#is the bear not how people see him

[skitskatdacat63]

Fernando Alonso & His Relationship With Cards

I'm sure we're all familar with the cards on the back of Fernando's Vegas GP helmet by now, but did you know his relationship with cards goes a lot deeper?

I. Magic Tricks

You've probably seen or heard someone at least mention Fernando's propensity for card tricks. As far as I can tell he was doing them(publically) as far back as 2003 all the way to as recently as 2018. Even once performing a card trick, with a condom and a teddy bear(!??!?!??!!), in front of Valentino Rossi who said "How was that possible?"(x)

But how did this start? According to James Allen, "Fernando admits to having been heavily influenced by his grandfather, a mercurial figure, who taught him magic and card tricks, still one of his passions away from the race track."(x) And I'm not sure the validity of this one, because I couldn't find an actual source, but apparently he once said: "My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit."

In several interviews he described it as his hobby off track, and that he loved learning new tricks and surprising others in the garage with them! So clearly cards are pretty important to him both as a hobby but also to who he is as a person since they've been with him just as long as racing has.

II. Card Symbolism in His Helmets

This is the reason I originally made this post, but I thought I should also explain the origins of his card fascination first. As I said, we probably all remember the cards on the back of his helmet in Vegas, but did you know that wasn't the first time he had cards on the back of his helmet?

From 2008-2013, he used to have a pair of cards on the back of his helmets. The symbolisms of the cards themselves as well as the evolution of their design is really fascinating to me! Even more so with the recent development of the card choice in 2023.

Fernando said he wanted to reference his two titles in some way on the back of his helmet and after his friend sent him several ideas, he decided on having two cards(an ace of clubs and an ace of hearts, sometimes pictured with 05 and 06 on them as well), saying: "I picked the cloverleaf [the ace of clubs - Ed] to give me luck, but the only pity is that it doesn't have four leaves!"(X)

2008.

Here's the very first appearance of the cards! They're displayed flat, with the 05 and 06 clearly visible

2009.

Very similar to 2008, but with a slightly different design, and they're maybe a bit more straight with less shadow?

2010.

This is the first major change! I was sad they didn't have the years on them anymore, but then I realized they're sparkly to match with his signature lightning bolts on the top of the helmet!!

2011.

Honestly I'm still somewhat unsure if this is the actual 2011 helmet? It's pretty difficult to find clear photos of the back of helmets from older seasons. It's easiest to find them on replica sites or auction sites so I'm not 100%? But anyways, I like that this has the championship years on the underside of the cards

2012.

This is when I started getting weirdly emotional about the helmets. Do you see how they've progressed from being a centerpoint to being curled up and sad at the bottom of the helmet? Not listing the year anymore??

2013.

Same thoughts as 2012. And after this season, they cease to exist (just like his ferrari chair in the garage, WOAH CALLBACK), until cards make a reeappearance in his Vegas helmet, albeit in a different form

2013 Monaco(Honorable Mention):

For some reason 2013 helmets were easier to find proper pictures of, so I happened to witness this absolute beauty. The creativity of this helmet genuinely blows me away??? Wanting to keep the card motif, but making sure to incorporate it into the rest of the puzzle piece design?? Mwah! There was another special 2013 helmet but they didn't change the cards at all so I really applaud this one

2023 Las Vegas(The Return of The King):

The magnificent return! But look! The cards are different cards! Instead of being two aces, it's now an ace of hearts, a four of hearts(his driver number of course!) and, the, now iconic, representation of himself as a Joker. I literally could not believe my eyes when this helmet was released and I saw the Joker card, what a fucking silly old man....I really wonder if he felt nostalgic having cards on his helmet again or if he didn't think about it all and was just like, "ah cards because Vegas!!!"

III. Why Does This Matter?

*The rest of the post was factual, this is moreso my personal thoughts on the symbolism of the cards/designs

This post spawned from me recently watching the 2010 Bahrain gp and noticing "hey wait a minute...are those CARDS ON THE BACK OF HIS HELMET!?" It's a really tiny detail that's unfortunately covered up by the HANS device pretty much whenever he's wearing the helmet, so it's really difficult to spot! But I became fascinated with the fact that he had cards on his helmet before that recent helmet, and now here we are!

