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“So we’re here,” Lando points to the label on the map reading ‘Kawakawa bay’, “and we want to be…. where?” he trails off looking over at Carlos who was staring intently at the map.
“I think the lady said It was one bay over?”
Lando drops his head on the table. “Mate,” he exhales, forehead pressed to the wood “I cannot believe we are travelling to some random-as-fuck beach campsite because the lady in the supermarket line recommended it”
“She was a nice lady, Lando” Carlos chides, “old people know things.”
“Of course we’re trusting beach advice from an ancient stranger in the supermarket queue. That’s totally normal.”Or, the one where best friends Carlos and Lando travel to an isolated beach in New Zealand on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to cure Carlos’s quarter life crisis and maybe even find a bit of love along the way.
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15 Jan 2026
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Lando, chronic overthinker and first-time runaway, has no cash and needs a room; Carlos, Christmas-decoration-addictee and owner of the small London hotel 'Cozy Corner', has an empty room and needs an employee for the festive season.
What looks like a perfect match soon proves to be more complicated than they thought: Lando can't stand Christmas, Carlos can't stand Lando, and the secret Lando's so keen on keeping might not stand a chance much longer either if Carlos keeps looking at him like this ...
Or: Lando joins the Christmas-manic staff of one London hotel and falls in love with its owner - what could go wrong?
(Spoiler: A lot.)[This story will be posted as an advent calendar. New chapter uploaded every day until December 24th. Happy Christmas season!]
Bookmarked by Afireflake
11 Jan 2026
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A Name I’ll Never Forget by li_m4tcha
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF, Call Me By Your Name (2017)
23 Apr 2025
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In a quiet village in Northern Italy, 18-year-old Lando falls in love with Carlos, a 23-year-old Spanish intern working for his uncle. It meant something. It ended.
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26 Dec 2025
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Benny Goodman once wrote a song, ‘Where Or When’. It goes as follows;
“It seems we stood and talked like this, before
We looked at each other in the same way then, But I can’t remember where, or when
The cloths you are wearing, are the cloths you wore
The smile you are smiling, you were smiling then
But I can’t remember where, Or when
Some things that happened for the first time
Seem to be happening again
And so it seems
That we’ve met before
And laughed before
And loved before
But who knows
Where or When”And truly, nothing could summarize this story better.
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18 Dec 2025
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The foreman: first in the saddle, last to rest. The one the cowboys turn to, the steady hand that keeps the ranch alive. Not just a leader but the spine of it all, the owner’s most trusted man. Where command is quiet and respect is earned, never demanded.
Lando stands at the church doors, hat pulled low over his eyes. The love of his life is getting married today.
A Carlando fic set in a world of cowboys and ranchers.
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24 Nov 2025
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Save Me a Seat (By Your Side) by Toasted_Teacake for allthatiwrite
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
13 Mar 2025
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Over the course of a year and many sofas, Lando and Carlos fall in love.
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19 Nov 2025
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Never in all his days has he thought himself less strong of stomach than the ladies of his court, but never in all his days has he watched a strong, graceful creature be taunted unto its end. The men of Spain who spoke a small amount of his native tongue had tried assuring him that this ‘spectacle’ was indeed a ritual of bull worship, something to celebrate the ferocity of nature and man’s dominion over it. Lando only feels dominion over his nausea as he swallows down something detestable. It is snuffed out with swift intent, however, when he looks up again to see the Matador looking straight at him.
The Matador is the most exceptional man Lando has seen to date, by a margin larger than one end of his vast country estate to the other. He struts, cocksure and elegant with his fine clothes and finer features, large doe eyes locked on him.
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15 Nov 2025
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The world becomes a new place with the reveal of shifters--humans that can turn into wolves. Carlos Sainz Jr. doesn't care about any of it; he just wants to race. As old memories stir and secrets come out, Carlos finds himself caught between the world he’s always known and something wilder that’s been waiting for him all along.
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- Part 1 of Sharp Teeth, Silver Smiles
Bookmarked by Afireflake
10 Nov 2025
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Ughhhh this was soooo nice to read, kudoed it every chapter like I could pour more love into it. Future me needs to read this again
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It was one of those nights—the sky was starry, the air cool, the world around them still and timeless.
"I guess," he said after a pause, "Now it’s nostalgia for the future." He looked down at his hands, feeling a strange sensation as if he were a memory himself. He had the peculiar sense of being both in the past and in the future at once. It was as though he could no longer look at the curtains in the house the way he once did. The carpets on the floor had become motifs of his nostalgia. And the darkness of the fear inside him—the fear of time slipping away—was suddenly illuminated by the torch of this realization.
