#fic ref 2021

[umlewis]

"Happy Birthday Bestie. No amount of words can even come close to describing you. The most loyal, hard working, barrier breaker, thrill seeker, most grateful snd humble person out there. To you brother I salute you. You always have my back, you support me, you push me to make me the best version of myself. Your support and loyalty will never go unnoticed and that means the absolute world to me. I love you brother to the moon and back and always got your back forever and no matter what. To many more memories, history being broken and life to be lived. 🤞🏾 @.lewishamilton" - january 7, 2024 📷 @.fencer / instagram

#lewis hamilton #miles chamley watson #f1 #formula 1 #fic ref #fic ref 2024 #not a race #2024 not a race #pre-season #pre-season 2024 #fic ref 2021 #2021 not a race #between italy and russia 2021 #met gala #met gala 2021 #flashback fic ref #flashback fic ref 2017 #2017 not a race #year unknown #year unknown not a race #race unknown #year and race unknown #tag not tagged

[umseb]

sebastian vettel in the garage on practice day, austria - july 2, 2021 📷 glenn dunbar / motorsport images

#sebastian vettel #f1 #formula 1 #austrian gp 2021 #fic ref #fic ref 2021 #austria #austria 2021 #austria 2021 friday

[lewishamiltonstuff]

No one has ever looked sexier on a podium than Lewis in the Saudia Arabia GP 21 🥵

#drooling #he looks so yummy here #So slay of him #lewis hamilton #formula 1 #f1 #team lh44 #lh44 #lewis #fic ref #fic ref 2021 #formula one #f1blr #mercedes amg f1 #mercedes #mercedes f1 #Jeddah 2021 #Saudia arabia gp 2021 #f1 2021 #f1 news

[umgeorge]

"Scoring our first points in two years 💙 @.georgerussell63 and @.nicholaslatifi scored double points for the team on our visit to the Hungaroring in 2021! 🤩👏" - july 18, 2023 📷 @.georgerussell63 / instagram

#george russell #f1 #formula 1 #hungarian gp 2021 #fic ref #fic ref 2021 #hungary #hungary 2021 #hungary 2021 sunday #fic ref 2023 #not a race #2023 not a race #between britain and hungary 2023 #nicholas latifi

[ummick]

mick schumacher during pre-season testing at fiorano, late january, 2021

#i searched 3 diff photog sites trying to find who to credit and got nothin :( #mick schumacher #f1 #formula 1 #scuderia ferrari #fic ref #fic ref 2021 #pre-season #pre-season 2021 #pre-season 21 #pre-season2021 #pre-season21 #testing #testing 2021 #fiorano #fiorano 2021

[sweetmi1ton]

Third placed Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes GP celebrates in parc ferme during the F1 Grand Prix of Hungary at Hungaroring on August 01, 2021 in Budapest, Hungary.

#lewis hamilton #f1 #fic ref #hungarian gp 2021

[vetteldixon]

Jamie Chadwick listens to her national anthem after becoming the W Series champion for the second time.

#jamie chadwick #w series #w series 2021 cota #i just want to give her absolutely everything in the world when she smiles #and i wanted to make some very good happy vibes both for me and for everybody #mission accomplished #this is also fic ref cheers x #especially her deep breath in the first

[anwarism]

I love Caitlyn Kiramman. But... I love even more Caitlyn Kiramman in "Hotshot", an incredible fic by SarcastCity. She is... Wow. And more.

Then I found an interesting ref on Pinterest and after a sketch, someone told me "oh, Hotshot Caitlyn?". Hmm, no but... Why not?? So I painted her as Hotshot Caitlyn ☺️

The fic : https://archiveofourown.org/works/40752774/chapters/102115695

#arcane #arcane fanart #digital painting #arcane caitlyn #hotshot Caitlyn #she is a queen

[fridgrave2-0]

i think I can say I and my best friend (who didn't post here) are the creators of lanedunn as a public known thing? I guess I can

anyway, i was out of fandom for a while. it's like a wave, interest comes and goes away, so I have this huge brainrot on mission impossible once in a year. so, when i just started my m:i fixation, I was a true benthan stan. don't remember shit about that period, it was 2019 or 2020. then I started (and dropped) a fic what was inspired by one of simon's movies about him being locked underground for years. I thought "wow what if I do the same with benji?". and I did, but to make it work well, I made one tiny thing.

