archer

i want charles leclerc to win every race for the rest of time

i get a $250 million production budget to adapt beowulf into a summer blockbuster and at the end beowulf is contemplating his reign as king in his old age and the passing of time and we hear some kids say something he doesn't quite understand and he says stoically "it's as if the English i speak is becoming old..."

on that note i think that massive parts of a fandom distancing themselves from the hyper specific context of elite men’s sports actually just functions to allow them to distance their fave guy (fictional or otherwise) from the harsh realities of elite sports that fiction could actually be used to address openly. i do think that if you engage with a sport—and yes, consuming media with hockey/soccer/etc at its center counts, even if you don’t care—you should have to engage with the rampant racism, classism, homophobia, and misogyny literally cooked into these spaces. if you don’t you’re at best making yourself complicit in the whitewashing of elite men’s leagues or, at worst, you risk replicating or defending these structural inequalities in more active, harmful ways

every time i think about my sweet mouse charlie, i remember how carlos said he’d beat him at every sport and charles with the sweetest face just destroyed him with two fucking words. NOT. RACING. 🧊😮‍💨

Charles having the highest average finish among all the drivers in July in spite of having new brakes and still not being a 100% comfortable with the car. He’s just built different 🙂‍↕️

also i hate this narrative that charles has been lucky this season: he’s had two mechanical failures (brakes and hydraulics) that led to two dnfs. hamilton hasn’t had a single one yet. by that measure, he’s even luckier.

when people talk about how to grow motogp as a sport why is one of the suggestion never ‘make videopass cheaper’