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*charles' voice* hello beautiful people !

thank you for organising this fest. absolutely canNOT wait for the works to go live in a couple of months !

https://www.tumblr.com/whewchilly/784967325592010752/carlos-has-a-leo-patch-on-his-backpack?source=share

this is making me think of that one prompt i remember seeing submitted for the fest where carlos is playing with leo and dts catches it

i can't check rn but i hope someone has claimed it bc hashtag cute and if someone who has claimed it sees this maybe they can have some fun with this one too

Heheh yes, that prompt has been claimed. But more people are always welcome to claim it as well!

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Prompts spotlight: Prompt #33

Title: Request By: Anonymous Date of post: March 8, 2025 Description: A story with Charles as spiderman and Carlos as his journalist boyfriend. Carlos trying to help him but getting into troubles, full of angst, drama, adventures and an happy ending

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Prompts spotlight: Prompt #29

Title: Request By: Anonymous Date of post: March 8, 2025 Description: Charles wants to surprise Carlos by cooking for him, even though he’s not exactly skilled in the kitchen. He follows a recipe with determination (and maybe a few small disasters along the way). When he finally presents the meal to Carlos, his heart races—will Carlos like it?

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hi! i'm planning on writing a fic but during the posting period i'll be in a country where ao3 is banned, and i'm not sure if i can access it until i get back. can i/how can i still participate? thank you!

Hi, you can absolutely still participate! The collection will remain open even after the fest to allow for late submissions. Also, I'm not sure if this is viable for you/your situation, but a VPN could also allow you to access ao3 potentially from other countries.

If you happen to finish writing the work before the posting period and you know a VPN won't be an option, you could save the fic as a draft on ao3 and add a co-author, someone you know who you don't mind sharing credit with, who could post the fic on time for you! I've never tried this, but in theory, it should work!

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Prompts spotlight: Prompt #28

Title: Request

By: Anonymous

Date of post: March 8, 2025

Description: Carlos and Charles go on a casual date in disguise, just trying to be normal for a day

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Prompts spotlight: Prompt #26

Title: Just Benefits By: saturnscoded Date of post: March 7, 2025 Description: Carlos and Charles are not friends. They don't have too much in common and their personalities totally differ. They don't have the same interests nor the same friend group. The only thing they seem to share is their job. So, no, they are not friends and it's very likely they'd never be. But they hook up. All the time. It's good: saves time, effort and they're compatible. It's benefitial in both ends. They destress, work out and perfome well - better, some of the times - so they keep hooking up. They are not fuck buddies, or friends with benefits. They don't like each other, that is not the point of their agreement, they don't need to tall, fake interest or cuddle, they go right into business and leave moments after. So it's logical to think that once Carlos moved to Williams this whole thing would stop, because Charles knew that if he were to be friends with Carlos Sainz, he would soul-crashingly and inevitably fall in love with him.

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just went through the submitted prompts on ao3 and omg soooo many lovely ideas!! as someone who loves plot heavy stories that looks like a goldmine. i hope more of those prompts get picked. can'ttttt waitttt for the fest to start! :D

Yes!! So many great prompts - we are gonna be *fed* in a few short months!! 😆❤️ Thanks for checking it out - claim some if you can, and if you can't, send to your friends! 🙌

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Prompts spotlight: Prompt #23

Title: Memories between lives By: seemlesscutlets Date of post: March 5, 2025 Description: Carlos and Charles had met before—just not in this life. It’s rare to encounter someone from a past existence, yet the moment Carlos locked eyes with Charles, he felt it—a flicker of something old, something familiar. It was there in the way Charles looked at him, in the depth of his gaze, like an echo of a forgotten memory. But Carlos brushed the feeling aside. Memories of past lives don’t return on a whim. There is only one way to unlock them: touch. A fleeting brush of skin against skin with someone from before—if fate is kind enough to allow it. Fate had not been kind. No accidental grazes, no friendly pats on the back. No handshake that lasted just a second too long. Not until that night in Singapore. For years—before and during Ferrari—Carlos had lived with an aching suspicion that Charles might be the missing piece of something he couldn’t quite remember. And so, he found reasons, excuses, to be close. A casual touch on the arm, a guiding hand at the small of the back, anything that might trigger a glimpse of the past. But never once did he have the courage to ask Charles if he had the flashbacks too. If he remembered. If he knew

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Hello! Can I use my own prompt for my fic?

