16 Bookmarks by grapegiuce
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It starts on a cruise ship.
Ends with two toothbrushes in the same cup.
(Everything in between is harder to explain.)
Bookmarked by grapegiuce
08 Jul 2025
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*holding this in my hands like in howl's moving castle* this is my heart now
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Tadej works nights at a gas station. Jonas keeps showing up.
Somewhere between late shifts, coffee cups, and very quiet conversations, something starts to happen.
(It’s not really a story about cycling. It’s more about what happens in the hours between everything else.)
Bookmarked by grapegiuce
08 Jul 2025
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Changed my life for the better. Beautiful can't cover completely how insanely perfect and AAAAARGHHHHHH this is. Read it and do yourselves a favour.
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When Max gets roped into private golf lessons as part of a Secret Santa gift, he expects nothing but boredom and frustration. But his instructor—Charles Leclerc, Monte-Carlo’s top golf pro—is an entirely different kind of problem. What starts as reluctant lessons quickly spirals into competitive tension, teasing banter, and an unconventional wager on the eighth hole changes everything.
Either way, golf has never been this interesting.
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Problem is when I'm with you, I'm an addict. by eff-one_33-16 (messandahalf)
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
22 Nov 2024
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It all starts, as most things do, with a dream. Only this wasn’t a dream of aspirations for the future, of things that Max wanted to accomplish in his life before he felt too old to do them. No, this was a dream, in the middle of the night, of a warm body pressing his back firmly against the wall behind him, spit slick lips trailing down his throat and biting his skin just enough to leave him panting and begging for more. Always more, never enough. It was a dream that left Max breathless and feeling just a little out of control when he woke the next morning, head filled with hazy images of a curling smile and flashes of green eyes. And the problem is that it doesn’t just happen once. Max could handle his subconscious betraying him once. No, it happens over and over, night after night, until Max can hardly look at Charles from across the Paddock without his cheeks flushing with heat and colour.
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After rumours have spread like wildfire, Max’s image is worse off than ever. Red Bull take drastic action to get it back on track.
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"But yeah, you and Jannik. That's surprising. I wouldn't have thought you had a lot in common. What do you two even talk about?"
"Oh, well, you know." Carlos gestures vaguely, fumbling for the words. "We don't really talk— Sometimes we practice together. Or we used to. Not so much lately. But we, uh, sometimes we just talk. About life."
Roger's eyebrows go up. He glances at Novak with what's probably supposed to be a meaningful look: are you seeing what I'm seeing? Novak can't even summon the energy to remind Roger that one of them has actually been around, and therefore might know a little more about what's up with what on tour these days. Not that it takes a lot of effort to see that Carlos and Jannik are equally obsessed with one another. Jannik doesn't like to advertise it, but Carlos has always worn his heart on his sleeve. Novak thinks there are probably subterranean species of fungus that have picked up what Carlos is putting down when it comes to his rival.
That said, Carlos clearly didn't expect to be grilled on his little crush by Roger Federer of all people.
After the Shanghai final.
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Carlos is the next great thing, but that's the loneliest feeling in the world. Jannik is trapped in the shadows even with the sunshine offering to pull him out.
Fate always finds a way.
Bookmarked by grapegiuce
23 Oct 2024
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this is the most beautiful thing i have read
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Charles knows that the worst thing about being a woman in Formula 1 is having to keep a leash on her hunger.
Bookmarked by grapegiuce
20 May 2024
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babe wake up a new piece of the gospel came out
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“You know… Those posters for missing cats and dogs always include some sort of reward.”
“Are you asking me for money?” Charles asks, sounding utterly bewildered.
Max cackles loudly, and it comes out a little hysterical. “No, Charles. I meant—”
“Ah,” Charles says, and then, without any hesitation, drops to his knees between Max’s legs, hands reaching for his belt.
or; a fat tabby cat, a presumptuous bottom, a ski trip, and an endeared max verstappen.
