#rip Fernando tho

[its-a-mystery-literally]

WE'RE STAYING MOTIVATED IN SCHOOL THIS WEEK WITH THIS ONE GANG🔥🔥🔥

+ pretty pic from this morning/50 mins into race

[skitskatdacat63]

Is it abuse that every time I draw diff iterations of Fernando, the only "canon" ones I'll draw are Renault/Ferrari/Aston. I'm sorry mclaren-mchonda Fernando, idk, I just never get to you 😭

[furiosophie]

we are at race two out of twenty four pls this is so funny

[super-max-verstappen]

Lance raced today with pins in his wrists, a broken toe, and still managed to get 8th. That’s just insanity. He was only 0.05s behind Alonso, a 2x world champion, and Alonso was in 5th, so that’s a super tight. He did amazing in the practice sessions as well, was outpacing Max, Charles, and Lewis at various points. His speed is on par with the top of the grid right now and I am so proud of him and of Aston Martin.

Alonso, too. Maybe the other teams were sandbagging in practice but he was giving Max a run for his money. Beating out both Mercs, in his first qualifying race with a new team… wow. We all knew he could pull it off if he had a good enough car, and I’m so excited that he finally does. Like he said, it does feel a bit unreal, but he deserves it. El Plan is unfolding nicely.

I am so excited to see them race tomorrow, hopefully the quali pace transfers over to a good race pace as well.

[dear-ao3]

bucket here

I’d just like to note that the instant I sent the ask I started writing in the hopes you would say yes and I like actually squeaked I was so happy when you did and also I’ve been writing nonstop since then so bear with me:

*takes deep breath* Safety restrictions were famously lax in F1 until the 1990s. The deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna within days of each other at the 1994 Imola GP sparked a huge movement for new safety systems, especially barrier changes. As Senna and Ratzenburger both died in accidents related to the fact that the safety barriers at the edges of tracks were just CEMENT WALLS, this was a huge push for many teams, drivers, and tracks. No one wanted the death of more legends on their hands. These accidents also inspired additions like headrests in 1996 and the HANS system (head and neck support), put in place in 2003. HANS can be seen when drivers get out of the car — it’s that space-age looking neck brace/strap on their shoulders and helmet.

Some safety systems that are much less talked about are things like the accelerometer, first used in 2014 and placed in the drivers ear. This measures the forces during impacts, and its location in the ear allows both for less invasive placement and accurate data on head/neck movement for drivers. This then leads to better safety systems capable of being studied, reasoned for, and implemented. The addition in 2016 of a camera that faces the driver also allows for safety teams to see exactly how the driver is affected during crashes, as well as giving fans a fun camera angle (which I can rant about as well, camera angles in F1 are a huge thing for me). 

Rapid fire safety systems (there will be a quiz):

Helmets were first introduced in 1952, but not required until 1977.

Seatbelts/racing harnesses required starting 1972.

Fireproof race suits have been required since 1975.

The safety car didn’t even exist until 1993 (trial runs in 1992, first seen in 1973 Canadian GP)

Pit lane speed limit introduced in 1994. Yes, before this they just ripped through as fast as they could; no, the pit crews didn’t stand any further away.

Wheel tethers introduced in 1999 after an unholy amount of incidents going back to pre-1950 (AKA official F1 start) where the wheels just came off and smacked drivers, marshals, and fans, usually killing them instantly.

The most notable safety system recently is the Halo and VSC (virtual safety car). The halo was put in place in 2018 and will hopefully never leave. It has been the savior of hundreds of lives throughout Formula series, but most well known in Formula 1 were Lewis Hamilton (2021 Monza GP, stopped Max Verstappen's car from becoming a permanent fixture in the side of his head) and Romain Grosjean (2020 Bahrain GP, pushed the crash fencing up away from his head as he hit the barriers), as well as possibly Zhou Guanyu (2022 British GP, flipped upside down and up over tire barriers into catch fencing) and Max Verstappen (2021 British GP, incredibly hard hit into a tire barrier — 51G impact at 160 MPH/257 KPH). 

There had been a number of close calls that brought up the possibility of halos, like Fernando Alonso almost having his head removed from this world at Spa in 2012 on lap one, and an incident between Michael Schumacher and Vitantonio Luizzi at Abu Dhabi in 2010 that left Luizzi’s Force India inches from Schumacher’s face.

Unfortunately, it took the horrific death of Jules Bianchi in 2014 at the Japanese GP and a number of junior driver fatalities for the Halo to be finally seriously considered and implimented. Bianchi’s incident also led to the Virtual Safety car, which was put in place in 2015 to keep accidents like his from happening. I can talk more about his incident as well if you’d like. It’s a masterpiece of administrative fuck ups and terrible oversights.

