when people ask me why i'm so tired of this country...
evidence no.99999: i can't even go out to get breakfast with my brother without getting side-eyed by strangers on the street. cuz his growth spurt has made him a head taller than me. because obviously, every similar aged girl & boy hanging out together MUST be a couple, and MUST get ridiculed for normal teenager shenanigans....
got tagged by four lovely people ( @piastriprincess @f1atelier @wdclandonorris25 @clovermoters ) for the spotify repeat game ! 🩷🤍
rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.
1. grenade – bruno mars (used to be obsessed with this at one point in 2018 and it has wormed itself back onto my daily playlist)
2. luther – kendrick lamar ft. sza (listen, i got introduced to this by lando from the 2024 drivers photo and haven't got bored of it in a year and half)
3. kehlani – jordan adetunji (trying to learn the choreo)
4. lose my mind – don toliver ft. doja cat (i unironically vibe with most of the f1 movie songs a bit too much. no i don't think they are overrated, soz)
5. ivy – frank ocean (with honorable mention to every freakin song in blonde + channel orange)
6. human nature – michael jackson (haven't watched the biopic but this song is so so nostalgic. my dad used have it in a thumbdrive in his car)
7. udi udi – aneesh, sarkar & hruday (its currently going viral in india and i'm not bored of it yet, so)
8. gimme! gimme! gimme! – abba (come on, who isn't a little hung up over mamma mia every summer? just me?)
9. homewrecker – sombr (no notes. it's catchy as hell)
10. florida!!! – taylor swift ft. florence + the machine (fic writing. was working on lando's first win chapter for hloag)
tagging @landomain @f1-the-real-housewives-of-monaco @babsiie @lilacbears @originaldaughterofagun @landosaints and anyone else who wants to join!
ꕤ PAiRiNG. lando norris × fem! oc. (helena pinkham-larks)
ꕤ RADiO. this is a very self indulgent fic that i had the sudden urge to write. what conclusion it will end up reaching, i don't really know yet... but i'm excited!
ꕤ WARNiNGS. author has no idea how the film industry works, so my only source is google and a bit of delusion. mentions of cyber-bullying and the trials and tribulations of having a social media presence. 𝓜𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐌.𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓
𓏲 ˖ CONTENTS .. !
coming soon.
notes ✰ no taglists again, but this will mostly be chapter-wise, so hopefully its easy to keep track of
born on 2nd july 2001 in nottingham, england to british presenter, natalie pinkham and brookfield corporation executive, anton larks
raised between london and vancouver
elder half-sister to wilfred & willow walbyoff
aiming to be a filmmaker (has worked on a handful of award-winning indie features)
was a videographer for sky sports and then mclaren for a little while (2022 – 2024)
london school of economics graduate for b.a. in journalism with an english minor
los angeles ✈️ london
helena is fluent in english and german (her paternal grandmother is from germany)
she has a chocolate point siamese named poe
adores reading a good murder mystery
helena was once all over uk news as a toddler, rumored to be the daughter of prince harry (due to their similar hair color & natalie's association with him during the early 2000s). both her parents + royal family representatives shut down those stories
she likes to paint in her downtime, and is quite good at it
sucks at every other fps video games except call of duty. obsessed with action adventure games. can occasionally be convinced to play fifa
relationship tropes :
pining heroine (helena saw lando at silverstone 2019 and got invested in F1 through that, despite having ignored the sport even when her mother started working in it)
ik i'm supposed to be working on requests (and I AM, I PROMISE 🥹) but... would you guys be interested in a mini series (like maybe 7 to 10 chapters-ish) with a new oc? i have been watching so many clips of lando with natalie pinkham and goshhh they're so precious 🤎🤎
now imagine oc as natalie's eldest daughter — from a previous relationship — who has grown up around the F1 paddock when natalie became a pitlane reporter in 2011. she would go on to work as a videographer for mclaren in 2023, where the story begins.
for tropes i'm thinking 'pining heroine' (we need more rep of women who know exactly what they want 😍) with a side of 'quiet × chaotic'
i am not watching the race (afaik monaco '26 doesn't exist — season started in miami, the second race is barcelona /s) but my little brother was SO EXCITED to watch it... he's a max fan...
i am tired of all these 'issues' randomly popping up in lando's car in EVERY session of this season. like— as much as the fandom likes to joke that teams are incompetent, they are really not. or, at least, they shouldn't be. 'cuz they've got some of the most talented mechanics and engineers working in motorsport.
so why, pray tell, does it seem like everyone — even the people who supposedly work on the car every day away from race weekends — also make the shocked pikachu face every time repetitive issues crop up?
i mean this in the most ignorant and petulant way possible: IF YOU'VE GOT PROBLEMS, FIX YOUR FUCKING CAR‼️