#do I tag this anti max

[slythereen]

ferrari posting about maxplaining and leclerifying on main? we are one standard deviation away from lestappen sticker war involvement

#I’m going to keep being delulu about this one specific pr angle #it’s tangible. It’s possible. it’s not as crazy as some other needs/wants #admins don’t fail me you’re doing so well #(when youre not ignoring Charles) #(or going suspiciously radio silent) #(seriously why was Santander out Charles-stanning the Ferrari account…..) #lestappen #f1 #charles leclerc #max verstappen #listen I know there are anti lestappen who take issue w tagging them #but — and I cannot emphasize this enough — I mean it as besties #and memes #so deal w it unfortunately :/ #*delphi #rbr-ferrari sticker war

[lewishamil10n]

salt under the tag

ngl seeing new fans come into the sport and then act as if verstappen is the greatest there ever was is just so grating like ... not even as a lewis fan. just in general. "max was inevitable there'll never be another like him" he's in a car built on an illegal one and his team gets away with everything, the literal fia favors him ... idk im not denying he's good. but maybe it's because i was at abu dhabi in 2021 ... he'll never be the greatest to me. he'll never be anything close to ayrton or michael or seb or even fernando, let alone lewis. and im so over f1 and everyone else acting as if he's the best there ever was or ever will be when his current success has literally been manufactured over the years using a combination of dirty tricks and corruption. im tired of it.

#salt tag #remy.txt #anti max verstappen #f1 #srsly if u find this post in the main tag for whatever reason just ignore it . i put the anti tag on it and i put it under a cut #that's what i can do so . do not come into my inbox complaining

[lumaxramblings]

How does the relationship advice Max gave relate to childhood trauma?

I HOPED SOMEONE WOULD ASK LETS GO

so this is the advice she gives to el, right? what i'm going to go into here is max's trauma about her parents' divorce and her feelings on her stepfather.

this is quite long so i've divided it in parts for you: part 1 which has two sections ('the divorce' and 'emotional abuse') and part 2 which has one section ('conclusion'). the first two sections are basically explaining what happened within max's family, the conclusion is how it all affects max and a tl;dr of sorts.

ALSO THIS IS NOT BILLY HARGROVE FRIENDLY, GO AWAY BILLY STANS

TRIGGER WARNINGS: discussions of divorce and emotional child abuse (nothing graphic)

THE DIVORCE

so, the first question out of the way: can divorce cause trauma? the answer is a quick and easy yes, especially in max's case.

in the book runaway max, which is probably at least half-canon, max describes both her parents. her mother seems to be quite weak-willed, but still seems to just want the best for max. however, it is clear that max doesn't get nearly as support as she needs from her. max is an incredibly understanding and kind child, because she understands that her mom isn't really the supportive type, more like someone who takes care of her without the emotional support part. (NOTE: susan is NOT abusive. one of the reasons why she can't support her daughter is because they understand the world, themselves and each other in drastically different ways: susan cannot reach out to max because she doesn't understand her, and therefore cannot give her the emotional help or support she needs).

sam (max's father) on the other hand clearly understands max much better and doesn't question her boyish style or how she's Different than others (which could be autistic coding but thats for another day asjhshjs). in this case, he could be there, but he isn't, being too busy for her.

we can assume that max, as she was so young, was not given a talk about the divorce as a whole after the divorce had actually happened, given that her mother doesn't really seem the type for big, emotional conversations. she most likely got a simplified version of what was happening and why she'd be seeing her dad less because she was so young (around 8-9 based on max/billy's memories), which lead to misunderstanding and, as her father understood her more, she was naturally defensive of her dad (which is why we see her quick to defend him in the bus talk), and naturally a little resentful of her mom, especially considering she didn't truly grasp what had actually happened due to being so young.

this resentment would grow when susan starts dating again: in runaway max, it's mentioned that susan had flit from boyfriend to boyfriend, each of which eventually leaves because of personal issues (gambling, debts, etc). max sees this as a kind of betrayal to sam, and a complete change in what her family had been like - she would later know, around s2, that the cracks had always been there, and it was just a matter of time, but for now she's too young to think that her ex-family was anything but perfect, so she holds resentment towards her mom and starts to put her dad on a pedastal, as well as thinking that men are liars and cheaters.

