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[inchidentally]

JSYK I'm with you on containment breaches. Tends to go hand in hand with girlfriend harassment too. Countdown to Rebecca's account going private in 3..2..1

I can't remember which post I left tags on about that but yeah the "corporatization" of any rpf always spells trouble. it's why I don't rb any of it from the main F1/Netflix/sports accounts. LN4 media doing it is I assume with Lando's OK but even there it's a bit... uncomfortable.

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(this is probably way more than you were asking for anon but apparently these text posts is what I do now)

look. carlando was my main ship when I got into F1 fandom and is going to stay in my top 3 forever. but I keep the lines drawn nice and sharp. I l-o-v-e shipping them but I'm also aware that they're literally big brother/little brother and that all of the physicality and closeness is identical to Charles with Arthur. that and the fact that Carlos is sahuuuuuper straight and folks just confuse euro dude behavior with friends for gayness. Carlos was the one who pushed for Lando to grow up and get a gf and Carlos himself was practically engaged for 6 or 7 years. his own sister gave Isa her wedding bouquet ffs. he's so confirmed heterosexual that he can't be alone for more than 2 seconds between girlfriends lol

but between McLaren content on social media getting absolutely bombarded with irrelevant carlando comments and the hate toward Rebecca ramping up every single damn day (I'd say it's a solid 80/20 mostly of rpf hate toward her and the remaining being plain old jealousy) idk it's not feeling good rn. and it's mostly on IG and a bit on YT (I don't use twitter) but yikes at how much Lando content has something about 'he's thinking about Carlos' or 'omg just like Carlos' or carlando when it's nothing to do with carlando. Lando works so incredibly hard at the two to three careers he's running consecutively and it feels pretty damn insulting to reduce him to one F1 friend - however close they are. Carlos has nothing to do with Quadrant or Lando's YT work or his own sponsorship work. that's Lando doing all of that.

that and when the Today show interviewer pushed the "bromance" angle you could see Lando get kind of fed up (which they tried to edit out) and steer the question back around to actual racing. tbh he even seemed a little icked by DTS making such a big deal about carlando and he and Max joked it off.

even through my Singapore euphoria I could tell Carlos and Lando were walking media ppl back from going too literal with the DRS and saying no, it was advantageous for Carlos and yes, Lando absolutely would've overtaken him if he could have gotten the win for himself. I've actually really respected Lando reminding people that they're not in these rarefied positions to do anything other than try to win or as close to it as possible. they're not making millions and living the high life just to throw race results in the air and play favorites with their friends !!??

and this whole "competition" between carlando and dando/charlos/landoscar/whatever is absolutely not making it's way onto my blog lol. I do know that a lot of people in tumblr are just joking when they do that and I think the 'angst' posts are funny but wow IG and YT are not playing around. they're making videos trying to like disprove other Lando ships and it's ??? (funniest one is the Vegas opening ceremony thing and fighting over who Lando was waving to, Daniel or Carlos) these dudes are absolutely not having real life in-fighting about which of their friends they like "better" or who is their bestest friend. (especially when Lando in the same interview as above stated that F1 drivers - Carlos included - are not his actual private life friends so uh oh how does that play into the competition?? it's so absurd)

I'm not a wives and girlfriends obsessive but I absolutely I am not here for them receiving anything negative from F1 fans unless they themselves have instances truly, openly as problematic as the drivers often are. even then I'm wary bc the sexism motive and double standards run so deep in fandom against women. Rebecca has done nothing but exist as Carlos' gf and it's just a sea of "there's something fake about her" and "body experts" claiming the relationship is fake and that she's "obviously a beard" while he's actually with Lando. that last part craaaaacks me tf up because these men travel to Middle Eastern countries where homosexuality has the death penalty or prison.......... they are NOT gonna be out here referring to themselves publicly as a bromance and their ship name if they're trying to keep this huge gay secret while they tour maximum home o'fobic countries???

