#liam zander

[oneyedpetal]

i've recently become obsessed with the Dirty Air Series written by Lauren Asher... 🏎️💨

so... of course i made tiny moodboards / face claims for each main character 😁

[xoxoskai]

In honor of Throttled’s three-year anniversary, here are some Slade family head cannons!

Noah does the cooking in the house. 

Maya’s responsibility is to read out the recipe he’s making. 

Noah always participates in Maya’s vlogs when she asks and threatens asks everyone else with him to do it as well. 

Maya realizes she gained 10K followers overnight when she posted an Instagram story with Noah walking around shirtless behind her in the frame. 

Shirtless Noah is then banned in the household. 

Maya’s parents favor Noah over both Santiago and Maya, and Noah never stops flaunting it. 

Noah watches soap operas with his mother-in-law and does not stop talking about the plotline for days. 

Whenever they fight, Maya retaliates by wearing Santiago’s number again. 

Noah’s equivalent to sleeping on the couch during fights is hanging at Santi’s place till he gets kicked out to go “make up with his wife”

Occasionally, Maya is the third wheel in Noah and Santiago’s bromance. 

After retiring, Noah only comes back to Bandini as Team Principal after James Mitchell retires from the post. 

Having Liam and Sophie as neighbors means lots of joint dinner parties, festival celebrations, emergency midnight crisis contacts and accidental witnessing of things like - 

Noah and Maya witnessing Liam and Sophie trampoline jumping into their pool from the roof. 

Liam and Sophie watching Noah discuss the latest soap opera in heavy detail over barbeque with a full outline of the characters, plot twists and the villains (Sophie doesn’t know but Liam asks about the channel and the time it airs after dinner). 

Because of his issues with his parents, Maya is first anxious to tell Noah that she’s pregnant. 

Noah bursts into tears with happiness when she does tell him though. 

Maya’s cravings make Noah a professional chef who sometimes races. 

Noah tries to stop Maya from travelling with him and only allows her to do it till her second trimester. 

Maya never tells Noah, but she thinks he looks hot carrying a baby bag filled with essentials. 

Noah is on the podium when Maya’s water breaks. 

Maya is carried by Noah to the car with Santi and Jax clearing out the way. 

The two hours Maya is in labor are the most excruciating of his entire life and he hates that he agreed to let her be present at the race where so many things could have gone wrong. 

Noah cries when the Doctor tells him his wife and son are both in good condition. Noah cries harder when he holds Marko for the first time. 

Marko has the most loving and doting parents in the world, the best grandparents and the coolest uncle.

Marko develops a love for racing at a very early age.

Unlike his own father, Noah lets Marko take it at his own pace. He is proud of his son and even more proud that they love the same sport, but he does not want to be controlling and obsessive.

Maya loves setting up playdates with Sophie’s twins the moment she finds out about Marko’s little crush. 

Initially, Marko chooses his mother’s birthday date as his car number.

He is offered a contract from Bandini at the age of 20. Noah takes a backseat from being the Team Principal, becomes a strategist instead.

Tio Santi is his go-to person for everything. When his parents come off as overbearing? Sleepover at Tio Santi’s. Love advice for a girl’s he crushed on his whole life? Tio Santi. How to bail him from trouble without letting his parents know? Tio Santi. 

Marko is a vivid reader after he borrows Stephen King's books from Liam one time. He also takes suggestions from Sophie about the romance books her daughter is currently into.

When Maya finally conceives their daughter, Noah nearly passes out from hearing the news.

When Baby Slade is born, no one loves and dotes on her like Marko does. Whatever she wants, she will get. 

A 12-year age difference means Marko is very protective of her. 

Baby Slade is fawned over by her father and spoiled rotten by both the Slade men. 

When she starts pre-school, Noah is a rare father in the hordes of mothers trying to get his wailing daughter to go inside. 

Noah does not notice all the women fanning themselves when his daughter rushes into his arms but Maya having already witnessed this during Marko’s preschool does after which Papa Slade is banned never to pick his daughter up alone.

