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Look at all the gifts I received for Christmas

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Cars (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Salley Carrera/Holley Shiftwell Characters: Sally Carrera, Holley Shiftwell Additional Tags: Car Sex, not humanized Summary:

A rainy night in the desert, and two cars who can't resist each other. Yes, this is lesbian car-on-car. No, I'm not sure anyone will enjoy this.

I didn’t make that fic.

Found this on Archive of Our Own one time. I usually avoid reading this type of thing, or at least read once and never again since I have a pretty good memory of things, but i don’t know I’m weirdly intrigued.

Honestly I don’t read smut... but I found intriguing was it got me thinking about my favorite Cars girls as a femslash pairing. It’s written in a way that honestly does feel in character for both. Holley being nervous and flustered about her attraction and Sally being the more bold and confident of the two. That feels in-character for them (along with Sally being the one with the experience and initiates it and being on top). There’s also the description of the body language the two have that Sally can tell Holley’s attracted to her and giving Holley the confirmation that she likes her too. Thus when they do the deed they are giving permission and consent with Sally leading the way.

I shouldn’t have to praise that part because that’s something that SHOULD be understand by people. Consent and both sides taking initiative. Not just one party saying “WE HAVE SEX WHEN I WANT IT! YOUR OPINION OR FEELING OF IT DON’T MATTER!” Oh and the feeling that they actually do like each other and see each other as equals.

Any relationship, whether romantic, platonic, or even sexual, should have all parties feel equal to each other in the emotional sense.

Well that’s my two cents, going to back to start planning my own femslash fanfic while also thinking about the canon ships. 

Oh, and a possible Cars Hunger Games-esque Rebellion AU of Francesco/Sally.

I like shipping.

LIGHTING MCQUEEN! 🚗⚡️

The cars movie hyperfixation has me in a death grip-

Anyways, have Lighting McQueen! Ka-chow!

Should I be doing smth else? Yes, do I still want to draw cars? Absolutely lol

Newest hyperfixation be damned

It's the cars movies

Have the Fabulous Hudson Hornet!

God I love Doc's character so much-

The cars trilogy has no right being that good and well fleshed out (and I do also mean, cars 2, it's actually really good)

i shared on tiktok that i wrote a mater x luigi as in luigi from the cars movie fanfic but they all thought I was talking about luigi mangione and like that is so much better picture this: luigi mangione is an infamous assissine known for his bold and impactful political assissinations–and his jaw droppingly good looks. Mater is the best agent in C.H.R.O.M.E., Command Headquarters for Recon Operations and Motorized Espionage, a role he earned for himself when he saved the World Grand Prix race from the evil organization, the Lemons. Mangione is as evasive as he is effective, killing with such grace and prowess that billionaires and CEOs globally have been dropping like flies ever since his first kill, the United Health Care CEO. The top 1% is scared, pouring all their money into efforts to catch and kill Mangione before their head is on the chopping block. The issue has been so bad and so terrifying that many billionaires have been forced to stop their cherished annual charitable donation of $1. Times are truly troubling. For the first time in what has been months, the world’s governments have finally gotten a lead– they found Luigi Mangione’s apartment. 

“Agent Mater, I don’t know how else to say this: we need you. After getting the recent lead with Luigi’s apartment, we have discovered that he plans to kill Elon Musk. We need to stop him, but we have no clue where he is.” Jack Crawford looked tired. He missed Will, but Will was gone. He ran off with Hannibal Lector a few months back. Jack needs Mater on this case, he needs a trusted agent who won’t run off with a killer. 

“So you want me tuh find luigi and kill’em?” Mater asks nonchalantly. He’s done this task a million times as the best agent the FBI- nay the world– has ever seen, holding a documented 3,037,000 kills alone. 

“Yes. I have these pictures of his apartment and of what we found in it. Take a look and tell me–”

“Im gonna stop you right there. I aint lookin at any pictures, i gotta see the place with my own windshield.” Mater looks strong, he knows he can order Jack around like this. Mater’s skill has allowed him privileges few others have had. Also, Jack is mentally broken by Will. Jack gives in.

—

The apartment is on the 20th floor of the downtown brooklyn highrise. Mater is lifted up there by a crane, too big for the narrow human hallways of the building.

“Well there goes any surprise if he’s there”, Mater thought glumly, “i cant believe that in the year of our lord 2025 there is still such rampant discrimination for living cars.” a tear runs from his eyes.

“THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!!!”--*CRASH!!* Mater was just swung in through the window, he does a super sick role to slow his fall and lands with his tire sticking out, ready to show off. The apartment is neaty, excluding the glass and rubble from the wall he was just thrown through. Mater drives around slowly taking in the room. It is well decorated he notes, loving Mangione’s taste in decor. The photograph of Mangione on the wall catches Mater’s attention. Luigi’s abs are on full display and he is hiking, Mater’s engine revs a bit.

