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"The Lilies Break Open Over The Dark Water" by Mary Oliver + Tadej Pogačar & Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France (2021-2024)

@wtfanworkclassification stage 21: challenge -> express yourself through poetry

The Lilies Break Open Over The Dark Water | 2021 Tour de France, Stage 15 | 2022 Tour de France, Stage 12 | 2023 Tour de France, Stage 15 | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 11

All photos © Jered & Ashley Gruber, Pipe Cano

"RONDO" by Slavik Chiloyan, tr. Tathev Simonyan

"RONDO" | 2022 Tour de France, Stage 12 | 2023 Tour de France, Stage 17 | 2023 Tour de France, Stage 17 | 2022 Tour de France, Stage 18 | 2022 Tour de France, Stage 12 | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 15 | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 15 | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 15 | 2022 Tour de France, Stage 12 | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 20 | 2022 Tour de France, Stage 17 | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 11

is THIS your man? [shows an image of a malnourished injured exhausted man with big sad eyes looking up at the camera with blood smeared all over his face and mouth. and he is visibly trembling]

ode to the road captain || endurance, suffering, devotion, ruin, love.

How do you learn what a feeling means?

Frame Text: How to Draw a Horse by Emma Hunsinger References: Podium at Super Prestige Diem (2011) | "Aux racines de la rivalité entre Mathieu Van der Poel et Wout Van Aert" (L'Equipe) | Podium at Cyclocross World Championships Juniors (2012) | Wout trailing Mathieu at at Cyclocross World Championships Juniors (2012) | Podium at Cyclocross World Championships Elite (2017) | Wout winning an unknown race | "Van Aert: Van der Poel has always motivated me to beat him" (Cycling News) | Podium at Cyclocross World Cup Hoogerheide (2016) | Podium at Cyclocross World Championships Elite (2015) | Cyclocross Otegem Start Line (2017) | "Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert: The anatomy of a rivalry" (Cycling News) | Otegem (2017) | "Mathieu van der Poel en Wout van Aert, de koningen van de cross: 'Als je niet kunt afzien, moet je gaan voetballen'" (Humo) | Otegem (2017) | Cyclocross Otegem Start Line (2018) | Cyclocross Valkenburg World Cup (2016) | "LOENHOUT: Super Van Aert wins a Trofee 'super modder' + MORE PHOTOS & TV COVERAGE" (Cyclocross Rider) | "The van der Poel-van Aert rivalry: 'It’s impossible for us to be friends'" (Le Course en Tête) | Podium at 18th Superprestige Heusden-Zolder Elite (2022) | Wout and Mathieu after an unknown race (2014) | Mathieu and Wout during the Cyclocross World Championships (2016) | Wout touching Mathieu's back after the Cyclocross World Cup Namur (2020) | Wout and Mathieu after the Tour of Flanders (2020) | Wout and Mathieu after the UCI World Championships - Road (2023)

God I love “We’re enemies, but we’ve been enemies for a long time, which is sort of like being friends.” Great trope.

You can always suffer better if your jersey is unzipped and you show your slutty chain

my favourite area :]

first base is murdering you. second base is ressurecting you from the grave. third base is murdering you a second time

have some hulknussen textposts cause i was bored :)

everybody wants a team player like kmag who will sacrifice himself and 6 bystanders to ensure his teammate gets 1 point, but nobody wants to actually employ kmag. figures.

“average f1 driver gets at least 1 penalty per race” fact actualy just statistical error. crimes kmag, who gets one thousand penalties per race, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Death, Taxes, Kevin has penalty…

bandaids on ur fingers can be a kind of lingerie. if youre enlightened.

the spaces between seconds

2024 Tour de France, Stage 11 | Poem Without a Hero & Selected Poems, Anna Akhmatova | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 11 | The People of Paper, Salvador Plasciencia | ProCyclingStats.com | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 11 | The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 2 | "Pogacar reluctantly starts his mission for yellow, but Visma | LAB is pushing key domestiques: 'Won’t lose time if I can avoid it'" | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 2 | Solve for Desire: Poems; “Pigeons”, Caitlin Bailey | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 15

“weird and unhealthy relationship that cant be categorized neatly as sexual or romantic or platonic but has a defining air of devotion and obsession to it” wins sound of the summer for the 13th year in a row

