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[ladysomething]

oh, charles reaching out to max first just to talk about his day and latest gossip was so sweet! can’t believe how far they’ve come :(

i kind of forgot about the whole mess with jos… i mean, not exactly forgot but didn’t give it a thought but now i’m thinking about it and ohhh, it’s all gonna blow up right in max’s face, isn’t it? and he’ll have pissed off jos hunting down his mother (and probably trying to ruin max’s life) (again), ferrari trying to sell charles (again), charles’ omega going into some crisis (again) or something else to make it all even worse. he just can’t catch a break 😭 (i need to hide him in my pocket)

the amount of disgusting people you managed to squeeze into this chapter tho! i think reading about those fia fuckers, wyatt and jos back to back made my blood pressure rise from sheer anger lmao. i hope they all will get what's coming for them. (i really really need them gone but also i need them to suffer)

the way everyone and their mother knows about the auction makes me so anxious. i feel like it’s just a second away from becoming public knowledge at this point. and while i am nervous about it at the same time i am curious about people’s reaction, lando in particular! he doesn’t know, right? i hope i remember correctly. so now i’m curious if public reveal will change his opinion about charles or not.

anyway thank you for the amazing chapter! can’t wait for max and charles to reunite :(

tbh there are quite a few things that are all starting to come back, which is kind of why they're being slowly hinted at/reintroduced, bc there's so much going on lmao.

also this chapter was funny bc its like objectively nothing particularly big or bad happens. except max is just going through it the entire time, being forced to talk to all these shitty people and generally pining for Charles.

and yes, lando doesn't know! only the alphas in the paddock know (so christian, pierre, max ofc, and the other alphas like the McLaren guy and the Mercedes guy), and then people within the FIA know. not everyone ofc, but some key people.

so yeah, the other 17 drivers have no idea.

[ladysomething]

i know he hasn't really done anything and his animosity towards max is understandble and kinda justifiable (doesn't make it any less annoying! charles is the only one who had a pass on hating max, anyone else though... on the thin ice with me), but i like to be prepared for anything so i always try to come up with the worst case scenario and right now i feel like if it were pierre's actions to unintentionally make charles suffer then it would hurt charles even more... so the worst case scenario. and this way if i'm right i won't be too disappointed and if i'm wrong i'll get to be pleasantly surprised!

and i'm sorry about the amount of panicking you went through but reading about the process of you rearranging everything in the next chapters was fascinating 😅

haha yeah look pierre is still annoying af. his dedication to Charles is admirable and yet its like .. dude he's fine back off!!!

but yes you're right. pierre is so important to Charles and the more of a dick he is, the more it hurts Charles.

also np, I'm glad it was at least entertaining to hear about haha. AND I didn't fully delete the whole section I took out, it's now sitting in a seperate doc waiting for a rainy day! I'll make it a standalone I think, set in the future, so it'll be a bit of time before I can whip it out.

but sometime this year I'll drop a random one shot as part of the wygig series and ya'll will know that it was originally supposed to be in ch 27 and I had a meltdown about it!

[ladysomething]

hi! your personal recruit here 😅

i was in a crisis two months ago because i had nothing to read and i decided to find something new so i started to search within >50k words, has been updated in the last 3 months, works in progress (i live to be tortured) (but jokes aside i find it exciting to read fics in progress because of emotional connection you are able to build with the fic) and came across wygig!

and imagine the situation, i see the plot, i realise this is something i would love to read (i like omegaverse! especially the plot heavy omegaverse! people who refuse to read abo just don't understand what they're missing, really), i look at the fandom and the characters and recognise absolutely nothing... but i was at my lowest and i was desperate to read anything so i decided that i will watch some edits of max and charles on tiktok just to see what they look like and to understand their dynamic a little... (famous last words lmao) i opened tiktok..... i saw two unhinged individuals and saw them racing each other..... had religious experience..... and became obsessed in a heartbeat

so yeah! just wanted to read something and now i'm watching videos on youtube to try to understand how aerodynamics affect f1 cars? complete madness but i'm not complaining so thanks i guess 😭

this pipeline is something we can all relate to my queen. something sparks your interest, and suddenly you're a pro in aerodynamics.

and then men have the gall to be like "do you know what drs stands for" idk mate have you ever stalled your kart on track and been unable to get it going so you had to run across the entire track to get your trolley in 40 degree heat with clothes, a race suit, a rib brace, balaclava and helmet on?? bc I have.

also anon you'll be DELIGHTED to know that f1 has the fifth highest percentage of omegaverse fics on ao3. you're spoilt for choice.

and regarding the religious experience .......... same. now I'm half a million words deep in 2 years and own a kart lol. when the hyperfixatioin fixates ..........

