#a lot of lances thoughts

[scrollonso]

First Kiss (Break 1)

A strollonso AU where 18 year old rookie Lance Stroll falls helplessly in love with the notoriously mean world champion. (1.2k words, no warnings) [@v3lnys] {filler chapter? I just felt like Lance and Nando getting closer would make more sense if they spent break together + Mark}

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They had two weeks off and Lance had absolutely no plans, Nico was on vacation with his family to god knows where, Fernando had probably already arrived in Australia, and Lance didn't have any other friends on the paddock to worry about.

He had thought about going back to Canada but he just ended up back at his house in Switzerland. Spring had started by the time he got home so it wasn't like he could distract himself with snowboarding so he just ended up at home on his couch for the past five days.

Being alone was nice, but a part of him missed Fernando, oddly enough. They'd only ever hung out on the paddock but Lance had grown to look forward to the time they spent together, whether it was actually sitting and talking or just exchanging glances while in the middle of interviews.

As if it was fate, his phone began to rang. It was an unknown number but he figured it might be important, his dad had a history of calling him from random places just to check up on him, as if the 18 year old hadn't been left alone before.

"Hello?" He said, holding his (very small) phone to his ear

"Lancito, I am so glad you answered!" a voice on the other end spoke, a very familiar voice

"Nando?" Lance questioned "How did you get my number?"

"Is not important!" The Spaniard said, brushing off the question "Lancito, are you busy? If you are, cancel, come to Australia."

"No, I'm not busy." Lance responded, wondering if Fernando was really inviting him to Australia, wasn't he with Mark? Wouldn't that be awkward? "Is something important happening in Australia?"

"Si, You are coming, is important."

"Nando, I-" The younger boy laughed, not being able to wipe the smile off his face just from hearing the other mans voice "Sure, I'll come."

"Perfect, I'll send you the information, okay?"

"Yeah, yeah, okay Nando"

"Bye, Lancito! Have a safe flight"

And with that the call ended and Lance wasted no time in buying the tickets to Australia (idk how people bought plane tickets in 2006...)

Lance got off the plane, trying to pat down the hair he could feel sticking up, he always slept on long flights and this one was no acception. It was weird being in Australia a week before he had to but he wasn't going to turn down Fernando is he wanted Lance there so bad, for whatever reason.

It was a Sunday morning and the airport was surprisingly busy, he eventually found his way out and got a taxi headed towards the address Fernando had texted him

"Just landed, headed your way now!!"

Lance stared at the screen before sending the message, just now wondering why exactly he was there, he wasn't blind to the media, especially when he was constantly being interviewed and asked questions fans were dying to know, he had heard the rumours, people saying Fernando was only talking to him to scare him, he was going to embarrass him, he had some ulterior motive, Lance hoped it wasn't true but now that he was blindly following Fernandos orders in another country while he was visiting his friend (who's seat he took) a part of him started to wonder if Fernando was planning something. He hit send.

They'd hadn't texted much, just Fernando sending him the information he needed and Lance thanking him before he got on the plane and turned off his phone, he wasn't too fond of it anyways.

"I am glad you made it"

"Is exciting"

"Tell the driver to go faster"

Lance smiled at his phone, excited to see the Spaniard again, even though he saw him not even a week ago.

"I shouldn't break the law yet"

"I just got here and my dad isn't here to bail me out!"

"I will do it, no worries Lancito"

He shook his head at the text, turning off his phone and waiting to arrive, not too far away from the location

He stepped out of the car, paying the taxi fare then walking up to the house, hesitating to knock. Maybe texting would be better? Or calling? Or anything besides knocking? Before he even had the chance to decide the door opened, revealing a slightly-taller-than-him Mark Webber and Fernando standing by his side, the two closer than he thought they would be

"Lance, welcome, so sorry about making you come so randomly." Mark spoke first, stepping back to invite Lance in

"It's no problem, I wasn't doing anything anyway" Lance smiled as he walked into the house, scanning what he could see

"I told you Lancito didn't mind" Fernando said to Mark, hitting his arm slightly "Is good to make sure you two get along before people start to speculate, ay?" Fernando smiled at Mark then at Lance, reaching up to flatten the hair still sticking up on his head

Lance wasn't sure why he was surprised Fernando was still calling him his nickname, he didn't know why he expected anything to change with Mark around, Fernando seemed the same, if anything he seemed happier around Mark. It made him feel bad, he was the reason Mark lost his seat, the reason Fernando's friend was no longer on the paddock, the reason Fernando had to settle for him instead.

"Well, Lance, I don't mind that you took my seat" Mark laughed, closing the door before putting an arm around Lance's shoulder "I was done with travelling all the time anyway, so don't beat yourself up over what people say"

Lance nodded, Mark was right, and he was pretty old so it made sense for him to be smarter.

