#chore time

[its-all-papaya]

for the ask game :

👗 put away clean laundry (a trope you’d like to see me write)

what about accidental marriage landoscar or a trapped in an elevator fic ?

okay i got two of these (thank you deeply, i've been fishing everything out of The Pile for the last few days and it sucks) so i put away HALF of the laundry and i'll do the other half after this and answer the other ask after that.

↠ please make me do my chores

trapped in an elevator landoscar is fascinating to me because i feel like depending on when it is, the vibes would vary so incredibly wildly. my first thought was like after a mid qualifying or a bad race, trying to get back to their rooms and lando is just a Bitch because he's moody and wants to be face-down in bed and this so incredibly inconvenient and he just. can't be here. oscar's being mild and trying to joke to make lando feel a bit better, and lando's trying to be kind bc that's his boy fr, but eventually he's like "this is a fucking joke, are we ever going to get out?" not sure where it would go from there, but feels like eventually they'd either Talk About It or Oscar would go anybody, nowhere mode and be like "if you sit in my lap and i rub ur back for a bit and you can put ur nose in my neck, would that help you chill out until we're free?" i'm partial to that one but i can't just write the same landoscar narrative over and over you know? maybe i can. who's to say.

the other option kicking around in my silly brain is Drunk getting-together Landoscar in an elevator bc i think we are all aware of lando's favorite post-drinking activity of finding a man to hang onto. so oscar trying to get him home to his apartment or hotel room but then they get trapped. and lando is like plastered to oscar's side already (probably oscar's been holding his hand since they left the club or whatever so lando would stop looking so sad) so when the elevator stops he's amenable for a bit. leaning into oscar's side with all his body weight so oscar HAS to put his arm around lando to keep him from collapsing. and when it's been long enough, eventually, they're sat together on the floor, lando's head on oscar's shoulder, "osc, can you play with my hair? i like when people touch my hair" and oscar is like "is that true?" bc lando is like. kind of neurotic about it sometimes. and lando is like "yes, of course! not at work, you muppet, that would be crazy" (even though oscar's totally touched lando's hair like a dozen times at work and lando's only ever grinned at him about it) "only when it's the right time. like when i'm sucking someone off and they pull my hair, that's the right time for sure." and oscar is like... oh! okay! cool, that's such a fun fact about you! and who knows where lando's drunk ramblings would take them from there!! (fuck me this feels so strongly like another fucking wip i need to lay off the microsoft word 'new document' button so baddddly)

accidental marriage landoscar.... (almost forgot the second half of this bc got distracted thinking about drunk lando telling oscar he looooooves it when men call him pretty). okay... idk how this would even happen and i need to sell things to myself to make the fic work, like it's got to be at least distantly very abstractly believable to me... but you know they'd be a disaster. it's not speaking to me the way trapped in an elevator is, but i love domestic shit so i could probably make this work if i thought about it longer than like 35 seconds... i'd probably make it kind of fake dating-y in theory like forced proximity...rings...that lando tottttttalllly doesn't get sooooo attached to why would you even ASK him that?? anyway.

[mbrainspaz]

As part of my struggle with being unable to form habits or remember things that aren't right in front of me as an adhd haver I tend to rely on systems of 'if I do x I must then do y.' One example is 'if I start the dishwasher I must then start the laundry.' Those tasks are chore buddies. Vacuuming joins in if I have time. Another one is: If I take my keys off my belt then I hang them on the key hook.' Or the very simplest one: 'if I see a thing that is the wrong place then take it and move it toward the right place if going that direction.' I'm very big on every object having a 'place' or sometimes a series of places. Like most of the laundry that goes from my body to either the 'wear it again' bin or the dirty bin, then to the hallway, then to the washer and laundry rack, then to the bed, then put away. Socks got their own special sock box because I hated putting them away the most.

These systems can be days long and infinitely intricate, especially for work tasks. Notice how none of them involve rewards or 'winning' anything either. There is no 'end goal,' there is only the system. I can have jellybeans whenever I want whether I did the dishes or not.

