#ask.orb

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https://www.tumblr.com/inchidentally/823245807189999616/favorite-part-of-this-moment-is-lando-staying-on?source=share

Yet, here he was, again. Standing just outside the edge of his door. Asking for permission in the softest voice.

Like, despite his coronation this night, there was one stretch of land the new king had vowed to keep sacred. A temple, where he would leave his crown at the door, get on his knees, and pray to his god. Utterly defenceless. Utterly at the mercy of an even higher power.

SAME ENERGY SAME ENERGY. I had to run to ao3 and reread because I knew I'd seen(more like read) the vibe somewhere.

um i got excited. as you can see.

ALSO I reread all of your works again. i cried, mostly happy tears and then i remembered oscar's dnf and then it was straight misery. your works are a balm to the soul in these terrible times <3

oh my god. firstly, i can't believe my fics are something that people think about for this long after they've read them, and i really wrote this one with my whole heart and soul. it means so much to me that you'd see something in the wild and be reminded of a thing that i wrote. wow. thank you.

but more to the actual point of your ask, YES. YESSS!!! that video, and @inchidentally's analysis is exactly that energy that i tried to capture. landoscar do this deference thing all the fucking time and it drives me insane. drove me insane enough that i had to weave it into that fic.

their #1 priority after a race (after the celebration) is to check in with the other, but they always let the more vulnerable one dictate the pace. never push for it before the other is ready. and leave all the grandiosity of the win outside that interaction. if the win makes them inflate, they consciously make themselves smaller when they approach the other. not at the cost of their own joy or pride, but more "yes, i fucking did it, i won. now i get to lord over this whole paddock for a day. but not you. never you. i will not once let my shadow shroud you. are you okay? are we okay? i love you, i care about you, i respect and admire you so much. i'm sorry if i accidentally did anything to upset you. forgive me?"

it's so fucking gentle and careful and thoughtful and loving and so uniquely committed to just one person above everyone else aaarrggghhh these two have me by the throat

and it makes me so happy to hear that my fics could provide you some comfort in these trying times!! i write them to comfort myself, so i'm glad i can share that with you. ❤️

(still trying to wrap my head around the fact that my writing would leave enough of an impression for someone to want to reread it, but god. thank you so much for all your kind words. please never apologise for being excited, i'm so excited that you're excited about my fic. this ask made my whole day)

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hellooooo

since you mentioned loving spy aus (ME TOO ME TOO OMG) have you read death and other lies? If not I would definitely recommend it! that fic changed my brain chemistry forever

i can suggest more spy au fics too 😈 (only if it's ok)

omg hi!!!

no I haven't read it but thank you so much I'll promptly add it to the top of my tbr!

please do suggest more spy au fics! (do u even need to ask that question)

it's my favourite dynamic omg. there is just something about being spies together that is such a delicious thrilling mix of action and danger and violence and romance.

my love stems from having been in the napollya (man from uncle) fandom for soooo long and they literally have the best fics over there. every single one of them is burned into my brain.

i almost have a half sketched out ghost au for landoscar in my head just because of this one napollya fic i read (the end where we begin by ingu) years ago that has stayed with me since. but idt I'll ever write it because there's no way for it to have a happy ending.

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from the tag game:

cause i love the gap between your teeth

they are weird about each other

pls pls pls

ash (@nomichaelno) x

ASH!!!! hi!!!!

(yes i know who u are lmao i know both your accounts. im so endeared that you felt the need to disambiguate)

okay so I think there's a disturbing lack of fics about lando's tooth gap. it's concerning to me that we, as a fandom, have been ignoring our main guy's most defining feature 😔 in this paper I seek to fill the gap in the literature 😤☝🏻

so it's a fic where oscar overhears the taylor swift song (Ours) somewhere in the paddock, doesn't really register it until he looks at lando and it suddenly clicks and starts playing in his head again. it begins a journey of slow obsession w lando's smile and teeth and lips to the point that he feels like he's losing his mind. :))

now onto the second

"they are weird about each other" is !!

i only have a concept for it atm but it's an attempt to capture the confusing and contradictory rules they have in their relationship to be able to function as teammates+competitors. stuff that doesn't make sense to other people. BUT they're so used to being seen as weird that they don't register when things get actually weird. when it becomes a bit of a psychosexual obsession (lowk brocedes vibes). because they think their conflicting feelings for each other are a natural consequence of the situation they are in. but they are not !!!

i need to think about this fic so much more bc it's challenging to capture and articulate, but it's one of the ones i'm most excited to write.

(also it makes so much sense to me that these are the two you picked lol they're both very you.)