I made benji and solomon in relationships (ex-es, as you may get it, but still).

this idea lived in my head rent free. young benji and solomon sharing one dream, one idea of helping people. something that went wrong, so lane changed in the more dangerous way, and because he didn't find the support from benji, he locked him down underground (not much folk know what benji was maybe even more dangerous than solomon but it's not important rn)

after this fic I started to think even more about all of this. the possible connection and dynamic of those two if they wasn't enemies (yet or anymore). and i found what they are really working together, having much in common and filling the holes in their hearts. the same time I started to look at ethan more skeptical, saw how bad he is as a character and hod dirty the maccruises did to him (but it doesn't matter, i wrote my hatespeach ab ethan earlier). I started to learn some politologue and m:i was ruined for me because of it's propaganda and how usa is the best (i mean it's from the same guy who made top gun the hymn of usa military).

and then me with my friend had this vision. benji and solomon having the same goal, learning to be better to make the world better, letting the past (attempts to kill) behind, but still working on it. we had a huge plan about changing everything, from the world hunger and sickness problem to the full nuclear disarmament and end of all wars. and, of course, old gays with much traumas with the same amount of screentime. I can't describe how big it project was, but I can say my friend writes the fanfic from 2021. process is really slow, but it goes. for me it's like a lanedunn bible already (and I hope it would be still my lifetime to read it)

umm, I don't know really why I wrote all of it. I was impressed what lanedunns are alive still in the fandom, outside of the stuff me and my friend did long time ago. feels like something new that I gave life, and it grows by itself now like some sort of a child — and it makes me happy. thank you all who enjoys lanedunns ❤️💙

here are the old refs for the project, i think I will redraw those

#mission impossible #benji dunn #solomon lane #lanedunn #im so back #(i will be gone in two days my adhd kills me) #anyway love ya

[beesinspades]

MEET MY BOYS, ELIJAH AND FOX!!! 💛

I love them a normal amount and after 3 years I'm so glad I finally managed to draw a proper ref for them :D

Since 2021 Fox went through about 379 haircuts only to end up with long hair in a bun again, just like the first time I drew him 😂 He also changed A LOT fashion style and personality-wise, and I have writing a specific Vashwood fic to thank for it, after three years of struggling to figure him out :p (He's nothing like either of them, though—realization about what his relationship to his asexuality should be just snowballed into these much needed changes)

I hope to draw them more often but we'll see!! I need to start writing their story too!

#beelio draws #original art #original character #I wrote a little introduction to who they are and their story but I'm scared of my idea getting stolen hahaha #willing to c/c it in dms to mutuals who may be interested though!!! #beelio's ocs

[umlewis]

💚💛💙

#lewis hamilton #ayrton senna #f1 #formula 1 #brazilian gp 2021 #brazilian gp 1991 #fic ref #fic ref 2021 #brazil #brazil 2021 #brazil 2021 sunday #riccardo patrese #gerhard berger #valtteri bottas #tw max

[umseb]

sebastian vettel in the paddock after qualifying, hungary - july 31, 2021 📷 glenn dunbar / motorsport images

#sebastian vettel #f1 #formula 1 #hungarian gp 2021 #fic ref #fic ref 2021 #hungary #hungary 2021 #hungary 2021 saturday

[lewishamiltonstuff]

Maybe... Just maybe

#I am reduced to tears because of Mercedes and I am the most emotionally unavailable person #I hope they are proud of themselves #Saudia arabia gp 2023 #please be good please be good please be good #f1 #formula 1 #lewis hamilton #lh44 #lewis #mercedes amg f1 #formula one #mercedes f1 #mercedes #mercedes amg petronas #f1 2023 #f1blr #fic ref #team lh44 #Saudia arabia gp 2021 #f1 2021

