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learning to draw f1 drivers feat. brocedes

alt title: Alexa play rewind

stills under the break —>

This is my plea to all LH writers:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE indulge us and give us the gift of mob boss Lewis fics and smut

i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.

inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.

both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.

Williams Racing prematurely promoted Logan Sargeant to Formula 1 because they wanted Nicholas Latifi gone.

Now Williams Racing is prematurely promoting Franco Colapinto to Formula 1 because they wanted Logan Sargeant gone.

The days of Williams being able to paint the team as one big happy family are long gone. It’s a toxic cycle of failing their own academy drivers … especially since Franco will only have the opportunity to drive 9 races for the team and then both of their full-time seat will be filled until 2026 at earliest.

Maybe it’s just easy for me to say this because I’m sitting on my couch and not in the paddock, but the mismanagement of the team lately has been astonishing.

LEWIS HAMILTON BREAKS THE F1 PODIUM RECORD OF 197 PODIUMS PREVIOUSLY SET BY LEWIS HAMILTON TO BRING HOME HIS 198TH PODIUM OF HIS CAREER!!

Lewis Hamilton, Australia 2025

logan fans we are free!!!! we don't have to support this fuckass team anymore!!!!!!

James vowles I will see you in hell and not a second sooner! 😘

What Shane said

Jajajaja

saw your Diluc thoughts and his shady organization and huge network and here's some thoughts bc Diluc 💖💖💖

honestly if you think about it, is it really just tragic parent death + brother betrayal that caused him to be so... closed off and determined? like it makes you wonder how much more did he witness/experience in his travel to turn him into what he is now.

friendly reminder that this was a daddy's boy, raised in a noble household. Pure, sappy, diligent Diluc who wanted to be a knight for his father and for Mondstadt! But in one of his first game appearances, we see that he's perfectly capable of torture interrogation and other shady things.

How fast did things go downhill for him in the past 4 years? what else did he experience and what else did he had to resort on doing for his personality to change into that? (Ive been reading a lot of corruption plots where iconic heros turn dark lately and it shows 😩 but fr, there's a lot and personalities can't change that quick)

bonus but how did Kaeya feel witnessing this immediate change? Sure they fought before he left but remember, to Kaeya, his brother was still this very image of an idealistic son wearing white. All of a sudden he comes back and he's nothing like he was before (on the surface).

I mean ya, there were a lot of things that piled on top of each other to cause Diluc to leave and to shift / alter his entire personality -- spoilers under the cut

traumatic event that happened days between one another: 

Event 1: the death of his father by his own hands (diluc killed his own father) 

Event 2: finding out Kaeya was sent as a 1. spy or 2. destroy Mondstadt 

Event 3: Eroch, Knight of Favonious Inspector, telling Diluc to cover up Crepus’s death so the knights weren’t seen as failures because (A. they didn’t kill the dragon, and B. it was killed by Diluc’s father who sacrificed his life to save the city and his son from dying but who was never a knight, was never given that right, and was shunned by them) 

After those all happened within days of his birthday, he basically learned that nothing mattered and went off on a suicide mission to find the answers himself, torture means nothing when you literally don’t care about life anymore - which brought him to the mysterious organization that’s not really mentioned much in his story 

when he returns he isn’t like himself, even in the Manga (which seems to take place directly before the appearance of the traveler so - 3/4 years after his 18th birthday (Varka is gone, Jean is the headmaster)) - Diluc hasn’t given up his secretive, underground ways of dealing with things and not only straight up murders people but is seen to carry the delusion his father once used (it’s speculated he fusses with his left glove because of the weight of the delusion he once wore - (edit: he left it behind!) when the game starts he no longer carries it but I’m sure it’s still around if he needs it) 

We only know a little bit about his behaviors before from flashbacks, but other than him being generally happier, he still has a lot of the same characteristics

Diligent: he learned how to wield a bunch of weapons and can also fight openly and in secret like an assassin (look at baby boy in the manga T.T)

Capable: business oriented, fighting oriented, communication oriented (he grew up as a noble yes, so he has a lot of skill talking to people and dealing with things), can talk himself out of a situation or just kill them - either or 

Dedicated: he became the youngest Calvary captain and also shot up in the ranks of the organization who rescued him, runs a global wide wine industry 

Considers / Compassionate: cares deeply for Kaeya even still, considered him family, will help the traveler without questioning it, fights for a city he still loves because his father loved it so much

sensitive: he worries about people not liking him (Klee, Diona, even Kaeya in some way), just listen to his line about Diona and learning she just doesn’t like alcohol that it’s not him she dislikes -- he’s so relieved and shocked

impatient: boy gots himself into trouble time and time again, fight me

His personality didn’t change, the characteristics of each one adapted to what he needed them to be at the time -- Diluc might not be the happy, inspired boy he ways but it’s mainly because he’s traumatized and doesn’t trust people anymore -- he’s still Diluc deep down and I think Kaeya sees that when he looks at him. 

I have a lot of thoughts that I outlined in my character analysis - but he didn’t change over night, he had a traumatic tri-fecta happen to him in the span of a few days, went out on a murder spree of Fatui, almost died, joined an organization that shared his insight on the Fatui (like minds and all) and learned more from them and then just --- came home (this is where we don’t have a lot of reasons why he came home but his post in Mondstadt on Cat’s Tail is very telling that he learned being reckless and holding onto hate was not the way to live his life anymore) 

hardships wear on everyone and while he doesn’t show it on the surface you’ll find his pain all over his skin and inside the heart no one can get in -- he is very guarded and does things on his own -- after everything he’s went through, I am impressed he came back at all