(Ask me about it and camera angles I dare you)

HELLO BUCKET

this is wonderful thank u thank u

i did know a little about the senna crash (tho not the concrete barriers) (i do know that when it happened they were trying to revive the drivers union which is awful) and the bianchi crash (i looked at that quite extensively for update post) but Yeesh yeah the safety stuff is Terrifying. pls. pls tell me about the camera angles.

[l-norris]

The second-to-last race before summer break has arrived, and yet again I have written down my own commentary, poking a little fun and trying to be funny I guess.

DISCLAIMER: Remember that this is just for shits and giggles, I'm not trying to actually hate on any of the drivers cuz all (most) of them are very dear to me!

Pre-race anxiety is strong

McLaren 1-2 start

Formation lap starts

Lando is hurrying through it

It's lights out and away we go!

Lando, Max and Oscar three-wide into turn 1

Max goes wide, rejoins in second

Lando bottles it once more (sigh)

Oscar is first

Max under investigation for leaving the track and gaining an advantage (3)

Checo in 18th rip

Max has to give the position back to Lando (4)

He's not happy

very aggressive

McLaren 1-2

First pitstops by Kevin, Alex and Esteban (7)

People are actually going for three-stops

very bold

Accidentally deleted the draft for this, had to start over (rip)

Oscar being told to save tires in lap 2 already help😭

They're just cruising along, saving tires (13)

"Lando, your race is with Verstappen"

Uh... yeah I sure hope so?😬

Fernando does not give a shit about what Lance does (so real) (15)

Pit window is open (16)

Lewis pits (17)

Lando pits (18)

Slight issues on front-left

Max complains (what a surprise)

Oscar pits (19)

Good stop

"Think about plan C" oh no Charlie, oh no no no😬

Just like old times

Max and Carlos pit (21)

Slow stop from Max

Checo is in 8th🤯 (22)

Charles first, yet to pit

Lewis fastest lap (23)

Charles pits (23)

Lando pulls away from Lewis (25)

Carlos is plowing through the field (26)

Quick PSA: Logan is not last!🎉

Oscar fastest lap (28)

Lewis falls back (28)

Checo, Pierre and Danny pit (29)

Fuck VCarb, all my homies hate VCarb

Charles fastest lap (30)

Yuki pits (30)

Max is in Lewis' DRS

George pits (34)

Pierre retires again after DNF-ing in Silverstone (34)

Lewis locks up, goes wide

Max passes

Max goes wide

Lewis passes

That was funny to watch

Lando gains on Oscar (36)

More complaining from Max

Lewis holds Max up so nicely (38)

Keep the scrap up boys :)

Even more complaining

"He sounds like a man who could've used a bit more sleep last night" HELP HAHAHAHA

Lewis and Charles pit (41)

Nothing is going Max' way apparently

McLaren strategists cooking?!

Lando pits (45)

2.3 second stop

Oscar pits (47)

McLaren don't fuck this up for Oscar I swear

...

Brother eugh

Nevermind McLaren strategists didn't cook AT ALL

massively overreacted to undercut Lewis tbh

McLaren want them to swap positions

Oscar almost bins it

Oh, Lando wants Oscar to work for it😵‍💫

Oh no, oh dear...

Max pits (50)

Red Bull fucked their strategy lmfao

Oscar catches up to Lando

"Lando radio check please" LMAO PLS

Temporary moment of deafness

Max is grumpy

Oh jeez

"Multi-21, anyone?" Crofty please😭😭😭

10 laps to go

McLaren are playing the emotional card now

Fuck you McLaren

Honestly yeah Lando, you're right, Oscar should catch up if he wants the win /hj

Max locks up

divebombs Lewis

and goes flying

Mad Max is back (63)

Rejoins in fifth... so lost everything he made up

GP scolds Max like a toddler😬

Max under investigation again (after the race tho) (67)

And the McLaren boys finally swapped😮‍💨(68)

This 1-2 is so, so bittersweet

The strategy ruined it for me

But hey!

Oscar won!

McLaren 1-2, but at what cost?

I need some strong liqueur and a cigarette after all this

At least Lando doesn't seem too upset about it

I hope this won't have consequences for them

Well, they both seem pretty high-spirited

I think we're good

So unusual to not have Max on the Podium podcast /hj

Oscar protecting his trophy from Lando😭 pls they're so goofy

Champagne Pop is back baby!

