#WHEW goodnight!!!

[acebytaemin]

and we’re live! i’ve added some songs i’d like to recommend to you all but don’t let them limit you whatsoever! it does not have to match in vibe or anything, i would just absolutely love to hear your music recs!

HERE is the link to collab w me on this playlist and i am soooo looking forward to seeing what you all have been listening to (and also ofc very much would love feedback on the songs i’ve recd hehe) thank you soooo much if u participate in any way 🫶🏻

if i made like a collaborative spotify playlist would you guys put some song recs on there and we could like. recommend each other songs?

[chososluv]

✎₊˚⊹♡ summary: in which i thought of Work Husband!Nanami and how supportive and delicate and how he would be and how i'd want him to ruin me and thus this came along. w.c 2.2k 🏷 tags/warnings: fem!reader, reader has a vagina, office sex, petnames (hun, sweetheart, darling, little work wife), squirting, cremepie, dirty talk, also got excited will proofread fully later

Work Husband!Nanami: Who saw you your first day in the office and immediately wanted you to succeed greatly amongst the new hires. However you had no idea, taking his mature and direct aura personally and thinking he didn’t like you. You kept your distance.

Work Husband!Nanami: noticed you kept your distance and one day called you over. He sat you down and unprompted gave you pointers on how to succeed. You took the lesson with surprise and attempted to hide your excitement that you had been wrong. The man before you didn’t not like you. He wouldn’t take the time to give you a lesson — that you learned later he did not do to the new hires — if he didn’t like you? Right?

Work Husband!Nanami confirmed he liked you by telling you were the most impressive new hire he has seen. The compliment coming genuinely during a moment where he was admiring your work. A mock proposal and he had no critiques for this one. Versus when you first started — almost a month ago — he had plenty of feedback and concerns.

Work Husband!Nanami has to hide his excitement when you are offered the chance to stay. One of three of the twenty interns that came in, and due to your growth and determination, you earn the opportunity to score your first big person job with generous benefits. One of them being Nanami Kento.

Work Husband!Nanami offers to take you out to lunch as a celebration. Officially colleagues, you begin to let loose and relax around him. Your banter became increasingly witty and Nanami found his pants becoming increasingly tighter than usual whenever in your presence.

Work Husband!Nanami Who is oblivious to your slow testing of boundaries to see how far you could go. Your skirts became tighter on the days you knew Nanami would be working close to you — the shirts became magically one button undone whenever you were surprised with his visits.

Work Husband!Nanami catches on to your passes when you take the first step by verbally flirting with him directly. It was with the help of a little tequila, but you looked longly at his wrist, eyeing his watch one day during an after-work-drink. The pretty silver Cartier bringing attention to his prominent veins in his hand and thick digits. . .

Y/N, are you listening?”

“Sorry, was distracted by your hands.” You admit and he felt the heat flush to his face. Stunned by your words but you don’t flench, you go a step forward to bring his right hand into your delicate pair. Your soft hands running against his and he has to fight with strength to ignore that familiar tightness in his pants.

“Your hands are pretty”

Work Husband!Nanami regrets nothing happened that night between you, but he fucks his cock into his hand furiously that night, wishing it was your tight cunt riding him. Little does he know you’re riding your dildo, fucking your tight cunt on the silicone wishing it him instead.

Work Husband!Nanami plays a cat and mouse game with you. A game of flirty banter and longing gazes and touches. The two of you began building up suspense. Each day a day closer to one of you snap.

Work Husband!Nanami is surprised he snaps first. The day he snaps is the day you show up to work wearing a short skirt and high heels that accentuate your ass. It’s your presentation day too and as you turn to the side to present, your ass faces Nanami and he has trouble focusing on your topic. His brain so frazzled and dazzled by your generous rear he is digging his toes into the leather soles of his loafers. His fists tighten and you bite back a grin when you cast glance to him and see his jaw clenching.

Work Husband!Nanami has to flee as soon as the meeting is over. he quickly runs to his private office, shutting the door and sitting at his desk. he throws his head back, muttering and swearing as he spreads his thighs apart, alleviating the tightness between his legs. his mind began to wonder if he could survive the rest of the day with a hard cock and a pretty devil by the name of y/n.

Work Husband!Nanami begins thrusting his pretty pink cock into his hand. the itch and desire being relived as he thinks of your scent and what you tasted like. if you creamed or if you squirted — or shit, if you did both. he thinks about the recurve of your ass whenever he’d hit it from the back, or how soft your skin would be against his when he took you missionary

Work Husband!Nanami panics when he hears you knocking at the door but nevertheless says you can come in. When you do, you lock the door and immediately walk over to his desk. You sit down in the chair on the opposite side, pouting dramatically.

“How can I help, y/n?” Work Husband!Nanami asks of you and you only continue pouting. A dramatic, and comedic, sigh escapes your mouth and you cross your legs. A sudden cold draft due to your plan you had in motion before you entered his office.

“You left before saying anything to me.” You say rather needy but Work Husband!Nanami can’t help but feel entranced by your tone. A moment he realized he liked this bratty side you were displaying. However, he clears his throat and sighs.

“I wasn’t feeling well. It wasn’t about you, darling.” He assures and you can’t help but feel guilty, oblivious that he was just beating his dick to the thought of your scent. You jump up from the chair, placing your hands on the desk and leaning forward. You unintentionally show him a charitable view of your breast but he tries to remain holding eye contact with you.

“Kento, I’m sorry I’m such a terrible work wife.” The first time you let the phrase fall from your lips and he chuckles. He’s well aware of the phrase, overhearing you loudly proclaim he was your work husband to coworkers not knowing he was on the others side of the wall. He waited for the day you would say it to him and today you finally did. . .

And for some reason, that really did it to him because felt his cock twitch in his trousers and then he finds himself looking at your breast briefly before speaking.

“Work husband, huh?” A soft smirk toying at his lips and you can't help but nod in confirmation.

"Yeah, don't you know?" You toy with him, an attempt to remain in control at the situation and you pass it off as flirty banter. He can only smile at you, tapping his hands along his desk as he speak his next words.

"No. Why don't you come show me, sweet work wife?" The low baritone of his voice went straight to your cunt and you're rubbing your thighs together. A pheromone daze shared between the two of you as you two stare at one another. A brief pause before you reach into your bra, retrieving your panties you departed with earlier and tossing them at Nanami. The dainty material lands on his thigh and he immediately sees the navy lace dark blue and soaked through. His cock jumps, and he looks at you. A cocky smirk is on your lips and he clears his throat before speaking.

"Come here, now" Work Husband!Nanami commands sensually before you and before you can talk yourself out of it you’re rounding his desk. He gets up from his chair, meeting you halfway before grabbing your body swiftly. He places you on his desk and it takes you a minute to register he lifted you like you weighed absolutely nothing. Your cunt fluttering at his brute strength and you stare at him doe eyed.

Work Husband!Nanami has to eat you out after pocketing your soaked through panties. His tongue dipping to collect your arousal that dripped out of you. Your scent clouding his nose as he moans against your wet and swollen clit. He sucks generously on the bud and you bite down hard on the back of your hand to silence yourself. Your eyes roll in the back of your head as his hot tongue circles your cunt like he was starved. Your free hand tugging on his blond locks and you feel like you’re about to cum.

“Kento . . . want to come on your cock, please.” You beg quietly and who is he to be a bad work husband and object?

Work Husband!Nanami rocks gently in you after slipping inside. He holds your legs up by the back of your knees, lewdly exposing yourself to him as he pistons himself inside. Your warm cunt hugging him deliciously and so tightly, yet you were so wet at the same time. Nanami is amazed, and already feels so pussy drunk off you surely he’s addicted. How can he not be? Especially with the way your tits bounced with each stroke and the way you moaned, singing his praises he ached to he able to take his time next time he was intimate with you. However he takes in the moment, casting a gaze to see your fucked out face and he wishes he could take a picture . . .

“Been dreaming of this pretty pussy.” He admits. You answer with a mixture of a giggle and a moan. The sound is beautiful and melodic and its something he can get used to.

“Been riding my toy wishing it was you.” You admit before you can stop yourself, allowing this side of you emerge as you felt drunk off his cock. He groans at your confession, rolling his hips deeper and tip kissing the deeper parts of you. It sends your toes curling and choking back a whimper.

“My poor little work wife been suffering by yourself. Let me make it better, honey.” He coos to you gently, kissing your forehead before rolling his hips harder. His long fingers find your swollen and neglected clit. You twitch harder against him, squirting and surprising both of you. You bite back a squeal as your eyes roll back.

“Kento!” You whispered in a desparate tone. Finds himself asking “Are you going to come, hun?” To which you reply — “mhmm, are you?”

“Fuck if you keep creaming on me like this, fuck yeah sweetheart.” Nanami makes a mistake and casts a look down to see his cock coated in a mix of his cum and your cream. His cock has never looked prettier and he fights the urge to fill you right there.

“Want you to come in me. Please, Kento.” You beg and he clenches his jaw.

Work Husband!Nanami has to shove his face in your neck when cums. His teeth biting hard on your neck as his tongue tastes you and your sweat. He feels you fight screaming as the bite travels straight to your belly, and his fingers circle your clit faster. That thread in your stomach unwinding and snapping. Your grip on him tightens as you cum all over his cock.

Work Husband!Nanami silences you with a kiss as he fills you with his cum. The overstimulation causing you to moan, clamping tightly on his cock as you fight to wrap your legs around his waist. He drops his hands, allowing you to do so and you wrap your arms around him as well. He holds you close to him, chuckling as you fell into the aftershocks of your orgasm.

Work Husband!Nanami has to see his cum trickle out of you and onto his desk. He has to fight getting hard again, but remembers one round was risky enough so he kisses your forehead gently to tell you how good you are for him.

Work Husband!Nanami wipes you down tenderly afterwards. He cleans you delicately before situating himself and his office space. When you fix yourself over he looks at you.

“You were perfect this morning by the way. Never been prouder of my work wife.” Satisfied with his words, his praise, and still in the haze of your orgasm you smile wide. You stand from the chair, fixing yourself to leave before he steps close to you.

"Thank you, Kento." You say, looking up as he looms over you. He brushes your hair back into its normal place, looking you over before you walked back into the office. His eyes are filled with nothing but tenderness as he tends to you, fixing your clothes and checking you over one last time.

"Do you feel better now," you nod at his inquiry, "all you needed was to be stuffed with my cum? Naughty." He shakes his head and you only shrugs before grinning up at him.