[umgeorge]

george russell and mick schumacher during the press conference, monaco - may 19, 2021 📷 fia pool / motorsport images

#george russell #mick schumacher #f1 #formula 1 #monaco gp 2021 #fic ref #fic ref 2021 #monaco #monaco 2021 #monaco 21 #monaco2021 #monaco21 #monaco 2021 wednesday #with mick

[ummick]

mick schumacher during pre-season testing at fiorano, italy - january 27, 2021 📷 federico basile / imago

#mick schumacher #f1 #formula 1 #fic ref #fic ref 2021 #pre-season #pre-season 2021 #pre-season 21 #pre-season2021 #pre-season21 #testing #testing 2021 #fiorano #fiorano 2021 #not a race #non-race #2021 not a race #2021 non-race

[sportsthoughts]

Sorry if I missed this lore drop previously, but how'd you get into the Pens? I love your gifs and positivity that you bring to the lb!

Buckle up anon. I thought about one line answering this but I enjoy the phrase 'lore drop' so much I think you deserve the deep dive. It'll take a while to get to the pens but you asked for lore so...

I have been sportsthoughts on tumblr since 2015 ish - maybe slightly earlier - and this has always been a sportsblr/sports rpf-y type blog in various iterations.

This blog was originally used for liveblogging UK Premier League and La Liga football matches. I have always been a huge football fan (my childhood team is Arsenal - north London forever ❤️ etc etc) and when I moved away to university at 18 none of my new friends were into sports and I really missed watching games with my family.

Finding other likeminded fans online who were also watching games and liveblogging them was such a beautiful experience and I have amazing memories of 2015-2018ish when I was a very active football blog, spent a lot of the time in the Arsenal/FC Barcelona communities here and had some beautiful trips to Barca.

I do have a sideblog where I still dabble in that space but in truth I very rarely liveblog football anymore because nowadays it's returned to being something I watch with friends and family so I'm not on my phone during games.

Here's where the pens come in - sort of. I've scrolled back through my AO3 bookmarks and can see in 2015 I also got into sports RPF for the first time. There are some incredible football RPF fics out there (let me know if you'd like some recs!). Somehow - probably through raiding people's bookmarks - in early 2015 I ended up reading a Sid/Geno fic called And Never Been Kissed and I was absolutely hooked. At the time of reading this I had:

1. Never watched a game of hockey in my life (side note, I don't think I can understate how little hockey coverage there is in the UK. Even the most ardent sports fan would probably not be able to name a single NHL player or team. Not even Sid! Not even Gretzky!)

2. I had no idea, nor any desire to look up who these people actually were. It was just like reading really well written original fiction.

For the next 7 years I thoroughly enjoyed hockey RPF and created (in my mind) entire personalities and appearances for Sid and Geno, along with all the other 'characters I came across regularly in hockey fic. Sid, I got pretty close to the mark. Geno, not so much. One day I will try and find some reference pictures for what I thought they looked like because it’s quite hilarious. When I re-read fics I love from during that time I laugh because I remember my Sid and Geno and how different they were from reality.

So, hockey was sort of in my life from 2015 but exclusively in the form of fics. I would scroll through the actual hockey bits of works because I didn’t understand the rules and why every single fic was an AU where professional sports people were allowed to fight each other mid game.

At this point I’d left university, and because I no longer liveblogged football games, I found I really missed sports fandom. Another sport I grew up watching and loving was Formula 1 so when lockdown hit in March 2020 I started liveblogging F1 races to pass the time (and still do sometimes - now over on @vroomlive). I loved/still love F1blr, but it didn't quite fill my fandom itch because:

1. We joke about it, but F1 is a deeply unserious sport run by a dire organisation (Liberty Media). They change the rules every week and it's managed badly to the point of being comical. There have been a few major cock ups over the years (including the 2021 championship literally being taken away from the rightful winner and given to someone else. To put this in hockey terms: imagine a completely valid goal being overruled in the last 5 minutes of the Stanley Cup final and then the ref deciding to give the other team a 5 on 3 powerplay Just Because) all of this is quite disheartening for long term fans - and has resulted in quite a fractured and angsty fandom.

