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1hr osc painting practice

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yuki yuki❄🍁

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has anyone ever written one of those extremely tropey and indulgent outsider pov fics where landoscar are both professors + secretly married + their students slowly find out about it 😔 i come from humble pacrim origins it's extremely important to me that every fandom have one of these

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tagged by @bright-and-burning to do this picrew of myself 💗 v cute clothing options but why do the hair limitations feel like discrimination against gurls with wavy hair + flat fugly middle parts... i wish my hair looked like this!!!!!

tagging @chelemlem @albonoooo @ipleadbritney @azurerosses @piastrisms @daesanghyeok @insideparcferme <3

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i'd love to see powers!

i would too anon someone should write it T__T hehe i've actually mentioned this (alongside all my other wips) in an ask before but i never included any snippets iirc... basically >LITERALLY REPRESSED FUNCTIONAL FIREBENDER LANDO< meets normie-passing oscar whose powers only manifest around those he really cares about. something something finding someone you can finally be yourself around without being afraid of what you're capable of

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if you do ever decide to do a mixed media fic here is a helpful ao3 collection that has a bunch of unique work skins! https://archiveofourown.org/collections/ao3_useful_work_skin/works?page=1

thanks anon!!! these are all so nice but my passion is actually making my own skins which is why i want to do a mixed media fic in the first place... i loveeeeee designing and coding things myself i'm just too lazy to write actual narrative substance 😭😭😭 the most fun i've ever had writing a fic was making a mixed media dreamwidth fic with semi-interactive elements though!!! tbh inline css is kind of even more godless than creating ao3 skins but both have their own inherent constraints (especially font-wise) that are kind of a bummer T__T nevertheless we persist

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MIXED MEDIA OMG THOSE ARE MY FAVE

this is such a fakeout because i have nothing for it but i desperately want to!!! T__T i've discussed frequently how much i love mixed media stuff and i have lofty dreams of doing a canon compliant retelling of landoscar's relationship but using really obscure epistolary elements... like hotel cards, gdpa messages, shared notes in their notes app, doodles during sponsor filmings, etc... like SUPER ambiguous and very implied_relationship etc. but no clue how'd that work

another version of this is that i really want a uni group project au where they flirt and fall in love through a cs project and the mixed media element is like GITHUB PAGES and commit messages but that's kind of godless and embarrassing. i think oscar should leave lando cute little messages through code comments though <3 <3 <3 also they forget to remove some before they submit and their ta alex reads them and is like My God. i literally can't stand gay people

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I can't believe you deleted the oscar autism gender post in the 5 mins between me seeing it and getting my phone so I could send it to my friend... it was an incredible post

😭😭😭 sorry anon NOT EVERYONE CAN UNDERSTAND AUTISTIC GIRLGUY OJP BUT WE DO. I THINK WE DO!!!!!!!!!

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ooooooh 0898 heartache for the ask game???

that's my coming of age lesbian lando fic <3 the only problem is that it's really bad <3 like horrendous <3 but in a hypothetical universe where i rewrite everything and it exists properly it's So Real and Serious T__T also can u believe this is meant to be an endgame landoscar fic

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tagged by @bright-and-burning 🧡 luv u

RULES: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs

some drafts:

powers

0898 heartache

yenson

mixed media

ngl i keep very few wips but i have like 4 different working docs of each one with different names but aksfhlsdhf... it's how i operate i suppose

have u done this yet!!! @piastrisms @chelemlem @ipleadbritney @miamimaiden

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nothing funnier than seeing oscar with guys who are actually properly tall/jacked and not just in an F1 way. also funny because he always manages to look Demure and Coquette or whatever the kids say around them

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Oscar Piastri at the AusOpen

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sorry to anyone who ever sends me an ask because this is my favorite meme

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Do you think it would be easier for Oscar to carry the extra pressure that McLaren would put on him if he were the one leading? Everyone seems to think so (I kinda agree tbh), but most of the time it's just because they don't trust Lando 🤔 sorry for these types of questions but the way you respond without committing and being neutral makes me want to know what you think about things that most fans aren't very objective xd

the thing about a question like this anon is that >IF he were the one leading< is a HUGE hypothetical that kind of automatically begets another series of questions. haha

with the 2024 season, a large factor as to why lando ultimately wasn't really in the title fight that many people conveniently gloss over is that we weren't actually competitive until miami, as a manner of strictly Car Development. yes, lando made errors or had poor starts (although several of the tracks he had pole for had comically long runs down to t1, not that this "excuses" him but it is the reality... hungary & italy both have had poor pole2win conversion rates in the past few years, not just for him!), but we were already down enough that he was constantly in catchup mode against a competitor who was, let us be clear, NEVER at a huge disadvantage for pace. because he was leading and was still considerably quick — people make it sound like red bull were suddenly a tractor and we were dominant on every single track in every single condition — max had the leeway to be more reckless because in any scenario he'd come out with the upper hand. a 5s, 10s penalty or even a double dnf is fine as long as lando isn't gaining meaningfully on him. that's just simple MAFS.