"Only for you." You tease Work Husband!Nanami and he clears his throat. He leans down, taking your lips with his deeply. You melt, humming gently before his broad fingers find your ass. He gives it a rough squeeze through your skirt and you blush at his gesture.

"Let me know when you need me to fill you again." Work Husband!Nanami says paired with an ass slap as you nodded. You look up at him beneath your lashes as you do before sauntering sultrily away. You unlock the door and exit his office nonchalantly as if he was not fucking you on his desk moments ago.

Work Husband!Nanami now has to figure out how he has to cope with knowing you're walking around the office stuffed full of his cum . . .

©chososluv ╰┈┈➤ P A R T T W O [Boyfriend!Nanami] ╰┈┈➤ M A S T E R L I S T !

[2aceofspades]

throws a shower of stickers to mikey!! <3

Oh how lovely 🧡✨

Very much appreciated, anon!

[cinamun]

So it’s hot as hell and I can’t sleep. I got the bright idea to start your story over from the beginning just to make sure I haven’t missed anything.

And then I see this:

Which reminded me of this:

I got a thing For duality. ‘Night.

[sapsolais]

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[hungerpunch]

ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔσ”

it was a beautiful weekend in the city. i'm fully aware we're in chicago's "fake spring" season and surely we will get snow again once or twice, so i tried to be outside as much as possible.

this wee robin kept me company in the front garden for a couple hours while i raked out debris and old soil, cut away dead growth, pruned trees/shrubs, collected fallen pine cones to use as fire starters, etc. there were several robins about the front actually. i hope that means we get a nest somewhere soon :)

spent plenty of time with munch (who had her first couple pupdates with other dogs since her surgery!) 💖 repeated the process outlined above in the back yard, as well, though there's a section of wild onions along the side of the house that i haven't gotten around to, yet. (we want them there, to be clear, i just need to un-blanket them from beneath a metric ton of pine needles) the back also has wild strawberry bushes and another type of wild berry--can't remember which sort. so pruned and tied those as well.

i was supposed to go to the garden center for fresh compost, which i did get! buuuut i also got some stuff to try out in pots on the back deck once it's consistently up around 50 at night here (they will live in our heated mudroom until then).

edible: chives, leeks, and spinach + lemon verbena, mint, and lavender for teas/drinks

then i also got some plants that are native to this region and good for local pollinators: black-eyed susans, milkweed, linaria, purple coneflower. i'm not expecting it all to live bc u always mess stuff up when ur first starting out but i'm excited to see what happens with it all! everything's a lesson even if it's not success :)

[iovetecchou]

masterlist updated… but at what cost?

[oosey0]

drew this silly guy for a "draw the oc above" game that's running in this server i'm in!!

[fedorahead]

the difference between a right and a privilege; and why categorizing things like "not being murdered by the police" a white "privilege" has disturbing implications (a usa-based perspective)

the us constitution calls the unalienable nature of the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to be self-evident. but what does "right" really mean? or unalienable? or self-evident?

self-evident is the easiest one to define: it means fucking obvious

rights are, in short, what every human being is entitled to by nature of being born. the document goes on to say that governments are instituted to secure the rights outlined above. so, basically, de-americanized, a right is the bare minimum you and every other human being should have, the uncompromisable access to which governments are meant to be formed to protect.

now, while rights are philosophically unalienable, as in, nobody can take away your *right* to anything, they are clearly physically alienable. people, corporations, and even governments alienate people from their rights all the time. for instance, cops often murder suspects and bystanders, without regard for the philosophical or legal assertion that life is an inalienable right of everyone. people are often held against their will without charges around the world, violating their right to freedom. there are many basic rights, but the US constitution really just started out with The Vague Three, and even then those ones are violated on a large scale.

The violation of another person's rights is abuse. The systematic violation of rights is oppression.

so then what is privilege?

privilege is a benefit, a bonus, an elevation or opportunity that extends beyond their rights and gives them something extra. maybe getting the nice parking space at work, maybe being extremely sexually overrepresented in fortune 500 company leadership boards.

privileges can be taken away.

ok, so are you saying white privilege isn't real? or is some kind of right?

no, not really. white privilege is entrenched globally as a result of the violent colonization and oppression of many peoples around the planet. white privilege is a result of oppression; the rights of the majority of human beings on this planet have been violated, and that violation created large centers of wealth and power, and very long tendrils of that power reaching into corners they had no business being.

white privilege creates many of the things experienced in every day life of white people and people benefitting from white supremacist hegemonies. one example is that video game systems are cheaper in the US and Japan than they are in the countries that produce the minerals necessary to even build those game systems. the privilege in this example is cheap access to gaming systems, where the mineral producing countries are actively being oppressed by the economic practices that give them less access to the products of their own labour and land.

privilege and oppression are often two sides of the same coin, but not always.

when i was a kid growing up, i had a lot of emotional struggles because the adults around me did not understand my neurotype or trauma. this was not dealt with well; i ended up dropping out of high school with a boatload more trauma from the way i had been treated by authority figures. what i didn't have to face during any of my meltdowns or ptsd-triggered fits of rage were armed members of the police. however, many undiagnosed or even diagnosed autistic/adhd kids and teens do have armed police involved when they have meltdowns or ptsd episodes, and the primary difference between us is that i was a little blonde white girl* and they're black, or brown, or boys.

i did not experience an ounce of privilege in the way my disability was handled. it was handled poorly and my life is still impacted by this into my 30s. there is no bonus opportunity that i had that would make the world a better place if it had been taken away. HOWEVER, other children who had a worse experience than i did because of their race or sex absolutely were facing oppression.

there is a line where white privilege ends and it's just all oppression. calling an absence of police involvement in that particular aspect of my childhood a privilege is doing a disservice to my friends who deserved the shitty treatment i got at the barest minimum.

sometimes white privilege comes without a direct and obvious oppressive foil. street vendors would randomly try to give me samples of their wares, like incense or flowers, when they wouldn't do the same for people who were darker skinned than me. there wasn't anybody directly losing from that situation, but it's an oddly common life experience for me that just wasn't the norm for a lot of my peers walking past the same vendors on the same streets. us culture and beauty standards venerate young white girls and women on a very shallow level, and that's a presentation of white privilege that, while the cause of it has far-reaching and awful consequences, was symptomized by largely harmless interactions of people not just treating me as human but going out of their way to treat me extra well. And that is absolutely a privilege.

how to tell whether something is a privilege or a right, lack of privilege or oppression

again, i'll start with the easiest place to start: if you lack a privilege, you're not actually losing anything.

if all the privilege in the world disappeared, nobody would be genuinely worse off. it was nice having positive attention from strangers as a kid, but i didn't need it and nobody genuinely benefitted from it. the price of game systems going up because the work going in to making them is being paid fairly also wouldn't actually hurt anyone. it might take longer for an american to get one than it did before, but paying the same for a ps5 as someone in brazil buying the same game system isn't unfair.

the easiest way to tell the difference between a right and a privilege is this:

would the world be a better place if resources were allocated to bring people up to the same experience, or if the people benefitting were brought down to everyone else's level?

so, for the videogame systems, one population has cheap gaming systems and one population is being exploited for their minerals and labour, and then having to pay more. there is clear oppression going on here, so taking away the american discount would make the world a better place. the discount is a privilege.

for the classroom experience, i had a bad experience while some kids in similar positions are arrested or killed. raising a gun at me wouldn't make the world a better place, but protecting the rights of kids regardless of their skin colour and making sure they get at least the bare minimum help i got absolutely would. there is no privilege here, only rights being violated.

as for me being approached by strangers more often than non white kids, really we don't need anyone approaching kids even if they're giving out freebies. that was absolutely a privilege and while it felt good to feel approved of and seen and appreciated, that shouldn't need to come from strangers and since there's a racial disparity for those experiences, fuck that. nobody's being actively oppressed but everybody would be better off if little white girls weren't being given free shit by strangers all the time.

i hope this makes sense, and to conclude i'm gonna fail to answer the question in the title by making you answer it.

given the difference between rights and privileges, is not being shot by police an aspect of white privilege, or is it a right every person should have, that is currently being oppressed?

[phagodyke]

bleurghhhh felt terrible today for no reason. brainfogged to all hell

[cathrrrine]

just eat your food and say goodnight.

erik lehnsherr (magneto) x reader, platonic! peter maximoff (quicksilver) x reader • x-men (movies) • fluff, female reader

Summary: Peter Maximoff is a mischievous little shit. Y/N Lehnsherr and her husband Erik love him anyway. AO3

“Well, I’m calling it a night then.”

A content sigh escaped your lips as you stood up from your seat at the dining table and gingerly picked up your own dishes as well as the other empty ones left on the table. Those who noticed thanked you quickly before resuming their respective conversations — like Raven and Charles who were too busy bickering like children — while others made the effort to collect the ones on the other end of the table, namely Hank, Jean and Scott; the latter only doing so after being dragged by his girlfriend.

“Hey, you got an early class too, old man. Can’t risk waking up late with that back of yours.” You gestured to your husband, pointedly looking at him with a smirk on your face. He mirrored your expression, playfully cringing his nose to tease you but it only made you chuckle, a sound that was music to his ears.

“Good night then, everyone.” Erik stood up, following suit behind you, a melody of good night’s responding to him in different tones and variations of the phrase.

“The old man joke doesn’t age well with you, Y/N!”

Although muffled as he said it with a mouth full of food, it was clear enough for you to hear and snap your head towards him. Peter, the beloved speedster, snickered to himself at his own joke. He was too busy shoving chocolate pudding down his throat to notice that a couple of those around him had gone quiet, staring at him with disapproving eyes.

Raven reached over to flick the side of his head and Charles leaned back to give her the leeway, “Dumbass.”

“Ow!”

In your one thousand and thirty-five years of living, it was no surprise that all jokes about your age had grown stale. You hated them, having heard every single phrase on Earth…it was just plain boring to hear them make unoriginal jabs at your age at this point. If they got creative, you wouldn’t mind so much, but after hearing the same variations of the same jokes your whole life? Anyone would be understandably annoyed. Erik knew this, almost everyone at the table did as well. But, you figured it slipped Peter’s mind. It always did.

As he rubbed the side of his head, he stared angrily at the shapeshifter but was met by a pair of equally disappointed eyes that belonged to a certain Professor. A sheepish look fell on Peter’s face when he realised his mistake.

