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I can't stop thinking about how all the other popular pairings (Ch*rlos, Carl*ndo, even Land*scar) rely so heavily on the PR around them. They thrive on the fact that they are publicly friends/teammates. (In the case of the first pairing that is the ONLY thing they have going for them). Meanwhile, lestappen are out here without any public connection to each other, without any joint PR, they're so not publicly friends that they don't even follow each other on sm. And yet... and yet we get so much content of them when they don't know they're being recorded, of them just talking or playing padel or hanging out with the same people and it makes you wonder. It makes you wonder indeed.

The power they have in the fandom, the popularity they have, all that with barely any targeted content. And no, RBR admin posting videos of them talking after a session recorded from far away does not count as content, because where are the song guessing videos, the team games etc etc that all the other pairing get? Nonexistent.

Lestappen has gained this immense following out of nothing. If we got regular actual lestappen PR content I genuinely think their popularity would be scary. If they are beating everyone in ao3 like this what numbers will they do if we had ACTUAL content like the other popular pairings get? Because the numbers all those other pairing are doing is BECAUSE of the PR. And everyone is lying to themselves if they say it's not. Half of these ships would die if there was no content I'm being so serious right now.

And yet here lestappen are. Please think about that for 2 minutes and tell me you don't want to go jump off a cliff.

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the only one who matches max's ✨freak✨

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Hello dear, are there any other ships aside from lestappen that intrigue you? Someone else you would ever consider writing for?

Oh norstappen for sure!!! Their dynamic interests me sooo much especially after 2024 season. And this photo below?!?! (Lando looking at Max with stars in his eyes) 🥺 so much potential for childhood crush/one-sided love to friends to enemies to lovers 🥰

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Final Chapter Out Now!

Max Verstappen is assigned as the race engineer for the newest Red Bull driver, Charles Leclerc.

Both being stubborn to the core, clashed from the very first meeting and as they try to work together without ripping each other’s throats out, other feelings also begin to blossom.

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*credits to the original photo owners (I just found these on pinterest)

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Chapter 11 Out Now!

Almost done with this baby 🥺

Max Verstappen is assigned as the race engineer for the newest Red Bull driver, Charles Leclerc.

Both being stubborn to the core, clashed from the very first meeting and as they try to work together without ripping each other’s throats out, other feelings also begin to blossom.

Chapters: 11/12 updated so far

*credits to the original photo owners (I just found these on pinterest)

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To all the writers out there,

If you want to write the same trope, story, plot, prompt, whatever 12 million fucking times

Please for the love of god DO IT!!!!!!

I want to read that shit 12 million times, I want to read that shit so fucking much I fucking swear someone out there will cry tears of FUCKING joy. Just do it! Please!

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we're fully straight-out-of-ao3-ing this i'm obsessed

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all the f1 x gladiator drawings i've done so far

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Edging him until he’s completely delirious and when you tell him to “say the magic words” he accidentally says “I love you”

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What are your wips about? 👀 if we can know

im soooo glad you asked 🥰

Single dad! Charles x F1 Driver Max.

Time travel au which is ongoing.

College au (with a side of norstappen)

Hunting Love sequel.

The next two parts for Destined by Decree series.

This is the order I might (?) post it in as well (of course i haven't forgotten about Radio Check, im not counting that because its almost done ✨)

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Would u ever consider writing a second part of „fuck it if i can‘t have him“ <3?

I definitely would but probably not anytime soon 😭 i realllyyy want to finish my six wips first (two of which haven't been posted yet).

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the way this was the only time charles smiled during that entire post race 😭😭 i see you lestappen. i fucking seeee you

charles giggling and smiling while watching max's track terrorism at the start of the race

+ LOOK AT THIS MENACE, CAUGHT IN 4K

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Ricky Ricky Ricky. Lestappen chussy fic rec!!! OMG Charles uses chussy and fake pregnancy to trap baby alpha Max. You have to read thisssss, so hottttt!!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61207216

finished reading this and am now demanding everybody else do. SOOOOOO GOOD TY FOR THE REC!! obsessed with omega charles knowing how to deal the cards he was dealt and manipulating everyone behind the scenes… max wrapped around his finger it’s peak. AND CHUSSY!! Yay ❤️

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Just finished reading your new work and omg what a talent. You write lestappen and their love so so beautifully in that obsessive and manipulative glory. They are just so whipped for each other.

I love imagining that when Charles retires, Max wouldn’t waste a second before knocking him up. Charles would show up at races with his big, round belly, glowing as he cheers for his alpha from the paddock. And Max, after winning the race, heads straight to his omega, kissing him and the baby bump like it’s his real trophy. Ahhh just pure domestic bliss, my idea of a perfect family.

They truly are sooo obsessed with each other 🥰🥰

I think before Max even thinks of it Charles would ask to get knocked up. Like truly. I can imagine so many scenes of Max just reminiscing about a pup and Charles seeing this doesn't waste anytime (maybe he'd even retire early because he's deemed that he used Max enough 👀). But post retirement, Charles is just truly living his wag life. Everyone is envious of him and he just basks in it!!

They are messed up but perfect for each other 😉

Thanks for reading and this lovely message!!

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need an all of the above option because MAX IS THAT BITCH.

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lando and charles brain rot. this got me thinkinggggg many things. and ofc Max is just there

Of their five completed years of racing against each other, Lando and Charles have finished with one point between them three times. In 2020, Charles had 98 points and Lando had 97. In 2021, Lando had 160 points and Charles had 159. In 2023, Lando had 205 points and Charles had 206. If, in AD this year, Charles wins and Lando comes 2nd, they will once again end up with a one-point difference.

They both replaced a beloved and long-standing world champion at their respective teams when they joined (kimi raikkonen and fernando alonso). They both prefer the other's teammate over each other.

Their teams are two of the oldest in F1 history, and they're irreperably wrapped up in a history of scandal between each other. They both quickly became their teams' golden child, the one who was going to win the championships, the one who was going to end a decade-long deficit.

Both failed at the hands of Max Verstappen. Don't even get me started on how he fits into all this.

Both have the potential to be entirely shafted by their teams in 2025 because of the new, interesting teammate that everyone believes will win a championship before they'll come close.

They hate each other. They can't get away from each other. They're the same person. Four squared is sixteen.