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In a world where Formula 1 belongs to the old guard—the factories, the fortunes, the families who've been racing for generations—Aldecaldo Racing shouldn't exist. A privateer team clawed out of the Arizona desert by a woman who refused to let her uncle's dream die, they have nothing: no budget, no sponsors, no reputation. What they have is a broken car, three mechanics who work for free, and a belief that speed doesn't belong to the people with the most money.
Then V gets behind the wheel.
Posting in sync with the F1 calendar. Next chapter: Belgium GP - Jul 17-19
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08 May 2026
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Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.
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28 Mar 2026
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"Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teachings things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."
Every weapon, no matter how advanced, had a progenitor. Rock begat spear begat bow begat firearm. If there was ever something about mankind that would never change, it was their desire to kill each other in new and creative ways. Reaching for the stars had not changed this. For every Warframe that made it, for every Excalibur, for every Nyx, there were many left behind who did not make the cut. Those who failed, for one reason or another.
A weapon forgotten, however, is not a weapon gone...
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- Part 8 of See it in The Flesh
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25 Feb 2026
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Asterix Kearn is, for all intents and purposes, a bastard. By her own choice, of course - her family was awful and 'anywhere but here' seemed as good a place as any. But when she and the Shade, an ancient, Star League-era Shadow Hawk, stumble across a true bastard, she finds herself at a crossroads. Stay the course and live the life she was born into - or throw it all away on a hope, a prayer, and burn out twice as fast.
After all: there are old MechWarriors, and there are bold MechWarriors. There are no old, bold MechWarriors. But... think of the upside. If she lives? She gets to keep all the money...
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09 Jan 2026
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... who sat down beside her, but she scared her poor demons away...
Lettie had seen many, many stories unfold in her life. Too many endings but that was the curse of being a medical officer. It was not often she got to see the beginning of a story, nor was it something she was well-practiced in handling. The station calms after the whirlwind that saw enemies become sisters bound by blood, but another storm brews on the horizon; her name is Oraxia. After all, what's a new life without a little trauma bonding?
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- Part 7 of See it in The Flesh
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27 Dec 2025