#i love salqueen

[roe-and-memory]

nothing lives more rent free in my head than salqueen.

think of this. lightning wins his first championship. in victory lane, there are cameras and microphones in his face and he’s being asked questions of all sorts; hes only scanning the crowd for one person.

he wants to celebrate this with sally, he NEEDS to celebrate this with sally, and when his eyes finally land on her, squeezing through the crowd to try and get to him, he waits until shes right at the side of his car with his championship shirt in one hand, marker in the other, pretending to be a fan asking for an autograph. he doesnt hesitate, though, he grabs her hand and pulls up, and she gets the hint and scales the car. with absolutely ZERO thought, he dips her and kisses her, and theyre stood in victory lane with confetti falling around them, champagne in his hair, and the love of his life in his arms.

theres a photographer somewhere in the crowd; they catch that scene. the darkness of the sky behind them, the stadium lights being one of the only light sources around, and they catch each piece of confetti in that lens, every person in the crowd, all of the reporters that have backed away to give whoever was photographer the Perfect scene. they capture perhaps one of the most iconic victory pictures to date; the youngest piston cup driver to ever win a cup kissing his girlfriend right after his big win.

its in the RSN magazine, any sports magazine to be frank, and its probably one of their favourite pictures of all time. lightning really wishes he could thank that photographer.

[stickers95]

Biblically accurate 2006 salqueen YEAHHHH‼️

[planerot]

That one tumblr post but as the residents of Radiator Springs.

[lightspeed95]

Them <33

Even if it was for a small moment, it was so nice to finally see them again ❤️

[ijustlovefiction]

"You look at her and you finally start to live for someone else..."

"…then you find yourself."

[champmorado]

yeaaaa this has been the mood on my blog for like. the past few weeks 😭😭

not my fault i love chuiser, townder, mcchicks, salqueen, and chickcal so much 💪💪

[x0stormie0x]

Hello @xceooflightningstormx!

I too ship Lightningstorm in its own way here's a question to chew on.

Are there other ships on par with Lightningstorm that you are invested in? Especially the WGP racers including the regional replacements for Jeff and/or the Next Gen racers?

Hello!! Thank you so much for the ask!

I don't think anything really compares with how much I ship LightningStorm. However, here are some of my other ships from the fandom that I highly appreciate and love seeing content of!

- Cruz x Natalie

- Flo x Ramone

- Jeff x Lewis

- Doc x Sheriff

- Luigi x Guido

- Ray x Gale (specifically for my AU)

- Sometimes Sally x Lightning (outside of the movie, the content people make is pretty sweet)

And occasionally Francesco x Lightning. (LightningStorm kinda replaced it for me)

And that's all I can pretty much think of for now!

I don't ship a lot in the fandom, thought I love seeing all of the WGP ships and other outside ships. (Even SalQueen, @/tailfinpass's artwork makes me cry with joy)

But yeah! Those are just a good majority of the ships I have in the fandom. Most of em are pretty well known!

^^ thanks for the ask once again!

[pinkpinkmermayyy]

this is the salqueen song (sorry I love lana I can’t stop)

@gaystappen @champmorado

[ijustlovefiction]

Thanks for tag!❤️

So let's do it!

3 ships: Lightning x Sally from Cars, Peter Quill x Gamora from Marvel, Harley Quinn x Poison Ivy from DC

First Ship Ever: SalQueen❤️

Last Song: Black Sabbath- Paranoid

Last Movie: Harry Potter and The Golbet of Fire (I've watched yestarday)

Currently reading: My Hero Academia Manga vol2 (rereading this✌️)

Currently watching: Aracne (Rewatching cause I love this show)

Currently consuming: Sandwich 👍

Currently craving: some hug :/

Tags: @rycusfunnies @dinocos-golden-boy @penname-artist @kachow-i-love-being-me

@elmirovasophie

Tag game! Tag 9 people you want to get to know better (if you like)

Tagged by @ptork66. Thanks for the tag! 💖

3 ships: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa, and i’m gonna say Lucy Carlisle/Anthony Lockwood (😞😭😭) and Mare Barrow/Maven Calore

First Ship Ever: idk probably Anne Shirley/Gilbert Blythe as I read the Anne of Green Gables series in 7 and 8th grade. But Kanej trumps all, so

Last Song: according to Spotify, The Alcott by The National ft. Taylor Swift

Last Movie: Shrek 2 but i didn’t finish it bc i was watching it with my brother and he had to go help our dad put up a door for my brother’s room, so we had to pause it… that was last Saturday…

Currently Reading: …. [runs away]

Currently Watching: The Great, season 3!!!!!