"Now, how about we have fun now that we've dragged you to the land down under?" That made Lance smile, he was looking forward to spending the rest of his break actually doing stuff besides binging TV shows.

The next week went by so quick Lance was surprised when he actually had to go to the paddock, almost as surprised as fans when he showed up with both Fernando and Mark.

He hesitated when Fernando suggested all of them going together, worried about what people would say, but the older men made it obvious they couldn't care less so thats how they ended up going together, Mark having plans of doing interviews around the paddock and spending his free time in sither the pink or blue and yellow garage.

Being in Australia a week early was great, they were busy the whole time but Lance enioyed it, loving the time away from his phone and especially away from the media. It made him notice how close Mark and Fernando really were, he felt jealous at times but it was probably just because he was used to having Fernandos attention on him after quali and races, he felt selfish for feeling that way so of course he never addressed it.

"Where are you going first?" Lance asked, looking at Mark, both of them on either side of Fernando

"I was thinking of interviewing people first, it's gonna be weird being the one asking the questions"

"As long as you stay far away from me, we're good"

Fernando shook his head, pulling the taller man closer "We really need to get you used to the media, eh? All you do is complain" He sucked his teeth after he finished teasing Lance, earning nothing but an eyeroll from the teen

"Yeah, yeah." Lance smiled, not able to stop himself when it came to Fernando "We'll cross that bridge when we get to it."

And with that the race week started.

#f1 #formula 1 #lance stroll #aston martin #fernando alonso #i forgot to add tags oml #au #rpf #real person fiction #first kiss au #alternate universe #strollonso #mark webber #fa14 #ls18 #1418 #lance stroll x fernando alonso #slight angst #i wanna make it angstier #a lot of lances thoughts #lance does not like himself #but its okay because the scary world champ does #renault #racing point #renault nando and pink lance #pink lance ily #this was fun to write #im so bad at slow burns so #lets ignore how fast paced this is.

[wondercircuit]

lance and the ferrari driver academy: a brief timeline

this covers lance getting scouted into ferrari, his junior career at prema, and the surrounding connections he's had from his fda days that were pretty notable for his development up to his f1 debut in williams. i wrote this as personal reference for myself at first a while ago while writing something else, thus the added subjective commentary in a few bits, but if anyone is interested and can count some of this as useful information for his ferrari-related lore, then great. feel free to tell me if anything is inaccurate!

2008 - 2009: lance jacob strulovitch started competing in canadian karting was winning canadian national karting championships before this, such as the coupe de montreal and coupe du quebec micro max championship in 2008 and 2009. he placed 6th in a world finals at lonato, italy in the mini roc category and in addition, he was winning championships in florida karting competitions. racing coach and karting champion mike wilson tutored lance and mentioned that lance was born with that “killing instinct, and was surprised at the determination he had as a child to fight the back of a pack," comparing this attitude to a young fernando alonso, (who mike had also mentored (interview source ; you can read a brief version without paywall here).

2010: lance was scouted by ferrari at 11 years old, the youngest person signed to an f1 development programme at the time. luca baldisserri, ferrari’s chief track engineer and former engineer to michael schumacher was running the academy as director. lance was allegedly said to be an experiment for the fda to see if they can mold potential into developing an f1 driver from a young age.

baldisserri said the programme to nurture and shape kids with potential was never originally a part of the culture of ferrari and said it was a shot in the dark, knowing how young lance was. it was mentioned as well that mclaren offered lance a spot for their development programme, but lance chose ferrari's offer:

"Though Lance was eager to accept, his parents were reluctant. He was still a boy, and this was a major commitment. "I wanted Lance to digest it," [Lawrence] Stroll says. "With the time and money Ferrari is spending, you've really got to know you want to do this." But Ferrari wasn't the only one interested. Within days, Ferrari's bitter F1 rival, McLaren, heard what transpired in Florida and lobbed in a competing offer. After mulling his options, Lance chose Ferrari, and a few months later, boarded a plane for his first training session at the academy."

— The grooming of Canada's next Formula One driver, The Globe and Mail, 2011.

lawrence initially thought that the scout's offer for lance to join the fda was fake and a scam: "[Lawrence] Stroll didn't believe it. This man was a con artist, a fraud. He was incensed. "I told him, you're full of [expletive] this isn't true," the father recalls. It took a phone call from Italy later that afternoon to change his mind." the article also goes through the sort of training ferrari started him out with and talks about how luca gave lance the token red racing suit when he joined, but lance preferred to stick to not wearing the color, which i think is interesting:

"With the eyes of the racing world upon him, Lance is now trying to keep a low profile. When Ferrari welcomed Lance to its team, Baldisserri presented him with the rarest of gifts: a bright red Ferrari racing suit, just like the one Villeneuve wore. It is the most famous uniform in racing. But Lance told Ferrari it's probably better if he doesn't wear it. "It's like having a bull's-eye on my back," he explains. "The other kids are going to be saying: 'He's a Ferrari driver – go and get him.' " Baldisserri agreed. Everyone is chasing Lance Stroll. So on race day, the famous red suit stays at home and he zips himself into an anonymous blue-and-white uniform."

lance wearing the chiesa corse overalls with the tiny ferrari logo

in the same year, lance participated in a 'friendly' staff karting event at montreal where he's karted with fernando and felipe massa.

