#ask.orb

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

omg ok

zero asked me about it too, so you can get the gist of it here, but since u deserve an extra treat for tagging me in the game, i'm making a promise that i will write this fic now x

yes omg!!! someone gets it! thank you for seeing the vision with me!! I was so afraid that I was gonna be the only one.

And yes you're so right about Max! He really is the brother figure turned rival with a caring heart and anger issues. Oftentimes too honest, always very competitive, and quick to lose his temper by taking things to heart, but a sweetheart in the long run.