#rider appreciation post

[gentaroukisaragi]

Mirrorman Episode 13 (1972) / Chojyuu Sentai Liveman ED - Ashita Ni Ikiru Ze! (1988) / Kamen Rider Black Episode 50 (1988) / Kamen Rider Fourze Episode 2 (2011)

To fight for this world means to love it.

[biomic]

you want friends, don't you atropos?

[rosemirmir]

There was a plant stand that made a tweet using the Ankh figure as a holder for the sign, and Shu showed up a few hours later.

"Give me ice cream, not strawberries" I'm gonna think about these tweets all weekend. (Shu's Tweet, Ryon's Tweet)

(My japanese is not good, so forgive me if there's anything incorrect here.)

[reviewinghiccup]

RIDERS OF BERK | HTTYD SERIES | VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITES

THIS IS PART TWO!

@per4mancecheck @aurora-australis-tumbles @siaasea @dragonaurora @fanfixes @httydhicstrid @hiccstridshipper19 @hiccstridsposts @the-mind-of-ej @vairsmania @heyitsmeyourdryskin @uselessreptile @verdart @cirth-ithil @winxrus @brose1229 @paperjammeddanny @youweremadetosoar @green-star16 @isafury @tugskeng @forgo-dreams @writing10t @barbygirl24 @xvatarx @rosiethedragongeek @wren-sparrow @imbrokenanditsfine02 @midnightsanchez @ryupioupiou @afriend410 Don't forget to cast in your votes here too guys!!!

If you have any other favourites, let me know in the comments below! I definitely have two two absolute favourites in this set.

[batsplat]

Qatar 2004: a back-of-the-grid penalty, an "unbelievable" start, a lot of overtakes and a crash

Time stamps

News & explanation of penalty

0:00 - news of penalty, "... Rossi's team who took it upon themselves last night, and Biaggi's team as well, to go out there and clean that spot on the grid and there was a complaint from the Repsol Honda team..."

1:23 - press room chaos, "... when I went down between the 125s and the 250s, when nothing had been quite confirmed, there was a lot of very excited Italians around with bits of papers in hand and accusations..."

2:08 - Gibernau's opportunity, "Looking at the championship, this is a huge race for Sete Gibernau. He knows that he's starting from the front row of the grid; he knows that Valentino Rossi starts from the back row of the grid."

2:25 - race predictions, "[Rossi] has struggled hasn't he, this weekend, we've seen him go off track quite a few times as well."

On the grid

2:40 - Rossi on the grid, "Just wonder what his mood is. Will he look and smile? No, he won't. He is seething."

3:38 - Gibernau's reprieve, "He's got to win this race."

3:54 - Gibernau's form, "... so one thing Gibernau can't complain about this season is his luck..."

4:14 - Rossi preparing, "When he's really concentrating you don't know what's going to happen."

Start of race

4:21 - warm-up lap, "[When we usually] ride with Valentino Rossi, he's riding to the front of the grid, in pole position or on that front row. Now we're going to see the grid all in front of him."

4:45 - race start, "Valentino Rossi has made up - whoa - around ten positions into the first corner, maybe even more."

5:24 - overtaking Hayden, "He's already back into that eighth position that he would have been on on the grid if it weren't for that penalty."

5:55 - Rossi's starts at Yamaha, "He's been making some good starts this year, actually, has Rossi on the Yamaha, but never quite as good as that."

6:09 - overtaking Bayliss and Capirossi, "Rossi surely has now moved up into seventh place."

His progress

6:54 - stuck in the pack, "He's having to work very very hard to get past the likes of Colin Edwards and Alex Barros and Ruben Xaus."

7:08 - overtaking Barros, "... and Rossi and Barros have touched! And Rossi stays on board and raises his hand to Barros, Barros runs it wide and Rossi knows there that he's the guilty party for that one."

7:36 - replay of Barros overtake, "He's apologised to Barros but the upshot is that he's got past him."