“You should know not to be too casual with your professors.” Charles raised an eyebrow.

Of course, you didn’t take it too seriously, he was a kid that meant no real harm so you didn’t really feel any real anger towards the young speedster, maybe even none at all. But he’s been bothering you too many times lately that it was starting to get on your nerves. So, you put on your Strict Professor Face and stared him down, determined to make him break a sweat at the very least. It probably wouldn’t put a cork in Peter’s attitude, but maybe you’d earn yourself a few weeks off from his incessant clowning.

Erik suppressed the grin that was starting to tug at his cheeks, he knew what you were doing, so he wordlessly took the stack of plates from your grip and continued your task for you. He caught Charles’ eye and they shared a knowing look for a brief moment.

Peter was in trroubleeeee.

“You do know how I feel about those jokes, Maximoff.”

“Funny, right?” He tried to play innocent, nervously smiling at you.

“I’ve told you so many times before that, no, I do not find them funny. We do not share the same sense of humour. Charles is right, you shouldn’t be so casual with me. We may be friends in your mind, but I’m still your professor, and I deserve at least a minimal amount of respect.”

Whew, that made even me sweat. Charles’ voice cackled in your mind.

Peter Maximoff was rarely left speechless, so it was an eighth wonder of the world to have him staring at you with his eyes widened and mouth shut. He gulped, shocked at being scolded by his favourite — although he’d never admit it to anyone — lecturer.

It hurt you too much to leave him that way, though. You were his favourite for a reason…that reason being how gracious you were to his faults that seemed to be never-ending. Relenting, you cracked a smile and used your powers to jolt him out of his daze and confusion. The sound of your chortling hit him with the reality behind the situation.

“Just messing with you, kid. I think you broke your own record for the longest time of being speechless.”

He rolled his eyes and groaned in effort to mask his relief, not wanting to admit she actually did get him back for once. “Unbelievable.”

“Serves you right for always making fun of me. I’m not kidding when I say it’s annoying!”

“Yeah, yeah. Whatever makes you feel better, grandma.”

You stuck your tongue out at him, “At least I’m not the one with greying hair.”

Peter frowned and opened his mouth, about to fire back a retort but you stopped him by laughing and ruffling his grey strands, “C’mon kid, just eat your food and say goodnight. Careful though, don’t choke.”

Your feet carried you over to your original destination, the intent of loading the dishwasher now appearing at the forefront of tour mind, but it was halted immediately.

As if someone had pushed him forward, Peter sped over to the sink area before you could even turn around, mumbling something about doing the dishes. You glanced curiously at the smiling telepath who simply gave you a shrug in return.

You bid your farewells to everyone again, Peter’s quip of ‘g’night’ not escaping you either when you went to pat him on the back affectionately.

A patiently waiting Erik tugged at your hand, clasping it in his own as he led you out of the kitchen and up the stairs, swinging your hands in tandem with his.

“You think he’s gonna be okay?” You worriedly asked aloud, suddenly very concerned that Peter wasn’t aware you had been joking. The role you played in his life was somewhat maternal, and you didn’t want him to think you were actually being curt with him.

“Who? Peter?” Erik gave you a sideways glance, “That boy’s smarter than he seems, he knows what you were doing. Don’t worry so much, darling. With how fast he moves, I’m sure his mind has moved on to other things by now.”

You hummed in reply, pleased with his answer. “Sometimes I think you might be the resident telepath with how good you are at reading my mind.”

“That’s just called being married to each other, my dear.”

———

“Y/N!” The sound of his sing-song voice was not what alerted you to Peter’s presence, nor was it the sound of his shoes squeaking before he rushed over with his powers, instead, it was the lack of formality. He never called you Professor or anything of the sort.

You never chided him for it, in fact, you’d be lying if you said you preferred the title as a prefix to your name. While many of your students were comfortable addressing you as such, anyone who felt more at ease with calling you by just your name was welcome to do so.

You had a first-year call you Mrs. Lehnsherr back then, when you and your husband were just newlyweds, but Erik was quick to remind them that if they wished to call you by your last name, it was to be Professor Lehnsherr instead, because, in his words, your accomplishments were not to be diminished and should be rightfully addressed.

It led to a whole debacle of mix-ups with two Prof. Lehnsherr’s roaming the hallways, which was a minor problem compared to the confusion of the paperwork.

The days of “Professor Lehnsherr?” “Yes?” “Sorry, not you Professor Lehnsherr, I meant you…Professor Lehnsherr,” had to come to an end, so you settled for whatever it is your students decided to call you…as long as it wasn’t demeaning.

However, no one called you Y/N, just Y/N, but the one and only Peter Maximoff himself.

The young man sped towards you, his hair swaying behind him from the strong gush of wind even as he came to a still in front of you.

“Pete!” You mocked the way he called you, using the same tone.

He gave you a playfully disgruntled look before quickly reaching into his backpack — which looked more like a knapsack, actually — to retrieve a cylindrical object and hand it to you nonchalantly. As soon you wrapped your fingers around it, he sped away again, a quick and impish ‘byeeee’ being the last thing within your earshot before the gush of wind took over your senses again.

It wasn’t until your day ended that you finally had the time to completely relax, stretching your legs and unbuckling your high-waisted, straight-legged pants. You wiggled your toes, sore from being in heels all day, as you relaxed into putty on yours and Erik’s shared bed.

Speaking of the devil — Erik came in not long after, tossing his shoes off and setting his things down on the bench next to your door before throwing himself on the bed next to you, also instantly letting himself relax.

He leaned closer to your side, laying his head on your chest and draping an arm over your stomach. Muscle memory kicked in as your fingers immediately found their way to run through his hair, a familiar habit between the two of you. He closed his eyes as the sweet, heavenly endorphins that came with the satisfaction of your touch washed over his body.

“How was your day?” He mumbled, too lazy to form his words properly.

“Pretty interesting. Finally convinced Logan to come to one of my classes next week. Students have been begging like crazy to meet him.” It was a history project, of which you and the Wolverine were both well-acquainted with, given your ages. “I’m getting the feeling that they think he’s a cooler teacher than I am.”

That made your husband laugh, the sound reverberating as you continued to cradle his head on your chest. “All of the students think Logan is cooler than any of us.”

“It’s not fair, isn’t it?”

“He’s like a mystery, that’s why. Never around long enough to be the one who yells at them for almost burning the school down.” He was talking, but his lips were barely moving and his eyelids were fluttering shut. You smiled softly, trying your best to keep your movements minimal as you continued your ritual to help him sleep.

“Like a cool uncle, then.”

“Yes.” A beat passed, then he spoke again when he remembered what he meant to tell you earlier. “Peter was in my class today.”

“Yeah?” You were slowly falling asleep as well, eyes half lidded and muscles starting to feel limp.

“He spent the whole of it with his head down, though.”

The very image of that made your eyes shoot open, all hints of sleep gone. “Why? What happened?”

It was unlike Peter to be uneventful — he was always doing something , be it throwing spitballs or participating in a one-sided blinking contest with whoever’s teaching in front.

“Nothing.” Erik mumbled groggily. “He was just…working on…something.”

Your skin itched and your eyebrows strained, discomfort firing up every synapse as you went through all the possible reasons. Then, your last interaction dawned on you.

“Honey, I know you’re almost asleep, so can you please hand me my bag on the bench?”

Without saying a word, he raised the arm resting on your body and used his powers to float it towards you, the metal handles clanking together when he dropped it carefully in your grip.

You didn’t have to move your sleeping husband to grab the cylinder you were thinking about, but you did almost startle him when his snores made you lose your grip on the bag.

He didn’t notice, too busy dozing off to even pay attention to what you were currently doing. You quietly unwrapped the roll of paper, barely caring about the sound of it crinkling — you knew your husband could sleep through anything when he was in your arms — since Erik’s snores were louder anyway.

The contents were confusing at first, you had to read it twice to understand that it was a voucher of some sort. With your arm still around Erik’s head, you used what restricted movement you had with your one free arm and just your hand to flip the paper over.

“What is this, Peter?” You mumbled to yourself, reaching for your glasses on the nightstand. Your vision weakened even in your abnormal age, and being far sighted was something you dealt with long before the triple digits hit you.

As if on cue, the answer to your rhetorical question was answered by the scrawling on the back which you recognised as Peter’s boyish handwriting.

‘Sorry for calling you old all the time. You know I’m just kidding. Thank you for always being so cool with me. Hope you like the vouchers for free ice cream. One’s for Erik too. - P.M’

Next to his initials was a doodle of a face with sunglasses on, a two-toothed grin to go with it. It was hard to wipe the pleasant smile off your face, so you kept it on, succumbing to the bubbly feeling. Peter was like a little brother that you couldn’t hate no matter how much you wanted to — you’d even go so far to say he was the son you never had.

You flipped it again, only noticing the name of the store being dairy goods related as you read through it for the third time. It still left you confused, since there was no sign of anything being free printed on it.

That’s when your eyes landed on the italicised font at the very bottom, bold red asterisks between the phrase.

* SENIOR CITIZENS GET 1 FREE CONE . *

Quickly, you turned it around to look at what you thought was an innocent letter written by one seemingly apologetic speedster. You didn’t miss the joke this time, written in very, very emboldened ink, so roughly scratched on the surface you wondered how you missed it in the first place. The smile you had on dimpled into a disbelieving simper.

P.S. HOPE YOU ARE WEARING YOUR GRANDMA GLASSES :D

[dear-ao3]

unfortunately we are back. i say unfortunately because it is Not a race week. but Some People decided to be silly on the off week so here we are back at it again for australia part 2, electric boogaloo.

today is april 1, 2024 and here is everything in australia that happened after australia ended

were just going to go by team because thats the easiest.

see i Told You All that australia is insane. so insane that people decided to keep being in australia after australia ended.