Currently Consuming: nothing at the moment, but i did just finish my merienda (a cup of coffee and sweet bread)

Currently Craving: clarity

tagging @lady-a-stuff @frolicking-grandma @totallynots8tan @bigalockwood @do-any-of-you-see-it @loopsbyelle @thegetawaywriter @kakiwrites @tfotaandstuff

[roe-and-memory]

sally and lightning and those quiet nights ..

theyre cuddled up on the living room couch, the lamp in the corner with the dying yellow bulb is the only light, casting dim shadows of her plants against the walls..

and they just Sleep. hes got a rusteze sweater on — the only long sleeved thing he can tolerate wearing, aside from his firesuit is that damn sweater thats two sizes too big for him — and shes laying on her stomach, practically on top of him, her head against his chest listening to the steady rhythm of his heartbeat, and his hands resting on her back . and theyre just Out Cold. and its cozy and domestic and and and

the world is asleep around them, that lamp only flickering every so often, his quiet snores and mumbles in his sleep as he goes through dreams and nightmares, and her hand thats gripping part of his sweater, pulling whenever he stirs. he always smells faintly of her perfume.

[runthatrace]

at some point, sally must have realised that dating a racing car would come with constant anxiety, for motorsport is well known for being incredibly dangerous and sometimes life threatening.

if she hadn’t realised it by cars 2, then she would have definitely figured it out then.

which means that there must have been nights when she awoke from a nightmare filled with sirens and wrecks and loss. quiet fears whenever lightning did something reckless in a race. secret hopes for a quiet and safe lifestyle once he retired. open relief when lightning returned home, safe, after each and every long season of racing.

of course she would learn to brush off these thoughts as anxiety, discard them as mere “what if”s.

so when everything she ignored came to light in that almost fatal LA 500, i can’t even imagine all of the thoughts running through her head.

the love of her life, the man who took her seemingly unrealistic dreams and made them a reality, the wonderful race car and compassionate friend, all wrecked and broken and almost lifeless. she had known him for 11 years at this point, so life without him would have seemed like a distant memory.

a distant memory that threatened to become the future.

yes, there was no question of sally being worried for lightning’s safety in such an unforgiving sport.

but i don’t think people realise how deep, how far back it runs. the sheer overwhelming force of sally and lightning’s bond must have been such a prevalent point in her life, and for that to be threatened, even if it was only for a short amount of time, must have been devastating.

[whipplefilter]

hi Whipplefilter!

I was wondering, what do you think Lightning McQueen is like as a boyfriend/spouse, perhaps some headcanons? Is he a “southern gentleman”, as they say? What about some of the other country guys (Cal, Darrell, Tex, Strip)?

Thanks! have a great rest of the year! stay safe 🍀

I think Lightning and Sally have a reputation for being low-key, but that’s only actually true like, half the time. Sure, they have brief but intimate private dinners at Wheel Well (brief only because chaos can only be held in abeyance for so long in this town) and when Sally attends races, she’s excited and supportive but not overly dramatic about it. She doesn’t go to every single race, because she’s still the sole proprietor of the Cozy Cone and likes to be reliable and consistent, which means not closing up shop every weekend. They don’t go on destination dates because Lightning equates travel with racing and home with Sally. Plus any time Lightning goes anywhere international for work, it turns out Sally has also already been there. Whatever life she led prior to finding Radiator Springs, "fast lane" doesn’t even begin to cover it.

But Lightning "well, there goes the town" McQueen also told Sally he wanted to spend more time with her by literally moving an entire team’s racing headquarters clear across the country, seemingly without consultation. And he fixed the neon! It’s unclear when or how, but I imagine at some point during his paintjob session with Ramone he was like "so… what is neon and how do you turn it on" and Ramone launched into a whole lecture about powdercoating and mercury and argon and neon gases and and torches and vacuum and the incredible voltage of those alluring glass tubes. I doubt Ramone let Lightning actually touch anything, but Lightning listened and retained enough of Ramone’s spiel to convince Ramone it mattered enough to Lightning that the project was worth taking on. Considering how "turn right to go left" had gone, Lightning’s commitment to figuring out this neon thing was impressive.

That’s all to say, the grand gesture has always been a part of Lightning’s aesthetic and his relationships are no different, whatever his and Sally’s reputation for quietude. I think pairing of grandiosity and charm tends to lend itself to the southern gentleman idea.