... feel free to add on :)

... This race subtracted multiple years off my lifespan. Fuck VCarb for ruining Dannys race, fuck McLaren and their strategy for ruining the 1-2 for us.

Also, important PSA since I've seen some negative stuff about the whole teamorder thing from McLaren:

Remember, don't blame either Oscar OR Lando for the drama, no matter what side you're on. This is totally on the team for fucking up the strategy once again.

Thank you for your attention, have a nice rest of your day :)

[bright-and-burning]

wait ok 20 drivers 4 cars (assuming driver, shotgun, and then 3-across the bench backseat) for a 8 hour roadtrip. who's driving, who's on aux, and who gets middle seat in the back row

ok i used a tier maker to do this and i have a new-found respect for my friend who planned out the cars for our 40+ person spring breaks because wow this is an intense logic game and the drivers don’t even have a bunch of broken up couples to work around

if this seems somewhat random that’s bc in MY experience random ass cars on road trips can be SO fun. i went on a 20hr roadtrip (well 40 hours if you count the way back. and i did this three times tbf but only one time is important here) and came back and started dating someone from my relatively random car so. also in my brain there is no One driver bc every long roadtrip w friends i’ve been on you have the driver (who gets to choose the music), the navigator (the person who puts on said music. and the directions. and stays awake as the driver drives. this part is mega important when you are weaving up and down the mountains in virginia at 4am), and then the backseat (who are usually sleeping in prep for their driving shift). and these rotate. obviously like that’s bc im used to significantly longer roadtrips so im kind of thinking of it like that.

car one: lando, yuki, fernando, lance, esteban.

i know what you’re saying. esteban and fernando in a car? to which i say: lance is there, it’ll PROBABLY be fine. and like fernando likes lando too for sure so. lando honestly probably in the middle seat when he’s not driving or navigating. yuki is smaller but i just feel like a) yuki would NOT put up with being in the middle the entire time and b) lando would be idk. giggly? abt being in the middle seat. he’d have fun. when lando and yuki are up front lance is in the middle FOR SUREEE tho.

car two: valtteri, lewis, kevin, checo, and carlos.

i lowkey accidentally made an old man (not really but like. in the grand scheme of it) car. rip. checo and lewis have their whole thing, valtteri and lewis have THEIR whole thing, i just watched a race from 2016 where checo and carlos were giggling it up together during the red flag, and kevin seems like he fits in lots of places so i slotted him in here. carlos probably gets shoved in the middle of the majority of the time for being the youngest and thus the most able to recover physically. checo probably also gets put in the middle. lewis might’ve taken over aux here

car three: pierre, charles, nico, max, daniel.

i honestly have no excuse for this car i was kinda like. well let’s put piarles together. ok let’s put nico here. alright uhhhh max and daniel. it kind of works i think? but this was definitely my shove people until they fit car LOL. i think everyone except nico spends a little time in the middle seat but i do think charles spends the most time there. i don’t know enough abt nico so if it turns out he’s mortal enemies with pierre or smthn… that’s my bad. lots of interesting and plausible driver/navigator shifts here

car four: george, alex, logan, oscar, zhou.

my logic for this was kind of like . ok george and alex are a little bit do not separate (dns). lowkey logan and alex a little dns. similarly logan and oscar. and i know oscar and zhou are friends. i nearly put lando in here but i was like this car has too many cheetahs and not enough puppies. if that makes sense. so i was like who would be another calming factor who also makes sense w these guys… logan is in the middle seat. he complains abt his legs being too long and yet still ends up there. again lots of driver/navigator combos!!

[f0point5]

WAIT TWO DATES. THEY HAVE BEEN ON TWO DATE. OMD 🤦🏽‍♂️ this man is doin too much ofc, he’s acting like reader is his wife or something. i can tell he like things to be in control and now it looks like it’s projecting into his relationship. EXCUSE ME SIR turn it down a notch because this is not a good look on you. ANYWAYS author are we still cooking with max or what. because ik me and besties are waiting. don’t take too long tho. our mission rn is EXECUTE PEASANT ELLIOT. WE NEED FERNANDO TO RUN HIM OVER JUST LIKE THE LIZARD IN SINGAPORE. i said what i said. if elliot can’t handle the heat he sure can’t handle the hands of bestie max. i can just tell with the result of todays race he will need emotional healing from her… with that being said max WILL BE POSSESSIVE AND STATE HIS CLAIM OF BEING NO.1 in readers list while elliot can sulk in a corner with george. is it light out and away we go with max and reader because rn it’s cooking but too slow. can you reveal elliot so i can put him in my death note.

p.s sorry for the out of pocket comment but i’ve got a lot of heart ache from the race and i need to lay things off my chest

RIP GODZILLA JR 🪦💀

Elliot is doing the absolute most, but he likes her, and he’s not used to girls not chasing him. He’s on a learning curve.

