#reader's rambles.

˖♡ - ̗̀ ⇢ LOL imagine the continuation from 1-800-HELP-ME-PARK:

it's f1 secret santa 2025 and ollie gets handed a incredibly small box decorated with christmas-themed lightning mcqueen wrapping paper, and he's trying not to display his disappointment because there's that phrase: good things come in small packages.

just from the wrapping alone, he rattles off a few guesses on who may be behind his gift, "it could be liam, because i know he's the token cars fan. or, kimi! or, charles too! since he's like, the lightning mcqueen lookalike."

he neatly tears the paper off too uncover a glossy white box with a silver ferrari logo embossed in the center. "ah, so it's charles or lewis, i guess!"

lifting the top off the box reveals a handwritten note on a piece of card stock covering the gift that's underneath.

decided to get you a spider of your own after the spectacular results you achieved in your rookie season. i hope you inherited your parallel parking skills from your mother and not me!

ollie's mouth drops open in astonishment, stuttering wordlessly as he pulls the card stock away to reveal a rosso corsa key fob. he shouts in surprise, startling the already stunned camera team, "i can't accept this, can i??1!"

the cameraman look at him like he's lost his mind, "kid, he bought you a ferrari!!! of course, you can accept it!"

I'm mixed with half black. I've had ideas of writing OCs that are like me. But that little voice in the back of my head tells me not to because no one would read it. So I don't.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry to bother you.

˖♡ - ̗̀ ⇢ do it. don't allow yourself to be your biggest hater when you should be your biggest fan.

all of the writers in the f1 x bipoc (black/indigenous/people of color) community are incredibly welcoming and we love having new writers join us in adding more diversity to f1 rpf.

i'm not gonna lie to you, we definitely get less attention/interaction with writing non-white ocs and readers (especially if you're writing oc's instead of reader-inserts, and also traditional fanfics instead of social media au's) — but i think that's because people who aren't the race of whatever character you're writing feel like they're not allowed to read it? or they find it hard to imagine themselves in that character's place? and that makes me giggle, because we grew up reading ACTUAL BOOKS and fanfiction where the default reader was white and was described as such. and even though we couldn't relate, we still read it because the story was good and it was all we fucking had lol. (seriously, you don't have to be a member of the poc community to read poc fics! i actually think it's kind of weird if you actively avoid them but that's an entirely different discussion !!!)

unfortunately, there will be people who harass you for doing it. i started writing f1 fics almost two years ago, and i think almost every one of my moots who write poc fics have received hateful messages and even threats !!! for making fanfiction diverse. i'm not saying this to scare you away, i'm saying this so you're aware. racism and prejudice still exists on this app and irl, for a reason unbeknownst to me. BUT FUCK EM!!!! if they can't handle somebody in a FANFIC having a skin color that isn't white, or eyes that aren't blue, or a hair texture that isn't straight and tied up in a messy fucking bun, or a CULTURE THAT ISN'T THEIRS—that doesn't sound like our fucking problem :)

people WILL read what you write. the number might be small, but people will read it. there are plenty of poc readers on this app who want more content. plenty of them are like you, who want to do more than read and start writing as well. and lemme tell you sumn...22 notes/likes may seem like nothing right? but, imagine that's 22 people who came up to you in real life, and told you that they liked what you wrote. and 1 reblog ??? that's like somebody walking up to another person and telling them, "you should read this, i loved it!"

and sure, having validation from readers is what keeps us posting...but don't forget that fanfiction is inherently self-indulgent. you wrote that story for yourself, and then you shared it and allowed us the privilege of reading it.

i can't speak for all of us, but i know that i'm thrilled every time i see a new writer come across my dashboard. so write your ideas. don't let the fear of being unnoticed stop you from doing something you want to do. and trust me, there are readers begging for a story with a mixed!oc, like you want to write. make yourself—and them—happy.