(L), lance in 2010 at a staff kart race organised by ferrari in montreal. lance scored p2 in this race behind fernando | (R), fernando and felipe massa who got p3, pictured with lance at the kart race

the ferrari driver academy was very newly established--aside from lance, the programme had checo perez and jules bianchi, who were in sauber and manor, the one other team using ferrari's engine respectively in f1 at the time.

2011 - 2014: lance continued to compete in karting and won the SKUSA supernationals in 2012. throughout this, he continued to train with ferrari. by now the fda had gained a total of 5 members with brandon maisano (who would then go on to be lance's teammate in prema) and rafael marciello added to their roster. jules was the eldest out of the five at 23 years old, while lance had been the youngest at 13.

(L) lance pictured with a few fellow fda members and ferrari drivers of different categories, including (R) giancarlo fisichella and fernando on ferrari's passion day event (essentially an exclusive event shared with fans at mugello) (2012)

one of the trainers at the fda, andrea ferrari (i'm so serious, his last name is literally ferrari) talked about how the five academy drivers had unique training sessions specific to their ages and classes. he's mentioned how he occasionally gets to work with the "senior" driver team aka fernando and massa and the time he spends with them and fernando's physio helps him construct the training plans: "The opportunities of dealing with Alonso and Massa are occasional but significant, according to his accounts. “When Fernando comes to Maranello he has some training sessions with us. We often go for a bike ride in a group of 5-6 people and, needless to say, Fernando always wants to win”, Andrea states. “In addition, I’ve to say he’s a very sociable person. He creates a very friendly environment when we go out for a dinner or five-a-side matches among Ferrari staff members" — (source) fernando has mentioned training at the strolls' home in mont-tremblant, canada after the 2014 canadian grand prix — (source). in the same year, prema released a fun short little interview of lance in f4 where he mentions that his favorite driver is fernando. (even aston martin's team principal mike krack has acknowledged that their meeting in ferrari and the strolls maintaining that connection with fernando since then was an important catalyst to their present time at aston.)

lance debuted in single-seater racing in that year's florida winter series, which was not a championship series, but was organised by the fda. max and nicholas latifi also participated in this series (here is a comprehensive post on lance in the 2014 florida winter series that @lil-shiro kindly put together). lance competed in the italian f4 championship and took 13 podium finishes with prema racing, thus winning the champion title that year.

lance at the podium in 2014, adria, italian f4

2015: lance competes and wins in the 2015 toyota racing series in new zealand in the winter, which consisted of 5 rounds. he competes in f3 europe and ended 5th in the standings for his first f3 season. it was around this year where there were rumours of the fda discontinuing; for context of the situation, luca baldisserri was stepping down from his director's role at the academy, checo left when he signed on to mclaren in 2013. lance also left the fda to sign on to the williams driver development programme in november that year with the aim of getting to work closer with an f1 team. lance described ferrari's training programme to be 'basic' and he was looking for more intensive sim work and actual testing for f1 cars, which the williams' junior programme offered.

on the topic of who else was leaving ferrari, felipe massa was in williams by 2014, and fernando in mclaren in 2015. the strolls still continued to visit fernando in f1 races here and there to show their support:

(L) lance and fernando at the monaco gp, 2015, and lawrence with fernando at the canadian gp, 2015

2016: by now, it was known that luca moved on to race-engineering for lance and working with him directly throughout his f3 euro season that year. luca also had a hand in prema racing's dominance for the respective gp2 and f3 euro categories where he acted as a consultant for the prema junior development team and helped manage structures there, which looked to be a testament of how effective luca was in nurturing and managing young talent, despite having left the fda which he himself had allegedly 'masterminded'. luca was also overseeing mick schumacher's development. there wasn't other known reasons as to why luca stepped down from the fda other than the sources i found implying that the decision was supposedly, or at least partly influenced, by lance choosing to leave ferrari. luca then continued to help oversee lance's development himself even when he signed on to williams junior programme. lance talked about luca a bit here in an autosport article:

"It's extremely important to have him with us and it's great that he will continue working with us. "He's been with me since a very young age, when he chose me to come on the Ferrari programme. "He's very good at watching what's going on between the team and the driver - he's quiet when he has to be, but when it's time to speak up he says some very good things."

