Remus : There's No Thing Such As A Stupid Question...

Interviewer: where would you take Max on a date, Daniel?

Daniel, immediately sweating: oh woah a FRIENDLY date!!! As FRIENDS!!!! We’re competitors!!!! We can’t DATE-

Max: ✨🥰✨I want to go to your farm, Daniel 🥰🥰❤️❤️ and we can go dirt bike racing 🥺❤️🥰❤️🎀 and then not go to the next four races ❤️❤️🥰 cause we’re together 🥰🥰🥰🥰 and you broke your collarbone 😈😈😈

James : *reading a book*

Regulus : Love, what are you reading?

James : oh it's *book name*

Regulus, confused : why are you reading it? you never read

James : well.. *closes the book and smiles at Reggie* it's your favourite book, so I wanted to read it to be able to talk about it with you and discuss our favourite bits together

James, still smiling : so my favourite part so far is whe-

Regulus, interrupts him : I love you... I love you so so much *hugs james tightly smiling with teary eyes*

James, smiling : I love you more Reggie...

I used to be really against marking up books and would clutch at my pearls anytime a book was damaged in anyway but now I see it as another way to express love. Water stains on the cover means you carried your favorite book through the rain because you wanted to keep reading on the go. Writing in the margins is participating in the conversation with the author. Leaving bookmarks and receipts in between the pages is like freezing traces of your own life in time.

A well worn book is a well loved one.

Lily : give me an example of an extreme sport

Remus : skydiving

James : surfing

Peter : skiing?

Sirius : doing homework while the professor is collecting it

charles is a PR genius. and here's how he's trying to slowly rebrand his persona to strenghten his personal brand:

recently, especially after the triple header, you could notice charles had a period of time when he distanced himself from ferrari and clearly changed his public statements about his goals. he went from saying he wants to win with ferrari to saying that at his core, he just wants to win. and that he would leave ferrari if he didn't believe the project.

he also changed the way he communicated with fans, through social media. you can notice the change of wording in his post descriptions:

both posts are from the same year, but the wording is now different. he refused to use the ferrari branding and stopped using the typical ferrari-PR wording he was conditioned to use.

fast forward, he started interracting with ferrari by abu dhabi and seemed to be finally happy with the direction the team was taking. however, he still managed to build something from this anti-ferrari period -- the slow rebrand from being "charles, the ferrari driver" to "charles, the f1 driver".

charles is slowly, but surely working to increase the value of his personal brand to possibly gain more negotiating power, and other bonuses that come with having a strong personal brand not tied to any team in particular.

in general, the goal would be to outgrow the team so you are known as an individual athlete, not just someone who drives for the particular team and has their identity tied to the team only.

he also signed with WME for advertisement purposes, he started wearing his personal clothing brand CLACE again after ferrari banned him to do so. he clearly regained more confidence in what he can do as an athlete within the contract (that's usually very limiting from ferrari's pov).

how does he otherwise work on his personal brand? relatability. charles is a gen z child first and foremost, he knows parasocial relationships play a huge role on social media. he works on side personal projects like the LA vlog -- the vlog that had little to do with racing but still showed charles completely SUCK at basketball.

why would you include it, you may ask? it makes him relatable, it makes his personality more interersting. more fun.

his first public post from winter training then was him falling

why did he post that? well, a) he's a silly guy. but more importantly, b) he's not crafting up a perfect PR image, he's aiming for being relatable, showcasing more of his personality. he wants to stand out as an individual in the sea of other f1 drivers who posted more pre-planned content during their winter training.

in the LA vlog he also left in a little dig at carlos. why? because he can. he also used his twitter likes to like controversial things that ferrari wouldn't let him say. he very much knows how to navigate online spaces and how to create more boundaries between his personal brand and the ferrari brand.

additionally, he also now hangs out with people like max publicly even if they don't benefit the ferrari brand. max, in general, isn't liked by the tifosi or ferrari in general. but charles still makes sure to hang out with him on track and outside of it, once again, securing his personal brand and not pushing something that ferrari would prefer.

it's all very interesting to watch, seeing how carefully he's rebuilding his public image and how he communicates on social media with the world.

Sirius *to Remus* : I can fit the whole world in my hands!

Remus *not removing his eyes from the book he's reading* : I'm sure you can..

Sirius *grabs Remus' head* : see I told you.. *smirk*

Remus *blushing* : I- *speechless, still blushing*

everyone says they remember where they were when princess diana died, when 9/11 happened, when jfk was assassinated… i will remember where i was when i found out lewis hamilton was going to ferrari.

just thinking about lando feeling like it has been years since him and oscar have been teammates when in fact it's only been one season.

and how comfortable and easy their partnership must be for someone like lando to feel that way so quickly.

there is such a deep rooted respect between them, as teammates, as racing drivers, as people. it's like they were made to find each other. i hope it never changes.

Carlos : what was plan A ?

Lando : don't fall in love with Oscar...

Carlos : and what was plan B ?

Lando : don't fuck up plan A...

Carlos : and what did you do?

Lando : ....

Lando : fucked up plan A

Carlos : you did *sigh*

Lando : but like can you blame me tho?

Lando : *stares dreamily at Oscar who is standing close by* he's just so cute and lovely an-

Carlos : -d I'm out of here, I'm not dealing with this, where's my baby Charlie

shout out to the 🧍 emoji. it conveys so much. no other way to truly explain the emotion you get when you feel like🧍