#but unfortunately i am so it is much harder

[verstappentime]

since i haven’t shared anything in forever, here’s this year’s inchident anniversary fic. takes place after/in the same verse as last year’s, but you don’t have to have read it. takes place on sprint/quali day (which i unfortunately experienced in person, fun fact!!)

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“We keep ending up here, don’t we.”

Charles’s eyes snap up to see Max. He hadn’t noticed him coming in. He’s trying to do his breathing exercises.

He takes an airpod out. “You have five minutes,” he says. “I have to go to the debrief.”

“So do I.” Max shrugs, easing down next to him. “I haven’t seen you since this morning.”

Max offers his hand; Charles takes it, linking their fingers. He squeezes until he feels ready to let go. He’s already calmer, just having him here. “Congratulations,” he says, even if he doesn’t want to.

“Thank you.” Max leans over to kiss his temple, touching his cheek briefly. “I am so glad you’re okay.” He chews his lip. Charles didn’t notice he looked weird until now. “I didn’t get to see you. Usually we— on the grid.”

He always, always breaks away to tell Charles to be safe. To lock eyes with him and in that dead serious, Max Verstappen way, say I love you. But they hadn’t seen each other before the recon laps.

“Max. Come here.” Charles grabs him before he can pull away, wrapping an arm around his shoulders and tugging Max into his lap. “It’s okay,” he says quietly, sliding his hand up under Max’s shirt to stroke his thumb up his spine.

“Okay,” Max exhales, but he presses close, sliding his arms around Charles’s waist. “I love you. I hate being scared for you. It is not like me.”

God. Charles has to wonder how he can feel so fucking miserable when someone loves him this much. When that someone is right here. It’s starting to dissipate. “I love you so much,” he says. “We tied for points in the sprint, hm?”

“Yeah.” Max laughs. “Guess so.”

They sit for a minute. The time must be ticking down. Max stays tucked up against him, tipping his head against Charles’s shoulder. “Distract me?” Charles asks quietly.

Max kisses his shoulder. “I’m disappointed you had a bad day,” he says. “I was thinking it would be nice to propose here some day. But now you won’t like it.”

It used to make him so scared, thinking about marrying Max, thinking about being that attached to anyone. Now it makes him feel so special, like the best person in the world chose him and no one else. He sits through the pulse of overwhelming— something, maybe love, something that’s good but also makes him a little nauseous. “Who says you’re going to be the one who proposes,” he says, and squeezes Max tighter, hauling him closer, so he can hold himself together.

“You will have to be faster than me,” Max hums. He slides one hand down Charles’s ribcage. “I can’t breathe, baby.”

“Sorry. Sorry.” Charles lets go, running his thumbs over Max’s cheeks as their eyes meet. “We should probably go.”

Max still has his hand on Charles’s chest. He coaxes him back against the wall and kisses him. “I want to do something nice. While we are here.” He thumbs over Charles’s cheek with his free hand. “You were so tired last year. We didn’t celebrate our anniversary.”

“It’s not our—” Charles breathes out through his nose. Max on top of him is starting to get distracting. “Okay. Maybe it will make me feel better.”

Max kisses him again, harder this time, cupping his jaw, pulling him into it. “Think about what you want.”

He doesn’t mean for dinner, and Charles knows that.

Charles kisses him back. “Okay. Now get off me, please.”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Not beating the allegations.

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[itspileofgoodthings]

adult wins, adult anxieties and fears and frozenness.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

sorry if you've already mentioned but what (re?)ignited your love of comics/x-men/cherik? curious because there are so many different adaptations of them

i think im gonna speak for a few (or a lot of) people when i say that TL;DR the wolverine x deadpool movie that came out this summer is what pulled me back into comics and i COULD leave it there but i will go into excruciating and unnecessary detail instead because i love an origin story and i love oversharing.

