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Also did you mention in the past a clip where max claims lando said he couldn’t move to Monaco with him because he’d have nobody around? As in max asked him to go with and he said no. Is that a real thing that happened or max himself said he didn’t want to move since he’d be alone a lot.

ahaha so The Monaco Conversation™️ from dec 2021 is very real and lando's refusal happened live on stream in front of god and everyone!! it's an insanely private conflict to be hashing out in public, and the way max tells chat it's over, lando doesn't want him there, it's done.... jesus christ man, stand up. he very much wanted to go with, but lando said he couldn't because he'd be lonely, but max said that lando would be lonely, and he even offered to look after the house(!!) but lando refused to let him for his own good, wanting to take care of him 🥺

it's just..... it's really something else that max was happy to be a little lonely, if it meant he could still be with lando, living in monaco and taking care of the place, doing his streams and waiting for lando to come back to him. that's not a shipper invented fever dream, that's straight out of his mouth!!!!!! their relationship is batshit. truly.

i'll answer the first part of the ask beneath the cut ⬇️

pairing game

in the entire fandom, lando and maxF have the best canon and like it's not even close. there is no other pairing that are as deeply enmeshed in every level of each other's lives. from like the legal complexity it would take to remove max, the managing director of lando's brand quadrant, and the like pr complexity of him now being the main face and on screen presence ... they are business married squared. they are more than married.

this is one of those pairings where the canon is so good - and so unrelenting, like are they streaming together right at this very second? IT'S POSSIBLE - that i don't self generate much in terms of fic ideas, because i'm just happy to sit there passively and have them be more insane than anything my brain could come up with. and i mean i feel like it's fair to say that my brain can come up with some pretty insane things.

are they going to SPEND VALENTINES DAY TOGETHER AGAIN? are they going to further intertwine their personal and professional and romantic lives? i mean COULD THEY? or has the melding already been completed to the point where they're no longer recognizable as individuals?

it's so interesting, because max is just lando's girlfriend. he payed the role of girlfriend on drive to survive when lando needed a person on screen with him to help humanize (and they MATCHED like they were like, how should we best appear together on camera? matching 🙂‍↕️). he dotes on lando in a girlfriendly way. he navigates lando's mood swings. he defends him on chat. and then lando pays for everything and tells max when a rocket is launching.

i genuinely think it's so intersting to try to figure out how it's possible that they make this seemingly impossible situation work, like lando is living max's dream; lando made it to f1 where max didn't, and there is such an incredible power difference between them where lando has all the money and fame and social capital and prestige. but it's also clear max has a lot of interpersonal power over lando just in that lando is deeply bonded to him. lando wants to be sending time with him. lando wants to be around him. the biggest thing lando was looking forward to at the end of the season was the boys trip, like he deeply deeply deeply values his relationship with his friends.

the '☹️🥺' spa tweet makes so much sense. he is clearly the human embodiment of these emojis

i love them