— source, Autosport, 2015

it makes sense to want to fully continue seeing through a young kid's development to successfully graduate them into f1 despite it being with a different team. the fda was a new programme, and in comparison to other teams' driver academies eg. williams, mclaren's, red bull junior's programme etc, ferrari doesn't promote rookies directly to their f1 seat, assigning them instead to sauber or haas first before offering opportunities. lance also mentions how he knew it was pretty unlikely that ferrari would let a driver with less experience into the team. i think this says things about ferrari's culture, at least in comparison to the other teams that are more willing to put rookies in their seat (this is constantly debated by fans and pundits across the sport to be extremely pressurizing for young talent but i do feel that you have to also question the alternative that seems to be ferrari's methods. again, all this is highly dependent on other factors as well involving a single driver's experiences and their individual junior trajectory so ultimately, the debate to whether or not a young driver is 'ready' for f1 before they're even actually there is personally moot to me. but alas, i do find it vaguely interesting......)

i'm only focusing on lance's development here so i can't say much on the fda now except for an added anecdote that charles leclerc is currently the only graduate so far to be promoted to the ferrari seat after the obligatory sauber stint for his rookie year. again, solely speaking from a point of comparison to other driver programme's success rates on getting their talent into their f1 team, it makes the fda's effectiveness look a little bit questionable.

anyway, here's more of what lance said on his switch to williams:

“I feel like we can be closer right now with Williams, and I’m working with them rather than just being part of a training camp like at Ferrari. For the future, it’s the right move.” And Stroll also feels Ferrari is unlikely to promote a rookie driver into one of its race seats, while Williams has a proven track record with the likes of Valtteri Bottas, Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button. "Williams has a great history of believing in young drivers, they’ve given many rookie drivers a chance in Formula 1. That was important for us, because Ferrari has a different approach; they tend to take more veteran drivers to fight for the championship."

— source, f1i.com (2016)

[Question] Tell me about your role with Williams… [Lance:] "It’s been a great eight months with them. It’s been fantastic. The cooperation with me in F3 is great, they have the right understanding of me focusing 100 percent on F3 and not getting distracted with Formula 1. They just want me to finish the championship, they’re not pressuring me to jump in an F1 car and doing testing and things like that. They want me to focus on one thing at a time, and that’s great."

[Question] If the opportunity to jump into a Formula 1 race seat in 2017 came up, do you feel you’ll be ready? [Lance:] I do… but it’s easy to say it. I haven’t driven an F1 car yet, so I don’t have a complete understanding of what it’s like. Once I have a couple of tests under my belt, a bit more experience, then I’ll have a much better idea of if I’m ready to make that step just yet or not. At the moment I’m blind in terms of F1. I’ve driven F3, I’ve driven a couple of other categories, but I’ve never really sat in an F1 car. So I don’t know how much different it is to what I’m doing now, how much more complicated it is, how much tougher it is. They are all things I’ll figure out along the road. But if… if it is just another step, and if I’m comfortable in the car, then why not? F3 is a very high level, we’ve seen guys like Max – and I don’t want to use him as the example every time because maybe he’s an exception – but even guys like Ocon, Rosenqvist, these are guys that could do it as well."

— source, Motorsport, 2016

the headline for the motorsport excerpt above is extremely misleading but i think the interview shows pretty good insight to lance's attitude towards his own development and how he's got a good head on his shoulders with self-awareness of his own capabilities, despite having had more opportunities and the financial advantage that motorsports typically needs. he also talks about his former prema teammates felix rosenqvist (currently in indycar) and jake dennis (currently competing in formula e) and how instrumental they were to him in learning about his race craft during his first year in f3. here is a clip on lance back in prema talking about his teammates feat. esteban and lance's long-time driver coach nuno pinto.

at the end of his race season, lance won the f3 euro championship in 2016, the first north-american who's won in the category.

lance celebrating his championship win for f3 euro in 2016.

2017: lance accumulated enough points by then to get a super licence for f1 (which allowed him to skip f2, like max did). this makes lance the second-youngest driver to debut in f1 at 18 years old. while lance isn't tied to ferrari anymore, luca baldisserri continued to be his race engineer for lance at williams to keep seeing through lance's development in his rookie and sophomore years.

lance with luca on the paddock and garages (2017)

overall, the 2017 williams had a decent car (they were 5th in the wcc that year) and lance managed to score his first points at his home race. he also became the second-youngest to win a podium in f1:

lance's first podium at baku, 2017.

that's it! the rest is truly history ♡

if you're interested, here is an external post off tumblr that briefly and neatly goes through lance's f1 career including his racing strengths, driving style and teammate relationships up to the present, written by @strulovic and linked with her permission. i'm sharing it here just because i've found it to be personally useful myself as a starting point when i went down the rabbit hole of digging up research of his fda days.