I have a few extra thoughts about why folks have especially latched onto being proprietary about which men Lando is closest to or "should be with" when it comes to rpf but I feel like we all kinda know why. I'm over here writing pages of text about him which is lame in it's own way - but even I acknowledge that his greatest attraction as a person is himself and not his relationships to other people. it's why he's the sun that a lot of this content orbits around.

I'm also genuinely glad that Lily's existence and Oscar's quiet but firm reminders of her arrived alongside the landoscar fandom happening. I don't personally see any hate toward her and no one's in denial. even the rare fic that has him and Lily fictionally break up is fully fair to her. I've also posted a lot about how I genuinely love real life Lando and Oscar interaction even more than the rpf (and I love the rpf lol) and honestly the feeling seems shared with a lot of us from what I've seen. so especially if Lily uses her engineering degree to start working in F1 it's good to know that she won't have to deal with crazed conspiracy theories about her being an F1 industry plant to keep Oscar's dick out of Lando's hole or whatever.

for anyone who's read this far or skipped to the end tldr I'm always going to ship carlando and landoscar (and even dando) as well as charlos. but as a carlando shipper I really hope the commodification of it dies down before it truly starts to piss off Lando or Carlos. or Carlos has to put his foot down like Lando did and say hey, stop harassing my girlfriend it's weird.

shit's just been feeling very 'forced' lately to the point of imploding and I'm uncomfy :/

[twochildreninamoteldemo]

No one wants to admit kripke was correct for this. Dean WOULD consider voting for trump bc he banged stormy daniels, because Dean's not ur hashtag # ally, he's just another white man lmao. He's not a racist or anything, but he def doesn't care about politics and their ramifications. He cares more about sex than politics, kripke understood this, he CREATED dean, & the last 10 seasons of spn rotted everyone's damn brains lol.

[fandom-hoarder]

Any time I see the way AAs thirst after Jensen on twitter (potentially either-J stans, I guess, but I personally am not privy to the other version), it really throws into relief how much I really Do Not Get sexual attraction.

I mean, I realize a lot of what I end up seeing is a selection of the super parasocial scary side of stans, but Good Lord. I do not understand comments about locking someone up if they were my husband cuz they're too sexy, and admiring a wife for letting him Interact With People. I don't understand the people that @ him about explicit fantasies like they're entitled to his appreciation. Like. I just literally cannot comprehend that feeling in real life. It's so utterly boring to me it doesn't even bother to ping my cringe meter for possessive red flags because it's so unreal to me. Do they really really feel that way over how he looks, or is that just part of their parasocial personas? Utterly mindboggling.

[twobrothers]

petty opinion but i wish spn heritage posts wasn’t a d*stiel blog 😔😔

[fandom-hoarder]

I *understand* the "drabble" militants, since I'm a proponent of words meaning things, but also: language evolves in its use. All the livejournal drabble groups I joined in the 00s were NOT strict about 100 words; it was an "about 100" with a grace of 25-50 words. I've never really been held to 100 and I think the posts about it on tumblr are the first time I've ever seen the discourse despite being fandom old.

I do, of course, understand the skill involved in saying what you want in exactly 100 words, but... 135 words is not a ficlet to me, and microfiction sounds really fucking silly and pretentious about < 300 words lbr. It's still just a paragraph or two. What do you call 75 words? Or 50? "Half drabble"?? Why does this need to be so precise for a word that sounds like it should mean "this is fic-ish?" Drabble as a word SOUNDS right for these. Labeling 150 as "drabble and a half" is so extra when the point I'm trying to convey with the label is: this is it. this is the fic.

And while I do get why using the tag how I choose on ao3 would annoy some people, ummmm FILTER FOR 100 WORDS THEN.

Because there are so many fics of few words that are NOT drabbles, and are often bad or disappointing, but if it's labeled drabble it's like, "I know what I'm about. This is not a short bait "chapter" to get ideas or interaction. This is the fic."