EMOTIONAL ABUSE

then susan marries neil, and with him comes billy. max, at first, was hopeful that she'd have a family again after her last one broke, only to be let down very quickly. here's a heartbreaking excerpt from runaway max:

billy doesn't treat her like a sister: in fact, he insists she's not his sister constantly, and emotionally abuses her.

'yes, yes, anthony, but what is emotional abuse?' i hear you cry. here's a definition from google itself:

Emotional abuse involves controlling another person by using emotions to criticize, embarrass, shame, blame, or otherwise manipulate them. While most common in dating and married relationships, mental or emotional abuse can occur in any relationship—including among friends, family members, and co-workers.

the parts in bold are the parts that are relevant to max herself and billy's abuse of her. here's some symptoms and signs of emotional abuse, as well as some examples of said symptoms, taken from healthyplace.com:

you'll notice that billy has almost all the signs and shows off many of the examples given, particularly in episode two. there's this great post by @madcleradin (hey sierra, tell me if you want be untagged) with my reblogs to show the examples themselves and this is the root of max's self hatred and self blame, but the very short tl;dr version is that his abuse of her affects her perception of others and herself in a negative way.

neil also plays a role in this - max probably thought he was just another one in the list of shitty boyfriends, except when things started getting more serious, she started to get confused, though she was happy when told that she was going to have a family again, because at the time she was still in the mindset that 'family = comfort' because again, she was never told what caused the divorce, which lead to her thinking it was sudden and doesn't alter her view of what 'family' just yet.

she was excited to have a comfort, excited to have someone to talk to other than nate (her best friend), because she still associates family with comfort. but when billy abuses her, at first she's confused on why family would treat family like this. that's when her view of what family means does a 180º.

because they told her that neil and billy were family, she started associating the word 'family' with violence, fear and control. as she grew up, this just got planted more and more deeply within her, all while she still resents susan a little for a) leaving her dad and b) marrying neil and bringing him and his son into their life, a decision which has only lead to fear and pain on max's half.

CONCLUSION

you may be wondering what any of this has to do with max's advice to el. well, dear anon and readers, i am here to tell you.

in this, max isn't seeing mike as how she remembers him, and is thinking back to all those times those shitty boyfriends of her mom did the same thing, not realizing that it's not like that because mike genuinely does care about her and because they're fourteen (yk how when you're young you don't feel young until you look back when you're older? yeah that) it's not that deep yet. max has been thinking and calling the shitty boyfriends pieces of shit for years.

NOTE: max does NOT think mike is a bad person, nor does this mean she hates him. she just thinks what he did is shitty, but she clearly thinks he can make up for it (note how she says 'if he doesn't fix this, doesn't explain himself', which i doubt any of the boyfriends of her mom did). this is NOT a mike hate post, he's one of the characters of All Time, this is just about max's trauma !!!

now, this obviously isn't her talking about lucas (see here why honesty is a vital part of why lucas and max are friends), so max is almost definitely referring to her mom's boyfriends and can't see that mike isn't like those guys, as mentioned above.

this is straight up projection. really, all of max's lines regarding mileven this season are just projection, but this really shows. i cut out the part where she says that if he doesn't explain himself, then el should dump his ass because that, as mentioned above, is because mike is still her friend (if tentative because yk).

she doesn't understand why her mom can't just up and leave neil, and so when she sees el who she probably subconsciously parallels to her mother (in runaway max, her book, she describes her mom as "her personality changing into every guy she meets", so she's scared of that happening to el) and so she unintentionally projects her desire for susan to break up with neil onto el.

she wants susan to break up with neil, but as she can't have that and she has trauma from living in close quarters to an abuser she's dealing with her trauma this way.