under the cut tho because im nice sometimes (there's also wxdp doodles in here. if you want to see that)

ironically (and probably commonly), growing up i was more of an avengers kid. Kinda. Loosely <- binge watched the cartoons and movies and read copious amounts of comics and fics and i am hoarding fanart in my old dresser as we speak ok 'loosely' is a modest lie.

embarrassingly i remember getting into discus cause of captain america LMAO so yeah needless to say i was a Humble Fan- me joining my school's comic class/club didnt help either (shoutout to my teach from that she was the realest one out there for. A Multitude of reasons). she definitely is was inspires me to even draw still and make comics and i often think bout the tips i learned from her class tbh she was great

back to the movies t and comics tho, i got into em because my brother would offer to take me and that's how we'd hang out (i rarely saw movies in theaters and i even more rarely went anywhere as a teenager. still kinda like that today tbh ooops) and yk. it just snowballed after that.

my brother and i have always liked comics- he just more than me for a while (though he still very much loves comics and As We Know From My Posts we still talk about them whenever i see him To An Exhausting Degree)

durin then i was really into stony and i have a few surviving doodles i made but those are between me and god. and anyone who asks tbh LOL

'snap can you make this related to x-men again this is long' ok so fast forward to This Summer again I Still Don't Really See Movies but my brother offered to take me and this was the first time i'd actually seen an x-men movie in full

as a kid i only remember seeing the 'perfection' scene between erik and raven in first class while i was channel surfing. pretty sure i changed the channel after seeing mystique naked cause i was scared my parents would get mad at me if they caught me watching it LOL

BUT MOVING ON As A Kid i think it's also natural you'll sometimes watch 92 if it's on And I Did though evidently it didn't stick too hard (i do remember really liking beast and gambit though.... still do really): my knowledge of x-men was. INCREDIBLY sparse. like diabolically so so i didnt have too much expectations (aside from the fact i vaguely liked deadpool beforehand).

tbh i dont know why my bro never took me to see any of the x-men movies. it's not like he doesn't Also like x-men (90% sure nightcrawler's his favorite but my brother will be caught dead saying he has absolute favorites like that)- he owns a bitch load of deadpool comics/omnibus sets too (of which ive read over the years and reread this year) but Shrug moving on

Much Like Most Of The Internet i fell down the rabbit hole that way. i have some doodles i made a couple days after seeing WxDP that i now have an excuse to throw at all of you Look And Perceive

and so. As I Do. i got curious and told myself i'd binge watch all the x-men movies the week before i went back to school And Then I Did ft. My Brother Sometimes and then i said i'd binge watch all of '92 and And I Did That ft. My Brother Sometimes But Less So and now we're here. currently watching Evolution...

once i got to school i realized i lived near a comic shop and started getting into the comics that way (the first ones i got since going down this rabbit hole was Magneto Was Right!, The Resurrection of Magneto, and The Trial of Magneto. if you were curious !!!!! clearly i didnt care too much about context i just needed to see My Guy jelvejlkvj i have no regrets and Evidently ive read more since)

i'm pretty sure what dragged me into cherik specifically was the fact i saw a clip of The Famous ending to 92 where erik's aghast at the notion jean even has to question his love for charles. i think that was what officially had me refocus my lens on them: not a single poolverine thought after that LOL (all the cherik posting i saw on twitter definitely helped too but that was the nail in the coffin for any other interests i had: i was locked into cherik and x-men in general now)

that clip specifically, i was surprised at the fact they- frequently even- have the x-men franchise say erik loves charles and vice versa so bluntly. even if it's not meant to be romantic, i fear im just a fan of how casually the word's thrown around with them two and i got tender bout it all. Then Yk. i just live for the drama. the hilarity even. the sincerity .... they make me sick if i think of them too long so im gonna end it here

before i go tho ironically enough, the first x-men issue i owned was This one (story a this is that while stuck in some wacko dimension charles accidentally gets himself trapped in logan's mind while utilizing his astral projection. if you were curious). pretty sure i got it for free with another comic set i got years ago since our old comic shop loved to do that, but it's poetic aint it. maybe ill doodle something referencing it..

i should probably look into finishing this arc someday im Dummy curious to even know how it started and how it ends.....