There's something to me about how the design of the cards evolves over the course of six seasons from the cards being front and center to being smaller, more folded up and closer to the bottom of the helmet. As I said, the 2012-2013 ones genuinely made me depressed because it feels, symbolically, like his hopes for getting another Ace are becoming more and more unlikely and falling away until they eventually fall falt and fade away entirely after 2013 and disappear for basically a decade.

But when they return? They're not the same cards! Instead of representing Fernando's championships, they now represent him as a person, displaying his driver number and his persona of being a Joker!! Though I do think it's interesting he happened to keep the Ace of Hearts, even though he talked more about the Ace of Clubs before. I'm not sure it's actually this deep in reality, but I like to think that it's him not letting his championships(and the lack thereof) define him, but rather letting who he is as a person shine and be the centerpoint instead! But on a sadder note, as @suzuki-ecstar said to me, maybe the Aces aren't there anymore because he's lost all hope for a chance at a third Ace entirely :(

#yes its finals week and im up to my eyes in coursework but instead decided to spend like 5 hours researching and writing this post #nah bcs i actually genuinely put more work into this then I think I have all semester dsfjdskjg #that thing about him using a condom and teddy bear in a magic trick genuinely had me crying with laugher. actual tears rolling down my face #<- HOW!?!? WHAT WAS THE TRICK?? its literally inconceivable to me what he did. oh if only there were pics UGH #anyways!! this post was a lot of fun to make!! i really really love the symbolism and design of helmets so this was a rly fun project #and i also went down a lot of rabbitholes while make this and saw many very weird articles from yore #i feel like i make an equal amnt of deranged posts abt seb and nando but i dont know why nando is gifted w all my well researched projects #<- i.e. chair post. that was the same level of research as this one but at least this one i could find actual sources about.... #idk theres smth about the extremely long history of nando's history that evokes research posts like this KLAJSLSKDJ #theres just so much that i dont think I ever really see people discussing! so i must create. #haha what was that joke tag i wanted to make abt my researched posts? I think: #normal posts that catie normally makes in a normal fashion #<- one day ill go back and actually tag posts w that. bcs the amtn of research compared to my actual schoolwork is so unwell #fernando alonso #fa14 #f1 #formula 1 #catie.rambling.txt #we do a little bit of f1

[puppyeared]

We’ll play forever, me and you…!

#the owl house season 2 #the owl house spoilers #toh 2b #toh spoilers #kings tide spoilers #BABE WAKE UP NEW BLORBO DROPPED!!! I love the collector he’s so fucked up but so cool #I really wanna see how they deal with the collector because I don’t think we have a reason to hate him yet. unlike people wanting to grab #belos in a chokehold. fucking Straight White Man is a child abuser AND colonizer we have every reason to get his ass LMAO #I wouldn’t say collector is like. innocent. but he does hurt people and I think he does know but doesn’t really care #like apathetic almost. we also don’t know why he was sealed away so like that could change? but rn I think he’s cute. like a grizzly bear #you know it could kill you but it doesn’t stop you from wanting to hug it LOL #the owl house fanart #the owl house #toh fanart #toh #toh collector #the collector #king clawthorne #toh king #kings tide #my art #myart #eye strain #the owl house 2b

[spywhitney]

How I sleep knowing I'll never trust anyone that hates Sydney but worships Richie:

#the bear #the bear fx #sydney adamu #carmen berzatto #richie jerimovich #jk kind of #well on days I don't see or think about Sydney haters #under every damn comment section in this fandom is someone saying Sydney didn't take accountability #like I know we all have our biases but yall are really shameless about it #Sydney scored A LOT of Ws for The Beef AND The Bear #but one time she makes a mistake and justifiably walks away from a toxic work environment she's the devil #Richie worked at The Beef for years and Sydney did more for it in what less than four months than he did #on top of being a prick to Sydney in particular because she was changing things he wanted to keep the same #to the detriment of the restaurant but also everyone #and overall being unpleasant to Carmy #Nat and anyone that didn't find him funny or interesting or like his bs #pre-Forks Richie reminds me of those types of people that only listen to people that like them #and I love that because it's realistic to some ppl #I do like Richie #it just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth knowing there are people that hate Sydney #ignore her accomplishments only to raise up Richie #in the same breath when the actual show is showing you what's up #like you'd think there were different versions of the show with how these two are perceived #I get this weird need to defend Sydney when people shit on her because I wonder how often said people treat the Sydneys of the world #but that aside #In Fishes Richie mentions something about wasting potential at the beef #In Ceres it's implied he called the popo on the dealers after Sydney deescalated a situation Richie previously dealt with #in an unorthodox manner #he recognised he needed to change but still was an arsehole to the one person who was facilitating that change effectively Sydney #this show is great but people denying what they're seeing on their own screens is crazy

