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something so ai generated about 2026 f1 season
Fic recs of fics you’ve really enjoyed/maybe ur favs?
yay okay! fic recs! It took me a bit to answer because I had to go back through my bookmarks, and honestly, I'm a poor bookmarker. Not a complete list, but some of my favorites!
So the first fic I remember reading in late 2023, the one that made me fall in love with lestappen as a pairing was salad days by slapshots
Other fics I really loved when I first started reading on ao3:
the objects in mirror series and we have to keep trying by linearity
devils roll the dice (angels roll their eyes) by @lestappenforever
you and me, we got big reputations by @ladysomething
i'd sing you morning golden and new by racingline
there you'll stand (next to me) by @toppamplemousse
Some of my other faves in no particular order:
a ship to wreck by m00nlightE
heart on your sleeve by @nyoomfruits
too hot, too greedy by @formulaocean
bambino and cry for me by @breathofnyx
hope under gravestone and the warmth of winter by @usedtobetam
your future had a voice (and it spoke like me) and everything else!! written by saltshaken
bottle episode and head above water and everything else!! by @toppamplemousse
(i love you) it's ruining my life and beholden to no gods and everything else!! by @sixteensecrets
old before i die. by @ladysomething
the selkie way by @larryhaylik
the il predesitnato vince, il predestinato regna series by anonymous
patiently waiting for Ocean eyes but Mads, I swear, I am thinking about these Charles and Max every day😭
um …. So …. I have a confession ………… I have maybe not written a lot for the next chapter and have been writing something else instead ……….
sooo this is what I've been working on...
“I love you.”
Charles freezes with his beer halfway to his mouth. He blinks heavily at the TV screen, where their latest race is on mute so they can dissect it without the commentary annoying them.
He repeats that in his head to make sure he heard it right.
I love you.
Max said it so simply. So easily. Maybe he doesn’t mean it in the way Charles has immediately assumed.
He tries to unstick himself, letting an easy smile pull up his mouth.
“I love you, too, mate,” he says, even though he doesn’t think he’s ever actually said that to a friend before. Not like that, at least. Some casual love ya’s, maybe, though typically he shows his love in other ways.
He says it to his maman a lot, and to his brothers, but he can tell from the sad smile that Max gives him that he didn’t mean it in a brotherly way.
Well . . . Fuck.
“No, Charles,” Max says gently.
Panic claws up Charles’ chest. If Max doesn’t say it, then nothing has to change. Charles really can’t have this hanging between them, can’t have this out in the open, because he can’t lose Max. He really, really can’t.
But if Max says this, if he admits that he feels for Charles in a way that Charles doesn’t, can’t, return, then what happens to them? What happens to the friendship that they’ve painstakingly created? They’ve worked so hard for this, for what feels like forever, and now Max is one of the best friends Charles has.
Maybe one of the best friends he’s ever had.
Max can’t ruin it like this.
“I mean that I’m in—”
Charles shoots up onto his feet. “Do you want another drink?”
Max sighs. Loudly. Then he stands, too. He hesitates before he reaches out to clasp his hand on Charles’ shoulder, which makes Charles’ heart thump erratically.
He never hesitates. Max always just touches, takes whatever he wants, and Charles has always loved that about him. Everything is easy between them, even these little touches.
This is exactly why Max can’t say anything.
“Charles. Please, just—I know you probably don’t want to hear it, but I’m so . . . I’m so tired, Charles. I’m tired of keeping it to myself. Please, just—can I please just say it, so that I can . . .”
Charles clenches his jaw. He doesn’t want to hear it, but he supposes he can understand why Max needs to say it anyway.
Max keeps talking before Charles says anything either way, bulldozing through like he does with everything. “I’m in love with you.”
Well, fuck.
Charles takes a deep breath. He’s let down a lot of people before, but none of them ever meant as much to him as Max does. He thinks he’s always been kind in the past, but as he thinks through all of his I’m sorry, I’m not interested’s and I’m flattered, but I’m not really looking for anything right now’s, he realises that none of it should be said to Max. Max deserves so much better than that.
“Max, I—” He clenches his jaw again, rubbing his sweaty palm against his jean. “You know I’m straight.”
Max nods once. “Yeah, I know. Believe me, I feel so fucking stupid.”
Charles shakes his head quickly, immediately, reaching up to curl his hand around the forearm of Max’s hand that’s still on his shoulder.
“You’re not stupid,” Charles says. His voice quivers.
“I am,” Max insists, rolling his eyes skyward. “Trust me, I’m well aware that I’m an idiot for falling in love with my straight best friend.”
Charles winces, then drops his hand. “I’m sorry,” he says, because there’s nothing else he can think of.
