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batsplat · 3 days

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It's a thing I already knew but all your beautiful analysis really made obvious (to me) how much of a grudge holder vale is. That man is never letting it go he's gonna hold his grudges into his grave

you know, I do think this is an interesting issue, because I'm not sure this is true of all his grudges. just sticking here with the grudges he accumulated in his capacity as a competitor, rather than just his general approach to life or whatever... how you judge this will kinda depend on how you feel about the 'reconciliation' he's experienced with some of his rivals - and whether you read the whole thing as sincere or not. now, personally I reckon he still dislikes biaggi, but also you are allowed to just dislike people so I'll give him a pass for that. some of the others, I'm a little more convinced by the whole reconciliation schtick

let's get valentino's take:

interesting that he mentions those three together, isn't it? and like, he's still not messaging biaggi or inviting him to his home - "even with max" kind of tells you all you need to know - but the other two? they said some proper nasty things to each other over the years!! I mean, the casey rivalry, there's some remarks from both sides where quite frankly I think I would struggle just a touch to get over it

I don't know, obviously this could all be pr stuff, but I kind of feel like... y'know, why bother? it's 2022, you're retired, who gives a fuck? sure it's a good look to be all magnanimous, sure it can be a bit of a way of twisting in the knife to the guys left in the cold, but also, who would care if you don't play nice? I think especially with jorge, you surely don't need to do all that, inviting him to your home and dancing with him... (which, again, some of the spats those two had...) and with the casey rivalry, if there's one guy who's still hung up about what happened between the pair of them, it's obviously casey (speaking of blokes who can hold a grudge). maybe this is giving valentino too much credit, but personally I buy it's more or less sincere. there's nothing to really indicate he's still particularly bothered by any of their past disagreements - he's basically going for the 'all's fair in love and motorcycle racing' approach. he knows he was an asshole, he accepts they were assholes too, whatever, that's how these things work. he's generally a fan of drama in rivalries, unsurprisingly, and he was happy enough to contribute his fair share - but he does see it as fundamentally being part of the game

to point out the obvious, check out who he's left out: sete and marc. that's where he can't let go of the grudges... because it's not about the offence itself as much as it is about the betrayal. this is the thing with valentino, right, it's about what kind of bond you had with him. if you weren't his friend in the first place and then piss him off as a rival then, y'know, whatever. obviously he's going to be vicious in trying to get back at you, but also he's really not going to waste his time feeling too aggrieved by it. I mean, think about how all the bullshit between him and casey dropped off sharply post-2012... from valentino's end anyway. think about how jorge and valentino pretty quickly got on again whenever they weren't fighting for supremacy within yamaha. they weren't friends in the first place, then they were enemies for competitive reasons for a while there, then it's over and valentino is basically happy enough to call it bygones

but... if it's a certain kind of bond you had with him and then you wrong him... that little mental list of all his past grievances, all your past transgressions, that's where it comes in. that's where he ices you out. denies you any emotional warmth. ensures that any interaction going forward is conducted entirely on his terms. where even any public 'reconciliation' won't truly be sincere.... or, certainly he's not going to forget what happened. if something else happens... it's like you've always got the potential of triggering this lingering resentment, in a way, where all that past stuff is still primed and ready to be called upon. he certainly doesn't just let it go

or, as he puts it in his autobiography:

Biaggi and I never talk to each other. I mean, we've never had a real conversation, anything that's lasted more than the requisite time to insult each other or put each other down, in the nastiest way possible. In any case, I don't hate him. It's true, we've never been friends, but hatred is something different, and that's too serious a word to describe our relationship. Far too serious. No, we have a reciprocal antipathy. No doubt this is a result of what we do for a living and the fact that we both want to win every single time. And perhaps it's also a function of the fact that we have very different personalities and very different ways of seeing things. Still, I don't think this means we hate each other, as some journalists have written. I think I could feel hatred for someone, but only for someone far worse than anything Biaggi has done. For example, if I were betrayed by a friend, then, yes, I could hate him. But Biaggi will never betray my friendship for the simple reason that we are not, and never have been, friends. Our relationship is very clear: we compete on the track - outside the track, each goes his own way. You could say we detest each other cordially.