“Odd…” he thought. He drives around a bit more, searching and scanning for some kind of sign of where Luigi is going to kill Musk. He was looking at some more pictures of Luigi when he saw it. The space ship and the orange. Elon Musk was planning create a new worl record: have the least productive space trip with the most CO2 emissions. Because of the threat Musk had been hiding the launch spot but somehow Luigi found it. The John F. Kennedy Space Center.

“Oh my diddly darn yall, he’s gonna JFK Elon Musk.”

–

The air is hot and damp leaving Luigi looking permanently oiled up and his hair up in perfect curls.

“God how can i see in stealthily when i look this hot?” Luigi worried to himself. He was already hot in drier new york, how could he make it to the space station on time with the number of people that will be flirting with him, unaware or because of who he is?

Walking off the plane, Luigi is relaxed. He knows his home had been broken into by the FBI and that they knew he planned on killing the fuckass piece of human shit from a butt evil little human elon musk. He was fine with them knowing– more eyes on justice– as he thought there was no way for them to catch up with him, unaware of a certain rusty pickup added to the team. 

When he finally gets to the center 84 hours later, a lot of people were filtering, the launch was mere hours from starting. He planned a head for it took take a while for him to get there, but it took him 4 hours longer than he would of liked. His plan was simple: snip the rat from his perch then send a burning arrow to cook him for the people to eat the rich. He was already and imposition for the attack when he heard an odd rumbling sound from behind him. Looking back, he saw a large brown rusty truck with massive green eyes. It was the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen. His jaw fell open.

“He-he-lloo” Luigi is shocked. Mater is too. This reaction is normal for the truck who pulls mad bitches, but he wsa stunned to see Luigi in person. Mater never kept up with the news, they never talked about his top secrete killings, so this was his first time really seeing the man. Mater’s jaw dropped too.

“Are yew gonna kill Elon Musk?” Mater asked, a genuine qeustion as Luigi’s beautiful face grew empathy he hadn’t felt since his youth with his first love Luigi(yellow car). 

“Yeah, he sucks. He’s literally a nazi.”

“REALLY? I hate nazis lets kill the bitch” they kill him and its beautiful the people dance on Musk’s burning carcas. 

“Hey Luigi, let’s run away together and get married i love you”

“I love you too Mater” they then have sex i dont know how

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!” Jack Crawford cries, “HOW DID I LOOSE ANOTHER AGENT TO A HOMOEROTIC REALATIONSHIP WITH A KILLER??? AM I A MATCH MAKER???omg i am.” with this realization jack leaves the fbi and starts a matching making business and its best to ever exist. 

I genuinely love what you've written like the points you are making are so good and so well worded. The way the male race cars like McQueen have fake headlights reminds me of how actors in superhero movies train. The bodies of the actors are there not for function but for appearance. I think about Chris Pratt, for example, and how his body changed from before Guardians of the Galaxy and after. Before, Pratt was heavier and very visibly not in shape. His body was presented as a joke and not something to be ogled at, something that was not masculine. Pratt changed for the movie, losing weight and becoming very muscular. This change in body changed the public's perception of him, taking him from softy and loveable guy to hot(and then to gross). Muscularity is tied to masculinity as it indicates strength and capability, two traits stereotypically tied to men. The body that Pratt built was for a movie, for his appearance, not for function, and the body was used for appearance. Pratt did not have to use his body like the public that supports his career does but like his fellow rich actor peers. Headlights are a functional feature, so having good, functional headlights would likely be seen as a masculine feature. For a car that is so focused on press and his physical presentation, it would make sense for McQueen to have the appearance of headlights.

I also absolutely love your take on female headlights and how women are encouraged to cover them up. Career women cover up because they need to in a male-dominated world. Flo needs all the respect she can get as a female small business owner in a dying town, and Kori needs as much respect as she can get as a woman working in a male-dominated and oriented industry. If Flo and Kori can get more respect from their male peers by covering up stigmatized feminine traits, then they will. Sally, oppositely, is free from these pressures as she's left behind her career days and she does not have to cover up. The way they are necessary bodily features of these cars means nothing to the broader society, and the only escape that can be granted is by leaving it. The unfortunate downside is that Cars is a movie made by men in 2006, and the patriarchy will impact these cars no matter where they go.

overall i love your analysis it is like the perfect elaboration of what I was trying to say but I just got way to in my own head

I just wrote a 3-4 ish page essay on Pixar cars and their headlights/tits what do I do with this

Cars Headlights

Cars is a 2006 animated Disney Pixar movie that follows the race car Lightning McQueen through his journey of self-discovery and getting over his ego. The movie has two sequels (creatively named Cars 2 and Cars 3), as well as a short mini-series and two non-Pixar Disney movies, Planes (2013) and Planes: Fire & Rescue(2014), that focus on the planes in this universe. In this essay(?), I will be focusing primarily on the first movie, and there will be mentions of the sequels. 

As a child born in the 2000s, I have seen Cars and Cars 2 more times than I can count, and these movies have consequently burned themselves into my mind. Despite the place they hold in my memory, they do not share a similar place in my heart. In my effort to gain a sort of love for these movies, I am going to add feminism and gender politics. I am not really answering questions but just proposing them.

