#do not lose

[hoovesandfloorpaws]

HIS VOICE IS JUST SO !!!!!!!!!

Live lounge vocal warm up ~ Louis

[oacest]

10.31.2000 - a very loved up day

photo credit to James Peltekian

[liamlawsonlesbian]

what book I would give each current formula one driver to introduce them to the joy of reading

an intellectual exercise no one* asked for

Max Verstappen: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond - if you are nd and have read this book, you may understand me. otherwise just trust me. the impetus for this post

Checo Perez: The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White - this is an excellent read-aloud book for Sergio Jr.'s age, and there is nothing as wonderful as reading a compelling book to a kid you love, imho

Charles Leclerc: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman - he is on the record as a Potter enjoyer. also, I think he would enjoy having a little animal friend

Carlos Sainz: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood - okay yes this is partially a joke about the title, but this is a hilarious and wonderful memoir, about weird families and Catholicism, and I think Carlos would enjoy it.

Lando Norris: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett - in my mind Lando is a little bit like @bright-and-burning but less cool, so this fits. also, the combination of high number of jokes/page + action/mystery seems like a good fit

Oscar Piastri: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie - this book has the kind of mystery that really draws you in, plus I think Oscar would dig the questions about AI it digs into. I choose to believe with zero evidence that he would be interested in the funky gender stuff

Fernando Alonso: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - look me in the eye and tell me this book wasn't written for Fernando Alonso

Lance Stroll: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - yeah

Lewis Hamilton: Die Trying by Lee Child - Lewis deserves to read mildly trashy thrillers <3 plus there's a Tom Cruise movie

George Russell: Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith - as a proud Brit, George should be reading one of the premiere English authors of the 21st century. her first book of essays is a fun and readable place to start

Yuki Tsunoda: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - I don't have a Yuki-lore explanation, I just want to give him one of my favorite books

Daniel Ricciardo: The Gunslinger by Steven King - The Dark Tower series is Lord of the Rings-esque in scope but Western-inflected in aesthetic and written by The Horror Guy, I think DR would enjoy

Alex Albon: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee - I say this with so much love in my heart, but Alex wants to be seen as smart. this book is brilliantly written pop science

Logan Sargeant: Bloomability by Sharon Creech - yes this is a book for tween girls, but it's about boarding school in Switzerland, and Sharon Creech is a genius. if I could convince him to read it, I think he would love it

Valtteri Bottas: The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien - what are hobbits if not humanoid moomins?

Zhou Guanyu: Piranesi by Susannah Clarke - a fun, exciting, stylishly written book for a stylish guy

Kevin Magnussen: Watership Down by Richard Adams - rabbit warfare <3

Nico Hulkenberg: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - Hulk SEEMS like a Dad Who Reads Historical Fiction, even if he isn't yet

Pierre Gasly: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - I almost said A Game of Thrones but I don't think that would be good for him. so, Six of Crows. he likes heists!

Esteban Ocon: City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty - a superhero origin story of sorts for Mr. Spiderman

Bonus: Liam Lawson: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - lesbian from New Zealand. let me have this

*ro asked for it, take it up with them @oscarpiastriwdc

[f1-obsessed333]

This is a great thread dispelling the myth that cars are solely set up for one driver.

[ramblingsarah]

Humble Tavi, Final Incarnation of Komessh the Endless, the Brass Dragon of the Southern Story. Champion of Shonika Harbor, First Order. Wielder of the Fire of Okove. Chief Morale Officer of the Gestalt.

Mx. Tavi has also requested we include that they were voted Best Hair and Best Dressed by Threadway in the same year.

(My beloved sorcerer from a five-year-long campaign that is drawing to a close rendered beautifully by Stephanie Brown @offbeatworlds, who understood the assignment.)

[swiftiefirefighters]

these are the ones I want to write that I have some pretty decent ideas and plans for. Lets just see what everyone thinks.

[hoovesandfloorpaws]

(x)

[onboardsorasora]

OH MY GODDDD Ripe Cherries Bestie I've gotten your ask and I'm crying!

Bestie...

I'm obsessed with you, omg thank you for that ask. I'm literally crying rn. god I reread this ask like forty million times already and i will read it forty million moar!!!!!!!

I'm headbutting it like a cat asking for pets, thank youu.

I'll answer it like this since there's some spoilers but I'm about to literally print it out and put it on my fridge! Also I won't answer everything because future spoilers lol

The way how I just rushed to the doc to see if I actually named Max's horse lmao. Only to find out that I didn't!!! So, I'ma need a name for him please!

Also, we do have a lil age gap and to be honest, I still haven't decided if Max is older or not as there's merit to both options. I am kinda leaning to older since back in those days the men are always marrying younger women yadda yadda. It will be addressed/made clear in the story though lmao promise.