... I mean. he said it, not me. and given this book was first published in '05... biaggi can't betray his friendship because they were never friends... I'm not saying he's thinking about sete, but it has to at least be a possibility, right? he's talking about one rivalry here and refusing to even mention the other... and the one he's refusing to mention is the one where he was friends with the other bloke. I don't know, maybe that's reading too much into it! and anyway, even if this passage wasn't really about sete, it's obviously still revealing. "detest each other cordially" is essentially what he was doing with casey and jorge (or from his point of view in any case, not entirely sure they'd agree with that). the grudge comes when he feels let down by you... and then, yes, he'll never let it go

of course, he's willing to set aside his grievances for a while if there's sufficient motivation for him to do so. in 2009, when he had so definitively won that rivalry with sete, why bother kicking up a fuss? in 2016, quite frankly it was just too much, and it was getting to the point where it was obviously hurting him too. on the one hand there was the media furore that had been going on non-stop since sepang, on the other hand it was also hurting his own approach to racing. there's reports from the time how visibly aggrieved he still was in the first few races of the season, and it took until they got back to europe for him to... y'know, have fun again. it's not sustainable to be walking around with a constant dark cloud over your head and broadcasting burning resentment towards your two main rivals. certainly not for someone like valentino - he needs to be having fun! the slight rapprochement needed to happen, in a way, because otherwise those years would have been even worse for everyone involved. but that doesn't actually translate to forgetting any of those grudges. this is about convenience more than anything else

goes to show, really... most of the time he doesn't take these things personally. I talked about it a bit in this post, how maybe it's also something that changed over time for him: the question of whether he was willing to develop these kinds of bonds in the first place with competitors... because he does possess a certain level of self-awareness in terms of what these kinds of rivalries are like and what they do to interpersonal relationships. ideally, you don't want to be hurt by a friend like that, right? better not to have that kind of emotional attachment with your competitors in the first place. how unfortunate it'd be if all those years after sete the circumstances aligned for him to see a competitor as something like a friend again... because, after all, those are the only people who could betray him. those are the only people where he thinks he could truly hate them

#this response kinda got away from me a little bit but I wrestled it to a stop before it really went on a tangent #we were this close to a sepang 2016 sidebar #anyway listen I restricted this to how he conducts himself *in competition* for a reason so y'know. I do think it's a difference #ugh this is tied very closely to another post in my drafts that ideally I'd link to but one of these has to be posted first so #anitalianfrie #valentino rossi #rosquez #kinda maybe #//#4693 #sg15 #i do frequently think about casey messaging valentino about his daughter btw....... kills me a little #but also again when I get to the casey thesis this is like a big pillar of it - this slight disconnect within casey #he was still slagging off valentino the rider on a 4hr podcast like a year after he's sending him a bunch of messages about his daughter #he's still slagging off valentino THIS YEAR. they're very funny to me. I can buy valentino can separate these things out #but casey? very interesting of him #I think it's actually kinda notable how little valentino has relitigated past grievances post retirement when compared to his rivals #With One Notable Exception. I do feel like at a certain point of fame and success you should try and be above this kind of thing #but I mean there is a universe where valentino is calling casey weak for laguna or whatever in 2024

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gophergal · 11 months

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Life on the farm

#gopher art #mortal kombat #subscorp #mk subzero #mk scorpion #kuai liang #hanzo hasashi #mortal kombat legends #been holding onto this one for a bit! finished it more than a month ago lol #i was originally going to save it for subscorp week but then i was like. nah. that wouldnt be entirely fair lol #and besides. ive been wanting to share it for long enough and my resolve has kinda worn down #anyway - snowblind but AU'd! heres my concept of this (which i may use later on for something idk): king kano got his shit wrecked #like way before the events of the movie. by the revenants in fact. i want him torn to shreds. you still have random roving assholes #making trouble across the wastes. but its much less dire. kuai still retires to his farm. kenshi still falls for shang tsung's bullshit #and kuai mentors him. hanzo becomes warlord of netherrealm. BUT. he and kuai keep in contact. its long distance and they make it work #sometimes scorpion vacays to Kuai's farm. as a treat. thats what this drawing is #i cant deny that i literally just want them to be happy ok. thats literally all i want for these gay old ninjas #bonus commentary: at the time of drawing this i was still figuring out how i wanted to draw hanzo. he's so fucking hard to draw #when i draw him without his mask or beard he looks so fucking off. but if i draw him with the beard it feels weird too.#babygirl why are you so hard to draw?? dont you want me to draw you?????

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moe-broey · 6 months

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Not your favorite! Not even your least favorite!

