#along the racing line

[alongtheracingline]

Formula 1 is expected to hit new heights in 2023, with more fans than ever excitedly looking forward to attending races in person. However, longtime loyalists and neophytes alike are encountering large sticker prices. ATRL’s Trina Sriram analyzes the financial motives of Formula 1 and posits the question: how far is too far?

#along the racing line #article #motorsports #motorsport #racing #f1 #formula 1 #miamigp #miami grand prix #vegas gp 2023 #las vegas gp 2023

[georgeousrussell]

I really like the article you wrote about the Vips situation and the focus on the need for some form of diversity education for the drivers. I’ve seen a lot of posts about making an example of Vips but very little about actually addressing why this has happened. This seems like a much bigger issue than just Vips or Redbull, especially with the rumours going around about the language used by other young drivers.

Aw thank you anon!! I really appreciate you reaching out on this and I’m grateful you see it too!

It’s easy to get mad and call for heads to roll when these things happen - and trust me as a POC I was FURIOUS - but when you really look at these sort of industries (it’s the exact same in hockey at least) it’s sometimes just a lack of education, especially when they’re that young. Sure make an example of Juri all you want but you’re not getting at the root cause: the fact these kids are pulled out of school at a young age and put in an echo chamber of rich white men telling them how they should be and what they should believe. If you want them to learn, actually teach them what they’re doing wrong. If they still don’t want to listen? Then yeah, they’ll get the boot deservedly so. But don’t teach them a lesson without ACTUALLY teaching them why. Vips should have known better and does deserve some form of punishment - but establishing a DEI education program and mandatory sensitivity trainings are a step towards ensuring this doesn’t happen again.

If you missed my article on why this is a critical time for action (and not reaction), read it now here:

#ask and you shall receive #along the racing line #naina writes articles #juri vips

[ganymedesclock]

To explain The Goblin Problem and not go on a tag rant on someone else's reblog, I will explain it in the nutshell.

The Goblin Problem is when a story establishes a group of creatures to serve as recurrent antagonists (not necessarily all one species; in a lot of rpg games this can broadly apply to "monsters") THAT:

Are never negotiable, or the negotiable parties among them are Token Heroic Orcs- that is to say, they are seen as objectors or 'good' versions who have absolutely no connections to, and hold no objections toward you attacking, the rest of their brethren, who they have forsaken as the price to be paid for being good.

Have obvious unique technology; they may attack you with weapons found nowhere else in the game, demonstrate the ability to speak, have their own obvious language, tame a creature that nobody else tames so that it's thus impossible that they are stealing already-tamed specimens from someone else

Are characterized primarily or exclusively as raiders who attack others, with the justification this means they are inferior creatures parasitically dependent on Good, Civilized Settings, e.g. they cannot possibly be sustainably hunting, gathering, or practicing either nomadic or settled agriculture.

Are often defined as having no choice to be evil or are created by a greater evil to serve as thralls, and yet, will not under any circumstances be regarded as indoctrinated victims, or if that is mentioned, there will nonetheless be an overarching lack of narrative concern as to where or how the survivors should live after the greater evil is taken care of, or if effort should be made to challenge the indoctrination and give them the ability to choose their lives.

What this ultimately creates is that they are unambiguously people, who obviously check all the marks of sapience, who are quite possibly wearing clothes, but the goblin or orc exists as a stopgap. You want your fantasy hero to get into a swordfight but you don't want him to kill another human being. So you invent something that wields a sword but is in some way "not a person", which is senseless. Unless you want the nature of this swordfight to be that a chimpanzee picked up a knife, at which point they are not going to use reliable sword techniques.