Max is the strongest soldier right now. He's trying his hardest lmao!

I plan to have the new chapter out tomorrow, I'm hoping to keep a Thursday upload schedule. Give myself some time to actually write as well so we don't like... run out of chapters and then my anxiety at finishes eats me whole.

I'm still literally blubbering at this ask, thank you so much bestie.

[12u3ie]

2024 is going to give you bottom surgery. I guess.

Congratulations?

aw man, wrong one! i want the tits off, not the cock on! cmon bro!

[drivestraight]

first of all, what the fuck. whatever i just read, i’ve never read anything so good. like ever. like scream worthy good. you don’t understand i’m absolutely gagging over this latest writing of yours.

to put in to perspective i’m kind of a bore and stick to the basic lestappen/landoscar business and keep to what i know i like yap yap etc etc. anyway i was perusing the landosc tag on ao3, and before reading any tags, and i mean any, i saw linearity and was like okay let’s go i should buckle up for some good shit let’s get started. well fuck me because not knowing anything was a brill misstep on my end going into this 50k ride.

i’m getting through this thinking ooohhh okay so this is what’s going to happen, ahhhh right okay yeah i see what’s going on…sister you did not have a clue because i had preconceived ideas of a landosc love story! and guess what!! i was wrong!!! and i’ve never been so over the moon about being wrong in my whole life!!!! i was like “haha it would be so cool if max and oscar fucked around a lil... but they won’t...” and then linearity was just like surprise you win 🤩🤩 and i was surprised at myself for how much i didn’t dislike it lmfao

imo, rpf can be a rocky road in a way. i find people are very good at placing the drivers - or just celebrities in general - into certain boxes based on outward appearances or things they’ve said, and produce them into these one-dimensional, stagnant beings, which completely contradicts the fact that they’re human. while this is fiction, and we really do not know these people, i think you’ve humanised them in a way that stays within the realm of actuality. it’s solid and sincere and just amazing.

that was the best reading experience i’ve had in a verrryyyyy long time and literally thank u so so much for it because i farking need it. the pairings, the relationships, the nonlinear storyline, the characterisation, just the writing overall, all had me rolling, kicking my feet, giggling and gasping like please do know that your efforts are HIGHLY valued. i’m a bit of an old stickler; like when i like a pairing, i like that pairing, but your writing made me see the light. and being a verstappen fan…..this diva….

god maybe i’m dramatic maybe im riding some weird adrenaline emotion fuelled high but i could sing praises about this fic for days. im rambling but puhlease know that i loved eat them alive to the fucking stupid baka core of my heart xxx

p.s. i didnt write this with intentions of being answered!! just needed to yap 🙏

WELL I'M GOING TO RESPOND ANYWAY I HOPE THIS IS OKAY 😭 this was just such a lovely ask i had to post and respond...

i'm glad you ended up stumbling across the fic hahaha. i do tend to tag on the sparse side, but it really must've been a ride going into it completely blind !! probably the best way to experience it in my opinion :) glad to have tricked you into reading all 50k 😈

yeah like. re: landoscar

the whole thing about this fic, one of the very first "moods" or throughlines, a framing of sorts, idk, was basically like - i needed at least the first 2/3 of the fic (thinking, like, pre-spa) to feel like a funeral march, in a way.

the point for me was that, you know how it ends (landoscar fighting for a title, lando not wanting to talk about oscar in the interviews, oscar thinking back fondly on the time they were teammates, but they're not talking, and most importantly, they're not teammates anymore), but you also get to see how it began (hungary, abu dhabi, and then the development into silverstone where they start sleeping together). it WAS a love story, but it was always one that you knew was doomed from the start.

and i guess i'm rambling a bit but, in the present timeline, qatar was the very first moment where lando and oscar actually speak. lando's a very present/main character in this fic, but the thing is, he's completely absent (aside from like, mentions of how he's doing on track and in the championship) from the present timeline. he exists only in oscar's memory, and as a stranger, in a way. a rival/competitor, someone oscar left behind - an ex, literally.

originally i hadn't intended for maxcar to be like, as emotionally involved as i did. i had originally intended for it to just be fucking around, but then the more that i wrote the more i realized - oh, they actually can work. there's actually an emotional underpinning here we can use (re: the helmets in abu dhabi). and i'm glad you didn't dislike it!!

and i'm very very happy that you found all the characters very human! this was really a sincere work in a way. i was really hesitant before i posted, because i knew that this one didn't pull any punches with how i characterized any of them (re: lando being a bit of a crybaby, oscar being an asshole), and i took a lot of risks, and i don't think i've ever written a fic with so little of a moral undergrounding (like... for example i feel like there was this weird sort of moralizing to all to play for, mostly bc it was a love story, and because it was a bit of a hero's journey... something that i felt obligated to do/what served the story the best). but i think it turned out really well, and i am very proud of it. like. there was no pretending inside the fic that what oscar was doing was right - only this undercurrent that - he was going to win. the more he fucked up, the more he won, the more he was rewarded for it. you don't win championships by doing right by your competitors. is the thing. you don't win championships by being kind.