( I didn't submit it)

Yes, there's a "blank prompt" by the modding team that you can claim and use for your own fic 🤗

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Prompts spotlight: Prompt #12

Title: The Scar By: guulyya Date of post: March 2, 2025 Description: During the holiday Charles saw the pictures of Carlos, the ones he has scar under his eye. The worry is eating him up, what happened? But also they are not teammates anymore so he can’t put himself out there and just ask him. Because it’ll be weird?! And the more he trying to hold himself back the more getting sad and curious what happened. And how they cannot or will not talk anymore? Is he getting replaced? Were they not even that close? The questions just killing him. But when Charlie see Carlos first time after break properly (it can be after f175 event also), he goes straight to his face, gently touching his scar, whispering what happened here, getting close, and and and… Note: you can develop and adapt this to anywhere you want! I would love to read every version of it.

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For the multi-chaptered work , what happens if we don't manage to finish the story before the deadline - it's not a big deal as long as we've written it and we intend to finish it? We can submit even if the story is not finished ?

Hi! Yes, you can submit an unfinished chaptered work for the fest, but it must be a new work! And the minimum word count is 1k, so the first chapter(s) should fulfill that word count ❤️

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phone case for the CHARLOS FEST 2025 !! :

( I thought my phone was going to die because of the layers on Canva😓)

Anyways !

HAPPY CHARLOS FEST !!

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hi!

can a prompt be claimed and then unclaimed later on for whatever reason?

sorry i am very new to all this 😅

Yes, you can drop-out of claiming at any moment if you wish. But we can also give you extensions for the deadline if you need them, in case that'd be the reason of your dropping-out

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Prompts spotlight: Prompt #4

Title: Request By: Anonymous Date of post: March 1, 2025 Description: Charles is a director working on a film (Can be anything you like: A Shakespeare adaptation, a modern romcom, a high octane action-packed thriller, etc.) and Carlos is an actor hired to play the main character. A few other drivers play supporting roles in Charles’ film. Everything goes according to plan at first, with Charles instructing Carlos to say and act appropriately to every scene they shoot. But then, at some point, tension on set starts to escalate. You choose what the reason could be. Maybe Carlos grows frustrated about going over the same scene(s) over and over again due to Charles’ perfectionist nature or something else entirely. You are free to include any of the drivers listed in the tags and you can choose any rating you like for it. Sad or happy endings welcome. DO NOT WANTS: Driver abuse, Rape/Non-Con, Gender swaps/Genderbending

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I'm like VERY late to this but I still wanna ask, who exactly submits the prompts and who claims them? Also can I still submit? I only came across this just now. (I know the submission phase is already over but I would still like to give it a try 🙏.)

Hi! Yes, you can still submit prompts - technically, that phase of the fest is over, but we won't be closing it off just yet. Anyone can prompt and anyone can claim! So you're welcome to claim your own prompt even, if you want 😆

If you mean who submits them, us or you, we can submit prompts for you if you're having trouble or don't have an ao3 account, although you have to get one to claim prompts and post to the collection, and to be able to read the posted fics at the end of the fest! Anything you're still confused about, just let us know and we'll try to help! ❤️

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Prompts spotlight: Prompt #1

Title: Request By: Anonymous Date of post: March 1, 2025 Description: here lando recommends an artist to carlos' roster after that embarrassing interview with alex when he was asked about his favorite artist and he didn't have an answer lando: man listen to this song by my friend tate (he says suggestively) carlos: (as innocent as he is) ok sure! after a while, carlos: nice nice (like he's so into the melody cos it slaps!) and when he bumps into charles on track while listening to Sports Car, they get into the topic of songs and Charles' new songs and Carlos making Charles listen to Sports Car. BUT get this: so Charles already knows this song cos he heard it at the club one time and was already into it (melody AND LYRICS) like he had some ✨thoughts✨ about him and Carlos to this song. idk pls do what you will with this prompt 🤲🏼 smut/no smut—suggestive or not just I had an idea LOL

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Welcome April!

With the start of the new month, we officially close prompting period and thus begin encouraging all participants to hop in and claim one of the over 100 prompts we got for the fest.

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