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[fryingthepans]

honeypot tactics | carcar

Rated: E; Words: 4,730; Complete: ✅

Summary:

There is a boy who works at the coffee shop. His name is Oscar Piastri. And Carlos is tasked to kill him.

written for secret santa 2025 @f1-fic-secret-santa <3

[kosmogrl]

ever since I was a little girl I knew I never wanted to tell anyone anything

[team-orders]

f1 race recs: double features edition

One of the most fun things about digging in to old races is the odd juxtapositions and parallels that come up, sometimes years or decades apart. So I wanted to compile a list of some of my favorites! Please enjoy this list of 5 different race pairs with different sorts of parallels.

2002 Austrian Grand Prix & 2002 United States Grand Prix

I learned about Austria 2002 fairly early on as an F1 fan -- the notorious over-the-line drivers swap that led to team orders being banned in Formula 1 for a decade. What I didn't know about was the bizarre accidental inverse of this which happened several races later that same season; at the US Grand Prix, Schumacher attempted to execute a photo finish, but he accidentally gave Barrichello the win instead. It's bizarre, and it's glorious, and it's so much more fun because it happened the same season as Austria.

2003 Brazilian Grand Prix & 2025 Brazil Sprint Race

In wet conditions, the same turn takes out several cars in these two races 22 years apart. The gradual accumulation of the car graveyard in Brazil 2003 is honestly a little comical. I think one of the most interesting things about this juxtaposition is that it highlights potential problems with these older tracks: Interlagos had and continues to have incredibly poor drainage.

2005 San Marino Grand Prix & 2006 Turkish Grand Prix

These two races have thrilling wheel-to-wheel action in the final stages between Fernando Alonso and Michal Schumacher -- in 2005, it's for the win, and in 2006, it's fighting for P2 while Felipe Massa soars to his maiden victory up ahead of them. Both races left me looking at Alonso and saying that he was driving like a champion.

2007 European Grand Prix & 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix

Honestly the similarities are almost eerie with these races -- they start in the wet, and then enormous pile-ups result in red flags, after which the track is drying. The conditions and the chaos amongst the front runners lead to surprising race leaders (unless you already know about this race, I can almost guarantee you've never even heard of the driver who leads several laps in 2007, as it is quite literally his only race start in F1). I am such an emphatic fan of both of these races.

2010 Turkish Grand Prix & 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix

I couldn't make a list of race parallels and not include this one... What if Sebastian Vettel was attempting overtakes on 2 different teammates down the straight on 2 different tracks 9 years apart and both times he caused a race-ending collision? What if in one race his star is rising and in the other he is visibly entering the sunset of his career? It's delicious!

Plus some honorable mentions with smaller details I enjoy:

Silverstone 2003 & Baku 2017: The actual impetus for this list, but not interesting enough to justify including above; David Coulthard and Lewis Hamilton's headrests become dislodged mid-race and they have to pit to fix them. These are the only races I've ever seen this happen in, and I happened to watch them within a week of each other.

Australia 2006 & Spa 2019: Jenson Button and Lando Norris have mechanical failures just by the start line on the final laps of the race.

Monaco 2006 Qualifying & Spain 2025: Controversial moves from Michael Schumacher and Max Verstappen which many point to as specific instances in which they otherwise could have won that year's title.

[souvenirs]

[spitfaggot]

happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)

[finifugue]

Charles Leclerc is the type of girl you see on instagram who posts a carousel of her fuckass toxic evil boyfriend and says 'happy eight year anniversary babe 💕💕💕 there are ups and downs but we always come back stronger ❤️' and the 'ups and downs' she's talking about is him robbing and setting fire to a gas station. but like her fuckass toxic evil boyfriend is Formula One Team Scuderia HP Ferrari.

[drivestraight]

oh charlie

[drivestraight]

if a timeloop could be a career

[simplyfianella]

send me a 🎧 and I'll give you a 3 song playlist from songs shuffled from my music library

[fryingthepans]

me, in an prison of my own making: LET ME OUT!! LET ME OUT!!!

[fryingthepans]

man i love euripidean women

they are the only women in the tragic corpus that are allowed to defy the traditional Greek feminine!! like, most women in tragedy reflect the traits of the ideal greek woman or are punished for not adhering to this role (i.e. Clytemnestra avenging her daughter Iphigenia by killing Agamemnon, but was killed by Orestes because the avenging of the father supercedes the avenging of the daughter).

even antigone, pretty generally regarded as a defiant female character, or at least a martyr, adheres to the divine laws (fulfilling her role as a woman to bury her male relatives, sacrificing herself in the process—which was part of the character of the ideal greek woman, a divinely ordained command to put the man before herself. see also: Creusa instructing Aeneas to leave her at Troy so that he could fulfill his destiny.)

but euripidean women? oh they get to be fucked up and EVIL!!! no one is looking at Medea killing her kids and going “oh that’s a good thing” but her story is so compelling anyways!! and she’s allowed to be a COMPLEX WOMAN. phaedra, my special girl, fell in love with her stepson!! that’s wrong!! we know that!! but isn’t it so interesting how she reacts to this insane situation? how it’s kind of noble that she would go to such lengths preserve her reputation, not only for herself but for her kids? and he asks interesting questions like, what if helen WASNT the problem….? what was the real benefit of the Trojan War?

[2nd2tar]

big fan of the hymn to demeter being interpreted as a mother tearing the world apart to get her child back rather than just being hades x persephone

[fryingthepans]

just finished translating the entirety of book 2 of the aenied!!!!!

[drivestraight]

whip whip lash

[melissa-titanium]

[melissa-titanium]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ITS HAPPENING NOW. HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP ME OH MY GOD HELP YOU GU;YS CANT TALK ABOUT WOMEN ONA POST ABOUT WOMEN OH MY GO DP LAEASE

[elinordash]

JACOB ANDERSON looking gorgeous as Louis de Pointe du Lac in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE  (PART 2)

So for all you cowards out there talking shit, talking about taking a run at me, hear this now and hear it plain. I own the night.

[swagmonster63]

"brocedes 2.0!" you must not understand the gravity of the situation that was lewis hamilton and nico rosberg. you must not have heard the tales.

[kindaorangey]

very soon the entirety of the tumblr dashboard will be consumed by insane people being insufferable over AMC's interview with the vampire. fortunately i am one of those insane people

[breha]

claudia’s birth allows louis to believe that he and lestat have become The Parents (equal status) and so the teacher-student power dynamic has gone away, but really it’s just been repressed and it comes up again like wack-a-mole

[loumandivorce]

#clearly he wanted kids and he adored her but also the introduction of a literal child#makes him no longer occupy the position of ‘child’ in the house#in a way that is a relief to him#all that language like fledgling pupil student baby bird is dropped#he’s daddy! they're daddy and uncle :)#and then once claudia is an adult and trying to assert her own equal status#it becomes clear how much that original power dynamic had at best just become latent. bc now there's nobody to transfer it to anymore#'blame the teacher not the student'#addressing louis and claudia as a unit to tell them to clean up the corpse he left#and claudia is obv really aware of this#but like. ‘could the children murder the father’ is something present-day louis says#i think at the time he was still unable or unwilling to look that idea in the eye op's tags are incredible

[vividxp]

Reblogging this again to add in Bailey Bass’s comments from the official podcast, because I was reminded of them instantly after reading op’s post and tags.

"But then it gets really dark...because Lestat, honestly...it’s so twisted. Lestat owns Louis, lets be honest. I think Louis wanted to own someone. And in some parts you see Louis does own Claudia. But she goes by feeling, she doesn’t think things through, she’s trying to rip out of this box.”