NOTE: she is NOT using el only for her own gains. she genuinely thinks this is good advice, if only because of her warped perception of love and her mother's (failed) relationships.

this line is also evidence of max projecting onto el and mike, except this time she's not projecting her mom onto el, but instead herself. we know, via scenes in season two, that billy is extremely controlling of max. he gives her unspoken and spoken rules (unspoken would be don't speak back, don't blame him, etc etc; spoken would be the threat of what he'd do if she 'disobeyed' him). she has been controlled for a good near-half of her life via rules, especially considering we can presume neil also controlled her (although much less than billy did). she's been so roughly handled and controlled using rules, rules which she has to go by to survive in that household, that she literally can't see the tons of rules put on el being for her safety, because that's never how it's been for her.

a tl;dr of that paragraph: rules have been used on max with malicious intent for so long that max cannot recognize that the rules on el are for safety and come from a plce of love.

and a tl;dr for this whole essay: all of max's advice stems from her childhood trauma from her parents' divorce, her mom's boyfriends who were liars, and her abusive stepfamily

hope you liked this extremely long essay.... and aren't too upset when you asked for a page and i made you a book shshjshjhjss

yeah this was very long but i loved talking abt it, slr i've been busy but i've been excited to get this finished.

also... if im gonna be honest most of this was just me looking way too deep into what were actually just jokes abt female humor by the duffers and ik that but also like. its a trauma thing because max's experience of love and men is very different and shapes how she views them so ofc her relationship advice was off

anyways if youve read all that i'm platonically in love with you

#max mayfield #lumax #long post #anthony's maxnalysis #stranger things #stranger things 3 #byler #<- i like u guys so im tagging you if u wanna be untagged just send a reply <3 #uhhh yeah #i'm normal about her why do you ask. #i've analyzed her to hell and back good god #elumax #elmax #wow this was so longa #anti billy hargrove #anti harringrove

[sofishticated3]

Omg the f1 side of instagram and particularly the m*x fans are not passing the vibe check. I mean, of course if he's your favorite driver, you can be happy and express that in the comments but is it necessary to always bring up Lewis or merc domination? Or harass someone as soon as they express their opinion about m*x that does not fit the "golden boy/great white hope" image? I swear some are just proving themselves to be racist and misogynist, which considering the man they stan, well

#one woman says that she finds max to be rude to his engineer #you bet there will be men telling her to go back to the kitchen or that she doesn't know what's she watching #someone saying max is a spoiled child? #of course some will ask “are you sure you don't mean george?” or “lemme guess you're brit and a lewis fan” #like #i think i'm getting too used to tumblr and the ability to curate my own experience where i can filter tags and words #and block people #i take that for granted and will do it no more #want to lose faith in humanity or get mad? head to f1 insta comment section especially on a post with m*x #some still think mercedes domination was worse. #and are particularly bitter about said domination as if lewis had ran over their dog #seems to me like it's another issue at play here 🤐 #anti max verstappen #anti verstappen #ofc this isn't an attack to all max fans #as i said if he's your fav you're happy and that's good for you #but some relate to him a bit too much if y'know what i mean #lewis hamilton

[rainbowroadonsteroids]

In light of the new Velma series

#scooby doo stage fright #scooby doo #velma series #velma (2023) #hbo max velma #anti velma (2023) #velma dinkley #daphne blake #why are velma and daphne kissing in the second pic #theyre at each others throats from what i understand #which is horrible because why do they hate each other #this isnt mystery incorporated this is mystery disenfranchised #dont bother hate watching the show if you wanna see how bad it is pirate it #this is what conservatives think leftists like #this show is a damn joke #look how they massacred my detectives #fuck you mindy kaling #velma is just mindy as her own girlboss self insert in a shitty version of the scooby doo cast #ALSO STOP WITH THE THING YOU FUCKING DING DONGS #editing a tag bc it came out wrong lmao #TEENS ARE /NOT/ SEX AND DRUG ADDICTED WHY DOES THIS KEEP BEING THE DRIVING POINT LMAO

[mikoran]

if the duffers really wanted mileven endgame then why did like the entirety of their season three plotline happen

showing mike struggling to be honest with his girlfriend and balance time with her and his friends? showing eleven being much happier and better off without him? making them intentionally obnoxious and having their break up treated as comic relief?

ask anyone out there about a ship they like, and i guarantee you that none of them would ever treat their favorite couple like that