7:53 - Nakano's engine fails, "Of course all that does is move Valentino Rossi further up the pack." [...] "... it's helped Gibernau and Checa in front because while all that happened with Nakano blowing smoke everywhere, everyone else behind him has had to slow down."

8:12 - Barros falling back, "Barros is actually now down in 17th place, so I'm not sure if he was hit by Valentino Rossi and perhaps he's damaged one of his brakes or his clutch lever or maybe even part of his body."

The crash

8:42 - Rossi crashes, "His hands are on his head [...] He runs wide onto the grass, onto the astroturf, loses control of his Yamaha..."

9:41 - the championship standings, "Fourteen points, what a lifeline for Sete Gibernau."

The full race is available here.

In 2004, Valentino Rossi came into Qatar with a 39-point lead in the championship over Sete Gibernau. Including Qatar, there were still four races to go, and Gibernau's excellent early season form had tailed off. Gibernau had made the podium in all of the first six races (including 2 wins), but in the six subsequent races had only scored two podiums (1 win) and had DNF'd twice. The title seemed like it would be Rossi's once again - his first on a Yamaha.

This was the first time MotoGP visited Qatar and the conditions were brutal: then still a daytime race, it was very hot, with all the riders struggling on the slippery sand-covered track. Rossi had gone off the track repeatedly in the sessions leading up to the race, qualifying only in eighth. The concern was that the dusty track would lead to poor starts, so Rossi's team used a scooter during the night to lay down rubber on his grid slot. The next morning, there was outrage - and Honda filed a complaint against Rossi. (It is a little unclear whether the main instigators were Respol Honda, who were supposedly officially behind the request, or Gibernau's Honda Gresini team, whose team boss Fausto Gresini allegedly took the complaint to race direction.) The physical evidence along with a blurry photo reportedly taken from the press room was enough to sway race direction. A six second penalty was applied to Rossi's qualifying time, leaving him to start at the back of the grid. Yamaha filed a counter-protest against Camel Honda rider Max Biaggi, whose team had swept sand off the grid slot, and he was given the same penalty.

The penalty infuriated Rossi and he blamed Gibernau and his Honda Gresini team directly for what had happened. He considered it a dirty game from Honda given that riders typically got away with tampering with grid slots (usually in the context of wet races where towels would be used). It is unknown to what extent, if at all, Gibernau was directly involved in the complaint - he denied it after the race, publicly saying he thought Rossi "didn't deserve" the penalty. Here is what Rossi reportedly said in the immediate aftermath of the penalty (from Stuart Barker's 2020 biography):

“I’ve been looking for an excuse not to talk to Sete. Today he gave me one.” “Sete was the one who was behind all this,” he said. “He has acted like a child. It is like a knife has been pushed into my back.”

In any case, Rossi made an excellent start from the back of the grid, getting up to ninth by Turn 1 and making up two more positions in the first lap. He continued working his way through the field, including by overtaking Alex Barros:

Rossi had made it up to fourth and was sitting behind Colin Edwards when he ran wide onto the grass and crashed on only lap 5 out of 22. He walked away head in hands at his mistake and had badly injured his little finger - though not enough to be an issue for the rest of his season. As he put it in press before the next race in Sepang: “I have a hole in the finger, but I don’t think it’s a big problem for ride this weekend”. Gibernau won the race, making it a Gresini 1-2 alongside teammate Edwards. Rossi's championship lead had been whittled down to a mere 14 points with three rounds to go.

Rossi was still furious at Gibernau, reportedly calling his team "bastards" on live television, and, of course, vowing that Gibernau would never win another race again. For the rest of the season, he took matters into his own hands to ensure his promise would be kept. He won the remaining three races - including with two risky last lap passes on Gibernau in Australia, when a second place would have been enough to clinch the title.

