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Lando and Oscar don't typically find themselves in each other's company. Lando's a bit too energetic and smiley for Oscar's awkward, reserved exterior. But when a combined effort from their respective social circles leads to a "boys' trip" to the woods for spring break, they've got some time to get to know each other. What could possibly go wrong when Lando's tent is ripped, and Oscar's the only one with a tent big enough for two people? (Let's find out together because I have no clue how this will turn out! :D)
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05 May 2026
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Lando Norris, heir and leader of the McLaren syndicate, is used to two things: Effortless charm and absolute compliance. That is, until he meets Oscar, a baker's son who looks at him with annoyance instead. Intrigued by Oscar's fire, Lando decides to settle the Piastri family's debt by taking what they value most: their son.
He tells himself that he’s protecting Oscar from his world. But as the doors close and Oscar is dragged into his world, Lando quickly realises that Oscar isn’t someone who would simply bow down to him.
Oscar Piastri’s life revolved around evidence, criminal law textbooks, and his parents’ bakery, “The Pastries.” He spends his free time observing people. But when two men enter the bakery, everything suddenly changes. Now? He's trapped in a mansion with the very type of people he studied; he must find a way to identify security weaknesses and learn more about Lando’s psychological triggers.
He’s not playing hard to get; he never wanted any of this in the first place. He has to get out of here, but it seems his mind and heart have different views as the lines between captor and protector blur.
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15 Apr 2026
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He wanted to scream, shout, run around his small apartment, but a flash in the corner of his eye stopped him—his reflection in the mirror.
There he was. The man who had played 15 roles in his life, yet none had brought him the acclaim he longed for. A man on the brink of signing his 16th contract for a Netflix series, directed by the only Lewis Hamilton, co-starring Max Verstappen. He had to fight the urge to get his hopes up.Or: The AU actors nobody asked for.
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- Part 1 of Takes of Us
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14 Mar 2026
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Lando Norris has his life mapped out — a stable job, a respectable engagement, a future everyone keeps telling him he should want.
But lately, everything feels like it’s closing in. The ring on his finger feels heavier by the day, the smiles around him tighter, the walls of his own choices drawing closer.Then Oscar walks into his life. The man he shouldn’t have met. The mistake that wasn’t supposed to follow him into daylight. Now, standing across from him in the same department, the feeling Lando tried to bury breathes again — calm, composed, and entirely out of reach.
They’re supposed to be colleagues. Professionals. But every argument, every shared glance, every late night spent working becomes a reminder of everything Lando’s trying not to feel. And the more he tries to run from what’s expected of him, the more he finds himself drawn toward the one person he shouldn’t want.
A slow-burn academic rivals-to-lovers story about desire, denial, and the cost of choosing the life you want over the one you’re told to live.
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14 Mar 2026
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It's Zandvoort 2025 just finished, and in the aftermath of about four different afterparties of pure depression, Lando Norris, the unluckiest F1 driver of all time, finds himself on his balcony, wallowing in self pity. The points gap to championship rival Oscar Piastri is fucking 34 now, making breaching it seem like a lost fucking hope. Not that Lando is known for his talents in the hope retention department.
As typical of him, lando gets crossfaded off his ass. His fake PR relationship 'girlfriend', Magui, left an hour ago. His family isn't here. He'd left Verstappen and Charles to snog behind a bar somewhere and hadn't seen them since. Lando feels like shite. He's inebriated.
He decides the best way to deal with his issues is to die.
The guy who stops him, is of course, fucking Piastri.
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14 Mar 2026