Nothing is perfect though. I'm always juggling a few too many tasks and a few always fall off because I run out of energy or time before I can get to them. Sometimes I just fail to add a system where one is needed because I'm already too overwhelmed to deal with confronting the fact that I have a crack in the system. Like how I currently walk in and leave my coffee thermos on the shoe shelf every day until I run out of thermoses. Then they just sit there for days because I haven't made room for them in my system. I'm vaguely aware of the problem but I've never looked directly at it. In order to fix it I'd have to consciously design a spot for them in the system, and I don't know if there's room.

I once just didn't clean my bathtub for a year because it was the perfect storm of being a task I didn't like that was also out of sight 99% of the time. The only reason I clean it now is because I saw a tiktok about a system someone else had where they kept cleaning products in the shower and just cleaned a little every day. —If showering, then clean the shower! That worked so well that I went and got specialized cleaning supplies for every part of the house. My house has never been cleaner. It's not perfect but it's alright.

[outragedtortilla]

a lot of plates

[pikslasrce]

im ngl that scene in the lighthouse when hes trying to jerk off to the idea of a hot mermaid but keeps getting distracted by unsightly visions symbolizing his guilty conscience and descent into insanity is so real like. it really is like that sometimes

[puttingwingsonwords]

Dracula scrambling around the castle pretending to be his own servants is so important in showing that aside from being a super powerful evil vampire-sorcerer he is also a huge loser

[cuppajj]

What if the ancients also corrupted and became beasts, and it's one great cycle of futility?

some info on the beast ancients:

Saint Vanilla Cookie, after deducing that the horrors and cruelty of the world are caused by the darkness in cookies' dough, formed a messiah complex. Believing he is the only one who can save Earthbread, his extreme compassion for the happiness of cookies has made him an angel of death; though he believes he is purifying those he touches, he believes their cries of pain from their disintegrating bodies are simply a part of the healing process. He has brought his willing followers to salvation, and seeks to do the same for all of cookiekind.

Midnight Lily Cookie became the new monarch of the Faerie Kingdom after the death of Elder Faerie Cookie. When she turned to the path of darkness, her fiercely loyal subjects followed with her, sworn to protect her at all costs. While she holds no ambitions for conquest, she has vowed to assert the influence of her kingdom across Beast Yeast on her own terms, and to put an end to the false enchantress who shares her being.

Dragonberry Cookie reinstated herself as the monarch of her kingdom, keeping the royal family under her thumb and influence. Her passion for strength and combat drew her attention to the Red Dragon, whose power became her obsession. Now, she seeks to know how to become a great beast herself, and will do anything to achieve it; even keeping the Red Dragon shackled underneath the castle as it’s studied day in and day out.

Frigid Cacao Cookie learned to tame the Licorice Sea that had threatened his kingdom for eons; however, something of either his design or an external force led to the entire Cacao Kingdom freezing over. Cacao sat idly by as this happened, unmoving from his great throne with his head slouched and eyes unreadable. He has resigned himself to extreme solitude, but the swirling black ocean does his bidding in his favor.

Celestial Cheese Cookie never moved on from the truth. In fact, she chose to build everything from the ground up. How wonderful! She can bring her grand design to Earthbread itself, sharing her brilliance with all of cookiekind. Of course forging a new empire will come with resistance, but she is well prepared. For the devout, they will be graciously rewarded; the dissenters will become decorations. With the ability to summon as many arms as she needs, she can turn anything to gold with a simple touch.

With five new Beasts loose on earthbread, the fight to save it has become much, much harder…

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

me fr

[ashipiko]

HOT TAKE. BIG fan of the ramshackle prefect having dorm uniforms and acting like that’s their dorm <3

[cubbihue]

so pixies regularly try to take over fairyworld is timmy on the pixie side?

At first, Timmy was adamantly against the Pixies. He'd tell Jorgen every time he got a notice of their plans to take over Fairyworld, and work to stop it! But it gets a bit harder to resist against your own court the longer you hang out with them.

In the present time, Timmy schedules to be out of FairyWorld during their takeovers. He doesn't try to stop them, but also refuses to be anywhere near when it happens.

He... doesn't like how he's slowly starting to cheer for them. Or how their arguments are becoming more convincing. Or how he's struggling to recall why he was so against them to begin with.