Like that could have been avoided. That should have been avoided. It's so easy to avoid that. And Yet

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #salmon run #i WAS gonna disqualify flyfish bc i thought there was a 10 option limit.#and also flyfish are like. the most boss salmonid to die to. it can be frustrating but there's no shame in it #alas!! i have MORE than ten options!!!!! also not including special wave salmonids (eg goldie)#WHICH i don't think i've died to but. well maybe i have??? but still. it has a funny factor to it #but functionally it's just a chum.#also i DO know the air coolers from mothership CAN kill you LMFAO #anyways my answer is flipper-flopper. LIKE. BEYOND ANY BULLSHIT #(jet packing and then landing RIGHT into flipper-flopper danger area after special 😭😭😭)#like. if you die to flipper-flopper. 9 times out of 10 that is entirely on you.#a close second is steel eels those guys are like. deceptive. you THINK they're no big deal. you think they're easy enough.#but somehow idk if it's just me and my skill issue but i keep dying to them. i get steel eel jumpscared #or i get overwhelmed while trying to run. or there's like three of them swarming the basket. OR #AND THIS IS THE WORST ONE. when it just bumps into you and you get LAUNCHED into the fucking water 😭😭😭#now THAT'S embarrassing!!!!!!! 🧍

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justablah56 · 10 months

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recently drew a new pfp for my aro sideblog and I'm deciding to post it on here bcs I can <3

anyways Aether self portrait bcs why not 👍

#my art #casually gives myself pointy teef bcs im silly like that #idk what else i should tag this as lmao #usually i just post fandom shit and therefore have 20 bajillion other tags to add after my silly goofy tag commentary #anyways #if i bullshit my way through enough tags my brain will say its okay #also kinda interesting seeing like . how i draw myself vs how i actually look .#i often make myself fatter or ill exaggerate the color in my hair or add more piercing than i actually have #and i make my hair more poofy but ill die before i stop drawing my hair big #i dont care if my hair irl is flatter than peter nureyevs ass my online avatar WILL have big hair <3 whos gonna stop me <3 #anyways this drawing is a lot closer to how i look than i usually draw myself #idk sbndjsm #undescribed

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iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast · 11 months

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and thus ends tonight's blacklist shitposting

#incredibly vague the blacklist spoilers tag #at least i think that's the end of it #the absurdity of it keeps creeping up on me #honestly? the absurdity helps #because like... it's over #nothing mattered #nothing was answered really #i can live with that #more room for me #honestly that's all i wanted from the show after S8 just let me have my fic #and i got that so... i'm good? better than i've been about it in years?#is it absurd enough i could rewatch without getting bitter? dunno yet. maybe #9 and 10 are even more bullshit than the rest of the bullshit and it ended with BULLSHIT literal fucking bullshit what the fuck #not that i take anything after JB and MB left as having any real canon merit anyway but #it helps

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no-lo-lo · 2 months

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Got a new phone, so I'll be back on my bullshit.

Which means not much will change tbh...

#newish #new to me anyway #its kind if adorable #my old phone kinda got used to how much i cussed #one time it autocorrected duck to fuck #because it was more accustomed to the latter than the former #this one tried to change bullshit to bulldog #which is adorable and optimistic of it #it'll learn soon enough

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mothocean · 5 months

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Didyou guys know that. Raphaella la cognizi

#im not even going to talk abt the kind of thoughts i have abt her im fucking embarrassing #you've seen my category 5 lesbian moments. that's like the tip of the iceberg #rachel l hughes if you ever see anything i say abt your character im so sorry i promise i can be normal abt her <- lying #btw im this abnormal abt nastya and odin too. also ivy but slightly less #and dr carmilla... i need to get into the dr carmilla stuff more i feel like I'll really like her #but i just don't know enough abt her rn #also not a woman but. ashes <3333333 #anyway where were we oh yeah. raph jhnrjbrhvrgjvmgjhgjffjffgf #raph vivisect me please. raph let me help you vivisect someone else. raph let me vivisect you. raphhhhhhh #lets be lab partners. in more ways than one #I'll learn engineering just to fix your wings when they get broken. im sorry what did i say again #not main tagging this y'all are NOT seeing my gayass bullshit. everyone pretend you haven't seen this post #ok not really but i really gotta stop myself here or I'll get even more embarrassing #i will Say More if prompted tho #roseflower.txt

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leviiackrman · 1 year

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I’m making this very clear right now:

If you think AI stealing real artists artwork is excusable, unfollow me this instant. AI Generated Images is theft.