something i pay a lot of attention to when writing is, like, the pacing of things. but with pacing, you also have to know how it's going to end, how it's going to feel satisfying/convincing, etc. but for this fic, the endpoint was qatar, really, and it was all about how to get to qatar, and how to bring the characters as much to life as possible, in order to get to that point where it's emotional, and it's hurt, and oscar in particular can't keep anything in side anymore. i'm really happy you found it both sincere and within the realm of actuality !! thank you so much - it's always one of my favorite writing compliments to know that the characterization works :)

and thank you thank you !! i'm very happy you enjoyed reading it :) like this is a whole little universe that i'm so happy i could share with people, and a part of me was worried about posting 57k all at once, but i think it was the best way to do it - just release this whole thing out into the world at once. and i've been very happy with the reception :)

max my little diva... i love him... this entire fic he really was just like. chilling. having fun. playing minecraft. being oscar's little boyfie.

THANK YOU SO MUCH ONCE AGAIN ❤️❤️❤️

[voiice-of-the-soul]

Your f/o Would love you!! People tend to like others who are kind to them, and you certainly have a lot of love to give! They’d be so flattered at your affection and care toward them, and they’d undoubtedly want to get to know the person who loves them so much. They’d be utterly enamored with you!

I've been rereading this over and over and smiling from ear to ear because this is genuinely such a sweet message. You are an absolute angel for caring enough to send this my way and i'm lucky to have such a supportive friend.

Yeah, these characters... mean alot to me and while i try to convince myself to think more positively, anxiety and insecurity often clouds my judgement which leads to alot of overthinking on my part. But nevertheless, i appreciate this message so so so much and you've genuinely made my day better with it <3

[oscarpiastriwdc]

[swiftiefirefighters]

I feel really weird doing this bc it feels like saying I am popular enough for people to care, but there was a handful of people who said they would like me to, SO if you want to be tagged when I post fic please like this post! I'll make sure I get a tag list together!

[omar-rudeberg]

I literally just commented this on your recent fic, but I had to reiterate how thankful I am that you helped bring Daddy Simon to life and how WELL you write him too?? I love daddy kink, but when I got into the yr fandom I wasn't sure if it was going to work with wilmon. But then I saw your fic (along with goldenwilmon's) and it all just fell into place. I know there's not a ton of "out there" explicit wilmon fics yet (but you've definitely inspired me to start some more), so I just have to thank you for bringing the tender, loving, incredibly hot food 💜💜 and just to say that I love all of your fics so so much

gah i've read this message so many times and it still makes my heart FLUTTER i'm so grateful ?? thank you for taking the time to tell me, it means the entire world to me ??

because look... look. @goldenwilmon and i had this massive shared conniption for the Longest Time as we were both writing and beta'ing those first Daddy Simon fics, wondering if there was even an audience for this here, so receiving a message like this is the BEST present like, there is an audience ?? it's lovely people like you ?? that Get it ?? that understand in the shared vision and creative conundrum that is Daddy Simon ?? get all the way fucked it's so greattttt

hopefully if my inspiration persists there's plenty more where this came from !! and i'm so side eye emoji about whatever you're working on that's "out there" like mmm yes gimme gimme

anyway, my messages are always open if you need to yell about Daddy Simon his desperate baby Wilhelm or anything else filthy and/or feelings-ey

[lordendsavior]

this is straight out of an indie movie so it deserved soundtrack ('twilight' by haruka nakamura)

[knightcoree]

PLEASE LIKE THIS POST IF YOU PLAN ON INTERACTING W MY BLOGS AT SOME POINT. IF YOU PLAN ON SENDING IN SOMETHING. IF YOU PLAN ON REPLYING TO RPS OR TO OPEN RPS. IF YOU PLAN ON PARTICIPATING IN HOLIDAY EVENTS. IF YOU PLAN ON BEING ACTIVE W MY MUSES. PLEASE. LIKE THIS POST. AND ILL KEEP FOLLOWING YOU. OTHERWISE IM THINKING OF WEEDING OUT SOME PEOPLE WHO ONLY FOLLOW ME FOR MEMES OR FANART. OR FOR NO REASON. I NEED TO SEE WHO PLANS ON BEING ACTIVE. AND WHO IS FOLLOWING FOR NO REASON. I HAVE TOO MANY FOLLOWERS LIKE THAT. Im going to give yall a week to like this post ok. And there's some people I'm close enough to that they are safe from this because I already know they will be active w my muses.

-mun Jax