#does this count as chestappen

[gaybullracing]

queen never CRY💜

[maxcuntstappen]

checo spends more time than anyone with lestappen what with cooldown rooms interviews, barging into Max’s drivers room unannounced etc etc

So he just, accepts Charles presence as The Constant in the world. And So when lestappen can’t talk right away he actually finds himself in interesting strat convos with Charles. Leading to them talking abt random stuff until Max steals charles away once again

So recently, with Charles being gone. He’s a bit confused? like max is but slightly less. Like?? who’s he supposed to talk to now?? Max? All they’re gonna do is talk about Charles!!

Well, that doesn’t sound to bad actually. So they do. And whoever the third is just has to sit there and take the convo of the two red bulls lamenting about how they miss charles and charles should be here and charles is so cool and on and on

(idk also in my mind they go out for drinks after races sometimes :) for funsies)

"Sooo..." Checo starts, before awkwardly trailing off.

Max blinks at him, once, twice.

And then Checo needs to look away because there's only so much time a man can stare at Max's nearly-too-blue eyes without finding themself stuttering and stumbling.

Checo has had to learn this the hard way.

The race has only just finished. A Red Bull 1-2. A good day at the office.

There's just one thing missing.

The wrong colour race suit hovers around them.

Maybe Checo had begun taking Charles' presence for granted.

Relied on him being around too much, too often. Being way too comfortable with the other two doing the talking and socialising and letting it wash over him, chipping in if he wanted to.

But otherwise, just chilling out.

Neither Max nor him know what to do now.

Standing around in a loose circle, shuffling their feet, waiting for the interviews to begin.

The silence is anything but comfortable.

Checo needs to do something.

Needs to say something.

Now.

"So, Max, what about Charles' last lap overtake, huh?"

The effect is instant; blue eyes lighting up, hands taking flight.

"Mate," Max begins, and then he's off, talking a mile a minute.

And it's comfortable. Familiar. Checo cannot help but smile, relaxing into it.

If either of them had paused, or perhaps even cared, to notice. They would notice the third place man grumbling as he walked off, "You have to be fucking kidding me."

[kirasworldofwords]

You know what intrigues me currently? A new trope that I just came up with, hyperesthesia and hypoesthesia. I'd prolly make it Simi or Chestappen, though for this case, let's say it's Chestappen. In that case, it'd be hyperesthesia!Checo and hypoesthesia!Max - because I said so, lmao. And they're trying to find out how the other one sees the world with their condition. I really kinda like that idea!

For those unaware, hyperesthesia is when your senses are higher than those of a neurotypical person - yes, hyper- and hypoesthesia count as neurodivergencies. It usually shows up in higher sensitivity to touch. Whereas hypoesthesia is the opposite, your senses are duller than those of a neurotypical person.

How do I know this? Well, I'm a living example of hyperesthesia!

In my case, every sense of mine is heightened - except for my sight, that one is genetically bad. I have a more refined taste, sense of smell, touch, and hearing. I taste the slightest differences in recipes, hear the faintest of sounds, like electricity running, if you know what I mean, I feel the faintest of touches on my skin and smell the finest scents - the strong scent of strawberries gives me a headache, lol. Though I gotta say, before my sight got worse due to genetics, I had extremely good sight! Now I can't even decipher a license plate that I'm standing ten meters away from without my glasses, lmao.

I'd probably have Checo be the one to live with what I live with, which is hyperesthesia, and thus Max would be the one with hypoesthesia. So whereas Checo doesn't understand how anyone can not feel as much as others like Max does, Max doesn't get how anyone can feel as much as Checo does.

Imagine them exploring each other's senses. Max brushes a careful hand up against Checo's upper arm, and Checo immediately flinches - he instantly feels it, even as Max's fingers hover only millimeters over his skin. Meanwhile, Checo has to apply some pressure to get Max to feel his touch. In terms of smell, Checo instantly gets a headache from smelling cinnamon - it's too strong for him. Max is barely fazed by it, though. Things like that!

And whereas Checo learned about his condition through the internet, Max learned about his through personal experience and contrasting ones of his peers.

I learned about it through my dentist, of all people, lmao. I got a shot into my gums to desensitize my mouth since I was about to undergo an operation - but it seems my dentist hit a specific space in my mouth that caused the pain I felt from the needle piercing my gums to shoot into my lower lip (that was the day I learned my lips can physically hurt). I was so confused, trust me, meanwhile, my dentist just nodded and said, "Aha. Hyperesthesia." I googled it a few days after my operation and everything fit - then I asked my mom, and she confirmed it, too.

And that's my story! Fun facts with Kira!

I'm putting this on my list, btw, it's decided!

[coff33andb00ks]

hello!

💖 a fic you read you recently loved and why!

🤪 wild card! ramble about something!

from the asks game :) -- wiz

wiz my darling hiii ive been loving the oscar dog discourse pls continue 🙏

💖- a fic you read you recently loved and why!