Maya sings her daughter to sleep in spanish most nights.

Baby Slade follows everything her older brother does -

Starts writing with her left hand because “Koko” does. 

Wants her hair styled like Koko’s.

Wants to race as well as Koko (cue heartbroken Noah).

When her date for prom does not show up, Marko flies in on the eve of a Grand Prix to take her and flies her out for his race later the next day. 

The older she gets, the more she teases her brother about his one-sided love. 

They are openly proud of each other’s achievements; he posts about the school awards she’s won on his stories, and she always keeps tracks of her big brother’s races. 

Maya loves how they are as close as Santi and her. 

Her first boyfriend has to be escorted out of their home, sniffing and on the verge of tears, by an apologetic Maya thanks to the Slade men drilling him incessantly. 

After which Noah and Marko have to earn the youngest Slade's affection back and ask for forgiveness not less than a hundred times.

Tio Santi is her favorite adult and like her older brother, she loves calling him her superhero. 

Both Slade siblings are fluent in atleast 3 languages. Their motto is - Spanish, sexy and Slade.

No matter how old they get, Noah still calls Marko “monkey” and his daughter “princess”

No matter how old they get, the Slade children never not love how involved, cherished and loved their parents make them feel. 

No matter how old they get, Noah and Maya still dance in the kitchen to soft music with dimmed lights constantly reminding each other how loved they are and how there is no other place they’d rather be. 

THIS WAS A LOT LONGER THAN I PLANNED FOR IT TO BE AND BY THE END OF IT I DIDN’T PLAN TO GET SO EMOTIONAL. THIS SERIES MEANS SO MUCH TO ME AND I LOVE ALL THE CHARACTERS SO MUCH THAT IT IS OVERWHELMING AT TIMES

[the-dark-artifices-trees]

Dirty air series 🤝 off-campus series

Same series different font

Garret Graham 🤝 Noah slade

Rich kid following in dads footsteps. Abusive dad. Brown haired girl. Being the best player in their sport

John Logan 🤝 Liam Zander

Has a dark secret and told no one. Fell for a blonde. Didn't say "I love you" when their girl said it. Best friends with a guy slightly better at their sport than them (Garret Graham 🤝 Noah slade)

Dean di-laurentis 🤝 Jax Kingston

Grew up rich. Substance abuser and manwhore for a time. Briefly had the relationship with their girl end.

John tucker 🤝 santiago alatorre

Leg injury. "It's always the silent ones." Fell for dark-haired girl. Girl dad. Everyone's fav

[carloschilipeppersainz]

Santiago Alatorre x Model! Reader- Social Media AU

Faceclaim: Carlos Sainz Jr & Jade Distinguin

santiagoalatorre

liked by yourusername, noahslade and 450,567 others

santiagoalatorre: Getting ready for Interlagos

yourusername: 😍

liked by santiagoalatorre

bandinicracing: Can’t wait to be back at the track

fan34: The arms are arming

yourusername

liked by mayaalatorre, sophie_mitchell and 72,567 others

tagged: santiagoalatorre

yourusername: Interlagos was a blast 💥 🏆

sophie_mitchell: Had the best time with you both!

↳ yourusername: Love u ❤️

↳ mayaalatorre: My two besties ❤️

noahslade: P1 and P2 santiagoalatorre

↳ santiagoalatorre: VAMOS! 💪🏻

yourusername

liked by mayaalatorre, elenagonzalez and 82,213 others

tagged: santiagoalatorre

yourusername: He wins a F1 race and is calm, Real Madrid lose against Manchester City and he’s salty 😂

fan45: Alatorre violated by his girlfriend 😂😂

santiagoalatorre: You only like City because you think Rúben Dias is hot!

↳ yourusername: And? (rubendias call me)

liked by rubendias

↳ santiagoalatorre: 🙄

fan12: Called out 😂

yourusername

liked by noahslade, fan34 and 99,426 others

tagged: santiagoalatorre

yourusername: looking pookieful

santiagoalatorre: I’m calling my lawyers

↳ yourusername: But you are pookieful

fan75: I thought this was posted by a fan account 😂

mayaalatorre: What am I looking at?