Red Bull

well first up. max verstappens chief race engineer, lee stevenson, left the team. he had been there for 18 years (and for all of the races that max has won). we dont know what hes doing next but reportedly he is going to be joining "the team at the other end of the pit lane" which probably means someone whos kind of sucking right now (williams or alpine perhaps? idk)

and adrian newey. who was rumored to be going to ferrari is now also rumored to have been approached by aston martin who have reportedly offered him a very very large chunk of change to come design for them (all very plausible when you remember that their ceo is lawrence stroll, canadian billionaire)

there have been no more rumors (at least to my knowledge) that christian horner is going to loose his job. but they did ask sebastian vettel about it.

i probably dont have the Most reliable source on this quote (newsweek) but i didnt feel like finding a better one. reguardless, this is what seb had to say on the ongoing situation:

"Of course, I still know the team, Christian [Horner] and Dr. Marko very well, also from my time there. But it is very difficult for me to have an opinion because you don't know what happened and what didn't happen. I think people would like a bit more transparency in this respect, but I hope with time this will all be clarified. I believe that processes can become visible, provided people dare to take certain steps. I think from the principle that you have nothing to hide, you should not shy away from transparency. This applies to sport in general. I think many viewers would be interested in this. But if the information were accessible, many questions could be answered on their own."

aside from a bonkers amount of weird pr, including a new installment of the Red Bull Unserious Race where checo and max race against yuki and daniel in sand buggies and max and checo testing reaction times against sumo wrestlers, the main thing happening at red bull is that they are Hell Bent on reminding everyone of Everything they have ever accomplished at the japanese gp.

and why would they be doing that?

well they seem to still be pissed about the race last weekend.

we have made red bull upset. this is, as they kids would say, not good.

there have been an endless (and i mean Endless) amount of instagram posts from red bull about every japan gp moment they could seemingly think of and then plus a few more.

since the end of the australia gp they have posted posts with the following instagram captions:

-Max has won 35 times since his DNF in 2022🏆

-All eyes on Japan 👀

-Japan here we come ➡️

-A winning run that has only happened three times in #F1 history 🏆 Two of them are Max 💪

-Last years antics in Japan 🇯🇵😂

-Some standout Suzuka memories 🇯🇵😍

-2014 in 🇯🇵, Max his very first F1 session 🥺

-When the Bulls take a trip to Tokyo 😍🇯🇵

-Japan pending 🇯🇵 comment a 🤩 if you are excited! 

-Suzuka helmets hit different 🤍❤️

-An emotional moment 🥹 Suzuka 2022 🇯🇵🔙

-ありがとう ❤️ Any excuse to post more RB16B content 🤍

-Orchestrated chaos 😮‍💨

-Six Time Constructors' Champions 👑 Sealing the title in Suzuka, last year 💪

-That little smile at the end 🥹💋 🔙 Suzuka last year

-We're feeling Suzuka, 2022 🎶😍 The scenes after Max clinched his second Title 👑

-Leading the chasing pack 💪 Back on track next week 🙌

-"Our best achievement, by a long distance!" 😂 When Max and Checo entered the Japanese Game Show realm 🇯🇵🛻

-Japan 2022, where Max became a two-time world champion 🏆

-Counting down the days 🏁🇯🇵 Max at Suzuka last year 📍

now. i know that the teams usually promo the hell out of the races. but this seems to be just a tad excessive to me....

and lastly for red bull is actually something that i very briefly mentioned in the australia update but that was seeing max verstappen being a girl dad

"max has a kid?" you might be asking. well no. not technically. allow me to explain. and i apologize if i have mentioned this before. if i have its been a while.

the year is 2016. the russian gp. max verstappen is in his second year at toro rosso. daniil kvyat is the second red bull driver (first driver being daniel ricciardo) and he has an absolutely shit race. as in, within the space of two corners he managed to crash into sebastian vettel twice, the second time shoving him into the wall. (this was following him basically causing a double ferrari crash at the chinese gp). and well. red bull didnt quite like that. so they flip flopped him and ax verstappen, effective immediately for the spanish grand prix.

"saph" you might be asking "what on earth does this have to do with max being a girl dad?" hold onto your hats and also your horses we are Getting There.

now daniil had a girlfriend named kelly piquet from 2017 to 2019 and right before they broke up they had a daughter together named penelope.

and max, who had already stolen daniils red bull seat, started dating kelly in 2020.

well, that probably wasnt his thought process, but that is what happened.

anyway. max, as we all know, had an....interesting upbringing with his dad and so it has been very amusing to watch him be a girl dad, the small glimpses we get anyway. he has said that he doesnt try to be p's (penelope's) father, but clearly the three of them act as a family.

p often barges into max's streams and talks to him about various things or tries to scare him or whatever. but this past weekend she went to the australian gp. i believe that this was the first time she was at a race (where she wasnt a baby) and it was funny to see max take on the role of girl dad at the paddock:

you know i always underestimate just how long these updates take to write out, i think ive been writing about red bull for at least a hour. lets move on.

Mercedes

well we learned from the australia fan zone interviews that sir lewis hamilton got his dog (roscoe's) sperm frozen before he got "snipped" so that one day he can have a horde of roscoe babies.

look im not happy about learning this either but it was either going at the top or not in here at all. and it deserved a spot.

sir lewis hamilton also did the going undercover answering questions about himself online gq video that most drivers do at some point or other:

a tldr in case you dont want to watch it, aparently a dog (coco) once shit on his air vent in the middle of the night, he wants to climb mount everest, he wants his legacy to be helping people and he is very passionate about making education accessible and achievable for everyone. so once again, man never looses. unless hes driving a mercedes in the year 2024.

he also did a photoshoot for gq

geode didnt get up to much. he wished everyone a happy easter from a cafe somewhere.

there have been rumors circulating that toto has no intention of actually signing max for 2025 (as has been heavily rumored) and is saying that its a possibility just to fuck with christian horner. as much as i think it would be insane for max to go to merc, i think its even funnier if toto is just plain fucking with christian. their feud is absolutely insane and we really need to see more of it. but considering im already deep diving into other things on this post you'll have to wait until a later update for me to unpack their bonkers relationship (sorry) (very not sorry)

aparently mercedes also is replacing puma and tommy hilfiger with adidas next year as their clothing sponsor. which is not great for one george russell who always looks like hes just walked out of a tommy hilfiger ad.

and katya wants me to tell you all that he found george's old tumblr account from back when he was in the junior leagues. tbh, i dont remember the url but it exists somewhere.

Ferrari

so charles leclerc. the slutty soup can. the poorest little meow meow. hes getting so tired of ferrari's shenanigans that hes now completing side quests.

side quest #1: opening an ice cream shop in milan called LEC. supposedly this is happening mid april. not sure why hes doing this but alas we support his adventures (and we know he likes ice cream after that very frankly confusing photoshoot he did of him waist deep in the snow eating vanilla ice cream over winter break)

(im decently sure his favorite ice cream flavor is also vanilla, which says a lot abut him)

side quest #2: becoming a spokesperson for the united nations wear your seat belt campaign. this one came the day after the ice cream shop announcement and frankly was baffling and somehow more unexpected than the ice cream announcement. he also looks vaguely like someone is holding him at gunpoint

side quest #3: become a representative for bali tourism. after the australia gp he flew to bali for the off week and among other things, got tweeted about by the official bali tousism account

charles also continues his streak of non athleticism by breaking a camera lens with a polaroid:

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and i forgot to mention this in the last update but someone had him sign a pair of lightning McQueen crocs at the australia gp

and what's carlos up to? well he posted the outtake photos of his appendix surgery.

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(also hes wearing not one but two smooth operator bracelets given to him by fans) (aparently hes watching band of brothers according to himself, but he found peoples suggestions entertaining and amusing)

and then he hung out in australia and went biking and wished everyone happy easter from the top of a mountain or perhaps a very large hill

he still does not have a seat, but aparently audi (currently stake) are still interested in him and nico hulkenberg for the 2025 season (they've already been teammates together at Renault (now alpine)) but again, if red bull is looking at carlos, will he go there? likely not

there is a tad bit more on carlos, but we will get to that later

and ferrari did also post a throwback to the japanese gp, but it was to post this, frankly incredibly iconic, throwback video:

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i could not even begin to explain what is going on here if i tried.

and on that note lets move on!

Aston Martin

not too much going on at aston (at least as far as i know. i am only one person after all).

the team spent the entire month of march recognizing their mechanics and up and coming mechanics in f1, which is cool of them.

lance strolls race engineer, ben Michell, left his role to take on head of performance operation

and fernando alonso posted an entire essay on instagram about how he didnt agree with the time penalty that he got for nearly killing george russell. basically he got it for braking on the straight and i dint read the fia decision because i didnt want to, but he got a 20 second time penalty for the maneuver. here was what he (or someone from his pr team, who knows!) had to say:

Double points for the team and a better race pace than the rest of the weekend allowed us to cross the finish line in 6th and 7th place. A bit surprised by a penalty at the end of the race regarding how we should approach the corners or how we should drive the race cars. At no point do we want to do anything wrong at these speeds. I believe that without gravel on that corner, on any other corner in the world we will never be even investigated. In F1, with over 20 years of experience, with epic duels like Imola 2005/2006/ Brazil 2023, changing racing lines, sacrificing entry speed to have good exits from corners is part of the art of motorsport. We never drive at 100% every race lap and every corner, we save fuel, tires, brakes, so being responsible for not making every lap the same is a bit surprising. We have to accept it and think about Japan, to have more pace and fight for positions further up the field. Thank you, team 💚!

Mclaren

oscar piastri shocked the entire world with his slutty little soup can waist. yes, thats right, charles is not the only driver with a slutty little soup can waist.

mclaren posted some videos about the great barrier reef and what they are doing to help preserve it. no one really cared about that too much. they cared about seeing oscar in his wet suit:

and several of you were quick to point out that he has a sluttier and more soup can waist than one charles leclerc. to which i say, perhaps he does, but charles has the sass for being a better soup can.

now this got memed and edited to high hell. people did everything you could imagine and then some with this photo. (including photoshopping landos hands onto oscars waist, which was a choice for sure.) but my favorites were the ones where people photoshopped him into h2o just add water:

(via jessessluttywaist on instagram)

and the oscar v alex albon paddel shaming continues

and then there was also a video of lando circulating from during the australia race where after the drivers parade (?) he was talking to max and nearly walked into the red bull garage:

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and there is more on lando but we will get to that later

Alpine

honestly i have no idea what the hell is going on at alpine. it seems like theyre trying to compensate for the bad car with goofy ass pr?

like hello what is this???

and this??? australia is nt france????

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and they also posted a photo of esteban ocon posing with the visor tear off that got caught in his brakes:

aside from that. pierre went golfing? esteban saw some animals with his girlfriend and took a photo wearing pristine looking seakers on a beach? idk not much to report on from alpine theyre just insane as per the usual.

Haas

i dont think ive heard a word about haas. theyre just kind of existing in quiet chaos. nico signed a picture of valtteris ass. he went to thailand with his wife and kid. kevin failed at bouncing a football. pretty much just seems like theyre riding the high of a double points finish. maybe they have finally uncursed themselves after the great 2018 tire incident. only time will tell!

