"From the moment Ferrari provided him with the machinery to maximise his talent, Leclerc elevated his performances to a level that Sainz simply could not match. Leclerc is a special driver who possesses an innate ability that his current team-mate can’t unlock, no matter the analysis he conducts."
"For the time being, Leclerc’s stellar end-of-season run demonstrated that he resides as Ferrari’s greatest hope for future success and how the team must be built around him."
"Leclerc’s commitment means the sight of him dressed in scarlet red is set to remain for a while yet. Ferrari must reward that unwavering loyalty appropriately in the coming years or the Maranello camp could risk losing its most prized asset to a rival.
For Leclerc, an embodiment of the tifosi’s dreams, returning his childhood team to the pinnacle would represent the ultimate culmination of his racing career. Leclerc has proven he is up to the task of guiding F1’s fallen giant back onto the pedestal, but Ferrari must eradicate the half-measures of previous regimes and implement a worthy supporting cast to assist his ambitions."
Source: Motorsport Week
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I'd like to mention something about places like r/systemscringe, since that one anon mentioned them being anti-LGBTQ in some ways... they can be violently queerphobic. Sometimes more than they're anti-endo.
Like, my blog's pinned post got posted there four months ago or so, and the vast majority of the comments weren't talking about us being endogenic, but about us being trans male and a bi lesbian (including saying we're a trans man instead of trans male and saying stuff like "it's so sad when trans men call themselves lesbians, don't they know it's okay to be straight?", shit like that). Oh, sure, there were a few comments here and there about our plurality ("'collective, not system' I hope [it's (oh yeah, a bunch of the commenters misgendered us even though our pronouns were visible in the screenshot)] not saying that to try and separate [itself] from medical things"), but most of it? Nah.
Like. Yes, they're violently anti-endo, yes they're assimilationist and demand unreasonable conformity, yes they're harmful to all plural folk. And on top of that, they're just as violently queerphobic towards anyone whose identities they don't understand, to the point where a lot of them will focus on the target's queerness instead of what the target was (supposedly) posted there for. They're dangerous towards everyone.
(note: any quotes up there are paraphrased, but only lightly)
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Claude laid there, blood pooling around him, baby oddly silent.
“Hah... Ha...” He laughed, and Temenos recoiled in disgust. The man looked up at him, and something sent chills down his spine.
They had the same eyes, Claude and him. Cold and glittering grey.
“What an honour it is to be in the presence of an official of the Church... Tell me, Inquisitor. Does the hound finally feel guilt for allowing his darling little lamb to wander right into the welcoming arms of the wolves~?”
Temenos froze. He couldn’t move. Faint chains had wrapped around his legs, tying him down.
“We are the same, Temenos. I know what you have done, and I know why you have done it...” Claude rasped, smiling up at him. Temenos wanted to run, to get far, far away from the man who emanated familiarity.
“There was one child I fathered whom I did not mention. Can you, clever boy, guess who it was?”
Temenos wanted to stay silent, to run, to do anything other than engage with this man, but his body did not listen to him. He silently gripped the front of his cassock, and whispered. “Was it me?”
Claude laughed again. “Clever boy! What a fine son you’ve become...”
Temenos trembled. That meant... He was related to Thronè. That was the only positive about this.
He stared at Claude, and his fear and shock turned to pure hatred and rage. Was this how Thronè had felt when fighting Claude? Why hadn’t he died yet?
Was he the one who had to deal the final blow?
He stared at Claude, and gripped the Staff of Judgement.
“Silence, lamb. Your judgement day has come, and I trust the gods shall not be so merciful. Face them and repent.”
He focused all his energy into the Staff, and it began to glow. A bright, dazzling light burst forth, and disintegrated Claude, leaving nothing in its wake- except for a little baby.
He gently touched its forehead, and murmured a prayer. “O gods, protect this youth from the cruelties of man, and shine your effervescent light upon them.”
He drew his fingers away, and turned away, still shaking.
Mind reeling with new knowledge and a new ghost behind him, he set off to rejoin the other travellers.
ooo…. claude going for the low blow right from the start…
anD OH. OH WERE JUST JUMPJNG RIGHT INTO THE TEMENOS AND THRONÉ BEING FAMILY STUFF HUH
glad temy got to land the killing blow on Claude. banished that bitch to the 8th Circle of Galdera
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"you will look for themes and motifs in media that isn't worth the effort" i will look for themes and motifs in the dirt. on the ground.
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