↳ yourusername: A simp post for your brother 🥰

[zoe-the-booklover]

Redeemed by Lauren Asher put me in such a big book hangover, I genuinely don't know what to read next, or how I'm supposed to get over Santiago and Chloe

[halfblood045]

“Are you ready to fall?” 

I freeze, not sure if he means the same thing.

 He brushes my hair to the side, hitting me with a stunning smile. “I’m ready to drag you to hell before returning you back to heaven where you belong.”

[wittybibliophile]

DIRTY AIR SERIES - LAUREN ASHER

Book Two : COLLIDED 🎨🖌🏁🏎📚

" @ To the Sophie Mitchells out there- Be different. Be genuine. Be you."



#Characters:

*SOPHIE MITCHELL (21 yr old) - A short girl who is as free- spirit as she can be, full of life and innocence. She describes herself " like a lemon starburst, sweet but packs a punch". She is also a girl with a lot of stars, sneakers, printed tees and her naughty fuck-it list that she made one day while drinking after a very bad lay. She is daughter of James Mitchell, manager of Bandini (Noah slades's ) F1 team, and therefore has never been out of his radar regarding any teenage fun. James has always kept her in check in the name of responsibility, rules and respect but under all of that he does not realise he acts that way because he doesn't want sophie to end up like her mother, leaving her child and husband to go to africa to save under- developed countries.

Sophie has been in all girls school all her life, and once she turns 18 and is accompanying her father to the prix season, she is told to go for a kid's birthday party for face painting. Once she is in college, her life changes for the worst it can be… with bad lays and even worse list of boys to choose from. She is an accounting major, who enjoys drawing and painting, but she doesn't want to let her father down in any way, hence do not complaint about it.

Her life changes when she befriends, maya alatorre and liam zander during her prix schedule. She remembers where she has met liam before.. when 18, at the kid's birthday party a mysteriously good looking guy had bribed a kid to leave her alone to talk to him. At the time liam was 25 and told her she's too young and naive to be with him, and if they meet again under different circumstances and time they would.

Sophie avoids liam like a plague because of her father's instructions and he looks like double trouble… (yum!). Anyway, she shares another silent moment with liam under the starry sky at one of the prix end of race gala. Liam asks her for a date, after he discovers her list by chance… she acts too intelligent and asks jax and maya to come with so that she doesn't have to be alone with liam. Everything is platonic between them as she friendzones liam and keeps her distance, while liam and maya helps her with her list.

Sophie gets drunk during canada prix and kisses liam one night in a park, which leads to an intense atmosphere, which later leads to another kiss and for them to agree on a friends with benefit situation. Well, i will not spoil anything because reading about the hot and sexy deeds happening between liam and sophie, to cross off her fuck-it list are worth the wait. (Go and read if you haven't already. And to add to the spice and excitement all of it happens while sophie is trying to hide from her father, because F1 racers are out of limits for sophie.

Although sophie is scared and knows it can make their friendship ugly, she ends up falling for liam. With his charming, nerdy, hot, insecure self. Liam who helps her relive her dream, when he gifts her paint and sketch book. He makes her realise that she needs to follow her dream as she is allowed to chase her happiness. On their last day together before the abu dhabi grand prix, liam takes her to a desert under the most beautiful starry sky, to cross off one last thing on the list. Sophie spends her last hours with him with a heavy heart knowing after the last race he has to choose between her and his next year's contract with Mccoy. Well, she breaks his heart, fights with him at dawn and they leave the place.

Sophie is very distracted and sad. James asks her daughter for what was wrong and tells her that he might know about it as he is not dimwit. I love the whole daughter-father relation here, as james is so supportive and tries to help them afterwards. He helps liam to learn about the truth of his company who is trying to blindside him in the name of contract.

