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a directionless hub of hyperfixation rotation enter at your own risk

[baneonono]

rip oscar wilde, you would've loved ao3 and being on tumblr during pride month

[the-bar-sinister]

"I need to stop starting fandom projects so I stop disappointing people."

it's okay to disappoint people

it's okay to work slowly

it's okay to let yourself rest

it's okay to drop projects

Stop treating yourself like you are the workers at a fast food franchise.

Your writing is a hobby, don't let it turn into a source of guilt, shame and frustration instead of a source of joy.

[the-haiku-bot]

Stop treating yourself

like you are the workers at

a fast food franchise.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[baneonono]

had a dream that max verstappen and charles leclerc, the official F1 royalty couple, went to the final Tour de France stage for the purpose of inviting the other rivals to lovers power couple of the world over for dinner, not knowing that Tadej and Jonas had not yet managed to admit to each other that they were in love. but Tadej and Jonas accept the invitation, thinking it’s just kinda really weird because they are somehow unaware that Max and Charles have been publicly married for five years. so Tadej and Jonas arrive at this dinner thinking it’s just a weird The Best in the Biz dinner while Max and Charles are thinking it’s a Power Couple Double Date. and when everyone finds out what the others think the dinner is, everyone reacts completely differently. Charles is aghast by all the social faux pas he just committed. Jonas is incredibly embarrassed by everything happening. Max is entirely unbothered, and frankly mischievously proud that he can now say he had something to do with Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard getting together. Tadej is laser focused on Jonas and how his crush of like seven years actually likes him back, giddy with excitement and could not care less about the revelation of Lestappen being a thing; he’ll worry about Lestappen when he has successfully convinced Jonas to date him. is there an audience for cycling rpf crossing over with f1 rpf? if I write this will anyone read it? yall im thoroughly obsessed with this.

[baneonono]

update on this fic: it's never been closer to being done. when I first had this dream, I had just gotten into F1 and had no idea how to characterize lestappen. I have since read far too many lestappen fics and know exactly how I want them to be characterized. so can we all picture retired Max Verstappen with a dying at Ferrari Charles, who have been married for five years and each have undisclosed titles to their names. they aren't particularly into cycling themselves but their adoptive sons(in spirit), Ollie Bearman and Kimi Antonelli(who are now The F1 Drivers) are feral over the Tour de France so they pay varying amounts of attention to the tour and get bearnelli to the last stage as a surprise gift, where they invite tadejonas to dinner as a double date because as we said, they pay varying amounts of attention. so they've paid enough attention to notice that tadejonas are insane about each other but not enough to notice that they aren't together. now in cycling world, tadejonas are at the end of the tour winning part of their careers(time is whatever i want it to be) and the new generation is coming up(giulio pellizzari everything is about you). so they're feeling particularly bittersweet about the tour ending and a little desperate about spending every second with each other. mountain stages are just dates for them, pogi attacks to get jonas alone levels of obsession at this point y'all. their teams are sick and tired. UAE express this by mocking pogi at every opportunity. visma are just trying to get Jonas to tell them he likes Tadej so they can go to UAE and be like "we're setting them up right????". needless to say, tadejones are in their own bubble and don't notice anything other than each other(read: they don't know about lestappen marriage). lestappen at the final stage invite tadejonas to dinner and UAE and visma immediately peer pressure tadejonas into going because close enough, that's a date(they all know about lestappen). cut to the dinner and tadejonas are hyped to see each other again(they didn't know it was allowed outside of the tour), lestappen are just excited to talk to another racing couple who must know what it's like. miscommunication comes to light and Max says something far too blunt about how obvious tadejonas are, Tadej freezes because when it comes to Jonas he can't just attack with 60k to go and make it work, Jonas absolutely cannot believe this is happening to him but he's never been one to miss a single opportunity, and there's Charles at the other end of the table sipping his wine and watching the drama unfold. and extra things:

-group visma facetime in the midst of the drama while Jonas freaks out in the bathroom

-end of the dinner tadej and jonas do a double take because they realize far too late that this means lestappen are together and have another freak out

-giulio pellizzari being mads pedersen's chaos protege

-UAE keeping a total of tadej's longing looks throughout the tour

-tadejonas both going to the vuelta after this and being 10x worse ft. their teams devastation

-lestappen and tadejonas becoming legitimately close after but never following each other's sports

-bearnelli being incredibly jealous of lestappen for previous point and basically everything else

okay that's it for now, I'll probably get this on ao3 at some point.

[baneonono]

I would like to say a formal thank you to the Red Bull bora hansgrohe Instagram for their dedication to posting pretty pictures of Jai throughout this Giro

[baneonono]

I am enchanted by the way he writes

[baneonono]

we as a cycling community are not talking nearly enough about Jai Hindley. my man has been sprinting at every opportunity for seconds in this giro and is looking to be in incredible form. his relationship with giulio is adorable. ao3 could do wonders with him and his teammates. he’s got a very pretty deep voice. what is stopping us from talking about him constantly? let’s talk more about my bora boy please

[strigimorphaes]

another takeaway from the old Radio Tour interview tumblrs audience may be interested in, when discussing food and training schedules:

Skjelmose: [Earnestly] "I've had some fun thoughts over the winter about maybe being a tiny bit autistic -"

Mads: "You are very autistic."

Skjelmose: "But with the utmost respect, I don't really want to get diagnosed because I don't really want to know. [...]"