Williams

logan sergeant went to bali for the week off (like charles), hopefully to relax after the hellish australia race. he accidentally photobombed some girl who was at the same water fall as he was taking photos and then felt bad and took photos for her. she aparently had no idea who he was. and then he liked her photos on instagram.

tbh tho, lets all manifest the shit out of logan this week. carlos came back with a vengeance after his appendix. daniel came back with a vengeance after his wrist. logan needs to come back with a vengeance after losing his car to alex last week.

alex albon went to Thailand on his off week. probably because hes half thai. i hope he had a great time and stops getting hate comments about the car swap in australia because it was definitely not his decision.

Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber

stake continue to be silly and goofy. beginning with their april fools joke that zhou was getting a mullet to match valtteri. they had you click a link in their insta story that lead to this:

they also posted a video of valtteri and zhou scanning into the paddock and these were their photos:

but their social media posting seems to just be a distraction from the fact that they cannot do a good pit stop to save their lives.

aside from that, we learned that valtteri can flip pancakes. or maybe theyre eggs? really can't tell.

Visa Cashapp Racing Bulls

yuki went to go see his ex teammate nyck at the japanese formula e race. (if youre asking who nyck is, he subbed in for alex albon in 2022 when his appendix came out, was signed to alpha tauri in 2023 and then replaced halfway through the season by danny rics) he showed up to the paddock and slayed as usual.

yuki also aparently said this (recently?) when asked about how he feels about f1:

and oscar kind of shit on yuki in his instagram post:

yuki responded by saying "and the oscar goes to... me"

and aparently, liam lawson's team is utterly confused about the danny rics replacing him rumors. so maybe daniel wasnt given an ultimatum? whos to say man everything is bonkers and nothing makes sense at all!!

carlos and lando

i think i briefly mentioned this in the last update but to round this out we gotta talk about carlos and lando.

carlos and lando were teammates at mclaren from 2019-2020. this was relatively early on in their careers. carlos had previously been at toro rosso (with max verstappen) and then Renault, but was replaced by danny rics. he had not had any podium finishes at this point. 2019 was landos first year in f1 and he was coming off the back of a very successful year in f2 (finishing second behind george russell) and he had been mclarens test and reserve driver for 2018. (theres a lot of really funny videos of him helping build and tear down the garage and bring people tea from this era)

both carlos and lando were new to the team that year. their previous drivers were fernando alonso (who "retired" at the end of 2018) and stoffel vandorne, a younger driver who had a shorter stint with the team.

also important to point out: mclaren was deeply in the throws of their shit arc. in 2018 Fernando alonso finished 11th in the drivers championship with 50 points and no podiums. stoffel vandoorne finished in 16th with 12 points and no podiums. to put this in context, mclaren finished in 6th in the constructors standings with a total of 62 points. haas finished in 5th in the constructors with 93 points.

yes that is right. haas.

mclaren was decently in the shit. the last time they had had a solidly halfway decent year was in 2012 when their driver lineup was sir lewis hamilton and jenson button. carlos actually finished ahead of fernando alonso in the drivers championship in 2018 and renault finished 4th in the constructors. so mclaren was a downgrade for carlos. but it would allow for him to be the more experienced driver at the team and assert himself and his talent. and as we know, if you can perform at a shit team, you catch the eyes of bigger teams.

and what does this have to do with carlos and lando? virtually nothing but the backstory is decently important.

also keep in mind. this is what these two looked like back in 2019:

carlos looks virtually the same, as he has pretty much his whole career. lando looks like a child on his way to his first day of school (im pretty sure he was 19 and carlos was 24 (?)) (im also fairly certain the both of them shit on the fact that he looked like a kid about to go to school in the instagram post this was featured in)

reguardless. they were young. trying to drag a shit team up the mid field and back to the podiums. and what better way to do that than through the power of friendship!

i dont think anyone was expecting them to be friends, least of all the mclaren team, who was used to barely scraping their way through the weekend. but alas, they became very good friends.

carlos and lando have both talked about the fact that they used to hang out in each others drivers rooms all the time and you really couldn't fake the energy that the two of them had in videos together.

i can't really unpack their entire relationship on one tumblr post, but i can give you some examples of what they would get up to back in the good old mclaren days:

-clowning eachother on their instagram stories

-that one Christmas video where they get asked what nat king cole song is the most popular or something and carlos goes "maria karay" and when lando realizes he means mariah carey he bursts out laughing

-of course there were also all the times carlos tried to teach lando spanish

-the mclaren milk video (seriously watch it)

-basically every time theyre in a room together they kind of just look at eachother and start laughing

-shit like this:

look theres more but its nearly 2 am and i can't find anything else on Pinterest that makes sense so just take my word for it okay

anyway!

mclaren does a series of videos every year called the unboxed videos which is just like various behind the scenes stuff. but the ones back with carlos and lando were incredibly unhinged. they also did a load of challenge videos back in the day

and they were....insane

like this one

and now, this is not why mclaren started to be successful again with carlos and lando, but it was definitely part of the reason. sometimes teammates freaking hate eachother. and these two were the exact opposite. they definitely put the team back on the right track and if this were an academic paper i would argue that their friendship really uplifted the team and allowed everyone to be more relaxed and achieve podiums and better points again now that there was a tad less stress. lando was very sad when carlos left for ferrari, i can't find it now but the video of carlos's farewell speech they pan to him and its just deeply upsetting looking. (and as many people point out, it seems that lando tries to keep this same energy going with oscar)

theyre still friends. they go golfing together and are always seen talking to eachother in the paddock. a few weeks ago at some race carlos walked into a press conference late and lando was speaking and fully forgot what he was saying to stare at carlos.

i should have disclaimed this at the top, but i dont ship these two, im just reporting the facts.

and so. this is a very very long winded way of saying that for some unknown reason f1 decided to have carlos and lando do a video together in australia 2024.

and it was. really something.

i know its blocked on tumblr. please just watch it on youtube. please please please. its the most unhinged thing ive seen.

but alas. that was not the last of carlando for the weekend.

as we know they shared a podium. lando called it romantic. they made a million jokes about how lando should be getting his appendix out as well. well!!!

leading up to the podium, there were a million zillion stairs. carlos walked up these stairs entirely unassisted while holding his helmet and his water and whatever else he was holding.

but! as everyone was quick to point out. when he walked out onto the podium and had to climb up to the top step, he walked closer to lando so that lando could grab his hand and help him onto the podium.

now the perfectly realistic answer here is that carlos had just won a race, was still pretty fresh out of recovery and was likely tired (and also he had just climbed a whole bunch of stairs. the second option is the delusional one and ill let you all fill in the gaps there. reguardless.

but thats not all.

yeah i know, i can't believe it either.

now lando, as we know, likes to stir the pot.

clearly. based on the above stuff.

and he posted another video to his mov instagram from the australia weekend. it is basically an ad for his dads company, pure electric.

but carlos is there. for virtually no reason at all.

he did not need to be there. he is in fact entirely unrelated to the rest of the video. and yet:

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as several people pointed out, it looks like they woke up together, went on a run and got breakfast together. carlos did confirm the run and the breakfast part, at least that it was on wednesday before the race weekend started.

but look. ive said it before and ill say it again. gotta respect a man that is willing to stir the fucking pot.

and with that. i think were about done with australia. hopefully. please let us be done with australia.

Sorry i tried to scroll past but, i know nothing about f1 other than max verstappen is fast, my dad doesnt like lewis hamilton, fast car goes in a loop and sometimes expodes. Could you give me a crash course in f1 drama? Im very intrigued. Whats the tea as it were?

a terribly loaded question, but i will do my best. i’ve talked about some of the drama before like the red bull second seat and the chronicles of haas but allow me to briefly try my hand at explaining the nightmare that is the upcoming silly season

under the cut we go

silly season is when the drivers go through contract renewals, extensions and switches. usually it’s confined to the first half of the season (march-july) but it has been known to extend all the way to the last race of the season and they like to switch people around at random sometimes. driver contracts are complex, there’s a lot of money involved and basically You Are The Face Of The Team so if you have a shit season then you make the team look bad. but at the same time you could have a shit season because you have a shit car. it’s sticky stuff.

so. there are only twenty seats in formula 1. 10 teams. each team gets two drivers. (there’s also reserve drivers but we’re not going to get into that). who ends up with a contract is largely up to the teams, they can pull the contract out from under people they can also cut you mid season. they’ve done it before.

of the 20 drivers on the grid, 14 of them have contracts expiring at the end of the year. yes. 14. you see how this could get complicated.

so let’s meet the teams.

red bull racing. they came first this year (and last year) in the championship. like aggressively first. like they won the championship by over 350 points. they are definitely the team to beat. but if you end up with a seat at red bull, you do have to deal with max verstappen being your teammate and he won all but three of the races last year. he’s the golden boy. red bull are also notoriously silly when it comes to contracts and famously swap people mid season who aren’t performing.

mercedes. merc is home to 7 time world champion lewis hamilton and they have won the championship a great many times, though not since 2021. they are kind of in their flop arc and their car the last 2 years has been pretty garbage, but they have still made it work because they were able to come in second last year.

ferrari. god help the poor little meow meows with a ferrari contract. ferrari is a notoriously great team and they’re trying to get back to the top again but their strategy every single time has fallen short. to the point where their drivers are the ones doing the strategy in their cars while driving. they came in third last year and have been decently consistent at getting first in qualifying and then getting beat by max verstappen on race day.

mclaren. they’ve definitely worked their way up over recent years. they ended fourth last year and have had some championship wins before but not nearly as many as say merc and ferrari. their team ceo (owner? director?) is a little interesting and their car started out a pile of flaming hot garbage at the beginning of the year but they did manage to get their shit together.

aston martin. they are owned by canadian billionaire lawrence stroll, father of lance stroll (one of the drivers for the team). they’ve undergone several name changes over the recent years (force india, racing point, etc). they positively slayed at the start of the season and then one day they sucked. they finished fifth in the championship.

alpine. the frenchest french team. they’re (i think?) still partially owned by the french government. both of their drivers are french. (their drivers also hate eachother but we’ll get to that. just know they’re in the middle of a modern french civil war). they had the opportunity to have a good rookie driver (oscar piastri) this past year but in a thrilling twitter battle, he publically flamed the shit out of them and went to mclaren instead (and slayed). they're usually solidly middle of the pack. they ended sixth in the championship.

williams. williams has been one of the back of the grid teams for the last many years but they have finally started to get their shit together and don’t quite suck as much as they used to. all of the points this year were scored by only one driver though (except one but we’ll get there). they came in seventh.

alpha tauri. they are the sister team of red bull. so technically redbull owns both teams (meaning they can swap drivers between teams. they like doing this.) they’ve just kind of been There for awhile but they did slay towards the end of the season when one of their drivers led the race for several laps. basically tho, this team is the gateway to redbull. they came in eighth.

alpha romeo. recently renamed to stake f1 team (but sometimes they are going to be called kick sauber. this is a whole other drama post and i’m not getting into it). they’re also just kind of there. generally unproblematic. seems that really great drivers who get ixed out of a contract for a younger driver end up here or young drivers who are in their early years are here before they go to a better team. they ended ninth this year.

haas. oh haas. goofy team. they suck. point blank they suck. they keep loosing sponsors because they suck, they don’t win ever (one time they came first in qualifying last year). they cursed themselves in australia in 2018 by not tightening their tires and its been downhill ever since. they came 10th. their team principle got let go (fired?) who’s to say today.

so those are the teams. it is important to note that:

-there is a cost cap. each team is allowed to spend no more than 135m per year.