[rocicrew]

THE EXPANSE 6.04 REDOUBT

#the expanse #theexpanseedit #nolden #naomi nagata #james holden #mine : gifs. #i needed the whole convo in one place #tHE writing for conflict resolution #tHE writing for they're both right #everytime i see martyred myself in the name of motherhood but i chose not to i vibrate out of my skin #THE LINE OF ALL TIME #i think it's rlly interesting how holden obviously can't see beforehand how that choice looks like from naomi's pov #because obviously besides that being something that will be incredibly heavy to bear for him #he wants to spare her from additional pain whether that's logical or not #but naomi who's made peace as much as she could that this was it with filip #and that's been terrified of marco finally getting the people she has left #of killing their little family #to the point of her nearly panicking the minute they try to approach an asteroid in 6.01 bc what if marco turned that to to a bomb #he just let her abuser go and potentially have the chance to try and kill them for the third time #it's heavy and nuanced and one of my favorite pieces of writing of s6

[lemongogo]

#this.discussion between them is one of my favorites #this and that exchange a while earlier where vash talks ab gunsmokes reliance on plants being a consequence of the big fall #and a necessary facet of survival for the ppl who live here despite how utterly awful an experience it is #for the both of them.the plants being used and the people forced by circumstance to use them until death ykyk #and i especially like.how vash is just so . baffled by the idea that knives somehow sees his ideology as this naive dream #as opposed 2 a reaction from the anger hes been harboring for SOO long. we SAWW it we saw how he reacted on the ship #we see it in the way he struggles 2 navigate life among ppl and how his body bears the scars of his pain and frustrations #his anger is sooo.Good. and formative.and wholly vash that i cannot imagine him without it #he never forgot teslas death / never will .and it motivates him just as much as rem's sacrifice n so on. #'ever since that day we've been mad' ....... prbably one of the best lines ive taken away #hashtag shinobu's 'yes im angry..ive always Been angry' monologue #i love how he includes knives in that anger too. its not just youre angry or im angry. its that We've been angry. Ever since that day. #going2 throw UPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #and the way knives reacts 2 it too.using it to cement his grief and decision that if we had to suffer than its only fair they should too #fairness.and when he talks ab making it equal...giving whats been taken..always an interesting concept to use in a vengeful sense from the #more sensitive brother. i love it.LUVE ITTT #trigun spoilers #vash #knives trigun #trigun maximum #trigun #millions knives

[introspectivememories]

touch-starved bernard dowd is sooo canon to me

#hs!bear who had a reputation for sleeping around not bc he particularly enjoyed sex #but bc at least during sex sm1 would touch him #and he'd give anything to be touched like someone wanted him and not bc they were obligated to #college!bear who was initially interested in the pain cult at first but became hooked after they patched him up gently #hs!bear who would drape himself all over his friends and hope this time they wouldn't push him off #bernard dowd who goes his whole life being told by his family that he's too touchy and it makes people uncomfortable #bernard dowd at a young age creating rules for himself after being told time and time again that he makes people uncomfortable #and being unable to follow them bc he loves these people and he knows no other way to show it #bear watching his family shy away bc they don't enjoy and he knows that but why does it feel like they just don't want his touch? #bear breaking all of his rules and hating himself for it. loathing himself bc don't you see bear? you're too needy too touchy. you make #people uncomfortable. and the thing about children who grow up loathing themselves is that they rationalize any affection they recieve #someone from his family hugs him and he thinks to himself: they're only touching me bc they have to. they're uncomfortable doing this. #they're only doing this bc everyone knows how much you like hugs. look dowd you've made someone uncomfortable again. #so he categorizes every touch as Fake or Real but bc he grew up like this every touch is Fake. bc no one really wants to touch him. they're #only doing it bc they have to. bc they're obligated to. #bear who walks around feeling like a stranger in his own skin bc no one will touch him and if they do touch him he can't recognize weather #it's Real or Fake and so the cycle continues. #bernard dowd #dc

[cinthia-rubi]

[Esp]

AL FIN, YOSHIOKA A TRAVÉS DE LOS AÑOS.

