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Kes(She/her)(Aries)🇬🇧🇺🇸 Born‘98,intj

If you’d like some fic recs just ask. I’ve got troves! I also write fics most notably:

LandOscar

Love is a Duty (rated m, 18.2k)

Medieval AU. As punishment for a tavern brawl stablehand Oscar is assigned as Lord Lando’s page.

Amongst the Trees (rated e, 21.8k)

Oscar meets Lando on the high ropes course of a Center Parcs resort, Summer Vacation, Casual Sex

A Touch of Papaya (rated m, 38.4k)

Oscar spends his rookie season falling in love with his teammate

Software Instability (rated m, 16.6k)

Detroit: Become Human AU, Oscar is an android and Lando’s performance coach

We’ll Take the Scenic Route (rated m, 21.5k)

Oscar is a student driving solo across America, Lando is a stranger he picks up along the way (Authors favourite)

Ignore the Consequences (rated m, 11.7k)

Soulmate-Identifying Marks

Between the flags (rated m, 16.9k)

Bondi Rescue AU

How to Reform a Rake (rated m, 8.1k)

Too Hot to Handle Style Intervention, Mutual Abstinence

CarLandOscar

In the Middle (rated e, 3.5k)

Hate Sex, Threesome, Smut

MaxOscar

Switch it Up, Play it Down (rated e, 11.2k)

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Max is an Omega and Oscar is an Alpha but it’s never that simple

Total Ellipsis of the Heart (rated t, 14.6k)

Online Dating, Texting, Mutual Pining, Oscar finds Max’s profile on a Dating App

NorStapStri

Blood Rushed, Hair Tossed and Cheeks Flushed (rated e, 4.6k)

Threesome, 2024 Dutch GP, Lando wins the Dutch Grand Prix and celebrates with Max and Oscar

NorApinStri

Talk Too Much (rated e, 10.6k)

Franco has some fun with a certain two McLaren drivers.

wisteriagoesvroom

back on my maxoscar bullshit. you know how some people are like. same person different font. the deadpan humour, almost incredibly blunt and could be borderline mean but somehow they keep it on the sane vector. not taking anything too seriously while taking their job incredibly seriously. just pure logic and determination at the expense of maybe everything else. insanely singleminded about doing the thing they want and everything in life falling into place in service of that. minimal noise, minimal distraction, maximum performance.

and also like. these are the two people you’d find who probably snuck off from the party to sit in a room, and one is building lego in absolute silence and the other is plugged in playing on their switch and their friends walk in like “what are you doing??” and they both just shrug.

oscar's like "we're hanging out". and max blurts out “just because we are having some quiet time does not mean we are not being social”.

kingkestrel

I’m about to write an essay so let me just put it under the cut. Tldr: that’s autism tho.

Okay if you’re still here let me list some other things I’ve noticed about these two that are a little autistic.

Now don’t get me wrong this is in no way a diagnosis or meant to cause offence but these two have tendencies. It’s ofc a spectrum and everyone lands on it somewhere. Some just further than others.

Also I won’t be linking anything because I’m lazy…

1. Parallel Play

Now this is only a head canon by op but it is interesting that we consider it something Max and Oscar would do.

Parallel Play is when two people spend time together but prefer to do it whilst doing their own separate activities, often without engaging much with each other. (More common in autistic friendships)

2. Hyper Fixation/Monotropism

This one is the most obvious. They are both very committed to F1 and motorsports. Oscar has almost no hobbies outside of racing (He’s admitted himself that all he does is sleep… and sometimes play video-games) and When Max isn’t racing he’s racing…

3. Eye Contact

Now I know what you’re thinking, they both have great eye contact and that’s the thing… they both have a tendency to stare which is actually a common masking/ camouflaging technique.

Oscar ‘heart eyes Piastri’ is obvious but Max is also often described as having very intense eye contact by interviewers. (Katy Fairman from the Small Torque Podcast mentions that she was warned about it by other interviewers before her first interview with Max.)

4. Logic and Bluntness

Both have similar blunt dry humour.

What immediately comes to mind is Max during the Redline stream. He’s wished a happy Mother’s Day and Max’s deadpan response of “I’m not a mother.” That’s Logic based blunt humour at its best.

My mind has gone blank on for an Oscar example but his delivery is also very deadpan.

But Oscar will also get stuck or fixated on small elements of a conversation. There’s the example of the “you don’t like red” from the Guess the Lyrics video, there’s also Oscar getting confused with the rock-paper-scissors before the Pictionary video and there’s also a great example where he fixates on things… ugh I can’t remember it but he’s asked a question about something and he misunderstands a word and thinks the interviewer is talking about virtual or sim racing… anyways. Edit: This!!

Other tendencies:

Oscar’s apparent dislike of physical touch, changing ASAP after getting covered in champagne (not liking the sensation?) having long nails because he hates the feeling of them being short

Max’s dislike of loud noises.

Their shared loved of Max-splaning/Oscribing (Need for debriefs)

Very boring/ safe wardrobes, Oscar wears the same beat up pair of Nikes almost every weekend, Max and his multipack T-shirts

Is it calmness and composure/Mad Max or simply a difficulty expressing expressions??/ autistic joy? (Oscar after his wins comes to mind)

Oscar has facial ticks, winking and lip twitch, especially when thinking hard

You can draw your own conclusions but that’s the things I’ve noticed that suggest Max and Oscar might skew a little towards autistic.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

kingkestrel

Hey it's been like a year since I made this original post and i have MORE!!!

Childhood Signs

Did you know that increased fussyness as a baby can be an early sign of autism? This is only correlational but Oscar's mother has talked wax-lyrical about how much Oscar would cry as a baby.

She also talked about the fact that Oscar would pretend to be a car and would want to be read car magazines instead of bedtime stories? and that he memorized all the car logos. (More evidence for the hyper fixations, special intrests & monotropism)

As for Max, i'm sure we've all seen that video of his father being interviewed whilst he's zooming around in the background. Very indicative of early stimming behaviours.

#autistic Oscar Piastri #kes rambles #oscar piastri #max verstappen

blairdii

when the annual abu dhabi dinner photo is posted and i get oddly emotional and proud of these guys even tho i've spent the whole year cursing more than half of their bloodlines

wanderinghalo27

The rookie teammate dynamics seem to be that Kimi's gained a mom, Ollie's gained an older brother, Gabi's gained a controversially older boyfriend, Isack and Liam have gained each other as frat bros, and Franco is in the ninth circle of hell

prettydangrotten

big baku theme in the skebo this week

ilustrali

oscar piastri, only human after all

panshan125

Road Trip

mawapeach

TW: Self-harm, semi gore, open wound

“Oh yeah, now the piastri fans can’t take his body anymore, he finally trademarked himself”

Obviously inspired by all the hate I got on twitter. To think that Lando would approve any of their actions.. More delusional than Ferrari fans (no shade, love Ferrari and their fans!)

New au? Livid Lando