#personal*#jess talks #if you think it’s okay to steal the hard work of someone practiced and skilled enough to creat it themselves #then you can get fucked and unfollow me #I don’t want anyone with that mentality around my blog #I’ve just seen a bunch of people on insta flood the comments of some of my fave artists saying they’re in the wrong from being against AI #yeh we fuckin know it’s not going anywhere and that’s a problem in of itself because it’ll eventually replace more creative jobs #AI generators harvest artworks from websites MADE MY REAL ARTISTS to create an emotionless/cold varient based off of key words #it’s absurd and fucked up #and don’t start with the copyright bullshit #fundamentally if an AI is going to use other real artists work as its base - then it needs to ASK PERMISSION and compensate #artwork belongs to the artist. period.#my dream job is to be concept artist #at this fucking rate a computer will have the job before I ever get the chance to apply #companies are already firing artists in place of using AI because it’s ‘faster and less expensive’#congratulations you just openly admitted you’d rather fast mass produce content and products than pay a talented employ to create something #that’s original and potentially groundbreaking #like legit get fucked #anyway rant over #I’ll be reblogging this

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aeide-thea · 2 years

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the thing about 9/11 is that it got used post facto to justify all sorts of hideous jingoistic shit but also it was a genuine devastating human tragedy and i really pretty deeply resent people's deciding that the—absolutely gross, don't get me wrong—way it's been culturally positioned justifies their making jokes about the event itself.

#like. my mother worked basically next door and watched people fall to horrific deaths and had to make her way home thru the horror #and was quite frankly never the same again #and like. the idea that people can look at that and dehumanize all those who died enough to be comfortable making jokes—#i personally think is deeply fucked up and not in fact any kind of ~social justice~#like roll yr eyes at the overblown commemorative pomp and circumstance all you want but like. real people died absolutely horrific deaths #and being flippant about it—sucks‚ actually‚ even if they WERE ~complacent americans who supported capitalism~ or whatever #(not to mention like. it was a really wide slice of humanity actually. but god forbid we consider the actual people as people)#anyway i deeply resent that i feel the need to make this post at all #bc quite frankly i would be more than glad to let the event fade out of active memory and think that's probably the best way to move forward #but unfortunately fucking br*nd*nicus is apparently out here making posts abt how the ~anniversary is worthy of derision~#and it's like. what if we just. let it go without either the weird performative jingoistic bullshit OR being fucking dicks.#anyway whatever i guess i'm not like. appropriately leftist or something #but personally i don't think real people's horrifying deaths are cool to make cracks about. sorry if that makes me a conservative buzzkill.#like i get that it was different outside of new york or washington but like. some of us were IN new york actually.#and yeah to be clear people in the middle east subsequently died similarly horrific deaths because of the way 9/11 got leveraged #and we ought to respect and remember those too #doing THAT on 9/11 would imo be a lot more meaningful than sneering at dead americans but also it would actually take work and sincerity #neither of which most tumblr users are up for

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starswallowingsea · 8 months

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looking at the notes of that last poll was a mistake

#shay speaks #something something the concept of race is actually incredibly useless in these types of contexts because its way more complicated #than people would like to believe it is. and its going to be different depending on a lot of factors #including where someone lives and what types of prejudices are expressed there #ie someone can look white (like the saami people of northern europe) to an american but be treated as not white by the people in their hom #e countries.#also biological race isnt a thing and the perpetuation of it as a concept within medical and political spheres is actively perpetuating #racism and the enforcement of social race and to dismantle the race concept we still have a long way to go #anyway i think race as a concept is fucking bullshit so i wouldnt vote in that poll anyway (i didnt lmao bc its complicated)#is it something that affects people? absolutely racism is real and a systemic problem that is built on the race concept #and in order to get to the root of the problem we have to essentially eliminate that concept of race in the first place which is. a long lo #g way off and probably wont happen in our lifetimes but we can work towards that end goal #<- all of this is not even close to my entire thoughts on this but you cannot just say its an easy yes or no question #bc while i am white enough people wont think much of me until i mention being indigenous #and then the treatment entirely flips because now people have a whole bunch of other thoughts on my appearance

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lesenbyan · 10 months

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I was in the shower earlier listening to angel with a shotgun and realized suddenly that yet another character relationship I've developed was me trying to process yet another Major Change before it really hit and this time it's Chlode and Roelle and the fact that high support needs disability doesn't mean people won't fight for you

