okay @frereamour i killed your ask for the ask game by accident, but you mentioned being curious about my thoughts on geoscarmark and why mark is there etc…
i kind of went off on a tangent and ignored the ask game questions sorry 😭 i really got far too into it and wrote an essay. the crux of my answer can probably actually just be this link to a fic by brokenfrontwing (famed oscarmark scholar).
now the real answer is that geoscarmark is not a ship that exists outside of mine and few brains. it is more l4stapp3n than brocedes in that it is entirely self indulgent and created to fit a narrative, rather than existing because of an actual narrative based in reality. it is also kind of not real because in my version of it - which i will elaborate on in a moment - also has toto as an integral element, however geoscarmarktoto is an unsexy mouthful and would be an ugly url.
the self indulgent, fully aware i’m making shit up, answer is that i’m just very into the different ways that two ‘father figure’ relationships (oscarmark vs georgetoto) are interpreted. oscarmark, in most cases, is presented in a way that is almost wholesome in some regards, at least before you think about it too much. it is the prevailing opinion that mark cares too much for oscar. also to be acknowledged, if taken at face value and seemingly proven recently, it is oscar with the employer power, however much mentor/mentee relationships may fuck with that. now georgetoto on the other hand tends to be considered a sinister pairing. the primary interpretation by many is that both due to the way the business is and the way toto is (lewis’ spectre is ever present) george will never receive the level of…something…whether that may be devotion or respect or even love, that he would like from toto. if you look at these ships from these lenses, they are almost two sides of the same age gap manager yaoi coin.
from this perspective, it is just then fun to imagine what would happen if they were to intercept. mark & toto don’t seem to have a connection at least publicly, and toto doesn’t seem to fuck with oscar all that much (potentially just because horner does, who knows) so geoscarmark would be the most likely way for this interception. george often takes alonso’s jet with mark & oscar and is one of the current grid that follows his socmed. then obviously you have the moment we all know in singapore where they are clearly comfortable enough with each other for mark to show him physical affection in sympathy (i can’t imagine george and jenson, for example, doing all that). georgemark is fun to me as a pathetic4pathetic pairing…they’d have the world’s wettest most depressing sex ever. now where oscar fits into it is in the concept that yes mark is somewhat of an oldmanpervert and just likes young men who he finds pretty and talented. see mark randomly mentioning ‘georgieboy’s’ abs that one time. so it can be fun to imagine a horny mark webber getting greedy and wanting both. but mostly it is just interesting to imagine a mark - who is already somewhat against toto - being a comfort for george. maybe someone who isn’t connected to merc that he can complain to. and then he, who believes he gives his boy everything if not too much, can also give george everything he wants from toto. however what is beautiful is that he would never be able to because he isn’t toto and he isn’t a billionaire TP and being an older father figure isn’t enough, especially one who will always put oscar first anyway.
now i’ve already said far too much but the place that geoscarmark falls apart FOR ME (apart from the whole being entirely made up and baseless thing) is the geoscar part. i know i’m a geoscar enjoyer but i’m mostly joking when i say that 😭 it is just me putting my two main barbie’s together for play time. they would never have sex on their own accord in my mind like i just do not see it. i think it’s fun that oscar clearly wants to be Part Of The Gang and is therefore charmed by george sometimes, and that george enjoys being cocksure with oscar, but ultimately george is lando’s guy. if we’re talking actual shipping im more interested in oscar and alex rather than george, i think they’re much more compatible in that way.