Max drops his hand too, then shoves both of them in his front pockets. Through the denim, Charles can tell his fists are clenched.
Charles doesn’t even know where this came from. He knows that people make fun of Max for how clingy he can be with Charles, that people online make jokes like get someone who looks at you like Max looks at Charles or no-one is taking Charles away from you Max. But Charles has never cared, never paid it much thought, because he likes having Max’s attention on him.
And since they became friends, he thought he was giving Max the attention back. Pierre jokes that they’ve become codependent, that he can never see Charles anymore without Max being one step behind him, but Charles’ response has always been the same: he and I are the same.
Charles doesn’t know where they fell out of lockstep, but clearly, somewhere along the way, they did. And Charles completely missed it.
Any why now, anyway? When they’ve just been watching a race, talking shit like they usually do? Nothing is different about tonight, so why is Max blowing up their friendship like this?
“It’s fine,” Max says, shrugging his shoulders. Charles doesn’t know how unrequited love can be fine. “It’s not like I thought this was going to go any differently.”
Charles’ heart pangs terribly in his chest. “I mean if I could—because you’re obviously—so if I was then I’m sure that I’d . . . you know?”
Max gives him another sad smile.
“Does that help?” Charles asks, a little desperately. He wants that sad smile to go away.
“Not really,” Max admits. “But I don’t think anything would. I just . . . need to get over it.”
Get over him. Max needs to move on to some other guy, because he’s currently in love with Charles and can’t have him. Charles has never liked breaking hearts, but this is by far the worst one yet.
Fuck.
“But we’re still okay, right?” Charles asks, so desperately that Max looks at him strangely. “This isn’t going to change anything?”
Max hesitates, lips pursed together. Charles feels like his stomach drops through his ass.
“Of course, Charlie,” Max says anyway, then sits back on the lounge. “Should we keep watching the race?”
Charles stares down at him, watches as Max leans forward to pick up his beer and take a sip.
It’s almost like nothing has changed.
Charles sits down beside him, exactly where he did before, and realises that there’s more space between them than usual. Their knees aren’t bumping together, there’s no warmth from Max’s thigh.
Max sat away from him.
Fuck.
calling the photoshopped f1 22 cover the most thoughtful gift charles has ever given for secret santa is sending me. like yeah he put 33 seconds of effort into that vs every other year i guess. he's actually the funniest guy in the world
no no because you could probably argue that george last year was also 'thoughtful' except that definitely also had spite in it lol. whereas with max's the underlying emotion was more teasing
so yeah I fear the 33 seconds of effort is in fact 33x more effort than he's given anyone else
i am pretty sure with big gift he was referring to the championship
also maybe it's because i don't wanna delude myself too much but i don't think the gift was his idea? i mean not fully, maybe one of his close friends suggested it and he went "perfect I'll go for this one" and wrote the letter... i mean that man was considering a kazoo alfhskd it's just a bit strange for me i guess
the issue is that I wasn't watching in 2022 and so I don't know when they actually gave out the secret Santa assignments compared to when he won the wdc. they give out the assignments SO early now, so had he even won the WDC when Charles got Max? I genuinely don't know
I do think Charles is just a bad gift giver so probably he did collaborate on it, however even the idea of him collaborating is hilarious because I can guarantee he's never done that for anyone else's gift. the bottass calendar for Zhou should still make Charles guilty tbh
as a community I just don’t think we talk enough about the fact that in 2022 when Charles got Max for secret Santa he said “he already has his big gift for Christmas.”
like … what. what.
did he mean because he’d won the championship? or did he …. buy Max a gift????
AND WHILE WE’RE HERE the fact that it was like the most thoughtful secret Santa gift Charles has even given. my god
as a community I just don’t think we talk enough about the fact that in 2022 when Charles got Max for secret Santa he said “he already has his big gift for Christmas.”
like … what. what.
did he mean because he’d won the championship? or did he …. buy Max a gift????
Can not fucking wait for Charles to start his milf/yummy mummy era in Ocean Eyes!!!! Not that he wasn’t one before but now he should get to go to yoga and spa appointments for facials, waxes and pedicures, and be able to go to a park with sofia while sipping on an overpriced smoothie and also his new diaper bag is a fucking birkin and he finally gets a massage and the push present he deserves
Max: be a sahm and be productive by doing something you love!! find a new career!!! the world is your oyster!!
Charles, erewhon smoothie in hand, matching pilates set donned, YSL sunglasses perched on his nose, nails buffed and polished: so I have something to tell you about what I've discovered is my passion
Hi Maddie!