˖♡ - ̗̀ ⇢ hi babe! this is such a sweet thing to do for your boyfriend :) i would love to give you a quick explanation, but i figured it would be easier to link you to a few explanations that would be miles better than anything i could do LOL !

formula one website: beginner's guide to the f1 weekend. (article)

reddit: a cool guide to formula one for beginners (poster)

formula one youtube: everything you need to know about f1 (video)

youtube: formula one explained by an idiot (video, more about meme culture!)

youtube: every f1 driver explained in 22 minutes (video, also memes)

༊࿐ ⊹ ˚. it's my favorite fanfiction too !!! i'm currently writing summer twenty-three—ten pages in and i'm nowhere near finishing the exposition of the chapter.

ten !!! pages !!! in !!! and carlos and lando have only been mentioned, they have yet to appear LMAO (that was a laugh of disbelief). it's going to be a monster of a chapter i think, bc i've outlined everything that i want to happen and i'm not even through the first half of the first act. YES—you've read that correctly, i've had to break this shit up into acts like a shakespearean play. what the hell.

how many acts are there you ask? optimistically there's 4, if you go by the timeline of the fic which is the months of summer: may to august. however, if you follow the outline, there's 11 acts...stop throwing tomatoes at me, i'm already ashamed of myself pls.

and y'all already know that i'm the slowest writer on earth, but i promise i'm going as fast as i can to write top quality work for you guys :) i'm sure we'd all rather i take my time writing something close to perfection, rather than halfassing it and ruining the series right?

I just got back into it and noticed it hadn't been updated for a while? Love it so far, though, and I'm looking forward to the drama.

˖♡ - ̗̀ ⇢ hi, lovely! i am planning on posting the entire series by the end of next month.

there was a whole thing where i was unhappy with my writing for chapter two, to the point that i had rewritten four times and i still wasn't comfortable with posting something that felt so mediocre. it lead to me like taking a whole two/three month breaking from even thinking about sip of sunshine because i would get pissed off trying to write one sentence for it.

thankfully, i overcame my hatred for it and now i'm halfway through writing the second to last chapter LMAOOOO. i'm going to wait to post until i finish the final part just to make sure there's no plot holes or continuity issues :)

˖♡ - ̗̀ ⇢ hi, my love! firstly, thank you for continuing to support my blog and showing love even though i’m not consistently active—it means more to me than you know x. 

to answer your question, the best piece of advice i have is to practice writing romance with love interests you know well and are passionate about. i know that sounds obvious, but don’t stress yourself out by writing for characters you’re not in love with, yourself. how can you expect yourself to write good quality romance when you’re not enamored by characters?

when i started writing fanfiction (i was like 12 lol), i was writing zayn malik, tom holland, pietro maximoff, and peter parker fanfiction on wattpad because i was in love with them, you know? and, when you’re that devoted to your delusions, you begin to write things you're proud of—and, doing that develops your skill. obviously, my shit was cringy—but, writing romance was fun, and it helped me develop my style, my plot planning, my outlines, etc. so pretty much, i’m saying that practice does make perfect! 

and, the key to romance is characterization. you need to think properly about your character’s personality, behavior, and how they would love. do they fluster easily? are they flirty? what’s their love language? do they like to hold hands? the answers you decide on are what you need to display through your words. start with looking up some romance writing prompts, and build the story by knowing how your characters would act in the scenario.

tldr: you can’t write romance if you’re not in love with what you’re writing about.

˖♡ - ̗̀ ⇢ thank you—genuinely! i feel like this is a little odd/corny to say but, from the moment i started posting rpf/ff content, my goal was to make it more inclusive for fellow bipoc reader's like me! i was tired of seeing y/n be described with obviously white traits and characteristics, so i woke up one day and was like "aight, i gotta do smth about this myself ig"

are y'all familiar with PBS? it's a tv channel/station in the usa (idk if it's international, forgive my american ignorance), and their whole slogan is, "this program was made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you!" whenever i discuss bringing diversity to ff's i alwaysss think of it :)

so i guess my version would be like: this blog was made possible by contributions to the f1 rpf community from a reader like you! or smth of the sort—idk if that makes sense...i'll workshop it some more loll

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Please share these reels with the class 👀

˖♡ - ̗̀ ⇢ aw man! i should've saved them to post the links here — i'd hunt them down in my likes folder, but it's probably buried so far down from the amount of reels i've viewed since then LOL