001 doc mcqueen 🥺 listen i haven’t even seen all the movies but i’m so obsessed with this pairing you built from the ground up!!!!! gives me so many gay feelings, like all your writing tbh ❣️
aw im so happy you love them!! my OTP <3333
when I started shipping it if I did: I think I low key thought about it in the first one but I didn’t start actively shipping or writing it until the gay masterpiece that’s Cars 3.
my thoughts: I mean....god what to say. They're one of the most hopeful and beautiful dynamics in the world in my opinion. An old man who thinks he’ll die alone not only getting to revisit the racing world he was barred from but getting to fall in love?? And then a selfish, scared, lonely boy learning to let himself be loved? learning humility? Both of them getting second chances in each other? UGH!!!
What makes me happy about them: how good they are for each other. The way they meet each others needs. Also that Lightning was canonically the best thing in Doc’s life...my fucking heart. Oh also their kink sex life lol.
What makes me sad about them: obviously the age gap means Lightning will inevitably outlive Doc. I think feasibly they could get max like 10 good years together and that hurts to know. 10 years isn't that much. Go listen to the Brian Fallon song Long Drives if you want to cry about Lightning living without Doc.
things done in fanfic that annoys me: no one writes it but me, but generally it bothers me when people somehow impose a father/son dynamic onto them. That’s never ever suggested by the narrative! Like its fine to read it that way if you want to but there’s legitimately much more evidence and subtext that Doc is gay and in love with Lightning than there is to suggest he views him as his son.
things I look for in fanfic: I mean I’ll read anything that depicts them as romantic. Beggars can’t be choosers.
Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Lightning is it for Doc, but after Doc dies I love the idea of Lightning slowly easing himself back into dating guys and maybe coming out publicly.
My happily ever after for them: ugh just getting to live those ten years married in radiator springs, surrounded by their friends
who is the big spoon/little spoon: they trade!!!
what is their favorite non-sexual activity: sitting on the couch drinking whiskey and watching old westerns, or else, driving in the desert, Doc behind the wheel, his hand on Lightning’s thigh while he tries to keep his eyes on the road <3
So the other day I had a weird ahh dream and it wasn’t about anne with an e, but ir definitely felt like it, and since that day I have been thinking about the show 😭 anyway, this is my favorite scene, I’ve been wanting to redraw it. 🩷🩷🤌🏻