Haha well I had planned for this smau to go till the end of the season but I could just speed it the hell up and end it next week?

Elliot will be revealed very soon so you can get the voodoo doll made asap.

I don’t need to heal I am already mentally in Japan where Max is getting a grand chelem so…

[viennakarma]

even if that fernando angst rips my heart out and stomps on it I WILL STILL LOVE AND CHERISH IT! (literally loving all of the descriptions 😭)

fr tho pls take your time & do what feels right for you, no pressure at all because we will always be here, ready to obsess over your works of art <3

Aaaa thank you so much!

The angst I was planning is out now, even if I’m not entirely sure about the story (and the ending) 😭

Anyway, here it is!

[danthropologie]

So conspiracy theory that Taylor write midnights about f1 drama this year. Look at it this way- Daniel’s obviously mastermind because his ass is half in that seat and also you’re on your own kid cause I saw this gorgeous edit of Daniel to it and it just makes sense, Max is vigilante shit because he’s deadass scheming to get rid of checo because he wants his boyfriend back and also anti hero because he’s brought it upon himself to carry on fernando’s legacy of being the problem but we love him anyways iconic king, I have to give karma to McLaren because they will pay, bigger than the whole sky because we’re going to fucking miss seb so much :(, and lavender haze for dando cause we all know that next year lando is just going to take one look at Oscar and be like, ‘but you’re not Daniel’. If you read this entire thing, I am so sorry you had to tolerate my 4 am brain

oh my god you're a visionary. i do think that there's equal case to be made for mastermind being max OR daniel tho, just because the whole conversation of daniel moving into checo's seat literally wouldn't even be happening in the first place without max refusing to let checo through.

and you're so right that karma is daniel and mclaren, but i think maybe there's also a lewis element to it as well, especially in the bridge with the "ask me what i learned from all those years / ask me what i earned from all those tears / ask me why so many fade, but i'm still here"

i saw a midnight rain edit for carlando that absolutely fucked (link here), but as i have a hard time fucking with carlando in general, i prefer to read it as maxiel. especially since daniel literally spending the year dying on the floor while max was having one of the most successful seasons of all time 😭

the joke's been made a million times but how could question...? be about anything other than ferrari's fabulous fuck ups this year.

and on a similar note, bejeweled is charles @ ferrari in a 'you better figure out your shit before you lose me' type way (aka the direct precursor to mattia getting fired)

labyrinth is daniel having the soul sucked out of him for 18 months straight, then being thrown a lifeline in the form of a red bull polo. also "you know how much i hate that everyone expects me to bounce back just like that" i mean!!!

i know that the album technically came out before they went to brazil, but the great war is literally about interlagos 2022. just the whole fucking thing.

paris is brief but beautiful yukierre affair, rip in peace 🤧

i feel like high infidelity could be a lot of different things, but the funniest and most unhinged is whatever the fuck is going on with nando and esteban and nando's shock jump to aston martin

glitch and maroon both give the constant push and pull of charlos

would've could've should've is from the perspective of the twinks caught in the zak brown twink farm bullshit 😔

and as the daniel brain rot runs deep for me, obviously dear reader feels very daniel to me, but i think it could apply to mick, lewis, etc. basically anyone that spent the majority of the year Suffering(TM) yk

[fellasleepinbaltimore]

GFYJUJYV ME WHEN I GET TAGGED TO PICK A SONG FOR EACH LETTER OF MY URL GYJYUU LONG ASS MF URL SCREEEEAAAM (thank you @mithli b7abak)

also y'all bitches already know how I do I am going to add commentary to each song <3 good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor!!!

F - Fernando, ABBA (literally this or Fantasy by Mariah Carey it was so hard to choose)

E - Everywhere, Fleetwood Mac (clearly...)

L - La Bamba, Los Lobos (L is literally the hardest letter so far Jesus Christ!)

L - Last Dance, Donna Summer (honorable mention to Last Christmas by Wham!)