Moreover, Lightning and Sally also have a general reputation for wholesomeness, though again that’s only half the story. Sure, Sally runs a cute motel and loves sunsets and history, but it’s not as though she reins in the sass when a situation calls for sass. Lightning also has managed to cultivate a more wide-eyed approach to the world, and is a lot more willing to be publicly dopey than had seemed allowable his rookie season. But for all that that vibe really is Lightning’s genuine article, he can also be pretty astute when the rubber hits the road. He’s very much aware of the ways the business side of racing, or highways, or municipal budget reconciliation can be pretty unglamorous. Publicly his optimism tends to outshine his understanding of realism, but if you’ve never seen Lightning’s black sarcasm at work then you haven’t seen all of him. (Luigi and Guido laugh at LMQ’s "life’s a beach and then you drive" barb but that’s because they know him. That’s not a joke you make on RSN, LOL.)

This goes back to what Lightning is like as a romantic partner because this part of him is actually a critical part of his and Sally’s relationship. Sally didn’t like the attitude LMQ brought to Radiator Springs those first few days, and they do enjoy being wholesome, but it wouldn’t be the same if they couldn’t also have long, animated, slightly jaded (but ultimately motivated and optimistic) conversations about the world. Sally didn’t like being a lawyer but she loves thinking about the world’s complexities, about the way lives play out and systems and structures shape perception. It’s a kind of conversation she doesn’t get from Radiator Springs (except when Doc had been willing to humor her, because this kind of talk was an old pastime of his, too—but only on rare occasions, because he never wanted Sally to be able to discern too much about him, and he knew she was capable of doing so with breadcrumbs) and it’s nothing she expects from Radiator Springs, but this is something she and Lightning have with each other.

Lightning does not consider himself particularly intellectual (and Sally affirms that Lightning’s self-concept in this regard is accurate), but there are things about racing and the racing world that translate well to these kinds of conversations. After Doc, Sally’s the only one that knows any of this, or knows that Lightning knows any of this. In Lighting’s perfect world, racing is racing. Racing is freedom. And at its heart, Lightning believes and feels that it is. But it’s also points strategy and debates about rules packages and SAFER barriers and sponsorship and network deals and storylines and sometimes pain (even if you don’t crash, rebuilding engines and replacing brake lines and fuel pumps and flywheels that often is not entirely pleasant).

Lightning and Sally are each other’s person with whom they will have conversations about things no one else knows is in them. Sometimes Lightning and Sally go out on a bluff and talk for hours on end and when the wind blows the right way the town can hear them and it’s a conversation so referential and full of implication and shared shorthand resonances and so interested in a bunch of things literally only Lightning and Sally find worth talking about that no one every quite knows what all they’re going on about or why. That’s what they give to each other that no one else can—what they are like to each other as partners.

[luvaaheee]

kachow!!

[woolleyluciscayde]

Don’t mind me, just dropping my undying love for Lightning McQueen and Sally Carrera all over the place.

[sallysunshine2006]

Ok guys, l’ve never written fanfics but I had this idea of a Salqueen proposal if Cars 4 ever happened....

Sally and lightning are at wheel well motel!

Lightning: Sal..I uh..I uh.. (stutters repeatedly)

Sally: You what... (With a perplexed look, but with a smile)

Lightning: (smiles) i know things have been great these past few years..and .. I’ve thought about this for quite a while. (Exhales deeply)

Sally: Stickers? (With a concerned look on her face)

Lightning: In all my life, I’ve never had a chance to meet someone like you. You’re smart, beautiful, funny and.. I can’t imagine anyone else I would rather spend the rest of my life with but you.... You create feelings in me that I myself, don’t even understand. (smiles) I love you Sally, more than I ever thought that I could.. and.. if you let me, I will continue to love you until my dying breath. Will you marry me?

Sally: (her eyes are all welled up with tears)

Sally: Uh well..there you go(chuckles) YES!!!!!

They drive to each other and kiss !!!(without any interruptions from Mater this time)

This was just an idea. I don’t know if Cars 4 is going to be made but if it is,, I pray that salqueen gets married or at least get to kiss onscreen this time x

[cars-lovin-gal]

“Life could be a dream, life could be a dream

Do do do do sh-boom

Life could be a dream (sh-boom)

If I could take you up in paradise up above (sh-boom)

If you would tell me I’m the only one that you love

Life could be a dream, sweetheart”

Cars (2006)