[Eng]

FINALLY, YOSHIOKA THROUGH THE YEARS.

Beware of my heacanon backstory below:

At five years old, Yoshioka lived with his mother in China. His mother was a good person who took care of him, although she was always busy. But Yoshioka didn't see his father often because he was always on 'business trips' in Japan. I think he was a reserved child and perhaps somewhat lonely, but he was happy anyway. Originally his last name was given by his mother and his first name was chosen by his father, and I think in Chinese it would be written 闞周平 (Kàn Zhōupíng) and in Japanese 闞秀平 (Kan Shūhei). I'm sorry if I make mistakes, I'm not good at kanji/hànzi.

At the age of ten his father took him to Japan, his mother did not agree but neither she nor Yoshioka had a choice. His father wanted to take him to Japan when he was young so he could learn the language, the traditions, and so on. Since his father was a yakuza, he wanted Yoshioka to be one too, and to make him fit in better, his father got him fake identification, naming him again as 吉岡 真守 (Yoshioka Mamoru), since he doesn't work within the law anyway.

At the age of fifteen he had already gotten used to live in Japan and his life was almost that of a normal teenager, he went to school normally and he was allowed to have hobbies and friends, and all of that, although he was still somewhat lonely and a bit socially awkward. The only thing that made him different from an ordinary boy was that his father raised him to get used to the life of a gangster, and that he had not seen or heard from his mother since he left China.

At twenty-five his life was completely focused on the mafia, and you could say he was just any yakuza, except he was always looking for ways to leave that job and get one away from crime, and that's how he ended up as a simple security guard, not really leaving the life of crime yet but at least he didn't have to do anything but keep an eye on the doors.

#forgive me for making him a fan of the things that I like but they were appropriate for his time #the care bears were popular in the 80s #and slam dunk was one of the best selling manga in the 90s #i hope that 25 year old Yoshioka looks younger than I usually draw him #seeing how I drew him at 5 makes me laugh #he was so cute #what the hell happened to him #why did he lose his eyelashes privilege #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #yoshioka mamoru #mp100 yoshioka #my art #i want to explain his 'original' name #i gave it to him because some people called him shuhei before he had a real name #and i wanted to keep it #and about kan i just like the way it sounds lol

[frankensteined]

(oh yeah, i'm also romancing halsin too. it's a whole thing.)

#i was honestly really impressed with how the conversation with karlach went re: this #because she isn't interested in being included in this but she's very aware of how little time ANY of them might have #and she is happy to see her love happy so she's ultimately okay with it #and halsin has absolutely no interest in taking away from kestrel and karlach's relationship #it's very chill and mature and there's. y'know. boundaries. #BUT ANYWAY BACK TO HALSIN HIMSELF i DID in fact tear up over the line about him really Seeing You #and the sheer amount of eye contact in his (non-bear) love scene was very nice 🥺 #(especially given their height difference) #kestrel sees Tall Hot People and just wants them to pick her up 😌 #court vs bg3 #halsin #ship: as nature intended

[basu-shokikita]

maybe i have not seen the content people complain about but when i see talks about the fandom infantilizing toki i'm confused cause like...didn't canon start that...with every passing season toki become more and more child-like until age regression was essentially confirmed in aotd...

