#i love jorge i think he's been involved in a lot of iconic battles i think it's funny not a single one of them happened in 2015

[batsplat]

following on from this. not to always bring marc into everything (sorry marc) but if assen 2015 had happened against jorge, valentino would have very likely pulled something similar again imo. rather than what he actually did, which is approach marc almost immediately for a nice normal friendly handshake and backing off during the podium celebrations. should be noted that during laguna seca '08, valentino was very much committed to yapping at casey on the podium with the world's biggest smuggest grin on his face

partly that disparity is because jorge not marc was the direct title rival, partly it's because valentino was treating marc with kid gloves right until the second that he wasn't, which marc was seemingly entirely oblivious to. if anyone other than marc had said what he said in that presser, had then continued on with similar rhetoric during sachsenring, valentino would quite likely have gone nuclear. he's done it over less than that. his fondness for marc made him continue to exhibit uncharacteristic restraint... except that fondness unfortunately is what left valentino feeling so very betrayed when (to his eyes) marc could not leave well enough alone

#it's so delightfully tragic isn't it. a lot of 2015 played out the way it did because valentino genuinely wasn't looking for beef #but then felt backed into a corner and decided he had no other option than to blow this shit up #if casey says 'what I think is that we won the race' valentino would've torn him a new one then and there like... #if sete had called assen his best race of the season valentino would've reached for the chalk and incense even sooner #though fwiw I do think the relationship was basically doomed from that point. something would have happened sooner or later #2015 is so funny conceptually because there was already something *off* about it most of the way through. you have the familiar beats #but they shouldn't be HAPPENING with marc. they should be happening with the actual title rival - who vale never properly fought all season #assen 2015 should've been laguna should've been catalunya hell it should've been assen 2004 but it couldn't be #valentino kept accidentally inflicting the psychological blows on the wrong guy because jorge just refused to end up in a straight fight #assen SHOULD have been a pivotal race. but of course it couldn't be because what psychological blow was jorge lorenzo being dealt? #btw the unwillingness to beef doesn't just extend to marc. valentino makes a concerted effort to be uncharacteristically friendly to jorge #still think he would've rubbed assen in his face but. overall! he was trying! which again. very ironic #funhouse mirror ass season i love it dearly #// #brr brr #slowly dipping my toes into dropping 2015 hot takes on tumblr dot com... for so long these have been between me god and my google doc #i love jorge i think he's been involved in a lot of iconic battles i think it's funny not a single one of them happened in 2015 #minus kinda phillip island but even there it did feel like the other three were Doing More than him #also just a different vibe to a proper one-on-one. a WEIRD title run where the third man that whole year walks away with the trophy

[sarazanmai]

Thoughts on the “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure” English dub. Episode three.

“this moment’s been a long time coming Jojo” is it? because you found out what the stone mask does like earlier the same night

in the intro especially Jonathan looks like Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star

“even now you show compassion” yeah and its probably Jonathan’s biggest flaw, on the flip side your biggest flaw is thinking you’re untouchable when you die to a punch in the leg

whenever I see the “I have never done anything wrong in my life” meme I think of this scene and wonder why no one’s redrawn it

also I can’t find it, but years ago someone recorded audio that was just them in an over the top British whine going “oh my God like I’m sorry Jojo? I didn’t mean to kill Dad and now everyone’s sending me anon hate! its so unfair!”

I like this image of the mask holding a knife in its mouth

seriously Dio should have won Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Girl, he should have won it all for this performance

okay so here is where my problems with localizing Stand names like Echos, Surface, and Enigma really come to a head, they got away with naming him Robert E O Speedwagon but a common ass word like Echoes gets localized to Reverb

it. is. stupid.

I’m not saying Speedwagon should have gotten a name change, what I’m saying is a lot of the localized Stand names are not justified and its gonna get even more awkward when they attempt to dub things like the Oingo Boingo Brothers song

this is the scent of a liar, Dio

“he’s been evil since he drew his first breath!” well we ever got much insight into how Dio was when his mother was alive so its difficult to say

Wang Chan is voiced by Doug Stone who is best known as Psycho Mantis from the Metal Gear Solid franchise

Wang Chan has always made me feel...awkward

its a good thing Dio is such a windbag, it helped him out tremendously

“you see I am about to become SO MUCH MOOOORE! HELP ME SHED THIS MORTAL SKIN!” 

I want to be angry that he doesn’t say “I REJECT MY HUMANITY JOJO!” and somehow I’m not despite how iconic it is (maybe its a mouth flap problem)

hell I think Patrick signs autographs with that quote

anywho bye Jorge

interesting that Jorge lied to save Dario and then Joseph tells the same lie to save Smokey except Joseph’s situation worked out ten trillion times better

is this picture of Jonathan holding Jorge supposed to evoke the Pieta?

you will never love the Joestars like Speedwagon loves the Joestars

GOOOOOOORE

“Jojoooooooo”

correct me if I’m wrong but in Japanese I thought Dio was doing his first “wryyy” here?

I just checked and I was right, baby’s first “wryyy” was changed and given that’s his signature I find that dumb

Dio’s widdle vampire teef

nobody makes, I Dio, bleed his own blood...NOBODY!

but he will taste it, that’s his fetish

more gore!

like damn its good watching Jojo without those awkward blacked out censored bits

“there is nothing human left of you Dio!” that was the plan

seriously why do people say PB is the worst one or that its boring? you got zombies, you got vampires, you got Speedwagon, you got the intense emotional conflict between Jonathan and Dio, what more do you weebs want? oh wait, all you care about is Stand battles and ora ora ora. screw character history and development I guess!

I’m not saying you have to like PB, its just that I think people judge it unfairly considering those doing so admit to skipping it in the first place

I mean I know I’m in a minority when I say that SDC doesn’t crack my top five, but I’d never tell someone to skip it despite my own opinion of it

its the vampirism that puts them off, that and me bad breath

it blew my mind when I realized the anime always depicted Dio with blond brows, I seriously didn’t notice until fans made a big deal out of his eyebrows in SDC

burnin down the house

awww our first look at shirtless Dio

given that he’s Italian you’d think he’d have chest hair

personally I think Dio walking up the wall was animated better in the intro

Dio says “useless” again and I’m still nervous for SDC

“I am a God in all but name” your name is literally Italian for God you idiot

I can’t even describe Dio’s scream when he gets stabbed, its something

like it doesn’t even sound like Patrick, his voice gets like 20 octaves higher

“JOJOOOOO! I HAD SUCH PLANS FOR THIS WORLD! SUCH...PLANS...” they involved laying around without a shirt in the dark and not paying child support for my thirty kids

tune in next time where we enjoy a nice Hamon sandwich with Erina

#angelina reads jojo