-not all cars are equal. some things are standard. they all undergo the same testing. but the cars are all very different. so you can be a good driver but stuck in a shitty car. which makes it impressive if you are doing well in a shitty car.

let’s meet our drivers!!!

starting with the guys who’s contract is not ending in 2024:

max verstappen. 3 time world champion. 26 years old. general beast on the track. he dominated the whole season. he’s currently racing for red bull and has a contract with them through 2028.

lewis hamilton. 7 time world champion. 39 years old. he drives for mercedes. he will not leave mercedes until he retires. he really really wants to win an 8th world championship and is willing to stick it out a few more years as long as merc still believes in him. his contract expires in 2025.

george russell. the other merc driver. 26 years old. hes aggressively british and says thinks like blimey unironically. walking meme. got his merc seat in 2022 right when they entered their flop arc by getting his tractor of a williams to finish second in qualifying in the middle of a rainstorm. his contract expires in 2025.

lando norris. mclaren driver. 24 years old. he has notably never won a race in his five years of formula one (mostly because right when his car finally was good enough max verstappen was 20 seconds ahead of anyone) but he is regarded as Very Good. he has only ever driven for mclaren. and even though there is another year left on his contract there is mass speculation that he will not renew his contract with mclaren after it expires and he may move up to one of the top teams (red bull, merc, ferrari) (tho i think he doesnt hate himself quite enough to go to ferrari). his contract expires in 2025.

oscar piastri. the other mclaren driver. 22 years old. this was his rookie season and he positively slayed. like people compared his rookie season to lewis hamiltons rookie season. he also had the positively funniest start to his rookie year because alpine announced that he would be driving for them (he had been their reserve driver and in the alpine academy) and he posted a tweet that basically said yeah thats false i never singed anything with you and im going to race with mclaren instead (he dodged a bullet) and then alpine tried and failed to sue him for $4m USD. he signed a contract extension with mclaren this year and his contract expires in 2026.

lance stroll. aston martin driver and son of the aston martin owner. hes doing ok, tho there was conspiracy that he wanted to quit and have a tennis career awhile ago. but basically since his dad owns the team it seems that hes guaranteed a seat for as long as he wants one.

so now. moving onto the good shit. the people who have contracts expiring in 2024. hold onto your hats people.

charles leclerc. (everyones favorite slutty little soup can). 26 years old. he is currently at ferrari and he has been since 2019. notably, he was given the longest contract in the history of ferrari after a stellar rookie season at sauber (renamed to alpha romeo, renamed to stake f1) where he got the tractor of a car consistently into the points. having the longest contract in the history of ferrari was a flex at the time, but now its likely how he will introduce himself at therapy sessions. ferrari have fucked this man left right and center up the ass with a plastic lunchroom spork. hes talented, he can drive, and he can drive well. but the strategy that ferrari has absolutely sucks. either something is wrong with the car (see him blowing out his gear box on the formation lap in monaco, his car completely crapping out and spinning into the barrier in brazil before the race even started) or they fuck up his pit stops or put him on the wrong tires and honestly its just frustrating. but will he leave??? likely not. you'd have to pry ferrari out of his cold dead hands and at this rate that might be where this is headed though there has been some minor speculation of him going to another team like merc or red bull, but merc doesnt have any open seats and red bull is a whole other dumpster fire of drama. ferrari are going to have to pay him a boatload of money to make him stay.

carlos sainz. the smooth operator. 29 years old. ferrari driver. previously carlos was at toro rosso (renamed to alpha tauri), renault (renamed to alpine), and mclaren before signing with ferrari. he has been at ferrari since 2021 and has voiced that he would like to stay with them for however long he can. there is speculation that lando might replace him at ferrari (but landos contract is not up until 2025) and there is also some speculation that alex albon might replace him. while charles is clearly the golden boy at ferrari, carlos is slightly slower but also definitely consistent. he was THE ONLY non red bull driver to win a race this past year, in Singapore after max verstappedn was knocked out of qualifying by alpha tauri reserve driver liam lawson (more on him later) and because he basically came up with his own strategy in the car while he was driving.

sergio perez. aka checo. red bull driver. 33 years old. and oh boy here's where we open the can of worms. checo was previously at racing point (renamed aston martin) and it was very near the end of the 2020 (?) season and he was out of a contract. he had a bonkers race where he was knocked to the back of the grid and then overtook everyone and somehow ended up winning (there is more to that story but just trust me) and christian horner, red bull team principle, mr ginger spice and definite disney villain called him and said congrats sir you have a seat at red bull! well. fast forward. hes been causing problems. problems as in crashing a lot, generally not doing great and pissing the crap out of red bull. it is basically guaranteed at this point that he will not be getting a contract extension. there was actually talk this year of him losing his seat mid season to one of the alpha tauri drivers, because remember, red bull owns both teams and they can switch them whenever they want to (and they have!) but ultimately this did not happen. even though checo has a seat at red bull until the end of 2024, its mass speculated that he is going to get switched with an alpha tauri driver, probably daniel ricciardo (more on him shortly) mid season because there is a speculated clause in daniels contract that says that if checo isn't performing well in the first few races daniel is getting his seat.

daniel ricciardo. 34 years old. alpha tauri driver. man oh man what a guy. outside of being the prankster of the paddock, he has one of the most batshit careers of anyone currently on the grid. he started out at red bull and was showing real talent and skill and was on track to win things (and was!) and was there until the end of 2018 when max verstappen (his teammate) started getting preferential treatment and also red bull started having a lot of problems with their engines (which were being outsourced from Renault (now alpine) and another team on the grid) and well very very long story short he made the surprise move of the century and decided to sign with Renault (which makes no sense they're the one with the engine problems) and was there for 2 years before moving again to mclaren where he was reportedly not treated very well and had a hard time driving the car so they mutually ended his contract with them early and he basically retired at the end of the 2022 season and became a red bull reserve driver. then halfway through the 2023 season alpha tauri ixed one of their drivers, nyck de vries, because he wasnt doing well and promoted daniel back up to a full time driver at alpha tauri (which we know is only a step down from red bull) but then he broke his hand in a crash in zanvort (?) and then he was replaced for a few races by formula 2 driver liam lawson (who we will also talk about) and then he came back to finish out the season in alpha tauri after he was cleared. daniel has admitted openly that he never should have left red bull and he was given bad advice to do so. hes towards the end of his career at this point and its well known that he Really Really wants to finish out his career at red bull again. he and max have already been teammates before and they do work well together and daniel is great driver (see his comeback in texas (or maybe it was brazil?) this year). so. Pretty Sure that daniels going to get either an extension at alpha tauri or go up to red bull. thats what we all want. get this man in a red bull we need him there biblically.

liam lawson. now technically liam is not actually a formula 1 driver. hes a formula 2 driver, but he was daniels replacement for five races and there has been some speculation and some confirmed news about him so hes getting included. when he was racing for f1 he was at alpha tauri. hes 21 and looks like he belongs in the movie grease. no one was expecting him to slay in formula 1 and he positively knocked everyones socks off. the scene: Singapore. which, if you'll recall, is the one race that a not red bull driver won. this was largely because liam lawson slayed the absolute game in qualifying. the qualifying part of racing determines what order the cars start in on the grid for the race and theres three parts, the first two parts the bottom 5 drivers each time get knocked out and then the top 10 complete for the last 10 spots. liam lawson knocked BOTH max verstappen and checo perez out of qualifying in the second round by going very slightly faster than them, effectively fucking up red bulls race and allowing carlos to win. and he also scored points in that race, which no one was expecting. now thats all fine and dandy, but here's the speculation: hemlut marko (im pretty sure) (who is somehow decently involved in the decision making at red bull though i couldn't tell you how) said that he thinks that liam lawson will be in an f1 seat no later than 2025. meaning that he will probably get offered a contract this year. and hes already raced for alpha tauri. red bull have sunk a good amount of money into him. they clearly want him. so if he gets offered an alpha tauri seat in 2025, that means theres a good chance danny rics is going to red bull. do you SEE how the plot here is THICKENED

yuki tsunoda. age 23. currently at alpha tauri. and fun fact, the only alpha tauri driver to race there the whole year. he had three separate team mates. he is slaying and hes often slept on. he has a bit of a temper and likes to shout on the radio and also hates working out (they had to force him to move to italy or something to work out, long story) but hes been kinda killing it. he led several laps in the abu dhabi race this year and hes decently consistent. people think theres possibility that he could get moved up to red bull on account of the fact that he is younger than daniel and clearly has more years in him,, but there is also possibility that he might not because red bull like to make stupid decisions. and if he doesnt get moved up to rebel, will he stay with alpha tauri? we don't know.