#lance stroll #ferrari driver academy #a lot of this was canonical reference i was using while writing 1418 f***** au #and i thought to put it up here and share a bit of history* in a condensed fashion #*important and fundamental info i compiled the week after i kept staring at dave's life-changing fanart of ferrari au #*info #disclaimer i don't know how ferrari runs their programme now under jock clear so my own feelings of side-eyeing the fda still remains

[wildlyfreemoon]

i just had a thought that was like:

keith wouldnt mind being in love with boys, if it didnt mean being in love with lance.

lance wouldnt mind being in love with keith if it didnt mean being in love with boys.

#i had literally just woken up and thought this #they plague my every thought #sorry for literally coming back online after like 5 days mia with a klance post #actually im not sorry #they mean a lot to me #klance #keith kogane #keith voltron #lance mcclain #lance voltron #voltron

[kagooleo]

wasn’t able to doodle as much as I'd like to lately from projects (and totally bc I didn’t get absorbed into a rarepair which i may or may not post later) but here’s my take on a hypothetical ancestor for lance on his appreciation week! a grandpa who has a lot of gyarados theming around him 🐉🌊

#kagoodles #ChampionLanceWeek2023 #champion lance #lance pokemon #a bit of clair (blue hair + ponytail) a bit of lance (the spikes + the eye color and gsc shoulder pad things) its their peepaw!!! #honestly. stumped on a name for hypothetical peepaw #my first thought was Sloe based on the blackthorn berry (and it’s gin is even a red color) but I’m still workshopping it #also kudos to the hc of lance being the shiny gyarados of the family that’s just canon to me now #peepaw got a prosthetic hand bc training ain’t easy but kindness is not without effort #but he’s chill and gets along with a lot of village kids #he's a guy who would have a bunch of stories to tell people and draws a lot of crowds for it #in a game setting he'd be like. funny mentor who's also one of the big late game opponents to overcome as a test of strength #otherwise he'd probably give the player a funny item of importance or just something out of the blue like a rare candy or a star piece #“you like candy kiddo? so do pokemon! why not spread the fun around? :D”

[heynhay]

using my credentials as a top .1% mitski listener for two years in a row i have brought you mitski KL classifications

recommendations/strong matches are bolded

Laurel Hell // Be The Cowboy // Puberty 2 // Bury Me At Makeout Creek // Retired from a Sad, New, Career in Business // Lush

Keith

Everyone

Valentine, Texas

Stay Soft

Love Me More

A Pearl

A Horse Named Cold Air

Blue Light

Washing Machine Heart

I Bet on Losing Dogs

Thursday Girl

I Will

I Don't Smoke

First Love/Late Spring

Humpty

I Want You

Strawberry Blond

Wife

Door

Lance

The Only Heartbreaker

There's Nothing Left For You

Working For The Knife

Nobody

Me and My Husband

Lonesome Love

Remember My Name

Fireworks

A Burning Hill

Texas Reznikoff

Townie

Francis Forever

Carry Me Out

Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart

Brand New City

Abbey

Both/either/interchangeable

Heat Lightning

Geyser

Come Into The Water

Pink in the Night

Two Slow Dancers

Once More to See You

anything not listed has been given careful consideration but would be too much of a reach to apply to them and/or is too personally about experiences of the human condition mitski herself has lived

Im open to healthy debate on any of these but just know i come armed with explanations for all

#i never realized how many references to knives she makes. because whenever i hear abt a knife i think of keith LOL #and apparently i disrespect mitski enough to make this listing but i DO respect her enough to omit some of her most intense ones #(i am a white woman i am NOT about to file Your Best American Girl LOL) #and a few of hers are about old flames/lost love which is obviously not the vibe we need here #still may draw a piece for each album but not sure. puberty 2 lacks any real close matchups (as u can see i omitted almost all of it) #obviously not a lot of Lush made it on here either because that ones for the girls #mitski when she writes about the horrors of being a woman #there was more lance than i thought! keith is very mitski coded #but i expected the ratio to skew way more in his favor #just shows mitskis talent and range i guess #klance #mitski

[back-on-my-autistic-bullshit]

Every time I think about Lance a little too hard I become an irl reenactment of these images

He's a very social butterfly type of character right? And a pretty decent source of comedy/jokes for the group

My adhd headcanon for Lance absolutely comes into play with this btw, I don't have it myself but my friends with adhd say they always felt this obligation to be a social butterfly/jokester to fit in/be "useful" and this fits Lance SO well are you kidding me

Lance is absolutely so smart and talented but he almost definitely doesn't seem to believe in himself nearly as much as he should (a bunch of different things show this, one I can think of rn is when he got insecure over not being called "the sharpshooter" by the other paladins despite his bayard (the weapon that literally changes to the best shape for its paladin) being a gun)

This is also to me why his rivalry with Keith was such a big think at the start of the series (it definitely evolves from that lmao but that's a topic for a different day)

It helps him feel better about himself and his skills when he gets one over on Keith, and thats something he desperately needs (that and Iverson has probably said that spiel about Lance being a fighter pilot as opposed to cargo because Keith flunked out more than once)

Anyway

He makes these jokes and socialises with everyone to be "useful" to the group and to compensate for his perceived lack of ability because sure he may be a bad pilot but if everyone loves him and he's friendly then they're less likely to get rid of him, right?