A - Against The Wind, Victory

S - The Story, Brandi Carlile (actually fuck the letter s omg, sorry to Still My Friend by Rubby, Kaysha and Soul of a Man performed by Stark Sands from the Broadway musical Kinky Boots you all deserve to win)

L - Lets Groove, Earth Wind & Fire

E - The Edge Of Glory, Lady Gaga

E - El Hal Romancy, Mashrou' Leila

P - Piece of My Heart, Faith Hill (actually p was the most evil I really cannot even list all the the other songs I wanted to put here to all you need to know is it was a blood bath but Miss Hill does deserve to be here thank you)

I - I Touch Myself, Divinyls (easily top i song)

N - No One, Alicia Keys (honestly just gotta go with a classic :)

B - Battlefield, Jordin Sparks (this was also hard wanna mention Barbie Girl by Aqua and so many others but I won't, Jordin ate this song up tho like every time the vocals get me, like listening to this song for nearly a decade and I'm not tired, timeless)

A - Ain't No Way, Aretha Franklin (NO ACTUALLY THIS IS THE WORST ONEEE SO HARD TO PICVKLK, shout out to Akin Ka Na Lang by Morissette Amon and anything by Gaga starting with A, Alejandro, Alice sorry but they don't compare to this rip)

L - Las de la Intuición, Shakira (also honorable mention to La Gata Bajo la Lluvia by Rocío Dúrcal)

T - Tease Me, Chaka Demus & Pliers (so hard shout out Te Plac by 3 Sud Est, Te Dejo Madrid and Te Aviso, Te Anuncio by Shakira)

I - If I Get High - II, Nothing But Thieves (truly a three-way between this, I Know It's Over by Jeff Buckley and I Am a Poseur by X-ray Spex)

M - My Man, Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl (SCREAMING AND CRYING AND THROWING UP!! IM JUST A BOY WHO SUCKS COCK BORN INTO A WORLD WHERE HES FORCED TO PICK ONE SONG STARTING WITH THE LETTER M WHEN THERE'S MERCY BY DUFFY, ME LLORA EL CIELO BY JESSE & JOY ETC ETC HASTA WILLOW SMITH BRO!! I- THIS WAS SO AWFUL but ultimately it is Miss Streisand if she doesn't get one for Piece of Sky it has to be My Man)

O - Origin of Love, Steven Trask, Hedwig and The Angry Inch (strangely enough it was quite difficult to find songs I liked enough to put on o which is weird bc... it's literally my playlist so idk what that says)

R - Rumore, Raffaella Carrà (werk)

E - El Tajo y la Tanga, Nene Malo (EL ICÓNICO, EL INOLVIDABLE!!! NENE MALOOOOO really feel good about ending with him ngl)

thank you for joining me on this journey if you too would like to participate feel free to do so!! here are some tagged folks mwah!

@transboydororo @iminfinitelyinfinitesimal @theranchbandit @vickythecarwash @allosaurusjimmadseni @alvallah

feel free to participate or not

[mickstart]

Mlp f1 au you say... (post it if you still have it please please please i'm vibrating)

SFDJHGDFSJHFSD wasn't so much an AU as a concept that within the g4 mlp verse there would be a mirror image of f1. It started as just pegasi having races up in the clouds, but then once the three pony tribes came together it began to shift into something bigger. It tends to mainly be pegasi racing, unicorns doing magic to enable them to fly fast for longer without ill effects (pit stops are basically like. a magical refresh bc windburn and feathers out of place = rip pegasi) and also using their magic to give them info during the race (race engineers but they talk in your ear with magic not microphones) and earth ponies tend to design the wing suits (aerodynamics but make it swimming not cars <3). There IS a version where earth ponies and unicorns can race on equal footing with the pegasi using the temporary wing spell, and griffins and hippogriffs and dragons are invited too, that's mlp's formula e. The "pit straight" is usually on the ground because then earth ponies and unicorns can get a seat / do their job without having to cast magic spells to stand on clouds. The spells still get used tho and there are some Weird courses. Also in this universe any wet race would HAVE to be intentional bc the pegasi control the rain in mlp. Pony Bernie Ecclestone is laughing with glee.

Anyway all this to say this AU existed in 2012 me's mind purely to translate the on track dynamics into: rob stands on top of the ferrari cloud and uses his magic to throw felipe around the course and technically he's not doing anything illegal but they do have to ask who gets the trophy if he wins. Seb and Mark have caused each other to plummet to the earth 500 times. Fernando and Jenson have caught them 500 times.

