LANDO NORRIS 2025 WORLD CHAMPION

5 things I always bring: a powerbank, chapstick, a lighter, keychains, & a book/wordsearch 😇

I always bring my phone, the case for my mouth palate (Haha...) a photo of my partner, wallet, anddd the cloth I use to clean my glasses

Glasses. Uhhhm. Oh the bracelet with initialll.... My phone!! Earbuds and uhhhhh freespot! who wants to give me a bunch load of money.

Ehhh...

Earbuds, lipgloss, some sort of money, my school id (literally never use it), & my little money bag that has probably less than a euro in it rn </3

(Phone too, if it counts)

Uhhh phone, AirPods, pack of handkerchiefs, glucose tablets, mint chewing gum usually, (also some sort of ID but whatever)

Hmmm, methinks my undying loyalty to 5 items are, my headphones I would die without em, my phone mainly for music (I should buy an iPod one day), my grandma’s etui with makeup essentials, some form of money, andddd uhh my bunch of keys with somth sharp in em too

Uhh 5 things i always carry

Phone, some cash, keys, pens+notebook and chewing gum

Definetley showing my age but oh well

"what do YOU guys call it"

"isn't it [insert time here] over there????"

"GO THE FUCK TO BED"

"good morning" (it's 6pm in your timezone)

"do you have/say [thing] over there"

like i understand WHY it gets thrown into the spotlight constantly. of course it does, it’s the most mainstream, most culturally visible piece of media about the american revolution right now. but because of that people keep comparing it to things that were trying to do completely different jobs in the first place, and that really bums me out and makes me less likely to engage with anything new tbh.

“_ represents the evils of slavery better than hamilton!” i actually agree with that a lot of the time. but also representing the evils of slavery has literally never been the point of the musical. nor has dissecting the hypocrisy of the founding fathers as a whole. those things are referenced only insofar as they shape hamilton’s life and the world he’s moving through. they’re background forces in his story, not the thesis statement of the show.

and even then it has many inaccuracies, because it’s not trying to be a documentary. lin was taking MASSIVE artistic liberties from the start because he was telling a story first and doing history second (or third). like if you go in expecting a rigorous, systems-level exploration of slavery, abolition, and founding-era contradictions...you’re expecting something the musical never set out to be.

criticize it for what it is trying to do, sure. but comparing it to documentaries or historical dramas whose entire mission is to center slavery or deconstruct the founders feels like grading a fish on how well it climbs a tree. like there is SO much you could criticize about hamilton if you actually engage with the text it’s presenting instead of the text you wish it was presenting.

lin absolutely did that thing where he wanted to have his cake and eat it too. he wanted hamilton to be flawed, but he spotlighted the flaws in a way that sometimes flattened everything else about him. the show hammers the ambition, the ego, the self-destruction, the infidelity and bad politics. but it glosses over how intensely family-oriented he actually was. we get philip (for obvious narrative reasons) but where are the rest of the kids? where are the letters to his father? his brother? the childhood friends he kept up with? his deep bond with peggy? that omission changes the emotional framing of his character A LOT.

and THAT is interesting, real criticism. because it’s about adaptation choices. what do you cut, what do you heighten, what thesis are you building through those decisions?

but instead people jump straight to “it doesn’t center slavery enough” or “it doesn’t fully condemn the founders.”

Philip: P-P . . .

Alex: Eliza! Eliza! He's gonna say papa!

Eliza: Come on baby!

Philip: P-Pa . . .

Alex: Come on son!

Philip: PAY YOUR FUCKING TAXES!

Eliza: . . .

Alex: . . .

Alex: MY SON!