#GALEX MUTUALS THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR LOVING YOU

[russilton]

Second top post on my blog is fuckin galex… the things this webbed site subjects me to

[albonious]

hiii hope u dont mind me asking, but could u recommend ur favorite galex long fics out there? also!! ur fic u have pinned i read it before we even were mutuals and it's SO GOOD one of my favs!!

ahh thank you so much, i'm glad you liked it!!

i don't know what you consider a longfic but since there are barely any 50k+ galex-centered fics i will list my favourites that are 20k+ lol

all green lights by venerat (22k) f1 driver george texts the wrong number after a hookup and he and non-famous alex start texting, and then they accidentally meet in a club.

it's you i fell into by glitterbb (@yesterdayiwrote) (22k) george and alex go on married at first sight and get married to each other.

nothing but teeth by crescenteluce (@janinaduszejko) (25k) george finds out alex has hooked up with guys and becomes obsessed with it, so they end up hooking up as well and not talking about their feelings (but what else is new).

you and me till the end of time by alltimecharlo (28k) george has a four-year-old daughter and alex is her preschool teacher, and actually, his daughter's preschool teacher is really cute, george thinks.

wait 'till the world is mine by lewisshamilton (@georgerussells) (30k) this is a classic. george finds out he's the crown prince of the uk and alex is with him through all his struggles.

who's that guy? by ohmygaslys (singsweetmelodies) (@singsweetmelodies) and welightitup (@welightitup) (31k) a new girl au! if you (like me) have never seen new girl, yuki, pierre and alex live together and after max and daniel moved out, they needed two new roommates, who end up being (surprise surprise) george and charles, who also happen to be alex' and pierre's exes. george and charles think pierre and alex are dating, pierre and alex think george and charles are dating and yuki is just so. incredibly. done with them all.

what do i know? show me the right way to go. by tiredtiredsharl (34k) musician alex and actor george used to date, but broke up and became strangers. years later, they reconnect because the band alex is in is writing the theme for the james bond movie george will be playing in.

champagne gold by lewisshamilton (@georgerussells) (34k) alex, son of the uk's prime minister, and george, crown prince of the uk, fall in love. it's as simple as that. (loosely inspired by rw&rb).

ode to a conversation stuck in your throat by prettyrotten (@prettydangrotten) (40k) loads and loads of miscommunication, they both can't talk about their thoughts for shit and it's so awkward but it's so damn rewarding when they finally get their shit together and talk.

confide in me by glitterbb (@yesterdayiwrote) (45k) alex, writing for a right-wing tabloid, meets george, son of the labour party leader, at a labour party event and against all odds, they fall in love.

if you know some more good galex fics, please send them to me, i am desperate for some more content of them!

[1425fivefive]

You said maxiel/galex are some of your favorite ships to read (yessss hard agree on the quality!) and landoscar is ur fave to write. Sooo im curious if you could like commission your dream landoscar fic to read, what would be the premise/dynamic? ❤️

Can I be so self-involved and say my dream Landoscar dynamic is the one I’m writing right now? Something about Lando and Oscar having just, like, insane sexual chemistry but no ability to actually communicate about or process feelings. All wrapped up in self-loathing and insecurities while being absolutely obsessed with each other. Secretly loving the other for their flaws, while not being able to say any of that out loud. Because they’re teammates, because they’re scared, because they can’t tell if they’re reading it right. Getting the sex so right and fucking up all the other bits

Idk, just. Messy mutual obsession with hot rancid sex. Freak4freak

[bright-and-burning]

sending you a yapping ask... ofc i know youre a passionate landoscar flag waver but i'm curious about what other ships you like?

oooooooo… honestly might be faster to ask me what ships i don’t like. that is only half a joke… general tier list of ships goes like.

landoscar (my leetle guys… my two sharp toothed sopping wet kittens in a tattered cardboard box that i find half in the gutter behind my apartment…) is like the top most tier. their hold on me is unshakeable.

