#and to one specific mutual: it's in finland!!!! so maybe finland will win in the end (if they will take good ol me)

[kimmkitsuragi]

im applying for something rlly good on the last day of the application dates lmao god can i have a miracle pls

[inchidentally]

Seems to be a lot of you joining fandom for some reason so here's a helpful education to pass around and learn from:

don't put this 1D fandom rpf throwback garbage in the main tags, esp Oscar's tag :)

it's not "some of F1 Fandom" who know Lando and Oscar are friends and are actually what Lando refers to as the strongest teammates - and Oscar as his own strongest teammate - it's everyone except weirdos who take rpf and bromances too seriously.

I actually ship carlando and even I am icked by every carlando interaction this past weekend being created for advertising for F1TV and a carlando "breakfast" being for Lando's ad for his dad's scooter company. Caco has been cornering Lando every chance he's gotten and hustling to get Carlos' popularity up bc they're trying to get him the RB seat. it's incredibly transparent. (it's also funny bc Carlos himself made the win and podiums all about him and Charles since y'know, teammates and friends)

Melbourne was a working weekend for Lando and a trip home to see family for Oscar. Lando, Max and Oscar were in the same hotel and hung out away from fans because weirdly enough, sometimes friends choose to hang out and not put it online*

Carlos and Lando forget the other exists for months at a time and their friend groups don't interact or overlap. yes, Lando is absolutely friends with Carlos and some of his family and it's very sweet<3 no, they're not even close to being considered close friends as they've both said. (Carlos specifically says Lando is not "a close friend who give everything to each other" because they're rivals but maybe when they've retired they can be, and Lando said the bromance angle is mainly for the cameras)

Daniel and Lando are absolutely buddies<3 but Lando himself said that he and Martin only made the 48h detour to Daniel's this past winter because they wanted to get out of Bali and their trip to Finland wasn't due to start yet. other than that, Lando and Daniel live entirely separate lives with Martin is their only common friend outside F1 and don't rank anywhere near close friends.

*Oscar is intensely private and doesn't allow any of his down time to be put online anymore after the Alpine fiasco made him wary of social media (he even limits how much he posts his own gf to keep certain fans away from her) which is why we only hear after the fact about him and Lando hanging out and talking outside of F1 commitments - like spending the evening in Vegas together, sharing private flights, eating dinner together, mutual friends etc. hell, they don't even post when they hang out before and after race commitments despite being seen on other people's cameras. everyone who cares already knows this about them. would we like more content? yes. is it actually quite sweet that they choose to class each other with the stuff in their lives that isn't for fan consumption? yes<3

Oscar is the only one of Lando's teammates to be friends with - or I think even know beyond basic greetings? - Max F, who says he has a solid relationship with Oscar. if you're not good with Max F then you're not very deep into Lando's life.

Lando, Carlos and Daniel do the exact same James Corden fake gay for laughs shtick bromance with every single teammate they've ever had in exactly the same way. lots of rough housing, lots of playing gay chicken, lots of fangirl-targeted bromance talk. funnily enough, actual queer ppl like myself kinda get the ick over men in bromances pretending to be gay and then laughing as if acting gay is a wildly hysterical joke :) I'll enjoy it too for the most part and it's not necessarily ill-intentioned. but yes, the reason they laugh is because playing gay with each other is considered a joke.

Oscar and Lando happen to not do any of that PR/bromance/gay chicken stuff which ironically, considering your standards, means the friendship we actually see is more reliably honest than ones that are specifically used for social media engagement and corporate advertising by F1 and team sponsors.

I'm assuming you skip literally all landoscar content but skafgksjafg imagine watching even just this or this and getting the "ick" like what a weird gross way to think!

in summary for you and the influx of 1D-kpop-whatever rpf-carlando/dando pipeline people: Lando and Oscar are not intended for you specifically because they don't do the same repeated bromance that Carlos did with Nico, Max, Lando and now with Charles - and of course Daniel with well, half the grid and men in his life. Carlos and Lando have only twice done anything with each other outside the F1 season in 5 years of friendship and Lando and Daniel have only spent roughly 48hours together outside the F1 season in 3 years of friendship. so considering how much they mutually already have in common and how relaxed Lando is with him, Oscar is already off to a great start after just 1 year with Lando!

side note that "ranking" friendships of people you don't know if you're over the age of like 12 is not something to be doing publicly unless you love humiliation ig ??

and the greatest irony of all in the weird way you rank friendships is that, of the grid, Lando is more of an intimate friend with Max V than he's ever been with Carlos or Daniel. they're in and out of each other's houses and the families know each other and they have mutual non-F1 friends and Max V is even in on the gaming stuff too. but shocker, they choose not to do a big bromance or act gay for laughs or constantly post their time together for engagement. they mention it offhand or someone else does but they never blow it up into a bromance ship name or try to capitalize on it. Max famously values his privacy and only allows Kelly to post private content of his life. and Lando has a whole set of friends he's known since his karting days who he no longer posts and who don't post him for privacy reasons <3

so if all that gives you the ick and you assess friendships and intimacy based on how much they're played up for cameras and social media then stay out of the main tags and stop talking to everyone else in fandom bc you're weird and we don't want you :)

posting this just bc again imagine being icked by this

I wish I would understand why some of the F1 Fandom think there’s ANYTHING between Lando and Oscar. They give me the icks together and from all I have seen they don’t even spend time together. He’s the only McLaren teammate Lando had/has I can’t wrap my head around. Lando spends his free time and off time with both Dan and Carlos and yeah, whatever people try to see here, it’s just icks for me.. wish that ship would never left the harbour to begin with. But live and let live right?