#writing ruminations #the goblin problem #way too many fantasy stories take basically racist myths and then go 'well but it's different if this is Literally True' #'and applies to a species I made up that's also ugly by white western able-bodied standards' #and the underpinning motivation is you need a conflict token to move against your protagonists #and you don't want to suggest they're butchering animals- even scary ones- or hurting People #so you invent fake-animal-people whose job is only to be mean and have no apparent role in an ecosystem #and it's. I don't know how to tell you that's bad chief #even in a black-and-white good guys vs. bad guys clean cut narrative you should REALLY not split morality along race or species lines #hell in an extremely straightforward good vs. evil narrative you kinda gotta think about that MORE

[ghostwnby]

Please please please PLEASE tell me someone has a Maxiel fic recommendation that gives the same vibe as 'Nothing Matters' by The Last Dinner Party

#PLEASE TELL ME IM NOT THE ONLY WHO GETS MAXIEL VIBES FROM THAT SONG #i need Maxiel angst #like rn #i want both of them going through the 5 stages of grief while hooking up #something along those lines #please im desperate 😔😔 #maxiel #max verstappen #daniel ricciardo #red bull racing #red bull f1 #formula 1 #mv1 #mv33 #dr3 #visa cashapp racing bulls

[artificial-horizon]

Being visibly mixed race/racially ambiguous and visibly trans/GNC is being inherently confusing and unreadable to white cis people. Like, they can tell you're sure as hell not a white man or woman but they can't decipher you beyond that; they don't know how what to do with you because they can't put you in any category.

You are both masculine and feminine, but not enough of either to fulfil the white criteria for manhood or womanhood, and regardless, brown people are gendered differently to white people anyway. You could tick off almost all the criteria for "male" features (such as, and notably, body hair) and still be read as a cis woman, because the level of masculinity white people accept in brown (perceived) women is higher than what they accept in white (perceived) women, because brownness itself is masculine to them. (Though it can be feminine and androgynous at the same time, too. Again, POC are gendered differently than white people.)

They have these set ideas of how they're meant to relate to people, set ways that they treat, let's say, white women, Black men, East Asian women, Middle Eastern men - but they can't even tell what you are, so how are they meant to treat you? How are they meant to relate to you?

I don't doubt at all that this is why I've always been ignored in public, even before transitioning; never treated as a fellow person to connect with, but an anomaly that happens to occupy the same spaces. I scare them by defying categorization, so it's better not to engage and risk upsetting their preconceived notions of gender and race. Alternatively, they will just be bigots instead, though I can tell that's hard for them too as they aren't quite sure what specific flavour of bigotry to throw at me.

[cw for following paragraph: non-graphic description of an incident of racist and transphobic harassment]

I always think back to this one time, having recently come out, when I was harassed by a white man on the bus. Seeing me in all my gender ambiguity and reading me as Black, he expressed his disgust at us Black people, at how "you can never fucking tell whether they're girls or boys". Honestly, in all my interactions with white cis people from then on, I never stopped feeling the echoes of his words.

#im venting so apologies if this is worded badly and/or some of it isnt good analysis #i have many thoughts but i'm really struggling to put them into words #also @ the last paragraph i am a mixed black person hence saying us jic that needed to be said #me writing things #racism #transphobia #mixed race #biracial #multiracial #brown and trans #trans poc #idk any tags that are about the intersection of gender and race or transness and race #also is there a term for that type of oppression anyway? #like if not there definitely should be cos POC are oppressed along gender lines in white supremacist society #and its not necessarily transphobia or homophobia or misogyny #its specifically the oppression that comes from not meeting gender standards because they are inherently based on whiteness

[timothylawrence]

also i know another nonwhite user got hate for this on this website for pointing it out but. the tiefling refugee crisis in act three was in fact very uncomfy to sit there and hear as an immigrant lmao . like obviously its for plot purposes but whew. hearing all the hate, fictional or not, made me squirm a bit.

