and he's always in search of a quality second-hand bookstore
he eventually finds a hole in the wall where he gets to meet himself a love interest who happens to be the owner of said bookshop
it's all flirtatious with her offering recommendations and Paul spending a lot of his off time there just so he can spend time with her.
It's a love story that Paul deserves that improves on what he experienced with Josie where when he shares his identity with her we get a sweet moment as seen below
Suddenly feeling at a loss of what to say, he uncharacteristically stumbled over his words, “I- um, so, now that you know…does this change things? Because I would understand if they did and you would rather be friends...” he trailed off, his thoughts drifting to how thing went with Josie.
Evie leaned forward and placed a sure and steady hand over his heart, “You are Paul, the man that I met in the bookstore, nothing you have said has changed how I feel about you,” she tilted her head forward, touching the side of her nose to his, asking for permission for another kiss and he bridges the distance and brings their lips together into a sweet and tender kiss.
Tarlos rec list (or a whole lot of my favorite fics (because I'm sure I missed some))
Because I can't do anything half assed this has taken me forever AND you're getting it in categories, in no particular order 🙃🤷🏻♀️😬
If you find yourself on here and you don't want to be for whatever reason, let me know! Also if you're on here and I didn't @ you it's because I couldn't find you at first glance, but if you want me to @ you also let me know!
Out of the Woods (series) by @liminalmemories21
words are all we have, we'll be talking, we'll be talking (series) by inconocible
Season 3 Codas (series) by @marjansmarwani
Seven Ways (Back to You) (series) by @welcometololaland
"You have one new message ..." by @paper-storm
get it right, to get around me by welcometololaland
Missing Moments (series) by paper-storm
Coming Back by @doublel27
Season 3 Codas (series) by @strandnreyes
Knight in Shining Armor by doublel27
not lost (not lost) but found by doublel27
More Cow-Eyes (series) doublel27
An Easy Dare by @noxsoulmate
Blood on the tracks, fire in the hills by thenorthface
Starting Out by sapphireej
tout l'univers by @kiras-sunshine
In sickness and in health, in speeding and in no speeding by @good-ways
all I know since yesterday (is everything has changed) by strandnreyes
Precious Love by @rmd-writes
AUs:
Dr Reyes/Paramedic Strand series by marjansmarwani
a flower a day by novaksline
Detective AU by strandnreyes
what if we could risk everything we have by dazedastrophile
as if you were a mythical thing by strandnreyes
Begged And Borrowed Time by @iboatedhere
on a wednesday in a café i watched it begin again by falloutmars
The tender things are those we fold away by @beautifulhigh
Home is Found series by alipea
Safe Space series by xtinyteenyx
The knave of Hearts, he stole the tarts by liminalmemories21
The Flying Sparks 'Verse (series) by @the-communist-unicorn
i know now i found (the one i love) by ksmalltalk
Welcome to the Neighborhood by courtinator
Fireproof by Mari_Marie
remind me to forget by orphan_account
Yours To Keep, Yours To Lose by iboatedhere
one single thread by strandnreyes
After all of the years, all of the tears, you are here somehow. by lydiamxrtin
to live for the hope of it all by strandnreyes
Sports AUs (my beloved):
Swing For The Fences, Run To The Line by iboatedhere
Magnetic North by paper-storm
Game, Set, Match (series) by welcometololaland
Curveball by @bellakitse
One Shot Collections:
Plaid Shirt Days by iboatedhere
Tewnty Five Hundred by iboatedhere
tangled in the willows by stormss
Silence and Patience, Pining in Anticipation by iboatedhere
Prompt Fills by strandnreyes
All the ways to love you by bellakitse
Sexy Times ❤️🔥:
Educating Mateo by @thebumblecee
Mark Me Up by brouiller (the whole series is so fucking good)