[moonsidesong]

as a kid in utah, i remember really clearly that touch typing was a thing schools started teaching you as early as second grade, but my friends in arizona just. didn't ever learn and some of them are now teaching themselves to as adults. so now im kind of curious...

(It doesn't matter if their lessons actually stuck for you, I'm just curious if they even tried lol. feel free to also add in tags when they started teaching you and/or what general area of the country you live if you're comfortable!)

[waterfallofspace]

Bless you

Love your wavs

Sorry if it sounds weird but do you usually induce or allergies for your wavs?

If allergies mind asking me what makes you sneezy?

Thank you!~ ^^

Not weird, dw!~ I do usually induce, yeah~ unfortunately I only have one allergy [grass pollen], and it's not something I can (or am comfortable) inducing with actively, though come the season for it, should I have any interaction with it, I will try to see if I can capture any audio for you guys~ no promises though, definitely gonna have to be a 'let's see how it goes' thing~

Thanks for the question, and kind words!~ Glad you're enjoying them~

[lorephobic]

this is the funniest thing that sits and rots in my drafts because its been four months atp and i still have not thought of a single headcanon for these two

[princess-emilbee]

I feel like my mind is expanding bcuz I actually like two things at the same time rn

I'm still not-so-lowkey obsessed with dungeon meshi but I'm also slowly becoming slightly-more-lowkey-but-still-noticeably obsessed with severance

two things at the same time. wow. maybe one day I'll start liking multiple things like a normal person

[al-mayriti]

yeah i live in la la land what about it

[noodles-in-the-sink]

IF YOU LIKE IDV, ETHEL CAIN, GOTH MUSIC AND/OR ACE ATTORNEY, BE MY FRIEND RIGHT NOW!!

ESPECIALLY if you are a system as well

I’ll even offer you this horrid doodle I made of Nightmare earlier today!!

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

If you've never heard an LRAD go off in person, I *genuinely* do not want to hear your opinion about methods of resistance in the US.

[misanthropicgardener]

i cannot stop thinking about “most love comes around secondhand, it’s a starving age, better take what you can” in the context of undertale. i don’t know. that does indeed feel like something at the core of the spirit of the game. most love comes around secondhand (heaves)

[itstimeforstarwars]

My diary when I was a teenager: I am so angry and this is where I put my rage about how the world is ending and how mad I am about it and how much I hate politicians and the school board

My diary now: here is a recounting of what I did today as well as how I feel about some of the news from today, so that in twenty years when everyone is lying about how the 2020s went I have proof that I'm not insane.

[phagodyke]

I love to talk but I rly do feel like we have to be talking for a minimum of 8 hours straight before I feel like I can even begin to rly broach things on my mind or that have been bothering me a lot that I actually want to talk abt without being vague or deflecting or omitting or lying and if the conversation takes a break at any point it resets back to 0 and its still nice regardless but.

[gorbo-longstocking]

oooo yay its my bday i just hit the big two four!!! so if you see my age in bio change you know whats up. uhh book update for the five people who are interested, i hit 33k words a few days ago and im having a blast writing it!! i still have a long way to go before its finished, i estimate the rough draft alone will take about a year to finish. but yeah the purpose of this post is to do a small poll—

i was thinking, that mayhaps, i could share a scene or two that i particularly liked or made me laugh every chapter to few chapters or so on this account? i wanted to ask before i do it because i know yall followed me for fanfic and i dont wanna clog anyones dash. however, it would be a way for me to share parts of my writing still (not doing so is making me insane ill write a scene and want to paul revere it so bad because i love it sm) and remain active on this account

[fragmentedblade]

I was reading yesterday about xiangqi and there was a mention about how the general is rather useless and even affects negatively your game at first, but ends up having a key role in setting up winning strategies towards the final stages, and it reminded me so much of Jing Yuan's role in the Xianzhou arc