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striae - she/they ao3 - link

howdy ^-^ 🌷💫⭐️ long-time listener first time blogger. 20+, max enjoyer. mature content in the fic speaks for itself. i love chatting! come say hi! nice to meet you! 🫧

tag masterlist -> ongoing project: 2025 kinktober fills -> max's 2026 races: verstappie news bulletin

📚✨ join the 'f1 for the books' book club -> discord invite (all welcome!)

[dragongirlsweetie]

*finally manages to get the gag out of my mouth* do you think im a good nice hostage or a bad stupid hostage

[onadarklingplain]

lilymunihe: if it fits!

[slutforpringles]

" and getting the other drivers to drink out of your shoe ... you put them in a pretty compromising situation."

"I've done [shoeys] a few times," Verstappen confirmed. "On track, off track, with friends, yeah."

shoey instigator daniel ricciardo ft professional & recreational shoey enjoyer max verstappen

[striae-tional]

fic rec for you in the vein of your edrs fic (but more sci fi and less horny, i think): harder, better, faster, stronger by mierla.

🔗 - harder, better, faster, stronger by mierla

THIS FIC IS SO GREAT!!!

edrs is total porn nonsense sillyworld so it's really an honour i don't deserve to be invoked here lmfaoooo, i think a more respectable peer for this fic is starting position by saintsideways...! that idea of mindmeld in conversation with identity crisis... two different slants on the intersection, both fantastic.

mierla also wrote it's simple and it's plain, a story with unsurprisingly amazing worldbuilding and an excellent max...!

okay i fucking loved this hahaha thank you x10000 for sending it in!! spoilerchat under the cut!!!

the second line, immediate brilliance: "Max is big next to Checo (next to most drivers) and not shy about taking up space, but not in an overbearing way—more like the space is there for the taking and Max doesn’t see why he should hesitate." fantastic character observation and also so unsettling in retrospect after you've read the fic and know what's about to happen to max's brain, his body.

all the fic's core concepts are introduced in such a great manner as well, with the wifi implant and then the great-aunt in guadalajara. the idea of cheating via 'automated starts' to get across how different the baseline car operation is nowadays... plus such a great nod to the launch control scandal of 1994 which jos verstappen was on the vicinity of. and again so sinister on your second read-through! automated start... launch control... get away from him get a job!!

checo is a great narrator for this story. his aversion to the technology, his suspicion of red bull's [hand gesture] everything, but his fondness towards max and the slight distance he's holding himself away from everyone in his life. all these aspects work so nicely as a focusing lens so that by the time you're reading "[Checo] thought Newey was a racer at heart, but he’s not sure anymore", it feels SO damning and scary, like, when your parent who never yells raises their voice or seeing a friend always in control smash a wineglass. YOU'RE upset? okay so we're fucked...

that whole confrontation checo witnesses between adrian and max is such a fantastic read it is SO CHILLING i absolutely love it. all max's anger "popped like a balloon", of course, but the build up to it as well, how excellently you can imagine this eerie setting and the nervous nature of an eavesdropping situation plus that doomed feeling of max having already installed the technology and however he feels about its potential uses now it's already fundamentally too late for him to free himself.

it's a fantasticcc choice to make it ambiguous, after that moment, how much of max is still max, if he's in his own skull at all; what is the nexus of identity, let alone who has command of it? it's a deliciously claustrophobic story.

thanks again for sliding this under my door, i had an amazing time with it!! i feel very lucky and blessed that you wrote to me :] <3

[striae-tional]

fic rec: in their eyes by sencha_txt. omegaverse but mostly about insane in-universe twitter discourse. so accurate it gave me a headache 👍

🔗 - in their eyes by sencha_txt

this was super fun! thank you for sending it in!! i don't read omegaverse that wasn't written by my friends or explicitly recommended to me so you've served me up a delicious morsel that i would've never pulled off the menu on my own 💕🌸 the best kind of treat!!!

spoilers below the cut so if anyone wants to read the fic blind for themselves before hearing my thoughts they can do so :]