things i will almost always click on: jendo, markoscar, those two in other interesting configurations, nortrell, nortrell+oscar, maxf + oscar... but ok honestly if a mutual recommends it i will click p much regardless of ship unless it’s one of my few Absolutely Nots akdhskdh

and then i like many Other lando and oscar ships… ill read some loscar, 2019 rookies in various shapes (triangles, sides of triangles, besties), nico r/lando (listen. hear me out. anyone else seen All Those Clips? yeah.). fernando/either of them. i am kind of intrigued by lando/lance which is out of left field i know but ive read a couple fics… i fuck w the vibes… i want to examine the vibes under a microscope… that’s less high up on the list tho bc of the sheer rarity. norstappen sometimes hits but i gotta be in the right mood. uhhhh there’s honestly only like two ships w them that i am Quite Hesitant to click on (like i need it to be written by a trusted mutual, or come recommended by 3+ trusted mutuals, etc) that fall into this category and they’re both w the same guy 😭 sorry 2 that man…

outside of the realm of mclaren slutting it up! pierreste is like . probably on the same level as like jendo and markoscar 2 me. fernando/lance (i accidentally wrote lando here on rhyming autopilot) a centimeter lower. the centimeter there is caused by like . i could write pierreste i don’t think i could write fernando/lance w any sort of realism/good voices involved. but i love seeing them be freaks on the dash. charlos when im in a mood ! the catholicism and religious-tinged devotion of ferrari as themes (and in reality) freaks me out sometimes tho so the stars reaaaally have to align for that. galex as a treat on occasion! logex (or whatever the fuck it’s called. have i mentioned i dislike portmanteaus .) HITSSSSS but rn it makes me Very Sad so. yuki/many people bc i love him but lowkey yuki/liam… chefs kiss ba dum tss. PRINCESS CAKE WHICH I JUST REMEMBERED EXISTS. martian… lots of older ships actually!! brocedes but less frequently for Weird Headspace reasons. who has the tag that’s like “never beating the polycule allegations” that’s for the 2010s grid cuz that’s how i feel abt those ships . mix em all up im sure ill like what comes out.

the “bc of my friends <3” category includes uh. glance, which i will absolutely read when it’s brought to my attention and support the mutuals in their endeavors (including reading + reblogging their fic/web weaves/etc) but tend to kind of . let slip from my mind otherwise. piarles is in that same boat. sebchal a little lower on the “will read” priority list. probably more that i am forgetting; it is very hard for a fic to be something ill Never read (so long as it’s written by a friend at least) it just might take me longer to get around to it

and then there’s the like. i am deeply intrigued but have never delved into them category, which is like. hulk/kmag. valtteri/zhou guanyu. like i see things of them on the dash and im like . wow there is something deeply psychosexual going on here . but have never gone deeper…

lots of the ships i missed are probably more like. i am intrigued (not deeply so) and have read a few fics that made me crazy but never quite caught the bug. there’s maybe . a handful of ships i generally dislike and they’re for very silly reasons mostly lol

[inchidentally]

I am new to the Landoscar fandom but I adore their chemistry and the fics. I saw your post about how you’re a part of the fandom that actively protects the girls in their rl which is awesome because I didn’t even know what the Carlando fans had done. I’m so happy to hear this fandom seems a bit more mature than that. How can I join? I’d like to make like minded friends 😊

yes!! we love and support Lily here and the line between shipping landoscar as a couple vs as their real life relationship is extremely clear. a similar ship is George and Alex where both Lily and Carmen are beloved by the people who ship galex. it's so easy to not hate women, adore the two guys' real life friendship, and then ship them romantically for fun in non-public spaces. so so easy.

the larrying of car|ando breaks my heart a little bc that was my first F1 rpf ship and I also love their real life friendship - genuinely the Singapore race meant way more to me emotionally for Carlos having always been big protective brother to Lando than needing to put on ship goggles. no one rly knows why car|ando is the one that people have decided is "legit" esp when Daniel and Lando straight up did the gay baiting stuff and Max V is the only driver that Lando actively has an off-season engagement with (as well as a longer driver relationship than Carlos or Daniel). but there's no reasoning w people who use vile rampant misogyny against real life girlfriends as if that will someone make two guy friends suddenly get married or whatever.

