#charles why are you like this

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

A lot of Christians read A Christmas Carol and gloss right over the "pay workers a living wage" message and take away "not being merry on Christmas is a cardinal sin" instead.

#And then they use this for antisemitism #If you don't understand why a lot of non xtians and former xtians hate Christmas #Think about all the stories where not being sufficiently happy on Christmas is the sole problem to be solved in 22 minutes #we have multiple words of negative connotation just for people who don't like christmas #Christmas #a christmas carol #Charles Dickens #Chuckie Dick #post o' mine

[backwardscapcarlos]

they make me insane (x)

#going insaneeeee #why are you sitting on him like that #carlos sainz #charles leclerc #f1 #charlos

[ryesingerrose]

Max and Charles have never been normal about each other and it’s so funny to see

#charles leclerc #max verstappen #lestappen #like max why are you acting like me around my crush pretending they don’t exist #also mentioning charles and the incident at every given opportunity

[notyourmusebby]

“hacemos MUY BUENA PAREJA” says carlos,

while smiling like that?? boy if you don’t start showing some decorum

#why are you as smiling like that while talking about your teammate #he could have said TEAM he chose couple #he wants to kill us #the romantic connotations the word pareja has on spanish pls #he knows we know #they are married #carlos sainz jr #charles leclerc #charlos #f1 #c2 #ferrari #scuderia ferrari #formula 1

[maxieandcharlie]

*insert max tucking his hair behind his ear gif*

#why resist? are you KIDDING ME #saying why resist while looking like that #shut UP #charles leclerc #lestappen #lec #k

[c2universe]

Charlos in Zandvoort GP 2023

#sobbing screaming assdfhgjh #the husband coded/ domestic level is insane in Zandvoort #why are you guys looking at each other like this? Care to explain? #am I invading your privacy? It feels like I am. #charlos #charles leclerc #carlos sainz

[leclercskiesahead]

The whole family coming to see their sick boi

#cropping this because…you know #carlos sainz jr #charles leclerc #ollie bearman #everyone surrounding him #why is carlos in a lower chair and why is he pointing his feet like a ballerina #f1 #scuderia ferrari #charlos #c2 #c square #jeddah 2024

[leclerrari]

“I was on a boat in Monaco. I had put the phone on silent mode, I find the call from Maurizio Arrivabene. I told the friend I was with to turn off the engines, that the head of Ferrari had called me and I didn’t feel well. I understand that he wouldn’t take me in Ferrari. It seemed a little strange to me that he called me to tell me that, I was disappointed. Fifteen seconds later he called me and told me he was joking. I hung up and dived into the sea, it all seemed so surreal. Me in Ferrari...”

— Charles Leclerc on signing with Ferrari in 2018 for L’Officiel Italia

#‘io in ferrari…’ ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 he’s so sick #when is a monster not a monster? oh‚ when you love it #charles leclerc #int #2023 #reading this article in the subway was NAWT my brightest idea like girl why am i going through the entire spectrum of human emotion rn

[f0point5]

I figured out why I hate this.

The muted colours of the background remind me of the Squid Game stair palace.

Bring back the class photo on the track with the big board. This is weird and the colouring is not it and I’m sorry but the way there is no order to where they placed the drivers is deeply unsettling.

#f1 #formula 1 #you’re telling me max should not be centre? #I’m not even scared of cult lh that man’s last win was 2 years ago why is he in the middle #and I love you Yuki but why are you flanked by a WDC and Il Predestinato like they’re your concubines #they didn’t even put people near their friends #so what is the logic? #max verstappen #lando norris #charles leclerc #daniel ricciardo #Carlos sainz

[fictionadventurer]

What was the point of Scrooge's trip with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? On a structural level, it makes sense--three is the fairy tale number, and you can't visit the past and present without also including the future--but on a character level, it doesn't quite seem necessary. Showing a man that he'll die alone, unloved, and unmourned seems like the strategy you take as the last-ditch effort to convince a guy that he needs to change his ways. But that situation doesn't apply to Scrooge. He started softening immediately after he first arrived in his past. By the time he finished with the Ghost of Christmas Present, he was fully onboard with the need to reform, so the Ghost's vision of his future seems like unnecessary cruelty. Why show him all this when he was already planning to change his ways?

A few things come to mind. One is that this vision of the future wouldn't have affected Scrooge unless he had already changed his ways. A cold, hard businessman could have seen his lonely death as just the way of the world, might have viewed the people who stole the clothes from his corpse as just people doing what's practical in this world. He needed to relearn the value of the intangibles--human connection, respect for others--to see the true horror of the lonely death and the vultures who defiled the dead man.

But why the horror? Can't he reform without being threatened with doom? It's possible--but it's also possible such a reform would be temporary. After all, Scrooge started as a friendly, loving young man, but retreated into himself and his business out of fear of poverty and fear of the way the world looks down upon poor people. Even if a reformed Scrooge started on a course of Christmas charity, there was always a chance that the enthusiasm would fade, and the worldly fears would start creeping back in. The only way to beat those fears is to give him something to fear that's even worse than poverty. He needs to see the horrible end that his selfish ways would lead to, so he won't be tempted to slide back into them.