RIP MAX'S BONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sencha's done something so wonderful with this format and their worldbuilding which is that there's perfect ludonarrative synchronistic in The Feeling Of The Scroll; the story's about totally uninformed people fumbling around 'learning' things in real time (that chaotic messy untruthful method of learning that social media provides) and because the worldbuilding has nonstandard omegaverse ideas (LOVE) the reader is also 'learning' things as the frenzy of f1twit users surface them... like i loved going BONE MEDS!?!?! at the same time as the feed was also going BONE MEDS!!?!!

i also freaking love the concept of bone meds and everything the bone meds represent... pleaseeeee yes yes yes using omegaverse as a vehicle for discussing body regulation and the strange biochemical rhythms/demands of athletes, plus how the discussion of omegaverse sex-gender binaries sort of mirror the scrutiny of trans bodies in athletics in real life. amazing! really deftly painted out without being too heavy and the chaos of differing opinion means it's not lecturing either, which isn't fun in narrative, and instead you get to give yourself a stress migraine seeing a clip of alpha!carlos sainz confusing sex and gender and being subjected to all the opinions of the internet about that.

everything about this world intrigues me honestly. approaching it through the lens of "now that they're all off medication XYZ will happen" makes it all 100x more interesting, i loveee that approach. my favourite example of that: max is going to get fat but somehow lose weight, so here's some fatphobic tweets. it's genius.

you can super tell this author's been in the trenches for real actual because all the usernames/handles are SO delightful and plausible and authentic-feeling, plus the sort of cadence the posts fall into, the style guide these users seem to be using. i don't read social media au's sort of as a rule (another reason it's so great you recced this directly!! 💛) so i can't compare this fic to others of its genre but i think it does a great job painting these sorts of fanspaces and the way fans genuinely speak to one another. at least, comparing to my years-ago days on bts twitter lmfao never again.

lestappen isn't really my thing usually but i am very hooked on this, plus, the removed perspective means that whatever filtered third-fourth-fifth-hand version of charles-and-max we see in the prose will be quite interesting i think! like three chapters in and we haven't even heard a reference to charles (i'm guessing he'll be max's race engineer starting 2021) so it would be silly of me to discriminate against this brilliant fic because of his forecasted presence upcoming lololol. and even though we've hardly seen the man at all in this fic (a choice i also love) i'm already so fiercely on this max's side that if he falls for charles leclerc i'll be nothing but supportive! get your man, max!! and your championship!!!

thanks again for the rec, i liked it a lot! ^-^

[verstarquez]

[striae-tional]

max gnawing furiously at that gap

🐶🦴 = 🦁🏆

[striae-tional]

VERSTAPPIE NEWS BULLETIN - 8th EDITION

SPIELBERG 2026:

qualified fifth! started on medium tyres (everyone did barring bortoleto and sainz on softs); good launch, kept position.

overtook antonelli lap two, then leclerc at the next corner, improving to p3 by lap three.

took the fastest lap on lap five.

on lap ten over took hamilton for p2, then hamilton took it back a corner later, then the two were alongside again before max (brakes protesting) dropped back, still in p3. ultimately inherited the position on the same lap when hamilton pit.

split the mercs, russell in front. shaved little chunks out of russell's lead, improving by a few tenths each lap. interval on lap eighteen was 4.9.

pit on lap nineteen, came out p6 on hard tyres, hamilton in front; inherited p5 as piastri, ahead, pitted too.

started hunting down hamilton again. norris pitted, max took p4. lunged late on turn three to try and overtake hamilton but couldn't make it stick, then tried the same lunge on turn six, kept the position this time. p3 on lap twenty-three!

yellow flag called on lap twenty-four after sainz suffered a breakdown, virtual safety car called one lap later, lifted on lap twenty-seven. gap to russell, leading, remained 4.9.

kept a streak of fastest laps from lap twenty-eight, to thirty-one (after which gap was 4.1), to thirty-five (2.3), to thirty-eight (1.4)... streak ended on lap fourty-two, but russell pit on lap fourty-three and we inherited p1.

pitted on lap fifty for new hards. we saved fresh mediums in quali but on raceday their window was small &the interval to the mercs meant it was better to not have to pit again. this means we stayed out longer than we should've, losing time to antonelli, while timing a stop for mediums that ultimately never went on. exited pits in p3.

on lap fifty-two antonelli pit and we improved back in p2. gap to russell 10s: vsc called on lap thirty-two for debris reclamation and terminated one lap later.