(p.s. girl this story is crazy. you're crazy. I love it. welcome!!!!!)

[ladysomething]

i think you killed me with lazarus rises. i bawled my eyes out and instantly went to tell my friend (who doesn’t even watch f1) all about it because i had to share the pain with someone (she had to listen to a 10 minutes retelling of the plot made by crying and shaking me, and by the end of it she was crying too, so i think it’s safe to say she liked it too!)

i really liked the structure of the fic, the way you are swept into the action right away with little to no explanation, and there’s just this panic, frantic energy and charles already in the past, and only then details about time-travel, max’s death and their relationship get revealed slowly. it was perfect and it made everything so much more intense, i got sucked into the story and couldn’t even pause because i just felt the need to read it all in one sitting. and i did read it all in one sitting. and then i was left feeling like it was me who lost her husband. and i don’t even have one.

okay, let’s go in order. first, i got absolutely heartbroken by the young max. he’s so… SO… needs to be protected at all costs, you know? i adore every fic where max has been in love with charles for years, it always hurts so deliciously. and in this one… oh. i was really really close to tears the whole time charles and young max were talking. max seeing the actual living and breathing evidence of being loved, hearing the reassurances from charles. honestly, even just thinking about it now makes me feel so much.

Charles recognises that stupid apron. His team gave it to him on the morning of the final race last year, to bolster his spirits before it started. They’d filmed him opening it, and he laughed himself sick and told the camera he couldn’t wait to see Max’s face.

They’d never posted the video, of course.

this was ruthless btw! as ruthless as kicking a half dead body (me. my body. i was half dead at this point.) no but seriously it hurt so much but i was holding up! i wasn’t crying! and THEN. The Realisation hit me at the same time it hit charles, and from this moment i started to cry and i cried till the very end (and then some). it was devastating to realise original max was gone and even more devastating to realise no one here will remember him nor original charles. everything they went through, everything they shared, every memory — gone. never even existed.

“My Max got buried in Hasselt.” There’s no grave for him to visit, Charles realises. No place for him to mourn.

He feels like he’s forgetting something important, but he can’t quite tell what it is.

everything in this fic was heartbreaking but this absolutely destroyed me. and i naively thought that it can’t get worse. and guess what? it got worse immediately.

their fucking conversation. every time i started to calm down while reading it i would suddenly remember that technically it never happened, that these charles and max, and this version of love they have for each other, never existed, and i would break down all over again. incredible experience 10/10 would totally recommend

fun fact i promised myself i won’t read the latest wygig chapter until i write the comment about lazarus rises and i couldn’t find the words for it for more than a week. still think that all this rambling wasn’t enough because i need you to know how much i loved it. yes, i suffered and i cried, but it was beautiful and amazing and i loved every moment! i’m really glad you decided to finish and post it, it’s going to be one of those fics that stay in mind for years for me. so thank you!! 💗💗

and now i can finally read the new chapter! will report back once i finish reading 🫡

wait bc the amount of times people have told me they don't know anything about f1/lestappen but Lazarus rises (or even wygig) are their first fic for the fandom .... idk how ya'll do it fr.

anyway. I'm glad you liked the structure! it's funny bc I used to play with structure so much more, and then I kind of found my rhythm in my current style and stopped experimenting. but I love doing new things, and with wygig I don't often get the chance to do it. so branching out with style is always so fun!

I HAVE SUCH A SOFT SPOT FOR YOUNG MAX!! he was so adorable but also just so sad?? like baby max crying about Charles unfollowing him?? baby max feeling like nobody likes him?? baby max being home bc he doesn't have any friends??? my darling booyyyyyy

the apron thing was diabolical on my behalf tbh. so was the grave part. ALSO the bit where new Charles asked new Max whether old Charles was happy to see him ... I was legit sobbing. fr there's a pic in my photo album of me with tears streaking down my face wondering why the fuck I decided to do this to myself lmao.

anyway!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!!! it was a beautiful story to write, so I'm so happy that that experience translated into the reading as well.