to me that framing is important for understanding lando's performance during the season... because yes it's easy to say that oscar might be more "level-headed" if he were in a championship position, but like... what does that even functionally mean for his results? imo we place an undue amount of attention on being cool, calm, collected, etc. in high-pressure situations, but that doesn't mean much if you're not simply FAST ENOUGH and capable of making important overtakes. honestly speaking, lando could have been buddhist levels of zen during each race and i still don't think he would have come out of this season victorious, simply for factors completely outside of his control.

lowkey both sides of the conversation exhaust me sometimes because i really came to a realization this szn that so many people i thought were Cool Like That were actually extremely categorically Not Cool and like parasocial levels of defensive over either driver like omg... i didn't know we were FR investing our emotional and mental states in these men!!! anyway. not the point.

"easier" is an interesting framing as well... tbh i don't think oscar is without his fallible moments — he absolutely has and will continue to lose his cool during important moments during races and while trying to overtake someone he's been stuck behind for 10+ laps. i guess the question is more whether those moments will ultimately be destructive and statistically impact his championship pursuits. tbh i almost get embarrassed answering these hypotheticals sometimes because i just know there's some op81 hateur out there who's like LOLKEK he can't even beat lando so what's the point in talking about this and it's like Ok Rude but also kind of true...? like idk i don't think there's much point in discussing mentality when maybe having this kind of neurotic, hypercritical mentality is what's driven lando to become as quick and competent as he is today, and if he weren't like that then he wouldn't even be in the question of a title fight to begin with. every person functions differently and the psychology of being a professional athlete isn't something we can apply universal judgment to, or fashion/repurpose/train when young in a vacuum. so Idk. that's why i'm so handwavey about everything

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I understand that Mclaren wants to give Lando space to make decisions for himself and freely express his opinion, but it seems they have gone to the other extreme and sometimes they make him make decisions that no other driver makes, and from the outside it looks bad, because it seems like they don't want to take responsibility when things don't work out. I remember that after Silverstone I read and saw a lot of opinions about that race, and the opinion that resonated most with me was one from a spanish vlogger who said that he listened to the radios of all the drivers in that race and that none of them were asked which tyre to choose, they were only asked for track updates to know when to put on dry tyres 😃 Sooo.. I don't think it helps Lando to be given the ability to make decisions on everything, I think it makes him more insecure, prone to making mistakes and punishing himself unnecessarily when things go wrong. Lando is expected to have enough leadership to carry the team, so he has no choice but to take on that extra load because that's how it's supposed to be, but it doesn't mean that it works.

it's definitely a double-edged sword!!! sorry anon if it seems like my answers are sooo noncommittal LOL because i do believe there's nuance to this situation but at the same time i definitely agree with and find merit in your perspective; there are times when engineers/teams overriding a driver's opinion causes detriment, but at the same time when everyone else is being firmly directed and asked for objective inputs that the strategy team then takes into account instead of being subjected to impromptu surveys, it does stand out as counterintuitive and illogical. that's kind of the crux of it i guess — knowing which variables inform which decisions and when to ask for them, and clearly they've dropped the ball multiple times with lando.

>re not taking responsibility, i'd argue that the team is willing to admit its faults regarding poor strategy calls and poor communication, so it's not intentionally malicious... But again the intent doesn't undo the outcome which is functionally what matters. and i agree that especially given the situation he was in during the 2nd half of the season, that sort of leeway caused an undue amount of pressure on him that could have been avoided. i especially agree with the burden of "leadership" because lando takes his role in the team EXTREMELY seriously and is thus willing to shoulder unexpected responsibilities for the sake of the team... but at the same time lando is encouraged by leadership to speak his mind, push back, question decisions, etc. so i think the conundrum is that a lot of people's takes boil down to >lando needs more autonomy in order to demand less autonomy< which is what sounds kind of silly asfdlkhdsflkah. but like in the vacuum of muddled communication during crucial strategy moments i definitely agree that pit wall needs to pick up the slack and not create unfair expectations for him 😭

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came here to write about how oscar is always serving void_gender lesbian but then i remembered i've already made 10 different posts about this before

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hi k i think this fic is right up your alley!!

archiveofourown.org/works/60700972/chapters/155008852

wahhhhh i saw this a while ago but didn't see it'd been completed!!! LOVE a hockey au i will check out soon 🧡🧡🧡 ty anon