2. There are only about 20 F1 races a year - so it's just not a sport that's on regularly. I love sports, and I want to watch sports all the time - so a sport that only gave me content every third weekend or so just wasn't really enough for me.

At this point, when I was feeling rather sports fandom bankrupt, the wonderful work of Sid/Geno writers and the influence of the tumblr dashboard converged. I worked this out by scouring my AO3 bookmarks - in April 2021 I read a Sid/Geno fic called Game Plan that I fell head over heels for. I’m still not quite sure what about this fic grasped me so deeply but I started reading a lot more hockey RPF.

Around the same time an F1 blog I followed started posting about Mat Barzal All. The. Time. I had no interest in this man and did not know he was a hockey player but over the course of about a year I became vaguely exposed to hockey content on Tumblr through that blog, and at some point in early 2022, saw Sid on my dash for the first time. I don’t remember the exact post but I remember seeing the name, doing a double take and thinking oh Shit! That’s Sidney Crosby from fanfiction! I was flabbergasted because in my mind Sid was in his early 20s tops, so seeing this early thirties, bearded, fat bottomed man on my dash and realising that that was Sid was such a shock. 

My hockey lurker era lasted from mid 2022 to early 2023 and I spent a lot of time, um, lurking. That sounds so creepy. I suppose I had never thought about actively joining a fandom before because my fandom engagement (one direction > football > f1) had all happened really organically so actually choosing to join a space as an adult was quite an interesting process.

By summer of 2023 my husband’s job changed again meaning he works away from home most weeknights and suddenly my late nights were extremely free because I’d hang out with friends and then go home at 10/11 to an empty house which I hated. I really found myself wanting to make fandom friends and have an at home hobby I could do late at night before going to bed so taking on a sport that happened 12am-2am (timezones!) seemed like a good fit. 

Alongside this on a totally separate track was my longstanding interest in fandom - most of my professional work/research is pretty standard psychotherapy stuff but I’ve done a little bit of work over the last few years looking at sex therapy (not as sexy as it sounds) and I have a real interest in the role that fandom and especially shipping/fic plays in shaping and expressing sexuality. It’s a bit of a back burner research topic for now but I suppose over the years researching fic and expressions of sexuality via fandom and shipping has just made me fall in love with fandom itself a little bit.

Plus having lurked around the edges of hockeyblr for a while I was just like, yeah, I really want in on this, this seems like an awesome community. The reason why I chose the pens was pretty straightforward - I felt like I knew Sid and Geno and after exploring the real life hockey, I, like most of us, was quite struck by who Sid is as a person and was just completely enchanted. Another side note - hilariously, when my husband first saw a picture of Sid last year he immediately said “Oh, he looks like me!” - do with that information what you wish. 

I really eagerly awaited the start of the 2023 season and without sounding too soppy, had already fallen in love with you guys before I ever watched a live hockey game. Every fandom has its difficult corners (pensblr included!) but I can honestly say - especially after the chaos of spending my teenage years knee deep in 1D fandom and my early and mid twenties in various parts of sportsblr - being part of this space has been the most lovely, fun, friendly, lighthearted, positive and beautiful fandom experience I’ve ever had. I feel like it’s the goldilocks zone of all the previous fandoms I’ve been in and I love it.

So yeah! That is the extremely long winded answer to your question, anon. I hope this is the ‘lore drop’ you were looking for lol

TLDR: I stumbled my way through sportsblr until I accidentally ended up here and I’m never leaving.

#ask luce #this has been a very interesting reflective exercise so thanks for the question anon! #also if you recognise some of this it’s because I’ve ripped chunks of this out of dms I’ve sent people recently because time efficiency #I’m also nosy and now want to know all of your tumblr journeys so I might even turn this into a tag game lmk #anyway thus concludes my blog history. feels appropriate at this point to say thank you to the lovely friends I’ve met here #you’re all wonderful wonderful people and I love sharing this little hobby with you 💘