#boldlettered

It took me so long to answer this because it required scholarly attention 🤭💕 but here you go boldlettered my love, my top five piarles moments:

5. White Ferrari with pierre in the passenger seat wearing a CL16 Ferrari cap while charles giggles manically

4. Charles gifting pierre an mp3 player pre-loaded with their celebratory screams and pierre immediately going “we sound the same”

3. Whatever the hell was going on during the entirety of that squeezie video but especially the “i can always tell when charles is lying, when his dimples come out”

2. Cheating a bit but all their combined sports dates (and the mere fact that we have multiple), ie basketball date 1.0, tennis dates 1&2, all the footie games, and of course THE basketball date 2.0 that gave us this: (wrong ball pierre)

1. Charles sneaking out of medical before being cleared to go watch pierres podium in monza. Like this is how movies and shows tell us character a is in love with character b

Honorary mention to the pic of all time:

APATEU APATEU... APATEU APATEU... this was inspired by the period of time that i was obsessed with watching like 30- to 60-minute long home interior videos on youtube...

charles's apartment gets picked by a home interior channel to film a home tour with them... lewis is the video director sent to charles... i was thinking something long format like the homeworthy channel where it seems like they spend a LONG time talking with the people and filming...tbh i haven't written much like. Real writing for this idea. but i have tried to bring this opening bit together for you <3

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Charles is still scrambling to clear his apartment when his doorbell rings.

“Hi… Charles?” The man at the door smiles. It’s a very nice smile. “I’m Lewis, we spoke on the phone?”

“I’m still folding my socks,” Charles blurts out.

Lewis blinks before catching himself. “Don’t worry, we can give you a few minutes. I’m sure there’s a coffee shop nearby where we can wait.”

“No, no, please come in. You can sit in the living room.”

For once, Charles wishes he had a proper couch instead of the cozy little loveseat that he managed to carry up the stairs with a very unimpressed Pierre and shoved through his narrow doorway. It had been free though and in nearly perfect condition, minus a worn patch on one of the cushions that Charles was able to flip over and hide, despite Pierre’s dire warnings about termites or potential bodily fluids.

do you have any other favourite drivers? kevin and charles

who is your least favourite driver? everyone else

do you root for drivers or do you root for the team as well? i only root for lewis ❤️

if you like the teams, what team do you root for? if haas renew kevin i genuinely would become their #1 fan

how long have you been into f1? since lewis was doing back to back title sweeps…

what got you into f1? cars the pixar movie 😭 i was rewatching it one day like this fucks… i need the real life version, searched up lewis hamilton bc he was the only racecar guy i knew and i saw he was still driving (idky i expected him to be retired #hag) in f1. so i got on my zoom and started properly watching it. for him.

do you enjoy fanfic/rpf? to enjoy it i’d have to enjoy the drivers and that’s where you lose me….

how do you view new fans? if you willingly become a fan with the state the sport is in rn it must be bc you view things through a “fun” lens (ie ships, wacky narratives) which, good for you. but just know that you are actually delusional and nothing you say will ever hold value to me. personally

if you could take over as team principal for any team, who would it be and why? haas. for kevin.

are your friends and family into f1? yes, too many to count… unfortunately f1 is more common than we think.

are you open to talking to other fans/friends? if our views align then ofc. we are already like this 🤞 in my eyes

tagged by @boldlettered thank you baeloved

hello b... i have my hojicha latte & my pain au chocolat so here we go again... the main idea is a sort of medieval feast of fools where prince charles accidentally gets chosen by galette de rois to be part of a topsy turvy court bc he's seated amongst his non-noble friends... in the interest of full disclosure it is partly inspired by the somewhat ahistorical tradition (i genuinely say this with only love -- like, this is fanfic, we're here for a purpose and that purpose is not an attempt to divine historical """truth""" asdlkfjlskjf) established by a merlin fic i read years ago called misrule.

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It was Charles’s own fault.

He hadn’t been quick enough to hide his surprised grimace when he felt the hard bite of metal between his teeth.

“What is it?” Joris asked,  still preoccupied with a generous portion of roast duck.

“Nothing,” Charles lied, trying to tuck the token under his tongue. The word came out garbled and Pierre stepped forward from his usual ever-watchful place by Charles’s side to take Charles’s chin in hand. Unable to hide from his guard’s worried gaze, Charles spat out the small brass piece into the center of Pierre’s palm. Eyes widening, Pierre closed his fingers over the metal, but it was too late.

“The Prince has gotten the Lady, Prince Charles has gotten the Lady!” Joris waved his hands in excitement, drawing the attention of the court to their corner of the banquet hall.

Charles sank into his seat with a growing sense of unease as the hall filled with excited chattering. Lorenzo stood up from his throne.

“Well, this is untraditional.”

“It would not be fair for me to take the place of one of our people,” Charles said, thinking quickly. “Perhaps I can pass the token onto Joris here—”