#personal;#+ the fact that people who love you CAN be willing and able to put that out the door to help you heal #even if you might hate them after #i was doing that shit from ages 13-20 at least and would get so annoyed at 'people can't be good therapists and love you bc #love gets in the way' or w/e bullshit #ultimately i've stopped doing that for others bc 1) exhausted and 2) if no one's providing me with the same i can't sustain #and i don't communicate well enough to ask for help bc i don't realize i need it #BUT this is about the fact that Chlode /wants/ to be an addict. wants to run away. hates using his cane #but he dragged home and he stays. and Roelle fights him out of the bar. fights him at his house and in the street #fights him until he fights himself and until there's chemistry #bc sometimes you love someone because you fought for them and sometimes they love you bc you fought them #sometimes beauty is knowing someone will call you a fucking idiot to your face even when youre known for a temper #and sometimes that changes a large portion of how you expect your life to turn out and you end up marrying a woman #who takes your other lovers' last name #in fantasy catholic land #as you do #anyway #i love Chlodebaimt more than XIV does and they don't get him back

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snekdood · 1 year

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Idk why i expect charitability from ppl who probably listen to whatever their staple favorite left-leaning video essayists says about the Other Leftists they dont like and takes it to heart and doesnt form their own opinion with the information provided (or the information specifically and intentionally left out to make the person look the worst that they can) just kinda does whatever that persons says because Its Probably Correct

I mean, theyre "on the left" and uses all the words you like, nevermind what their intentions or long terms goals are or how thatd reasonably be practiced irl or if it'd actually hurt the general cause of progressives and make things even more divisive and worse bc they value being petty more than actually having any values.

#yall be like 'i better go watch this black person who believes in racial separatism and take everything they say to heart and not form my #own opinion because the Correct Thing To Do is to let every minority im not say shit that would only help nazis in the long run Because Im #Not That Minority So Clearly I Have No Stake In This'. like idk. its one thing to pretend you understand every thing about a certain #minorities experience that you dont have. its a whole other thing to actually challenge people on their beliefs. and if the person you #are challenging cant give you a good enough answer or dodges or gets MAD at you for even asking - you should probably avoid them or at the #very least not just believe every fucking thing they say and never come to your own conclusions on shit.#people are supposed to have the critical thinking ability to have their beliefs challenged and give you an actual answer #theyre supposed to want you to understand. theyre supposed ro be able to explain it to people who dont understand #and arent in the same spaces enough to understand. if you cant explain to me why racial separatism is somehow Ideal then why should #i listen to you. just to do whatever you say no questions asked or else im bad and very problematic?#like how am i supposed to take this kinda person seriously when they go around calling shark3ozero the c word and other #racist shit. like you're not serious lol. you have no issue just acting like the people who disagree with you on something are just purely #bigots.#when the people you attack are far more on your side than the fucking republicans who yall barely even mention. which is interesting.#anyways if you believe in dividing everyone by race understand that thats LITERALLY what white supremacists want. that is Not the ideal #world for me. idk about you. and if you understand this and still follow me gtfo of here #you're a dipshit and prolly an accelerationist and i dont have time for your bullshit and likely nihilism.#you're gonna end up killing yourself thinking the world is only ever against you and everyone who disagrees w you is a bigot.#and i dont mean necessarily actually putting up a noose i just mean you're gonna isolate yourself SO MUCH from other ppl and stay only in #your one little space. that if you ever lose that space for whatever reason you'll be left alone w no help.#or you'll isolate yourself so much and stay inside forever and be hella paranoid in grocery stores thinkin everyone there Wants To Kill You #and im not gonna act like ik whats in the mind of someone who believes in racial separatism. that was more of an example. but i can try #to understand and i can tell that someone has to go through a lot of bs to think thats the only solution. im not trying to downplay why ppl #might think thats the best option. but really its the same shit w terfs and cis men and it kinda seems like its a solution born from trauma #with convoluted justifications for why its Fine actually #thats how it looks from my angle rn. if thats not the case and you feel like its different im always willing to hear different angles on #stuff. im never married to my positions as im not exactly a static person who never changes.#id say thats quite the opposite of my Whole Thing

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basically-i-write-shit · 2 years

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Being a 9-1-1 fox fan and a teacher is so interesting and fun bc we took our preschoolers to the local fire station today and one of my only thoughts was about the 118 going offline for a bit just to give local schools and daycares tours. Special interest brain rot.