#who takes this amazing endgame favorite couple and then says “hey lets try and make the audience be as annoyed as humanly possible by them” #like what #if thats what they really wanted then ive got so many questions for them #granted they made a lot of... interesting choices in season three #but at least with other couples they didnt treat their breakup like comic relief #with jancy they treated their issues seriously and the downfall of their relationship as an actual threat and not a joke #jopper is on a weird line where their fighting is a jokey thing but we also keep getting shown how well they work together #hell they quite literally say that despite all the bickering they make a good team #meanwhile elevens over here living her best life with max and doing so much better without mike #byler #anti mileven #plus with jopper their relationship flipped back to all serious and shit in season four with their fighting practically gone #and yet mileven is... still fighting and having issues #jopper got past the petty bickering while mileven only devolved into more serious problems cuz theres a fundamental issue in their chemistr #i really hope you guys read the tags i write cuz thats where my best shit is

[psyaurorak]

Ok so I saw this panel

And it was horrible. What is that anatomy. She looks like a child.

So I did a quick edit and this is what I got

#anti lore olympus #lo critical #lore olympus criticism #let me know if i missed tags #lore olympus critical #antiloreolympus #this is horrible #also it could’ve done with the water colours the early episodes had #would’ve looked great #it’s sad how fast I fixed this considering it took 30mins max #anyway what do you think?

[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

dismantling gender ‘rules’ also means dismantling sexuality ‘rules’ btw

#inclus #what do i tag this #this is an inclusivity post not a negative post #though #anti terf #i will tag that #max squawks

[maxemilianver]

i once again woke up to checo fans being mad at max because he said that "sometimes you have to accept your role (as a 2nd driver) because you cannot live in a fairy tale". he didnt even name checo once when he was talking about 2nd drivers yet surprisingly checo fans took it personal (because checo IS the 2nd driver duh). and what did he say wrong again? you are just mad because checo is not good as him. you are just trying to take your anger out of him.

this is why people dont want checo in rb because his fans are living in that fantasy world where they think he can beat max but is not allowed to because of max controlling the team, j*s also controlling the team, checo being mexican and rb is racist etc. were you guys here for albon and gasly as well since you hate rb "favoring" max? let me remind you, no.

rb and max is not the villain in the story, the villain is you guys for putting enormous pressure on checo for him to get his out of his way to win something. if he cannot accept it, he should DRIVE better. simple as that, get poles, better pace, be faster.

(weird and i dont get why everyone thinks that max and rb is getting on his way when he cannot even perform better with the better strategy, i thought that is what you guys wanted?)

also the mental gymnastics that those fans try to go through to hate on max because he said that his most disappointed race was singapore. dude just said that he had a shit week because of rb's mistake and performed a stinker but all those checo fans are tying to say that he was mad because checo won? when he did not even name him. let man get disappointed in the team without making it about your driver. at this point as a rb fan, there was never a single driver which i wanted out due to their toxic and weird fanbase, congrats i guess.

#checo fans acting like a victim again #saw someone say inshallah they fire him #so true #anti checo perez #f1 #i want to tag max and thats what im gonna do #max verstappen #also got me feeling like that pink mercedes gassed his fans way too much

[cat-loving-elf]

doin some sick and wicked skateboarding tricks would solve a lot of problems for me rn and would also totes kick ass *does a kickflip and then ollies the fuck out* (also im chillaxed to the max so its not like i have a lot of problems, but w/e)

#its not that i have a lot of problems #a lot would be just solved #even those which dont exist #the problem bank would take a fucking anti-problem loan out of my coolness attribute after id pull some wicked shit to pay up on their debt #cause they got debt in problems #and sometimes when you dont have enough coolness the problem bank gives you problems #but if you do a sick powerslide going down a steep hill then your problems in the future disappear #and also problems of yous from parallel universes disappear #you just emanate with a fucking anti problem chilled to the max aura across the fabric of spacetime #solvin everybodys problems #yoo this kinda a #cool fucking rant #skateboarding #so yeah id have zero problems then #fucking cool as fuck #shoutout to any homie who read allat #those tags becomin long as fuck #so yeah if you read everything above this point you a real one my homie

[medicallymercury]

I am completely exhausted from doing a presentation today but Casualty have confirmed it's coming back on the 30th, which isn't that exciting, but they've also said we're getting a trailer tomorrow, and revealed the next episode and chapter title earlier than I expected. I've been missing doing my little spoiler post even if I don't have anything fun to say so I thought I'd do one. I'll try to do a trailer review tomorrow but I'm quite busy for the next couple days so I might not get around to it until Friday.