!! Oooo I suck so bad because I'll read and love something and immediately forget about it. does my own stuff count bc I read rule breaker last night--

Oh! Misunderstood With a Heart of Gold by @harrysfolklore !!! I love a good max fic. I read it again after the Vegas gp and ugh so good.

🤪 - wild card! ramble about something!

I want to write landoscar again. I wrote the one thing (or was it two?) and it was so fun diving into it but I didn't again and idk why? they're probably my favourite ship on the grid (followed closely by lestappen and chestappen and norstappen and wait I'm beginning to see a pattern) so why don't I write them?! mayhaps I've just fallen into the heteronormative fic hole and need to climb my way out

but they're so easy to write and read and love because they can fit into any genre. lando this season has been very angst coded ergo he needs the calm collected osc to ground him and remember his worth. the fluff writes itself practically anytime mclaren makes a social media post. and the smut?!?! I've written exactly one paragraph of it but it's probably my favourite smut I've ever written... and then when I as a baby f1 fan dive into the backstory of oscar being obsessed a fan of lando for years before they met and now they're teammates like the whole fated soulmates of it all? and don't get me started on the little moments in interviews that scream we have a plethora of inside jokes and shared memories that just beg to be written...

Fuck it I'm writing landoscar ig

[toppamplemousse]

fic writer interview (ty @formulaocean for the tag!)

taken literally forever to get around to this but can never resist the opportunity to yap. below the cut <3

How many works do you have on ao3?

10 public and 6 anonymous hehe

What’s your total word count?

201,602 -- an INSANE amount. also considering that 1 fic makes up 100k of that, and all the other 15 are the other 100k. lol.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

there you'll stand (next to me) -- duh. this has 3x the amount of kudos as the next one LOL

bottle episode

temp get to you

La Rentrée

and then this one oop

i usually have them sorted by hits, but this is NO surprise. bottle ep and temp get to you were almost tied for kudos

Do you respond to comments? Why/ why not?

we try to all the time -- but its harder on the older fics. i genuinely try to respond to as many as possible but it just isn't feasible. but we are so so so so grateful for all of them

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

OBVIOUSLY my beloved neither do you. its the only unhappy ending and BOY is it unhappy

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

hmmm they all really have "happy endings" i suppose. some of the smut is less happy i guess LOL. probably there you'll stand because its happy AND you get to read about it. i usually love to end once they get together so you never get to see them actually like, in love etc.

Do you write crossovers?

not really!! its either canon or just. normal au

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

no :( obviously i dont want hate but i did think stepdad sebchal might have elicited SOME haters.....alas. just means i need to make it worse.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

HELL YEA!!!!!! any kind. the more rancid the better

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

i hope not (re: the plagiarism scandal -- id be honored that someone felt a fic was worth stealing. and then id kill them with hammers)

Have you ever had a fic translated?

no lol. not crazy abt it sorry - too protective.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

THESIS OF THE ACCT. all of the fics are written by the two of us running this account. some more than others but there's always always been input for every single fic from both of us. except the anonymous ones. thats just me (charlie). sorry.

What's your all-time favourite ship?

we are first and foremost larry stylinson girls. always. but for f1 its lestappen DUH and then sebchal.

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

sigh....... i'd love to think all the wips will get finished. but there's a landoscar spinoff of tys(ntm) that i doubt will ever get finished because we are now more anti-lando lol than we were when we started. so its hard to continue. also because i'm too interested in writing new things, not wanting to go back to that universe.

What are your writing strengths?

hmmm. tricky. i think we do angst quite well - it's much easier for me to make them Suffer than it is to write them happy and in love i think. like the emotions and torment just come a lot more natural. and i do think sometimes our smut does eat. personally.

What are your writing weaknesses?

DIALOGUEEEEEE. this is charlie speaking saying em basically wrote all dialogue for TYS(NTM). and genuienly like. most of the KILLER lines were not me. i just can never think about what someone would say or how they would communicate if not blunt honesty. you can tell if i wrote the majority of a fic because it's just descriptions.

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

occasional words -- fine. anything else, i don't necessarily agree with. there's usually errors and/or it just doesnt make sense for the intended audience.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

f1 babey!!!!

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

like lets be fr, we are only writing f1. ship..... there's a maxiel/chestappen wip in the brain. i am not writing for the ship though. i am writing because the idea plagues me. but its always gonna be lestappen or sebchal. wait also. 4433 in the works.

What's your favourite fic you've written?

it always always has to be tys <3 but la rentree was the most fun to write for sure. and bottle episode. those 3 i think. but tys ... i cannot describe what it was like to spend 3 months writing this and editing and so many facetime calls and google doc comments and etc etc

tagging @gayferrari @bumblewyn @charleslelurk and (shooting my shot here) @chubbydino <3 and anyone else!!!!! MWAH