There's also the fact that seeing his death makes him ecstatically happy to find that he's alive after the Ghost is gone. Had Scrooge been spared the vision of his future, he might have been happy to find himself on Christmas Day, but his joy would have been nowhere near the manic glee he experiences after coming back from the future. Now, he doesn't just get a new start--he gets a second chance. Coming back from his own grave makes him mindful of his death, but it also makes him hyperaware of the fact that he's still alive. He isn't in the ground yet. He still has time to do good and make connections with others so he doesn't die alone.

Seeing the past reminded him of the innocence he'd lost. Seeing the present reminded him of the people whose lives he was missing out on. Seeing the future reminded him that death is waiting, so it's important to live virtuously while we can. All three are important because all three brought him outside of himself and taught him to value the wider world, just in time to live through another Christmas Day.

#a christmas carol #charles dickens #once again i've ponderously worked my way to the explicitly stated moral of the story #but i had to work my way there because stave 4 left me unsettled #had i been scrooge that trip probably would have squashed any desire i had to reform #the ghost *doesn't say* whether or not the future can be changed #what if this is just proof he's doomed no matter what so why bother changing? #fortunately scrooge was much better than i was about logic #namely: no reason to show him this future if it *can't* be changed #the point of these ghosts is to save him from marley's fate #plus we did have the ghost of christmas present's implications that future shadows can be changed #it's kind of interesting when you step back from familiar stories that just go this way because it's how they're supposed to go #and really dig into 'wait a minute. why did it go like this?' #it usually winds up with me figuring out that the writer knew what they were doing #but it's also nice to see the scaffolding that got us to the story

[buck-yyyy]

an introductory description of the greek club except it’s narrated like the meet the plastics scene in mean girls

#that one there? that’s bunny corcoran. he is one of the dumbest men you will ever meet. #i sat next to him in english last year. he asked me how to spell orange. #that little one? that’s francis abernathy. he’s totally rich because his dad invented toaster streusel. #francis abernathy knows everyone’s business he knows everything about everyone. that’s why his hair is so big it’s full of secrets. #and evil takes a human form in henry winter. don’t be fooled—cause he may seem like your typical selfish backstabbing slut-faced hoebag. #but in reality? he is so much more than that. he’s the queen bee—the star. the other four are just his little workers. #sorry to the twins. didn’t have room for them in the trio 💀 #the secret history #tsh #bunny corcoran #henry winter #francis abernathy #charles macaulay #camilla macaulay #richard papen

[comraderoscoes]

the way i wouldn’t give a shit about this verstappen era had it not started with a hate campaign that incited racism against lewis and inevitably robbed him of a championship lmao. like no one can be on top forever and things change that is sport but why HIM LOOL. why THEM. why the racist corpse of helmut marko and a fucking cocaine fuelled tory behind him being the worst possible competitors known to man and egging him on even tho he doesn’t need any help to be awful

#like if you told me charles was going to win every race this season: ok FINE #i Would Not Care #why these uglies #why have i got to listen to marko gas max up as the greatest thing ever #there is no justice in the world only pain #anyway whew good to get that off my chest

[f1-stuff]

São Paulo GP '23 // Charles' unfiltered radio + onboard

"No, I lost the hydraulics! I lost the hydraulics! Why the fuck am I so unlucky? Why the fuck am I so unlucky? No hydraulic inside the car. Everything became super... Ugh, can I- I'll try to start again." "The hydraulics came back. What should I do, guys? For fuck's sake, still... Engine switched off. Why am I so unlucky? Oh my god, Oh my fucking god. Oh my fucking god..."

#why would i post this you ask? #bc i like pain apparently #charles leclerc #Brazil GP '23 #2023 #video #formula one #f1 #ferrari #brazilian gp 2023 #team radio #onboard

[livetogether--diealone]

what is 🥺 i don't speak bottom

#like hello??? what are you doing giving smolder eyes to an f1 journos #why are they getting all the attention #charLES?? #charles leclerc #f1 #mexican gp 2023 #jo.gif #and me sleep now very late

[slythereen]

Red Bull Racing posting lestappen on their insta stories before EITHER of their two drivers is enough to resurrect me from the grave

#i swear I’m alive it’s just trial season at work 😭😭 #rbr you make me insane. #why are you so obviously down bad like this #shameless behavior #do more of it #rbr Charles #the agenda won’t die until Ferrari pries it out of my grasp #contract still delayed! #hope still exists! #lestappen #lestappen gate 2023 #socmed #*delphi

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

MC: There's no way he likes me back.

Charles: Dazai would throw himself in front of a moving car for you.

MC: Dazai would throw himself in front of a moving car for fun.

#ikevamp #ikemen vampire #ikevamp mc #ikevamp charles #ikevamp dazai #ikevamp incorrect quotes #okay like i feel terrible about this one but at the same time the way i WHEEZED #dazai ilysm and you dont deserve to be dragged like this but somebody's gotta do it #IM TAKING THE L #also hate that my other thought was: charles. charles why are you being so specific. #charles are you getting little gremlin ideas. CHARLES-- #i gotta hand it to him i was always stuck between being like #charles just bc ur master is a homicidal maniac does not mean murder is the answer to being with mc #charles: but are you sure #me: CHARLES. #charles: :3c #me: #me: he makes a very convincing argument-- #like do i approve? no #but you gotta appreciate his commitment to the bit #baby man appears what crimes will he commit