alex albon. age 27. currently a williams driver. alex albon is another one with a batshit career. he started out his rookie year in 2019 at alpha tauri then got moved up to red bull halfway through the year when red bull decided that pierre gasley wasnt doing a good enough job (more on him later) and stayed with red bull for a solid year and a half until he lost his seat in 2021 to checo. he has been with williams for the last two years and is basically carrying the team. like. williams as a team scored 28 points this year. and alex albon scored 27 of those 28 points. and as we know, williams is still kind of in their shit arc (though they are doing much better. they didnt score any points for a solid 2 (?) years. so this is an improvement.) and if you can get a shit car to perform you catch the eye of bigger teams. now, alex has already been a red bull driver. and he was on the cusp of podiuming two separate times when lewis hamilton ran into him. this (among a few other things) basically killed his chances at getting resigned at red bull because he wasnt ""performing"" and red bull are bitches who love to win. but some people think that red bull should give him another shot. like daniel, hes already been max's teammate and he can definitely drive. but theres also talk he might go to ferrari because ferrari think that he might compliment charles's driving style (or something). but going to ferrari at this point is kind of suicide. so.

logan sergeant. age 23. the only american on the grid. the other williams driver. he just finished his rookie year. he scored a grand total of one single point this season, in texas, and it was because charles leclerc and lewis hamilton both got disqualified because the floor of their car had more wear (by literally less than millimeters) than it was allowed to, bumping him up from 12th to 10th. he has never done better than alex albon. he was also the very last driver to get a contract for 2024, with williams waiting until i think december of 2023 to announce his contract extension. clearly, hes on thin ice. but people have also said that he needs time to get used to formula 1 (other people have pointed out that oscar piastri slayed his rookie season this year and this statement about needing time is largely false). where logan ends up next year though will largely depend on how well the 2024 season goes for him.

fernando alonso. 42 years old. many people like to point out that oscar piastri is actually younger than fernando's racing career. he won tiktok creator of the year (somehow) and is also a 2 time world champion. he retired a few years ago, just to show back up again and slay. during the first half of the season when aston martin had a zoom zoom car he killed it, and then they had problems on top of problems and he didnt do well. except for that one race in brazil where he came in third, beating checo by literally .05 seconds. he hasn't really made any hints about retiring a second time and he is kind of carrying aston Martin right now (he scored 205 points this season, coming in 4th and tying in points with charles leclerc, lance stroll only scored 74 points this year.) and they did have their best year yet this year. (though they are relatively new).

pierre gasley. 27 years old. french. drives for alpine. the french team. previously he raced with toro rosso (now alpha tauri), then got promoted to a red bull driver in 2019, then halfway through the season they decided he wasnt doing a good enough job and he got demoted back down to alpha tauri. then he won a race with alpha tauri just to stick it to red bull. after the great oscar piastri contract twitter war, he was signed as alpines second driver, with Esteban ocon being the other driver (more on him soon). estie bestie and pierre (both french) were childhood friends and now hate each other for unknown reasons and basically feuded on the track for most of the season. french civil war at alpine. he scored 62 points in 2023 and came in 11th. not really sure where he will end up, it is possible that he will stick it out at alpine.

esteban ocon. 27 years old. also french. currently driving for alpine. another one with a silly bonkers career. he started out at force india and had a baller few seasons there but his teammate at the time was checo, and checo didnt really cooperate with him too much and caused some drama that cost estie bestie some places and some points. max verstappen also beat him up in the garage once. thats not really relevant but it did happen. anyway, after the owner of force india was arrested for .... i don't remember what maybe it was embezzlement or bankruptcy or something money related, the team was backed by lawrence stroll and became racing point. but all of that happened mid season and lawrence was basically like look ill back you guys for now but next year my son gets a seat (lance) so one of you two (checo and estie bestie) have to go. and ultimately they let estie bestie go even though he was more consistent because checo had more sponsors and they needed money. so he was out of formula 1 for a few years (but was a merc reserve driver) and then went to Renault, which then became alpine. he did come in 12th though overall this season, just behind pierre. so. will alpine keep both him and pierre and keep the civil war going? whos to say.

nico hulkenberg. 36 years old. haas driver. in his 200+ f1 races he has never been on the podium and he really really wants to be on the podium. unfortunately this will never happen in a haas because haas fucking sucks. and everyone knows it. he is getting towards the end of his career though. though! stake f1 will become the mario Andretti and audi team in 2026 (don't question it) and they have supposedly voiced interest in nico. so we will see if he hangs on that long to end up at audi. for now tough, hes definitely hating it at haas. though, haas are going to have a different team principle next year so maybe that will change things. i have a sneaky feeling through that haas will probably end up with another 2 rookie drivers because everyone else is smart enough to not race for them.

kevin magnussen. 31 years old. haas driver. hes another deeply interesting character. he has had one podium. in his rookie season. in his first race. and none since. kevin started at haas in 2017 and then left at then end of 2020 when he basically got kicked off because the team needed money and they wanted to bring in drivers with more sponsorships. these drivers were mick schumacher and nikita mazepin. so kevin basically was forced to retire after the 2020 season. this went decently well for haas. until russia invaded ukraine right before the start of the 2022 season and, well, nikita was Russian and it was never distinctly proven that his dads company (who was sponsoring the team) wasnt also funding the invasion. so nikita got fired and they were literally like 2 weeks out from the start of the season, down a driver. who are you gonna call? kevin magnussen! and hes been back ever since. but hes clearly getting annoyed with haas. there was one great clip from this year where his car caught on fire and he kind of just stared into to, clearly hoping it would burn for a long time. so the likelihood of him extending his contract is looking slim.

valtteri bottas. 34 years old. currently a driver for stake f1 (alpha romeo, kick sauber, whatever you wanna call it). previously, he was a mercedes driver and notoriously helped lewis hamilton win a great many championships, until he lost his seat to george russell in 2022. there was a rather awkward part of the 2021 season where valtteri knew that he was out of a merc seat the following year and kind of just chose violence. he slayed. then he went to alpha romeo, grew a mullet and made a calendar of his ass. quite the glow up if you ask me. hes also very interested in cycling. honestly though, i have my own personal speculation that hes going to retire at the end of this year.

zhou guanyu. 24 years old. driver for stake f1 (alpha romeo/kick sauber, etc etc). hes doing alright. he just finished his second season, in his first season he was majorly out qualified by valtteri but this past season he managed to out qualify him a good 6 times. which is decently good for the tractor of a car hes driving. its possible that he could get a contract extension, but like logan, its probably going to depend on how the 2024 season goes for him.

and thats all the drivers. theres also a few others i didnt talk about, like some other f2 drivers who want seats and mick schumacher, who is currently a merc reserve driver, all of which could be contenders for f1 seats. but one things for sure. this is going to be the silliest fucking silly season.

feel free to add on and peer review me

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rating how SEVENTEEN would react if you wore revealing clothes in front of the members (maknae line edition)

hyung line version here

genre: rating-headcanon hybrid, suggestive ig, gn reader

requested: nope, but reqs are open (just look at my masterlist to see who I write for♡)

warnings: suggestive stuff and delusionality (seriously, this is the most delusional piece of work I have ever written)

a/n: after going ghost for like half a year, I'm back! I'll be sure to be more active this time around, so pls request if you want me to write about something 🙏

minghao

(desperately trying to fight the urge to give him an 8/10) 6.8/10. thinks he's calm but really isn't.

takes great pride in being the only one to get to see you in more risqué attire, so is a little (a lot) jealous when he sees you walk down the stairs to greet the members.

his lips press together in that middle aged white man frown i hope yall know what the fuck im talking about CAHSSVH but he knows the members arent going to try anything with you so its all good

except its not all good because now hes distracted

teases you throughout the whole night, neck kisses, whispering what hes gonna do to you when the members leave, smirking at you BLOOD OF JESUS so that YOU end game night early instead of him (he has an image of peace and serenity to keep up and being needy for you in front of everyone would destroy it lol)

mingyu

-100009999000000/10. please do not even attempt to wear anything even remotely revealing in front of him unless you want a certain reaction.

sees what you're wearing before anybody shows up and begs you to cancel so that he can cough cough hold hands in bed with you for the whole night.

when the members walk in and see him on his knees, hugging your legs and damn near crying, they think nothing of it cause its mingyu and game night ensues.

cue mingyu glaring at everyone who touches you, doesn't matter if its accidental or if its just to give you the dice when it's ur turn to roll, they're getting stared DOWN.

also cue mingyu staring at you with his eyes glossed over and his mouth open like a squirrel staring at an accorn, and practically needing to be punched in the gut to pay attention to anything but how sexy you are.

also also cue mingyu ending game night like an hour and a half earlier and throwing you over his shoulder, barely having enough self-control to make it up the stairs (good luck soldier, it's gonna be a long night)

dokyeom

a solid 7.8/10. bless this mans heart, he would not do anything even remotely territorial or jealous after seeing what your wearing. it actually warms his heart that you feel comfortable around the members because they're truly like a 2nd family to him.

ever the charmer he is, he'll make sure to compliment you with a hand on your waist and a kiss to your cheek as you greet the members coming through the door (idk about you but imagining seokmins hand across my waist WHEW-)

since dokyeom is usually touchy with you, it serves as no surprise that he would be even more so with more revealing clothes, but he can still find it in himself to focus on the game.

but now YOU'RE distracted by his soft touches, barely even able to contain yourself or focus on anything but his hand trailing up and down your side.

neither of you end game night early, and when the time comes, everyone bids you two goodnight and does the separate ways. cue you jumping on dokyeom and him gladly carrying you to your shared bedroom. (what you don't know is that he was PURPOSEFULLY distracting you the entire time, and he is definetly dawning a self-satisfied smirk as he closes your bedroom door)

seungkwan

-666/10. you have chosen the wrong boyfriend to try something like this with, and he will make it very known.

gives you the meanest stank eye known to mankind, seething with jealousy as you make your way downstairs. (this man is literally grinding his teeth, you have created a monster-)

dedicates the entire game night to making your experience as lackluster as possible. I'm talking he'll make you lose every. single. game. every. single. round. without fail. doesn't matter if he's on your team or not, he's just that petty.

the members obviously aren't oblivious to seungkwan's sudden beef with you, but be it them thinking its funny or them not wanting to be another one of his targets, you're on your own soldier.

the only thought in his mind right is how DARE you look this good in front of anyone on the planet earth but him? where is duty? where is honour?? where is sacrifice??? (you and him just binged House of the Dragon, hence his dramatic mood)

game night ends early on account of the rest of the group feeling as though you and seungkwan need some alone time to solve this one-sided conflict. as soon as they leave, seungkwan acts all coy, crossing his arms and rolling his eyes when you say you know just how to make it up to him. as if this isn't what he wanted the whole time lol.

vernon

2/10. this guy won't even bat an eye at your choice of clothing for game night, whatever makes you comfortable is always going to be okay with him. you don't need his approval and he's aware and is perfectly fine with that.