Now feels like a good time to acknowledge that the 12 episode miniseries have fully replaced the longer series, which makes sense I guess but is annoying for referring to episodes when I can't be bothered with the title. Like, Too Much, Too Young used to be 38x05 now what? I'm just going with DFx10.

The new chapter is called The Ties That Bind Us which immediately set off my 'pre-existing episode with that title' alarms and there have been Casualty and Holby episodes with that title/a similar title respectively but I'm surprised my brain would be aware of them. EDIT: the new chapter was called The Ties That Bind Us, last night when I first checked the episode, this morning the new chapter is now called A History of Violence. No clue why that change happened, this is how it looked last night:

This is how it does now:

The first episode when we come back... I think a lot of people are probably thinking what I'm thinking: We will never be free from Faith. I was optimistic enough to think we might not have to have her as this central focus of half the show for a couple months but I now recognise that I was stupid for thinking that; the writers will never let go of this. To default to the Classic Mercury Response To Faith Stuff™: no comment.

But I love Stevie, and I'm glad to see them immediately picking up Jodie and Max's stuff when we come back because that reassures me about them dealing with everything before he leaves so that looks good.

My response to seeing that Casualty is properly coming back and we're getting a trailer was not what I expected, I thought I wanted it back but I guess I'm more worried about what they'll do with the polyfailure (and more specifically Teddy) after this than I even thought I was because I just kind of quite loudly said "not already" the moment I saw it. I guess I am happy to have new stuff to talk about but also the hiatus gave me an excuse to go on unprompted series 36 rants. Maybe the trailer will be incredible and it will make me feel better about it, and I'm hoping the trailer gives everyone else nice and reassuring shots of their faves doing plot-related things that don't make them feel ill as well, but I'm half-expecting a trailer that has me doing overtime in the Teddy's Unwilling PR Agent job.

#however i might actually end up writing a fic i’ve been thinking about for a while now the non-deadline of the 30th has been imposed #i keep saying bros because i’m stressed but bros how much time do you think i have to emotionally prepare for teddy and jodie to kiss? #casualty spoilers #bbc casualty #cas ep: tinderbox #oh i have missed making new 'cas ep:' tags #anti faith cadogan #stevie nash #max cristie #jodie whyte

[princemick]

are you starting to sympathize with max because of certain little things? because lemme tell you, it's very dangerousss..... i used to hate max too but for some reason now i find him very likable and i can't sTOP. maybe it's because he is also awkward and low key traumatized... be careful!

lol, I'm thankful for ur concern but if I'm being /gen for once I've always had a weak spot for him for the simple reason that he is dutch and I see a lot of myself and my culture in him which is just really fun to see.

I'll never support him because I still think hes an asshole who associates with horrible people and he had no principles and bc of how he is the dutch fans are as gross as they are which makes me deeply uncomfortable as a queer dutch f1 fan to openly be a fan in this country

I do enjoy parts of who he is and how he acts in the way of being as direct and open as he is bc I see a lot of myself in him in those ways.

#I've always had a soft spot for him but yk being a shitty human being kinda doesn't help #kyle.answers #i follow a good few max fans like I really dont mind seeing the man and I enjoy him sometimes #he also makes me deeply uncomfortable bc I know he would look at me and be grossed out if I said I was queer #bc he's also dutch in that way #anyway my relationship and emotions over max are dumb and complicated #n I'm a bit to intoxiated to word them well rn so this is the best I can do #uh #max mention #??? idk what to tag thi #anti max

[mikesbasementbeets]

i need to know why vecna and lucas are so blatantly paralleled when it comes to max

#i mostly mean the stalker thing.... why. why every breath you take? why the stalking motifs? i ask again. why are they doing it this way? #why have max call lucas stalker over and over? bringing it back in s4 even. when the main villain is known to stalk his prey #stalk max in particular. why #i'm serious if anyone has answers please tell me #sry i think i'm going to start tagging posts like this w #anti lumix #i'm NOT anti them but in case anyone doesn't want to see this kind of post you can block it i just don't wanna show up in that tag at all #i'm just trying to understand them

[lilisouless]

Some stranger things 4 thoughts

I think the reason why i feel like Lumax works and Mileven didn't this season is related to the fact that Lucas and Max´s writing doesn't prioritize their relationship over their characters.Meaning: Max is not built to be Lucas´s perfect girl nor vice versa, they are two individual characters with their own problems that found each other and built their relationship bassed on their common points and experiences, which is close to how real relationships work.