but I will say that a lot of us who still ship car|ando aren't in the larry crowd and can distinguish reality from fiction so don't be too spooked off them <3

honestly as a relatively new blog myself I can tell you that everyone in landoscar fandom is extremely kind and welcoming! my walls of text have got to get tedious at times but if anyone's annoyed then they don't say and just scroll on by!

but a heads up that tumblr is a very tricky place for keeping up with people and content by the tags and dash alone so I would make sure to tag your posts very well and also just start sending in some asks to blogs! personally I try to systematically check mutuals blogs bc tumblr sometimes shoves a person's posts wayyyy down.

and this is a personal preference and I'm not sure if you're a fic writer but it's such a huge help with fic posts if there's a banner or even just a pic bc for some reason those show up on my dash more than text post only fic.

[landinrris]

slides ask across the table on a folded slip of paper

Trying to sneakily start a questions chain so we can all get to know each-other a bit better in the F1blr univers

Name (or what you want to be called on tumblr)

Where are you from?

Where do you live?

Any pets?

Favorite driver(s) currently on the grid, and why?

Favorite driver(s) not currently on the grid and why?

Favorite romantic driver pairing(s) (e.g. Maxiel, Carlando)

Driver you’re most attracted to physically

Driver whose personality you like best

Favorite driver friendship(s)

Favorite team principal

Favorite team

Least favorite team, if any

Driver(s) you dislike, if any

If you’re a fic writer: if you could only write about one f1 pairing for the rest of your life who are you choosing?

Please send this to 10 (or more!) other F1 tumblr users that you love and want to get to know better 🫶💜

Me looking at this folded piece of paper and laughing from six feet away

@jolandax13 also sent me this, so much love to her 🥰😘

Name: Taylor (it's in my bio so feel free to use it!)

Where are you from: Originally from the Southeast U.S. I split time between two states pretty equally growing up

Where do you live: Currently live somewhere in North Carolina (if you know the city you know 😏)

Any pets: I have two cats, Birdie and Charlie who constantly harass each other and drive me lowkey insane. Wouldn't have it any other way though

Favorite drivers currently on the grid: Lando, Carlos, and Alex. The tier list on my pinned post is a pretty accurate current ranking.

Favorite driver not on the grid: I'll admit I'm a newer fan, so my favorite driver not on the grid would be Seb.

Favorite pairing: Carlando (surprise surprise, right?) followed by a really big soft spot for Galex. Here's a general comprehensive chart of the current grid

Most attracted to: Tbh, I'm probably most attracted to Lando, Alex, or George, but kind of in an aesthetic way more than anything? Idk, it's hard to explain on a good day

Best personality: Alex followed by Lando. Maybe Carlos if I need a chill and mellow time. Get some fancy coffee together.

Favorite driver friendships: Generally who I like in a shipping sense. So, Carlos and Lando; Alex and George; Alex, George, and Lando; Lando and Max V.

Favorite team principal: easily Andrea '🐐' Stella right now.

Favorite team: McLaren, unsuprisingly

Least Favorite team: Alpine after the various shit they pulled last year even though some of those people that made it that way are gone

Driver you dislike: apologies to the mutuals, but Daniel and Charles mostly because of their extreme fans

Fic Writer: the way I already really do this, but if I had to choose one pairing to write for, it's going to Carlando

[semperama]

How did you get into F1? What drew you to your ships?

I am one of the masses who came to F1 through Drive to Survive, haha. Actually, my father-in-law started watching Drive to Survive, and then F1 itself, and he kept trying to cajole my husband and I into it. We resisted for a while, but then a couple things happened. 1. My son got really into cars, so we started watching F1 recaps on YouTube in the mornings while we were eating breakfast, and 2. A couple of my beloved mutuals on here started posting about F1. So I finally caved and watched DTS, and then I was hooked!

As with a lot of people who started out watching DTS, I fell in love with Daniel from minute 1, so any ships I loved were obviously going to have to involve him in some way. At first I had bought into the narrative that Daniel and Max didn't like each other, but after I watched a few of the compilation videos of how they interacted with each other in the Red Bull days, their chemistry was just so undeniable. Plus I enjoy the grumpy/sunshine aspect of it, and once I started to dig into it more, I do really enjoy the thing of like...Max's star rising in the sport just as Daniel's was fading and what that means for their relationship. It's very chewy in a good way!!