Skin by paper-storm (we're not talking about the amount of times I've read this one in particular)
Do you even lift, bro? by rmd-writes
Through the Looking Glass by rmd-writes
Love this journey for them by rmd-writes
Waterproof by welcometololaland
The Devil Works Hard (But Mesh Shirts Work Harder) by welcometololaland
Seven Days of Sin by welcometololaland
Pride ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜:
rejoice your truth by doublel27
What’s Lost Can Always Be Found by noxsoulmate
Let's Talk About that Thong by Sivan325
This Love is Ours, it’s Everything by noxsoulmate
Pride 2022 by maddiee96
Fluff 💝 (there’s a whole lot of fluff hiding in the other categories):
What A Weekend by @sapphireej
PS: I still love you, too by noxsoulmate
with all the sorrow and the joy by @lire-casander
love me as if I were forever by rmd-writes (my beloved)
A Love Like Theirs by noxsoulmate
Kid Fic (my other beloved):
Austin Series by AliceSchuyler
don't go blindly into the dark by kiras-sunshine
Falling Like Raindrops by Monstrous_Moonshine
Surrender (series) by aleia
Strands of Time (series) by alilypea
Luca Strand-Reyes (series) by bellakitse
SRK❤ Sofia Kennedy Reyes❤ (series) by mtnofgrace
Family For Christmas by graspingforwords
how did we get here? by @detective-giggles
you're tethered to another (and you're worried all the time) by doublel27
Tradition (In the Key of Cookies) by Reese_Taylor27
love like this (the isla strand-reyes verse) (series) by Krissyloowhoo
Let Your Heart Find a Home by tkstrands
like daylight by @ravens-words
Eight Now by darkangelgirl13
oh look, it’s my future by thatnerdmryn
all I see is you by ravens-words
Do We Want This? by @djdangerloverlove
Let's Go to the Mall by bellakitse
Of little girls and their cats by bellakitse
Lyla by Mangacat
Self control? I don't know her (series) by welcometololaland
I was gonna rec some Christmas fics too, but Tumblr is being a bitch and I might just save those for before Christmas!
I'm sure there's more, and most of the most recent ones haven't made it on here but whatever.
This really means the world to me! 600 may not be a big number, but for someone who hadn't meant to do much more than lurk on tumblr, it is. Thank you to each and every one of you for following this mess of a blog, I appreciate and adore you all so very much 🖤
Some fun stuff (you can send these on or off anon!)
💗 Send me a fluff prompt + a prompt from this fluff bingo, and I'll write ~600 words for it. (Tarlos, Buddie, Malex)
💔 Send me an angst prompt + a prompt from this angst bingo, and I'll write ~600 words for it. (Tarlos, Buddie, Malex)
💓 Send me a ship + a sentence and I’ll write the next 5 (or more) sentences. (All Ships in 911, LS, RNM)
🎀 Talk To Me About One Of My Fics That Made An Impression.
♤ Send me a character/ship + an AU setting and I'll write a three sentence fic.
♤ Send me 🎶 and I’ll shuffle my music library and give you my favorite lyric for the song I land on.
⚜ FMK, Would You Rathers, Have You Ever, or Make Me Choose??
Now, onto my lovely mutuals 🖤 I adore you all so very much, and even if our interactions are limited, know that I love and appreciate all of you so very much 💛
the thing is, this is the last snippet i share publicly from the fic™ until it gets posted as part of the @911lsbb challenge. it's done at 108,763 words, only a few loose ends to fix and then the process of proofreading. so yeah, my baby is definitely grown.
since this is the last i'll be posting about the fic™, i wanted to tag some of the people who have made this possible. you guys rock! @tarlos-spain, @noxsoulmate, @doublel27, @moviegeek03, @meloingly, @marjansmarwani, @morganaspendragonss, @alilypea, @alidravana, @ravens-words, @aliceschuyler, @laelipoo, @breannacasey and everyone in our little discord family! this fic couldn't have been done without you, and i'm so grateful for all of you.
here, have the last offering of the fic™ until july... it's angsty, as you might have already guessed.