[intermundia]

Not to bring f1 onto your blog lol, but I'm curious about who you're rooting for this season!! I'm guessing still Max and RBR at least?

so i am doing the fantasy game on f1 and these were the ones i picked last week for the race today, idk why i left off RBR and Max, prob too expensive haha. Max really is my favorite driver tho, i love that dweeb and hope he curbstomps everyone, but of course also i want the races to be interesting to watch haha so it's some cognitive dissonance there. im going to enjoy him moving through the field today tho

but at least Max is winning generally, my second favorite team is Mclaren, and they are hurting and killing me this season so far, like get it together yk. i have a fondness for williams as well which is also hard lol i hope logeysarge does well for america, but alex is a sweetheart and deserves points too. i like aston only bc they are the villains and i want fernando to play the race like chess.

i have enjoyed watching ferrari shoot themselves in the foot over and over, like schadenfreude or something, but i really do hope they get it together for charles (and carlos too, my beloved), they both deserve a car (and strategy calls ffs) that can get them wins. my schadenfreude instinct also applies to mercedes and lewis like RIP i hope lewis's obvious anger translates into some magnificent drives

it's fun not being super duper hardcore about one favorite team and to enjoy the interplay of all of them, the ups and downs, and celebrate all the drivers success. im so fond of like all of them

[katrinawritesthings]

Jonghyun/Taemin; Fernando; PG

listen high school au where taem chose to raise a plant from a lil seed for his senior project and like that was too simple so he Also chose to carry her with him to school every day

He nods and Taemin smiles, reaching up to pat the tops of the plant’s leaves gently. With her on the floor and them in their desks, she comes up to around head height.

ao3

“I swear by the sun… no, by the moon… the sun is a star, though….” Jonghyun nibbles on the plastic rim around the eraser of his pencil, furrowing his eyes at the lyrics he’s writing. He’s talking about stars, which the sun is, and about orbiting a star, which makes more sense, but honestly. He kind of hates the sun. He doesn’t want to swear by the giant yellow floating dudebro in the sky. The moon is much nicer and fits much better with the gay space aesthetic, and also matches much more with the babe he’s writing this for. “I swear by the moon,” he mouths to himself, underlining the word twice after he writes it. “It’s you only… only you for me, only you for me….” He bites his lip and makes a little note to figure out if he likes that line repeated or not later.

That universe line from before, though, he really does like twice. He thinks. He puts another tally mark in the little scoreboard he’s keeping with himself for every time he goes back and forth on that. Reading over what he has down for this song so far, he’s stopped from writing any more by the sound of the door being pushed open.

He looks up from the corner desk he’s tucked himself into, watching the other side of the classroom for whoever else it was that managed to get sent to the SRC first period. He’s heard that it’s become a lot more rare, now that the school stopped letting teachers send kids here for tardiness. People don’t normally fuck up so early in the day. He’s honestly only here because he didn’t want to watch some gorey movie in history class.

The first thing to enter the room isn’t a student; it’s a plant. A bamboo plant, tall and leafy, in a dark green pot. A moment later, the person carrying the plant slips inside with it and Jonghyun feels himself automatically smiling at him. There he is. In the flesh. The Plant Kid. Jonghyun feels blessed to be in the presence of their school cryptid.

Taemin grins shamelessly at the supervising teacher, lifting his plant an inch instead of waving with his free hand.

“Hey, Jeffrey,” he says. Jonghyun muffles a snort badly into the back of his hand, turning even more to watch Taemin walk casually up to Mr. S like it’s no big deal. Mr. S sighs, closing his book and looking Taemin up and down.

“You again?” he asks. His stern voice is betrayed by fondness and a hint of a smile and Jonghyun vaguely wonders how often it is that Taemin gets sent here. “Was it you or Fernando this time?”

“Jeff, is it ever me?” Taemin asks. “You know she’s the real troublemaker here.” He hikes his bamboo pot up to be more snug against his hip and Jonghyun watches Mr. S shake his head with another sigh. He hands Taemin the sign in clipboard without comment, then takes his referral and shoos him away to find a seat for himself. Jonghyun raises his brows, impressed. That’s a fond friendship if he ever saw one. When Taemin scans the room, his eyes land on Jonghyun in the corner; Jonghyun waves simply instead of trying to pretend like he wasn’t staring. It earns him a smile and Taemin heading his way, stepping expertly through the desks until he’s sitting himself down in the one in front of Jonghyun.

“Hey,” he says easily. Jonghyun notes the flex of the muscles in his right arm as he sets the plant down on the floor. That can’t be light.

“Hi,” he replies, propping his hand up in his chin. “I thought her name was Francesco?” he asks, pointing at the bamboo. He knows that the names Taemin and Francesco are both linked together in his brain. Taemin glances at her, then shakes his head with a little laugh.

“No, that’s my Catholic name,” he says. Jonghyun gasps softly at the information. Right, yeah, that’s right. He remembers Kibum telling him about the whole confirmation thing a while back. He nods and Taemin smiles, reaching up to pat the tops of the plant’s leaves gently. With her on the floor and them in their desks, she comes up to around head height. It’s pretty wild. Jonghyun remembers the beginning of the year when she was just a tiny little pot of dirt that Taemin could carry in one hand. “She’s lovely Fernando,” Taemin smiles, petting a leaf fondly. Jonghyun chuckles softly as he watches Taemin fluff up his plant. Fernando.

