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I have a tarot, write fics and watch men drive fast My Works on AO3 ally • she/her • brazil

[adutchlover]

2019 vs 2024 it's a big difference

[adutchlover]

now 2019 and 2026 has a even BIGGER difference 😭☝🏼

[kittenslikeshinee]

The way this didn't even get me a new bingo spot cuz I already checked off "Ferrari strategy mistake"

[adutchlover]

i find it funny that always ALWAYS i show up again on my tumblr, an anon person appears to send me shit about charles and fics that i wrote with him. ALWAYS. Always about charles and always about what i wrote with him. If i disappear they stop sending asks and anons but the day i show up i always have something from them in the very next they… someone is obsessed with me i guess 🤩

[softosc]

this oscar will cure my sadness forever

[adutchlover]

such a cutie, i cant

[neutyz]

Austria 2019

Miami 2026

Does it ever drive you crazy, just how fast the night changes?

[adutchlover]

war is overrrr 🎶🎵

[oscar-piastri]

Charles Leclerc after the Miami GP

[verstappenalty]

the thing about being a max fan is none of the other drivers excite me. max was shaking things up in his rookie season from a toro rosso. he was getting p4s and doing overtakes no one had ever done before and racing every damn car on the grid and you could just See that he was Him 😭 the only person who is doing interesting shit the way that he was at 17 is him at 28.

[adutchlover]

but you don't deny it, you deflect the question to make it seem like actually the way you write it's representative of how he is, when its just the projection of how insignificant and little you see him

KKKKKKKK ayay ok, i thought it was another person but apparently its always the same one that appears from time to time! Sweets, go get a dildo or whatever, what i write its so small compared to 9k of lestappen fics that has there, you dont care that much you just wanna some stage and like… stage here? Im no one, you should be trying something in a place where people will indeed see you :/

[adutchlover]

thats a very long and elaborated way to just say you don't rate charles like that lmao

didnt understand your ask well i think? But yeah, i received a lot of comments in my ask saying i dont like charles which is funny bc the first driver i supported once i got in f1 was him :( i always support him and max but people always put things in their heads based on a character or another i wrote 😭😭

[lecmonica]

It’s a long time coming but below I present to you my list of favorite lestappen fics ✨

There are probably no hidden gems but I do recommend to read all of these <3 (also it’s a way for me to catalog my fav fics so I can find them in the future)

Amnesia trope (my favorite trope of all time ever since my grandma made me watch korean soap operas)

I’ll be right beside you by @fabbyf1 : the bible and i am rereading it as we speak

The clauses of commitment by sixteenthirtythree

Killing me slowly by @saiyanwitcher: keeping me up at night and very angsty; wip

Best Kept Secret by @goldsbitch

Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat by @shoutitallout: charles max patrick dempsey terrorist bomb fic

The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory: heartbreaking, reversed amnesia, as in charles slowly starts to lose his memory aahh

i remember the colour of your eyes, cerulean blue by tournesol: technically not an amnesia au but people are being forgotten so

Fics that made me cry

Lazarus rises by @ladysomething: this one is truly special and so close to my heart, one of the first fics I ever read (time travel involved which is also a favorite trope of mine)

Cursebreaker by @usedtobetam

it's an endless night, it's a starless sky by @ladysomething: following the horror movie that was the abu dhabi gp 2025 charles deals with his feelings and his affair with max

Hope under Gravestone by @usedtobetam: the fact that the conclusion of this fic is literally happening in real life at the moment is haunting me

we'd keep all our promises by @toppamplemousse: just this sentence will convince you to read it -> He has to watch from afar and be glad that flowers grew where he chose to water them.

I made my home (underneath your ribs) by @madamcontrition: It’s unfathomable—a love like that 😭

drag my feet along the floor by @toppamplemousse: lestappen boarding school love story this one hits really close to home about growing up and being afraid of what comes next

Soulmate au (something something about the inevitable and the predestined, the rain of milton keynes, the sun of maranello, whatever souls are made charles and max’s are the same)

i loved you before i knew i was supposed to by 3_33

mr. invisible and the thing by Cazio

in dream by @unlapped

Predestined by @usedtobetam

second soul by @fueledbyremembering

red string by @reythemandalor

Lestappen hall of fame

(i love you) it's ruining my life by @chock-and-bates: lestappen sex tape gets leaked and i have read it 5 times already (one of my absolute favorites)

fourth finger by @drivestraight: wonderful 🥹

Where You Go, I Go by @ladysomething: literal masterpiece

Long Live (The Walls We Crashed Through) by @fabbyf1

morning comes (and you're not my baby) by @chock-and-bates

been blooming alone (over you) by @sedicivincere: hanahaki disease story; wip

The Suspension of Disbelief by @drivingstuff: wip

Sweet / angst stories with happy ending

sweet tea in the summer by @valyrfia: this one is so cuteeee

in a room full of people (i look for you) by luserstappen

old before i die. by @ladysomething: bee princess charles (who is utterly unhinged and keeps almost dying every chapter)

We were never really strangers, after all (Because of You) by leafycats

beholden to no gods by @chock-and-bates

there you’ll stand (next to me) by @toppamplemousse

60 seconds by @braakingpoint

love is our secret by @fueledbyremembering

lay all your love by @breathofnyx

hopelessly devoted to you by @alanalevenof1

Miscellaneous stories

et circences by @formulaocean: lestappen hunger games au (i was obsessed with this fic in 2024)

marked me like a bloodstain by @chock-and-bates: nosferatu au; wip

cry for me by @breathofnyx: i am such a geek for greek mythology so this one is chef’s kiss

I Feel The Rain by @adutchlover: lestappen olympics au

dull knives (taking my life) by hm132050: charles crashes max realizes his feelings and carlos overthrows ferrari

your future had a voice (and he spoke like me) by saltshaken: max can suddenly read minds

[adutchlover]

So happy to see that some of you read my olympic au! It was my first ever lestappen and i have a special place in my heart for this fic!