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Ooooh it's so hard to choose, but can you tell us something about podium pecks? 🥰

omg okay i feel like podium pecks is one of the silliest ideas i've had but it's so precious to me so im very happy you asked

it was basically inspired by this fanart by @nanshan-237.

i saw that before i knew the oscar in that comic series was supposed to be a gingerbread man lmao, but my brain immediately went omg what if this actually happened and lando caught oscar smooshing figurines of them together.

lando kinda takes a wild stab and figures maybe oscar wants little kisses every time he gets a podium (bc the oscar in that fanart was holding a trophy)

and maybe he starts giving them to him and that's basically how they get together.

(there's a bit more plot in my head but i don't want to spoil everything if i do end up writing it)

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hiii moot!! first of all, what can i call you? i swear i search for your name in your profile but i didn’t found it 😖 (sorry if it that’s a obvious question, sometimes i have to attention span of a fly)

now the second and primary reason i’m sending you this ask, i just finished your fic “my storm, my ship, my shore, my sea” and i’m in loooove 🥺

you write oscar’s conflicting feelings so well, reading it was like feeling in love with landoscar again <33

oh my god hi!!!!!! i can't believe we're finally mutuals :)) <3

no, no, it's not your fault. you couldn't find a name bc there is no name anywhere because I never got around to making an introduction post lmao. I've posted 5 fics and still haven't said hi to the fandom smh.

making a proper intro post is first on my list as soon as i'm done with my thesis.

tbh idk what to go by, but maybe a shortened version of my username could work for now? 'orb', potentially? it sounds nice, I think.

secondly, thank you!! ah, i love that little fic so much. It was such a spontaneous idea I had, I half-wrote it under a reblog of fanart and it's now spawned a whole universe. I genuinely had the best time writing that one and its sequel, I exorcised every emotion landoscar have ever made me feel into those two.

i'm so so happy that you loved it! <3

"reading it was like feeling in love with landoscar again" this genuinely means so much ugh!!!! i think bc i'm (relatively) new to the fandom writing about all those initial feelings they evoke when you first get obsessed with them came easily to me? there's so much already there between them that you don't even have to get particularly creative with the rpf, you just have to capture what you already see haha.

i got into the fandom after the 2025 season lol, so I kind of caught up on all the drama retroactively. and it was this exact dynamic that made landoscar so special to me. the being forced to sit in opposition to one another's depeest desire but making an active choice to let their love and respect for each other guide them through it—use it to keep their heads above the surface of the waves of conflicting feelings brought out by all the emotionally heated situations sports throws at them. that was so rare and beautiful that it sucked me deep enough for this to become the first fandom I became an active contributor in. and I never imagined it would be this rewarding, being in a community with all of you.

so thank you soooo much for sending this lovely ask and giving me the opportunity to yap (my fav thing to do), and leaving a lovely comment on my fic (that I promise I'll respond to soon). it genuinely made my whole day!!! it was such a lovely surprise at the end of a long, long day of trudging through exhausting academic work. thank you for making me feel so welcome here. <3

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would luv to know about the hanahaki au!!! :>

yes omg thank you!! i love hanahaki as a trope soo much. so much angst potential. so much drama.

okay so imagine a world where hanahaki is not immediately terminal, but can come and go a bit like the flu. imagine not taking it seriously. imagine becoming teammates with the guy you've been crushing on...

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I saw cringefail loser fuckboy lando in the wip tag game and immediately ran to your asks. Would you feed us please 😌🙏

the way i knew that i was almost certainly going to get asked about that one lmaoo

okay so that was inspired by @monacobby's comments on this post which i 100% agree with she was soooo right to say that.

and i absolutely love it when lando is interpreted and written as a fuckboy in fic. i love reading them sm.

but my own brain is literally incapable of imagining him as ever being cool in any capacity. he's such a silly little creature to me that even when he is a fuckboy he's a bit embarassing at it.

so imagine him actually doing what monacobby says, but it's with a friend of oscar's when they're out at a club together. AND after lando does it, he comes out to find all of his friends have fucked off + he doesn't have his phone or keys. so oscar is the one who has to drive him home.

and maybe they hook up/maybe they don't. you'll find out if/when i write it.

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Wait what tarot card reading about lando being bi? Can you link?

LMAO i love that someone read a passing comment i made in reblog tags and their eyes widened and brain locked in like "hold on. wait a minute. no no i need more information. what is this about."

here you go, nonnie

i'm pretty tarot agnostic myself, so not sure how this ended up on my dash. but i hope you get some fun head canons out of it x