#ewbie.txt #turning off rbs cus i saw what happened to the last person who said something abt this game along these lines lmao #but yeah. it was... uncomfy to say the least and ive heard abt every single one of those lines irl lmao #i literally raced through rivington because i couldnt stand all the dialogue happening between the refugees and the ppl lmao #it just got so much more apparent so suddenly idk #muslim refugee/immigrant from west asia in america... yeah. ive heard it all lmao #to delete #bg3 spoilers

[lucimiir]

I see your Sean teaches Puck about catching cappail uisce and Thisby magic post canon fics and raise you Puck introduces Sean to the social dynamics and communities on Thisby he’s never gotten to be a part of

#land vs sea etc etc #something something that part where sean says that puck is a window to a part of thisby he’s never understood #or something along those lines #the scorpio races #sean kendrick #puck connolly #kate connolly #the kendricks #maggie stiefvater

[chucktaylorupset]

i understand the reticence to use the term culturally christian but for me it’s really useful to have a concept to explain how, despite being an atheist, raised by atheists, who has never read the bible or gone to a single church service, i still got tainted with the idea that people can be placed in a binary moral category and that sex outside of marriage is inherently damaging

#my post #atheist #atheism #cultural christianity #its like implicit bias #like i live in a white patriarchal culture so that affects my views on the construction of morality race and gender #religion exists along those same lines

[pixeldotgamer]

I've posted photos of how chaotic my illustration brainstorm pgs are but heres an artistic recreation of what my project notebooks end up looking like

#random rambles #this brainworm project is a horror podcast #im gonna be formalizing all the prpject notes into obsidian soon me thinks #i got a few game concepts tumbling about #along with some comics/zines and now this podcast #so i need to line all my ducks (projects) up and decide which one to shoot (develop full time) #i kinda bounce between things as my ideas and motive flow #but i wanna finish some stuff soon so im prob gonna focus in on a smaller project and go from there #aint no race but i know there are some folks ive talked to my games about who are very 👀 about progress #(if you are one of those ppl ily cause u help me realize my ideas are fun and ppl would wanna actually see them lmao)

[plenilunaris]

To add one more things to the list of ideas I'm entertaining, there is this thought that there might be various degrees of purity for halovians. Besides what's clear to the sight that is how ornamented one's halo is, there is also another factor of what isn't, even among individuals considered to be halovians: the wings behind their ears.

#// ooc. #it'd be neat if it has something to do #with the order of angels #or something along those lines #so far the ones that fit the criteria alone #of having wings behind their ears are S.unday and R.obin #as for the halo I'd argue that S.unday's is the most ornamented one #followed by R.obin's #the rest we've seen look fairly simple #can't wait to learn more about their race tbh #in depth as we did with the V.idyadhara

[russellius]

I feel like people underestimate George’s season so much. I don’t see much appreciation for the megadrive he did in Austria with the car he had bc of that first lap clash, and that is truly not fair. He always seems to try his best and never give up even when he (partially…) fucks up and yet, all I see is people downplay his results or ignore them entirely and only highlight his mistakes. Why? He has so much potential ffs, why can’t anyone see that?

yeah it's a shame that austria flew under the radar so much (and i still think that the penalty he got there was complete bullshit lol but anyway), it was one of the best drives of his season for sure

but i think plenty of people can see george's potential! yeah this year was a massive roller coaster in every possible sense of the word lol (and yes you're always gonna get the trolls, and some of the twitter toxicity etc) but usually he's still considered to be at least the 4th best driver on the grid. and i think most people are aware that he's only going to improve. this was his first year at a top team, which for the first time in years was underperforming (relative to their previous success) AND he's going up against lewis, which is a tough and complicated gig on and off track, for many reasons. and i think he handled the situation as good as he could this year, and people who have a clue about the sport and aren't just spewing unnecessary hate have no problem acknowledging this + his talent, work ethic, potential etc

what i'm incredibly happy about is that he got the win in brazil, because especially after the singapore/suzuka/austin weekends he really needed it + just like the first pole, he finally got it "out of the way". and it's just a great thing that he could go into the winter break like this

#im super excited to see him race next year #if the car will be better (which... it surely will be..... right......??) #i think we are in for a treat with him #i think shov and james have both said that he feels the most comfortable when he is leading #or something along those lines #basically that when he is in the lead. he feels at home #and we saw that in sakhir already too #so yeah. really really looking forward to the gr domination is what im saying #:-) #answered

[alongtheracingline]

British F1 podcast hosts Jake Boys and Fabio Bocca had rapid success in the F1 content creation space, but their recent appearance on Marcus Armstrong’s podcast Screaming Meals made many question their success. ATRL's Kristina Agresta takes a look at their rise and freefall.

