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SUPRISE UPDATE! Chapter 12 is out!

Liebesträume

“Here.” Max pointed. “Just on my wrist.”

Charles shuffled closer, touching the alpha’s arm to bring it to eye level. It could be a snake bite which was usually small yet poisonous. But surely not so small where even an omega’s enhanced vision couldn’t pick up?

“A rabbit bit me.”

His head snaps up, his mouth dropping open in pure disbelief. “A rabbit?” Charles repeated incredulously, dropping the alpha’s arm.

Max huffed. “Yes, a rabbit. It fucking hurts.”

Or; Max makes silly excuses to keep visiting Charles at the medical hut, not knowing this would throw the two of them into a tale of longing, heartbreak and survival.

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[Chapters: 12/16]

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happy to say no more races for the next four weeks 🥰🥳🤠

dammit it's race week again

sigh...

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guys.

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F1 Hungarian Grand Prix | July 31, 2025

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chapter 11 is here!!

(if you see mistakes shhhh look away, i will re-edit this chapter tomorrow)

Liebesträume

“Here.” Max pointed. “Just on my wrist.”

Charles shuffled closer, touching the alpha’s arm to bring it to eye level. It could be a snake bite which was usually small yet poisonous. But surely not so small where even an omega’s enhanced vision couldn’t pick up?

“A rabbit bit me.”

His head snaps up, his mouth dropping open in pure disbelief. “A rabbit?” Charles repeated incredulously, dropping the alpha’s arm.

Max huffed. “Yes, a rabbit. It fucking hurts.”

Or; Max makes silly excuses to keep visiting Charles at the medical hut, not knowing this would throw the two of them into a tale of longing, heartbreak and survival.

Read on ao3

[Chapters: 11/16]

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Hiii, first of all I really wanted to thank you for all the work you put into writing and all the fics you gave us, I’ve read all of them 🤍 and I know now you’re busy with finishing liebesträume (which I love!!!) so please take your time, but do you think you’ll ever continue the destiny series? That first fic in the series is how I discovered you and it has a special place in my heart <3

thank you lovely!! it means a lot that you enjoyed the destiny series (because its probably my least popular work hahah).

unfortunately i haven't touched this particular work in months 😭😭 but i do have a personal goal to finish all my wips within the year!

it's not much, but i can promise the next two parts will come before 2026  🤗

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i am not very good at expressing the true depths of my appreciation in words in general but with all these issues with ai in fandom i figured i should try anyway

i am so so grateful for fic writers and seeing your posts on my dash here has been a great joy, and they make me appreciate just how much work goes into a fic. every time i speed through a recent chapter update bc i'm so excited i have to tell myself to slow down, really immerse myself, and absorb every. single. word at a somewhat glacial pace because i know fic writers put hours and hours of their time and energy into putting their works out into the world for FREE! i hope you have a fantastic day

you expressed yourself very well!!

i saw this while i was on the train and i was just smiling like an idiot because of the amount of joy this brought me!

you are such a sweet sweet reader for doing this because I do put so many hours into my work that sometimes feels inadequate compared to others pumping out 10k words every other day.

i've come to terms with it now though! and i definitely wont let ai discourage me any further and it's thanks to lovely messages like this❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much, i hope you an amazing dayy !!

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day 29 of drawing charles leclerc until we win another race

suit fitting time 🪡

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Sooo chapter 11 is 11k words (i know how poetic) but I'm editing this monstrosity and NOTHING FLOWS?

Like.. it's all so choppy and just .. bad.

I'm gonna need another day to figure out everything.

Sorry!! But I promise new chapter will be updated tomorrow!

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a lot has been said over the last couple of days about the rise of AI use in f1 fanfic spaces, but I do feel like as a fairly prolific writer within lestappen, with a lot of followers who consume/write fic, I should say something as well.

I want to make it entirely clear that I have zero tolerance for AI usage in fic, and especially clear that I have never and will never use it myself.

There are a lot of reasons why I don't agree with AI, namely that it plagiarises writers and is incredibly bad for the environment, but I think that at this point, those reasons are probably not enough to make people stop doing it.

So perhaps something that might actually have a bit more meaning: please stop and think about why you're even bothering to do this.

do you think that you're going to get clout for writing fic? clout in ... f1 rpf spaces? do you think you're going to make money? do you think it's going to help you make friends within the community?

as somebody who is very lucky to have a lot people consume my work, I want to be abundantly clear:

the reason I get so much validation from people enjoying what I wrote is because I wrote it. I know the time I spent on it, how much of myself I put into it, and I'm proud to have people enjoy something that I spent hours and hours putting to page.

I do not make a single cent from anything I've written, nor have I ever been offered money.

I've definitely made friends, but there are a lot of people in my server that do not write and who have made friends through it. using AI will actually only alienate you from the community.

and, finally, please, for the love of god, consider what you're doing to this community. you're making people paranoid, and exhausted. making real authors not want to write anymore. making readers not want to read anymore! everyone is questioning everything, and it's directly because you're fostering an environment where nobody feels like they can trust anything.

the thought that somebody might ever question whether I use AI in my fics makes me genuinely tear up. the discourse around the em dash being a sign that a writer used AI, when the actual fact is that AI only uses the em dash because it stole from fanfic writers, is so upsetting to me. people are questioning their own writing style because of this!

I do believe that at the end of the day, the reason people are using AI is because they want to be part of this community and don't know another way to do it. as a writer here, please listen to me very clearly when I say that all you're doing is slowly causing the implosion of this fandom/fandom spaces.

If you want this community to continue to produce fics, please, please, understand that AI is not welcome here.

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not pressuring for the new chapter !!! but can we get an update on how it’s going? 😯 😁

hey lovely!! I'm gonna try to update tomorrow night!

a bit unconventional, but I'm writing chapter 11 and 12 simultaneously just because the scenes kinda overlap but one is from charles' pov and the other is max's! so in my brain it made sense to jump from writing one scene to another.

this also means i set myself for writing double the word count in one week (which uh isn't gonna happen), but good news is -- we'll get a double update (one tuesday and one tentative for sunday/monday next week)

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Rain delay! Charlie’s still entertaining himself though ☔️

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day 27 of drawing charles leclerc until we win another race

can't park but never fail to serve

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dammit it's race week again

sigh...

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oh.. he's missed battling with charles, he's going around literally announcing it.

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synchronized overtake on mclaren STUNT ON THESE HOES!!