There is nothing and I mean nothing sexier than loyalty and devotion

AND ALL MY DEVOTION TURNS VIOLENT

when i make one web weave i am physically unable to not make at least three more (credits under cut)

ada limon - the good fight // mads pedersen, tadej pogacar, jonas vingegaard, and wout van aert - stage 16, tour de france 2022 // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - stage 17, tour de france 2022 // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - stage 11, tour de france 2024 // romance - elaine kahn // american sonnet for my past and future assassin - terrance hayes // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - stage 18, tour de france 2022 // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - stage 17, tour de france 2022 // horoscope for the heartbroken - schuyler peck // tadej pogacar and marc soler - stage 17, tour de france 2023 (anne-christine poujoulat, getty images) // vingegaard marches towards tour de france title as pogacar cracks - julien pretot // jonas vingegaard - stage 15, tour de france 2024 (IMAGO) // pogacar wins in high mountains to deal blow to vingegaard and extend tour de france lead - kieran crichard // peripety series - jen mazza // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - stage 7, tour de france 2024 // mabel, episode 28: matryoshka // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - stage 7, tour de france 2024 // it's a circus and we all paid to be here - ashe vernon // the winner's kiss - marie rutkoski // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - podium ceremony, tour de france 2024 // you are the apple - lady lamb // tadej pogacar, brandon mcnulty, and jonas vingegaard - stage 17, tour de france 2022 (gruber images) // i don't smoke - mitski // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - stage 17, tour de france 2022 // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - stage 20, tour de france 2024 (presse sports, belga images) // vingegaard and pogacar 'allies' says former tour de france champion - AFP // 'now we have a fair fight:' pogacar remains bullish despite vingegaard counter-punch at tour de france - andrew hood // the fall - alan stephens foster // vingegaard vows to keep swinging at imperious pogacar: 'we will fight to the end of the tour de france - andy mcgrath // i'm your man - mitski // jonas vingegaard - stage 18, tour de france 2024 (gruber images) // tadej pogacar - stage 18, tour de france 2024 (gruber images) // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - stage 9, tour de france 2024 (getty images)

elite work from the sd worx soigneur at the top of col du glandon

the spaces between seconds

2024 Tour de France, Stage 11 | Poem Without a Hero & Selected Poems, Anna Akhmatova | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 11 | The People of Paper, Salvador Plasciencia | ProCyclingStats.com | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 11 | The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 2 | "Pogacar reluctantly starts his mission for yellow, but Visma | LAB is pushing key domestiques: 'Won’t lose time if I can avoid it'" | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 2 | Solve for Desire: Poems; “Pigeons”, Caitlin Bailey | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 15

the dynamic of demigods thinking which other demigod is the most powerful is always amusing to me because. like, we know the big 3 kids are all the most powerful. That's just a fact of their universe. And then we know nearly every character views Percy as the strongest demigod, and most people are very rightfully intimidated by him.

and you look at the powers of the Big 3 kids and there's Percy, but then you realize Nico is just kind of objectively more powerful than him but simply chooses to hang out in Percy's shadow like he's Percy's scary dog privileges. Like, the two of them are pretty equally capable of causing multiple different apocalypses. Nico just also has like four different instakill powers and it's not like he doesn't use them. He very much uses them! Not infrequently, even! And they don't seem to take a significant amount of energy from him! And other demigods are pretty intimidated by both of them! But Nico makes a conscious point to keep his cards close to his chest and not let on exactly how dangerous and scary he can be if he wants to. People are already scared enough of him without knowing anything about him and he doesn't like that. Percy doesn't think about that nearly as much, and so usually just goes in guns blazing and that's part of why he's considered a wildcard. And then Nico himself puts Percy on a pedestal, so those who do know more about Nico's abilities then presume Nico knows something they don't about Percy that implies Percy is even stronger than him.

And even on a meta level Nico's narrative role requires him to be functionally more powerful than Percy, because he very often serves the purpose of getting Percy out of situations he can't handle on his own. That's just part of his function as a character! But also narratively he can't overshadow Percy so he just takes a backseat of his own accord and that's very amusing to me.

trine and frida socks the breakout stars of this docu

Since Nico’s early childhood occurred during fascist Italy, I’ve been reading Wikipedia (the most trusted source of course) on Mussolini's propaganda around that time.