“Like,” he says. “There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright, Fernando.” He sings the line softly, tapping his pencil with each note, waving his other hand for dramatic effect. Taemin smiles wide and nods eagerly.

“Yep,” he says. “If I have to have that song stuck in my head every day, then so does everyone else.” His little smirk is almost wicked and Jonghyun snorts, breathing out a soft laugh towards his desk. Shit. Taemin is right; that’s gonna be in his brain for at least a week. Like he didn’t already have enough intrusive thoughts already.

“So what–”

“No fraternizing, you two.” Mr. S interrupts their conversation with a stern frown from his desk. Jonghyun glances at him, then looks away in shame, pink blushing his cheeks. Frick. He almost forgot that this is technically a during-class detention room.

“Jeffrey, do you even care?” Taemin asks flatly. Jonghyun sneaks a peak up to see him giving Mr. S this expectant look that no student should be giving a teacher, especially the one in charge of discipline, but after a few seconds of staring each other down, Mr. S shrugs with a shake of his head.

“Not really,” he says, and turns back to his book. Taemin turns back to Jonghyun with a smug little grin and an eyebrow twitch. Jonghyun takes in his expression and exhales shortly, running his fingers through his hair. Holy shit. How the fuck.

“How many times have you even been sent here?” he asks. He is way too casual. Taemin shrugs, still petting his bamboo tree.

“Every time I have a substitute teacher in one of my classes, basically,” he says. “None of them ever like Fernando.” He pouts, rubbing one leaf between his fingers gently. “At least I’ll have an extra paragraph or two to add to my essay about her at the end of the year,” he mumbles. Jonghyun tsks too, reaching out to pat her as gently as possible. Even with the extra content to add to his senior final project, that’s not fair at all.

“She’s so cute, though,” he says. Every time he sees Taemin carrying her around the school he has to smile. They make his day brighter every day. They don’t deserve to be sent out of class just for existing.

“Yeah, well,” Taemin sighs. He reaches down, pokes a stray leaf under the soil in the pot, and sits up straight. He turns even more in his chair to rest his elbows on the front of Jonghyun’s desk. “What are you working on?” he asks. He nods curiously at the notebook Jonghyun was writing in before he came in. Jonghyun looks at it, reads over his lyrics, shrugs a little bit.

“Love song,” he says. He finds the part he’s most confident in and sings a little bit of it: “Please look back at me often, check to see if I’m revolving around you, to see if this orbit is right….” He hums the next part, the “ooh baby”s that he thinks he might just keep there instead of writing actual words to replace. Taemin listens with little bobs of his head, staring at his lyrics with a squint that Jonghyun knows means he’s struggling to read them upside-down. He doesn’t really mind; he turns his book so Taemin can read them easier.

“Mmm,” Taemin hums when he’s done. “Yeah, but, do you really think writing a song about how much you want Minho to notice you will actually make him notice you?” he asks. His voice was so matter-of-fact and the look he gives Jonghyun is innocent curiosity; Jonghyun feels his cheeks heating up under it. He snatches his notebook away even though Taemin’s already read it all and huffs at his slowly growing grin. God. Fuck.

“How come fucking everyone except that tall asshole knows that I have a fucking crush on him,” he hisses. This is so garbage. He’s never even fucking spoken to Taemin until today and somehow he knows. Why the fuck can’t Minho be that perceptive in one of the four fucking classes that they share. Jonghyun hates him so much. Taemin’s muffled laughter brings him out of his grumbling, but only enough to frown at the amused little crescents of his eyes. “It’s fucking ridiculous, right?” he asks. Sometimes he thinks Minho is just being obtuse on purpose. Taemin shrugs instead of answering, pulling his bag from his shoulder to use as a pillow.

“He still doesn’t have a date to that track meet next week,” he says. Jonghyun snorts, dropping his notebook back onto the table and smoothing out the paper.

“Do people regularly take dates to track meets?” he asks. He’s been to a few of Minho’s practises, but never with any real romantic intent. Just to chill with some friends after school. He’s seen Taemin at them a couple of times too, but never guessed that he knew Minho that much too. Taemin shrugs, a playful little grin on his lips.

“You and him can be the first,” he says. He wiggles his eyebrows too and Jonghyun chuckles softly. Somehow he doesn’t think that that would work as a pickup line.