“What’s wrong is that I don’t have an answer to give Jonah whenever he asks me about why you guys aren’t in our lives anymore,” TK replies, voice tinged with something that’s rawer than pure feeling. Carlos stares at him wide-eyed. “What’s wrong is that I wish you’d be there but I know that I fucked up and I don’t deserve you, or Leyre, or the happiness we had. What’s wrong—” he trails off for a second, looking down at his feet until he seems to muster up enough courage to look back up at Carlos, who’s entranced by the passion that oozes from TK’s words. “What’s wrong is that every morning and every night,” TK continues slowly, deliberately, as though he’s measuring every single sound that comes out of his mouth, “I lie in bed wondering why you’re not beside me. That’s what’s wrong.”
I was tagged by @marjansmarwani to post the toughest writing challenges. She commenting this being a vent session…and couldn’t agree more. So. Here we go.
1. Finding time. I know others have said this. But. With life returning to a normal, that feels busier than before, it’s been hard to carve out time to write. Some days. It’s easier to read or binge tv or game (though I still need to finish the final boss fight on Gotham Knights). Others, I fall asleep as soon as I try to relax. It’s just been busy and harder to navigate.
2. Feeling good enough. The past couple months have not been easy. I have a family member with a chronic, incurable health condition. And things keep taking turns. I can’t fix it. I also can’t fix work things that sometimes get too hard and big. So. Feeling confident has not always been easy. I’ve never been the most confident human but life has definitely taken a toll on it the last year.
3. Finishing projects. I feel like I need to complete things in order to start new things. Some stories I have fully mapped out. Others I hit a wall and got stuck.
Tagging anyone who may want to join the venting, but will add a few people who may be interested: @lire-casander, @alilypea, @morganaspendragonss, @aliceschuyler and @cxrlosreyes
Do you have any 911 Lone Star Owen whump fic recs? Please I’m desperate
I so wish there were more Owen whump fics out there! I think I've only found like 2 that are actually Owen focused and not full of smut which is something I do not enjoy reading. We need more Owen whump!!. Anyway, here's what I got for ya:
Coming Clean by 911xtarlos Summary: Another Tumblr prompt Hi. I love your writing. Do you mind writing one where Owen tells the rest of the firefam about his cancer.
Overcoming Owen by AliceSchuyler Summary: Owen was fine, really. There wasn't an obstruction in his throat, stealing his breath, making him see spots in front of his eyes. Owen was not fine.
God i wish there were more Owen whump fics. If anyone knows of more please share them!
I got tagged by @morganaspendragonss to play, for the words touch, stop, heart, and hurt. To play, you search your WIPs for the words listed and post the sentence it is in.
Touch
He quickly let go of Sam’s elbow, muttering a quiet apology as he took a step back; he highly doubted that Sam wanted him to touch him right now.
Stop
“Who is it? Do I know him?” TK blurted out, not really wanting to know but also not being able to stop himself from asking.
Heart
Logan’s nightmares quickly tumbled to dust in his mind, but he woke up in fear, his heart racing, like he did every morning.
Hurt
He could tell that Alex was being honest, was not trying to be mean on purpose, but the words hurt.
I am tagging @alilypea, @lire-casander, @aliceschuyler and @thatnerdemryn to play (if you want) for: kiss, hold, hoody/hoodie, and tears.
I finally have something to post after almost a year-long hiatus of writing. This is a companion to the post below this one.
Somehow, with the way that their lives had been trending lately, Carlos wasn’t surprised to find them in this position. Facing off with a tree that was currently the only thing stopping his car from plummeting into the ravine below.
He took a deep break in a useless attempt to quell the rising panic in his chest and reached for the only thing that might barely make a dent against his fear. TK’s shoulder was the first thing his hand connected with and that touch alone was enough to break his staring competition with the terrifying image before him.
TK, for all damage that appeared to have happened to the car, looked largely unscathed, aside from the fact that he was currently unconscious. Carlos tried to lean in closer to see his face more clearly, hoping that there wasn’t another major head injury to add to the growing list of his fiancé. He didn’t get anywhere before a searing pain low in his side stopped him from moving.
Rules: no cheating! You're starring in a movie with the last celebrity you saved in your camera roll. The last song you've listened to is the title. Who/what is it?