I like Ricrussell for similar reasons. Daniel and George are very different in some ways but also very similar in some ways, and I think the ways they are similar and different are perfect both for chemistry and for conflict. I've spoken a little on this before, but the idea of George as someone who tries so hard to be liked and doesn't always achieve it vs. Daniel who tries so hard to be liked and it works? *chef's kiss* Sprinkle on a little George-wearing-Daniel's-merch and a pinch of "Danny", and I'm hooked.

I do enjoy a lot of other ships, but others haven't grabbed me quite as much. I've written Piarles and would again, but they are like...almost too perfect for me! I need more conflict. They're bffs and clearly already in love, so what do you do with that, haha. I like Yukierre too, but the problems are similar. I enjoy reading both of those ships, though.

I also really love to read George/Alex, and I honestly think Galex writers have done some of the best and most interesting (to me!) work in this fandom, BUT....I have no idea who Alex is as a person. His personality baffles me. I cannot get a handle on it. So yeah, I love them, but I simply could never write them.

[wolfiemcwolferson]

Hii!! :)

Stranded on a Desert Island + Mutual Pining // Piarles or Galex please

George is like somehow ridiculously competent at survival? Sure, Alex knows how to climb the trees and he managed a decent enough shelter, but George starts the fire and he knows what kind of nuts and fruits and bugs they can eat and when Alex asks, he shrugs and says “I always look this stuff up before we go somewhere.”

And it makes Alex love him more. Which is stupid because he doesn’t have energy to love George when George doesn’t love him and they’re trying to…ya know…survive.

So he’s not going to bring it up.

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George has loved Alex since before he can remember and his first thought when their boat goes down is “oh god, I have him all to myself until they send someone,” but then they’re on the island for 22 days and George just thinks “oh god, I have to keep him alive until we get off this island.”

It’s disgusting and awful, but George always makes sure Alex has enough to drink and enough to eat and he just tries to keep them both alive.

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They have to stay in the hospital for weeks. Alex has some kind of infection in his arm and George is so malnourished that some of his hair falls out and it’s awful because they’re really fine, mostly. Except George wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about the fire and Alex keeps thinking that his food is bad.

It’s fine.

They get released and they go home and George thinks it’ll all go back to normal until he’s laying on his couch in silence, trying to remember exactly how Alex had looked with his red nose and his blonde hair when someone knocks on his door.

They haven’t seen each other since they got back. Something about trauma bonds developing and their therapists had said it was best.

Mercedes probably sent someone. George turned his phone off this morning because he hates it now, but it’s Alex - bag slung over his shoulder - looking spooked.

“I was hoping I could stay with you.” Alex says.

George let’s him in because he’s in love with him, but he does say, “we aren’t supposed to-“

“Well, they’re not taking into account that I’m in love with you, are they?” Alex says easily, like it doesn’t turn George over - just like that boat wreck did.

George shuts his mouth and he makes them some tea.

[1425fivefive]

Fic Writer Interview 💕

tagged by @lovelylotusf1 & @foggieststars tysm for the tags 💕

How many works do you have on AO3?

9, which is a surprise to me. I swear I can only remember 3 things I've written at any given time. Every other fic does not exist to me.

What's your total AO3 word count?

126,149. I don't wanna talk about how much time I've spent writing this year (I haven't finished a book since July 🙃)

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Don't Want Your Sympathy, Just Your Company (1,259)

Sexy to Someone (Is All I Really Want) (631)

Be Sweet for Me (Only Me) (631)

Feline Fever (575)

I Wouldn't Ask You (To Take Care of Me) (496)

To this day, I'm so surprised by how popular Sexy to Someone is (my first completed fic, featuring Carcar). Like the fact that it has equal kudo to my most popular Lestappen fic shocks me every time.

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes, always! I'm always so stunned and grateful someone's taken the time to leave a comment about my writing that like ... it would make me so sad not responding to them.