#article #motorsports #motorsport #racing #screaming meals #james harvey blair #marcus armstrong #pitstop #pitstop podcast #jake boys #fabio bocca #along the racing line

[mxtxfanatic]

Is there a Chinese equivalent to “hillbillies” or was this just a... translation choice?

#human reads tgcf: take 1.5 #cause 'hillbillies' are a very specific term for a very specific context #and that context is very American (and very derogatory along race and class lines) #again: recalling the 'low-class' ghosts and demons using southern accents

[alecvolturi]

Yo that anon only asking about Egyptian and the Romanian coven because there’s a whole thing going around  🙄 Who can’t write about who 

Hi Anon,

I’m aware of the current drama going around about the writing for the Egyptian and Romanian covens. I answered the way I did as I don’t check my inbox often and wanted to give the anon the benefit of the doubt and assume they had asked before the drama started, not that they were attempting to use me to cause more. I use mobile 99% of the time, and only see asks when I use the notification filter to specifically look for them.

Personally, I’m indifferent to both covens. I don’t particularly care for either, but I also don’t dislike them. I’ll read works for them if I come across them and reblog them if I’m interested in the writing/story, but I don’t really seek them out as they’re not characters that I’m drawn to.

I also believe that people are entitled to their dislike of characters and sometimes that dislike is unexplainable or weird. Sometimes a character in a tv show will wear a jacket I think looks gross/stupid and that makes them dislikable to me (even if they change the jacket). Sometimes a character just has a vibe that may not be particularly meshed with, I get that too. I also understand that people prefer if you’re able to verbalize the dislike of a character as that makes it easier to understand, especially with the racist connotations that Stephanie Meyer has inserted within the Twilight Saga, but I also don’t think being unable to do so automatically makes someone racist.

That’s all I have to say on the subject for now.

#I’m at work so response time is slow #Additionally not wanting to write for a character bc you dislike them/aren’t comfortable isn’t bad either #might speak more about it later but basically I don’t see a dislike of a character as bad unless it’s like they’re *insert race* #and that’s gross and I hate them because of it #or something along those lines #ask #anon #answered #tag talk

[the-skooma-den]

If I continue with the au thats like, tes but its a funny animal world then eventually ill have to confront the fact that broadly all the species are very roughly to scale in those.

Which means no matter how I slice it razum-dar would be one of the tallest characters

#skooma rambles #as of rn im kinda between most of a race being one sorta kind of animal #so breton as various kinds of rats and mice for example #and altmer as wolves and other canines #OR making it so its more along the lines of like #bosmer are all like jungle animals and bretons are all farm animals and nords are more viking associated animals #but idk how well thatll work because theres still the khajiit and argonians to think about and their more the first one #idk whose knows how much ill actually draw its just fun to think about #feel free to give me suggestions #also #razum-dar #razum dar #cause i cant forget this started with my boy #and tall raz feels cursed but funny

[fuckdamn]

gender + race are both constructs that didn’t start existing before they were used to marginalize towards the ends of forced production. race doesn’t precede racism, they’re the same. gender AND discrete binary sex (which aren’t the same as each other) don’t precede misogyny. the difference i think is that racial hegemony (now) wants whiteness to absorb all, where the gendered hegemony wants Male and Female to a. exist, b. be biologically determined, and c. perform their OWN form of labor stratified along forced gender lines. so, a white person appropriating black culture just enforces the same semiotic boundaries between white + black, where whiteness can take whatever it wants. but a “man” isn’t meant to do “woman” things, and a “woman” is presumptuous for doing “man” things. those of us who trans our gender, broadly speaking, are dissolving the semiotic boundaries that have been dictated to us in doing so (fun and cool)

#lotte.txt #granted racial hegemony also wants labor to happen along race lines but. it’s complicated #and i don’t really feel i can speak to the complexity of racialization + racism