I mean, seriously, they all get transported to space millions of light years away from earth and his first reaction is to make jokes, act silly and flirt with Allura

Respectfully, that's definitely not his actual reaction? Internally, he is a scared teenager doing anything he can to stay useful to this group of people he probably doesn't really know (maybe excluding Hunk? But even then)

Voltron could have done so much with Lance but instead they made him Allura's love interest and stuck him as a FARMER on altea away from his FAMILY who are so so important to him! Lance has always wanted to be a pilot and losing his identity as a paladin probably hit him HARD because it made him feel worth something to people!!

At the very fucking least Lance would have went with Keith and the blades of marmora, helping people in a new, different way instead and find a way of finding worth without fighting but still helping people and flying through space

Wow that was longer than expected anyway

#vld #voltron #voltron legendary defender #lance mcclain #vld lance #v's thoughts #character analysis #i guess its that? idk man i just have a lot of thought all the time

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 Bahrain Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso(ft. Max Verstappen, Checo Perez & Lance Stroll)(my personal post-race highlights)

#GUYS YOU KNOW I JUST THOUGHT OF THE PERFECT SONG FOR THIS OCCASION #'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' - The Police(like magic alonso you get it you get it??) #pls go listen to it bcs its what I listened to while making this post bcs it rly reminds me of nando hehehe #i def cried a bit while watching this i was just so happy for everything both he and the team have achieved #and not to harp on abt 2005 but ig its crazy for me to have been spending a lot of time watching his wdc season #and then start the new season and see him up in p3!! its just so cool and it makes me a bit emo but in a good way ofc! #also sry if this is a little late! i was changing up w how i wanted to go abt doing this and it took longer than i wouldve liked #i think the most interesting thing abt doing this was just how different the post-race proceedings are compared to 2005 #fernando alonso #2023 bahrain grand prix #we do a little bit of f1 #fa14 #checo perez #max verstappen #(2023: 1/23 races watched) #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #2023 bahrain gp #lance stroll

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

Time traveller fix it au with Lance time travelling except it is from perspective of Allura, Kuron, and Lotor and it is like.

With Kuron he is like this sad lonely guy with a 1000 yard stare and a smile that never reaches his eyes who is trying to help but also has secrets he refuses to share.

With Allura he is this reserved mysterious figure who does help her and gives her advice but leaves before she can even ask his name

With Lotor he is that absolutely annoying bitch who has been fucking with him for past 100's of years, and yeah he is useful but that is honestly the worst part because he cant even kill him and that slippary bastard keeps getting away with it too and Lotor hates him so much

#empty thoughts #voltron legendary defender #voltron #lance mcclain #lance voltron #lance serrano #princess allura #allura #kuron #vld kuron #Kuron voltron #vld allura #voltron allura #prince lotor #The thing is that Lance is bit more obvious about his depression with Kuron cause he spends a lot of time trying to support him #With Allura he is trying to keep his distance cause he knows he'll break #With Lotor he is like the brattiest youngest sibling to ever exist #Also Lance is involved in some other crazy quintessence related shit he doesnt want any of them to get involved with #So hence the secrecy and lies and half truths and escape attempts (especially with Allura cause she will Know)

[anxiously-awaiting]

entered a brain state abt them sorry

(notes under cut<3)

#galahad fgo #mash fgo #lancelot fgo #fate grand order #aaart #SORRY i like them a lot klfd #i needed to simplify lance's armor for my own health and safetyfjlkdsf #its not bad it's just i can NOT draw it #they fuckin REALLY babygirled lance for the movie nad i love it so so so much #babygirl who gets his ass kicked by his own kid TWICE #and mash beloved <333 i wanted to give her a cloak as a treat #she deserves one #i had more thoughts but im rewatching camelot 2 and googuogugouoguaoguugguguao #god i love this movie #mash's va went OFF in the mash v lancelot fight its so so good #I FORGOT LANCE"S FUCKING SPURS #pretend theyre there for me #ill add them later

[selestialsprout]

lover, u shouldve come over

makes a lot more sense in my reboot than for vld sry xoxo

previously abandoned this but decided to touch it up to post 🤷‍♀️ yayy art/brain block

#klance #yall i literally started this over a month ago and immediately forgot about it #i couldnt even begin to explain all the symbolism in this so Im Not Gonna #anyways #PLEASE LISTEN TO LOVER YOU SHOULDVE COME OVER #<- by jeff buckley btw #perfect lance song… not gonna lie #((again- my lance. not vld lance)) #theyre pretty different #similar but different #so uh. yeah #early klance dynamic?? maybe #they rly go through it in my reboot #i kinda shelved the reboot for a while tbh. only just started getting back into it #been thinking many thoughts.. #but yeahh. i couldve made this a lot cleaner but i was lazy & didnt want to overwork it #yayyy #keith kogane #vld keith #lance mcclain #vld lance #vld #voltron #fanart #voltron fanart #voltron rewrite #digital art #procreate #my art

