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[disarmd]

Posterboys | Lando/Alex | Explicit | 5.5k words.

“I’m going to fuck Alex,” Lando said and kept a straight face for so long that George stopped laughing. After George's teasing goes too far, Lando decides to get revenge. On AO3.

“There was one Formula 1 driver who had your poster in his bedroom, do you know who?” “Yes, Lando, crazy. It’s cool, a bit weird as well. It’s life size, it was a cut out from when I was 11, so it’s quite small but I think it’s still taller than Lando now.

[theplasticman]

I can’t lie RM had a little something to him. It was there. I feel it. Most people wouldn’t get it but it was there..I’M there

[thatkidwhodraws]

Detailed look at my Berserk screenprint. First print of the year dropped and I'm blown away by all the kind words and support! It's great motivation moving on to the next piece. Remember this timed edition is only on sale until Sunday then it's off to the printers @vahalla who have printed amazing work like my Attack on Titan screen print last year. I will be shipping internationally if you live outside of the states email me for purchase. Thanks again to all my old fans and new this year ✊ #berserk #anime #attackontitan #screenprinting #screenprints #posterart #filmposter #posterboys #screenprint #guts #manga #illustration #illustrator #photoshop #wacom #cintiq (at Austin, Texas)

[disarmd]

literally ran here from the secret Santa video congrats on poster boy canonization

i don't think it's possible for me to feel more insane about this

lando immediately clocking the gifts as being from someone who cares about him. he guessed carlos, good guess, but in fact it was alex, who is ALSO SOMEONE WHO CARES ABOUT HIM

oh my god that's the cutest thing i've ever seen, that's adorable, like lando immediately being hit with genuine cuteness aggression over baby alex who was his herooooo.

he had the poster A BIG POSTER, THIS BIG, on his wall for ten years? TEN YEARS?!?????

i mean thank goodness we clarified that alex had his helmet on and it is less weird, wouldn't want any of us. getting ideas.

alex needs to be my tour guide. i can't go exploring thailand on my own. I NEED ALEX.

the way lando says it was very very kind of alex. which is the norbono thesis statement. 🙂‍↕️ alex is very very kind to lando 🙂‍↕️ lando tells everyone alex was his hero 🙂‍↕️

[disarmd]

first ten seconds of lando's quadrant q&a and already an alex albon mention. "in the past you've said you looked up to alex albon and valentino rossi"

lando brainstorming with his company that he owns about the questions he wants to be asked, like, and let's make sure to remind everyone i had alex's poster on my wall.

[disarmd]

I know I'm like eight days late. And that I pester you all the time. But talk to me about Alex/Lando.

i am even later! i just haven't been feeling well and i wanted to do this post justice because i love alex/lando soooooo much!!!!!!

one thing i was thinking about is how lando's, in many ways, a very generous person. we know he loves to pay for a date (you're not paying on a date because in fact he's already prepaid), for his friends on their holidays, for george's mates just because... they showed up i guess? and he's a very generous winner. he has not stopped talking about oscar since he won the wdc, what a good driver oscar is, how much he respects oscar, how he knows oscar is going to make his life hell this year.

and i think there's something lovely about generosity, but it also comes from a place of power. lando can be generous in paying because he's got so much money. he can be generous about oscar being a worthy adversary because he's the one who won.

and what i think is so interesting about lando and alex is that lando's admiration of alex isn't "generous".

lando had alex's poster on his wall because he admired alex, as a fan. lando was tiny and looked much younger than he was and wasn't very winning at karting (although, we're not surprised to learn, he's exaggerated how bad his karting record was and he did actually win much earlier than he says he did).

but alex was TALL he was a BEAST at karting, like he was particularly skilled.

and it's so interesting to think about the vulnerability that comes from lando talking about that - his wee little childhood self, being a fan of someone who is theoretically also his peer (unlike rossi, who is so much older).

the thing that makes me the most feral is that i feel like alex responds to lando's vulnerability with such tenderness. alex is obviously notorious for being kind and very well liked, but i think his "nice guy" thing is like also tempered through his very british personality of constantly teasing and riling people up and c o m p l a i n i n g. obviously teasing is a love language, but i think so often we see this bit of an edge with alex, and it's absolutely fascinating to me how he's not like that with lando.

that moment on drive to survive last season where he said he thinks people just need to leave lando alone was so deeply kind, and like... a lot more than drivers typically say for each other. even when alex was doing that bff video with george and george was like, oh yeah, the guy we both hate, lando, hee hee. alex didn't particularly play along. where george goes around being an absolute shit to lando, and george and alex so gleefully are shits to each other, there's this really different vibe between alex and lando, and i think it is so so so interesting.

we don't have that many moments with them, but somehow each moment is like even better than the last. what do you mean alex gave lando a little good luck present as part of the grill the grid secret santa thing that was so kind they couldn't show it on camera??????????

and know we're just supposed to go on like everything's normal?

[theplasticman]

(hurting myself) get naked get naked get naked get naked

[disarmd]

laura was it u who posted about norbon and alex's protectiveness of lando and the softness he has around him that he doesn't usually display because his humour is so bite-y? i am FAIRLY SURE IT WAS YOU!!! anyway i saw this clip and immediately thought of that thesis: https://youtube.com/shorts/1bH0v0FCqtU?si=NFKj4BGA1QPmGBqA

yesssss it is my favourite thing in the world and alex talking about lando is EVERYTHING. the way alex loves trolling so much and is constantly saying outrageous things all the time but then is so careful to immediately walk back lando being too big for them because he doesn't want to cause trouble for landooo. alex being earnest is always such a beautiful thing and the fact that talking about lando makes him earnest... help.