kept clawing time out of russell, chipping in and in on the lead. lap sixty-two, gap was 5.2, lap sixty-five, 4.3, sixty-nine 3.0... weren't enough laps to overtake after the pit for hards, but max got close.

antonelli narrowed in at the same time, doing his best to close from behind. for the tense final lap he was a sub-second back. although we didn't have enough laps to overtake russell, max was able to fend off antonelli, who crossed the line 0.3s behind.

won driver of the day.

finished p2! second podium, and best result, of the year! 💫⭐️✨️🏆🌷

teammate: qualified p8, finished p6.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

this weekend was an important test for the car as the rb22 recieved a major upgrade package, biggest of the year so far. details here! as both cars improved significantly from previous races, it's safe to say red bull have taken a big step forward with it.

if you've seen people complaining about max's quali and aren't sure why: the way we saved those fresh mediums tyres was by not taking an extra lap in q2, and we were almost knocked out by gasly, surviving by a mere two-tenths.

[countingstars-17]

GP: "There's yellows T10."

Max: "That means flat out right, past the car? I'm joking."

[grogumaximus]

:)

[formula1-sideblog]

another quality clip from the new hpe ad is where out of context george russell seemingly breaks up with kimi antonelli over text

[striae-tional]

not to gossip about f1 but what the heck is going on over at mercedes. almost none of the team went to parc ferme or the podium ceremony for george. post-race social media statement congratulates lewis & bemoans kimis dnf & doesnt mention george at all. on top of all that it was his 100th race start with mercedes, which has gone relatively unmentioned. am i crazy or is that crazy.

i was late to answer this and now we're living in the austrian gole (george pole) world, but anon you are not crazy, that was crazyyyyy... i don't think in a conspiracy-theory kpop-style 'company resources' way but just from a total PR disaster way... right when that happened i saw that mercedes had posted some kind of community thing on youtube. wait really quick sidebar WHY IS THAT A FEATURE NOBODY WANTS THAT okay adjourned thankyou, anyway, mercedes put up something like ten photos and george was in zero of them, and everyyyyy top comment i could see was an iteration of "this is a horrible look where's george do you know you have two drivers". really a mess!!!!

[striae-tional]

Incelverse made me think about an au where all the drivers ✨️belong✨️ to their teams and everyone is possessive.

Drivers objectification tenfold... and like incelverse everyone is horny and everything is being filmed... something something drivers in a cockcage... or maybe the mechanics doing a quickie before the race...

if you write it send me the linkkkkk ^-^

[striae-tional]

also hi!! :D sorry for spamming your asks haha

don't worry, i think we talked more on your old account, i know i sent a bunch of asks in from there <3 plus i had a period where i was terrified of being perceived lol so you'd be surprised how many asks from anons were actually me :)

omg my old account..... rip...!! it was so so so so annoying to move to the new blog after i got shadowbanned bc i made the exodus in the stupidest silliest most neurotic way. but oh well!!!

i'm having a lot of fun now imagining that you were the only person who's ever sent me an anon ask, then and now again, and it's just you and meeeeee and @tinytysh 🥰

[striae-tional]

ace anon has me thinking! (and pushing my agenda who said that)

max doesn’t think about jos in the winner’s room but jos did go. For michael, who is later his friend to the point that max and michael are kind of close and we’ve got those videos of baby maxxx

jos never brings it up, neither does max, the press are confused. (Obviously not everyone’s cup of tea especially if you’re not into the 1990s but still <3) 🫶🏻

re: this ask!

we need apple to impliment a gavel emoji immediately because nineteen times daily i wish to signal grave agreement and instead wind up threatening people with hammers 🔨 it is done 🔨🔨

[striae-tional]

its isack anon back again to say you need to get phnelt to post the max-isack meta i searched for it but could not find it and so i come to you with my hands open. my search for isack girlies is ongoing ill keep you posted.

omgggg i'm so sorry but this was a private conversation so you wouldn't have been able to see... the records are not available... @forcederror my angel i quoted you in tags

and if you feel up to elaborating further anon and i would like to lie on beds while twirling telephone cords between our hands and kicking our feet and suchlike while you speak 💕