I was trying so damn hard to find Nico and Bianca in the background of the Lotus Casino. I came up empty handed, BUT I have a horrible eyesight. So if someone did manage to find them, please let me know.
VG: I know that for you, inspiring the young guys is very important part of your life now.
LH: Well, it's not to inspire the new generation as such, if you're referring to the new generation of drivers, for example. It's more an all-round story. Well, it's explaining the story 'cause I've not done a documentary before. It's in the hope that, I mean, if you look at like the Williams sisters, if you watch their movie (King Richard) it's incredibly inspiring to see what a mother and a father, a family can do, when they put focus and passion and commitment into something, and if the kids are nurtured in the right way and given a path and a direction to go in, what is possible. I think, it's important today. I think there's probably so many parents out there today that, I think every parent wants the best for their kid. There are some that are separated and like, fathers don't know what to do with their kids. And that's just how it was for my dad.
I think when people tune in today, they see 104 pole positions, they see 103 wins, they see 7 world titles, they see just the tip of the iceberg, you know. So, peeling that back and showing them what it took to get there, 'cause I think we live in a time today where people just want success immediately, right? And it took us a long, long, long time and it was a long journey. And I just wanted the other many great stories that are out there already today, there are a lot of other great documentaries out there, but, it just felt for me it's time to do that.
New favorite thing about writing this arranged marriage AU: I can be as self-indulgent with historical detail as I want! 🤓🥹🥰
That's one of those things that it's easy to know intellectually but hard to internalize until the actual writing process. Hope y'all are ready to learn about the following representative sample of topics in excruciating detail:
Sauna construction
Food preservation (subtitle: I just think it's neat that borts is more nutritious than modern field rations)
The internal social politics of patrician families in Late Republican Rome*
Horse archery
Archeology at Pompeii*
Guerilla warfare and supply lines
Aqueducts
✨CLOAKS✨
The Battle of Teutoburg Forest*
For now I'm choosing to blame most of this on Stede's autistic coding (cough my own projection cough) but that's really just an excuse. An excuse I'm thrilled to hide behind for my own sanity in the decade it's gonna take me to finish this thing if I continue to keep getting so distracted by research/inventing mythology that will inform the worldbuilding but not make it into the fic with any actual detail.
And you can't stop me!!!!
*this is more inspiration than anything because it's not set in our world and therefore not in actual Rome but you you know what I mean
I would trick or treat but you already gave me a treat when you announced the upcoming Carmilla adaptation! So excited to hear another of my favorite vampire tales come to life!
fyi if you see or hear @thislittlekumquat and i chortling incoherently about kuroshit in the coming weeks please know that it's related to our incredibly indulgent queer self insert au that ropes in just about all our fave characters from this series in some way, shape, or form
this graphic would be absolutely CHAOTIC if we tried to include everyone involved (and would probably need to be broken up into multiple diagrams to TRULY capture the scale we're talking about) so here are the main players, as they're related to the upcoming arcs. in truth a lot of our au takes place after the events of the main story but victoria and leigh meet for the first time at the upcoming cricket match as they're cheering on their respective family members!! so this arc is like the start of it all B)
fics that feature this au
reaping what you sow and the wolf might know best by thislittlekumquat
as queer as i find myself by lululeighsworld
also special version of the graphic that includes the most spoiled character in this entire au :P
i LOVED the season two episode where they all got trapped in the lab crawling with demodogs and to think that we'll now get an entire season with those vibes cranked all the way up... monster apocalypse hell on earth nowhere to hide danger at every corner spores and blood everywhere and will's psychic connection being blown wide open i— head in hands sweating breathing heavy i'm shaking rn brother i am QUIVERING