Here he is in his autobiography (published in 2005) on the benefits and perils of riding angry:

At the 2003 Australian Grand Prix I was very fast, I was ahead, I was leaving Capirossi way behind. We were still in the first part of the race when I was made aware that I was now second. I was still in the lead, but I was in second place [initially in seventh] because I had been given a ten-second penalty for ignoring the yellow caution flags. Yes, the silly caution flags which the stewards, for reasons known only to them, insist on putting in invisible places, where nobody can see them. The same thing had cost me a win at Donington a few months earlier. "Enough!" I told myself. And, from there, I went on a tear. Without realising it, I started going even faster. I gained back nearly a second per lap, and, by the end, I was once again in first place. I had made up the ten seconds and there was still time to increase my lead. It's not as if I had been biding my time before the penalty that day. I wasn't planning on saving myself for the end. No, I was going as hard as I could. It's just that, afterwards, I went even harder, crazy as it sounds. I turned my rage into pure speed. Most riders can't do that. For them, rage just raises the level of tension and increases their chances of making crucial mistakes. I'm like that too - some of the time. Qatar in 2004 is a good example of that. I remember, I was absolutely furious because Honda had filed a complaint and I was forced to start from the last row. In just a few laps, I had come back up the field into fourth place. I should have calmed myself down and waited for the right moment. Instead, I fell. Looking back on it, that was a moment of uncontrollable folly. Normally it doesn't work that way. Normally I can control it. Or, at least, my brain can. And I'm thankful for that, or else I'd really be in trouble!

^"This time, and for once, Valentino Rossi does not escape."

[kamen-rider-oc-appreciation]

Hello! Welcome to the Kamen Rider OC Appreciation blog!!

I make Rider ocs, you probably make Rider ocs if you’re seeing this, so this is the pace to share them! I love seeing other people’s ocs and I want them to be seen! I’ll be reblogging KR OC posts, but also don’t be afraid to share them directly; submissions and asks should be open! You can also tag this blog if you want a post to be seen :] Also don’t be afraid to bounce ideas off me! Need someone to talk to about ideas? I’m here for ya!

Remember! This is an appreciation blog! No judgement of any kind! Be positive! (Unless we’re talking OC angst, that’s fine!)

[fluttering-by]

Tw Transphobia

I kept checking back just to see if they were willing to fix the post, because I wanted to be able to update if there was any positive news.

But instead, they posted this.

I've been avoiding posting their username because I never want to be that person who makes callout posts.

But this person has just proven themselves to be such a vile individual at this point that I feel a lot of us would just want to block them and move on at this point.

So, I guess, let me know if you want to know who this is so you can block them? I don't know, I'm not good at this, but it's a really gross matter that really needed addressing.

I won't be making any other posts about it. I felt like I had to warn others, but aside from that, I have very limited energy, and this person is not deserving of any of it.

[singsweetmelodies]

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[forest-hashira]

ok i haven't done any au posting in over a week (who even am i anymore) & all i have that i can post rn is snippets from some (unfinished) scenes. however i am also indecisive as hell & don't know which one to share SO i am giving some options & tagging some mutuals under the cut. if you don't care that's fine i'm just curious what y'all want to see!!! also keep in mind the only other preview i've posted is part of yuji's rescue (which you can read here).

options are: either Nanako & Mimiko's rescue or Reader's first flight with Takara

@ghost-1-y @peachdues @fushigurro @whatthefucksatan like i said y'all are more than welcome to ignore this!!!

[bluebellhairpin]

Valkyrie said she would ride with me to glory so you better turn your punk ass army around and go home now because we both know what that means.

[biomic]

YOINK

[rosemirmir]

Kamen Rider OOO is a story that talks about how human desire isn't inherently good or evil, desire is just a inevitable part of living life. And it is what you do with it in the end that what matters most.

It is also a story where another core message (at least to me) is that you should love yourself just as much as you love helping those around you too.