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03 May 2024
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call this loan for use bc of the way it will be living in my mind rent free
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Charles is glowing. He clasps Max’s hand, says a small congrats, winks at him cause why the fuck not and they’re whisked off onto the podium in a funny-looking Bentley. Max, crammed into the middle, looks over at him, and whispers “you reek” into Charles’ ear. There’s a noticeable bulge in Max’s pants that the cameras in the car barely pick up. If people online notice it, they don’t comment on it.
The podium celebration is beautiful, the Las Vegas strip lighting up the sky just as if it were daylight. Fireworks are everywhere. It’s the first real Las Vegas Grand Prix in this day and age. The crowds go wild, chainmail fences with black tarp covering up the racetrack are torn down, holes punched through them. He looks down at the crowd, and moans in glory.
He finally realizes it.
He’s going into a heat.
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Bookmarked by grapegiuce
13 Apr 2024
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fics to bring with me in the afterlife bc htf would I live without this
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Mint Chip Ice Cream (And Other Flavors) by LestappenForever for thearchercore
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
30 Mar 2024
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“I’d like three scoops of vanilla ice cream, please.”
Charles doesn’t even stop what he’s doing. Doesn’t even look at him. “We’re all out of vanilla.”
Max stares. At Charles, then at the almost full tub of vanilla ice cream, with its little sign labeling it as vanilla sticking out of the fluffy ice cream.
“No, you’re not.”
“Yes, we are.”
“Charles, I can see the vanilla ice cream. It’s right there,” Max insists, pointing at the flavor through the display glass. As if Charles isn’t completely aware of its existence, as if he’s not just being a little shit and punishing Max for something that isn’t even remotely his fault.
Charles pauses in his bustling to look at Max. Then, he follows the length of Max’s arm to where his finger is pointing directly at the vanilla. His gaze returns to Max’s eyes as he says, deadpan: “That is only a display ice cream.”
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OR: Charles owns an ice cream shop in Milan, Max is an F1 driver. Their paths cross, and Max finds himself slightly obsessed with more than just the heavenly vanilla ice cream Charles sells.
Bookmarked by grapegiuce
31 Mar 2024
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cute and sweet like good ice cream should be!!!!
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The problem, Charles thinks, is that Bad Bunny has wronged him—very publicly and very brutally—and no one else seems like they think he has any right to be as offended as he is.
or; the one where Bad Bunny makes Charles realise some things about himself.
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12 Jan 2024
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Austria 2019, a two-person house party, Abu Dhabi 2021, a silly lover’s quarrel, and a stove-side morning proposal.
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Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen are at the top of their games, known across the world and winners in their own rights. But that doesn't mean that either of them is satisfied with where their lives have brought them.
What's the point in all of this success if you have no one else to share it with?
OR: Max is a driver and Charles is an actor and their lives have always been intertwined.
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The grainy pictures are pieced together like a crude comic strip, sketching a poorly thought-out narrative arc that somehow made it onto the front page of every sleazy newspaper.
EXPOSED!: The secret gay double-life of F1 driver Max Verstappen
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Max navigates the aftermath of being outed in the press, and Charles is always there.
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Bookmarked by grapegiuce
27 May 2022
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the standard for lestappen fics, brilliant, SHOW STOPPING, I read this 34 times and every time it gets better and better
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in which charles and pierre talk about max while the three of them are in an elevator, all the while not knowing that max is understanding every single word.
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“Your car is not porpoising much compared to the others, that must be a good sign, no?”
The genuine curiosity in Charles' gaze – barely concealed by the infinite lust Max could still see brimming in there – it made him feel a bit grim.
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“Has the team found out what the problem was…” Charles innocently blinked up at him, and the green tint of his eyes was so enchanting that Max barely heard the rest of the man’s sentence. “with the fuel system?”
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A dribble of saliva still connected to Max’s now drenched length as he moved back, Charles delivered the final blow.
“Will the reliability issues be fixed before Imola?” he asked, teary-eyed and voice a little raspy. “So that you finish more than one race this season?”In which Charles keeps asking questions about the RB18 in the midst of their sexual escapades and Max is – literally – one DNF away from blowing a fuse.
Series
- Part 1 of Picking Bones And Chasing Cars