Just wanted to say hi and thank you for your wonderful thoughtfulness in creating and sharing your stories. I wanted to ask you about OBID Lestappen—they are so dear to me, I think about them each time I need to cheer up. Some may think that bee princess Charles is far from canon, HOWEVER, if I remember correctly, last year at an APM Monaco event, he said that when he was a child his parents gave him two bunnies because he believed they were reincarnated people… he said it while his eyes were inhumanly green, looking like a crazy wooden creature… and nobody batted an eye… poor Arthur was with him if I remember correctly, sooo… They just bring me so much joy each time I re-read the story… they are canonically accurate to me.
I wanted to ask you… do they get their farm? The fluffy cows, the chickens… does Max have a GP of sheep? … Do Vettel and Ricciardo participate? (Lewis' invitation got lost, sorry Charles, Max doesn't know what happened to it)
Thank you for your time and consideration!
Bisous <3
they are literally batshit crazy and honestly it's also so canon to me. like sorry you can literally never convince that Charles isn't a little bit fucked up in the head, and Max is so pure of heart that he's just like. yeah. and I love that about him.
they're so precious to me, and also my favourite version of lestappen that I've written.
to answer your question: yes to the farms, yes to the chickens and maybe like 1 cow, because Max knows he's the one that will have to take care of it and doesn't want a herd, he for sure talks Charles out of the sheep but compromises by getting another dog or something.
and also .... they have a child!!!
I don't know that I've mentioned it here on Tumblr, but I've been (very slowly) working on a little something for OBID lestappen ..
Hi Mads! Do you prefer working on one large fic like wygig or working on several smaller fics like ocean eyes, mafia au, and now paper rings? I’m wondering if it’s easier to just stay in one world and work on it for a long time or if bouncing around to different stories helps get the creative juices flowing and makes it more fun for you.
oooh man. they're honestly entirely different processes, and also entirely different skill sets tbh.
I personally love the dopamine hit of starting something new and being able to finish it quickly. when something gets above 20k or so, I start to get bored with writing it. on a project like wygig, I got bored so. much. definitely having people read along so consistently is the only reason I was able to keep going with it, because wanting to please you guys was enough to balance out my boredom (praise kink eyyy).
however, I'm so much more consistent with writing when it's a longer piece. you kind of hit a stride. I have a routine for it, and also you become so familiar with characters and the world that it's like second nature to write. now that I'm not writing wygig, there are like full weeks where I go without writing because I don't have any 'inspiration' and that's weird af.
so yeah. they're very very different. my general preference is shorter things, because I can get it out of my system quickly, however I love the routine of long things.
Hey queen, how are u doing?
I’m doing good!! busy busy, work is crazyyyy rn but hey!!! just making that dough so I can write rpf in my downtime
miss u bby <3
I miss you all tooooo I’ve been lurking a little but honestly the real world needs to go away again now like I need to get back to my real job of making lestappen kiss
patiently waiting for Ocean eyes but Mads, I swear, I am thinking about these Charles and Max every day😭
um …. So …. I have a confession ………… I have maybe not written a lot for the next chapter and have been writing something else instead ……….
ur brain is absolutely gorgeous for coming up with ocean eyes i just wanna squeeze the heck outta maxie and charlie
honestly gagged at how much people like this version of them but honestly they are so cute I love them too
hi Maddieee, hope you’re doing fine! the last chapter has been a ride! it was, as always, enchanting to read (and it leave me thinking for a while).
I was wondering if Carlos being Sofia’s legal father is not going to be a problem sooner or later, bc even if he never really acted like one, on the paper he has every right to her and Max has none.
also, I’m curious about the universe the fic belongs to in a general sense, like I imagine it a bit like omegaverse but I know (or presume) it’s not exactly that, how do you imagine it? there’s some man that are carriers and some men are just not or there’s specifications about that? (feel super free to ignore this question if it’s too nosy but I think it’s super interesting and I wanted to understand your thought process behind it)
as always, tysm for sharing your incredible work. you became my favorite charles/max writer in like no time (I love everything you write but the birthing nest and ocean eyes are top1 in my heart)
well tbh we haven’t seen a lot of Carlos yet (that changed next ch!) but he’s not as vindictive as that. definitely on the day he was furious, and that drove his particularly cruel actions, however now that it’s not so acute he’s actually just devastated. he definitely won’t be trying for custody to spite them - not that he even wants Sofia, really.
as for the universe. well tbh when I was writing the one shot, I had intended to make it omegaverse, but then I got like half way through and realised I never made any references to alphas or omegas. so I was like “oh well it’s only a one shot it can just be hand wavey logic”.
so yeah I kinda dug my grave there a little bit. honestly no really world building. probably the closest thing would be that Charles is just trans, but in a world that’s like really accepting of that.
and you’re welcome!! I love my little Ken dolls