Niki Be Actin Cool And Im Here For It

Daniel Brühl with Glasses

(updated as of 28 February 2025)

Choose your four-eyed Danny:

Alexander Kerner, Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)

Salvador Puig Antich, Salvador (2006)

Hans Krämer, The Coming Days (2010)

Daniel Domscheit-Berg, The Fifth Estate (2013)

Helmut Zemo, Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Ernst Schmidt, The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, The Alienist (2018 - 2020)

Erik Jan Hanussen, The King's Man (2021)

Matthias Erzberger, All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

Karl Lagerfeld, Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (2024)

Eric Bouchard, The Franchise (2024)

Heinz Wittmer, Eden (2025)

nikis signature in sid watkins' book... lauda :3

The Face of an Angel (2014) Daniel Brühl as Thomas Lang

Ayrton Senna | 1986

In 1986, the restriction on the size of the fuel tanks of cars with turbocharged engines had been increased, and Renault engines were openly the ones that consumed the most fuel, and to make matters worse, the car's computer didn't correctly provide the exact fuel consumption of the car, sometimes it said there was too little, forcing the driver to take his foot off, but in fact there was enough to finish the race, and sometimes it said exactly the opposite.

No bc why did Johnny just suffer non-stop for his entire fucking life - he was abused from a young age by his shitty dad, he saw his brother die and blamed himself for it, became disabled because of an extremely minor offense during a time period where being disabled was especially hard, was abandoned in an abusive hospital and disowned by his dad who should KILL HIMSELF, made a single (1) friend only to watch him die, had the chance to bring his friend back dangled in his face, the whole fucking ordeal with alt. Diego, fell in love and had 2 kids BUT THEN IMMEDIATELY his wife started to die, stole the corpse to heal her (going against his agreement with the only 2 people from the race he had left) but then his fucking son started to die instead, finally he died by getting his head crushed by a fucking boulder at the age of only 29????!!?!??!?!?!??!!

Like he just suffered constantly and never really won and never had the life he deserved but despite EVERYTHING he showed such remarkable resilience and KINDNESS throughout his life, he SAVED Lucy and his family and loved animals and hoped for things to get better despite it all and fought so hard and came so far and even missed and grieved for his ENEMIES because of how much the race meant to him and it was all destroyed at the end despite everything he did and his legacy continued on but they'll never know what we know and its been 100 years and he's been dead for so fucking long and has faded into an old folktale and all the characters from SBR are GONE and the world has moved on and time has passed and the inheritance of curses, burden and trauma through the bloodline and I miss Johnny so much and he unknowingly set in motion the curse of his descendants all to save his wife and then his son who he cherished despite being abused by his own father and how different would everything had been if he just received the love he deserved from his family and oh my god he's just like Jonathan and Jolyne and he acted out of pure love even if it went against everything he'd previously fought for because he is so incredibly human and even though he's gone and his descendants will never know him, his sacrifice and love and resilience persists through them and we know that but they can't and -

NIKI LAUDA at the 1974 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX

Ayrton Senna giving a little wave, Brands Hatch 1986

Here's to one of the best actors of his generation, the versatile and multilingual king who's been pulling heartstrings for three decades with a variety of roles, faces, and languages... Happy 46th birthday, Daniel Brühl!

p.s. who's your favorite Danny character? Sound off in the comments or the tags—or don't. I'm not your mother. 😋

masato facts

i’ve seen quite a few old posts like this recently, so i decided to make one! these are all random facts, based on the anime, games, shining live and interviews. i could only come up with these for now, but feel free to add to it or ask for more/anything specific!

he loves melon pan, but also any bread really. he has done a bread review once and basically rated everything 5 stars. his favorite melon pan is chocolate chip melon pan! (he isn’t a fan of spicy food though. at all)

masato is a dog person.

he dislikes milk. as a child they always made him drink it lukewarm, which he absolutely hated. after hearing he had weak bones from saotome, he was forced to drink milk with every meal. when haruka introduced him to melon pan he found himself being able to drink it only with the bread. drinking this milk made him grow 5 cm taller in just a few weeks!!

even at a very young age, masato was already very aware of his mom’s situation, to the extent he doesn’t want to bother her with his company. he wanted to visit her on mother’s day once, but instead of staying for a little talk, he gave her flowers and left immediately after.

his grandpa would often take him to plays, kabuki theater, classical concerts and ballet operas when he was younger. this is what started masato’s interest in the entertainment industry.

masato would play piano and sing songs for mai which always made her smile when she was sad. knowing he was able to cheer her up, he found more and more pleasure in singing.

when meeting haruka on that snowy day, haruka complimented masato’s singing voice, telling him it’d be a waste if he didn’t do anything with it. this was the last push for masato to decide he wanted to pursue a career as an idol. (just like how masato complimenting haruka’s song made haruka decide to seriously pursue a career as a composer)

masato considers himself to have bad luck. once at a school play the roles were distributed through a lottery, and he got the role of ‘grass 1’

masato has a friend from the all boy school he went to, who is quite similar to otoya. they were both in the calligraphy club (which i assume is where they met)

masato likes giving handmade gifts! they’re more personalized and he’s skilled enough to craft things like pillows or scarves with complicated patterns. he also sews a lot of things like handkerchiefs for his sister.

masato owns a picture book which really inspired him as a child. i don’t remember in full detail, but it was about a child struggling to climb a mountain, which inspired him to never give up.

one of masato’s favorite artists is liszt.

masato can get quite jealous when he’s in love. he’ll always be the first to pull haruka away or ask what’s going on when he sees someone flirting or being too touchy with her. since he’s quite insecure when it comes to relationships he can even get jealous over normal and innocent situations.

he’s so scared of insects that he even makes his own repellents to carry with him. he’s doing his best to get over this fear though!

as a child, whenever masato didn’t finish his food, he was scared a monster would form out of all the leftovers at night. (jii probably told him so)

masato took up sewing fairly early and assumed it was a normal thing to do. he can still get surprised when he finds out his friends can’t even sew a button back on their shirt.

he’s quite amazed by nature and likes to watch the snow and cherry blossoms fall, as well as gaze at the moon.

masato always looked up to everyone who had siblings. he never thought he’d get one himself until finally, at age 10, mai was born.

masato’s uncle was actually in the position to take over the business instead of masaomi, but just like masato he ran away from it, causing masaomi to take over the job.

they don’t show it in the anime as much, but masato really looks up to ranmaru, despite his harsh treatment as a senpai.

masato has thin hair, so he says he takes his time to wash it carefully.

masato wasn’t able to buy train tickets before, since he would always travel by car or by helicopter (such a bocchan ww)

as a child, masato was scared of the lion dance at new years.

zhouttas( and their sunglasses)