[roglaert]

📸 tntsportscycling

[eliolikesapricots]

do you have a clip/screenrecording of the jaigiulio kiss…

i do… please ignore the reflection of my hand lmao

[vacancy90]

[baneonono]

I just started reading batman comics this past month and nothing has sent me into a blind feminist rage like some of the older runs. whyyyyy is there so much objectification of women. I was reading the first volume of the superman/batman run by jeph loeb and oh my good god, why can we not go five pages without some kind of comment about a woman's body. there are basically no women in the plot, how are you even making comments at this frequency???????? and this one is from 2003, it's not that old. I lack so much comprehension y'all. and like let's not get things twisted, I hate every mention of romance and sex in all comics because I'm super aroace so maybe I'm just the wrong person to be commenting on this but I'm pretty sure this is an awful sexualization of the female characters. if anyone who sees this has been into comics longer than me and has thoughts, definitely share them.

but anyway, because I needed something to think about while trying to get through that volume I was thinking about the portrayal of men instead of women because at the end of the day, comics are media about men for men by men. the portrayal of women being sucky makes sense, it's not for women or about women so maybe my time would be better spent trying to understand how men portray themselves for themselves. and a few things popped out to me as I considered this. the strict moral codes of basically every character(even if they weren't aligned with each other basically every character has a moral code that they follow to the letter) and the way comic books are the embodiment of the "male gaze"

firstly, the strict moral code thing. as I said, I've been reading comics for maybe a month so definitely let me know if I sound ridiculous but so far in everything I've read, every single character without fail has a moral code that they physically have to follow. batman, superman, nightwing, red hood, the other robins, every teen titan I've met, even some of the villains have strict moral codes. I know that this is a superhero book and like that's kinda the point, but that's what's interesting. men write stories about strict universally applied moral codes and the intricacies of those moral codes. frequently, there's a specific moral code that is portrayed as better than another moral code. so I wonder why men like stories about universal moral codes and singular figures that are always moral and always, eventually, come out on top.

and the real reason I'm here. let's talk about the male gaze and comic books. because comic books are all men right? they are by men for men about men. there is no pandering to women, especially the earlier you go. and I have never seen a group of characters with broader shoulder, sharper jawlines, and as many muscles. literally y'all, every single man being drawn in those comics basically have rectangular jaws, the broadest shoulders known to man, and an unholy amount of muscle. but may I just reiterate, none of this is for women, these are men's ideas about what attractive men are. the super ripped man built like a barge is what men draw men looking like for men. the male gaze on men's bodies is the Thor Chris Hemsworth build. maybe women can also appreciate it, but that build was designed by men.

so anyway, if ever I am once again in a conversation about the male gaze and the female gaze with a man, I will be bringing up comic books because the female gaze is not what brought us superman and thor i'm afraid

[ladyrose892]

👑 King of the track with Jonas Vingegaard

👀 Who will you choose among the best cyclists in history? Eye that even compares…

[meatculture]

Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert get entangled during the 2016 Cyclocross World Championship Elite Men's Race in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium

[baneonono]

my hottest literature take is that the literature academic community is absolutely failing us by not studying fanfiction. what do you mean people have written 16.5 Million pieces of fiction just on ao3 since 2008 for no benefit other than getting to write about things they care about and we don't study that. you're telling me the internet has a treasure trove of media that contains the work closest to people's minds and souls and we don't look through that and study it to understand our society better???? ao3 isn't even the only place for fanfiction. fanfiction exists in so many places. people write millions of stories every year in all different genres and mediums and we dismiss it because it's smutty(a large portion of it isn't) or it's not original work(it absolutely is original work) or it's not "traditionally published" or whatever nonsensical reasons they provide. at the end of the day, fanfiction is fiction written out of pure passion for creating and in that fiction people discuss all kinds of things which is not limited to just sex(though it does also have some of the most thoughtful conversations about sex that I've ever seen). we should be studying it, we should ecstatic at the pure amount of work we can look through to study. and the orginazation that ao3 gives allows for easy pattern finding. anyone who is interested in modern literature and how that literature reflects upon society, should be obsessed with ao3 and fanfiction. because fanfiction is the ultimate form of raw data for literature and the fact that we don't have an academic field dedicated to it is absurd.

[sixteensecrets]

A collection of various fic rec prompts. From your local recovering Lestappen Fanfic Addict.

I will update this periodically! Feel free to send me fic rec requests, but please be aware I only fulfill them occasionally.

Please note:

There will be repeat fics across the lists.

I rec a lot of Explicit rated fics.

I tend to read more bottom Charles, so the recs skew more towards that dynamic. I do, however; have bottom Max fics included!

hope you find something you like 💌

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Amnesia Trope

Angst

Arranged Marriage

BDSM

Beautiful Omega Charles

Bottom Charles

Bottom Max

Charles-Centric

Charles as a Cat

Chef Max

Chussy

Comforting Charles

Cosy/Comfort

Dark Fics

Down Bad Lestappen

Exes to Lovers

Freaky Fics

Fics I Consider 'Classics'

Fics that Made Me Cry

Groveling

Hockey AU

Infidelity (ft. girlfriends)

Jealous Charles

Jealous Max

Karting Era

Lengthy Alternate Universe Fics

Medieval/Royalty

Omegaverse (w/ omega Charles)

Outsider POV

Out of the Box Fics

Possessive Dark!Max

Secret Kid Trope

Service Top Max/Power Bottom Charles

Social Media Fics

Stripper/Sex Worker

[baneonono]

hello everyone. I come to you four seasons into a Merlin rewatch and in mourning of Lancelot’s hair. however even in these dark dark times, light can be found. and the light that I’ve found is this idea, this delightful concept that I shall now present to the masses

thank you all for your very valuable time

[baneonono]

I made a tier list for if I would trust the 2025 f1 drivers with my drink. the scale goes from maybe to lol no. yes I do have detailed reasons for each one. thank you for coming to my ted talk