#rider experience

[goodoldbandit]

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[deeva-arud]

So, about that one AU that's been marinating in my mind for years

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Idle doodling tonight while we wrap up Revice... (I'm a little obsessed with all his t-shirts...)

[amazon-did-nothing-wrong]

Gotta love how safety protocols apparently just didn’t exist during Showa

[doodlesdreaming]

That, “I don’t take anything seriously.” sibling energy.

Heavily inspired by this short.

[itsybitsybatsyspider]

this one is titled 'alex bbg get some therapy' in my files. because he really do be needing some therapy after all the shit he goes through.

That child is TrAuMaTiZeD

[batsplat]

pecco rant please please

*spins wheel on possible topics* absurdly underrated but in a dumb way. you'd think you can stumble your way into two premier class titles. I don't care he's on the best bike - let's be honest, how often this century have the title winners not been on the best bike? 2004 and to a lesser extent 2005 you can say clearly weaker bike, 2007 late 2010s 2021 there's a clear enough disparity with anyone else riding the bike that you can say clearly the rider is making the difference/it's an unrideable wreck one guy is making respectable, then there's a few seasons where it's at least very close whose machinery is best or they're fighting with people on equal equipment, which pecco has done! but generally speaking, good/promising riders end up on good bikes and then they win. that's how the game works!

the thing about 2022 is that it had such a massive mid-season swing that overhauling a ninety something point margin cannot come down to any single factor. is it fair to say fabio lost that title? on balance, it's a bit harsh - yes, there were a few too many errors post-sachsenring, yes, some were driven by desperation, but also you can't really expect anyone to ride a flawless season. but pecco did win that title as much as yamaha lost it. I don't care if you're riding a literal rocketship with two wheels, you can't win four races in a row if you're not extremely good at what you do! if we're saying that title was worth less because the yamaha turned to shit in the second half of the season, then let's keep going. let's put an asterisk next to 2013 because jorge and dani both got injured (let's not even get into the 'if marc hadn't been injured' asterisks because that's where you get into truly silly territory). is 2006 not a legit title because of all the bad luck valentino faced that year? let's say all titles between 2007 to 2015 were worth less because at any one time only 4-6 bikes had a realistic chance of winning races. throw out any title before 2009 because they were constantly fucking about with the tyres and there wasn't a level playing field. if you're motivated enough, you can play this game with basically anything, but it's dumb and pointless because that's not how sports works! you can only win against whoever you're facing. it has always been thus and it will always be thus

it's narratively fun and juicy that pecco has these insecurities himself - but within the context of everyone else doing discourse over it, the whole thing is massively overblown! linked to some of the worst sports discourse about how much people love to disparage late bloomers, because they need every single successful athlete to fit the same mould of the ultra-talented wunderkind, apparently. it's more interesting when it's not always the most 'talented' (whatever tf that means), naturally gifted, *fast the second he touches a bike* bloke who wins. sometimes they have to work hard for it, sometimes they have to improve themselves year on year and be smart about how they do it, sometimes they have to be in the right place and right time, sometimes they have to be very lucky. sports is all about competition, and competition is all about contrast. it's a contrast that can be generated in a whole lot of ways, and in fairness to motogp they have come up with a bunch of interesting narratively tense contests that don't rely on a massive fundamental 'talent' differential - but at the end of the day, that's one of the best ones you can have! the more ways you can have to win in any given sport, the better, both in the literal sense of how you go about the actual process of winning and how you even become a winner. none of this means that pecco isn't very very good, it means he got there in a different way than every other multiple champ this century has. it fundamentally flattens the sport if you want every top-level competitor to be an alien-level talent... one of the best things about this current era is that it has given us something new and exciting in that regard, where you well and truly believe some very different blokes might have what it takes to eventually be champion

anyway, pecco is absurdly adept at digging himself into holes and absurdly adept at digging himself out of them. he's one of the worst frontrunners imaginable in every sense, biologically incapable of dominating without at least a perpetual hint of jeopardy, both in the context of a race and a season. but when his back is against the wall, somehow he keeps finding performances you never imagined he was capable of. his mixed up and slightly odd skillset, his strengths and weaknesses, how he's better and worse than he has any right to be... all of it lends itself to perpetual momentum shifts and thrilling seasons - because you never quite know what you're going to get. love him or hate him, he's a gift to the overall competitive landscape! god knows the racing hasn't been much to write home about these last few years (though, yes, we did have a good little run this season), but somehow he's managed to get himself involved in two out of the six title deciders this century back-to-back. is that not the dream for the viewer, to have a bloke at the top of the sport with a little self-combust chip in his head every time he builds too much of an advantage? build a hundred of those guys! throw a marc marquez at him and see what he does! I can't wait to see what he'll come up with next

[yells-of-the-not-so-danged]

[aliveaudiencegang]

because it’s one of my favourite moments in the book, i do need a scene where

alex is seriously telling tom that he can’t tell anyone about the whole finding scorpia thing and tom’s like nodding his head all serious like ‘of course dude. my lips are sealed.’

and then it immediately cuts to them with jerry and not even a second in tom’s spilling all the beans whilst alex just stares at him and accepts that he should’ve seen this coming

[goodoldbandit]

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[westwindy1]

'toothles is so dragon and HICCUp is so dragon... for understanding him" TOOTHLESS LITERALLYUSES HUMAN BODY LANGUAGE

[ingradient]

ough

[biomic]

cannot stop thinking about this tweet

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Jokes aside... I really love their friendship a lot.

Bonus Yosh:

Noooooo man... That's not cool, dude, Pac-Man's here... Don't make me cry in front of Pac-Man...

[eovaldi]

the whole fabio homophobia thing has got me so sad bc tinhat off if how discouraging for everybody to be joking abt how you were gay bc you put your head on someone’s shoulder. bc you showed affection to someone you loved!! why would you ever want to share any part of your life with people like that.