Sophie returns home with a heavy heart and confronts her father about her wanting to help kids through painting therapy. Well, what can a loving father do ? he agrees. Liam comes to sophie's place at the same day and proposes her, with his own dreamy list written at the back of sophie's fuck-it list. A big big happy ending.

*LIAM ZANDER (28 yr old) - A Tall , Dark, Dashing with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes Mccoy F1 racer. Best in the Mccoy team, bestfriends to noah slade and jax kingston. He recently got into trouble with his company for fooling around with the owner's niece and it is a bad time for any other distraction in his life, especially miss Sophie Marie Mitchell.

Liam can not refuse the wave of desire and attraction that rises in his heart and body for Sophie, but he is in check. Liam tries and tries to get close to sophie during first 2-3 locations of the prix schedule, but she has her boundaries built too tall for him to surpass or even to peek by. The worst happens to liam, yes what happens with every other guy in a girl's life = Friendzoned.

Liam and sophie has a intense and very very hot game going on in the whole book while trying to stay away from each other (noone wants to accept it in their hearts that they need each other in all the ways possible). He steals various opportunities to talk dirty to sophie in the most crowded places, leave feather touches whenever they are alone and close enough to each other. He cannot understand why he is so mesmerised by sophie's sparkling sneakers under the dresses, her printed Tees, her innocent face which looks at the starry nights, or her very naughty fuck-it list.

Liam is a pure soul ( i'm saying that), he loves kids and he reads everyday before going to bed…. and to top it all (my personal favorite reason) he knows that books are better than the tv/movie adaptations of the story 😍. Coming back - as anyone would do, liam tries to take sophie for double dates and offers to help her with her very specific list. Everything is going fine till they decide to be friends with benefits. They spend more and more time together. She helps him reconnect with his brother and nieces and restore his family relations… and guess what happens to liam??. love happens… 😏.

Liam has a wounded heart, something we all go through in life for various reasons. His college bestfriend Johanna who falls in love with his elder brother Lukas and they have a beautiful daughter, but during her second pregnancy she unfortunately leaves the world and zander family with a lot of sadness and her second child. Therefore, liam doesn't like to go home for vacations, for his niece's birthday because it is johanna's death anniversary. He does what he can do best and shuts it all down and focuses on racing and partying till sophie arrives and stirs these feelings in him, which terrifies him. He keeps lying to himself but he can't deny that he feels for her and doesn't want her to leave him and go home after the season is done. He keeps insisting with his company to let him continue the next season with sophie (as friends). But he gets to know they have been playing with his career for their own gains and it is time for him to decide everything.

Guess what happens ?…. Yes, liam leaves the team and joins another. He exposes his company and accepts that he loves sophie at the last press conference after grand prix. And… he goes to sophie and confesses.

Liam zander's character shows healing, accepting, feeling and growing up as a person.

I love lauren asher for always giving us all the perfect reasons to read and dream. This books shows a very beautiful way of healing right after showing us the lowest point of liam's life. Sophie's chasing her dream and happiness. Both Liam and Sophie are like a puzzle pieces fitting together perfectly. This books gives us lot of emotions which leads to very intense slow burn ( well, i live for my struggles 😂). i personally love their sexual encounters ( i will be updating one very sexy scene next month). There are kind of three epilogues , one in the last chapter where on christmas liam gifts sophie her dream car and asks her to move in with him. Another one within the book where they are married for two years and sophie surprises him with her pregnancy and one extended epilogue which shows 14 years after noah and maya (boy - marko )and liam and sophie's (twins - stella and leo) marriage. By the way their kids are legends on the race track.

This book was a treat and i think i found another one of my favorite troupe (which i do not know what to call ? Is there a name for it… friends to lovers?? Or something else.. 😉)

Xoxo,

Ironically Witty!

[akanssshaa]

“And while you were busy staring up at the vast nothingness, I’d watch you while envying a damn sky. A sky for fuck’s sake. But at the time, I didn’t realize I wanted you to look at me that way. With unconditional love.”

- Collided ( dirty air series )