So I found this in the ‘Schools’ section:

“Curriculums for schools were immediately overhauled for Fascist purposes in a manner that the Nazis later admitted to imitating, and elementary schools soon spent twenty percent of their time teaching children to be good Fascists. Teachers were removed if they did not conform, and textbooks were required to emphasize the "Fascist soul".”

Me being concerned about what Nico learned and retained from this, and also interested in how that has impacted him.

Tour de france text posts

Heavily inspired by this post! https://www.tumblr.com/arriere-du-peloton/740055805571874816?source=share

THE CANNIBAL

Tadej Pogačar: Too Dominant Too Soon?, Molly Hurford for Bicycling // Pogačar in the Volta a Catalunya, UAE Team Emirates // Pogačar in the Tour de France, Eurosport // A misquote of a line from Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak // Pogačar in Strade Bianche, Ilario Biondi/SprintCyclingAgency // Eddy Merckx on Tadej Pogačar // What have you got to lose?' The remarkable rise of Tadej Pogacar, Alasdair Fotheringham for Procycling // Pogačar in the Tour de France, Benoit Tissier/Reuters // Pogačar in Strade Bianche, Luc Claessen/Getty // Simone Weil // Pogačar at the Giro d’Italia, Getty // Peripety Series, Jen Mazza // Tadej Pogačar: The feelings are quite different after winning my second Tour de France, Barry Ryan for CyclingNews // Tadej Pogačar after winning the Giro d’Italia, Time de Waele/Getty // Inside the Trojan Horse, Michael Bazzett // Leslie Sainz

LAKE MISSOULA x JONAS VINGEGAARD

credits under cut!

lake missoula - richy mitch and the coal miners // jonas vingegaard - team presentation, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard, tadej pogacar, and remco evenepoel - podium ceremony, tour de france 2024 (belga images) // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2024 // wayward son - rainbow rowell // jonas vingegaard - stage 21, tour de france 2024 // it's down to legs - caley fretz // jonas vingegaard - stage 20, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard - stage 11, tour de france 2024 // a poem on hope - wendell berry // jonas vingegaard and remco evenepoel - stage 19, tour de france 2024 // quora user shulamit widawsky // jonas vingegaard - stage 21, tour de france 2024 (getty images) // jonas vingegaard - stage 21, tour de france 2024 post-race interview (flobikes) // 'now the fight is over': jonas vingegaard concedes tour de france battle for yellow, but still aims for second - adam becket // jonas vingegaard - stage 19, tour de france 2024 post-race interview (flobikes) // video: jonas vingegaard and matteo jorgenson consoled after heart-breaking end to stage 19 of 2024 tour de france for team visma | lease a bike - kieran wood // jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2024 // 'probably the hardest moment of my career'-- jonas vingegaard on his crash and fight to be ready for the tour de france - stephen farrand // jonas vingegaard's tour de france was a venn diagram - iain treloar // rise up and salute the sun: the writings of suzy kassem - suzy kassem // jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2023 // jonas vingegaard - stage 21, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard - stage 11, tour de france 2024 // vingegaard exhausted after tour de france: may cut season short - sjoerd valkering // jonas vingegaard and tadej pogacar - stage 20, tour de france 2024 (belga images) // the thing is - ellen bass // "if you had told me four months ago that i would be second, i wouldn't have believed you" - jonas vingegaard disappointed but proud of his tour de france - ondrej zhasil // jonas vingegaard and tadej pogacar - stage 11, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard - stage 11, tour de france 2024 post-race interview (nbc sports) // alfred lord tennyson // jonas vingegaard and tadej pogacar - stage 11, tour de france 2024 // remco evenepoel and jonas vingegaard - stage 21, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard and tadej pogacar - tour de france 2024 // matteo jorgenson and jonas vingegaard - stage 19, tour de france 2024 // matteo jorgenson and jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard and tadej pogacar - podium ceremony, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard and wout van aert - tour de france 2024 (team visma | lease a bike)

"The Lilies Break Open Over The Dark Water" by Mary Oliver + Tadej Pogačar & Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France (2021-2024)

@wtfanworkclassification stage 21: challenge -> express yourself through poetry

The Lilies Break Open Over The Dark Water | 2021 Tour de France, Stage 15 | 2022 Tour de France, Stage 12 | 2023 Tour de France, Stage 15 | 2024 Tour de France, Stage 11

All photos © Jered & Ashley Gruber, Pipe Cano