i have to ask i saw your fic rec for lestappen and was wondering if you happen to download “You jump in to save me, when my world is upside down” and if so would you be willing to send it to me? i read it a while back and never downloaded it and now it has been deleted from ao3 but i’m dying to read it again.

i actually do, send me a private message and i'll send it to u

Dearest lestappies!

The results of the poll are in, and it seems like that at least 27(!) of you would be happy to write something for the winter lestappen challenge!

So here it is, the official announcement of the challenge. It is nothing difficult, just a simple theme of WINTER like last year. This year brought us ups and downs, fed us well but also left only crumbs for us but it is what it is (Ferrari trauma response 101).

The rules are simple:

Write a lestappen fic with winter theme

Post it to the challenge collection on ao3 (will be posted later on 20th Dec)

Profit!

The collection will go live on 24th December 2023 at noon CET.

Doesn’t matter what setting or AU you will write or how long it is, what matters is that it is lestappen!

Last year’s fics can be found here.

Have fun and if anything, please ask away in DMs or inbox if you are shy, and do not forget to share this and spread the word 🫶

Love, Al.

I'm writing a paper for University comparing the view on sports between the fascist leaders in Portugal and Italy and I wanted to do it by using what the press published about it (with the censorship and all) from 1933 and 1945, more or less. I wanted to study La Gazzetta dello sport, but I don't understand Italian and haven't found digital archives from that period. If you're reading this and you're Italian, could you help me please?

Grill the grid - Place the famous landmark challenge

"But Monza is for the dreamers," you say, as if this win is somehow a betrayal to that legend, but isn't this victory exactly why Monza is for the dreamers?

It's for every driver who looks at a fast car and wonders how far it could take them, if they could make it too. They know that few drivers get to see days like these, but if they didn't yearn for them, well, they wouldn't be where they are now. So they keep dreaming and keep racing. It's for every young karter who looks at the man with the number one and dreams of maybe being like him one day. It's for the love of the sport because we've had eras of dominance before but never something like this. We're watching him push the boundaries of what we thought was possible in this sport, and he's still going. Days like this do not last forever, but damn, they're forever golden. He is the inevitable, the curse breaker, but he was also once a boy dreaming, and now he's there in the dream. Every step, every sacrifice has brought him here, and it's all been worth it. His team, who no one took seriously, that "energy drink" team, who nobody thought anything of, they've fought tooth and nail for everything they now have. They are now in the top 5 f1 teams of all time and hold a historic record that was once mclaren's, the mclaren of the golden years of senna and prost...

So yeah, Monza is for the dreamers. Why wouldn't the record be broken here?

"Monza has abandoned us." Abandoned you maybe, not me though.

The way his eyes light up, they both hug each other so tight, the fatherly slap on the back😭😭😭😭😭😭😭that’s his little boy who he loves so so much🧡🧡🧡

Name Two Drivers Challenge! | Grill The Grid 2023

could someone pls tell how do you add an image to your fic on ao3?

i swear i'm writing that football au i'm just a very slow writer

Those hands….🫠

Max and Charles when they have to take a penalty shot during Goggle Games:

The result: 🫣 vs. SIUUUUUUUUU!

(These dorks share a single brain cell! ⚽️🥅 )

Lie to me

pairing: lestappen word count: 5.3k rated explicit. soulmate au. 5+1. fwb. smut. day 2 of @lestappenweek

5 times they told the truth + 1 time they tried to lie

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A mimir Max

joshua kimmich teaching japanese fans how to pronounce his name