PART 1: Miatas and their tatas

At the beginning of the first Cars movie, a pair of Lightning McQueen superfan Miatas flash their headlights at Lightning. When they do this, the implication is that they are flashing their tits at mcqueen, a joke aimed at the adults watching the movie with their children. While the moment is brief and no more than a throwaway gag, it provokes many questions for me in regard to gender and sexuality in the Cars universe. While it is scandalous for these cars to show their headlights, it is normal and expected for the vast majority of cars to always have their headlights out. What separates these groups is whether they choose immodesty or have no choice but immodesty. Cars with no covering for their headlights lack a natural choice for modesty and are allowed to be immodest in a way the other group, through no fault of their own, cannot. By the nature of their birth, blinky light cars are forced to conform to a set of morals and modesty that those around them do not. This makes me think of the difference in treatment of men’s tits versus women’s tits. Men can walk around shirtless all they want with no repercussions. It is normal for men to go full frontal at the beach or pool in a way that would be shocking and illegal for women. If anything, efforts to cover men’s tits will be seen as more immodest and more taboo than it is not to cover them. This matches the cars that do not have blinky headlights in the world of cars. In this logic, cars without winky headlights are men, and those with them are women. Women are expected and forced to coverup their boobs because of their average relative size compared to men and social conditioning that sexualizes women’s tits. Like the cars with headlights that can be hidden, the fat deposits granted to cis women at birth (more accurately puberty) cause them to be othered by the other half of society. Women have more there than men most of the time and are motivated to cover up. If you have DDD boobs, you’re gonna to want to support them and consequently cover them. This natural feature of a person leads to them being naturally drawn to a place of modesty. On the winky eye cars, their natural state draws them towards modesty as, at rest, their headlights are closed. While they might not always want their headlights out, like how women don’t always want their tits out, headlights are an important bodily function for these cars. Do these cars face oppression for their natural traits like women do in our society? If these cars are driving at night, is there the risk that those around them will be distracted by the usage of a stigmatized and sexualized part the same way we stigmatize breastfeeding mothers? 

PART 2: big tits or little, that is the question 

The cars all generally have small headlights, and the more attractive a car is, the smaller their headlights tend to be. The character Flo (see Flo’s Diner) is a character with noticeably small/missing headlights. Flo’s headlights are tiny, disguised as dimples. Does minimizing a body part that can be associated with femininity make a car more attractive, like how society rejects femininity in favor of masculinity? 

Side note: they could be nipple piercings

Another such car is the background character Kori Turbowitz's, a 2005 Luxomobile Animatic. Kori noticeably has headlight indents but no headlights. While it is not outright stated that she is attractive, I am going to assume that the female sports reporter is attractive, as is often seen in real life. She presents as female and makes me wonder if her lack of headlights is an attempt to conform to the high-speed racing culture she has dedicated her life to.

Now, the character Sally throws a big old wrench in my argument with her bigger and noticeable headlights. I think that this issue is explained by analyzing Sally as a character. Itty bitty titty headlight girlies are trying to conform to the popular beauty standards with their small head lights. Sally has put that all behind her, though, moving to a small town. I believe she is a canonically attractive car. I had trouble finding places that stated what cars were canonically attractive. I am leaning towards she is due to the tramp stamp and Lightning’s reaction to seeing her. Sally is attractive, but in a different way from the other girl cars. She’s not like the other girls, and she’s like the girl next door. Her objectively huge headlights(tits) are a reflection of how she ignores/rejects the popular mini headlight look. Shes a real woman(car) with real tits(headlights). In a move that can be seen as either sexist or feminist, I’m leaning towards sexist, Sally is rewarded for her rejection of popular beauty standards with Lightning McQueen. From a feminist perspective, she is rejecting the restricting standards of society. From a sexist perspective, Sally is rewarded for rejecting femininity and being “not like other girls”.

PART 3: Transformers?

While we do not meet any canonically trans or non-binary cars over the course of the series, it can be assumed that these cars do exist based on the gender parallels already shown between our world and their world. If we had male and female presenting cars, it is reasonable to assume there are also trans and non-binary cars. 

 Cosmetic care in the movies includes treatments such as paint, stickers, tires, and headlight covers. Is this as far as cosmetic care can go, or is it possible to sharpen or round out angles for gender affirming care? In the real world, you can change the shell of a car, although with much fuss, and it’s probably not a good idea for most people. For trans cars, is it possible for them to change their entire shell? If they can, gender confirming surgery would have amazing outcomes in their world. 

Side note: if they can change shells, is identity theft a bigger issue?

CONCLUSION:

Overall, the cars live in a society far too similar to ours out with their beauty standards and sexism, and I think we should blow them all up with gas and a laser. 

Works Cited

My brain

If you actually read this whole thing I'm so sorry and thank you so much I wanna hear what other people have to say on this

I just wrote a 3-4 ish page essay on Pixar cars and their headlights/tits what do I do with this

Mater and McQueen humanization.