[buneok]

constantly thinking about lance growing up as a neurodivergent kid (i hc he has autism but yk it’s up to u)

i’m not sure if he went to like,, a school,, but if he did then he’d be the overly smart kid when it comes to the subject of monsters and magic at least. i’m sure he’d be pretty good at other subjects too, but he rly shines when the lesson is on monsters/magic.

u would think his teachers would be impressed by how much he knows and his willingness to learn and most of them are, but there’s still a hint of hostility from them if he were to correct them on a mistake they made or misinformation in the lesson plan. almost like they’re taking it as him being some little know it all when he’s only just politely correcting them. he doesn’t understand why they’d be upset with him for correcting a mistake and doesn’t feel like he did anything wrong, but isn’t completely sure

i don’t think he’d be bullied at all, maybe picked on a few times, but he’d have a feeling of being left out. like he’s out of the loop. he knows he’s a bit different yet doesn’t understand it, he doesn’t know what makes him different because he feels like a normal kid

also him being unable to understand social cues like when people are uncomfortable when he goes on a tangent about monsters. most people tend to get extremely bored, but pretend like they’re still interested in what he’s saying despite them just tuning him out or hoping that he’ll stop talking soon. even worse is when sometimes his rambles about monsters can turn a little graphic. he doesn’t mean to gross anyone out, he’s just talking about it from a scientific perspective.

the people that would accept and understand him the most are members of the guild. instead of being annoyed if he corrects them on something, they appreciate him for helping them and praise him for his knowledge at such a young age.

but even though he’s found a community of people that share the same interests as him and appreciate his dedication to learning so much about monsters, it’s still hard for him because the guild is made up of significantly older people. he has still no kids his age to interact and play with.

i’m sure he’d make some friends along the way, but he’s been lonely for so many years so he still has some difficulty with interacting with others. he’s learned to keep most of his thoughts to himself unless he’s asked and he tries not to get too excited while speaking about the things he’s most interested in as to not drive his friends away or make them uncomfortable. instead he keeps his thoughts in his writing which makes him a well renowned author/researcher because of the detail in his work.

also like to think that lance’s childhood is a stark contrast to his adult life. he’s grown up lonely as a kid-teenager and now he’s a celebrated adventurer who’s praised by those same teachers who silently judged or punished him for correcting their mistakes. his work is praised and he’s second in command at the first slash. children and rookie adventurers look up to him.

he has so many connections, friends, and opportunities now, but sometimes he remembers how it was like growing up not having anybody for the longest time.

#⋆𓈒 ֺ hcs #stardew valley expanded #sve lance #i hope this makes sense it’s 6 am and i have not slept #but yea i have lots of thoughts Apparently

[neverendingstories00]

god created men and sent formula 1 drivers as apologies

#food for thought #look up examples #i may be wrong a lot but like…guys #not men. BOYS! #except for nikita bc ew #f1 #formula 1 #charles leclerc #max verstappen #daniel ricciardo #lando norris #lewis hamilton #alex albon #checo perez #pierre gasly #yuki tsunoda #sebastian vettel #lance stroll #mick schumacher #the general has queued his armies

[its-hyperfixation]

lancelot + ways i would describe him

for my sweet, @bellamyblakru. i am so incredibly proud of u my love, graduating from college in such a short amount of time is no small feat. you’re an absolute legend in my eyes. congratulations my beloved, ily <3

#OKAYYYYYYYY sorry this took me YEARS to make. i started on friday night lol idk why tf it took me so long #maybe because it has so many gifs within each one… hmmm 🤪 also thinking of the little comment for each one was way harder than i thought #it would be #also SORRY IF U CANT READ THEM 😭 the gifs were so long so i had to compress them like crazy #and now the small text is barely readable 😔 and they’re so damn grainy #let’s jsut pretend that was a design choice 🤪 #anyways this is something diff from all my past gifs so i really hope u like it!!! i just love lancelot a lot (no pun intended) and had #this idea out of nowhere so i just went with it #i watched all the episodes he’s in (except 4x09 bc that doesn’t exist lol) and just recorded a shit ton of clips LOL #went in with no planning whatsoever 🤪 then i sorted through them to see which descriptions they would fit into #i have over 35 clips i think and i didn’t even use all of them soooo i’m thinking about posting all of them as just regular gifs too #just for funsies and bc i love lancelot so much i’d love to put some more lance love into the world 🥰 #i gotta show you the names i have for the clips lol some of them are hilarious 😂 i love showing u behind the scenes #okay i love u so much and im so so proud of u and i can’t wait to see u go on to do incredible things #this is only the beginning of your success my love; i know u gonna go out there and kill it #congratulations again my beloved 🥰🥰 #ilysm 💚💙💚💙 #hope u like this 🥺 #twas definitely difficult to make as i had to face many trials and tribulations with the collages and the file size but alas #i would do anyfing for u my love #ayman gifs #merlin #merlin bbc #bbc merlin #merlin gifs #merlingifs #lancelot #lancelot my beloved #lancelot gifs #bellamyblakru