[pleuvoire]

after 7 months and 9000 words of effort, i finally bring you: THE HANASAKU SLEEPOVER FIC!!! set mid-series, rated T, ft. bed sharing and secrets and majorly conflicted feelings and maybe an overarching metaphor for being closeted if you look at it closely. and a spot of attempted murder but that’s normal between girls right. check author’s note for tws. reblogs and comments appreciateddddd ty 🥰

[simpin-shark]

Ever since the first time I saw her, I knew she’d be a waifu to me. Even after rewatching Durarara!! I still feel the same way.

Celty Sturluson is an amazing character. The design, backstory, and powers are all top notch in my humblest opinion. I love how she cares so much about the people around her, and all of her friends, but especially for Shinra. I love how fast she rides on Shooter, almost as if she’s gliding across ikebukuro. I wish I could ride on the back and feel the wind and speed with her.

[severevoiddragon]

Listening to the Oh Hellos' albums in order for the first time in. Months. Has made me appreciate the work gone into making the sorry of each album. Like. They all blend into one big song split up only by the end of the track. Especially Dear Wormwood and Through the Deep Dark Valley

[witheredhope2007]

SAY MORE ABOUT ANDIE !! I CARE HER !

HEHEHE THANK YOU!! >:3 OK UNDER READ MORE IT GOES

So Andie is Stanley’s lil sister! She’s inspired by the lil drawing in the hallways of the Zending that I’m spinning into an actual character and not a reference to another game :]

I imagine that she’s prooobably around 10 to 12 years old? While I HC Stanley to be somewhere in his early 30s. She loves bugs okay they’re like her favorite thing in the entire world. She will stop whatever she’s doing if she finds a bug and she’ll sit there and stare at it, and if Stanley’s around she’ll ask him what kind of bug it is (if she doesn’t already know) and if he doesn’t know he’ll help her find out. (Which kinda Sucks for Stanley since he’s a lil squeamish, but has definitely gotten better w/bugs because of Andie and also because he’d do anything for her anyways.) it’s her special interest :) she has a bunch of books on bugs and draws them on the corners of her papers. She’s snuck little pill bugs into the house on multiple occasions.

She’s very outdoorsy in general too, and there’s numerous times where Stanley had been heading out to go to work and had to take at least 20 mins coaxing Andie out of a tree...<3 which is usually fruitless bc whenever he gets back Home she’s hanging out in one again. Sometimes, on particularly hard days he joins her up there. Whether it’s with a cup of coffee or a book or empty handed he finds himself enjoying it, even if Its not entirely silent bc of Andie. Also, Stanley is the one to dye Andie’s hair for her :’J

She’s also probably a lil bit of a troublemaker, but never means any true harm. Think of how Stanley likes to push the narrator’s buttons—she also gets a kick outta messing with people like that. Like, occasionally Stanley couldn’t leave Andie at home for one reason or another so he’d need to bring her to work with him and one of his coworkers would be like “aw, well aren’t you a little darling” and then she’d grin and pull the largest spider you’ve ever seen out of her pockets.

While Stanley is entirely mute, Andie is selectively mute. She knows sign language though, and was in the process of being taught more of it by Stanley (but was so kindly interrupted by the parable...) Whatever Stanley and Andie’s home life was, which I’m leaving vague on purpose, their parents were not there Much. Stanley was practically raising her on his own, and Andie liked him more Anyways — Stanley was just worried that he wouldn’t know how to take care of someone else besides himself, but he eventually got the hang of it. Also, Mariella has probably babysat her occasionally, so Andie’s familiar with her as well.

Though, in like...current times now with the whole Parable, Stanley doesn’t remember Andie. I feel like Stanley would get like brief flashes and memories of what was Before the parable and very rarely he’d see someone who looked eerily like Andie, but he’d never be able to place a name or a story to the figure. There’s probably some assets in the parable the narrator has that Also look a lil like Andie but he’s clueless + if he ever used those assets, the unavoidable freak out Stanley would have would come as a genuine shock to him. (Plus narrator would probably assume Andie’s his kid before his sister.)

+a lil andie scribiblle :]