#dont reblog PLEASE im just thinking outloud i dont want discourse #rambling #like idk canonically toki likes coloring books and offered pizza/chocolate to skwisgaar in exchange for a solo #he gets excited about secret santa and says woweee #he has a teddy bear etc etc #none of these things have to be inherently child-like #but the way toki is written during these scenes is purposefully meant to be perceived that way #plus he's the youngest of the band #never taken seriously #throws tantrums often #and so on #there's a whole scene in aotd where the joke is that toki is essentially acting like a child that wants to be taken to the bathroom #there's always gonna be people flanderizing but honestly toki is a tough nut to crack tbh #the key is finding the balance imo. he might have child-like interests but hes also BRUTAL #and overall he STILL IS AN ADULT in a death metal band that gets his dick wet often and does drugs on the regular #he just also is traumatized and wants to reclaim the childhood he never had imo #i think dethklok is somehow a safe space for him to act the way he wants to act vs the way he was forced to when he lived w his parents #he prolly had no choice but to grow too fast and was essentially forbidden to experience any kind of joy #so with dethklok he can indulge in all those silly little things he never got to back then #thats how i see it at least

[honorthysalad]

Jesus Christ Yoshiki. How many books can one child have? it’s like a library back there…

#Who funds this? Yoshiki? He doesn’t have a job #(…that we know of.) #His parents? We don’t see his dad and his mom wouldn’t even help Kaoru with her yukata #His mysterious watermelon-bearing relatives? But this seems excessive for how little of a relationship they seem to have #And 11 of those are just the first volume of mxm so like how many more are repeats? #Maybe Yoshiki is trying to have a monopoly on all the literature in the entire fucking town #Turn profit by forcing people to rent from him if they want to read #Bring a whole new meaning to alphabet mafia #hikaru ga shinda natsu #the summer hikaru died #hgsn #my hgsn shit

[statementlou]

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#hi does anyone know how to dl a video off veeps? #apparently the UAs aren't going to post Liam's whole thing from today even though it was only like 7 minutes long #presumably because the part that's him talking and stuff has a brief shot of him walking with bear🙃 #jfc 🙄 #because ofc it's more important to not show that then to support his actual content #or let people see what he's saying about his songwriting and upcoming album #I'm sorry HOW is this being a fan again???? #like I don't believe in telling people they're being a fan wrong do whatever you want..but also that is being a fan wrong lol what the HELL

[wanyinchen]

We all know that S3 is gonna be about the Second Coming-slash-Final Judgement blah blah blah blah blah but what i NEED is for Jesus to radiate so much little sibling energy™. I need them and Crowley to be a chaotic-sibling-bestie duo ok??? It's one of the only ways i can heal

#good omens #crowley #i need jesus to be a very chill dude (gn. they could be a little girl for we know) who pops out of the silver plane and surrounded by CIA #angel bodyguards and then they see Crowley and just fucking runs up to him to choke-bear hug hybrid him the way only little clingy sibs do #and then the angel operatives freak out #jesus: GASPS!!! HI BESTIEE🥰🥰🥰!!! how are ya doin? #crowley: what #angel mafia: !!!! AKDSKSDHASDJKL #and then crowley proceeds to kidnap him and then babysit him. they go to the barbie premier and the Eras tour and the bahamas and just went #around the world. leaving chaos in their wake. we're talking about confusion bafflement and maybe a whole ton of buffets being suddenly #replaced with fish and bread that could feed 6000 people. and then they fuck over governments without even trying and giving the poor the #queers the conspiracy theorists and all of the marginalized peeps everything they WANT #and where was aziraphale in all of this? stuck on heaven's top floor just seething that he can't go out cause the metatron locked him in. #the metatron angel-proofed the whole building just so aziraphale cannot leave. they're in lockdown and everyone is panicking. Aziraphale #the pedantic loophole-obsessed bastard that he is. was like "If they fucking angel-proofed superheaven then I'm gonna escape the good old- #fashioned human way. He then demolishes the glass with his bare fists. everyone screams and he walks out of heaven wearing #his tartan and shades because cool bamf angels don't look at the chaos they unleashed.

[rainbowpufflez]

“So how’s the Kalos region going for you Bo?”

Oh yknow, great.

