the magic of rocket ships

sunsetmog at AO3. she/her

[magicalrocketships]

Rivers of Light by sunsetmog | F1 RPF | Max Verstappen/Daniel Ricciardo | Mature | (22/? an ongoing + occasional series)

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Max's baby doesn't like it when Max isn't holding him.

Contains mpreg, reference to giving birth, Max Verstappen's bad dad, past abuse, and on-track accidents.

Title is from Jacob Alon - Don't Fall Asleep.

This is also at AO3.

[raylangivins]

[laura1633]

He has come prepared to help everyone out

[gorgrusselll]

max verstappen and daniel ricciardo making stroopwafels — 2023 dutch grand prix

[dora49]

The obsession I have for this clip cannot be understood. Max had just woken Daniel up, and he's so soft, those crinkled eyes?? That small smile?? That's a man in love. While Max is obviously yapping in front of him.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[lost-in-fandoms]

Max at Red Bull Ring on June 25, 2026 by Sam Bloxham

[harkamal]

I like finding out what people my age and older had as their first cell phone. Anybody younger and their answer is a generic Android or iPhone. Phones from the 2000s were some wacky device like the sidekick or samsung x83 or lg env2

My first phone was a nokia 1112 in 2008

[patroclusdefencesquad]

i am once again thinking about them

[expressions-of-nature]

by Anita Austvika

[stjohnstarling]

People on the internet love to criticize work by Some Guy with zero institutional power like it's made by Disney Studios, and talk about Disney movies like they're made by their personal friend Amy, who is just trying her best,

[radicalityincident]

Seriously anyone engaging with age verification bill discourse in terms of whether or not you think age restricting content is good or bad are completely missing the point.

These bills have nothing to do with keeping young people from doing certain things or protecting the children or whatever. Their point is and always has been one thing: If your operating system knows who you are it is impossible to have any real form of privacy on the computer.

Thats it, thats the whole thing. They want to link your every single usage of computers to your real world identity, and like they have been doing for all of time, they are hiding under the guise of protecting the children.

[hunt-11]

I drew Max Verstappen for the first time! And a different angle this time really happy on how this turned out!! :]

[lgbtlunaverse]

To me the most fun part about fix-its is placing dominoes.

Tragedies often consist of and ecalating series of actions and circumstances that, in isolation, were not clearly leading to the tragic end but form a chain of cause-and-effect directly towards it in hindsight. In equal but opposite fashion, I love starting with small inoccuous changes to canon that in themselves do not obviously fix everything but start a new chain that leads to a better ending.

It's kind of impossible for fix-its to feel fully natural– the reader by definition knows what the original ending was and that this ending will be happier because the writer wants it to be– but it is possible for them to not feel contrived. A big deus-ex-machina, or a character breaking with their pre-established tragic flaws to suddenly make all the "correct" decisions almost always feels unsatisfying to me.

But a few carefully placed small domino pieces slowly knocking over bigger and bigger tiles until the entire story has radically changed? That's a lot more fun.

It recquires the author to both correctly identify the original chain of cause-and-effect and understand the characters well enough to know how they'd react to different circumstances. Because if the story feels like it's fixing the wrong problem or the characters don't act like themselves the magic is lost. But when it works? When it clicks and the reader sees the domino chain laid out in front of them? It's beautiful.

[theslowesthnery]

when someone is completely fucking wrong about your blorbo but you don't want to argue about what basically boils down to opinions about shit that doesn't matter so you just sit there like

"that guy's wrong tho"

[atlantidea]

THE OTHER BENNET SISTER (2026)