and that's all good and well, except this time you were purposefully trying to make him jealous, so seeing his reaction (or lack there of) kind of bums you out.

don't get him wrong, it's not like he doesn't think you're attractive (you're the most beautiful human he's ever laid his eyes on) but he does not even register your outfit as you walk down the stairs, let alone get jealous in any capacity.

game night starts and finishes exactly how it always does, and when it's all over, as the members are saying their goodbyes to you two, jeonghan makes a slightly suggestive comment on your outfit, which you brush off with a wave of your hand.

it is only at that moment, after jeonghans comment, that vernon realises that your clothing is more revealing that what you usually wear in front of the members. (when I say this man is oblivious, I mean that shit)

"you look good." is all you get from him, as he walks past you and walks up the stairs and turns back to you, confused as to why you aren't following him.

all I'm saying is, if you want... attention from this man, you have to tell him upfront. because trust me, once he knows exactly what you want, he'll have no problem giving it you ;)

dino

–infinity/10. you don't wanna mess with him, cuz he's a jealous, jealous, jealous boy. if he- lemme cool with the lana lyrics but you catch my drift.

as soon as he sees your outfit, he pulls out his phone and texts on the groupchat that game night is cancelled because of "unforseen circumstances." whatever the hell that means.

he will shower you in compliments, his eyes filled with admiration for you. cue you getting kisses all over your face, and when you ask him when the boys are coming for game night, he'll simply trail his kisses a little lower, aiming at your neck to distract you and it works

at some point during your, ahem, devil's tango with Dino in your shared bedroom (he carried you there because in his words, "someone who looks as good as you should not need to lift a finger, let alone walk up a flight of stairs." okay chivalry!) you both hear a knock on the door.

it's the members, worried that one of you had gotten hurt or something which is why game night was cancelled. Dino is as red as tomato when he sees them, stating that you had hurt your ankle and that you weren't really up for game night tonight. the story would be believable if Dino wasn't sweating like he just ran a marathon, and if you weren't wearing such a sexy outfit.

but hey, you're limping as you walk down the stairs to greet the members, so maybe that'll make it all the more believable. (news flash, it makes it less believable, but Dino shoos them out effectively anyways, carrying you back to your room with a quickness, he's not done with you just yet LORD HAVE MERTHY)

thats it, i hope you enjoyed and redoing my permanent taglist, so I'll add you if you send an ask♡

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Of Magic

note: whew dusted off the ole keyboard for this one. if i'm rusty, you gotta allow it. i love this one sm. because i love nanami kento. that is all.

pairings: dad!nanami x (fem) reader

contains: fluff. nanami being the best duh wbk. modern au.

You hear a faint scraping noise from the kitchen as you quietly enter your home, holding your breath while gently closing the door behind you. It's 9:53 PM, and although wishful thinking has you hoping the girls are fast asleep in their beds, you know they're probably waiting for you to come and kiss them goodnight. In your opinion, Kento outshines you in almost every aspect of parenting, but bedtime belongs to you. He just can't do stories like you can—nothing beats the silly voices you give to each character. Your voice range is impeccable.

However, it is late, and you've had multiple conversations with your children about not waiting up for you tonight; one when they had just woken up, another during breakfast, and the last reminder during the car ride to school before dropping them off. They know very well that you had a company event to attend outside of work hours and wouldn't be home until late at night. But still, a small (horrible) part of you wanted them to still be awake, just to hear their cute giggles and feel their tiny, warm hands wrapped around your neck in a tight hug. 

"How'd it go?" Kento asks, closing the lid over the Tupperware filled with tonight's dinner, which looks (and smells) like beef and broccoli stir-fry. You stand in the kitchen with a puzzled look on your face.

Instead of answering his question, you point to the food in his hands. "They ate the broccoli?"

Nanami turns to face you and frowns. "Of course they ate the broccoli."

"What?! They never eat broccoli when I'm around."

"That's only because you don't eat broccoli, honey. You're their hero; they wouldn't even touch chocolate cake if dearest mommy turned up her nose at it."

"Dearest mommy, huh," you repeat after him, a grin slowly spreading across your face. Kento wraps one arm around your shoulders lazily, pulling you into him and pressing a quick kiss to the top of your head.

"They should be asleep—"

"Nice."

"But they're probably not," Nanami finishes. You lean your head back to look at him. The beginnings of a smile dance on the corners of his lips.

You fake gasp. "How naughty."

"Soooo naughty."

"I'll go check on them when I go up there to change my clothes." Kento lets go of you and runs a hand through his hair. Noting the exhaustion on his face, you add, "You should rest now that I'm home. I can pack the girls' lunches for tomorrow too."

He shakes his head. "They're already done, but did you know they're really into star shapes now? It was just hearts last week. I can do hearts. I did hearts like a pro, actually."

"Are stars really that hard to do?" You ask, tongue in cheek.

He shoots you a look. In your husband’s defense, he really did cut hearts into foods like a pro. Every single item that went into the girls’ lunch boxes that could be carved into the shape of a heart, was in the shape of a heart. You always watched Kento from the couch in the living room as he meticulously sliced and diced away to make his girls happy.

You pat your hand across one of his cheeks and coo, "You're the best dad ever, literally." You draw out the word literally, eliciting a snort from Nanami.

"I had to ban that word today."

Now it’s your turn to laugh—your oldest daughter learned the word 'literally' in school this week and hasn't stopped using it since. It's sort of hilarious how she sneaks it into every other sentence. You tilt your head to the side and reply in the most serious tone you can muster, "Thank you because it was literally driving me, literally, insane, literally."

A chorus of giggles erupts from the top of the stairs, followed by a thundering rumble of footsteps descending. The moment in the kitchen, interrupted.

Nanami shakes his head gently and sighs, "Hmm, I wonder if they’re awake."

You grab the back of his neck, yank him closer, and plant a loud kiss on his cheek. "My babies are spoiled like little princesses. They need entertainment to go to sleep, and I am their jester. I bid you farewell."

"You’re going to read them a bedtime story?"

"Yes, I am going to read them a bedtime story..."

"Now? At 10:00 PM? And you call me soft..."

“You are, don’t even start.”

After a beat, Kento says softly, “You're so good to them, you know? They’re so lucky to have you.”

Hearing those words from him stops you in your tracks. They wouldn't mean nearly as much coming from anyone else as they do coming from Kento, simply because he is the best father. 

He’s so patient, and kind, and understanding. He lets the girls wear whatever madness they want, and is completely fluent in their ramblings and mumbles— far better than you. He knows exactly how they like their oatmeal, and memorized the milk to cereal ratio they must have in their bowls or else the world stops for them; he knows exactly what to say when they're feeling upset to calm them down.

He learned how to bake white chocolate raspberry muffins because it’s their favourite. He learned how to do funky hairstyles just because a crazy hair day at their school was on the horizon. He even learned how to patch holes in their clothes instead of telling them not to lay and roll around in the wood chips at the park because he couldn't bear to cut into their fun.

If Kento didn’t know how to do something, he learned. He was always trying. 

To you, your husband is a hard-working, dedicated, outrageously beautiful force of a man.

To your children, he’s nothing short of magic.

[six-eyed-samurai]

KNY X POKEMON II

A collaboration with the creative @cutelittleriot ! PART I

Sanemi as Zangoose, simply because both of them look pissed all the time and the red marks on Zangoose kinda of match Sanemi's scars in a zigzag-y sort of way. Also the white colour scheme

The Hantengu clones have been rethought and as per Riot's suggestion Karaku is a Shiftry - we've got the fans, we got the colour

I suggested a Dragon-like Pokemon as a reference to the tree monster thing Zohakuten created, so Riot came up with Hydrapple!

Urogi as a Ho-Oh because bird.

Sekido as a shiny Rotom, simply because of their electricity and similar enough colour scheme (I bet he's getting bullied for being the smallest Pokemon)

Because of Tengen's flashy jewelry and things, we've got a Kommo-O for him. Honestly the sheer size too played a factor...

Genya as a Lycanroc, because of the Mohawk looking...thing. (Thankfully this Pokemon doesn't carry a gun however)

Once again sheer size plays a factor, but Gyomei and Rhyperior both share that stone thingy. Plus there's that stone thing on the Rhyperior's tail that resembles Gyomei's flail.

Giyuu as a Samurott! Both blue and uses a sword (you get the point)

Kaigaku as Luxray. Originally he was a Pikachu but Riot came up with a better match for his colour scheme and I dunno about you but Kaigaku has no cuteness factor unlike Pikachu

Glaceon as the Tokito twins, because colour scheme, ice-mist relation and as Riot pointed out, the bangs

Weavile as Douma because fans and ice. Nothing else to be said.

Kokushibo as Ceruledge, mainly because they got this Mega monster vibes and colour scheme and swords.

A/N: Whew, that's a lot covered, and my right hand is tired from doing akk tge work egile i eat a Subway cookie ajd i probably dhould be sleeping goodnight yall. if you have sny moer ideas ill be glad to hear them!

[djokeery]

hi, driveinitagain from twitter here!

just adding to this little thread of photos to say that andrew is literally the sweetest, most soft spoken, direct eye contact, kind listener i've ever had the honor of meeting. he asked me how i was doing before i could get the to chance to ask him the same, he kept the friendship bracelet i gave him, he was so, so excited to be there, he high-fived me after our last photo, thanked me for coming........i literally couldn't have—and didn't—asked for more from him. i just wanted him to feel comfortable. it was an overwhelming experience for me, so i can only assume it was even moreso for him, so i hope he's somewhere happy and getting some well-earned rest. he didn't have to do any of this, and i'll never forget how lucky i am that my first comic con got to be his as well. he's the best, and i love him a lot. :')

ANDREW GARFIELD with fans at the Superhero Comic Con San Antonio - day two

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"Me: Could you do the praying moment from "Silence"? Andrew: Sure. Because I am Japanese from Nagasaki." (Reimond1997 tt)

"Spider-boy! king of thieves! what’s a panini? // what a way to spend a day! truly. first comic con for him and i—he’s the best person, ever. the world does not deserve Andrew Garfield. feels really good knowing i hopefully made him feel a little extra loved this weekend. <3" (driveinitagain tt)

"I did! Caption: “When the camera pans to you at the Oscars unexpectedly” Andrew Garfield was lovely and so kind to recreate this. I tried! Lol" (CalebisLOST tt)

Amazing human being ❤️