#will keep this updated as I go through the game #I’m like an hour in (cause I’m borrowing from a friend) and I feel like I already have so many thoughts #Soleil Cafe Incident™️ u know what u did #I was so happy to see Sycamore #I was kicking my feet and giggling #and then I go downstairs and who do I get jumpscared by #‘Sina do u not feel the atrocious vibes coming off of this man?’ #Don’t send people death threats like actually but I should be allowed to send Lys some /j /nsrs #as I said on my insta story #‘if he gets a direct line of communication with me; I get a direct line of communication with him’ /j #‘I will be making it his problem’ #/j #believe it or not this is how u know I like a character #love having to hate a character before I like them #except u Sycamore #you’re just my pookie bear #lysandre pokemon #professor sycamore pokémon #sina pokemon #pokemon xy #fanart #rainbowpufflez art tag

[separateways]

ADA WONG in Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023)

#visuals #ada wong #2004 #resident evil spoilers / #resident evil 4 remake spoilers / #re4r spoilers / #there's something so much darker about this reunion that i enjoy very much and it's all down to sinister nature of how ada smiles #and lily gao's detached performance #leon's all of grief and heartbreak showing no emotion and ada can't help but revel in it - in what her death and his years of service #have turned him into #she loves what she's become in the six years since raccoon city - she's accounted for all her failures there and more - she's better #but leon? where she has risen far above he has sunk deep and will only continue to sink deeper and ada adores that #at least that's how i interpret it #this is a part of resident evil 6 i see people ignore because they hear ada call leon's confusion cute and turn their brain off #she's leaving him again with more confusion and heartbreak to bear - she's died once more #carla took the life of thousands with her vengeance and put the blame on ada wong #and she refuses to explain the truth of it all #like she refused to explain her work as a double agent inside wesker's operation even after her mission was over #partially because it doesn't matter - ada wong was never real and she can discard that identity for another #but also because she does enjoy looking down on leon #and has ever since spain #or maybe ever since she found herself above him - rocket launcher thrown down - saving his life as an act of parting #god i love her so much she's so fucked up #thank you capcom #i don't ship aeon in fact i hate it if you can't tell

[inundatae]

i do think it is exceedingly frustrating that we don't have a lot of information on the governance of fontaine. and in particular how much of an active role neuvillette has in it. especially in regards to the missed opportunity of what this leadership means to neuvillette.

we have this man who, while human shaped, is so far removed and isolated from humanity, placed in a position of having to rule them. especially when neuvillette at the start of his tenuredisdained humanity and likely would have been glad to see them removed from the equation or at least have nothing to do with them.

how lost in the weeds can he be focusing on merely the administrative aspects of ruling fontaine? he doesn't leave his office as we've had several instances of his own people being excited and shocked to see him and furina herself trying to push him to go out and interact with people more. then we have navia who straight up says that neuvillette has such a black and white view of the world, that he cares more about following the letter of the law than anything else. it's no wonder his lens of fontaine is through whatever crosses his desk. that he overlooks so much since this man just does not read between the lines.

but with the conclusion of his sq and fontaine aq, i have a small hope that moving forward he takes this opportunity to make fontaine better. he has people at his side who have experienced the ugly parts of fontaine and i truly hope that he sets up a system in which said people are given more power and influence to set up the change that fontaine needs, basically for neuvillete to stop being the one man gonverment that he's become and for that power to be spread a little more and for him to step away from tasks that shouldn't require his personal attention and allow him to focus on actively ruling.

quite frankly i really don't think he should remain as the chief justice as that's such a time consuming role for someone who is supposed to be ruling a nation. or at least he shouldn't be presiding over too many trials unless they're very super critical and necessary for his attention.

#❛ㅤ⚜ㅤㅤㅤ✦ㅤ:ㅤwords surge and releaseㅤㅤ◟ㅤstudyㅤ◝ #i've been talking about this for the past few days already #and i see people elsewhere discussing on really who bears the burden of the state of fontaine #and quite frankly as much as i love both characters i say both furina and neuvillete are both to blame #but were both put in really shit situations #and it also comes down to your interpretations of how much autonomy you view furina as having as i know some see her as someone young froze #in time while others view her as a full adult #while neuvillette is just so... LOST about what it means to be human and to razor focused on what's right in front of him #that he's so oblivious to what's going on #he didn't even sign up to rule it was just shoved into his direction SJELFJSLKFJKLSF #tldr fontaine is p much the exact reason why you don't put people in charge just based on some divine right LMAO #navia for real hydro archon