There will come a point where he becomes an active participant. Timmy worries that it's coming sooner than he'd like.

Bitties Series: [Start] > [Previous] > [Next]

[its-all-papaya]

👗 and i'd LOVE to see either a friends-with benefits-to-lovers (bc they're jetting around the world and have basically no time for dating new ppl and sometimes you just have to. have an outlet for the stress, it's convenient yada yada) or! a pretending-to-be-the-s/o-to-get-him-out-of-an-uncomfy-situation from you <3 (like, in a club or smth where someone keeps bothering one of them and they freeze up (?) sooo the other to the rescue. and then it just keeps being handy/convenient to have an emergency fake bf by hand. until it's not that fake anymore or the media catches wind of it or smth n it gets out of control!)

okay sorry got distracted yesterday (stuck in elevator broke brain) and then had to go to work, but i FINALLY have put away all the clean clothes !! who cheered !!

↠ please make me do my chores

i LOVE FWB TO LOVERS THANK YOU !! i think it works absolutely so well for landoscar too bc in my brain, lando is extremely open and cavalier, so he's always chatting away about stuff like that, while oscar has always just... not seen the point to doing that at mclaren? it's work. f1 is literally his job. why would he talk about sex (or lack thereof) in any context at WORK? but obviously it reaches A Point where lando is like "we're both pent up and horny and i'm into you and you look at me Like That and we're trapped in who the fuck knows what country every week with not a ton of options... why not. like literally why not?" and eventually oscar is like "...sure, yeah, that's Some Logic fs but if i get to kiss lando about it... yeah. alright." also the adrenaline after races... having someone to burn through it with.... who's on the exact same level... yeah. and then you get so much delicious pining after that when they're both like oh shit why are my FEELINGS in this !!

okay and then pretending to be the bf also feels great. i'm picturing (again) drunk lando who likes Attention and doesn't realize the guy he's been chatting with is Serious and Aggressive and oscar stepping in to be like hey buddy. hey pal. do you... want him to be groping you rn? in public? rlly cool if so, just checking in!! just making sure!! and lando is like... you know what's better than random drunk man touching me? oscar touching me. so much better. so he just goes ahead and plasters himself to oscar instead and oscar's cool w that bc it means lando's safe, anyway, except eventually the other guy is like "hey what the fuck? i was talking to him?" and oscar's like "and now you're not :)" and he's like "and who are you? his boyfriend?" and oscar's brain is like !!!! oh???? but lando IS rlly just. cuddled into him. and oscar's arm is around him. so he's like. you know what? yeah. and fuck off, also. and it could so easily devolve from there.

anyway!!! thx for asking!!! thx for putting even more ideas in my goofy brain!!!

[friendcrumbs]

you ever think abt what laundry day must be like for these two?

[justaz]

merlin told arthur his favorite color was the color of the sky during sunset when it shifted into a deep violet. arthur gets a tunic made in that exact shade. its the best thing merlin owns. arthur was hoping that would mean he’d wear it almost everyday but merlin almost never wears it. the only time he does wear it is when royals come to visit (which isn’t all that often). arthur “subtly” asks about it and merlin is like “it’s the best thing i own. i’m not gonna dirty it mucking out the stables or serving rowdy knights wine while they splatter food on it” and arthur is like “why not wear it when nobles come to visit? look at least a little presentable for them” (cough nice save). merlin doesn’t see the point in it bc nobles don’t care about him at best, view him as less than human at worst.

arthur really just wants to see his boyfriend servant in the tunic he had made for him (bonus points for sending a message that merlin is his. not that merlin seems to notice. man is too much of an idiot). merlin wants to preserve his favorite tunic and gift from his boyfriend king.

[aleikats]

🔸earring exchange 🔸

[squishfuse]

scribble w no brush pressure

[smallishbabes]

I know Joel means it in a jokey way but him telling us what he had for lunch, what he did that morning, that he cried while watching iron claw, how he’s playing t-swift on guitar hero, that he’s drinking yorkshire gold while editing. I found it all very sweet. Like it’s nice to hear him chilling out irl as a contrast to him being a building lunatic on Hermitcraft lol