[oscarcito]

[jwaykhey]

yo bro who got you smiling like that

[alboinz]

[lestappen-stan]

Siri, describe “Enemies to lovers” with one picture: ❤️💙

[adutchlover]

Loversss, my friend released her first drop of her hollanov collection!!!

if you guys want to check and maybe get something if you like, i will put the link here! She also has a cycling collection, and maybe what else to come…….. heheh

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[adutchlover]

So your characterization of Charles comes from a place that you project that a side of your personality that you relate to more into him? I'm sorry if I understood wrong. I understand that maybe Max inspires you to write him more wild, and "resolved" because of the real life achievements. That I got it, obviously. I'm particularly curious what inspires you to write Charles so .. (im trying to find a nice word). Like doomed and as if he has so much constant doubt of himself. Is there something in real life Charles that makes you think that? Is it just a coincidence to fit the story? Im sometimes taken back about that because to me real life Charles seems a force of nature to be reckoned with, ( tactical achievements aside). I don't get when people like look at him, and don't see that. And it's not an attack to you, I'm sure you sometimes see things being written about Max and you go "Really...?" You know 😁. The important thing is you have fun

I don't know, i think sometimes Charles resonates with me more in some aspects than Max does. Maybe because when I delve into Max's depth, I embody a more aggressive version of myself, because I find myself much more similar to Max than to Charles. So I write Charles more easily because he doesntt hit home like Max does? And after I did some tarot readings based on some pilots, I was able to understand a little more about the life journey of some of them, and Charles has some very deep aspects, and i think spiritually interesting! So yeah, I think coincidences and other factors influence my characters. The tattoo fic is one of my rawest and I wrote it when I was going through some things and I simply saw myself as Charles on his journey, and the metaphors with the sea and freedom... fit. In Thunderbolts, I let a much more disturbed and aggressive side of myself shine through, but both Charles and Max have those sides, not just one of them.

[adutchlover]

Hi, I wanted to point out something that I see it's a recurring trope in your fics and I was curious to know if it's like a decision you make consciously or it's a coincidence that just happens over and over. But I see that you, like, for your fics to have Charles constantly diminishing himself as a driver. Like, for example in the podcast one he failed to think he was the best driver, and the beach one, he thought he was basically a flop. I think it may be your Max bias speaking but I'm genuinely curious to know if it's because you think Charles being self critical translates to him genuinely not believing he is the best driver? Or is it that you don't rate him high enough so you project those thoughts into fictional him? Please I hope this doesn't come across as hate, as it's just fiction at the end of the day. It's all for fun. We all know real Charles is a very confident driver, there's no need to clarify that. I'm just genuinely curious when authors have a think they use a lot

Hi dear! Ive got a lot of these comments in my dm and ask, so i dont mind to answer yours! I dont take this as hate or anything, thats okay!

I think it's all more due to the coincidence of the plots and au’s, not necessarily because of Max or Charles! In Invitation and All the Love You Ever Get, Charles and Max were written by two people (me and random) and we both saw a perspective where the much more emotional POV was experienced by Charles because some experiences were better imposed on the character in that case, you know? It just felt like it. And Max was much more the character we looked at in the third person most (Max felt more objective, more resolved, you know? And Charles was still in the middle of his hero's journey). (((Obs.: i think this is something that quite leads a lot too, that max in real life achieved a lot that we know better what matter in life to him and that some things is soon to be over)))

In Cat Person, which we haven't had the opportunity to finish yet, the thoughtful perspective and everything else comes from Max, but in “funnier” thoughts. Maybe that's why it seems so light you know.

In "Feel the Rain" and "It's Been a Moment," I portray Charles as a physically and emotionally wounded character because I exposed the most genuine feelings of my personality, and the pillar that centers my "safe haven" is portrayed in Max. Not in the sense of depending on the character, but in the sense of understanding the good and bad nuances of everything, something like perspective and metaphors but portrayed in different people to feel like each one need the other to “function”.

BUT, in Thunderbolts au, my most brutal but also most suffering character, going against most perspectives, is Max. Max always brings a wilder side to my stories, and Charles a less hostile side that ends up being more suffered/sad boy… in Thunderbolts you see that despite being two messed up minds, Max is more fucked up kskskdkkss

Now, about the AU or the Drivers verse per se, it's just a coincidence, I'd say? I wrote more alternate verses than drivers one, and for the ones they are drivers mostly they pumped un my head and randoms head like it was.

I don't know if I answered your question; if you have any more, send me the ask