#some great carlando moments here tbh

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lando nostalgia 7/? • french gp 2019 • P9

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Oh really? I had no idea they were already married at “in sickness and in health”. But I love this story SO much.

YES, I would love to read a continuation of that night in chapter 4. I can imagine how important that night was for them.

I also love all the “after the light” stories. They just show how important they are for each other in their professional and private lifes.

Wishful thinking is also such a great insight what it is like when they are not physically together. I don’t think you have any other story with that concept (correct me if I’m wrong) so I think it’s also a great part of the whole a world alone universe.

And of course: how it would have felt. I think that was the first story of yours that I’ve read and boy was it good. It just shows how much Carlos cares for Lando and how he would do everything to make him feel better again!

Speaking of that story: other question - this was your first Carlando story right? At least on Ao3 it is I think (did I just go through your whole AO3 to write this? - Yes!) it is. Was it only through Russia that you got into Carlando or was it even before that? Maybe you remember a special moment that made you fall in love with them.

Sorry, this turned out to be very long. Didn’t plan that haha🙈

Yes!! I wrote them married! For some reason! And I feel guilty about retconning THAT much so alas, no daddy kink in IPYAMT.

Okay I GENUINELY THINK wishful thinking is one of my more underrated fics LMAO i think it's really fun!! It's playful, it's got past-sex-as-dirty-talk (which I enjoy tbh), it's got public masturbation, it's got carlos thinking he's in control but actually lando is a meticulous planner, it's got Carlos thirst-trapping Lando over FT - yum!

how it would have felt was my first ever Carlando fic yes!! I got into Carlando as a ship in the late summer of 2021, though I started loving them as a pair earlier. I binged a ton of their mclaren content and i was like aw they're so sweet! I can see why people would ship them! Then I think I rewatched the Monaco podium celebrations and...I think that was it for me LOL it was just the genuine joy how much they truly loved one another and I was still resistant but then I went on AO3 ~just to look at what was out there and, welp, here we are. Emotionally distraught. I wanted to write them straight away but I refused to let myself get THAT emotionally entangled while I was in law school AND THEN MOTHERFUCKING SOCHI HAPPENED.

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Hey you again!!😊

Sorry it took me awhile to answer your last message, but I was very busy (also with watching loads of sports over the weekend)😂

To answer your question: No, I’m not a writer. At least I have never published anything. I have this ritual with my grandma that we always write each other a story for Christmas. So that’a kinda where I was coming from sometimes finding it hard to write. And I also have to write Uni stuff but that’s something totally different of course😬

I also don’t think that I have the talent to write these long stories like you do. I have always so many ideas in my head but to actually bring that down on paper is a whole other story🤭🙈

I hope you a had a great weekend watching Motorsport and Euro! I personally really enjoyed it, because the French GP was surprisingly good and entertaining☺️

I wish you a nice day!!❤️

Oh, hi anon! So nice to hear from you again 👋🏻☺️

And no problem with the ‘late’ answer, we all got stuff to do in real life ;) although I felt like I didn’t do much other than watching sports at all last weekend 😂

(It’s actually always like that during race weekends, that I don’t get as much stuff done as I want, but the Euro definitely increases the effect at the moment, whoops… 🙈)

But it sounds so cool, the little tradition you have with your grandma! Very sweet, actually, and also such a personal gift for Christmas 🥰

(By the way, I don’t think you have to have published something in order to call yourself a writer… I think you are one whenever you write something voluntarily and without an outer ‘demand’ for it - so just like your Christmas stories! And when you enjoy writing, of course 😊)

And ooooh, yes, you got me there - the “too many ideas, too little time / motivation / inspiration /…”-curse is omnipresent also with me 😅 like you said, there are so many stories already finished in my head like little movies, and when I want to write them down it’s like: “Uuh… naaaaah… not gonna happen!”. So I feel you A LOT on this regard 🙈

I feel like this has to do with (too) high expectations, too… because you just want to do it as good as the movie in your head is 🤭

But do you know what helps me most of the time with that, when I’m really (creatively) stuck? Allow myself to write badly - and I mean like really, REALLY badly 😅 (“X said. Y nodded. X then nodded too. They smile at each other.”)

Very often, that helps to break the ice - to just get started, you know? Because as I once read online: “You cannot proofread and overwork a blank page!” - and I think that’s very true 😉

So maybe you might just want to give it a try one day? It doesn’t have to be a long story, maybe start with some nice oneshot and then see where it goes? (Though for me, tbh, the short stories are the more difficult ones - writing more and more is much easier than being precise and distinctive in your narration 😂)

But, long story short, if you want to try it, I deeply encourage you to give it a shot. You don’t have to publish it or show it to anyone, but write it just for yourself… it’s a quite addictive feeling of reward when you finish a story, let me tell ya 😅

Let me know when you tried :)

Have a good evening (…at least it is evening in my time zone / Germany 🤓) and I’d love to hear from you again! Also via DM if that’s maybe a little more ‘private’ than posting our convo here, but that’s of course also okay for me, if you want to stay on anon 😊

…oh, and yes, almost forgot, the French GP was thrilling! I was very happy for Max (…redemption for the messed up Barcelona strategy 😉), Lando and George, but my heart broke for the Ferraris… they did not deserve that!! 😭 So I hope for a more satisfying result for them in Austria now 🍀

(By the way, which drivers do you support? Only Carlando, or maybe also others? 😊)

(Okay, I’m gonna post this now, my phone is warming up uncomfortably in my hand from all the typing 😅)

Bye bye 👋🏻🙃