Sometimes it takes me longer, especially when they're comments on older fics, just because I don't really remember fics after I've written them (object permanence issues I guess) and I have to go back and reread a bit of it, especially if the comment is engaging with something specific about the fic

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

Lmao as if I could write an angsty ending. Maybe Sexy to Someone, because it's sort of ambiguous what Oscar and Carlos's relationship is at the end of the fic (even though the sequel makes it clear these two bitches are certainly mutually obsessed and made for each other). But I just need people to be happy. I didn't realize I was such a romantic until I started writing fic

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

Don't Want Your Sympathy. Oscar asking Lando, "I'm hoping to have you forever, if you'll let me," and Lando saying, "Forever sounds pretty good to me"?? This is the closest I will ever get to writing engagement or marriage in any of my fics

Do you write crossovers?

No!

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Never, probably because I lock all my fics. I only receive hate for the opinions about drivers that people project onto me lmao

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I recently posted about how I feel like I should only write smut, so. Yes. I genuinely tried writing a fic without any smut (my Landoscar genie fic which is only 1,000 words away from being finished) but I got so bored and fed up I had to shelve it. I just. Love writing about sex and desire and shame and wanting someone so badly it makes you kind of wretched and pathetic. I would describe most of my smut as dealing with the mortifying ordeal of being known. Like the terrifying intensity of finding someone who fully matches your freak

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of

Have you ever had a fic translated?

No!

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

This is so insane, but my friend and I in uni wrote joke fanfic about ... our lives starring like vaguely fictional versions of ourselves and people we had crushes on. We only shared it with each other and honestly like ... lock us up. She wrote me a fic for my birthday about me having a threesome with Aubrey Plaza and Adam Brody. Like we were really unwell

What's your all-time favorite ship?

All-time ship for me for years was Veronica and Logan from Veronica Mars, and it probably still is if I manage to completely ignore season 4. Within F1, my favorite ship to read is probably Galex or Maxiel (the quality of fic is just so high in those ships), but my favorite to write is Landoscar. I just think Landoscar are kind of pathetic losers (affectionate) around each other and it suits so many different tones in fics. A rich canon to draw from etc. etc.

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

Too many. Probably my Lestappen exes-to-lovers vacation fic. I realized it was just like ... too much work for a fic I wasn't that invested in. I might condense it and turn it into a oneshot with a few flashbacks interspersed.

What are your writing strengths?

Characterization and smut. Like I truly find writing sex so easy. And characterization (for most people, I find Charles weirdly hard) comes pretty easily just because I watch a lot of videos and like imagining how people would respond to different situations

What are your writing weaknesses?

Plot plot plot. I hate planning fics. I have vibes and ideas and scenes and themes, but I despise figuring out how to get from point A to point B. Especially because I'll be writing a fic and think, "He would not fucking say that," but I need him to say it to make the plot work. So then I end up scrapping the plot because I can't bear to have people act out of character

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Lmao I get such secondhand embarrassment when I read my Carcar fics. Why was I having Carlos say those things? (My excuse is that my partner speaks Spanish and uses a lot of those nicknames for me so ... write what you know and all that)

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Star Trek Next Generation. I wrote a full screenplay of an episode when I was like nine where the ship computer became sentient and took over the ship

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

Norstappen. I need it. I need to write it so bad. I just wrote a scene between Lando and Max in Learned Behavior (my current wip) and ... oh my god their dynamic is so awful and weird and delicious to me

What's your favorite fic you've written?

Don't Want Your Sympathy is the easy pick, just because it was so much work and I felt like I had no idea what I was doing, but so many people love that fic and reading it back I realized I also really like it, even if I felt an insane compulsion to edit it.

But my secret pick is Feline Fever. Like the porn in that is literally all of my kinks, and it was my first truly rarer pair to write and I felt like I was trying to dig for treasure with no map. It was so freeing to realize I could just do whatever I wanted with them because people didn't really know what to expect!

No pressure tagging @disarmd, @wedriftlikelonelyplanets, @utopiastri, and @beensinning if you all are interested!!