Tagged by @tabbytabbytabby
And the last song I listened to is Lavender Haze by Taylor Swift.
my 5 favorite fics that i’ve written (for fic writer appreciation day)
Tagged by the ever lovely @lilythesilly thank you love 💛
fear is just a part of love (and love's what you deserve)
"TK Strand."
Carlos felt suddenly cold all over. Strand- "you're Chief Owen Strand's kid?" Carlos asked, tense and watching the other man closely. Cops were the worst gossips, or the best, depending on one's definition, so Carlos had unwillingly heard about the new guy quite a bit.
Strand pursed his lips, jaw tightening, and swallowed. He seemed to recover fast enough though, and merely nodded. "Will that be a problem?" He asked, and it seemed like a challenge.
That Carlos was saddled with the pretty boy rich kid, who probably only got this far because of his dad's connections? Yeah, that was a problem.
"No," he smiled, painfully fake, "no problem at all."
Detectives AU
Until the End of All Things (I Will Wait For You)
The mask fell.
The man turned.
"TK?"
TK, and it was him- he could recognize those eyes anywhere- cocked his head to the side, a move so familiar that it nearly brought Carlos to his knees, and frowned. "Who the hell is TK?"
A Captain America: TWS AU
darling, I'd wait for you
"Can someone please tell me what's going on?"
"Mr. Strand-Reyes," the doctor started, and TK's eyes widened, "today is September, 5th, 2026."
The Amnesia AU
I'll be loving you for quite some time
Five times Buck and Eddie needed an excuse to share the bed, and the one time they didn't.
tell me how to love again
"You're dangerous!"
"I am," Michael agreed, calm in a way he really shouldn't be, considering the fact that he had a gun pointed at his head.
k so i lied last week, the big bang is not quite finished. but it will be today! so this is absolutely definitely the last snippet before posting. took me a long time to choose this one because the new stuff is mostly really spoilery but i think this one passes. enjoy :)
also huge thanks to all the people who have put up with my various crises during the writing of this. @moviegeek03 @doublel27 @lire-casander @tarlos-spain @aliceschuyler @whenshereads you're all amazing and i owe you so much 💚
He’s woken again an unknown amount of time later by the sound of horses neighing. TK groans and pulls a pillow over his head, even more convinced than ever that these are, in fact, devil creatures. Carlos is definitely going to be hearing about it when he comes in from stabling them — a task he seems to be taking his sweet time in completing. If anything, they sound even closer when the next whinny comes, and TK is on the verge of screaming when the obvious finally hits him.
He shouldn’t be able to hear the horses.
Carlos’s uncle keeps them far enough away from the cabin for the noise to be a non-issue, so if TK can hear them now, then that means one of two things.
One, they escaped — unlikely, given that Carlos is meticulous about these things.
Which leaves option two: something happened to Carlos.
TK doesn’t bother changing out of his sweatpants and t-shirt, only taking the time to shove his feet into boots before he’s sprinting out of the cabin. The two horses are pacing not far from the cabin door, whinnying in distress, and there’s no Carlos to be seen.
Before TK can let the panic fully consume him, the horse he rode two days ago — Bella, he recalls — trots up to him and nudges him with her nose, teeth snagging on the sleeve of his shirt.
“Right,” TK breathes to himself, trying to bring his focus back to the present instead of on the fact that his husband is missing. “Right, yeah.”
Half in a daze, he pulls himself up onto Bella’s back. It takes a couple of tries, his shaking limbs refusing to cooperate, but as soon as he’s settled, the horse takes off, closely followed by her brother. TK hangs on and prays that he doesn’t fall — the last thing he needs is for him to have some kind of accident too — but Bella seems to understand the urgency of the situation, and reins in her behaviour from the other day.
He rides for around twenty minutes before finally spotting a body lying in the grass. TK barely spares a thought for himself as he slides off Bella’s back, his foot somehow miraculously not getting caught in the stirrup, and he runs to Carlos, crashing to his knees beside him.
Carlos’s eyes are closed and he’s pale and there’s so much blood, oh god— but then there’s a weak groan and TK lets out a choked gasp.
“Baby,” he begs, hushed, “baby, Carlos, can you hear me? Come on, sweetheart, open your eyes for me, please.”