[gemini-care-barr]

Also, interesting that green arrow and Black canary aren't on your radar of favorites! Can you indulge as to why? <3

I’ve only listed my top 5 favorites! Those spots and the characters in them are precious, but that doesn’t mean I don’t adore so many characters not listed haha. There’s no particular reason why Ollie and Dinah aren’t on the list, there’s only reasons why the characters I listed are on the list.

Besides, I have way more than 5 favorites and Ollie and Dinah definitely are counted amongst them lol. I think both of them are very cool, admirable, fun, and unique, but I hold them close to my chest and don’t publicly talk about them much for whatever reason (some people can’t get me to shut up about Ollie and Dinah tbh), not even I really know why haha

#comic books #dc comics #comics #opinions #thoughts #green arrow #oliver queen #black canary #dinah lance #ask me anything! #fr I have lots of favorites! #it would be easier to list the character I don’t like than the ones I do #I’m getting lazy and tired of describing what I like about characters though lol #seriously it does start to sound same-y bcs yeah they’re all heroic and cool #that’s the point #if you want to know more about a specific character then read their stories! #you won’t regret it #9 times out of 10 the only way to really get a character is to read their stories rather than ask for someone’s opinion of them

[darubyprincx]

Hello! You said in your pinned post that we can ask about your inner world. I don't know a whole lot about how that works, but I know inner worlds can be very different, and I was wondering what yours is like.

you can indeed! i was wondering when someone was gonna take us up on that offer. not gonna go into too much detail here for privacy reasons but ok you know how in a lot of mcyt fics the setting is still minecraft but it's this weird half-realism version of minecraft with a lot of the same mechanics and dimensions and monsters and magic systems and stuff? it's like that, but there's also an entire expanded multiverse and a few pantheons floating around

currently, there are several dozen people living in the village immediately surrounding front (where people can come up and talk to people outside the system and even control the body for a bit if they want. we call this "piloting" because it is incredibly similar to having a robot mech like in evangelion i've never seen evangelion), although most of them keep to themselves and come up here quite rarely. i say "people" quite lightly here- there's a lot of nonhumans, including the two permafronters (me [Ray] and Lance)!

it's pretty chill actually. we get a lot of people who wander in and out looking for a place to stay the night or who are escaping rough places. not all of them have clearly defined sources, but those who do 99% of the time come from within headspace itself, because for some reason our brain saw every mcyt we've ever been fixated on and went "what if i ran that through the autism filter and then made it an actual place that you can visit up here" and then did that. this applies to the multiverses as well which means that at any given time there are at least two Pixlriffses and three Xisumas living in the same general area, to name a few (they all find the situation hilarious and get along great).

there's never really a dull moment because after two years of "hey wait a minute there's more people in my me", a lot of inside jokes and silly rivalries have formed. there's also a fully recognized pantheon of deities for the main universe (the one where front is physically located) alone, but that's a whole nother bag of rats

but yeah. headspace my beloved <3

#ray's tag #answered #thank you for asking about this! there is a Lot going on up here but it's way easier to manage than you'd think :] #man being plural is so cool #also lance is a moth and i am. Well. It's complicated. #i /thought/ i was human for like three months and then it turned out i was actually headspace's god of fate that had been sleeping #for the past 14.6bn years and i only realized that after my skin started literally cracking and falling apart kinda like a bug exokeleton #due to some rough shit we were going through at the time and then there was purple skin underneath and im purple now. #im so sleepy because i was asleep for all that time btw thats the canonical reason why up here #also! i'm an eldritch entity sometimes! #there's a LOT of ray keys lore unfortunately for you guys i enjoy being generally incomprehensible so yall can go fish. sorry

[rovermcfly]

it is starting to occur to me that while I personally understood james lance's wizard of oz shirt to be a reference to the wizard of oz theme the show has set up that could potentially be building up to a "ted goes back to kansas" storyline in S3 (because he's been set up to be dorothy since episode 1) a lot of people read it as a "friend of dorothy" reference about trent being gay

I hope everyone else is so much righter than me right now

#ted lasso #james lance #trent crimm #I am in too deep with the narrative analysis #although tbf I've been thinking abt the wizard of oz references a lot lately and really got myself convinced that's what S3 is about #but it seems most people's first thought is ''oh. it's gay'' like I need to find my way back to this thinking lol #please james... tell us the truth. i know it's not bc you care so much about shoes.