“Nah,” he says. “I’m gonna finish this song and then sing it to him while we’re just chilling at my place one day,” he shrugs. He gets song advice from Minho all the time. It’ll be smooth as fuck. “And then if he still doesn’t get it after me singing about his eyes to him for three minutes then I’m gonna kinda just. Go for it, you know?” he makes a little pushing gesture with his hands for emphasis. He’s thinking like, just, a grabbed collar and a deep, desperate kiss. Jinki says he’s good at those. Taemin laughs softly into the bed of his arms, shoulders shrugging tiredly.

“Good luck,” he hums. Jonghyun smiles back.

“Thanks,” he says.”You too,” he adds, gesturing at Taemin’s bamboo plant. He still has a few more months of carrying her around and he’s bound to have a few more subs in that time. Jonghyun wishes the both of them the very best. Taemin smiles back at him, flattered and grateful.

“Thanks,” he says.

[tracklightz]

i keep seeing this, so ive decided to do it myself

*note that these are just my opinions and you don’t have to agree, but if you do, then great! :)*

-for legal reasons, this is a joke-

✨would i give myself to the f1 drivers?✨

Sir Lewis Hamilton: 1000% YES. have you seen what he looks like?!! a fucking GREEK GOD—

Valtteri Bottas: it’s like a MAYBE but idk. probably lol

Max Verstappen: NOPE. im fine. 🐸

Sergio Perez: NAH.

Lando Norris: it’s a MAYBE. hopefully he doesn’t act like a child in bed.

Daniel Ricciardo: FUCK YES. i know damn well it’s going to be good. tugging on those curls and bathing in the money he ripped Renault out of.

Sebastian Vettel: DADDY— i mean YES. I’ll take RED BULL, FERRARI, and ASTON MARTIN Seb to go please :) i want this man to CHOKE AND ABSOLUTELY RUIN ME! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK—?!

Lance Stroll: YES. take me honey.

Pierre Gasly: YES. DESTROY ME FRENCH BOY.

Yuki Tsunoda: NO. he’s just not my type. 🤷🏽‍♀️ (he’s adorable tho)

Carlos Sainz Jr.: NAH. i have my reasons.

Charles Leclerc: YES. it would probably take a few drinks to over look the ignorance of this beautiful boy, but then after that, HE CAN RAIL ME INTO NEXT WEEK 🏃🏽‍♀️

Esteban Ocon: NOPE. not my type. (adorable tho)

Fernando Alonso: NO. MAYBE. NO.

Antonio Giovinazzi: YES. i literally want to pull his hair and i want him to pull mine. *needs couple of shots to overlook his ignorance*

Kimi Raikkonen: MAYBE. idk about him. if i do, i need a drink for courage and blinding myself from his ignorance.

Mick Schumacher: HELL YES!!!! I NEED HIM 🧢LESS THO. TAKE ME MY WHOLE BEING MY PRINCE! TALK DIRTY TO ME IN GERMAN—!!

M*zepin: i don’t even got to explain this piece of shit.

George Russell: YES. god this guy is so british that it’s kind of sexy. but like MERCEDES GEORGE could demolish me and i would immediately say thank you.

Nicholas Latfi: MAYBE. i love Nicky, he can lowkey get it. shower me in nutella, Mr. Latfi.

>bonus<

Alex Albon: MAYBE. i feel like he’s half my type. what i do want is to be punished by his girlfriend.

Daniil Kyvat: YES. something about him, just attracts me and i don’t know what the hell it is.

Callum Ilott: YES! TAG TEAM WITH MICK!

Toto Wolff (not a driver, but who cares): DADDY ISSUES = FUCK YES!! I ALSO WANT SUSIE—

-thank you for coming to my Ted Talk-

[maxfew]

do you have any wips at the moment you wanna talk about? oooor predictions for the 2022 season? a wishlist on the outcome maybe?

hope you feel better soon! <3

yes i do!!!!! :)

wip wise, i have one longer lestappen fic, one chaptered carlando fic, and a few <1k things that have accumlated over time which i may or may not revisit. we shall see. i do hope to get the first chapter of the carlando fic out soon tho! it's a future fic where carlos is signed back with mclaren and they have a championship winning car that year >:) i'm going through major writers block right now though so...rip

and as for predictions, i do have some! my brother and i were talking abt this the other night. we're both certain that ferrari will be walking away with a championship this year, and i genuinely think that carlos could win a wdc this year. i'm also nearly certain that fernando's gonna win a race. i have a few more but they are definitely on the more unpopular side........so i shall refrain from sharing. for now.

thank u lisa! <3