Nestish
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The thing about loving Max Verstappen quietly is that it requires a particular kind of discipline.
Daniel's had six years to learn it. He's also had three weeks to carry a ring around in his backpack, waiting for the right moment. The ring is titanium, from the halo of Max's 2023 car. There are four diamonds in it, one per championship, with room on the band for more.He'd intended it as a promise. Max receives it as a challenge.
"I want more diamonds, Daniel."
Or: Daniel gives Max a ring with four diamonds, one per championship, and room for more. Max takes this as both a love letter and a personal challenge. The paddock will never recover.
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24 Apr 2026
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After losing the WDC, Max just wants to forget everything and be nobody for a few weeks. Kind of hard when all of a sudden you wake up in 2016 and have to navigate it.
How does Max get back to his own time? Can he change Daniel´s and his future? And how will younger Max react to him? All questions Max hopes he will get to answer over the next season.
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23 Apr 2026
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slow down, you crazy child (take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while) by Vroomvroomboopbeep
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
22 Apr 2026
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Max felt like the moon, hung amongst the stars, watching the quiet stillness settle as the world fell asleep. Daniel was the sun, all blindingly golden and warm rays that you could bask in during busy city afternoons. He was wisps of amber that cascaded down, ringlets of an orange peel, fruit generous in the palm of your hand. He embodied everything summer represented, tied together with the checkered cloth you'd lay out for a picnic. Max felt as if he was held in winter: frost-covered windows, ice spindles crawling up glass panes, as the heat of your breath fogged them up.
They felt so different, but that was what brought him in. Opposite ends of a magnet, their dance orbited around one another, stepping into a constant swing of back-and-forth.
Daniel felt safe.
But with safety came fear: fear of longing, of losing, of having to move on.
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Or: Recently widowed Max moves to a city in an attempt to escape the past, setting a rule to protect himself: no more falling in love. What he doesn't account for is reuniting with his childhood friend Charles, who introduces him to Daniel and Arvid, which happens to completely derail Max's plans.
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23 Apr 2026
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Max's breathing was slow and heavy, all thick and fuzzy in his lungs as he sat on the kitchen floor. He slid his fingers over the pointed edge of the glass shard, just on the gentle enough not to draw blood.
It hadn’t started like this. It hadn’t really started at all. He'd definitely never gone all the way.
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14 Apr 2026
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Max had just — Max had been Max about it, which meant he'd wanted something and then pursued it with the exact same focus and total disregard for obstacles that he brought to everything else in his life. Max wanted a championship, so he drove like a man possessed and fought for every tenth of a second. Max wanted Daniel, apparently, so he'd shown up at Daniel's hotel door.
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22 Mar 2026