall writhing on the floor. there is SO much to uncover with this boy roshan

[fawnpalmer]

I feel like the vast majority of you follow me for fanfic etc but I'm working on original novels (one that I'm querying, one that i'm exploring self pub, one that I'm tearing my hair out to write) and I am really excited about them!

[zignifier]

Wrt LRB sometimes I'm so baffled by what people bother to ask me because my charitable assumption will be an image in my mind of the results of a search query using keywords in that question and what failures may have occurred in the transfer of information and I'll start talking like "What did you search for this? When I used [keywords] the results seemed pretty self-explanatory." Or like idk. Baseline I'll assume they've read some Bullshit that comes up when u search something. There are multiple things in this world if you use the most self-evident english search queries for you will just get misinformation. So maybe then I'll start talking as to counter those points instead and they're sooo lost and I'm like ??? and they're like I didn't bother to look it up I didn't search for any texts on this subject. And I'm like. How the fuck can you expect me to have a conversation about this then? We have to like. Have a baseline of implicit assumptions of understanding to talk about this how do you not CARE about that???

[distinguishedscientist]

what's your favourite element?

Ah! Well, it's hard to say, really. Is what I would have said if I didn't spend years studying it. Dysprosium, I'd be lying if I didn't tell you that nuclear reactions are truly fascinating.

[lordofthesillystraws]

officially going on hiatus. i will only be on here to deliver commissions, thats all. i honestly dont know when ill be making a full return.

[meg-moira]

hello, dont mind me, just here to compliment you on youR ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE OF A STORY. THANK YOU. GOODBYE.

Hey thanks!!

[birlwrites]

one of the things that i've accomplished due to the low barrier to entry in writing fanfiction is writing novel-length stories as a matter of course. like, i used to think of writing a book as this massive, monumental task - and in some ways, it is! but in other ways, it's still just a story. and it feels much more approachable to me now that i've done it multiple times, posting chapter by chapter because that's something you can do really easily with fanfiction. i didn't go into it believing i could do it - i found out that i could by just giving it a try and seeing what resulted.

there's also a certain wild creativity you can find on ao3, the result of people just doing whatever they feel like doing - sometimes it results in incoherence, sometimes in incomprehensibility, sometimes it falls flat, but there's so much variety in storytelling forms, if you look for it. people will deep-dive into anything. 'marketability' is laughably far from being a concern. what is a story, anyway? people will strip the idea down to its bare bones and rebuild it in infinite ways if they have the space. that space doesn't exist in barnes & noble.

i'm a firm believer that you should read the types of stories you want to write, and that you should also read broadly, because that's how you avoid getting stuck recycling the same handful of ideas over and over. i think the same thing applies to writing. write what you want to write - but also, experiment. try other things, even if they seem silly or impractical or irrelevant, even if you don't think they will work. even if you don't think you can make them work.

if you don't feel like you have creative freedom, then you'll fall back on the tried-and-true. you'll recycle. it won't feel like your voice, because it's been filtered through layers upon layers of 'acceptable' and 'marketable' and 'reasonable' and 'broadly appealing.' the only way to understand your own creative limits is by testing them, constantly. you can't truly believe that you can write whatever you want until you prove it to yourself.

and even if your voice turns out to be acceptable and marketable and reasonable and broadly appealing after all - if you try all sorts of things and find out that's where your creativity flows best - you still know it's yours. you still know you're writing the truest possible expression of your own creative abilities. you owe it to yourself to find out what it feels like to write unfettered.

write something weird.

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

as a customer service worker please go ahead and make the joke i've heard 50 times before at this point i've perfected my response and i just know i'm going to ACE this part of the conversation, if you say something new I will have to teach myself the correct response all over again and it will be awkward, just repeat the same joke PLEASE i'm so excited to bring out my perfected response!!!

NOTE: THIS ONLY APPLIES TO ME, TRY THIS WITH OTHER CUSTOMER SERVICE WORKERS AT YOUR OWN RISK

[leiakenobi]

ok nico is such a lando shooter like even when he compliments oscar he’s so begrudged about it 😭😭 he wants to be lando’s toxic sports mom so fucking bad.

lol I mean sort of but I think the thing about Nico is more that he's an equal opportunity critic—he cares about tangible in-the-moment results. Everyone else in the box talks around the moments where Oscar struggles in order to suit the steely champion narrative that's built up around him, and Nico seems to have little patience for that.

But he only had good things to say about Oscar's pole lap (which might have happened after you sent this ask, idk) and he also very aptly pointed out how much Lando was overdriving the car on his second go-around.

I think he still has an extra soft spot for Lando, but a Jenson Button level of biased he is not.

[chickadeethoughts]

does anyone know if simon and/or garfunkel know there's fanfiction about them?

[bookwyrminspiration]

What if Keefe is horrifyingly muscular everywhere except his abs. Like Dwayne Johnson, with no abs. Thoughts?

and prayers who let that boy loose in slurps n burbs </3

[projectnumbered]

So from what I can tell Knuckles,Blaze,Amy,Espió, and Silver are all trapped and counting on sonic. But that begs the question WHERE THE HECK IS TAILS, did he suffer the same fate as shadow or is he somewhere else. Furthermore who could have done this, seems a bit to elaborate for Eggman

Good eye! But you're missing one more character that had dialogue in that post - the white text! :)

As for the other bits - there was no indication they're trapped. But they certainly are counting on Sonic - like they usually do.

Shadow is the only one affected. As for who could've done this to him... Let's wait and see :)