Mileven on the other hand seems to be written by diferent people, adults who want kids to act like grown ups. Is the best way to desribe it since the set up on the first episodes was good.

Eleven being mad that Mike never told her "i love you" is NOT bad writting. For me it makes sense: she´s been relatively very little time on the real world, an most of the time was surrounded by adults who barely treated her like human, her being starved for love is logical. It doesn't sounds crazy that she takes the relationship (and any kind of love) extremelly serious and wants Mike and she to be the love of each other´s lives. Mike, on the other hand, is a normal guy who wants a normal relationship. So, he not saying "i love you" yet sounds pretty realistic too.

It was a situation where no one is really on the wrong, it was just a way to show how diferent their growing emviroments were , which shape the diferences on their needs. So, while i was not a fan of the relationship (is very hard for me to take it seriously) i could respect the set up.

The moment that screwed all that up was that the resolution of that problem was having Mike say "i love you" in his long and honestly very cringey speech (i actually yelled "no one cares " at the screen) that doesn't sound sincere at all. Now, i don't think it was unsincere intentionally, i believe Mike meant it. But the evolution to "normal teenager" to "romantic movie adult" honestly doesn't work on their favor.

The point is, that instead of trying to make an overly epic love story ; just let the teens be teens , stop imitating adult relationships. Here i am talking about the writers, teenagers and even kids do imitate adult on a certain level going by what they see in movies or their real life. So, Mike and Eleven acting overlyromantic is not the problem but the lack of self awareness on the crew and that it would be better if the framing was more on the realistic angle.

#mileven critical #should i tag anti? #i am not really bashing the ship as much as the writing #eh lets do it just in case #anti mileven #stranger things 4 #st4 #lumax #hope i explained myself fine #stranger things critical #eleven #jane hopper #el hopper #mike wheeler #lucas sinclair #max mayfield

[lewishamiltonstuff]

Hope max crashes Lewis out for the shit you say

#anon tag #anon ask #More like anon hate lmao #ANTI VERSTAPPEN #Literally any sid the sloth post on my account has the tag 'anti max verstappen' in it #So are you deliberately looking for anti tags for your fav? #I never go and look for anti lewis hamilton tag #How much time and energy do you have to waste?

[thepavementsings]

ya in nicos podcast, daniel and him talked about how important it is to have a good relationship with ur engineer. daniel said it was hard adjusting to a new relationship after RB. daniel said he feeds off their energy (in general), for his win in monaco for ex, when his engineer sounded defeated that was discouraging so daniel kinda wanted it quiet after bc he had this mindset of “its ok, i got this, i know what to do now”. nico was talking abt how engineers just see them as robots sometimes😅 and how he literally had to have a talk with his engineer about how he needs to be more encouraging bc if affects his performance.

Oh fascinating! I have admittedly not listened to nico's podcast (lol) but I've heard the Daniel episode is actually quite good.

But yeah this makes sense! I kind of see engineers as almost being in a coach role? You have to know how to communicate effectively with your team in order to get the right performance out of them, and be their eyes and ears of the bigger picture and schemes so they can just... play.

KYP (know your personnel) is like rule 1 of sports. I think the driver/engineer relationship is SO fascinating and can be that final thing that makes or breaks a driver's performance.

I wish they did more longform stuff on the engineers. I would LOVE a beyond the grid with GP for example.

#like not to make this about pierre sorry #but remember when red bull gave him a shit rookie engineer and he told them it wasnt helping and it compounded all the issues? #vs how pierre now says he wants to hook hamelin to him for life and hamelin knows how to handle pierre #and also lewis apparently deciding not to go to ferrari bc he couldnt bring bono #daniel w simon. max w gp. xavi w charles #even lando w will (?) #its imo the single most important relationship for success #do I need to tag this as #anti mclaren #? its not really but just in case #engineer chat