#gosh this thing is from like 2022/2023 and it kinda shows.. but i do love bird

[somnimagus]

Noodles with the WAA for @twistedsamuraizine! This one's pretty old by now, but I still love how poor Taka came out.

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[skibasyndrome]

You haven’t reblogged the asks but if you feel like answering some (no pressure though): 1, 3, 9, 12, 22? :)

I wish you a happy new year (I know it’s still a few hours until midnight but whatever) and hope it’ll bring you as much joy, laughter and happy memories as possible 💜💜

Ahhhh, Lia!!! So sweet of you to ask these, thank you! And sorry for the late reply, but I hope you had the best transition from 2023 into 2024 and I hope 2024 treats you kindly and that you can have the best experiences ever in it :) 💜💜💜💜💜

Also just as a caveat....... I have like such a bad perception of time so I'll try my best to answer these correctly, but like... one year just bleeds into the other

Song of the year?

Gosh this is so hard... I mean for most of the year I didn't really even listen to a lot of music, I only got back into listening to music a lot after I started watching YR funnily enough. One song I was absolutely obsessed with though was (still is!) Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths. And idk, not to be all deep about this, but I love that song for SO many reasons. It was sort of a rediscovery for me this year, I'd listened to it in the past, but I think it only really hit this year. Listening to it for the first time again was such a surreal experience as well, because I'd had this awesome course on existentialism last year (as in 2022) and I was like "wait... is this song..." and then I realized that the french passages in it are quotes from Camus' Mythe de Sisyphe! Of all things! And my mind was instantly blown and I immediately loved the song so so much more than I'd loved it before. And it also feels like it ties up my years so nicely in so many ways, because I wrote a paper that had to do with Camus' existentialism at the beginning of the year which I enjoyed so so much and to re-discover that in a song? <3 But also the fact that I used some lyrics from it for the second fic I wrote for YR which was also the second fic I'd written in YEARS of not doing that at all? Idk, something about that rediscovery of the song being linked to my rediscovery for my love of writing? Feels special, so maybe I'll go with that song :) (sorry for the ramble)

3. Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year?

Omar Ruberg, no questions asked, y'all know my brainrot

9. Best month for you this year?

Ahhhh, months are so difficult to tell apart in retrospective, everything kinda blends together. I think every month had its special moments but I'm gonna say August because that's when I first watched YR and that kickstarted SO MUCH for me as you might be able to tell lol. Can't believe this little show and the fandom for it had that much of an impact on me already, but they did.

12. Talk about a new friend you made this year

It's not just one, but: the lovely people on here I met through YR.... :) I mean I keep saying it because I'm a bit of a sap, but you guys are so sweet, so welcoming and I've just loved every single conversation I've had with any of you <3

22. Favorite place you visited this year?

Hmmm, I didn't really travel much this year, but I went to Berlin with my bf and a friend of ours and we had the chance to go to a very cute queer bookshop there in a very cute and very queer neighborhood. And idk, just walking those streets where there were pride flags everywhere and people like me existing carelessly... that really touched me. Not something I've ever experienced before in my life, so that memory stuck.

Thank you so much for asking! And sorry for the ramble omg

[leqclerc]

Idk if you kept the same age difference in the Nora AU but Seb is retired and Charles no so I'm assuming there is still some difference shdfj so I was thinking... Seb and Charles playing with Nora, chasing her around the garden, then Seb plops down on the grass like "ugh my knees are killing me" and Charles goes "old man!" and of course Seb is having none of it so the next time Charles runs close enough to him he tackles him and pins him to the ground like "old man, uh? you seemed to like this old man just fine last night" and Charles is flushed and panting a bit from the running around but also mh 😳 and then Nora sees them and "oh! TICKLE FIGHT!" and she and Seb gang up on poor Charles who kinda had it coming shdjdj

Oh my god this is perfect 😭💕 Also, I mean, I’m loving all the asks I’m getting but having someone actually engage with an AU I made up in my silly little head and have thoughts about it is just...So special 💖🥺

Yeah, still have their canon age difference (because idk I’m a fan of the exactly ten years between them thing 👀). In this scenario Seb retired post-2020. They adopted Nora when she was a baby and then I guess the main bulk of the action takes place around 2022 (if you slightly handwave the timeline) or 2023 when she’s a toddler and Charles and Max are fighting for the championship. Seb mostly chills in the Swiss countryside, looking after Nora whenever Charles has a race weekend or some sponsorship event, but they’ve learned to compromise and split their time between Monaco and Switzerland because Charles is, well, Charles about it and that’s where his family lives and Seb doesn’t want to keep him or Nora from that. 

I can see him still being involved in like some karting academy (I believe Charles has set up his own one so maybe he helps out with that) or with TonyKart in Lonato or something. They probably hang out with the FDA kids too (since Seb ends his career as a Ferrari-aligned driver) for maximum chaos.

Also please 🥺😭💕 Seb with his knees ashdfjgrhty They’re so incomprehensible and disgustingly in love and horny I’m 👀 looking hard 🙏🏻Ahhh and Nora taking it as “oh we’re playing a game?” sort of thing as kids do ashdjf They make me so soft 😭Charles doesn’t even have to fake his amusement, they literally take him down and he dissolves into a fit of laughter. 

Also, Nora with the chickens and ducks in Switzerland! They like her of course but nip at Charles’s ankles whenever he gets too close asjasdh

Off-topic but gosh Seb showing up to the paddock with her lives in my head rent free 👉🏻👈🏻 She endears herself to everyone and, much like Charles, enjoys the attention they give her. The Ferrari mechanics affectionately start calling her a little principessa. At some point Max wages psychological warfare against Charles/Ferrari by giving her back in a signed Red Bull snapback (which she ends up getting attached to, much to Charles’s chagrin.) It’s chaos asdfr