The centuries-old love story of Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz Jr.
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- Part 1 of The first cut is the deepest
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29 Oct 2025
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Lando Norris worked hard to get into one of the best casting schools in the world, in the hopes that he would learn how to control, and how to use his wild magic. What he did not expect was to be roomed with the scion of the Sainz family, a famous, ancient casting family. And while he eventually grows to like Carlos, despite his own inherent crackliness, there's something about Carlos that feels off...
Bookmarked by Afireflake
18 Oct 2025
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Bookmarking a story before the epilogue is a first for me. But this has been such a wild ride, it could not not be bookmarked. This is going in my top 5 fic like ever, all fandoms combined.
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13 Sep 2025
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An alternative universe, more than a heartthrob, Carlos Sainz is one of the most renowned actors in European theater, his name is stamped on great classics such as Romeo and Juliet and The Phantom of the Opera
Lando Norris is a second-year performing arts student who successfully passed the audition to star alongside Carlos in a period romance called Winter of Carmin, the rehearsals are intense, the pressure on Lando increasing with the proximity of the Spanish actor, until the moment he realizes what everyone already knows:
He's falling in love.
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09 Aug 2025
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Lando and Carlos were in love,
and the Universe liked that.Lando and Carlos fought, and split,
and the Universe did not like that.Or,
Carlos' move to Ferrari leads to a broken relationship, and he believes the only way to fix it is to meet a Lando from an alternative universe and fall in love again. It isn't so simple.Bookmarked by Afireflake
01 Aug 2025
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Lando was still peacefully asleep when Carlos walked into the bedroom to toe off his shoes and replace them with some fuzzy socks. He leaned over the bed and pushed back some of his curls to press a kiss to his forehead. He stayed still this time, only scrunching up his nose before burrowing a little deeper.
The blinky red lights on the clock read 10:02 now. Carlos supposed he could let Lando sleep a little bit longer. But he missed him.
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22 Jul 2025
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It starts like any other night—pizza, FIFA, the easy rhythm of conversation. But somewhere between the teasing and the questions that go just a little too far, something shifts. Neither of them says it outright, neither of them acknowledges it, but it lingers in the space between them, in the weight of a look held a second too long. Maybe it’s nothing. Maybe it’s something. Either way, they’re both standing at the edge of it now.
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14 Jul 2025
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He inspected his hand, peeling back the blood-soaked cloth to check the wound. Lando, watching him intently, suddenly seemed to remember something. His breath hitched as he rifled through his jacket pockets. Carlos raised an eyebrow, and then Lando pulled out a small band-aid, holding it out.
Carlos stared at it. It was pink with tiny hearts.
Of course it was.
“For you, obviously, idiot,” Lando said, smiling as if reading Carlos’s thoughts.
Carlos looked at the band-aid and then back at him. This wasn’t going to end well.
This was never going to end well. And one of them—maybe both—was going to get hurt. Carlos, ever selfless despite his flaws, silently wished that if anyone had to suffer, it would be him.
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- Part 2 of The first cut is the deepest
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06 Jul 2025
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Six health-boosting positions, two chaotic drivers in love, and one suspicious smartwatch.
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Lando and Carlos take “core work” to a whole new level, and their trainers have had enough.
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01 Jun 2025
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Carlos doesn’t know when everything changed between him and Lando. Lando doesn’t know how to tell Carlos the truth. As their friendship hangs in the balance, one moment threatens to change everything they thought they knew about themselves—and each other.
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26 Apr 2025
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Lando un-wound the camera from around his neck, pushing the clutter on the desk to the side to put the case down. He looked out the window for the last time and then collapsed into the bed.
He promptly fell asleep.
Through the thick fog of his sticky eyes trying to part, the bell tolled. Lando laid there, listening to it. He then listened to the footsteps climbing the stairs. The turning of the doorknob. And the pause of the footsteps.
Lando peeled his eyes open.
He was greeted with the bare, wet, torso of a very tan, very hairy, handsome man whose very nice arms were crossed over his chest.
Or, Carlos Sainz's family had always hosted foreign students during the summer.
Carlos had never been too fond of the intruders.
Now that he has grown up and moved out, he visits home only to find an enticing young man asleep in his bed.
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11 Apr 2025
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Carlos Sainz, conductor of the Royal Ballet Company's orchestra, loves his job. When the Company's principal dancer announces his sudden departure, Carlos doesn't see why it ought to affect his work.
Until he actually meets the new principal dancer. And his world reels.
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02 Feb 2025