What was the reason that made you start shipping Charlos? I love your work, actually your multichapter is my confort fic for this season of hell, and I'll love to know what made you think : Ah yes, romance material. Like some specific reason (actually no, if you want to give us all the reasons would be great) maybe? Because yeah, we all know their behaviour in public 😂.
Ohoho what a question 😂 I will try to be brief...
The first video of them together that I can remember made me insane was the jenga challenge and the outtakes, which inspired me to make my first f1 gifsets EVER! I'd been watching f1 races for about a year, and following Ferrari on social media, but hadn't really engaged with the content much bc of grad school...
So I consumed all the content I missed, and just fell in love with their dynamic. They make each other laugh, and Carlos seems to really bring Charles out of his shell. And they're both so talented and hardworking, but I love Charles' almost boyish raw talent paired with Carlos' hardwork perseveres ethic.
I think, in general, just how touchy they are and comfortable in each other's space stuck out to me. I don't think I've ever seen such an openly tactile male friendship, especially coming from watching north american sports, where men seem a lot more repressed lol
On top of that, the fact they have the same name and somehow ended up teammates with Ferrari just feels like fate or destiny or something... (but if they were both called Carlos or both Charles, I don't think I'd read or write fic. I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face 😂)
I'm such a shipper tho - every fandom I've been in, I can't help it. I was previously a hockey blog, and in that fandom there were a looot of fics that really made me fall hard for pairings. Charlos was the opposite where there seemed to be sooo much actual content of the two of them interacting, where it almost feels like RPF watching it (I'm like, 'did they really just do/say that??'), but a total lack of fics. So I'm trying to remedy that 😅 (if you knew the number of fic prompts/ideas I have outlined that I haven't gotten to...)
They're the hardest pairing I've ever written for actually bc they're both very charming and funny (their banter is on another level fr), as well as multilingual, which adds another complicated layer. Fortunately, spanish and italian are two languages I'd been learning for years, but I'm by no means fluent, and I know almost zero French haha. Also, they both just have really compelling histories, and it very quickly inspired in me an empathy and love for them.
Anyway, thanks for this ask! (I'm sorry it wasn't brief.) But to sum it up, idk if I can list an exact moment where it clicked - it was just an overall impression I got right away...
i just realised that the fact that i watched telenovelas from ages 6-16 probably influenced me in multiple ways that i refuse to contemplate at the moment 🙂 gracias @queent09 y @miquihonda para esta revelacion
i really wasn't expecting tags in this! but i'm thankful for you all and i felt compeled to make one! so again, thank you @5ainz @therealmusketeers @effervescentdragon @f1-stuff @c2-eh , i love you all dearly ❤️
✨ i wish you all happy holidays and all the strength to face the new year ✨
times are hard, the world is hostile and relationships are complicated, specially with oneself. but we have each other and hyperfixations, so it's like this now but we'll push through 🙌🏻
and now, my own tags! keep spreading the kindness 🎈
Mal Mal Mal..I'll leave a comment when my brain can properly work again.
BUT OMG WHAT A FIC
I just read your soulmate AU, and I just...WOW. And I needed to tell you that that was fantastic and made me feel things, and I feel like dying and everything was perfect and my heart still hurts, but it's okay because now they are happy.
And thank you thank you thank you for writing it.
Every single word was perfect.💕✨️
Ahh thank you so much!! 🥹❤️ I was debating whether to sit on it longer (and I literally added a whole section right before posting), but just decided not to let myself think any more about it. I'm so glad you liked it! It's definitely one of the angsty-er things i've written haha but hopefully it's worth it in the end 😂
WIP game - big thank yous to @sophielovewar @queent09 and @panda369-aksh for these asks
I’ll do the flower AU and soulmarks WIP together because I realised I kinda have similar outlines for them.
The flower AU is based on a prompt post for a less gory hanahaki, where instead of flowers crushing your lungs they just spring from a person’s hair when they see the object of their affection. @c2-eh wrote a really good one recently that has a slight fantasy element to it GO READ IT. We may have both seen the same post. I’ve planned mine that Charles is springing flowers left right center and desperately trying to hide it. But there’s a twist where Carlos has actually been springing flowers too but no one noticed because he has a secret weapon 😉
I had something similar in mind for the soulmate AU too where Carlos doesn’t know he has a soulmark because it’s hidden and he can’t see it. However I still have to work on this because I also want to write a scene where Charles walks in on a shirtless Carlos and accidentally sees the soulmark and has a PANIC. idk how those two concepts will work together. Also their little Singapore infinity pool rendezvous is gonna play a part.
At this point I haven’t actually written any scenes for either of these, so sadly I don’t have any sneak peaks to share.
Heelp I haven't seen it here anywhere can you please post a video/gif of carlos' vegas interview where he's like "it might be prime time in vegas but it's not prime time in my brain"?
Hi! Thanks to @queent09, this tiktok was tracked down:
Did he go out after the race despite saying this? 💀